N.Y. Environmental Conservation Law Section 27-2119
Phase-out of mercury-containing flooring

1.

Commencing a year after the calendar year in which this section takes effect, no public or nonpublic elementary or secondary school shall install a mercury-containing floor nor shall any school install a floor over a mercury-containing floor prior to removal of the mercury-containing floor.

2.

The time weighted average mercury vapor exposure for an employee or student of a public or nonpublic elementary or secondary school shall not exceed 750 ng/m (3).

3.

For purposes of this section:

(a)

“mercury-containing floor” shall mean a floor containing phenyl-mercuric-acetate catalyst.

(b)

“time weighted average” shall mean an employee’s average airborne exposure in an eight-hour work shift of a forty-hour work week or for a person under the age of eighteen shall mean sixteen hours or less per week averaged over the school year.

Source: Section 27-2119 — Phase-out of mercury-containing flooring, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/ENV/27-2119 (updated Nov. 29, 2019; accessed Feb. 28, 2026).

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