§ 1370. Definitions. When used in this title, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: 1. “Dwelling” means a building or structure or portion thereof, including the property occupied by and appurtenant to such dwelling, which is occupied in whole or in part as the home, […]
§ 1370-a. Lead poisoning prevention program. 1. The department shall establish a lead poisoning prevention program. This program shall be responsible for establishing and coordinating activities to prevent lead poisoning and to minimize risk of exposure to lead. The department shall exercise any and all authority which may be deemed necessary and appropriate to effectuate […]
§ 1370-b. Advisory council on lead poisoning prevention. 1. The New York state advisory council on lead poisoning prevention is hereby established in the department, to consist of the following, or their designees: the commissioner; the commissioner of labor; the commissioner of environmental conservation; the commissioner of housing and community renewal; the commissioner of children […]
§ 1370-c. Screening by health care providers. 1. The department is authorized to promulgate regulations establishing the means by which and the intervals at which children and pregnant women shall be screened for elevated lead levels. The department is also authorized to require screening for lead poisoning in other high risk groups. 2. Every physician […]
§ 1370-d. Lead screening of child care, pre-school, pre-kindergarten or kindergarten enrollees. 1. Except as provided pursuant to regulations of the department, each child care provider, public and private nursery school, pre-school, and pre-kindergarten or kindergarten licensed, certified or approved by any state or local agency shall, prior to or within three months after initial […]
§ 1370-e. Reporting lead exposure levels. 1. Every physician or authorized practitioner shall give notice of elevated lead levels as specified by the commissioner pursuant to regulation, to the health officer of the health district wherein the patient resides, except as otherwise provided. 2. The commissioner may, by regulation, provide that cases of elevated lead […]
§ 1371. Manufacture and sale of lead painted toys and furniture. 1. No person shall manufacture, sell or hold for sale a children’s toy or children’s furniture having paint or other similar surface-coating material thereon containing more than .06 of one per centum of metallic lead based on the total weight of the contained solids […]
§ 1372. Use of leaded paint. No person shall apply paint or other similar surface-coating material containing more than .06 of one per centum of metallic lead based on the total weight of the contained solids or dried paint film to any interior surface, window sill, window frame or porch of a dwelling.
§ 1373. Abatement of lead poisoning conditions. 1. Whenever the commissioner or his or her representative shall designate an area of high risk, he or she shall give written notice and demand, served as provided by this section, for the discontinuance of a paint condition conducive to lead poisoning in any designated dwelling in such […]
§ 1374. Receivership. 1. In the event of failure to comply with an order issued pursuant to this title and containing provision for such application, the officer issuing the order may apply to a court of competent jurisdiction in the county wherein the dwelling is located for an order appointing such officer or his designee […]
§ 1375. Enforcement agencies. 1. The commissioner’s designee having jurisdiction, county and city commissioners of health and local housing code enforcement agencies designated by the commissioner’s designee having jurisdiction or county or city commissioner of health shall have the same authority, powers and duties within their respective jurisdictions as has the commissioner under the provisions […]
§ 1376-a. Sale of consumer products containing lead or cadmium. 1. In the absence of a federal standard for a specific type of product, the commissioner shall establish the maximum quantity of lead or cadmium (and the manner of testing therefor) which may be released from glazed ceramic tableware, crystal, china and other consumer products. […]
* § 1377. State rental registry and proactive inspections to identify lead hazards. 1. The department shall, in consultation with the division of housing and community renewal, develop a registry for all residential dwellings with two or more units built prior to nineteen hundred eighty which, by virtue of their property class designation, are potentially […]
