N.Y. Education Law § 409-f: Electrically operated partition and door safety

§ 409-f. Electrically operated partition and door safety. The board of

education, trustees, principal or other person in charge of every public

or private school or educational institution within the state, wherein

classrooms or other facilities used by students are found to have

electrically operated partitions, doors or room dividers, shall arrange

for, and require, that:

1. Appropriate and conspicuous notice regarding the safe and proper

operation and supervision of the electrical device operating such

partition, door or room divider is posted in the immediate vicinity of

the operating mechanism;

2. There is established a procedure for the notification of all school

employees and all other persons who regularly make use of the area where

such device is located of the safe and proper procedure for the

operation of the mechanism and of the applicable penalties for disabling

safety equipment required pursuant to this section; and

3. Every electrically operated partition or room divider shall be

equipped with safety devices which, subject to standards established in

rules and regulations promulgated by the commissioner, stop the forward

motion of the partition or room divider and stop the stacking motion of

the partition or room divider when a body passes between the leading

panel of such partition or divider and a wall, or when a body is present

in the stacking area of such partition or divider.

Any person who disables or directs another person to disable any

safety equipment required pursuant to this section shall be guilty of a

violation punishable by not more than fifteen days imprisonment, or a

fine not to exceed one hundred dollars, or both such fine and

imprisonment.