New York Labor Law Section 133 - Prohibited Employments Of Minors.

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    § 133.  Prohibited employments of minors. 1. Minors under sixteen. No
  minor under sixteen years of age shall be employed in or assist in:
    a. painting or exterior cleaning in connection with the maintenance of
  a building or structure;
    b. any occupation in or  in  connection  with  a  factory,  except  as
  provided  in  subdivision four of section one hundred thirty-one of this
  chapter;
    c. the operation of washing, grinding, cutting, slicing,  pressing  or
  mixing machinery;
    d. any employment in institutions in the department of mental hygiene,
  provided,   however,   that   for   the   purposes  of  this  paragraph,
  participation  in  recreation  and  leisure  activities,  social  skills
  development,  companionship and/or entertainment as part of an organized
  volunteer program approved by the commissioner of mental hygiene,  shall
  not  constitute  employment  or  assistance  in  employment  and  may be
  performed by youthful volunteers at least fourteen years of age. Nothing
  contained in this  paragraph  shall  be  construed  to  permit  services
  prohibited in subdivisions one and two hereof.
    2.  Minors  of  any  age.  No minor of any age shall be employed in or
  assist in:
    a. the care or operation of a freight or  passenger  elevator,  except
  that  a  minor  over  sixteen  may operate automatic push button control
  elevators;
    b. or in connection with the manufacturing, packaging, or  storing  of
  explosives;
    c.  operating  or  using  any  emery, tripoli, rouge, corundum, stone,
  silicon carbide, or any abrasive, or emery polishing or  buffing  wheel,
  where articles of the baser metals or iridium are manufactured;
    d.  penal  or correctional institutions, if such employment relates to
  the custody or care of prisoners or inmates;
    e.  adjusting  belts  to  machinery  or  cleaning,  oiling  or  wiping
  machinery;
    f. packing paints, dry colors, or red or white leads;
    g. preparing any composition in which dangerous or poisonous acids are
  used;
    h. operating steam boilers subject to section two hundred four of this
  chapter;
    i.   any   occupation   at   construction  work,  including  wrecking,
  demolition,  roofing  or  excavating  operations  and  the  painting  or
  exterior cleaning of a building structure from an elevated surface;
    j.  any  occupation  involving  exposure  to radioactive substances or
  ionizing radiation, or exposure to silica or other harmful dust;
    k. logging  occupations  and  occupations  in  the  operation  of  any
  sawmill, lath mill, shingle mill or cooperage-stock mill;
    l. any occupation in or in connection with a mine or quarry;
    m.   any   occupation   involved  in  the  operation  of  power-driven
  woodworking, metal-forming, metal-punching, metal-shearing, bakery,  and
  paper products machines;
    n. any occupation involved in the operation of circular saws, bandsaws
  and guillotine shears;
    o.   any   occupation   in  or  about  a  slaughter  and  meat-packing
  establishment, or rendering plant;
    p. any occupation involved in the operation of  power-driven  hoisting
  apparatus;
    q.  any  occupation  involved  in  the  manufacture of brick, tile and
  kindred products;
    r. as a helper on a motor vehicle.
    3. a. The provisions of subdivision two  of  this  section  shall  not
  apply  to  (1)  an  apprentice  who  is  individually  registered  in an
  apprenticeship program which is duly registered with the commissioner in
  conformity with the provisions of article twenty-three of this  chapter;
  or
    (2)  a  student-learner  who  is  enrolled  in  a  course of study and
  training in a cooperative vocational training program under a recognized
  state or local educational authority, or in  a  course  of  study  in  a
  substantially similar program conducted by a private school; or
    (3)  a  trainee  in  an  on-the-job  training  program approved by the
  commissioner; or
    (4) a minor who  is  employed  in  the  occupation  in  which  he  has
  completed  training as a student-learner as provided in subparagraph (2)
  of this subdivision or as a trainee as provided in subparagraph  (3)  of
  this subdivision; or
    (5)  a  minor  who  is  employed  in  the  occupation  in which he has
  completed a work training program of  a  non-profit  organization  or  a
  training  program  which  is publicly funded in whole or in part, and as
  part of such program received safety instruction and training in the use
  of machinery, provided that such safety program has been approved by the
  commissioner.  As  used  in  this   paragraph   the   term   "non-profit
  organization"  means an organization operated exclusively for religious,
  charitable, or educational purposes, no part  of  the  net  earnings  of
  which inures to the benefit of any private shareholder or individual.
    b.  An  employment  certificate required by subdivision two of section
  one hundred thirty-two of this article shall for the purposes of section
  fourteen-a of the workmen's compensation  law  be  deemed  to  authorize
  employment under subparagraphs (3), (4) and (5) of this subdivision.
    4.  In  addition  to  the  cases  provided  for  in  this section, the
  commissioner, when it is found upon investigation  that  any  particular
  trade,  process of manufacture, occupation, or method of carrying on the
  same, is dangerous or injurious to the health of minors, may adopt rules
  prohibiting or regulating the employment  of  such  minors  therein.  In
  addition  to the adoption of such rules, the commissioner may also adopt
  such other rules and regulations as are determined  necessary  to  carry
  out the purposes of this section.
    5.  In  addition  to the rulemaking authority set forth in subdivision
  four  of  this  section,  when  it  is  found  upon  investigation  that
  employment  on a farm is dangerous or injurious to the health of minors,
  the  commissioner  may  adopt  rules  prohibiting  or   regulating   the
  employment  of  such  minors therein, which rules shall be in accordance
  with  and  consistent  with  those  promulgated  by  the  United  States
  secretary of labor in this regard.

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