2013 New York Consolidated Laws
GBS - General Business
Article 25-B - (389-M - 389-R) USE OF SAFETY GLAZING MATERIALS
389-M - Definitions.


NY Gen Bus L § 389-M (2012) What's This?
 
    § 389-m. Definitions. As used in this article, the following words and
  phrases shall have the following meanings:
    (1)  "Safety glazing material". Any glazing material, such as tempered
  glass, laminated glass, wire glass or rigid  plastic,  which  meets  the
  test  requirements of the American National Standards Institute Standard
  (ANSI Z-97.1-1972), and which are so constructed,  treated  or  combined
  with  other  materials  as  to  minimize  the  likelihood of cutting and
  piercing  injuries  resulting  from  human  contact  with  the   glazing
  material.
    (2)  "Hazardous locations". Those structural elements, glazed or to be
  glazed, in industrial, commercial and public buildings known  as  framed
  or  unframed glass entrance doors; and those structural elements, glazed
  or to be glazed in residential buildings and other  structures  used  as
  dwellings,   industrial   buildings,  commercial  buildings  and  public
  buildings, known as sliding glass doors, storm  doors  except  operating
  vents  only on jalousie type doors, shower doors, bathtub enclosures and
  those fixed glazed panels immediately  adjacent  to  entrance  and  exit
  doors  which  may  be  mistaken for doors; whether or not the glazing in
  such doors, panels and enclosures is transparent.
    (3) "Fixed glazed panels immediately adjacent  to  entrance  and  exit
  doors".  Means  the  first fixed glazed panel on either or both sides of
  the doors,  forty-eight  inches  or  less  in  width,  within  six  feet
  horizontally of the nearest vertical edge of the door.

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