2023 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.