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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.