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N.Y. Labor Law § 130: Employment of minors under fourteen years of age

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  1. Labor Law
  2. Article 4. Employment of Minors

§ 130. Employment of minors under fourteen years of age. 1. No minor

under fourteen years of age shall be employed in or in connection with

any trade, business, or service, except as otherwise provided in this

section.

2. Exceptions: Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit

the employment of:

a. A minor under fourteen years of age as a child performer in

compliance with section 35.01 of the arts and cultural affairs law and

article four-A of this chapter.

b. A minor under fourteen years of age as a child model in compliance

with section 35.05 of the arts and cultural affairs law.

* c. A minor eleven years of age as a newspaper carrier in compliance

with section thirty-two hundred twenty-eight of the education law.

* NB Repealed May 9, 2027

d. A minor twelve or thirteen years of age by his parents or

guardians, either on the home farm or at other outdoor work not

connected with or for any trade, business, or service, when attendance

upon instruction is not required by the education law.

e. A minor over twelve years of age who presents a farm work permit,

in assisting in the hand work harvest of berries, fruits and vegetables,

for a period of four hours in any work day when attendance upon

instruction is not required by the education law between the hours of

nine o'clock in the forenoon and four o'clock in the afternoon between

the first day after Labor Day through and the twentieth day of June, and

seven o'clock in the forenoon and seven o'clock in the evening between

the twenty-first day of June and Labor day of the same calendar year,

and the minor is accompanied by a parent or has presented the written

consent of a parent or party with whom he or she resides to the

employer.

f. A minor pursuant to section seven hundred fifty-eight-a or 353.6 of

the family court act.

g. A minor twelve or thirteen years of age who assists a parent, aunt,

uncle, grandparent or guardian in the sale of produce of a farm that is

owned or leased by the minor's parent, aunt, uncle, grandparent or

guardian, at a farm stand or farmer's market stand that is owned or

leased by the minor's parent, aunt, uncle, grandparent or guardian, at

times when school is not in session and the minor is accompanied by the

parent or guardian or has presented the written consent of the parent or

guardian.

h. A minor twelve or thirteen years of age as a bridge caddie at a

bridge tournament when attendance upon instruction is not required by

the education law.

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