N.Y. General Business Law § 63-a: Purchasing property from a child

§ 63-a. Purchasing property from a child. No owner, keeper or

proprietor of a junk shop, junk cart or other vehicle or boat or vessel

used for the collection of junk, or any person in the employ of such

owner, keeper, or proprietor, or any collector of junk, shall receive or

purchase any goods, chattels, wares or merchandise from any child under

the age of sixteen years. It shall be no defense to a prosecution for a

violation of this section, that in the transaction upon which the

prosecution is based the child acted as the agent or representative of

another, or that the defendant dealt with such child as the agent or

representative of another.