A 6471: Authorizes minors to operate temporary businesses operating for less than thirty days and generating less than five thousand dollars in profit per calendar year without certain licenses or permits; permits local government or law enforcement to require such temporary business to move if the location is determined to pose a substantial risk to health and safety.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6471 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY March 5, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. DAIS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Economic Development AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to authorizing minors to operate temporary businesses without certain licenses or permits The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section 2 398-g to read as follows: 3 § 398-g. Temporary businesses operated by minors. 1. For the purposes 4 of this section: 5 (a) "Minor" shall mean an individual under the age of eighteen. 6 (b) "Temporary business" shall mean any business that operates for 7 less than thirty days and generates less than five thousand dollars in 8 profit in a calendar year. 9 2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rule or regulation to 10 the contrary, a minor shall not be required to obtain any permit or 11 license, other than a license required by article five, six, six-C, 12 six-D, seven, eight-B, eleven, fourteen, twenty-seven, twenty-seven-A, 13 twenty-eight, twenty-nine-A, thirty-five-C or forty-one of this chapter 14 or a professional license required by the education law or the public 15 health law, to operate a temporary business. 16 3. The local governing body or the local law enforcement agency of the 17 city, town, or village in which the minor operated temporary business is 18 located may require such minor to move the location of such temporary 19 business if such location is determined to pose a substantial risk to 20 the health and safety of such minor or of the general public. 21 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD06158-01-5