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N.Y. General Business Law § 389-m: Definitions

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  1. General Business Law
  2. Article 25-B. Use of Safety Glazing Materials

§ 389-m. Definitions. As used in this article, the following words and

phrases shall have the following meanings:

(1) "Safety glazing material". Any glazing material, such as tempered

glass, laminated glass, wire glass or rigid plastic, which meets the

test requirements of the American National Standards Institute Standard

(ANSI Z-97.1-1972), and which are so constructed, treated or combined

with other materials as to minimize the likelihood of cutting and

piercing injuries resulting from human contact with the glazing

material.

(2) "Hazardous locations". Those structural elements, glazed or to be

glazed, in industrial, commercial and public buildings known as framed

or unframed glass entrance doors; and those structural elements, glazed

or to be glazed in residential buildings and other structures used as

dwellings, industrial buildings, commercial buildings and public

buildings, known as sliding glass doors, storm doors except operating

vents only on jalousie type doors, shower doors, bathtub enclosures and

those fixed glazed panels immediately adjacent to entrance and exit

doors which may be mistaken for doors; whether or not the glazing in

such doors, panels and enclosures is transparent.

(3) "Fixed glazed panels immediately adjacent to entrance and exit

doors". Means the first fixed glazed panel on either or both sides of

the doors, forty-eight inches or less in width, within six feet

horizontally of the nearest vertical edge of the door.

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