N.Y. Labor Law Section 377
Drinking water

Every mercantile establishment, restaurant, and every station, terminal or car barn where women employees of a street, surface, electric, subway or elevated railroad report for duty shall provide at all times for the use of employees a sufficient supply of clean and pure drinking water, and if placed in receptacles, the same shall be properly covered and kept clean.

Source: Section 377 — Drinking water, https://www.­nysenate.­gov/legislation/laws/LAB/377 (updated Sep. 22, 2014; accessed Jan. 31, 2026).

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