Section 17-900
§ 17-900 Definitions. For the purpose of this chapter the following
terms shall have the following meanings:
1. "Chewable surface" shall mean a protruding interior window sill in
a day care facility that is readily accessible to a child of applicable
age. "Chewable surface" shall also mean any other type of interior edge
or protrusion in a day care facility, such as a rail or stair, where
there is evidence that such other edge or protrusion has been chewed or
where the operator of such day care facility has observed that a child
under six years of age has mouthed or chewed such edge or protrusion.
2. "Day care facility" shall mean any facility used to provide day
care service.
3. "Day care service" shall mean any service which, during all or part
of the day, regularly gives care to seven or more children under six
years of age, not all of common parentage, which operates more than five
hours per week for more than one month a year. Day care service shall
not mean a kindergarten or higher grade in a facility operated by the
board of education.
4. "Deteriorated subsurface" shall mean an unstable or unsound painted
subsurface, an indication of which can be observed through a visual
inspection, including but not limited to, rotted or decayed wood, or
wood or plaster that has been subject to moisture or disturbance.
5. "Friction Surface" shall mean any painted surface that touches or
is in contact with another surface, such that the two surfaces are
capable of relative motion, and abrade, scrape or bind when in motion.
Friction surfaces shall include, but not be limited to, window frames
and jambs, doors, and hinges.
6. "Impact Surface" shall mean any interior painted surface that shows
evidence, such as marking, denting, or chipping, that it is subject to
damage by repeated sudden force, such as certain parts of door frames,
moldings, or baseboards.
7. "Lead-based paint" shall mean paint or other similar
surface-coating material containing 1.0 milligrams of lead per square
centimeter or greater, as determined by laboratory analysis, or by an
x-ray fluorescence analyzer. If an x-ray fluorescence analyzer is used,
readings shall be corrected for substrate bias when necessary as
specified by the performance characteristic sheets released by the
United States environmental protection agency and the United States
department of housing and urban development for the specific x-ray
fluorescence analyzer used. X-ray fluorescence readings shall be
classified as positive, negative or inconclusive in accordance with the
United States department of housing and urban development "Guidelines
for the Evaluation and Control of Lead-Based Paint Hazards in Housing"
(June 1995, revised 1997) and the PCS released by the United States
environmental protection agency and the United States department of
housing and urban development for the specific x-ray fluorescence
analyzer used. X-ray fluorescence readings that fall within the
inconclusive zone, as determined by the performance characteristic
sheets, shall be confirmed by laboratory analysis of paint chips,
results shall be reported in milligrams of lead per square centimeter
and the measure of such laboratory analysis shall be definitive. If
laboratory analysis is used to determine lead content, results shall be
reported in milligrams of lead per square centimeter. Where the surface
area of a paint chip sample cannot be accurately measured or if an
accurately measured paint chip sample cannot be removed, laboratory
analysis may be reported in percent by weight. In such case, lead-based
paint shall mean any paint or other similar surface-coating material
containing more than 0.5% of metallic lead, based on the non-volatile
content of the paint or other similar surface-coating material.
8. "Lead-based paint hazard" shall mean any condition that causes
exposure to lead from lead-contaminated dust, from lead-based paint that
is peeling, or from lead-based paint that is present on chewable
surfaces, deteriorated subsurfaces, friction surfaces, or impact
surfaces that would result in adverse human health effects.
9. "Lead-contaminated dust" shall mean dust containing lead at 40 or
more micrograms per square foot on a floor, 250 or more micrograms per
square foot on window sills, and 400 or more micrograms per square foot
on window wells, or such more stringent standards as may be adopted by
the New York City board of health.
10. "Operator of such day care facility" shall mean any person who
provides day care service and the owner of the premises where such day
care facility is located. "Person" shall mean an individual,
corporation, partnership, association or other for-profit or
not-for-profit entity.
11. "Peeling" shall mean that the paint or other surface-coating
material is curling, cracking, scaling, flaking, blistering, chipping,
chalking, or loose in any manner, such that a space or pocket of air is
behind a portion thereof or such that the paint is not completely
adhered to the underlying surface.
12. "Remediation" or "Remediate" shall mean the reduction or
elimination of a lead-based paint hazard through the wet scraping and
repainting, removal, encapsulation, enclosure, or replacement of lead
based paint, or other method approved by the commissioner of health and
mental hygiene.