New York Consolidated Laws, Labor Law - LAB § 132. Employment of minor sixteen or seventeen years of age

a. When attendance upon instruction is not required by the education law, a minor sixteen or seventeen years of age may be employed without an employment certificate or permit in the following occupations:

b. Nothing in this section, or the hours of work requirements of this chapter, shall apply to a newspaper carrier in compliance with section thirty-two hundred twenty-eight of the education law.

c. Nothing in this section shall prohibit the employment of a minor sixteen or seventeen years of age during the school lunch period in a school cafeteria at the school which the minor attends if the minor presents an employment certificate issued in accordance with the education law.

d. Nothing in this section shall be construed to apply to the employment of a minor sixteen or seventeen years of age as a child model in compliance with section 35.05 of the arts and cultural affairs law.

e. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, an employment certificate or permit shall not be required for a student sixteen years of age or over who is in attendance at a recognized institution of higher learning and who is employed by a non-profit college or university or by a college or university fraternity, sorority, student association or faculty association.

f. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the employment of a minor seventeen years of age as an election inspector or poll clerk pursuant to section 3-400 of the election law, or to require an employment certificate or permit therefor.