N.Y. Education Law § 6510-e: Nurses' refusal of overtime work

§ 6510-e. Nurses' refusal of overtime work. The refusal of a licensed

practical nurse or a registered professional nurse to work beyond said

nurse's regularly scheduled hours of work shall not solely constitute

patient abandonment or neglect except under the circumstances provided

for under subdivision three of section one hundred sixty-seven of the

labor law.