Assembly Bill A2785A

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Authorizes owners of mobile barber shops to obtain barber shop owner's licenses

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  • 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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Bill Amendments

2023-A2785 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6777
Current Committee:
Assembly Economic Development
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§430 & 438, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A7878

2023-A2785 - Summary

Authorizes owners of mobile barber shops to obtain barber shop owner's licenses provided that they can furnish proof of proper layout, adequate equipment for the shop, sanitary conditions in the shop and good moral character.

2023-A2785 - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2785
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 27, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  O'DONNELL  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Economic Development
 
 AN ACT to amend the general business law,  in  relation  to  authorizing
   owners  of  itinerant  barber  shops  to  obtain  barber  shop owner's
   licenses
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision 2 of section 438 of the general business law,
 as added by chapter 801 of the laws of  1946,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   2.  [The establishment of itinerant shops is hereby prohibited and the
 maintenance of a bona fide establishment with a permanent  and  definite
 location  shall  be  a  prerequisite  for  the issuance of a barber shop
 owner's license] AN APPLICANT MAY OBTAIN A BARBER SHOP  OWNER'S  LICENSE
 TO  OPERATE  AN  ITINERANT SHOP PROVIDED THAT SUCH APPLICANT CAN FURNISH
 PROOF OF PROPER LAYOUT AND ADEQUATE EQUIPMENT FOR THE SHOP, AND SANITARY
 CONDITIONS IN THE SHOP, AND SATISFACTORY EVIDENCE OF GOOD MORAL  CHARAC-
 TER PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION THREE OF THIS SECTION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07419-01-3



              

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2023-A2785A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6777
Current Committee:
Assembly Economic Development
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§430 & 438, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A7878

2023-A2785A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes owners of mobile barber shops to obtain barber shop owner's licenses provided that they can furnish proof of proper layout, adequate equipment for the shop, sanitary conditions in the shop and good moral character.

2023-A2785A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  2785--A
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 27, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  O'DONNELL  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee  on  Economic  Development  --  committee  discharged,  bill
   amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
   tee
 
 AN ACT to amend the general business law,  in  relation  to  authorizing
   owners of mobile barber shops to obtain barber shop owner's licenses
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1.  Section 430 of the general business law, as added by chap-
 ter 801 of the laws of 1946, is amended to read as follows:
   § 430. Purpose of article.  The need for technical skill, training and
 experience, good health, good  moral  character  and  other  fundamental
 qualities  and  qualifications  in  persons  engaged  in the practice of
 barbering, as herein defined, having been unquestionably established and
 demonstrated and in order to safeguard the health  of  the  persons  who
 patronize  the  barber  shops  of  our  state  [and because of the evils
 connected with itinerant barbers and barber shops  and  because  of  the
 inadequacy  of  local regulation, it]. IT is the purpose of the legisla-
 ture, in enacting this article, to safeguard and protect the barbers  of
 this state [from the evils of itinerant barbers and barber shops] and to
 safeguard  and protect the lives, health and well being of those persons
 who patronize the barber shops of our state by making adequate provision
 for the examination, licensing and regulation of the  barber  shops  and
 the  barbers  and apprentices to whom such persons submit themselves for
 barber work.
   § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 438 of  the  general  business  law,  as
 added by chapter 801 of the laws of 1946, is amended to read as follows:
   2.  [The establishment of itinerant shops is hereby prohibited and the
 maintenance of a bona fide establishment with a permanent  and  definite
 location  shall  be  a  prerequisite  for  the issuance of a barber shop
 owner's license] AN APPLICANT MAY OBTAIN A BARBER SHOP  OWNER'S  LICENSE
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07419-02-3
              

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