Assembly Bill A6471

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Authorizes minors to operate temporary businesses without certain licenses or permits

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-A6471 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Economic Development
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Add §398-g, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A9560
2023-2024: A557

2025-A6471 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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.

2025-A6471 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6471
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               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:
 
   Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
 398-g to read as follows:
   §  398-G. TEMPORARY BUSINESSES OPERATED BY MINORS. 1. FOR THE PURPOSES
 OF THIS SECTION:
   (A) "MINOR" SHALL MEAN AN INDIVIDUAL UNDER THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN.
   (B) "TEMPORARY BUSINESS" SHALL MEAN ANY  BUSINESS  THAT  OPERATES  FOR
 LESS  THAN  THIRTY DAYS AND GENERATES LESS THAN FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS IN
 PROFIT IN A CALENDAR YEAR.
   2. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW, RULE OR  REGULATION  TO
 THE  CONTRARY,  A  MINOR  SHALL  NOT BE REQUIRED TO OBTAIN ANY PERMIT OR
 LICENSE, OTHER THAN A LICENSE REQUIRED  BY  ARTICLE  FIVE,  SIX,  SIX-C,
 SIX-D,  SEVEN,  EIGHT-B, ELEVEN, FOURTEEN, TWENTY-SEVEN, TWENTY-SEVEN-A,
 TWENTY-EIGHT, TWENTY-NINE-A, THIRTY-FIVE-C OR FORTY-ONE OF THIS  CHAPTER
 OR  A  PROFESSIONAL  LICENSE REQUIRED BY THE EDUCATION LAW OR THE PUBLIC
 HEALTH LAW, TO OPERATE A TEMPORARY BUSINESS.
   3. THE LOCAL GOVERNING BODY OR THE LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY OF THE
 CITY, TOWN, OR VILLAGE IN WHICH THE MINOR OPERATED TEMPORARY BUSINESS IS
 LOCATED MAY REQUIRE SUCH MINOR TO MOVE THE LOCATION  OF  SUCH  TEMPORARY
 BUSINESS  IF  SUCH  LOCATION IS DETERMINED TO POSE A SUBSTANTIAL RISK TO
 THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF SUCH MINOR OR OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC.
   § 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

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