Authorizes owners of itinerant barber shops to obtain barber shop owner's licenses provided that they can furnish proof of proper layout and adequate equipment for the shop, and sanitary conditions in the shop and good moral character.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7031
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 17, 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
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:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 438 of the general business law,
2 as added by chapter 801 of the laws of 1946, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 2. [The establishment of itinerant shops is hereby prohibited and the
5 maintenance of a bona fide establishment with a permanent and definite
6 location shall be a prerequisite for the issuance of a barber shop
7 owner's license] An applicant may obtain a barber shop owner's license
8 to operate an itinerant shop provided that such applicant can furnish
9 proof of proper layout and adequate equipment for the shop, and sanitary
10 conditions in the shop, and satisfactory evidence of good moral charac-
11 ter pursuant to subdivision three of this section.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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