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2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 11 - Factories › Title 3 - Fire Hazard › 269 - Application of Provisions.

§  269.  Application  of provisions. 1. The provisions of sections two
  hundred and sixty-one,  two  hundred  and  sixty-two,  two  hundred  and
  sixty-three,  two hundred and sixty-five, two hundred and sixty-six, and
  two hundred and sixty-seven shall apply to all buildings  erected  after
  October  first,  nineteen  hundred and thirteen, and to all construction
  made after that date in buildings erected prior to that date. The  board
  shall  adopt  rules  affecting  construction  made before October first,
  nineteen  hundred  and  thirteen,  in  buildings  theretofore   erected,
  requiring  compliance with such of the requirements of said sections, or
  with such other or different requirements as  it  finds  reasonable  and
  adequate to protect persons employed in such buildings against fire.
2.  Altered  buildings.  When  changes  are made to a building erected
  prior to October first, nineteen hundred thirteen, which are so material
  and extensive as to constitute  a  new  building,  such  building  shall
  comply  with the provisions of section two hundred seventy. However, the
  words material or extensive shall not apply if the structure is  altered
  by adding an extension horizontally in such manner as to increase any or
  all of its floor areas by not more than twenty-five per centum.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 11 - Factories › Title 3 - Fire Hazard › 274 - Fire-Escapes Erected Before October First, Nineteen Hundred and Thirteen.

§ 274. Fire-escapes erected before October first, nineteen hundred and
  thirteen.   All  outside  fire-escapes  erected  before  October  first,
  nineteen hundred and thirteen, and serving as required exits  under  the
  provisions  of  section two hundred and seventy-one shall conform to the
  following requirements:
1. There shall be balconies on each floor of  the  building  connected
  with stairways placed at an angle of not more than sixty degrees.
2.  A  stairway  shall  lead  from  the top floor balcony to the roof,
  except when the fire-escapes are erected on the front of the building.
3. A stairway not less than twenty-two inches wide shall lead from the
  lowest balcony to a safe landing place  beneath,  which  stairway  shall
  remain  down  permanently  or  swing  up  and  down  by counterbalancing
  weights.
4. A safe and unobstructed exit shall be provided to the  street  from
  the foot of such fire-escapes as required in subdivision nine of section
  two hundred and seventy-three.
5.  Steps  shall  connect  the  sill  of  every opening leading to the
  fire-escapes with the floor wherever such sill is more than  three  feet
  above the floor level.
6.  All  openings  leading  to the fire-escapes shall be provided with
  fireproof windows or fire doors.
7. All windows opening upon the course of  the  fire-escape  shall  be
  fireproof windows.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 11 - Factories › Title 3 - Fire Hazard › 275 - Special Laws and Local Ordinances.

§ 275. Special laws and local ordinances. The requirements of sections
  two  hundred and seventy to two hundred and seventy-four, inclusive, are
  not in substitution for the requirements of any general or  special  law
  or   local   ordinance   relating  to  the  construction,  equipment  or
  maintenance of buildings, but the provisions of such general and special
  laws and local ordinances shall be observed as well as the provisions of
  said sections. The provisions of sections two hundred and seventy to two
  hundred and seventy-four,  inclusive,  shall  supersede  all  provisions
  inconsistent  therewith  in  any special law or local ordinance, and any
  provision of law or ordinance  which  gives  power  to  any  officer  to
  establish requirements inconsistent with the provisions of such sections
  or the rules adopted by the board under the provisions of this chapter.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 11 - Factories › Title 3 - Fire Hazard › 276 - Inspection of Buildings and Approval of Plans.

§  276.  Inspection of buildings and approval of plans. 1.  Inspection
  of buildings. The officer of any city, village or town having  power  to
  inspect   buildings   therein  to  determine  their  conformity  to  the
  requirements of law or ordinance  governing  their  construction  shall,
  whenever  requested  by  the  commissioner, inspect any factory building
  therein and certify to the commissioner whether such  building  conforms
  to  the  requirements  of  this chapter and the rules of the board. Such
  certificate shall be presumptive evidence of the truth  of  the  matters
  therein stated.
2. Approval of plans. Before constructing or altering a building to be
  used  for  a  factory,  the  plans  and  specifications  therefor may be
  submitted to the commissioner in such form as he may  require.  If  they
  comply with the requirements of this chapter and the rules of the board,
  the  commissioner  shall  issue  his  certificate approving the same. No
  permit for the construction of  any  building  or  structure,  which  is
  required  to  conform to the structural requirements of the labor law or
  the rules adopted thereunder shall be issued by an  enforcing  authority
  in  any city or village of this state except as provided by chapter five
  hundred and three of the laws of nineteen hundred  sixteen  as  amended,
  until  the plans have been approved by the commissioner.  Nothing herein
  shall prohibit any local authority from issuing a temporary  permit  for
  excavation  and  foundations  and such temporary permit also shall issue
  upon notice from the department of labor of the receipt of a request for
  a variation as provided for in section  thirty  of  this  chapter.  Such
  certificate  shall  be  presumptive evidence of the truth of the matters
  therein stated.
3. Certificate of compliance. After such  construction  or  alteration
  shall  be  completed,  the  commissioner  shall  ascertain by inspection
  whether the building conforms substantially to the requirements of  this
  chapter  and  the  rules of the board. If the commissioner finds that it
  does so conform he shall  issue  his  certificate  to  that  effect.  No
  building  or  structure hereafter erected, or altered, which is required
  to conform to the structural requirements of the labor law or the  rules
  adopted thereunder, shall be used or occupied without such certificate.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 11 - Factories › Title 3 - Fire Hazard › 277 - Notice of Issue of Local Construction Permit.

§  277.  Notice  of issue of local construction permit. The officer of
  any city, village  or  town  having  power  to  approve  plans  for  the
  construction  and  alteration  of  buildings shall, immediately upon the
  issuance of a permit for the construction or alteration of a building to
  be used for a factory or mercantile establishment  as  defined  by  this
  chapter,  forward  to the commissioner on forms provided by him a notice
  of the issue of such  permit  and  such  other  information  as  he  may
  require.  The  provisions of this section shall not apply to the city of
  New York.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 11 - Factories › Title 3 - Fire Hazard › 280 - Automatic Fire Extinguishing Systems.

§  280.  Automatic  fire extinguishing systems. Every factory building
  erected before October first, nineteen hundred thirteen, which  is  more
  than  one  story  in height and which has any occupancy specified by the
  board in its rules as of medium  or  high  hazard  below  its  uppermost
  floor,  shall  be  provided  by the owner thereof with an automatic fire
  extinguishing system.
In every non-fireproof  factory  building  constructed  after  October
  first, nineteen hundred thirteen, which is more than one story in height
  and  which  has  any occupancy specified by the board in its rules as of
  high hazard  below  its  uppermost  floor,  the  story  containing  such
  occupancy  and  all  stories  above  it  shall  be provided by the owner
  thereof with an automatic fire extinguishing system.
The automatic fire extinguishing  systems  required  by  this  section
  shall  be  approved  in the city of New York by the fire commissioner in
  such city and elsewhere in accordance with the rules of the  board.  The
  relative  hazard  of occupancies within said city shall be as determined
  by the board of standards and appeals thereof. 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.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 11 - Factories › Title 3 - Fire Hazard › 281 - Fireproof Receptacles.

§  281.  Fireproof  receptacles.  Every factory shall be provided with
  properly covered fireproof receptacles, the number, style  and  location
  of  which  shall  be  approved  in  the  city  of  New  York by the fire
  commissioner and elsewhere by the commissioner. There shall be deposited
  in  such  receptacles  waste  materials,  cuttings  and  rubbish  of  an
  inflammable  nature.  No  waste  materials, cuttings or rubbish shall be
  permitted to accumulate on the  floors  of  any  factory  but  shall  be
  removed  therefrom  not  less  than  twice  each  day.  All  such  waste
  materials, cuttings and rubbish shall be entirely removed from a factory
  building at least once a day, except that baled waste  material  may  be
  stored  in  fireproof enclosures. All such baled waste material shall be
  removed from the building at least once a month.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 11 - Factories › Title 3 - Fire Hazard › 282 - Gas Jets and Other Lights.

§  282.  Gas  jets  and other lights. All gas jets and other lights in
  factories shall be properly enclosed by globes or wire cages or shall be
  otherwise properly protected in a manner approved in  the  city  of  New
  York  by  the  fire  commissioner  of  such  city  and  elsewhere by the
  commissioner.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 11 - Factories › Title 3 - Fire Hazard › 283 - Smoking.

§  283.  Smoking.  1.  No person shall smoke in a factory. A notice of
  such prohibition stating the penalty for violation thereof shall be kept
  posted in every entrance hall, elevator, stairhall and room of a factory
  in English, and in such other languages as the fire commissioner of  the
  city  of  New  York  in  such  city and elsewhere the commissioner shall
  direct.
2. The board in its rules may permit smoking in protected portions  of
  a  factory,  or  in such classes of occupancies where in its opinion the
  safety of the  employees  will  not  be  endangered  thereby.  The  fire
  commissioner  of  the  city  of  New York in such city and elsewhere the
  commissioner may issue such permits in accordance with rules adopted  by
  the board.
3.  The  fire  commissioner  of  the city of New York in such city and
  elsewhere the commissioner shall enforce this section.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 11 - Factories › Title 4 - Sanitation › 291 - Cleanliness and Safety of Rooms.

§  291.  Cleanliness  and safety of rooms. Every room in a factory and
  every part thereof and all fixtures therein shall at all times  be  kept
  in  a  safe and sanitary condition and in proper repair. No person shall
  expectorate upon the walls, floors or stairs of  a  factory  or  of  the
  building  in which it is located. Suitable receptacles shall be provided
  and used for the storage of waste and refuse. The walls and  ceiling  of
  the  rooms  and  hallways  in  every  factory  shall  be kept in a clean
  condition.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 11 - Factories › Title 4 - Sanitation › 293 - Washrooms.

§  293.  Washrooms.  1.  There  shall  be  provided and maintained for
  employees in every factory suitable and  convenient  washrooms  separate
  for  each  sex,  adequately  equipped  with  washing  facilities.  Every
  washroom shall be adequately ventilated and heated and shall be  lighted
  by artificial means where necessary.
2.  In  factories where lead, arsenic or other poisonous substances or
  injurious or noxious fumes, dust or gases are present as an incident  or
  result  of  the  business  or occupation, hot water, soap and individual
  towels shall be furnished.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 11 - Factories › Title 4 - Sanitation › 294 - Dressing Rooms.

§  294. Dressing rooms. There shall be provided in every factory where
  females are employed such  dressing  or  emergency  rooms  as  shall  be
  specified  in  the  rules  of  the  board.  All  dressing rooms shall be
  separated from waterclosets by partitions,  shall  have  adequate  floor
  space  in  proportion to the number of employees, shall be provided with
  seats and  with  suitable  means  for  hanging  clothes,  and  shall  be
  constructed,  heated,  ventilated,  lighted and maintained in accordance
  with the rules of the board.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 11 - Factories › Title 4 - Sanitation › 295 - Waterclosets.

§  295.  Waterclosets.  1. There shall be provided for every factory a
  sufficient  number  of  suitable  and   convenient   waterclosets.   All
  waterclosets  shall  be  maintained  inside the factory building, except
  where in the opinion of the commissioner it is impracticable.
2. There shall be separate watercloset compartments  or  toilet  rooms
  for  females, constructed and maintained in accordance with the rules of
  the board.
3. The use of any form of trough watercloset, latrine or  school  sink
  within any factory is prohibited.
4.  All  waterclosets,  urinals,  watercloset  compartments and toilet
  rooms and  the  plumbing  in  connection  therewith  shall  be  properly
  constructed,  installed,  ventilated,  lighted, heated and maintained in
  accordance with the rules of the board.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 11 - Factories › Title 4 - Sanitation › 296 - Laundries.

§  296.  Laundries. A shop, room or building where one or more persons
  are employed in doing public  laundry  work  by  way  of  trade  or  for
  purposes  of  gain  is  a factory within the meaning of this chapter and
  subject to the provisions relating to factories. No such public  laundry
  work  shall  be done in a room used for sleeping or living purposes. All
  such laundries shall be kept in a clean condition and free  from  vermin
  and  from  all  impurities  of an infectious or contagious nature.  This
  section shall not apply to a female doing custom  laundry  work  at  her
  home for regular family trade.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 11 - Factories › Title 4 - Sanitation › 297 - Unclean Factories.

§  297.  Unclean  factories.  1. If the commissioner finds evidence of
  contagious disease in a factory, he shall affix to the articles  therein
  exposed  to  contagion  a  label containing the word "unclean" and shall
  notify the local department or board of health, which after disinfecting
  the articles may remove such label.
2. If the commissioner finds that the factory or work room therein  is
  unsanitary,  the  commissioner  may, upon filing in his office a written
  order stating the reasons therefor, affix  to  any  articles  therein  a
  label containing the word "unclean." Such label shall be removed only by
  an  authorized  representative  of  the  commissioner and not until such
  articles are removed from the factory and cleaned, or until the  factory
  or work room is made sanitary.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 11 - Factories › Title 4 - Sanitation › 299 - Ventilation, Heating and Humidity.

§  299.  Ventilation,  heating  and  humidity. 1. Every work room in a
  factory  shall  be  provided  with  proper  and  sufficient   means   of
  ventilation,  natural  or  mechanical  or both, as may be necessary, and
  there shall be maintained therein proper and sufficient ventilation  and
  proper  degrees  of  temperature  and  humidity  at all times during the
  working hours. If owing to  the  nature  of  the  manufacturing  process
  carried  on  in the factory work room excessive heat be created therein,
  there shall be provided, maintained and operated such special  means  or
  appliances as may be required to reduce such excessive heat.
2.  All machinery creating dust or impurities in quantities tending to
  injure the health of employees shall be equipped with proper  hoods  and
  pipes  connected  to  an exhaust fan of sufficient capacity and power to
  remove such  dusts  or  impurities;  such  fan  shall  be  kept  running
  constantly  while  such  machinery  is in use. If the board decides that
  such apparatus  is  unnecessary  for  the  health  and  welfare  of  the
  employees,  or  that  other  means  of  protection  may  be  provided to
  safeguard the health and welfare of the employees against such injurious
  dusts or impurities, it may adopt rules excepting  such  machinery  from
  the  operation  of this subdivision, or prescribing such requirements as
  will effectuate the intent of this subdivision.
3. If dust, gases, fumes,  vapors,  fibers  or  other  impurities  are
  generated  or  released  in the course of the business carried on in any
  workroom of a factory, in quantities tending to injure the health of the
  employees, suction devices shall be provided  which  shall  remove  such
  impurities   from   the   workroom,  at  their  point  of  origin  where
  practicable, by means of proper hoods connected to conduits and  exhaust
  fans.  Such  fans  shall be kept running constantly while the impurities
  are being generated or released.
4. The board shall make rules for and fix  standards  of  ventilation,
  temperature  and  humidity  in factories and shall prescribe the special
  means,  if  any,  required  for  removing  impurities  or  for  reducing
  excessive  heat,  and  the machinery, apparatus or appliances to be used
  for any of said purposes, and the construction,  equipment,  maintenance
  and operation thereof.
5.  If  any requirement of this section or any rule adopted thereunder
  be not complied with, the commissioner shall issue  an  order  directing
  compliance  therewith  within thirty days after the service thereof.  He
  may in such order require plans and specifications to be filed. In  such
  case,  before  providing  or  making  any  change  or  alteration in any
  machinery or apparatus  for  any  of  the  purposes  specified  in  this
  section,  the  person upon whom such order is served shall file with the
  commissioner plans and specifications  therefor  and  shall  obtain  his
  approval of the same.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 11 - Factories › Title 4 - Sanitation › 300 - Size of Rooms; Air Space per Person.

§  300.  Size  of  rooms;  air  space per person. No greater number of
  persons shall be employed in any room of a factory between  six  o'clock
  in  the  morning  and  six  o'clock  in the evening than will allow each
  person so employed two hundred and fifty cubic feet of  air  space  nor,
  unless  by  written  permit  of  the  commissioner, than will allow four
  hundred cubic feet of air space for each  person  employed  between  six
  o'clock  in the evening and six o'clock in the morning. Such rooms shall
  be lighted by electricity whenever persons are employed therein  between
  six o'clock in the evening and six o'clock in the morning.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 11 - Factories › Title 5 - Foundries › 310 - Foundries.

§  310.  Foundries.  Foundries shall conform to the provisions of this
  chapter relating to factories and also to the following requirements:
1. Entrances and windows shall be constructed and maintained so as  to
  minimize drafts.
2. Gangways shall be constructed and maintained of sufficient width to
  make  the  use  thereof  by  employees  reasonably safe and shall not be
  obstructed during the progress of casting.
3. Smoke, steam or gases generated in foundries shall  be  effectively
  removed  therefrom  in  accordance  with rules adopted by the board. The
  milling and cleaning of castings and the milling of cupola cinders shall
  be done under such conditions to be prescribed by the rules of the board
  as will adequately protect the employees from dust. The use  of  heaters
  discharging  smoke  or gas into the work rooms is prohibited except that
  open fires may be used under conditions prescribed by the board  in  its
  rules.  Suitable  provision shall be made for drying the working clothes
  of employees.
4. All apparatus, tools, implements and equipment  shall  be  kept  in
  proper condition and repair.
5.  A first aid kit shall be provided for the use of employees in case
  of burns or accidents.
6. Where ten or more persons are employed (a) there shall be  provided
  suitable and convenient wash rooms adequately equipped with hot and cold
  water.  Such  wash  rooms  shall  be kept clean and properly heated. (b)
  Lockers shall be provided for the employees' clothing.  (c)  If  outside
  watercloset or privy accommodations are permitted by rules of the board,
  they  shall  be  properly  heated  and  the  passageway leading from the
  foundry thereto shall be so constructed  and  protected  that  employees
  using the passageway shall not be exposed to the outdoor atmosphere.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 11 - Factories › Title 6 - Duties of Owners and Occupiers › 315 - Definitions.

§ 315. Definitions. Whenever used in this article:
1. "Owner" means the owner of the premises, or the lessee of the whole
  thereof, or the agent in charge of the property.
2. "Tenant-factory building" means a building, separate parts of which
  are  occupied  and  used  by  different persons and one or more of which
  parts is used as a factory.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 12 - Fair Wages Task Force › 330 - Fair Wages Task Force; Definitions.

§  330.  Fair  wages task force; definitions. As used in this article,
the following terms shall have the following meanings:
(a) "Commissioner" shall mean the commissioner of labor;
(b) "Department" shall mean the department of labor; and
(c) "Task force" shall mean the  fair  wages  task  force  within  the
department.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 12 - Fair Wages Task Force › 331 - Establishment of a Fair Wages Task Force.

§  331.  Establishment of a fair wages task force. The commissioner is
  authorized to establish a fair wages  task  force  for  the  purpose  of
  concentrating  enforcement  of  the provisions of this chapter affecting
  employees in manufacturing, service and other industries where there may
  be a concentration of workers at risk of exploitation in New York  state
  and  otherwise  exercising  the  duties and powers set forth in sections
  three hundred thirty-two and three hundred thirty-three of this article.
  Such  task  force  shall  be  empowered  to  investigate   and   conduct
  inspections.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 12 - Fair Wages Task Force › 332 - Duties.

§ 332. Duties. The task force is charged with the following duties:
1. to inspect manufacturing, service and other industries with respect
  to  their  respective  employees,  for compliance with the provisions of
  this chapter; and
2. to ensure, with respect to their respective  employees,  compliance
  by  manufacturing,  service  and  other  industries  with orders of, and
  assessments of civil penalties by  the  commissioner  pursuant  to  this
  article.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 12 - Fair Wages Task Force › 333 - Powers.

§  333.  Powers.  Notwithstanding  any  other  state  or  local law or
regulation to the contrary, the task  force  shall  have  the  following
powers:
1.  to  inspect books, records and premises of employers, with respect
to their respective employees to determine compliance with this chapter,
including but not  limited  to,  minimum  wage,  overtime  compensation,
unemployment insurance coverage and child labor; and
2.  when  in  the course of inspections pursuant to subdivision one of
this section, (a) to inspect books and records of employers with respect
to their respective employees concerning the deduction and remittance to
the proper authorities of all federal, state and local payroll taxes and
to refer to the appropriate authorities any instance in which  there  is
reasonable cause to believe that the payment of federal, state and local
payroll taxes is being evaded; and
(b)  to  take action authorized by this chapter necessary to implement
its provisions.
2023 New York Laws › LAB - Labor › Article 12 - Fair Wages Task Force › 334 - Task Force Training; Assistance of Agencies.

§  334. Task force training; assistance of agencies. 1. The task force
  shall receive training to be provided by the state as  is  necessary  to
  carry out the duties and powers of the task force.
2.  The  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 shall  enable
  it  to  properly carry out its powers and duties under the provisions of
  this section.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.