N.Y. Legislative Law § 7-e: Assistive listening system for the deaf and hard of hearing

§ 7-e. Assistive listening system for the deaf and hard of hearing.

(a) The temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the

assembly shall have the power and it shall be their individual duty to

equip the senate chambers, the assembly chambers and any hearing rooms

located in the legislative office building in Albany which accommodate

more than one hundred persons with an assistive listening system for use

by the deaf and hard of hearing.

(b) For purposes of this section, the term "assistive listening

system" shall mean situational-personal acoustic communication equipment

designed to improve the transmission and auditory reception of sound.

Such system shall include but not be limited to the use of standard

amplitude modulation (AM), frequency modulation (FM), audio induction

loop, infrared light sound, or hard wire systems.