NY Lab L § 132 (2021)
2021 New York Laws LAB - Labor Article 4 - Employment of Minors 132 - Employment of Minor Sixteen or Seventeen Years of Age.

§  132.  Employment  of minor sixteen or seventeen years of age. 1. No minor sixteen or seventeen years of age  shall  be  employed  in  or  in connection  with  any  trade,  business, or service when attendance upon instruction is required by the education law  or  in  violation  of  the employment certificating provisions of the education law.   2.  A  minor  sixteen  or seventeen years of age may be employed if he presents an employment certificate or permit issued in  accordance  with the education law.   3. Exceptions:   a.  When  attendance upon instruction is not required by the education law, a minor sixteen or seventeen years of age may be  employed  without an employment certificate or permit in the following occupations:  (1) Work on a farm;  (2) Caddy service on a golf course;  (3) Service as a baby sitter staying with and at the home of a younger child  or  children  with  or  without the presence at such home of such child's or children's parents or guardians;  (4) Casual employment consisting of yard work and household chores  in and  about  a  residence or the premises of a non-profit, non-commercial organization, not involving the use of power-driven machinery other than power-driven machinery ordinarily used in such yard  work  or  household chores;  (5) Caddie service at a bridge tournament;  (6)  Work  for  his parents or guardians at outdoor work not connected with or for any trade, business, or service.   b. Nothing in this section, or the hours of work requirements of  this chapter,  shall  apply to a newspaper carrier in compliance with section thirty-two hundred twenty-eight of the education law.   c. Nothing in this section shall prohibit the employment  of  a  minor sixteen  or  seventeen  years of age during the school lunch period in a school cafeteria at the school which the  minor  attends  if  the  minor presents  an  employment  certificate  issued  in  accordance  with  the education law.   d. Nothing in  this  section  shall  be  construed  to  apply  to  the employment of a minor sixteen or seventeen years of age as a child model in compliance with section 35.05 of the arts and cultural affairs law.   e.  Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, an employment certificate or permit shall not be required for a student sixteen  years of  age  or  over  who  is  in attendance at a recognized institution of higher  learning  and  who  is  employed  by  a  non-profit  college  or university  or  by a college or university fraternity, sorority, student association or faculty association.   f. Nothing  in  this  section  shall  be  construed  to  prohibit  the employment of a minor seventeen years of age as an election inspector or poll  clerk pursuant to section 3-400 of the election law, or to require an employment certificate or permit therefor.   4. Nothing in this section shall be construed to permit the employment of a  minor  sixteen  or  seventeen  years  of  age  in  any  occupation prohibited by section one hundred thirty-three of this chapter.   5.  Nothing  contained  in this section shall prevent the rendering of services for the public good by a minor of sixteen  or  seventeen  years pursuant  to  section seven hundred fifty-eight-a or 353.6 of the family court act.