New York Laws
Article 18 - New York State Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code Act
374 - State Fire Prevention and Building Code Council.

(i) three members from among the members of the state fire prevention
and building code council,
(ii) three members one of whom shall represent an organization which
serves as an advocate for the deaf and hard of hearing, one of whom
shall represent consumers of products designed for the deaf and hard of
hearing, and one of whom represents an institution of higher education
with expertise in the area of assistive listening technology, who shall
be entitled to be reimbursed for necessary travel and incidental
expenses out of monies appropriated to the division of housing and
community renewal.
b. Such advisory board shall, prior to December thirty-first, nineteen
hundred eighty-nine, submit to the state fire prevention and building
code council:
(i) findings on the extent of existing federal, state and local
requirements for assistive listening systems,
(ii) findings on the type, design and use of existing assistive
listening systems,
(iii) recommendations for design and installation standards for
assistive listening systems intended for places of public assembly, and
(iv) recommendations for capacity standards for places of public
assembly which shall be required to install assistive listening systems.
c. In developing such recommendations the advisory board shall take
into consideration the costs of such systems, the standardization and
compatibility of such systems, if the technology permits, and the
utilization of such systems by the consumer who is deaf or hard of
hearing. Particular attention should be given to the ability of
consumers to utilize a single receiver which is compatible in a variety
of installations employing the same assistive listening device
technology.
d. In addition, the advisory board shall ensure, to the extent
possible, that the standards developed for the design and installation
of assistive listening systems take into consideration the opportunity

for competition among manufacturers of the same or various approved
systems.