Title LAB, Labor

§ 414. Ways around shafts. At necessary points traveling ways shall be\ncut out around the sides and bottom of each mine shaft to afford passage\nfrom side to side without crossing the shaft under or above the cage or\nhoist. Each such traveling way shall be at least five feet h…

§ 415. Head house and trap doors. Every underground working over forty\nfeet deep shall have a proper head house and proper trap doors which,\nwhen installed subsequent to the effective date of this act, shall be\nconstructed of fire-resistant material.\n

§ 416. Timbering. The roofs and sides of each passageway and working\nplace in every mine and tunnel shall be properly timbered and shall be\nkept secure. No person shall work in an unsafe place except to make it\nsafe.\n

§ 417. Ventilation. An air current sufficient to remove smoke and\nnoxious gases and to insure the safety of every employee shall be\nconducted along every passageway and working place.\n

§ 42. Youth education, employment and training program. This program\nshall provide services to economically disadvantaged in-school and\nout-of-school youth fourteen to twenty-one years of age and shall be\nsubject to the following provisions of this section:\n 1. The goals of …

§ 425. Definition of pressure. The term "pressure" means gauge air\npressure in pounds per square inch.\n

§ 426. Equipment. Every employer of persons for work in compressed air\nshall:\n 1. Connect at least two air pipes with the working chamber and keep\nsuch pipes in perfect working condition;\n 2. Attach to the working chamber in accessible positions all\ninstruments necessary to…

§ 427. Officers and nurses. Every employer of persons for work in\ncompressed air shall:\n 1. Keep at the place of work at all necessary times one or more duly\nqualified medical officers to care for cases of illness and to strictly\nadminister and enforce sections four hundred …

§ 428. Physical examinations. If an employee is a new employee, an\nabsentee for ten or more successive days, an employee who has worked in\ncompressed air continuously for three months or a beginner in compressed\nair who has worked but a single shift as required by section fou…

§ 429. Users of intoxicants. Excessive users of intoxicants shall not\nbe permitted to work in compressed air.\n

§ 43. Transfer of funds to the unemployment insurance occupational\ntraining fund. Notwithstanding any other law, rule or regulation to the\ncontrary, subject to approval by the director of the budget, the state\ncomptroller is hereby authorized and directed to transfer funds fr…

§ 430. Working time. The working time in compressed air in any\ntwenty-four hours shall be specified by the board in its rules. No\nperson shall be subjected to pressure exceeding fifty pounds except in\nemergency. The maximum number of hours for any pressure, shall be as\nspeci…

§ 431. Decompression. The employer or person in charge shall not\npermit any person to pass from compressed air to normal pressure without\npassing through a period of decompression. Such periods of decompression\nshall be as specified by the board in its rules.\n

§ 432. Rules of the board. The board shall adopt rules and establish\nfurther requirements and standards for work in compressed air to provide\nreasonable and adequate protection to the lives, health and safety of\nthose employed therein, in addition to the requirements of this …

§ 435. Responsibility. Except as otherwise provided the owner, agent,\nlessee, manager, operator and superintendent shall be responsible for\nthe observance of the provisions of this article.\n

§ 436. Penalties. Violation of or noncompliance with any provision of\nthis article shall be a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less\nthan two hundred and fifty dollars or by imprisonment for one year or by\nboth.\n

§ 437. Proceedings to restrain operation. The commissioner may serve a\nwritten notice upon the owner, agent, manager or lessee of a mine or\ntunnel requiring him to comply with a specific provision of this\narticle. The commissioner shall begin an action in the supreme court to…

§ 44. Workplace fatality registry; construction. 1. Registry. The\ndepartment shall create and maintain a registry of workplace fatalities\nin the construction industry, which shall include information regarding\nall incidents under which a worker performing construction work su…

§ 450. Application of article. 1. This article shall apply to persons\nengaged in the manufacture, ownership, possession, storage, use,\ntransportation, purchase, sale or gift of explosives as defined in\nsubdivision one of section four hundred fifty-one of this article.\n 2. Th…

§ 451. Definitions. Whenever used in this article: 1. "Explosives"\nmeans gunpowder, powders used for blasting, high explosives, blasting\nmaterials, detonating fuses, detonators, pyrotechnics and other\ndetonating agents, fireworks and dangerous fireworks as defined in\nsection…

§ 452. Packing and labeling. No person shall own, possess, store, deal\nin, sell, give or purchase explosives unless the packing, or encasement,\nand the marking and labeling of such explosives shall comply with the\nregulations promulgated pursuant to this article.\n

§ 453. Storage. No person shall store explosives except in a magazine\nconstructed, located and certified in accordance with the provisions of\nthis article and the regulations promulgated pursuant to this article.\nThe magazine certificate shall be attached to the magazine on t…

§ 454. Construction of magazines. Unless otherwise prescribed by the\nregulations promulgated pursuant to this article, magazines in which\nexplosives shall be lawfully kept or stored shall be constructed of\nbrick, concrete, metal or wood covered with metal, and shall have no\n…

§ 455. Magazine precautions. 1. No individual shall unlock, open the\ndoors of, or access the contents of, explosive magazines, except for the\nlawful storage or removal of explosives and in accordance with\nregulations of the commissioner. No employer shall allow any individual…

§ 456. Location of magazines. The quantity of explosives that may be\nstored in any explosives factory or magazine shall depend upon its\ndistances from the nearest building, railroad or highway or other\nmagazine. The distances that a quantity of explosives may be stored from\n…

§ 457. Relocation of magazines. 1. When any magazine is moved from the\nlocation for which it was certified according to section four hundred\nfifty-six of this article, and the magazine is or is intended to be used\nfor the storage of explosives and will be in the new location …

§ 458. Licenses and certificates. 1. No person shall purchase, own,\npossess, transport or use explosives unless a license therefor shall\nhave been issued as provided in this article.\n Application for such a license shall be made to the commissioner on\nforms provided and shal…

§ 459. Denial or revocation of license or certificate. 1. A license or\ncertificate, or the renewal thereof may be denied where the commissioner\nhas probable reason to believe, based on knowledge or reliable\ninformation, or finds, after investigation, that the applicant or any…

§ 460. Seizure, impounding, destruction or disposition of explosives.\n1. The commissioner is hereby authorized and empowered, without\napplication to any court, to seize and impound any explosives found\nwithin this state, except in cities having a population of more than one\n…

§ 461. Record and notice of sales, deliveries or gifts. 1. Every\nperson selling, delivering, giving away or otherwise transferring or\ndisposing of explosives shall keep at his or her principal office or\nplace of business within the state, a record of the transaction,\nincludi…

§ 462. Rules and regulations. The commissioner may make rules\nsupplemental to this article as deemed necessary or desirable to assure\nthe public safety as well as to provide reasonable and adequate\nprotection of the lives, health and safety of persons employed in the\nmanufac…

§ 463. Review. All questions of fact arising under this article shall\nbe decided by the commissioner and there shall be no appeal from such\ndecision on any such question of fact. Upon the entry of an order issued\nunder sections four hundred fifty-nine and four hundred sixty o…

§ 464. Costs and penalties. 1. If the commissioner directs the\nstorage, destruction or other disposition of explosives pursuant to the\nprovisions of section four hundred fifty-nine or four hundred sixty of\nthis article, the commissioner may issue an order which shall set fort…

§ 464-a. Local laws. Except with regard to cities having a population\nof over one million, the provisions of this article and the rules\nadopted pursuant thereto shall be the minimum standard required and\nshall supersede any special law or local ordinance inconsistent\ntherewi…

§ 466. Separability. If any provision of this article or the\napplication thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the\nremainder of the article and the application of such provision to other\npersons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.\n

§ 470. General provision as to construction, equipment and maintenance\nof places of public assembly. All places of public assembly as\nhereinbefore defined shall be so constructed, equipped and maintained as\nto provide reasonable and adequate protection to the lives, health an…

§ 471. Rules. The board of standards and appeals shall make rules to\ncarry out the provisions of this article. Such rules shall be the\nminimum standard required and shall supersede any special law or local\nordinance inconsistent therewith, and no local ordinance inconsistent\…

§ 472. Enforcement. The commissioner of labor shall enforce the\nprovisions of this article and rules adopted thereunder; provided,\nhowever, that this section shall not apply to:\n (a) any city exempted from this article by section four hundred\nseventy-four-a hereof; or\n (b) …

§ 473. Certificate of compliance with requirements of law. 1. The\nenforcing authority shall ascertain by inspection whether places of\npublic assembly conform to the requirements of this article and the\nrules adopted thereunder. If such places are found to so conform, he or\ni…

§ 473-a. Posting of means of egress in places of public assembly.\nThere shall be posted in a conspicuous place and manner at all exits in\nevery place of public assembly, a printed scale floor plan of that\nparticular floor or story, which shall show all means of egress, clearl…

§ 474. Revocation of certificate of compliance. No place of public\nassembly shall be conducted for pecuniary gain unless a certificate of\ncompliance shall have been issued and conspicuously posted therein. The\nenforcing authority granting the certificate of compliance may rev…

§ 474-a. Application to New York city and other cities. This article,\nexcept for section four hundred seventy-five, shall not apply to the\ncity of New York, or to other cities having a bureau of buildings which\nis charged with the duty of enforcing a building code enacted by …

§ 475. Crowd control plans in certain places of public assembly. 1.\n(a) For the purposes of this section places of public assembly shall be\nthose with an occupancy capacity of at least five thousand persons and\nshall include: (i) all stadiums, ballparks, gymnasiums, fieldhous…

§ 500. Short title. This article shall be known and may be cited as\nthe "unemployment insurance law. "\n

§ 501. Public policy of state. As a guide to the interpretation and\napplication of this article, the public policy of this state is declared\nto be as follows: Economic insecurity due to unemployment is a serious\nmenace to the health, welfare, and morale of the people of this …

§ 502. Wage reporting - findings and policy. The legislature hereby\nfinds and declares that New York state is committed to developing the\nmost efficient and effective system possible for administering the\nunemployment insurance system which, for more than a half century, has\…

§ 510. Application of definitions. Whenever used in this article, the\nterms defined in this title have the respective meanings set forth\nherein except where the context shows otherwise.\n

§ 511. Employment. 1. General definition. "Employment" means (a) any\nservice under any contract of employment for hire, express or implied,\nwritten, or oral and\n (b) any service by a person for an employer\n (1) as an agent-driver or commission-driver engaged in distributing\…

§ 512. Employer. 1. "Employer" includes the state of New York and\nother governmental entities and any Indian tribe as defined in section\nfive hundred sixty-six of this article and any person, partnership,\nfirm, association, public or private, domestic or foreign corporation,\…

§ 513. Fund. "Fund" means the unemployment insurance fund.\n