Bill Text: NY A03968 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to building new one-family residential construction.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-17 - held for consideration in labor [A03968 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A03968-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3968
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 28, 2015
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       Introduced by M. of A. HAWLEY -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Labor
       AN  ACT  to amend the labor law, in relation to contractors building new
         one-family residential construction
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  The  opening paragraph of subdivision 1 of section 240 of
    2  the labor law, as amended by chapter 241 of the laws of 1981, is amended
    3  to read as follows:
    4    All contractors and owners and their agents, except owners of one  and
    5  two-family  dwellings  who contract for but do not direct or control the
    6  work AND CONTRACTORS BUILDING NEW ONE-FAMILY  RESIDENTIAL  CONSTRUCTION,
    7  in  the erection, demolition, repairing, altering, painting, cleaning or
    8  pointing of a building or structure shall furnish or erect, or cause  to
    9  be  furnished or erected for the performance of such labor, scaffolding,
   10  hoists, stays, ladders, slings, hangers, blocks, pulleys, braces, irons,
   11  ropes, and other devices which shall be so constructed, placed and oper-
   12  ated as to give proper protection to a person so employed.
   13    S 2. The opening paragraph of section 241 of the labor law, as amended
   14  by chapter 670 of the laws of 1980, is amended to read as follows:
   15    All contractors and owners and their agents, except owners of one  and
   16  two-family  dwellings  who contract for but do not direct or control the
   17  work AND CONTRACTORS BUILDING NEW ONE-FAMILY  RESIDENTIAL  CONSTRUCTION,
   18  when  constructing  or  demolishing buildings or doing any excavating in
   19  connection therewith, shall comply with the following requirements:
   20    S 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
   21  it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediate-
   22  ly, the addition, amendment and/or repeal  of  any  rule  or  regulation
   23  necessary  for  the implementation of this act on its effective date are
   24  authorized and directed to be made  and  completed  on  or  before  such
   25  effective date.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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