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Assembly Bill A8632

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires a minimum operator age for amusement devices

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2025-A8632 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2125
Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Add §870-p, Lab L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S9624

2025-A8632 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the commissioner of labor to promulgate rules and regulations to authorize competent operators at least sixteen years of age to operate all amusement devices.

2025-A8632 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8632
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 22, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. CLARK -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Labor
 
 AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to a minimum operator age for
   amusement devices
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  The labor law is amended by adding a new section 870-p to
 read as follows:
   § 870-P. MINIMUM OPERATOR AGE. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL PROMULGATE RULES
 AND REGULATIONS WHICH  SHALL  AUTHORIZE  COMPETENT  OPERATORS  AT  LEAST
 SIXTEEN YEARS OF AGE TO OPERATE ALL AMUSEMENT DEVICES.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03609-01-5

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