§ 470. General provision as to construction, equipment and maintenance of places of public assembly. All places of public assembly as hereinbefore defined shall be so constructed, equipped and maintained as to provide reasonable and adequate protection to the lives, health and safety of all persons employed or assembled therein.
§ 471. Rules. The board of standards and appeals shall make rules to carry out the provisions of this article. Such rules shall be the minimum standard required and shall supersede any special law or local ordinance inconsistent therewith, and no local ordinance inconsistent therewith shall be adopted, but nothing herein contained shall prevent the […]
§ 472. Enforcement. The commissioner of labor shall enforce the provisions of this article and rules adopted thereunder; provided, however, that this section shall not apply to: (a) any city exempted from this article by section four hundred seventy-four-a hereof; or (b) any city, town, or village having a department, board or officer charged with […]
§ 473. Certificate of compliance with requirements of law. 1. The enforcing authority shall ascertain by inspection whether places of public assembly conform to the requirements of this article and the rules adopted thereunder. If such places are found to so conform, he or it shall issue a certificate of compliance to that effect. Such […]
§ 473-a. Posting of means of egress in places of public assembly. There shall be posted in a conspicuous place and manner at all exits in every place of public assembly, a printed scale floor plan of that particular floor or story, which shall show all means of egress, clearly labeling those exits to be […]
§ 474. Revocation of certificate of compliance. No place of public assembly shall be conducted for pecuniary gain unless a certificate of compliance shall have been issued and conspicuously posted therein. The enforcing authority granting the certificate of compliance may revoke the same if premises are not maintained according to the provisions of law and […]
§ 474-a. Application to New York city and other cities. This article, except for section four hundred seventy-five, shall not apply to the city of New York, or to other cities having a bureau of buildings which is charged with the duty of enforcing a building code enacted by the legislative body of such city.
§ 475. Crowd control plans in certain places of public assembly. 1. (a) For the purposes of this section places of public assembly shall be those with an occupancy capacity of at least five thousand persons and shall include: (i) all stadiums, ballparks, gymnasiums, fieldhouses, arenas, civic centers and similar facilities used for the conduct […]
