Bill Text: NY A02389 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-15 - held for consideration in labor [A02389 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A02389-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2389
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 22, 2019
                                       ___________
        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    § 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    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    21  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
    22  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    23  tation  of this act on its effective date are authorized and directed to
    24  be made and completed on or before such effective date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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