N.Y. GBS Law § 389-M
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§ 389-m. Definitions. As used in this article, the following words and\nphrases shall have the following meanings:\n (1) "Safety glazing material". Any glazing material, such as tempered\nglass, laminated glass, wire glass or rigid plastic, which meets the\ntest requirements of the American National Standards Institute Standard\n(ANSI Z-97.1-1972), and which are so constructed, treated or combined\nwith other materials as to minimize the likelihood of cutting and\npiercing injuries resulting from human contact with the glazing\nmaterial.\n (2) "Hazardous locations". Those structural elements, glazed or to be\nglazed, in industrial, commercial and public buildings known as framed\nor unframed glass entrance doors; and those structural elements, glazed\nor to be glazed in residential buildings and other structures used as\ndwellings, industrial buildings, commercial buildings and public\nbuildings, known as sliding glass doors, storm doors except operating\nvents only on jalousie type doors, shower doors, bathtub enclosures and\nthose fixed glazed panels immediately adjacent to entrance and exit\ndoors which may be mistaken for doors; whether or not the glazing in\nsuch doors, panels and enclosures is transparent.\n (3) "Fixed glazed panels immediately adjacent to entrance and exit\ndoors". Means the first fixed glazed panel on either or both sides of\nthe doors, forty-eight inches or less in width, within six feet\nhorizontally of the nearest vertical edge of the door.\n
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