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Jun 08, 2010 | held for consideration in labor |
Jan 06, 2010 | referred to labor |
Jan 07, 2009 | referred to labor |
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S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 909 2009-2010 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y (PREFILED) January 7, 2009 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. HAWLEY, KOLB, BURLING, CROUCH, ERRIGO -- Multi- Sponsored by -- M. of A. BACALLES, BARCLAY, CONTE, 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: Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 240 of the labor law, as amended by chapter 241 of the laws of 1981, is amended to read as follows: 1. All contractors and owners and their agents, except OWNERS OF FARMS, owners of one and two-family dwellings AND OWNERS OF MULTIPLE DWELLINGS who contract for but do not direct or control the work, in the erection, demolition, repairing, altering, painting, cleaning or point- ing of a building or structure shall furnish or erect, or cause to be furnished or erected for the performance of such labor, scaffolding, hoists, stays, ladders, slings, hangers, blocks, pulleys, braces, irons, ropes, and other devices which shall be so constructed, placed and oper- ated as to give proper protection to a person so employed. No liability pursuant to this subdivision for the failure to provide protection to a person so employed shall be imposed on professional engineers as provided for in article one hundred forty-five of the education law, architects as provided for in article one hundred forty- seven of such law or landscape architects as provided for in article one hundred forty-eight of such law who do not direct or control the work for activities other than planning and design. This exception shall not diminish or extinguish any liability of professional engineers or archi- tects or landscape architects arising under the common law or any other provision of law. S 2. The opening paragraph of section 241 of the labor law, as amended 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.