Section 53. Assistive listening systems

1. All new public buildings,
  construction of which commences after January  first,  nineteen  hundred
  ninety-one,  containing  an  auditorium,  theater, meeting hall, hearing
  room, amphitheater, or room used in any similar capacity  which  are  so
  designated by the appropriate building and fire code shall have equipped
  and  installed an assistive listening system for use by hearing impaired
  persons who require the use of such a system to improve their  reception
  of sound.
    2.    Standards  for such systems shall be developed by the state fire
  prevention and building code council upon receiving recommendations from
  the advisory board on assistive listening systems in  places  of  public
  assembly.
    3.    For  purposes  of  this  section,  the term "assistive listening
  system" shall mean situational-personal acoustic communication equipment
  designed to improve the transmission and auditory reception of sound.