N.Y. Labor Law § 205: Prohibition against eating meals in certain workrooms

§ 205. Prohibition against eating meals in certain workrooms. No

employee shall take or be permitted to take any food into a room of any

working place where lead, arsenic or other poisonous substances or

injurious or noxious fumes, dust or gases exist in harmful conditions or

are present in harmful quantities as an incident or result of the

business carried on in such working place. Notice to the foregoing

effect shall be posted in such room. No employee, unless his presence is

necessary for the proper conduct of the business, shall remain in any

such room during the time allowed for meals. The employer shall provide

a suitable place in such establishment in which the employees may eat.