FLORIDA.

GENERAL STATUTES-1906.

Seats for employees in stores, etc.

SECTION 3235. If any merchant, storekeeper, employer of male or female clerks, salesmen, cash boys or cash girls, or other assistants, in mercantile or other business pursuits, requiring such employees to stand or walk during their active duties, neglect to furnish at their own cost or expense suitable chairs, stools or sliding seats attached to the counters or walls, for the use of such employees when not engaged in their active work, and not required to be on their feet in the proper performance of their several duties; or refuse to permit their said employees to make reasonable use of said seats during business hours, for purposes of necessary rest, and when such use will not interfere with humane or reasonable requirements of their employment, he shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding sixty days.

Certain employments of children forbidden.

SECTION 3237. Whoever takes, receives, hires, employs, uses, exhibits or in any manner or under any pretense sells, apprentices, gives away, lets out or otherwise disposes of to any person any child under the age of fourteen years for or in the vocation, occupation, service or purpose of singing, playing on musical instruments, rope or wire walking, dancing, begging or peddling, or as a contortionist, rider, acrobat, or for or in any obscene, indecent or immoral purpose, exhibition or practice, or for or in any business, exhibition or vocation injurious to the health or dangerous to the life or limbs of such child, or causes or procures, or encourages any such child to engage therein, or has in custody any such child for any of the purposes aforesaid, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or impris oned not more than six months. Nothing contained in this section shall apply to or affect the employment or use of any such child as a singer or musician in any church, school or academy, or at any amateur concert or entertainment, or in learning the science or practice of music and social dancing.

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Employment of children.

Seats to be pro

vided.

Acrobatic, mendicant, etc., occupations.

Consent of paetc., required, when.

SECTION 3728. Whoever hires or employs or causes to be hired or employed any minor, knowing such minor to be under the age of rents, fifteen years and under the legal control of another, without the consent of those having such legal control, for more than sixty days, shall be punished by imprisonment not exceeding sixty days or by fine not exceeding twenty dollars.

ACTS OF 1907.

CHAPTER 5686.—Employment of children-General provisions.

SECTION 1. No child under twelve years of age shall be employed Age limit in facat any time in any factory or workshop, bowling alley, barroom, beer tories, etc. garden, place of amusement where intoxicating liquors are sold, or in

or about any mine or quarry.

vacation.

SEC. 2. No child under twelve years of age shall be employed, Employment in required or permitted to work for wages or gain, to whomsoever payable, at any occupation at any time, except that during that portion of the year in which there is no public school in the city, town or school district in which such child shall be at the time living, such child may be employed in any store, office, hotel, mercantile establishment, laundry, or other reputable place of work not herein above forbidden: Provided, That there shall first be obtained from the county judge of the county or municipal judge of the town or city in which said store, office, hotel, mercantile establishment, or place of work Certificates. is located a certificate authorizing such employment. Such certificate

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Hours of labor.

Nightwork.
Register.

Enforcement.

Violations parents;

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By employers.

Separate violations.

Exceptions.

shall be issued by said county or municipal judge only upon the affidavit of the parent or guardian or person exercising parental control over said child, stating its age and date of birth, that there is no free public school then in session in the district, city or town where said child lives, and a certificate from a practicing physician that he has examined said child and that said child is, in his opinion, physically able to perform, with reasonable safety to itself, the work for which it is sought to be employed. Whenever it appears that a certificate of a county or municipal judge as herein provided shall have been obtained by a false statement as [to] the age of the child or other material facts, said judge shall revoke said certificate. The judge issuing a certificate shall receive the sum of twenty-five cents therefor, to be paid by the applicant. The certificate of the judge, together with copies of the affidavit of parent or guardian and certificate of the physician, shall be delivered to the employer and kept by him as herein provided: Provided further, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent or abridge the right of a parent or guardian to require work from his child in his own vocation and under his supervision and direction.

SEC. 3. No child under the age of twelve years shall be employed, required or permitted to work for wages or gain, to whomsoever payable, longer than nine hours in any one day, or more than six days in any one week, nor after the hour of nine o'clock at night, nor before the hour of six o'clock in the morning.

SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of every person, firm or corporation or the agent or manager of any person, firm, or corporation, employing minors under the age of twelve years, wherein by reason of the nature of the employment, or the age of the minor, certificate and affidavits as herein above provided, are required to keep in the place of employment, a register or other convenient book or file for inspection containing all certificates and copies of affidavits and certificates furnished them in compliance with this act, so long as the person furnishing the same shall be in their employ; such register, book or file shall at all times be subject to the free inspection of any city, county or State officer of the county wherein said place of employment is located, or of the city or town marshal, or any member of the police force in whose territory or jurisdiction said place of employment may be located.

SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of the sheriff in whose county such place of employment may be located, the city or town marshal or police officers within whose territory or jurisdiction such place of employment may be located, to enforce the provisions of this act, and to aid and assist in the prosecution of violations of the same before any court of competent jurisdiction: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall abridge or curtail the prosecution for violations of this act in any other way or manner consistent with the enforcement of the criminal laws of this State.

SEC. 6. Any parent, guardian or person exercising the parental authority over a child, who knowingly makes a false affidavit to any material fact as herein required, or who suffers or permits a child to be employed or to work in violation of this act or before the provisions hereof to be performed by him have been complied with, shall upon conviction be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not more than ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

SEC. 7. Any person, firm or corporation, or agent or manager of any corporation or firm, who shall violate or fail to comply with any of the provisions of this act, or shall hinder or delay any officer or his agent or deputies in the performance of their duties relative to the enforcement of this act, or refuse or hinder their access to the place of employment of such employer, or fail or refuse to keep for free inspection to such officer, or his agents or deputies, the register, book or file of certificates as herein provided, shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than one thousand dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail not more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

SEC. 8. The performance of the work prohibited herein in any place of employment by a minor for one day shall constitute a violation of this act.

SEC. 9. Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to apply to household or agricultural work.

GEORGIA.

CODES-1910.

CIVIL CODE.

Hours of labor in factories, etc.

SECTION 3137 (as amended by act, page 65, Acts of 1911). The hours Ten-hour day. of labor required of all persons employed in cotton or woolen manufacturing establishments in this State, except engineers, firemen, watchmen, mechanics, teamsters, yard employees, clerical force, and all help that may be needed to clean up and make necessary repairs or changes in or of machinery, shall not exceed ten hours per day, or the same may be regulated by employers so that the number of hours shall not in aggregate exceed sixty hours per week: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent any of the aforesaid employees from working such time as may be necessary to make up lost time not to exceed ten days caused by accidents or other unavoidable circumstances.

Lost time.

Contracts

SEC. 3138. All contracts made or entered into, whereby a longer time for labor than is provided in the foregoing section shall be required of longer day. said employees, shall be absolutely null and void, so far as the same relates to the enforcement of said contracts with said employees, any law, usage, or custom to the contrary notwithstanding.

SEC. 3139. Any cotton or woolen manufacturing establishment that shall make or enforce any contract in violation of the foregoing section, with any person as an employee therein, shall be subject to a forfeiture of an amount not less than twenty and not more than five hundred dollars for each and every such violation.

SEC. 3140. Any person with whom said contract is made, or any person having knowledge thereof, shall be competent to institute suit against said cotton or woolen manufacturing establishment;

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Penalty.

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Who may sue.

Hours of labor

Night work.

SEC. 3141. The hours of labor by all persons under twenty-one years of age, in all other manufacturing establishments or machine-shops in of minors. this State, shall be from sunrise until sunset, the usual and customary times for meals being allowed from the same; and any contract made with such persons or their parents, guardians, or others, whereby a longer time for labor is agreed upon or provided for, shall be null and void, so far as relates to the enforcement of said contracts against such laborers.

Employment of children-Corporal punishment forbidden.

SECTION 3142. No boss or other superior in any manufacturing establishment shall inflict corporeal [corporal] punishment upon minor laborers; and the owners of such factory or machine-shop shall be directly liable for all such conduct on the part of their employees; and such minor may sue in his own name for damages for such conduct, and the recovery shall be his own property, and not belong to his parents.

Employment of children in factories-Age limit-Night work.

SECTION 3143. No child under ten years of age shall be employed or allowed to labor in or about any factory or manufacturing establishment within the State under any circumstances.

SEC. 3144. On and after January 1, 1907, no child under twelve years of age shall be so employed, or allowed to labor, unless such child be an orphan and has no other means of support, or unless a widowed mother or an aged or disabled father is dependent upon the labor of such child, in which event, before putting such child at such labor, such father shall produce and file in the office of such factory or manufacturing establishment a certificate from the ordinary of the county in which such factory or establishment is located, certifying under his seal of office to the facts required to be shown as herein prescribed: Provided, That no ordinary shall issue any such certificate except upon

Punishment of

minors.

Age limit.

Limit in 1907.

Night work in 1908.

Illiterates.

ance.

strict proof in writing and under oath, clearly showing the necessary facts: And provided further, That no such certificate shall be granted for longer than one year, nor accepted by any employer after one year from the date of such certificate.

SEC. 3145. On and after January 1, 1908, no child under fourteen years of age shall be employed or allowed to labor in or about any factory or manufacturing establishment within this State between the hours of seven p. m. and six a. m.

SEC. 3146. On and after January 1, 1908, no child, except as heretofore provided, under fourteen years of age shall be employed or allowed to labor in or about any factory or manufacturing establishment within this State, unless he or she can write his or her name and simple senSchool attend- tences, and shall have attended school for twelve weeks of the preceding year, six weeks of which school attendance shall be consecutive; and no such child as aforesaid between the ages of fourteen and eighteen years shall be so employed unless such child shall have attended school for twelve weeks of the preceding year, six weeks of which school attendance shall be consecutive; and at the end of each year, until such child shall have passed the public-school age, an affidavit certify. ing to such attendance as is required by this section shall be furnished to the employer by the parent or guardian or person sustaining parental relation to such child. The provisions of this section shall apply only to children entering such employment at the age of fourteen years or less.

Certificates.

SEC. 3147. It shall be unlawful for any owner, superintendent, agent, or any other person acting for or in behalf of any factory or manufac turing establishment to hire or employ any child unless there is first provided and placed on file in the office of such employer an affidavit signed by the parent, guardian, or person standing in parental relation thereto, certifying to the age and date of birth of such child, and other facts required in this article. Any person knowingly furnishing a false affidavit as to the age, or as to any other facts required in this article, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

SEC. 3148. The affidavit and certificates required in this article shall be open to inspection by the grand juries of any county where such factory or manufacturing establishments are located.

SEC. 3149. Any person or agent, or representative of any firm or corporation, who shall violate any provision of this article, or any parent, guardian, or other person standing in parental relation to a child, who shall hire or place for employment or labor in or about any factory or manufacturing establishment within this State a child in violation of any provision of this article, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

PENAL CODE.

Seats for female employees.

SECTION 130. All persons and corporations employing females in manufacturing, mechanical, or mercantile establishments must provide suitable seats, and permit their use by such females when not necessarily engaged in the active duties for which they were employed. Any person who shall fail to comply with the requirements of this section, and the officers of any corporation which shall fail to comply with said requirements, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

Employment of children while parents live in idleness.

SECTION 449. Vagrants are

7. All persons who are able to work and do not work, and who have no property or other means of support, but hire out their minor children and live upon their wages.

Employment of children—Certain employments forbidden.

mendicant

em

SECTION 756. Any person who shall sell, apprentice, give away, let Acrobatic and Dut, or otherwise dispose of any child under twelve years, to any per- ployments. son, for the vocation, occupation, or service of rope or wire walking, begging, or as a gymnast, contortionist, circus-rider, acrobat, or clown, or for any indecent, obscene, or immoral exhibition, practice, or purpose, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

Receiving chil

SEC. 757. Whenever a child shall be disposed of in violation of the preceding section, the person who, under such selling, apprenticing, dren. or letting out, shall receive and use such child for any of the purposes condemned in said section, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

ACTS OF 1910.

Employment of children-Messenger service.

(Page 117.)

SECTION 1. No minor under sixteen years of age shall be employed Night work. in the delivery of messages by any concern or person engaged in the messenger service business, or in the general work of the messenger

service between the hours of nine p. m. and six a. m.

SEC. 2. Any person, firm, or corporation, violating the provisions of Violations. this act, or any of them, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished as prescribed in section 1039 of the Penal Code of Georgia, 1895.

HAWAII.

REVISED LAWS-1905.

Employment of children-School attendance.

Attendance re

SECTION 212 (as amended by act No. 150, Acts of 1911). The attendance of all children from six to seventeen years of age, at either a public quired. or private school, is obligatory, *provided also, that such attendance shall not be compulsory in the following cases:

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Fourth. Where any child of not less than the age of thirteen years shall have passed the required examinations of both primary and grammar school grades, as such requirements shall from time to time exist: Provided, He shall be suitably employed;

Fifth. When any child of not less than fifteen years of age is suitably employed under the direction of his parent or guardian.

ACTS OF 1907.

ACT No. 119.-Employment of minors in saloons-Sale of liquor to

employees.

SECTION 30. Licenses shall be subject to the following conditions and provisions:

Exceptions.

Conditions of

license.

(4) That no holder of a license for a saloon business shall employ Minors not to be any minor in or about the room or place where intoxicating liquors employed. are furnished or sold;

ARTICLE 13.-Employment of children in underground mines.

SECTION 4. The employment of children under the age of fourteen (14) years in underground mines is prohibited.

Age limit.