2018 New York Laws
PBB - Public Buildings
Article 4-A - Construction of Public Buildings to Provide Access and Use by the Physically Handicapped
53 - Assistive Listening Systems.

§ 53. Assistive  listening  systems.  1.  All  new  public  buildings,
  construction of which commences after January  first,  nineteen  hundred
  ninety-one,  containing  an  auditorium,  theater, meeting hall, hearing
  room, amphitheater, or room used in any similar capacity  which  are  so
  designated by the appropriate building and fire code shall have equipped
  and  installed  an assistive listening system for use by persons who are
  deaf or hard of hearing who require the use of such a system to  improve
  their reception of sound.
2.  Standards  for  such  systems shall be developed by the state fire
  prevention and building code council upon receiving recommendations from
  the advisory board on assistive listening systems in  places  of  public
  assembly.
3. For purposes of this section, the term "assistive listening system"
  shall   mean   situational-personal   acoustic  communication  equipment
  designed to improve the transmission and auditory reception of sound.