2012 New York Consolidated Laws
LAB - Labor
Article 7 - (200 - 219-C) GENERAL PROVISIONS
207-A - Employee safety in work on energized high voltage lines.

 
    §  207-a.  Employee safety in work on energized high voltage lines. 1.
  There shall be  no  change  in  the  present  industry  work  practices,
  procedures  and standards with regard to bare-hand, live-line techniques
  or  with  insulated-glove  techniques  in  the  handling  of   energized
  high-voltage lines and equipment having a voltage differential in excess
  of  15 kv between any pair of conductors or grounds. Changes in industry
  work practices, procedures and standards relative  to  the  handling  of
  energized high-voltage lines and equipment having a voltage differential
  in  excess  of  15 kv between any pair of conductors or grounds shall be
  permitted where such changes require  the  utilization  of  "hot  stick"
  methods.  Nothing  contained herein shall prevent any change in industry
  work practices, procedures and standards with regard to the handling  of
  energized voltage lines and equipment having a high-voltage differential
  in excess of 100 kv between any pair of conductors or grounds.
    2. For the purposes of this section the term "work" shall include, but
  not  be  limited  to  the erection, maintenance, repair, construction or
  installation of such energized conductors or  associated  equipment  and
  lines in both emergency and non-emergency situations.
    3.  No  provision  herein  is  to  prevent or prohibit any appropriate
  administrative or rule-making body from making and  issuing  appropriate
  rules  and  regulations concerning employee or worker safety in the work
  to be performed on energized or properly grounded high-voltage  electric
  transmission and distribution lines and equipment.