STATE OF NEW YORK
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7437
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 27, 2025
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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 to be made and
24 completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02560-01-5
