ยง 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.
Structure New York Laws
Article 65 - Compulsory Education and School Census
3201 - Discrimination on Account of Race, Creed, Color or National Origin Prohibited.
3201-A - Discrimination on Account of Sex.
3202 - Public Schools Free to Resident Pupils; Tuition From Nonresident Pupils.
3203 - Selection of School for Attendance of Children When District Line Intersects a Dwelling.
3205 - Attendance of Minors Upon Full Time Day Instruction.
3206 - Attendance of Minors Upon Part Time Instruction.
3207 - Attendance Upon Evening Instruction.
3207-A - Service of Persons Seventeen Years of Age as Election Inspectors or Poll Clerks.
3208 - Attendance; Screening of the New Entrants; Prohibition Against Mandatory Medication.
3209 - Education of Homeless Children.
3209-A - Child Abuse Prevention.
3210 - Amount and Character of Required Attendance.
3211 - Records of Attendance Upon Instruction.
3211-A - Reports of Reading Tests.
3212 - Definition of Persons in Parental Relation and Their Duties; Duties of Certain Other Persons.
3212-A - Records of Telephone Numbers.
3214 - Student Placement, Suspensions and Transfers.
3215-A - General Certification Provisions.
3216 - Employment Certificates.
3217 - Procedure for Issuance of Employment Certificates.
3219 - Consent of Parent or Guardian.
3220 - Certificate of Physical Fitness.
3225 - Special Employment Certificate.
3230 - School District Meetings and Activities.
3232 - Courts Having Jurisdiction.
3234 - Enforcement; Withholding State Moneys by Commissioner of Education.