ASSEMBLY, No. 853

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

219th LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2020 SESSION

 


 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  NICHOLAS CHIARAVALLOTI

District 31 (Hudson)

Assemblyman  ROBERT J. KARABINCHAK

District 18 (Middlesex)

Assemblywoman  ANGELA V. MCKNIGHT

District 31 (Hudson)

 

Co-Sponsored by:

Assemblywomen Murphy, Pinkin, Assemblymen Peterson, Johnson, Assemblywoman Timberlake and Assemblyman Wimberly

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Prohibits municipal licensure of children operating temporary businesses.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.

  


An Act prohibiting municipal licensure of children operating temporary businesses and supplementing chapter 52 of Title 40 of the Revised Statutes.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    A municipality shall not require a license or permit for a business that is operated only occasionally and by an individual who is under 18 years of age.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

      This bill would prohibit municipalities from requiring a child to obtain a license or permit in order to operate a business temporarily.  This bill is based upon a law recently enacted in Utah.  Recent news accounts out of Utah and New York State reported incidents of government officials shutting down child-run lemonade stands for failing to secure licenses or permits.  A similar problem, a municipality penalizing teenagers for soliciting work shoveling snow because they did not have a permit, led to the enactment of P.L.2015, c.240, a New Jersey law which prohibits municipalities from regulating the solicitation of snow shoveling services.  This bill proposes a more broad approach to this general issue by allowing anyone under the age of 18 to occasionally operate a business without having first secured a local permit or license.