Title LAB, Labor

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

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

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

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

§ 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 pressure in pounds per square inch.

§ 426. Equipment. Every employer of persons for work in compressed air shall: 1. Connect at least two air pipes with the working chamber and keep such pipes in perfect working condition; 2. Attach to the working chamber in accessible positions all instruments necessary to show i…

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

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

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

§ 43. Transfer of funds to the unemployment insurance occupational training fund. Notwithstanding any other law, rule or regulation to the contrary, subject to approval by the director of the budget, the state comptroller is hereby authorized and directed to transfer funds from …

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

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

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

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

§ 436. Penalties. Violation of or noncompliance with any provision of this article shall be a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than two hundred and fifty dollars or by imprisonment for one year or by both.

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

§ 44. Workplace fatality registry; construction. 1. Registry. The department shall create and maintain a registry of workplace fatalities in the construction industry, which shall include information regarding all incidents under which a worker performing construction work suffe…

§ 450. Application of article. 1. This article shall apply to persons engaged in the manufacture, ownership, possession, storage, use, transportation, purchase, sale or gift of explosives as defined in subdivision one of section four hundred fifty-one of this article. 2. This ar…

§ 451. Definitions. Whenever used in this article: 1. "Explosives" means gunpowder, powders used for blasting, high explosives, blasting materials, detonating fuses, detonators, pyrotechnics and other detonating agents, fireworks and dangerous fireworks as defined in section 270…

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

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

§ 454. Construction of magazines. Unless otherwise prescribed by the regulations promulgated pursuant to this article, magazines in which explosives shall be lawfully kept or stored shall be constructed of brick, concrete, metal or wood covered with metal, and shall have no open…

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

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

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

§ 458. Licenses and certificates. 1. No person shall purchase, own, possess, transport or use explosives unless a license therefor shall have been issued as provided in this article. Application for such a license shall be made to the commissioner on forms provided and shall con…

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

§ 460. Seizure, impounding, destruction or disposition of explosives. 1. The commissioner is hereby authorized and empowered, without application to any court, to seize and impound any explosives found within this state, except in cities having a population of more than one mill…

§ 461. Record and notice of sales, deliveries or gifts. 1. Every person selling, delivering, giving away or otherwise transferring or disposing of explosives shall keep at his or her principal office or place of business within the state, a record of the transaction, including t…

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

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

§ 464. Costs and penalties. 1. If the commissioner directs the storage, destruction or other disposition of explosives pursuant to the provisions of section four hundred fifty-nine or four hundred sixty of this article, the commissioner may issue an order which shall set forth t…

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

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

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

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

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

§ 473. Certificate of compliance with requirements of law. 1. The enforcing authority shall ascertain by inspection whether places of public assembly conform to the requirements of this article and the rules adopted thereunder. If such places are found to so conform, he or it sh…

§ 473-a. Posting of means of egress in places of public assembly. There shall be posted in a conspicuous place and manner at all exits in every place of public assembly, a printed scale floor plan of that particular floor or story, which shall show all means of egress, clearly l…

§ 474. Revocation of certificate of compliance. No place of public assembly shall be conducted for pecuniary gain unless a certificate of compliance shall have been issued and conspicuously posted therein. The enforcing authority granting the certificate of compliance may revoke…

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

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

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

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

§ 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 terms defined in this title have the respective meanings set forth herein except where the context shows otherwise.

§ 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 other governmental entities and any Indian tribe as defined in section five hundred sixty-six of this article and any person, partnership, firm, association, public or private, domestic or foreign corporation, the…

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