NY Lab L § 279 (2021)
2021 New York Laws LAB - Labor Article 11 - Factories Title 3 - Fire Hazard 279 - Fire Alarm Signal Systems and Fire Drills.

§ 279. Fire alarm signal systems and fire drills. 1. Fire alarm signal   systems.  Except as may otherwise be provided by the board in its rules,   every factory building over two stories in height  in  which  more  than   twenty-five  persons  are  employed  above  the  ground  floor  shall be   equipped by the owner thereof with a fire alarm signal system  having  a   sufficient  number  of  signals  clearly audible to all occupants of the   building, and so arranged as to permit the sounding of  all  the  alarms   within  the  building  whenever  the  alarm  is  sounded  in any portion   thereof. Such system shall be maintained in good working  order  and  no   person  shall tamper with same or render ineffective any portion thereof   except to repair it. A person discovering a fire shall cause an alarm to   be sounded immediately. The board of standards and appeals in  the  city   of  New  York  and  elsewhere  the  board may make rules and regulations   relating to the installation of fire alarm signals and  prescribing  the   number,  character  and  location  of  the  signals  and  the method and   character of the  installation  including  that  of  all  appliances  in   connection therewith.2.  Fire  drills.  Except as may otherwise be provided by the board in   its rules, in every factory building over two stories in height in which   more than twenty-five persons are employed above  the  ground  floor,  a   fire  drill shall be conducted at least once a month in which all of the   occupants of the building shall  participate  simultaneously  and  which   shall  conduct all such occupants to a place of safety. In New York city   the  fire  commissioner  and  elsewhere  the  board  shall  make  rules,   regulations  and  special orders necessary or suitable to each situation   and to secure the personal  co-operation  of  all  the  tenants  of  the   building  in  a  fire  drill  of  all the occupants thereof. Such rules,   regulations and orders may  require  the  posting  of  the  same  or  an   abstract  thereof  and  may  prescribe  upon whom shall rest the duty of   carrying them out.3. Exceptions. Subdivisions one and two  of  this  section  shall  not   apply  to a building in which every square foot of the floor area on all   stories is protected with  an  automatic  sprinkler  system  having  two   adequate  sources of water supply and approved by the public authorities   having jurisdiction thereof and in which  also  the  maximum  number  of   occupants of any one floor does not exceed by more than fifty per centum   the capacity of the exits, as determined by subdivisions one, two, three   and  four  of section two hundred and seventy-eight. If the commissioner   after investigation determines  that  the  spirit  of  this  chapter  is   observed  and  public  safety  secured  he  may  permit  in place of the   automatic sprinkler  system  before  specified  an  automatic  sprinkler   system  having  one  adequate source of water supply and approved by the   public authorities having jurisdiction thereof.4. The provisions of this section shall be enforced in the city of New   York by the  fire  commissioner  of  said  city  and  elsewhere  by  the   commissioner.