Bill Text: NY A01937 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Exempts owners of farms and the owners of multiple dwellings from complying with the scaffold law in certain instances.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 9-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-15 - held for consideration in labor [A01937 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A01937-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          1937
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 18, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. HAWLEY, KOLB, CROUCH -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
          of A. BARCLAY, GIGLIO -- read once and referred to  the  Committee  on
          Labor
        AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to the use of scaffolding and
          other devices for use by employees
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 240 of the labor law,  as  amended
     2  by chapter 241 of the laws of 1981, is amended to read as follows:
     3    1.    All  contractors  and  owners and their agents, except owners of
     4  farms, owners of one and two-family dwellings  and  owners  of  multiple
     5  dwellings who contract for but do not direct or control the work, in the
     6  erection,  demolition, repairing, altering, painting, cleaning or point-
     7  ing of a building or structure shall furnish or erect, or  cause  to  be
     8  furnished  or  erected  for  the performance of such labor, scaffolding,
     9  hoists, stays, ladders, slings, hangers, blocks, pulleys, braces, irons,
    10  ropes, and other devices which shall be so constructed, placed and oper-
    11  ated as to give proper protection to a person so employed.
    12    No liability pursuant to this subdivision for the failure  to  provide
    13  protection  to  a  person  so  employed shall be imposed on professional
    14  engineers as provided for in  article  one  hundred  forty-five  of  the
    15  education  law, architects as provided for in article one hundred forty-
    16  seven of such law or landscape architects as provided for in article one
    17  hundred forty-eight of such law who do not direct or  control  the  work
    18  for  activities other than planning and design. This exception shall not
    19  diminish or extinguish any liability of professional engineers or archi-
    20  tects or landscape architects arising under the common law or any  other
    21  provision of law.
    22    § 2. The opening paragraph of section 241 of the labor law, as amended
    23  by chapter 670 of the laws of 1980, is amended to read as follows:
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02094-01-9

        A. 1937                             2
     1    All  contractors  and owners and their agents, except owners of farms,
     2  owners of one and two-family dwellings and owners of multiple  dwellings
     3  who  contract for but do not direct or control the work, when construct-
     4  ing or demolishing buildings or doing any excavating in connection ther-
     5  ewith, shall comply with the following requirements:
     6    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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