N.Y. Education Law § 409-b: Use of mercury vapor or metal halide lamps within school buildings

§ 409-b. Use of mercury vapor or metal halide lamps within school

buildings. 1. Every new or replacement mercury vapor or metal halide

lamp which is used within any school building in the state, for the

purpose of providing illumination, shall be of the safety type or

variety which self-extinguishes upon the breaking, cracking or removal

of the outer shield protecting the lamp or if such self-extinguishing

variety is not available, each such lamp or its fixture shall be

equipped with a shield adequate to protect against and to absorb

ultraviolet radiation if the lamp were to break or become defective

within the shielded fixture.

2. Jurisdiction is hereby conferred on the commissioner in order to

provide for the enforcement of this section through rules and

regulations which the commissioner shall establish.