2006 New York Code - Electrically Operated Partition And Door Safety.

 
    § 409-f. Electrically operated partition and door safety. The board of
  education, trustees, principal or other person in charge of every public
  or  private  school or educational institution within the state, wherein
  classrooms or other facilities  used  by  students  are  found  to  have
  electrically  operated partitions, doors or room dividers, shall arrange
  for, and require, that:
    1. Appropriate and conspicuous notice regarding the  safe  and  proper
  operation  and  supervision  of  the  electrical  device  operating such
  partition, door or room divider is posted in the immediate  vicinity  of
  the operating mechanism;
    2. There is established a procedure for the notification of all school
  employees and all other persons who regularly make use of the area where
  such  device  is  located  of  the  safe  and  proper  procedure for the
  operation of the mechanism and of the applicable penalties for disabling
  safety equipment required pursuant to this section; and
    3. Every electrically operated partition  or  room  divider  shall  be
  equipped  with safety devices which, subject to standards established in
  rules and regulations promulgated by the commissioner, stop the  forward
  motion  of the partition or room divider and stop the stacking motion of
  the partition or room divider when a body  passes  between  the  leading
  panel of such partition or divider and a wall, or when a body is present
  in the stacking area of such partition or divider.
    Any  person  who  disables  or  directs  another person to disable any
  safety equipment required pursuant to this section shall be guilty of  a
  violation  punishable  by  not more than fifteen days imprisonment, or a
  fine  not  to  exceed  one  hundred  dollars,  or  both  such  fine  and
  imprisonment.