forthwith to the superintendent of schools or other person legally issuing it, by the person in charge or manager of such establishment upon the termination of the employment of such minor. SEC. 12996. Whoever, having charge or management of such establishment, as provided in section twelve thousand nine hundred and ninety-three, employs or permits a boy under sixteen years of age or a girl under eighteen years of age to work in or in connection with such establishment or in the distribution or transmission of merchandise or messages, for more than forty-eight hours in one week, more than eight hours in one day, before the hour of seven o'clock in the morning or after the hour of six o'clock in the evening, shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty dollars. Hours o labor. SEC. 12997. A boy or girl employed as provided in the next preceding Meal time. section, shall be entitled to not less than thirty minutes for meal time which shall not be included as a part of the work hours of the day or week. Records to be SEC. 12998. Whoever, having charge or management of an establishment, as provided in section twelve thousand nine hundred and ninety- kept. three, or his agent, fails to keep a correct record containing the name, birthplace, date of birth and place of residence of each boy between fourteen and sixteen years of age and each girl between fourteen and eighteen years of age, or fails to post in a conspicuous place in each room where such boy or girl works, a printed notice stating the maximum number of work hours for each day and week, shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty dollars. SEC. 12999. The notice provided in the next preceding section shall be formulated by the chief inspector of workshops and factories, approved by the attorney general and furnished by such inspector upon application therefor. Notice. Evidence. Employment chinery. SEC. 13000. Failure to produce for lawful inspection the age and schooling certificate as provided by law, or the record as provided in section twelve thousand nine hundred and ninety-eight, shall be prima facie evidence of the illegal employment or service of the child whose certificate is not so produced or whose record is not so correctly kept. SEC. 13001. Whoever employs or permits a child under sixteen years of age to work at the occupation of sewing or assisting in sewing machine at dangerous mabelts in a workshop or factory in any capacity; adjusting a belt to machinery; oiling or assisting in oiling, wiping or cleaning machinery; operating or assisting in operating circular or band saws, wood-shapers, wood-jointers, planers, sand-paper or wood-polishing machinery, job or cylinder printing presses operated by power other than foot, emery or polishing wheels used for polishing metal, wood-turning or boring machinery, stamping machines used in sheet metal and tinware manufacturing, stamping machines in washer and nut factories, corrugating rolls, such as are used in roofing and washboard factories, steam boilers, steam machinery, or other steam generating apparatus, dough brakes or cracker machinery of any description, wire or iron straightening machinery, rolling mill machinery, punches or shears, washing, grinding or mixing mills; calender rolls in rubber manufacturing, laundry machinery, or passenger or freight elevators, shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty dollars. SEC. 13002. Whoever employs or permits a child under sixteen years Acids, etc. of age to work in any capacity in the preparation of a compound in which dangerous or poisonous acids are used; in the manufacture of paints, colors or white lead; in the manufacturing, packing or storing of powder, dynamite, nitro-glycerine compounds, fuses or other explosives, or in dipping, dyeing or packing matches, shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty dollars. SEC. 13003. Whoever employs or permits a child under sixteen years of age to work at the manufacture of goods for immoral purposes, or in or about a distillery, brewery, or other establishment where malt or alcoholic liquor is manufactured, packed, wrapped or bottled, or in a hotel, theater, concert hall, drug store, saloon or place of amusement where intoxicating liquor is sold, or in assorting, manufacturing or packing tobacco, or as a pin boy in a bowling alley, shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty dollars. and Immoral other hurtful employments. Employments not enumerated. Requiring girls to stand stantly. Hindering spection. SEC. 13004. Whoever employes [employs] or permits a child under sixteen years of age to work at any employment, other than those mentioned in the next three preceding sections, that may be considered dangerous to its life or limbs, or where its health may be injured or its morals depraved, shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty dollars. SEC. 13005. Whoever employes [employs] or permits a girl under con- the age of sixteen years to work at an employment which compels her to remain standing constantly, shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty dollars. in Age limit for children. Women and SEC. 13006. Whoever prevents a female visitor, as provided by law, from entering, at reasonable hours, a shop, factory, or mercantile establishment for the purpose of making a lawful inspection thereof, shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty dollars. OKLAHOMA. CONSTITUTION. ARTICLE XXIII.-Employment of children. SECTION 3. The employment of children, under the age of fifteen years in any occupation, injurious to health or morals or especially hazardous to life or limb, is hereby prohibited. SEC. 4. Boys under the age of sixteen years, and women and girls, children in mines. shall not be employed, underground, in the operation of mines; and, except in cases of emergency, eight hours shall constitute a day's work underground in all mines of the State. Ten hours a day's labor. Payment to mi STATUTES OF 1893. Employment of women and children-Hours of labor. PARAGRAPH 2550. Every owner, stockholder, overseer, employer, clerk or foreman, of any manufactory, workshop, or other place used for mechanical or manufacturing purposes, who, having control, shall compel any woman or any child under eighteen years of age, or permit any child under fourteen years of age, to labor in any day exceeding ten hours, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall be punished by fine not exceeding one hundred and not less than ten dollars. Earnings of minors. Paragraph 3562. The wages of a minor employed in service may nors valid, when. be paid to him or her until the parent or guardian entitled thereto gives the employer notice that he claims such wages. Seats required. Age limit. ACTS OF 1907-8. ARTICLE V.-Seats for female employees. (Page 499.) SECTION 17. The proprietor, manager or person having charge of any mercantile establishment, store shop, hotel, restaurant or other place where women or girls are employed as clerk in this State, shall provide chairs, stools or other contrivances for the comfortable use of such female employees, and shall permit the use of the same by such female employees for the preservation of their health and for rest when not actually employed in the discharge of their respective duties. ACTS OF 1909. Employment of children. SECTION 1. No child under the age of fourteen years shall be employed or permitted or suffered to work in any factory, factory workshop, theater, bowling alley, pool hall, steam laundry or in any occupation injurious to health or morals or especially hazardous to life or limb. It shall be the duty of the commissioner of labor upon investi- Dangerous, etc., gation by himself or the agents of his department, or upon comp aint occupations. of the commissioner of charities and corrections, or the board of health, to determine what occupations are injurious to health or morals or especially hazardous to life or limb, and to notify employers in such occupations of his decision, which decision shall be final until such occupation or occupations shall be defined by law as safe for health, morals, life and limb. Employments SEC. 2. No child under the age of sixteen years shall be employed, permitted or suffered to work at any of the following occuaptions: prohibited. Oiling or assisting in oiling, operating, wiping or cleaning any dangerous machinery, or adjusting any belt to any such machinery, while in motion; operating, or assisting in operating, circular or band saws; steam boilers, steam machinery, or other steam-generating apparatus; rolling-mill machinery, punches or shears; washing, grinding or mixing mills; passenger or freight elevators; preparing any composition in which dangerous or poisonous acids are used; manufacturing of paints, colors or white lead; where there are acids, dyes, lyes, gases, glass dust or other dust or lint in such quantities as to be injurious to health; dipping, dyeing (1) or packing matches; manufacturing, packing or storing powder, dynamite, nitroglycerine compounds, fuses or other explosives; manufacture of goods for immoral purposes; nor shall females under the age of sixteen years be employed in any capacity where such employment compels them to remain standing constantly. SEC. 3. No child under the age of sixteen years and no girl or woman shall be employed or permitted or suffered to work under ground in any mine or quarry: Employment in mines. Girls not to sell SEC. 4. No girl under the age of sixteen years shall, in any city, sell, or expose or offer for sale newspapers, magazines or periodicals in papers. street or out-of-doors public place. any SEC. 5. No child under the age of sixteen years shall be employed Literacy test. or permitted or suffered to work in any of the occupations specified in section one of this act unless such child is able to read and write simple sentences in the English language, or shall have attended some school during the preceding year for the time that attendance is compulsory under the laws. Seats. SEC. 6. No child under the age of sixteen years shall be employed Hours of labor. or permitted or suffered to work in any gainful occupation, except agriculture or domestic service, more than eight hours in any one day, allowing one hour each day for noonday meal and rest, or more than forty-eight hours in any one week. During the time that a child is at work at such occupation, the employer must provide suitable seats and permit their use so far as the nature of the work allows. SEC. 7. No boy under the age of sixteen years and no girl under Night work. the age of eighteen shall be employed or permitted or suffered to work in any of the occupations mentioned in section one of this act between the hours of six o'clock p. m. and seven o'clock a. m. SEC. 8. Before any child under the age of sixteen years shall be employed in any occupation specified in section one of this act, it shall be the duty of the parent or guardian of such child to procure and furnish the employer of such child an age and schooling certificate as hereinafter provided by this act. Certificates. Files. It shall be the duty of every person, firm or corporation of such establishments as are specified in section one of this act, or employers in such occupations, to keep on file for the inspection of factory inspectors, truant officers, or other persons charged with the administration of this act, such age and schooling certificate, for every child under sixteen years of age employed in such occupation, and to keep on file and to post conspicuously in every room where such children are employed a register, with a complete list of children under sixteen years of age so employed, together with the age of each child as set forth in the age and schooling certificate opposite the name of such child, and also to keep on file and to post conspicuously in such place Schedule to be or establishment, in such form as the factory inspector may prescribe, posted. 1 It is possible that drying was intended, as drying is an essential and dangerous proc ess in matchmaking, while dyeing is not. 49450°-S. Doc. 645, 61-2, vol 1951 Enforcement. Who approves certificates. Evidence. of Certificate school attend ance. the time of opening and closing of such factory or other establishment, the number of hours of labor required or permitted in such establishment, the hours of commencing and stopping work, and the time allowed for meals, and if there be two or more shifts in such establishment the number of hours in each shift during which the employees are required or permitted to work. On termination of the employment of a child so registered, and whose certificate is so filed, such certificate shall be forthwith surrendered by the employer to the child or its parent or guardian or custodian. The inspector of factories, truant officer or other person charged with the administration of this act, may make demand on an employer in whose factory or establishment a child apparently under the age of sixteen years is employed or permitted or suffered to work, and whose employment certificate is not then filed as required by this section, that such employer shall either furnish him, within ten days, evidence satisfactory to him that such child is in fact over sixteen years of age, or shall cease to employ or permit or suffer such child to work in such factory or establishment. Such officer may require from such employer the same evidence of age of such child as is required on the issuance of an employment certificate; and the employer furnishing such evidence shall not be required to furnish any further evidence of the age of the child. In case such employer shall fail to produce and deliver to such officer, within ten days after such demand, such evidence of age herein required by him, and shall thereafter continue to employ such child to work in such factory or establishment, proof of the giving such notice and of such failure to produce and file such evidence shall be prima facie evidence in any prosecution brought for a violation of this provision of this act that such child is under sixteen years of age and is unlawfully employed. SEC. 9. The age and schooling certificate shall be approved only by the county superintendent of public instruction, or other school official designated by him, who shall, for the purpose of this act, be empowered to administer an oath. SEC. 10. The age and schooling certificate shall not be approved unless satisfactory evidence is furnished by the last school census, or certificate of birth, or the register of the city or county, or an affidavit of the date of such birth by a legally registered physician residing therein, stating the time of birth of such child, or the school record of such child, in the public or other school, setting forth the age of such child: Provided, That in cases where such evidence can not be obtained and the child appears to be in good health, and of normal size, of not less than sixty inches in height and weighing not less than eighty pounds, the parent or guardian of such child may make affidavit stating the age, place and time of birth of such child, or if the child shall have no parent or guardian, such affidavit may be made by the child. The affidavits required by this section 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. The employment certificate shall not be issued until such child has further personally appeared before the officer issuing the same and he is satisfied that such child is physically able to perform the work which it intends to do. In doubtful cases such physical fitness shall be determined by a medical officer of the board or department of health. Every employment certificate shall be signed, in the presence of the officer issuing the same, by the child in whose name it is issued. SEC. 11. The age and schooling certificate shall not be approved until the parent or guardian of such child shall present a school attendance certificate as hereinafter prescribed by this act. A duplicate of such age and schooling certificate shall be filled out and sent by the school officer, before whom the same is made, to the commissioner of labor. The blank forms for school attendance certificate and for the age and schooling certificate shall be supplied to the county superintendents of public instruction by the State superintendent of public instruction as hereinafter indicated: SCHOOL ATTENDANCE CERTIFICATE. (Name of school) (City and county) This certifies that (name of child) can read and write simple sentences in the English language and that according to the records of this school and in my belief is now (number of years and months) old, and has attended school during the full school term of the preceding year. (Signature of teacher).. . (Name of parent or guardian) AGE AND SCHOOLING CERTIFICATE. This certifies that I am (father, mother or guardian) of (name of child) and that he (or she) was born at (town or city) (county) (State or county [country]) on the (day, month and year of birth) and is now (number of years and months old). .(Signature of parent or guardian) .(Date) (City or town or county) Personally appeared before me the above-mentioned (name of person signing) and made oath that the foregoing certificate is true to the best of his (or her) knowledge and belief. I hereby approve the foregoing certificate of (name of child), height (feet and inches), weight (pounds), complexion (fair or dark), hair (color), eyes (color), having no sufficient reason to doubt that he (or she) is of the age therein certified. OWNER OF CERTIFICATE. This certificate belongs to (name of child) and is to be surrendered to him (or her) whenever he (or she) leaves the service of the employer holding the same, but if not claimed by said child within thirty days after leaving said service, shall be sent to the commissioner of labor. (Signature of officer, with name of city, town or county, and date.) SEC. 12. Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this act shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars, or imprisonment for not less than ten nor more than thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. The employment of any child under sixteen years of age, without a certificate as herein prescribed, or the employment of any child under sixteen years of age or any girl or woman underground in any mine or quarry, or the signing of any false statement as to the age of any child, or the making of any false statement in an affidavit of an employer, shall be prima facie evidence of guilt. It shall be the duty of the commissioner of labor to see that the provisions of this act are enforced, with the exception of section three shall be enforced by the mine inspector or under his direction. Violations. |