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HOMEOWNER’S EXEMPTION FROM LABOR LAW LIABILITY APPLIED, DESPITE PRESENCE OF THREE FAMILIES IN THE HOME.

The First Department, reversing Supreme Court, determined the homeowner's exemption from liability under the Labor Law for one- and two-family homes applied, despite evidence three families lived in the home:

The applicability of the homeowner exemption is determined by a “site and purpose” test … , which “hinges upon the site and the purpose of the work” and “must be employed on the basis of the homeowners' intentions at the time of the injury” … . Here, the evidence established that, at the time of the accident, defendants' house was a two-family residential home with a basement apartment, where a family friend lived, and three upper floors, which defendants shared with an adult child and two grandchildren. Defendants did not receive any rental income. That three families, two of which are related, lived in the home is insufficient to raise an issue of fact as to whether the home was a three-family dwelling … . Del Carnen Diaz v Bocheciamp, 2016 NY Slip Op 04305, 1st Dept 6-2-16

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