N.Y. General City Law § 18: License to operate moving picture apparatus

§ 18. License to operate moving picture apparatus. It shall not be

lawful for any person or persons, save as excepted in section eighteen-a

of this article, to operate any moving picture apparatus and its

connections in a city of the first class unless such person or persons

so operating such apparatus is duly licensed as hereinafter provided.

Any person desiring to act as such operator shall make application for a

license to so act to the mayor or licensing authority designated by the

mayor, unless the charter of said city so designates, which officer

shall furnish to each applicant blank forms of application which the

applicant shall fill out. Such officer shall make rules and regulations

governing the examination of applicants and the issuance of licenses and

certificates. A license shall not be granted to an applicant unless he

shall have served as an apprentice under a licensed operator, for a

period of not less than six months prior to the date of the application;

the application must be made in writing, and contain a verified

statement to that effect; it must be accompanied by the affidavit of the

licensed operator to the same effect; before entering upon the period of

apprenticeship the applicant must register his name and address with the

officer issuing such license. The applicant shall be given a practical

examination under the direction of the officer required to issue such

license and if found competent as to his ability to operate moving

picture apparatus and its connections shall receive within six days

after such examination a license as herein provided. Such license may be

revoked or suspended at any time by the officer issuing the same. Every

license shall continue in force for one year from the date of issue

unless sooner revoked or suspended. Every license, unless revoked or

suspended, as herein provided, may at the end of one year from the date

of issue thereof be renewed by the officer issuing it in his discretion

upon application and with or without further examination as he may

direct. Every application for renewal of license must be made within the

thirty days previous to the expiration of such license. With every

license granted there shall be issued to every person obtaining such

license a certificate, certifying that the person named therein is duly

authorized to operate moving picture apparatus and its connections. Such

certificate shall be displayed in a conspicuous place in the room where

the person to whom it is issued operates moving picture apparatus and

its connections. No person shall be eligible to procure a license unless

he shall be of full age. Any person offending against the provisions of

this section, as well as any person who employs or permits a person not

licensed as herein provided to operate moving picture apparatus and its

connections, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction

thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding the sum of one hundred

dollars, or imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months, or

both.