NY Educ L § 3220 (2021)
2021 New York Laws EDN - Education Title 4 - Teachers and Pupils Article 65 - Compulsory Education and School Census Part 1 - Compulsory Education 3220 - Certificate of Physical Fitness.

§ 3220. Certificate  of physical fitness. 1. A certificate of physical   fitness shall be issued to a minor if a  thorough  physical  examination   made  within  twelve  months of his or her application for an employment   certificate shows that such minor is of sound health, and if  there  are   no known health problems at the time of issuance of the certificate, and   if  the  applicant  is  physically qualified for lawful employment. If a   known health problem exists at the time  of  the  application  for  such   certificate,   another  examination  may  be  required  by  the  issuing   authority.  Such  certificate  shall  be  issued   and   such   physical   examination  shall  be  made,  in  a city of over three hundred thousand   population, by a physician  designated  by  the  board  of  health,  and   elsewhere  by  the  director  of school health services charged with the   duty of making physical examinations of all school children  or  by  any   physician  duly  licensed  to  practice  medicine  in  this state. A new   certificate of physical fitness shall not be required if  one  had  been   issued to the minor within twelve months.2.  If  the  physician  authorized  to  issue certificates of physical   fitness shall find that a minor from fourteen to eighteen years  of  age   is  not  physically  sound but that in the physician's opinion the minor   may safely engage in certain occupations as specified by the regulations   of the commissioner of education, the physician shall require  a  pledge   of  employment  and  may  issue  to  the  minor a certificate of limited   physical fitness, and shall describe therein the physical disability  of   the  minor and shall indicate the particular employer and the occupation   in which the minor may engage. A limited employment  certificate  issued   to  a  minor  from fourteen to eighteen years of age who has presented a   certificate of limited physical fitness shall be valid for not more than   six months from the date of its issuance and shall bear on the  face  of   the  certificate  the date of its expiration and the particular employer   and occupation  to  which  the  employment  of  the  minor  is  limited;   provided,  however,  that  the examining physician may indicate upon the   certificate of limited physical fitness that the physical disability  of   the minor is of a permanent nature, in which case such certificate shall   not  expire  at the end of six months but shall remain valid for so long   as the nature and type of work set forth in  the  pledge  of  employment   remain substantially the same.3.  A  record  made  of  the physical examination shall show whether a   certificate of physical fitness has been issued or withheld. Such record   shall be sent to the certificating official.4. A certificate of physical fitness issued  in  another  state  to  a   minor  seeking  employment  in this state may be accepted in lieu of the   certificate of physical fitness required  by  subdivision  one  of  this   section,  provided  the  standards  for issuing such certificates in the   other state are deemed substantially equivalent to those of  this  state   in accordance with regulations adopted by the commissioner of education.