Senate Bill S6777

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  6777--A
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                May 9, 2023
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 Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Consumer  Protection  --
   recommitted to the Committee on Consumer Protection in accordance with
   Senate  Rule  6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
   reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

 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

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 S. 6777--A                          2

 owner's license] AN APPLICANT MAY OBTAIN A BARBER SHOP  OWNER'S  LICENSE
 TO  OPERATE A MOBILE BARBER SHOP PROVIDED THAT SUCH APPLICANT CAN DEMON-
 STRATE:
   (A)  PROOF OF PROPER LAYOUT AS DETERMINED BY THE DEPARTMENT;
   (B)  PROOF  THAT ANY EQUIPMENT OR TOOLS USED BY ANY MOBILE BARBER SHOP
 ARE APPROPRIATELY MAINTAINED AND MEET ALL HEALTH,  SAFETY  AND  SANITARY
 REQUIREMENTS OF APPLICABLE LOCAL AND STATE LAWS, RULES AND REGULATIONS;
   (C)  PROOF  THAT SUCH MOBILE BARBER SHOP VEHICLE IS IN COMPLIANCE WITH
 APPROPRIATE LOCAL AND STATE LAWS, RULES AND REGULATIONS; AND
   (D) SATISFACTORY EVIDENCE OF GOOD MORAL CHARACTER PURSUANT TO SUBDIVI-
 SION THREE OF THIS SECTION.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.