N.Y. Education Law § 409-n: Maximum temperatures in school buildings and facilities

§ 409-n. Maximum temperatures in school buildings and facilities. All

common, union free, central, central high schools, city school districts

and boards of cooperative educational services shall develop a policy

for ensuring the health and safety of students, faculty, and other

employees, on extreme heat condition days. For the purpose of this

section, extreme heat condition days shall be defined as days when the

occupiable educational and support services spaces are found to be

eighty-two degrees or greater Fahrenheit. For the purpose of this

section, support services spaces shall not include kitchen areas used in

the preparation of food for consumption by students. For the purpose of

this section, room temperature shall be measured at a shaded location,

three feet above the floor near the center of the room. Schools shall be

required to take action to relieve heat-related discomfort when the

occupied space temperature reaches eighty-two degrees Fahrenheit. These

actions may include, but are not limited to, turning off the overhead

lights, pulling down shades or blinds, turning on fans, opening

classroom doors and windows to increase circulation, turning off unused

electronics that produce heat, and providing water breaks. Such policy

shall include a plan to remove students and staff from occupied spaces

where practicable when educational and support services spaces reach

eighty-eight degrees Fahrenheit.