2014 New York Laws
GBS - General Business
Article 28-D - (480 - 486) LASERS, RADIATION, CRANE OPERATORS AND BLASTERS
480 - Legislative findings.

 480. Legislative findings. The legislature hereby finds that the use
  of  lasers  and  radioactive  materials,  the  operation  of cranes, the
  detonation of explosives, and the preparation and firing of pyrotechnics
  involve such elements of potential  danger  to  the  lives,  health  and
  safety  of the citizens of this state and to their property that special
  regulations are necessary to insure that only persons of proper  ability
  and experience shall engage in such uses and operations.
The  legislature  hereby declares that this article shall be deemed an
  exercise of the police power of this state for  the  protection  of  the
  lives,  health  and  safety  of  citizens  in  this  state  and of their
  property.