2023 New York Laws
ACA - Arts and Cultural Affairs
Title L - Protection of Child Performers and Models
Article 35 - 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, developmentally
disabled,  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.