Opn. No.

HON. PHILIP ROSS Industrial Commissioner, Department of Labor

This is in response to your inquiry of September 9, 1976, wherein you request my opinion as to whether or not a minor serving as a volunteer with a volunteer ambulance service organization would be in violation of Labor Law § 133 (2) (r), which provides:

"No minor of any age shall be employed in or assist in:

"r. as a helper on a motor vehicle."

You state in your letter that the minors herein are working for a volunteer ambulance service organization, and this opinion is confined to that factual situation. A volunteer ambulance service…