2017 New York Laws
EDN - Education
Title 4 - Teachers and Pupils
Article 65 - Compulsory Education and School Census
Part 1 - Compulsory Education
3216 - Employment Certificates.

 3216. Employment  certificates.  1. A student non-factory employment
  certificate may be issued to a minor fourteen or fifteen  years  of  age
  who  is attending day school. The certificate shall be valid for work in
  a trade, business or service, but shall not be valid for work in  or  in
  connection  with  a  factory  except  as provided in subdivision four of
  section one hundred thirty-one of the labor law.
2. A student general employment certificate may be issued to  a  minor
  sixteen  or seventeen years of age who is attending day school. It shall
  be valid for work in or in connection with a factory or any other trade,
  business or service.
3. A full-time employment certificate may be issued to a minor sixteen
  or seventeen years of age  who  is  not  attending  day  school  or  who
  declares  his intention to leave day school for full-time employment. It
  shall be valid for work in or in connection with a factory or any  other
  trade,  business or service. A full-time employment certificate also may
  be issued to a minor who is a graduate of a four-year high  school,  but
  if such minor is under sixteen years of age the certificate shall not be
  valid  for work in or in connection with a factory except as provided in
  subdivision four of section one hundred and thirty-one of the labor law.
4. A limited employment certificate  may  be  issued  as  provided  in
  subdivision two of section thirty-two hundred twenty of this article.
5.  A  special  employment  certificate  may  be issued as provided in
  section thirty-two hundred twenty-five of this article.
6. An employment certificate shall be valid not only for  the  initial
  employment  but also for subsequent employments in work permitted by the
  particular type of certificate.
7. An employment certificate shall expire two years from the  date  of
  its   issuance,  except  as  otherwise  provided  in  this  article.  No
  employment certificate shall be valid for employment in violation of any
  provision of the labor law or rules issued thereunder.
8. An employment certificate shall be kept on file at the place of the
  minor's  employment  and  shall  be  returned  to  the  minor  when  the
  employment terminates.