Penalty. Enforcement. The certificate of the teacher or teachers shall be made out in the following form: Sworn and subscribed before me the day of A. D. Notary Public for the State of Delaware. The certificate of the teacher or teachers shall be made out in the following form: 19 This is to certify that (minor's name) has attended school in years of County from Total number of days Total number of nights to during the school and of my personal knowledge (minor's name) is able to read and write simple sentences in the English language, and is familiar with the fundamental operation of arithmetic up to fractions. Teacher. It shall be unlawful for any person or corporation to employ a child within the provisions of this act without first receiving and filing said sworn statement of the parent or guardian of such child and said teacher's certificate as hereinabove provided. SEC. 5. Every person, or the officer or officers of any corporation violating the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined a sum not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each and every such offense. SEC. 6. It shall be the duty of such factory or workshop inspector appointed under the provisions of this act to inspect the sanitary conditions of any factory workshop or other establishment, wherein minors are employed in accordance with the provisions of this act and to make report in writing of his findings to the governor, to the board of health of the city of Wilmington and the State board of health quarterly, or more frequently if he shall deem it necessary. Canneries, etc. SEC. 7 (as amended by chapter 121, Acts of 1909). The provisions of this act shall not apply to any person or corporation engaged in the canning or preserving of fruits, vegetables or provisions or in the carrying on of any agricultural business "or to any person or persons, firm or corporation, engaged in the manufacture of fruit and berry baskets," or to any person or corporation employing a child or children in domestic service. Employment in barrooms forbidden. Acrobatic and pations. DISTRICT OF ALASKA. ACTS OF U. S. CONGRESS-1898-1899. CHAPTER 429.-TITLE 2.-Employment of females and minors in bar rooms. SECTION 478. No licensee under a barroom license shall employ, or permit to be employed, or allow any female or minor or person convicted of crime, to sell, give, furnish, or distribute any intoxicating drinks or any admixture thereof, ale, wine, or beer to any person or persons. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. [Approved March 3, 1901; amended January 31 and June 30, 1902.) Employment of children-Certain employments forbidden. Any person, having in his custody or conmendicant occu- trol a child under the age of fourteen years, who shall in any way dispose of it with a view to its being employed as an acrobat, or a gymnast, or a contortionist, or a circus rider, or a ropewalker, or in any exhibition of like dangerous character, or as a beggar, or mendicant, or pauper, or street singer, or street musician; or any person who shall take, receive, hire, employ, use, exhibit, or have in custody any child of the age last named for any of the purposes last enumerated, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, when convicted thereof, shall be subject to punishment by a fine of not more than two hundred and fifty dollars, or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, or both. ACTS OF 1894-95. CHAPTER 192.-Seats for female employees. busi Seats to be pro SECTION 1. All persons who employ females in stores, shops, offices, or manufactories as clerks, assistants, operatives, or helpers in any vided. ness, trade, or occupation carried on or operated by them in the District of Columbia, shall be required to procure and provide proper and suitable seats for all such females and shall permit the use of such seats, rests, or stools, as may be necessary, and shall not make any rules, regulations, or orders preventing the use of such stools or seats when any such female employees are not actively employed in their work in such business or employment. SEC. 2. If any employer of female help in the District of Columbia, Penalty. shall neglect or refuse to provide seats, as provided in this act, or shall make any rules, orders, or regulations in his shop, store, or other place of business, requiring females to remain standing when not necessarily employed in service or labor therein, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof in any court of competent jurisdiction shall be liable to a fine therefor in a sum not to exceed twenty-five dollars, with costs, in the discretion of the court. ACTS OF 1905-6. CHAPTER 3054.-Employment of children-School attendance. Attendance re SECTION 1. Every parent, guardian, or other person residing in the District of Columbia having charge and control of a child between the quired. ages of eight and fourteen years shall cause such child to be regularly instructed in the elementary branches of knowledge, including reading, writing, English grammar, geography, and arithmetic, and pursuant to this end every such parent, guardian, or other person aforesaid shall cause any child under the charge and control of such person to attend some public, private, or parochial school during the period of each year the public schools in the District are in session, on the customary days and during the customary hours of the school term. No child shall be credited with attendance upon a private or parochial school unless the attendance officer hereinafter provided for receives a certificate of attendance signed by the person in charge of such school. A child between the ages aforesaid may be excused from school attendance or instruction upon presentation of satisfactory evidence to the superintendent of schools that such child is being or has been within said year instructed a like period of time in the branches taught in the public schools, or that such child has acquired these branches of learning, or that the physical or mental condition of such child is such as to render such attendance or instruction inexpedient or impracticable. SEC. 5. Any person who induces or attempts to induce any child to be absent unlawfully from school, or who knowingly employs or ployment, etc. harbors while school is in session any child absent unlawfully from school, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be punished by a fine of not more than twenty dollars. SEC. 6. The officers empowered under this act shall visit any place or establishment where minor children are employed to ascertain whether the provisions of this law are duly complied with, and shall as often as twice a year demand from all employers of such children a list of children employed, with their names and ages. Unlawful Enforcement. em Age limit. Night work. ACTS OF 1907-8. CHAPTER 209.-Employment of children-General provisions. SECTION 1. No child under fourteen years of age shall be employed or permitted to work in the District of Columbia in any factory, workshop, mercantile establishment, store, business office, telegraph or telephone office, restaurant, hotel, apartment house, club, theater, Employment bowling alley, laundry, bootblack stand, or in the distribution or during school transmission of merchandise or messages. No such child shall be time. employed in any work performed for wages or other compensation, to whomsoever payable, during the hours when the public schools of the District of Columbia are in session, nor before the hour of six o'clock in the morning or after the hour of seven o'clock in the evening: Provided, That the provisions of this section shall not apply to children employed Permits, when. in the service of the Senate: And provided further, That the judge of the juvenile court of said District may, upon the application of the parent, guardian, or next friend of said child, issue a permit for the employment of any child between the ages of twelve and fourteen years at any occupation or employment not in his judgment dangerous or injurious to the health or morals of such child, upon evidence satisfactory to him that the labor of such child is necessary for its support, or for the assistance of a disabled, ill, or invalid father or mother, or for the support in whole or in part of a younger brother or sister or a widowed mother. Such permits shall be issued for a definite time, but they shall be revocable at the discretion of the judge by whom they are issued or by his successor in office. Hearings for granting and revoking permits shall be held upon such notice and under such rules and regulations as the judge of said court shall prescribe. Age and schooling certificate. Approval. Evidence. Form. SEC. 2. No child under sixteen years of age shall be employed or permitted to work in the District of Columbia in any of the establishments named in section one, unless the person or corporation employing him procures and keeps on file and accessible to the inspectors authorized by this act and the truant officers of the District of Columbia an age and schooling certificate, and keeps two complete lists of all such children employed therein, one on file and one conspicuously posted near the principal entrance of the building in which such children are employed. SEC. 3. An age and schooling certificate shall be approved only by the superintendent of public schools, or by a person authorized by him in writing, who shall have authority to administer the oath provided for therein, but no fee shall be charged therefor. SEC. 4. No age and schooling certificate shall be approved unless satisfactory evidence is furnished by duly attested transcript of the certificate of birth or baptism of such child, or other religious record, or the register of birth or the affidavit of the parent or guardian or custodian of a child, which affidavit shall be required, however, only in case such last-mentioned transcript of the certificate of birth be not procured and filed, showing the place and date of birth of such child, which affidavit must be taken before the officer issuing the employment certificate, who is hereby authorized and required to administer such oath, and who shall not demand or receive a fee therefor. SEC. 5. The age and schooling certificate of a child under sixteen years of age shall be in the following form: AGE AND ECHOOLING CERTIFICATE. This certifies that I am the (father, mother, guardian, or custodian) of (name of child) and that (he or she) was born at (name in the county (name of county, if known). on the (day and year of birth) of town or city) and State (or country) old. is now (number of years and months) (Date.) and There personally appeared before me the above-named (name of person signing) and made oath that the foregoing certificate by (him or her) signed is true to the best of (his or her) knowledge and belief. I hereby approve the foregoing certificate of (name of This certificate belongs to (name of child in whose behalf it is drawn) and is to be surrendered to (him or her) whenever (he or she) leaves the service of the corporation or employer holding the same, but if not claimed by said child within thirty days from such time it shall be returned to the superintendent of schools. (Signature of person authorized to approve and sign, with official character of authority.) (Date.) A duplicate of each age and schooling certificate shall be filled out and kept on file by the superintendent of public schools. Any explanatory matter may be printed with such certificate, in the discretion of said superintendent: Provided, That in exceptional cases the judge of the juvenile court, upon the recommendation of the superintendent of public schools, or the person authorized to act for him, may, in writing, waive the necessity of the schooling certificate provided for in this act, and in such cases the age certificate shall entitle the holder to be employed without a violation of this act. SEC. 6. Whoever employs a child or permits a child to be employed in violation of sections one, two, eight, or nine of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, for such offense, be fined not more than fifty dollars; and whoever continues to employ any child in violation of any of said sections of this act, after being notified by an inspector authorized by this act, or a truant officer of the District of Columbia, shall for every day thereafter that such employment continues be fined not more than twenty dollars. A failure to produce to an inspector authorized by this act, or a truant officer of the District of Columbia, any age or schooling certificate or list required by this act shall be prima facie evidence of illegal employment of any person whose age and schooling certificate is not produced or whose name is not listed. Any corporation or employer retaining any age and schooling certificate in violation of section five of this act shall be fined not more than twenty dollars. Every person authorized to sign the certificate prescribed by section five of this act who knowingly certifies to any materially false statement therein shall be fined not more than fifty dollars. Filing. Violations. SEC. 7. The inspectors authorized by this act and the truant officers Inspection. of the District of Columbia shall visit the establishments named in section one and ascertain whether any minors are employed therein contrary to the provisions of this act, and they shall report any cases of such illegal employment to the superintendent of public schools and the corporation counsel of the District of Columbia. The inspectors authorized by this act and the truant officers of the District of Columbia shall require that the age and schooling certificates and lists provided for in this act of minors employed in the establishments named in section one shall be produced for their inspection. SEC. 8. No minor under sixteen years of age shall be employed, permitted, or suffered to work in any of the establishments named in section one more than eight hours in any one day, or before the hour of six o'clock antemeridian, or after the hour of seven o'clock postmeridian, and in no case shall the number of hours exceed fortyeight in a week. Hours of labor. Night work. Schedule to be SEC. 9. Every employer shall post in a conspicuous place in every room where such persons are employed a printed notice, stating the posted. number of hours required of them on each day of the week, the hours Theatrical exbibitions. Jurisdiction. of commencing and stopping work, and the hours when the time or times allowed for dinner or for other meals begin and end The printed form of such notice shall be furnished by the inspectors authorized by this act and the truant officers of the District of Columbia, and the employment of any such person for a longer time in any day than that so stated shall be deemed a violation of this section. SEC. 10. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to appoint two inspectors to carry out the purposes of this act, at a compensation not exceeding one thousand two hundred dollars each per annum. SEC. 11. No male child under ten, and no girl under sixteen years of age shall exercise the trade of boot blacking, or sell or expose or offer for sale any newspapers, magazines, periodicals, or goods, wares, or merchandise of any description whatsoever, upon the streets, roads, or highways, or in any public place within the District of Columbia. SEC. 12. From and after July first, nineteen hundred and eight, no male child under sixteen years shall exercise the trade of boot blacking or sell or expose or offer for sale any newspapers, magazines, periodicals or goods, ware or merchandise of any description whatsoever upon the streets, roads, or highways, or in any public place within the District of Columbia unless a permit and badge as hereinafter provided shall have been issued to him by the superintendent of public schools of the District of Columbia, or by a person authorized by him in writing for that purpose upon the application of the parent, guardian, or other person having the custody of the child desiring such a permit and badge, or in case said child has no parent, guardian, or custodian, then on the application of his next friend, being an adult. SEC. 13. Such permit and badge shall be issued free of charge to the applicant, but shall not be issued until an age and schooling certificate shall have been issued as provided in this act. SEC. 14. Such permit shall state the date and place of birth of the child, the name and address of its parent, guardian, custodian, or next friend, as the case may be, and describe the color of hair and eyes, the height and weight, and any distinguishing facial mark of such child, and shall further state that the age and schooling certificate has been duly examined and filed, and that the child named in such permit has appeared before the officer issuing the permit. The badge furnished by the officer issuing the permit shall bear on its face a number corresponding to the number of the permit and the name of the child. Every such permit, and every such badge on its reverse side, shall be signed in the presence of the officer issuing the same by the child in whose name it is issued. The badge provided for herein shall be worn conspicuously at all times by such child while so working, and all such permits and badges shall expire annually on the first day of January. The color of the badge shall be changed each year. No child to whom such permit and badge are issued shall transfer the same to any other person, nor be engaged in the District of Columbia in any of the trades or occupations mentioned in this section without having conspicuously upon his person such badge, and he shall exhibit the same upon demand to any police or truant officer or to the inspectors in this act provided for. SEC. 15. No child to whom a permit and badge are issued as provided for in the preceding sections shall sell or expose or offer for sale any newspapers, magazines, or periodicals or goods, wares, or merchandise of any description whatever after ten o'clock in the evening or before six o'clock in the morning. SEC. 16. Nothing in this act contained shall apply to the employment of any child in a theatrical exhibition, provided the written consent of one of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia is first obtained. Such consent shall specify the name of the child, its age, the names and residence of its parents or guardians, together with the place and character of the exhibition. SEC. 17. The juvenile court of the District of Columbia is hereby given jurisdiction in all cases arising under this act. |