N.Y. General Business Law § 430: Purpose of article

§ 430. Purpose of article. The need for technical skill, training and

experience, good health, good moral character and other fundamental

qualities and qualifications in persons engaged in the practice of

barbering, as herein defined, having been unquestionably established and

demonstrated and in order to safeguard the health of the persons who

patronize the barber shops of our state and because of the evils

connected with itinerant barbers and barber shops and because of the

inadequacy of local regulation, it is the purpose of the legislature, in

enacting this article, to safeguard and protect the barbers of this

state from the evils of itinerant barbers and barber shops and to

safeguard and protect the lives, health and well being of those persons

who patronize the barber shops of our state by making adequate provision

for the examination, licensing and regulation of the barber shops and

the barbers and apprentices to whom such persons submit themselves for

barber work.