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NY Lab L § 341-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws LAB - Labor Article 12-A - Special Task Force for the Apparel Industry 341-A - Unlawfully Manufactured Apparel.

§  341-a. Unlawfully manufactured apparel. The commissioner shall have   the power to affix to any article of apparel or  component  thereof,  in   the  manufacture  or  assembly  of  which  any  employee was employed in   violation of article six or nineteen of this chapter, a tag of  no  more   than  six  inches in length bearing the words "unlawfully manufactured."   Any  person  other  than  the  commissioner,  the  commissioner's   duly   authorized  representative  or  consumer  of  such article of apparel or   component thereof who removes, alters, defaces or  otherwise  interferes   with such a tag shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
NY Lab L § 342 (2021)
2021 New York Laws LAB - Labor Article 12-A - Special Task Force for the Apparel Industry 342 - Establishment of a Special Task Force.

§  342.  Establishment  of  a  special task force. The commissioner is   authorized to  establish  a  special  task  force  for  the  purpose  of   concentrating   enforcement   of  the  labor  law  affecting  production   employees in the apparel  industry  in  New  York  state  and  otherwise   exercising  the  duties  and  powers set forth in sections three hundred   forty-three and three hundred forty-four of this article.  Such  special   task  force shall be empowered to investigate and conduct inspections at   locations where an apparel industry contractor is operating.The commissioner is further authorized  to  publish  on  the  internet   listings of those persons and entities investigated by the department or   the  special  task  force on the apparel industry and found not to be in   compliance  with  the  law.  The  listing  shall  include  all  relevant   information  concerning  the  violators  included  in  the  registration   process in accordance with  section  three  hundred  forty-one  of  this   article.  The listing shall be updated regularly, not less than monthly,   amended to be adjusted for new instances of non-compliance. Any retailer   or  manufacturer  or   contractor   requesting   verification   of   the   registration  status  of  a manufacturer or contractor shall be provided   with a reference to this internet web site listing.
NY Lab L § 343 (2021)
2021 New York Laws LAB - Labor Article 12-A - Special Task Force for the Apparel Industry 343 - Duties.

§  343.  Duties.  The special task force is charged with the following duties: 1. To inspect manufacturers and  contractors,  with  respect  to their   respective   production   employees,  for  compliance  with  the registration requirements of section three  hundred  forty-one  of  this article;   2.  To  inspect  manufacturers  and contractors, with respect to their respective production employees, for compliance with the labor law;   3. To insure, with respect to their respective  production  employees, compliance  by  manufacturers  and  contractors  with the orders of, and assessments of civil penalties by, the  commissioner  pursuant  to  this article; and   4.  To  submit annual reports to the governor, the temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, and the chairpersons of  the senate and assembly labor committees detailing:  (a)  the  number of complaints, investigations and dispositions by the task force including any resulting fines, restitution, referrals to  the attorney general and criminal prosecutions;  (b)  the  number  of investigators and other filled staff positions on the task force including the total number of  authorized  positions  and whether any investigators are bilingual and, if so, in what language;  (c)  the  amount of money allocated annually by the department and the amount actually spent; and  (d) any recommendations  for  improving  enforcement  efforts  against apparel manufacturers and contractors which violate the law.
NY Lab L § 345-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws LAB - Labor Article 12-A - Special Task Force for the Apparel Industry 345-A - Liability of Manufacturers and Contractors.

§ 345-a. Liability of manufacturers and contractors. 1. A manufacturer   or contractor who contracts or subcontracts with another manufacturer or   contractor  for  the  performance of any apparel industry service within   the meaning of subdivision (c) of section three hundred  forty  of  this   article  and  who  knew  or  should  have  known  with  the  exercise of   reasonable  care  or  diligence  of   such   other   manufacturer's   or   contractor's  failure  to  comply  with  article six or nineteen of this   chapter in the performance of such service  shall  be  liable  for  such   failure.2.  For  the purposes of this section, the exercise of reasonable care   or diligence by a manufacturer or contractor shall be presumed if, prior   to  the  execution  of  such  contract  or  subcontract,  and   annually   thereafter, such manufacturer or contractor receives from the department   written  assurance of compliance with section three hundred forty-one of   this article.
NY Lab L § 346 (2021)
2021 New York Laws LAB - Labor Article 12-A - Special Task Force for the Apparel Industry 346 - Special Task Force Training; Assistance of Agencies.

§  346.  Special  task  force training; assistance of agencies. 1. The   special task force shall receive training to be provided by the state in   each of the areas of the labor law, state or local building codes, state   or local fire codes, laws or  regulations  and  state  or  local  health   codes,  laws or regulations in which potential violations exist and such   other training as is necessary to carry out the duties and powers of the   special task force, as defined in sections three hundred forty-three and   three hundred forty-four of this article.2. The special task force may request from any  department,  division,   board,  bureau,  commission  or other agency of the state, any political   subdivision of the state, a public authority or any  other  governmental   agency  or  instrumentality of the state, such assistance as will enable   it to properly carry out its powers and duties hereunder.
NY Lab L § 347 (2021)
2021 New York Laws LAB - Labor Article 12-A - Special Task Force for the Apparel Industry 347 - Report.

§  347.  Report.  Two years after the date on which this article takes   effect, and on or before  the  thirty-first  of  January  of  each  year   thereafter,  the  special  task  force  shall  issue  a  report  on  its   activities and on the apparel industry in New York  state.  This  report   shall  be  delivered  to  the  labor  committees  and ways and means and   finance committees of the legislature.  The  special  task  force  shall   report  on a regular basis to the apparel industry advisory committee of   the department, or its successor.
NY Lab L § 348 (2021)
2021 New York Laws LAB - Labor Article 12-A - Special Task Force for the Apparel Industry 348 - Powers of Commissioner; Surety Bond; Civil and Criminal Penalties.

§  348.  Powers  of  commissioner;  surety  bond;  civil  and criminal   penalties. 1. If an order has been issued by the  commissioner  pursuant   to  section two hundred eighteen or two hundred nineteen of this chapter   within the previous five years to any person engaged as an  employer  in   the  apparel industry directing compliance with any provision of article   six or nineteen of this chapter and such order has not been  revoked  or   annulled  on  review and the time for review has expired, or if it shall   appear to the commissioner that any person engaged as an employer or  as   an  agent or officer of a corporate employer in the apparel industry has   within the previous five years been convicted  of  a  violation  of  any   provision  of  article  six  or nineteen of this chapter, or if it shall   appear that any person engaged as an employer in  the  apparel  industry   has  within  the  previous  five  years failed to comply within the time   specified by law with an order issued by the commissioner to comply with   the registration requirements of  this  article,  the  commissioner  may   demand that such employer deposit with him a surety bond either in a sum   equal to his annual payroll, as determined by the commissioner or in the   discretion  of  the commissioner, in the  sum of fifty thousand dollars.   Such bond shall be payable to the commissioner and shall be  conditioned   that  the  employer  and the officers thereof will, for a period of five   years, maintain full compliance with this article and articles  six  and   nineteen  of  this  chapter,  and  shall be further conditioned upon the   payment by the employer of all judgments which may be recovered  against   him pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. If within ten days after   demand  for such bond, which demand shall be either personally served or   made by certified mail directed to the residence or last known  business   address  of  the employer, such employer shall fail to deposit the same,   the employer shall be thereafter liable  for  a  civil  penalty  of  one   thousand  dollars  per day until the furnishing of the bond or cessation   of business by the employer, which civil penalty shall be payable to the   commissioner. The commissioner may bring  an  action  in  any  court  of   appropriate jurisdiction to compel the employer and the officers thereof   to furnish such a bond and to recover all civil penalties accrued.2. Every person engaged as an employer, or any officer or agent of any   corporation  in  the apparel industry who knowingly fails to comply with   an order issued under subdivision one of this section shall be guilty of   a misdemeanor and upon conviction therefor shall be fined not less  than   one  hundred  nor  more  than ten thousand dollars or imprisoned for not   more than one year or punished by both such a fine and imprisonment  for   each such offense.
NY Lab L § 349-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws LAB - Labor Article 12-A - Special Task Force for the Apparel Industry 349-A - Annual Reports.

§  349-a. Annual reports. The commissioner shall publish, on or before   February first, two thousand five and  quarterly  thereafter,  a  report   setting forth the names of all registered apparel industry manufacturers   and  contractors, and all of such manufacturers and contractors who were   found to be in violation of this article  within  the  past  year.  Such   report  shall be delivered to the governor, the speaker of the assembly,   the temporary president of the senate, the chairs of the assembly  labor   committee  and  the  senate  labor  committee,  and  in  cities  with  a   population of one million or more, to every community  board  where  any   such   registered  apparel  industry  manufacturer  or  contractor  does   business, and to every certified and authorized labor union representing   employees working in the apparel industry.  Such  report  shall  include   instructions  on  registration  requirements  and  information on how to   report unregistered apparel industry manufacturers or contractors to the   special task force for the garment industry.
NY Lab L § 351 (2021)
2021 New York Laws LAB - Labor Article 13 - Industrial Homework 351 - Powers of the Industrial Commissioner and Exceptions.

§  351.  Powers of the industrial commissioner and exceptions. 1.  The   industrial commissioner shall, after  proper  study  and  consideration,   determine  within  what  industries  conditions may permit of industrial   homework as hereinbefore defined without unduly jeopardizing the factory   workers in such industries as to both wages and working  conditions  and   without  unduly  injuring  the  health  and  welfare  of  the industrial   homeworker himself. The commissioner may then restrict the  granting  of   permits  and  licenses for industrial homework as herein defined to such   industries and may further  issue  rules  and  regulations  designed  to   control   and   regulate  industrial  homework  in  the  said  permitted   industries. In all other industries  industrial  homework  is  forbidden   unless expressly permitted in writing by the industrial commissioner.2.  a.  Exception  to  this  article  shall  be made by the industrial   commissioner in respect of clerical work done in a home. "Clerical work"   shall mean typing, stenciling, transcribing,  copying,  bookkeeping  and   stenographic  work.  Clerical  work shall not mean inserting, collating,   labeling, nesting, sorting, stamping or similar work.b.  Exception  to  this  article  may  be  made  by   the   industrial   commissioner  in  respect  of  such  other provisions consonant with the   general purpose of  this  article  as  the  commissioner  may  on  study   determine to be warranted by conditions.
NY Lab L § 352 (2021)
2021 New York Laws LAB - Labor Article 13 - Industrial Homework 352 - Permits Required.

§  352.  Permits  required.  1. An employer shall secure an employer's   permit  from  the  commissioner  before  delivering  or  causing  to  be   delivered  to another person any materials for manufacture by industrial   homework, and shall not deliver or cause to be delivered  any  materials   for  industrial  homework  to  a person who has not a certificate issued   pursuant to this article or to be worked on  in  a  home  which  is  not   licensed under this article.
NY Lab L § 353 (2021)
2021 New York Laws LAB - Labor Article 13 - Industrial Homework 353 - Fees.

§  353.  Fees. All fees and other monies derived from the operation of   this article shall be paid into the state treasury to the credit of  the   general fund.
NY Lab L § 354 (2021)
2021 New York Laws LAB - Labor Article 13 - Industrial Homework 354 - Conditions of Manufacture.

§  354.  Conditions  of  manufacture. 1. No person other than a person   resident therein shall carry on industrial homework on any article in  a   home  except  as  otherwise  provided  for  under  section three hundred   fifty-one, subdivision two, paragraph b.2. No person shall carry on industrial homework except  in  accordance   with this article.3.  No  child  shall  be  employed  in manufacture in a home except in   accordance with articles four and five of this chapter.4. No employer having an employer's permit shall deliver or  cause  to   be  delivered  or  received  any articles for or as a result of homework   manufacture unless he shall  keep  in  such  form  and  forward  to  the   commissioner  at such intervals as he may by regulation prescribe and on   such blanks as he may provide, a  complete  and  accurate  list  of  all   persons  engaged  in  industrial  homework  on  materials  furnished  or   distributed by him, of all  places  where  such  persons  work,  of  all   materials  furnished  and  distributed  to such persons described as the   commissioner  may  require,  of  all  goods  which  such  persons   have   manufactured  and  of  the wages paid to each industrial homeworker, and   unless  he  shall  attach  to  all  materials  delivered  for   homework   manufacture  a  label  bearing his name and address or place of business   legibly written or printed in English.5. No person shall do industrial homework, except in a home  in  which   he  resides, and unless his name is on a homeworker's certificate issued   by the commissioner and permitting industrial homework  to  be  done  in   such home, and unless such certificate is exposed clearly in the home in   which industrial homework is being done.6.  No  article  of  food,  no dolls or dolls' clothing and no stuffed   animals or other stuffed toys used in the same way  as  dolls  shall  be   manufactured  for  a factory, either directly or through a contractor or   for an employer, in a home.
NY Lab L § 354-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws LAB - Labor Article 13 - Industrial Homework 354-A - Distribution of Homework to Employees by Employer.

§  354-a.  Distribution  of  homework  to  employees  by employer. The   employer shall, wherever homework is permitted, distribute  directly  to   his  homeworkers  all  material  and articles of homework.   No employer   shall give out  any  material  or  articles  for  homework  through  any   homework   contractors  or  distributors.  No  homework  contractors  or   distributors shall receive or distribute any materials or  articles  for   or as a result of industrial homework.This prohibition shall be deemed absolute; anything in this article to   the  contrary notwithstanding, and shall not be subject to the powers of   the industrial commissioner under section three hundred fifty-one.
NY Lab L § 355 (2021)
2021 New York Laws LAB - Labor Article 13 - Industrial Homework 355 - Periodic Inspection.

§  355.  Periodic  inspection. 1. The commissioner shall inspect every   house in which industrial  homework  is  permitted,  and  the  materials   issued to the industrial homeworker.2.  If the commissioner finds that any home in which homework is being   done is not clean, he shall order the tenant at once to clean it.3. If the commissioner finds  that  a  house  or  any  home  in  which   homework  is  being done is in an unsanitary condition, or that there is   an infectious or communicable disease therein, he shall at  once  notify   the  commissioner of health, or the chief health officer of the district   in which such house or home is situated.
NY Lab L § 356 (2021)
2021 New York Laws LAB - Labor Article 13 - Industrial Homework 356 - Notice of Unlawful Manufacture.

§  356.  Notice of unlawful manufacture. If the commissioner discovers   any manufacture in a house contrary to the provisions of  this  article,   he shall serve notice of such unlawful manufacture upon the employer.
NY Lab L § 357 (2021)
2021 New York Laws LAB - Labor Article 13 - Industrial Homework 357 - Unlawfully Manufactured Articles.

§  357.  Unlawfully  manufactured  articles.  The  commissioner  shall   conspicuously affix to each or all articles unlawfully manufactured in a   house a tag not less than four inches in length bearing  in  small  pica   capital  letters  the  words  "unlawfully made," or shall seize and hold   such article until claimed by  the  owner  thereof.  Unless  the  person   entitled to the possession of an article so seized shall claim it within   thirty  days  thereafter  the said article may be destroyed or otherwise   disposed of. No person except the  commissioner  shall  interfere  with,   remove or deface such tag.
NY Lab L § 358 (2021)
2021 New York Laws LAB - Labor Article 13 - Industrial Homework 358 - Revocation or Suspension of Permits and Certificates.

§  358.  Revocation  or  suspension of permits and certificates.   The   commissioner may revoke or suspend the permit of  any  employer  or  any   homeworker's  certificate  for  a  violation  by such employer or by any   person named in such  certificate,  of  the  terms  of  such  permit  or   certificate,  or  of  any provision of this chapter or of any regulation   made by the commissioner, or for non-compliance with an order issued  by   the commissioner, within the time specified in such order.
NY Lab L § 358-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws LAB - Labor Article 13 - Industrial Homework 358-A - Action and Injunction.

§  358-a.  Action  and  injunction. 1. The industrial commissioner may   maintain an action upon his own information or upon the complaint  of  a   private   person   against   any  person,  partnership,  corporation  or   association, and any employee, agent, director or  officer  thereof  who   commits any act or engages in any conduct prohibited by this article. In   any  such  action,  the  final  judgment in favor of the plaintiff shall   perpetually restrain the defendant from the commission or continuance of   the act complained of. A temporary restraining  order  to  restrain  the   commission  or  continuance  thereof  may  be  granted  upon  proof,  by   affidavit, that the defendant has violated any of the provisions of this   article. The  provisions  of  statute  or  rule  relating  generally  to   injunctions as provisional remedies in actions apply to such a temporary   restraining order and the proceedings thereupon.2. If the industrial commissioner fails to maintain an action pursuant   to  subdivision  one  hereof  within  fifteen  days of being notified by   certified mail of such an alleged violation, any  industrial  homeworker   or any other person, partnership, corporation or association making such   mailing  who is aggrieved by such alleged violation may commence such an   action and seek an injunction pursuant to the provisions of  statute  or   rule relating generally to injunctions as provisional remedies.
NY Lab L § 359 (2021)
2021 New York Laws LAB - Labor Article 13 - Industrial Homework 359 - Inspection of Health Records.

§ 359. Inspection of health records. The commissioner may inspect such   records  of  any  department  of  health or of any health officer or any   county board of health as will aid him in carrying out his duties  under   this  article.  Any  health officer or officer of any such department or   county board shall, at the  commissioner's  request,  aid  him  in  such   inspection.
NY Lab L § 360 (2021)
2021 New York Laws LAB - Labor Article 13 - Industrial Homework 360 - Notice and Hearing.

§  360. Notice and hearing. No permit or certificate shall be refused,   revoked or  suspended  unless  the  holder  previously  have  reasonable   notice, and an opportunity to be heard.
NY Lab L § 361 (2021)
2021 New York Laws LAB - Labor Article 13 - Industrial Homework 361 - Summary Proceedings; When May Be Instituted.

§ 361. Summary proceedings; when may be instituted. The carrying on of   manufacture  in  a  home  or  of  industrial  homework  contrary  to the   provisions  of  this  article  shall  be  cause  for  dispossessing  its   occupants by summary proceedings to recover possession of real property.   Upon  receipt from the commissioner of a notice showing such manufacture   or such industrial homework in a home, the  owner  or  his  agent  shall   cause  such  manufacture or industrial homework to cease within ten days   and, if unable to  do  so,  shall  institute  within  fifteen  days  and   faithfully prosecute proceedings to dispossess the occupants.
NY Lab L § 361-A (2021)
2021 New York Laws LAB - Labor Article 13 - Industrial Homework 361-A - Employment Status of Industrial Homeworkers.

§  361-a.  Employment status of industrial homeworkers. All industrial   homeworkers shall be presumed to be employees of their employer and  not   independent contractors.