2023 New York Laws › GMU - General Municipal › Article 6 - Public Health and Safety › 121-B - Care of Children Admitted to Certain Places of Amusement in Certain Cities, Villages and Towns Under a Local Law or Ordinance.

§  121-b.  Care of children admitted to certain places of amusement in
  certain cities, villages and towns under a local law or  ordinance.  The
  board  of  aldermen,  common council or other legislative body of a city
  having a population of less than one million, or of any village or  town
  may  adopt  a  local law or ordinance, subject to the provisions of this
  section, for the licensing of theatres in such city or village or  town,
  wherein there shall be exhibited those films which have been licensed by
  the education department of the state of New York to admit children over
  the age of eight years and under the age of sixteen years, unaccompanied
  by a parent or guardian or other adult person.
No  child  under  the  age  of  sixteen years shall be admitted to any
  theatre unaccompanied by a  parent,  guardian  or  other  adult  person,
  unless  such theatre is licensed pursuant to and complies with the terms
  of a local law or ordinance adopted pursuant to this section.  Any  such
  local  law  or  ordinance,  and  every  license issued thereunder, shall
  require:
1. That seats shall be provided on the main or orchestra floor by  the
  owner,   operator  or  management  of  such  theatre  for  use  by  such
  unaccompanied children. No unaccompanied children shall be permitted  in
  any balcony or box.
2.  A  seat in such section of the theatre shall be provided for every
  such child admitted to the theatre.
3. Such children shall not be admitted to such theatre during the time
  when their school classes within the city or  village  or  town  are  in
  session,  or  after  the  hour  of  six o'clock in the evening, provided
  however, that for children aged thirteen, fourteen and fifteen  a  later
  hour  in  the  evening for admission and the hour at which such children
  shall be required to leave the theatre may be provided for by such local
  law or ordinance.
4. A matron  or  supervisor  and  such  other  assistants  as  may  be
  specified  in  such  local  law  or  ordinance shall be provided by such
  owner, operator or management of such theatre  for  the  supervision  of
  such  children,  who  shall give undivided attention to such supervision
  during the time such children shall be in such theatre. Such  matron  or
  supervisor  shall  be  licensed  by such city or village or town and the
  license fee, not exceeding two dollars, shall be  paid  by  such  owner,
  operator or management of such theatre.
Such   local  law  or  ordinance  may  provide  other  and  additional
  conditions or limitations in regard to the care of children so admitted,
  but such conditions or limitations  shall  not  require  any  additional
  approval  of and shall not prohibit the exhibition of any motion picture
  film duly licensed by the board of education of the state of New York.
Such local law or ordinance may provide for  the  enforcement  thereof
  and may prescribe penalties for violations thereof or of licenses issued
  thereunder.
The  admission  of a child between eight and sixteen years of age to a
  theatre licensed under authority of a local  law  or  ordinance  adopted
  pursuant  to the provisions of this section, where such theatre complies
  with the terms of this section and of the license, shall not be deemed a
  violation of the provisions of section 260.20 of the penal law.