2010 New York Code
ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs
Title L - PROTECTION OF CHILD PERFORMERS AND MODELS
Article 35 - (35.01 - 35.07) CHILD PERFORMERS AND MODELS
35.07 - Unlawful exhibitions.

§ 35.07. Unlawful  exhibitions. 1. It shall be unlawful for any person
  to employ, use, or exhibit any child under sixteen years of age, or  for
  a  parent,  guardian  or employer to consent to or to refuse to restrain
  such child in engaging or acting:
    a. As a rope or wire walker, gymnast  (except  in  a  non-professional
  capacity  or  activity), rider upon a horse or other animal (except in a
  non-professional horse show), or as an acrobat, or upon any  bicycle  or
  other  mechanical vehicle or contrivance unless a child performer permit
  is issued pursuant to the provisions of section one hundred fifty-one of
  the labor law, and the child is protected by the use of  safety  devices
  or  protective equipment which comply with the provisions of the Federal
  Occupational Safety and Health Act  provided,  however,  that  where  an
  activity is exempt from the permit requirement of this paragraph because
  the  activity  is non-professional, the activity shall still be required
  to comply with the requirement of  this  paragraph  relating  to  safety
  devices and protective equipment; or
    (b) As a wrestler, boxer, or contortionist; or
    (c)  In begging or receiving or soliciting alms in any manner or under
  any pretense, or in any mendicant occupation; or in gathering or picking
  rags, or collecting cigar stumps; or collecting  bones  or  refuse  from
  markets or streets; or in peddling; or
    (d) In any illegal, indecent, or immoral exhibition or practice; or in
  the  exhibition  of any such child when mentally ill, mentally retarded,
  or when presenting the appearance of any deformity or unnatural physical
  formation or development; or
    (e) In any practice or exhibition or place dangerous or  injurious  to
  the  life,  limb, health or morals of such child provided, however, that
  the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to service as a  member
  of  a  certified volunteer ambulance service under the supervision of an
  emergency medical technician as provided in article thirty of the public
  health law by youthful volunteers at least fifteen years of age who hold
  a current American Red Cross advanced first aid and emergency care card.
    2. It shall be unlawful for any person to employ, use or  exhibit  any
  person  under  eighteen  years  of  age  as a dancer or performer in any
  portion of a facility open to the public wherein performers  appear  and
  dance  or otherwise perform unclothed, under circumstances in which such
  employment would be harmful to such person  in  the  manner  defined  in
  subdivision six of section 235.20 of the penal law.
    3. Violation of this section shall be a misdemeanor.