SENATE COMMUNITY AND URBAN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE
STATEMENT TO
ASSEMBLY, No. 853
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
DATED: OCTOBER 8, 2020
The Senate Community and Urban Affairs Committee reports favorably Assembly Bill No. 853.
This bill would prohibit municipalities from requiring a child to obtain a license or permit in order to operate a business temporarily. 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, 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.