N.Y. WKC Law § 49-FF
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Minimum exposure required
Official statutory text
§ 49-ff. Minimum exposure required. No employee or his dependents,\nshall, in the absence of substantial evidence to the contrary, be\nentitled to an award for occupational loss of hearing unless the\nemployee shall have been employed in an employment in which he was\nexposed to harmful noise for a period of at least ninety days in this\nstate.\n
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