New York A 2303: Exempts owners of farms and the owners of multiple dwellings from the scaffold law in certain instances

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A02303 Summary:

BILL NOA02303 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORHawley

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COSPNSRBrown K, DeStefano, DiPietro, Gallahan, Giglio, Lemondes, Manktelow, Molitor, Tague, Blankenbush

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MLTSPNSRAngelino

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Amd §§240 & 241, Lab L

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Exempts owners of farms and the owners of multiple dwellings from complying with the scaffold law in certain instances.

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BILL NOA02303 

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01/16/2025referred to labor

01/07/2026referred to labor

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 2303

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 16, 2025
 ___________

 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 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:

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 240 of the labor law, as amended
 2 by chapter 241 of the laws of 1981, is amended to read as follows:
 3 1. All contractors and owners and their agents, except owners of
 4 farms, owners of one and two-family dwellings and owners of multiple
 5 dwellings who contract for but do not direct or control the work, in the
 6 erection, demolition, repairing, altering, painting, cleaning or point-
 7 ing of a building or structure shall furnish or erect, or cause to be
 8 furnished or erected for the performance of such labor, scaffolding,
 9 hoists, stays, ladders, slings, hangers, blocks, pulleys, braces, irons,
 10 ropes, and other devices which shall be so constructed, placed and oper-
 11 ated as to give proper protection to a person so employed.
 12 No liability pursuant to this subdivision for the failure to provide
 13 protection to a person so employed shall be imposed on professional
 14 engineers as provided for in article one hundred forty-five of the
 15 education law, architects as provided for in article one hundred forty-
 16 seven of such law or landscape architects as provided for in article one
 17 hundred forty-eight of such law who do not direct or control the work
 18 for activities other than planning and design. This exception shall not
 19 diminish or extinguish any liability of professional engineers or archi-
 20 tects or landscape architects arising under the common law or any other
 21 provision of law.
 22 § 2. The opening paragraph of section 241 of the labor law, as amended
 23 by chapter 670 of the laws of 1980, is amended to read as follows:
 24 All contractors and owners and their agents, except owners of farms,
 25 owners of one and two-family dwellings and owners of multiple dwellings

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD03666-01-5

 A. 2303 2

 1 who contract for but do not direct or control the work, when construct-
 2 ing or demolishing buildings or doing any excavating in connection ther-
 3 ewith, shall comply with the following requirements:
 4 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

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