of not less than four hours each of each year, or as long as the public school of the city or district in which such child resides shall be in session, in case the session shall be less than sixteen weeks during the year, unless such attendance, in whole or in part, is excused by the district or city school directors or other officers having control of the public school in written exemption showing on whose application granted and the period and reasons for which the exemption was granted. Exemption. Exemption not Allowances. SEC. 2. No such exemption from school attendance shall be granted unless such child has completed the primary school course and attained granted, when. proficiency in all the subjects or branches thereof, or unless such child has been or is being instructed for not less than sixteen weeks in the year or in some private, parochial, or tutorial school or at home by competent and reliable teachers, or unless it appear from the competent medical or other positive and satisfactory testimony that the child is or was in such condition physically or mentally as to prevent its attendance at school, or its application to study for the period of exemption, or unless, because of sickness or extreme poverty, the wages, time, or labor of such child or children are essentially necessary for the support of a destitute parent, or brother, or sister in such indigent family to prevent them from becoming objects of charity: Provided, That if any such child or children is of a family in extreme poverty and destitution, as aforesaid, the commissioner of the poor of the county may make an allowance or appropriation to reimburse the family or indigent child for the loss of time, work, or wages during school attendance, and to furnish such child or children necessary clothing so as to enable such child or children to attend school for the time required without exemption on account of poverty and destitution aforesaid, which sum shall be paid by the commissioners out of any funds at their disposal or by the county upon the recommendation of such payment by said commissioners of the poor: Provided, further, That the district directors and city boards or other officers having control of the public schools of the districts and cities may, with the consent of the county or city superintendent of schools, buy and furnish with the school funds for any such child who is of a family in extreme poverty and destitution all necessary textbooks for use under the direction of the teacher in the schoolroom during school hours by such indigent child or children and no others, which books shall be delivered by the teacher to the district directors or the city boards of education at the close of the school, or when the necessity thereof terminates: Provided, further, That the occasional absence from such attendance by any such child between the ages of eight and sixteen years, not amounting to more than two unexcused absences in four consecutive weeks, reckoned in periods of four weeks from the beginning of the school term, shall not be unlawful. Textbooks. school. SEC. 3. The attendance of sixteen weeks or eighty days required Attendance at shall begin with the opening of the school session for the year, and beginning of shall be consecutive, except for holidays, vacation, detention by sickness, and other necessary and unavoidable causes, and such intermissions of such attendance shall not be counted as part of the sixteen weeks required: Provided, That any responsible principal or teacher of any school shall have power to exempt any such child for temporary absence on account of unusual storm, bad weather, or high waters, death in the child's family, providential hindrance, unforeseen and unavoidable accidents, and for the observance of religious festivals and holidays: Provided further, That the provisions of this act shall not apply in cases where the home of the parent or other custodian of a child or children between the said ages of eight and sixteen years is more than two and one-half miles from the nearest public school by the shortest road. Employing children unlaw SEC. 5. During the period of the year that the public schools of any district or city of this State are in operation it shall be a misdemeanor, fully absent from punishable by fine, for any person, firm, or corporation to hire or use school. the services of any child between the ages of eight and sixteen years, unless such child shall first have attended school during the year then current for the length of time required by this act, or unless such child has been excused from school attendance in the manner allowed and prescribed by this act, and a violation of this provision shall subject the of offender to a fine of ten dollars ($10) for each offense, collectable [collectible] in an action in the name of the State before any court of competent jurisdiction, and payable to the county trustee for the benefit of the public school of the district or [sic] in which the offense was committed. SEC. 8. It shall be the duty of the district, county, and city school boards having control of the public schools in the districts and cities, through the clerk or secretary, as their agent or other school officer designated by the respective boards, to enforce the payment and collection of all fines for the violation of this act incurred by employers, parents, and others within respective districts and cities, and for this purpose to institute all necessary suits therefor in the name of the State before any court having competent jurisdiction, * * * [This act applies to Cocke County only. The legislature of 1909 passed laws embodying similar provisions, applicable to the following counties: Anderson (age limit, 8 to 14 years), Blount, Carter, Cumberland, Hancock, Hardin, Jefferson, Johnson, Marion, Monroe, Roane, and Sevier.] ACTS OF 1911. CHAPTER 57.-Employment of children-Age limit. SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any proprietor, foreman, owner, or other person to employ, permit, or suffer to work any child less than fourteen years of age in, about, or in connection with any mill, factory, workshop, laundry, telegraph or telephone office, or in the distribution or transmission of merchandise or messages. SEC. 2. It shall be unlawful for any proprietor, foreman, owner, or other person to employ, permit, or suffer to work any child under fourteen years of age in any business or service whatever which interferes with the child's attendance at school, except in agricultural or domestic service, during any part of the term the public schools of the district in which the child resides are in session. SEC. 3. No child under the age of sixteen years shall be employed, permitted, or suffered to work at any of the following occupations or in any of the following positions: Repairing machine belts, while in motion, in any workshop or factory, or assisting therein in any capacity whatever; adjusting any belt to any machinery; oiling or cleaning machinery or assisting therein; operating or assisting in operating circular or band saws, wood shapers, wood jointers, planers, sandpaper or woodpolishing machinery; picker machines, machines used in picking wool, machines used in picking cotton, machines used in picking hair, machines used in picking any upholstering material; paper-lacing machines, leather-burnishing machines in any tannery or leather manufactory; job or cylinder printing presses operated by power other than foot power, 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, corregating [corrugating] rolls, such as are used in roofing and washboard factories; steam boilers, steam machinery or other steam generating apparatus, dough brakes or crackery 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; laundering machinery; dipping, drying, or packing matches; or in mines or quarries. SEC. 4. It shall be unlawful for any proprietor, foreman, owner, or other person to employ any child under eighteen years of age as a messenger for a telegraph or messenger company in the distribution, transmission, or delivery of goods or messages before five o'clock in the morning or after ten o'clock in the evening of any day. SEC. 5. It shall be unlawful for any proprietor, foreman, owner, or other person to employ, permit, or suffer to work any child between the ages of fourteen and sixteen years in, about, or in connection with any place or establishment named in section 1, unless said proprietor, foreman, owner, or other person keep on file and accessible to the shop and factory inspector a sworn statement made by the parent or guardian or any person acting as guardian of such child, setting forth the place and date of birth of such child, and whoever shall make false statement as to the age of such child in such sworn statement shall be deemed guilty of perjury. SEC. 6. Whoever employs any child and whoever having under his control as parent, guardian, or otherwise any child, permits or suffers such child to be employed or to work in violation of any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than two hundred and fifty dollars, in the discretion of the court. ness, TEXAS. ACTS OF 1907. CHAPTER 138.-Employment of women and minors in saloons. * * * * * * Violations. SECTION 19. Every retail liquor dealer or malt liquor dealer, Employment * * * who shall have in his employ about his place of busi- of minors; any minor shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction therefor shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not longer than sixty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. * SEC. 25. No retail liquor dealer or retail malt dealer shall employ Of females. or suffer to be employed, any female as a servant, bartender or waitress, other than a member of his own family, in his place of business, * and any person violating the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than twelve months or by a fine of not exceeding five hundred dollars, or both such fine and imprisonment. ACTS OF 1909. CHAPTER 59.-Hiring out children to support parents in idleness. SECTION 1. The following persons are and shall be punished as vagrants, viz: * * * * Who are (n) All persons who are able to work and do not work, but hire out their minor children or allow them to [be] hired out and live grants. their wages, being without other means of support. ACTS OF 1911. CHAPTER 46.-Employment of children—Age limit. upon ments. va or SECTION 1. Any person, or any agent, or any employee of any person, Age limit. firm or corporation who shall hereafter employ any child under the age of fifteen years to labor in or about any manufacturing or other establishment using dangerous machinery, or about the machinery Dangerous in any mill or factory, or in any distillery, brewery, or to labor in immoral employany capacity in the manufacture of goods for immoral purposes, or where their health may be impaired or morals debased, or shall send any such child to any disorderly house, bawdy house, or assignation house, or having the control of such child, shall permit him or her to go to any such house, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, and each day the provisions of this act are violated shall constitute a separate offense. SEC. la. Such person, firm or corporation, or any agent thereof, shall give free access at all times to the commissioner of labor statistics of the State of Texas, and his deputies, for the inspection of their premises and of the methods employed, to insure compliance with the provisions of the foregoing section. SEC. 2. Any person, agent, or any employee of any person, firm or corporation, who shall hereafter employ any child under the age of 17 years to labor in or about any quarry or mine shall be punished as provided for in section 1 of this act, Inspection to be allowed. in mines forbid SEC. 2a. Such person, firm or corporation, or any agent thereof, shall give free access at all time to the commissioner of labor statistics of the State of Texas, and his deputies, for the inspection of their premises and of the methods employed, to insure compliance with the provisions of the foregoing section. UTAH. CONSTITUTION. ARTICLE 16.-Employment of labor-Women and children. Employment SECTION 3. The legislature shall prohibit: (1) The employment of women, or of children under the age of fourteen years, in underground mines. den. * Employment in mines and smelters. Seats for fe in stores, etc. COMPILED LAWS-1907. Employment of women and children. SECTION 1338. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to employ any child under fourteen years of age, or any female, to work in any mine or smelter in the State of Utah. Any person, firm, or corporation who shall violate any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. SEC. 1339. The proprietor, manager, or person having charge of any male employees store, shop, hotel, restaurant, or other place where women or girls are employed as clerks or help therein, shall provide chairs, stools, or other contrivances where such clerks or help may rest when not employed in the discharge of their respective duties. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Payments when. to, Earnings of minors. SECTION 1544. When a contract for the personal services of a minor minors valid, has been made with him alone, and those services are afterward performed, payment made therefor to such minor in accordance with the terms of the contract is a full satisfaction for those services, and the parent or guardian cannot recover therefor a second time. Employment of minors. ACTS OF 1911. CHAPTER 106.-Employment of women and children in barrooms, etc.— SECTION 23. No holder of a license for the sale at retail of intoxicating liquors shall employ any person under the age of twenty-one years to serve such liquors to be drunk on the premises. SEC. 24. No person, partnership or corporation shall employ a minor under the age of twenty-one years in handling intoxicating liquors or packages containing such liquors in a brewery or bottling establishment, in which such liquors are prepared for sale or offered for sale. SEC. 28. The licensed premises shall be conducted in a quiet, orderly no female shall be employed in the place; * CHAPTER 133.-Hours of labor of women. SECTION 1. No female shall be employed in any manufacturing, mechanical, or mercantile establishment, laundry, hotel, or restaurant, or telegraph or telephone establishment, hospital or office, or by any express or transportation company in this State, more than nine hours during any one day, or more than fifty-four hours in any one week, except in cases of emergency in hospitals and in cases of emergency or where life or property is in imminent danger or where materials are liable to spoil by the enforcement of this act. SEC. 2. Any person or persons, corporation or other association en- Violations. gaged in conducting or operating any of the business institutions or enterprises set forth in the foregoing section, requiring or employing any female to work longer than the period of nine hours constituting a day's labor, except as above provided, or more than fifty-four hours in any one week shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, and costs of prosecution. CHAPTER 144.-Employment of children-General provisions. Age limit. Dangerous, etc., SECTION 1. No child under the age of fourteen years shall be employed, permitted or suffered to work in any capacity in, about or in connection with the preparing of any composition in which dangerous or poisonous acids are used-manufacture of paints, colors or white lead; manufacturing, packing or storing powder, dynamite, nitro- employments. glycerin compounds, fuses or other explosives; manufacture of goods for immoral purposes; nor in any quarry, any mine, coal breaker, laundry, tobacco warehouse, cigar factory, or other factory where tobacco is manufactured or prepared; distillery, brewery or any other establishment where malt or alcoholic liquors are manufactured, packed, wrapped or bottled; theatre, concert hall, nor saloon, nor in operating any automobile, motor car or truck; in the running or management of elevators, lifts or hoisting machines; nor in bowling alleys, nor in any other employment declared by the State board of health to be dangerous to lives or limbs, or injurious to the health or morals of children under the age of fourteen. SEC. 2. An employment certificate shall be issued only by the superintendent of schools or by a person authorized by him in writing, or, where there is no superintendent of schools, by a person authorized by the school board: Provided, That no member of a school board or other person authorized as aforesaid shall have the authority to issue such certificate for any child then in or about to enter such person's own employment or the employment of a firm or corporation of which he is a member, officer or employee: Provided, That no such certificate shall be issued until the person issuing the same shall have received, examined and approved the school record of such child. SEC. 3. No employment certificate shall be issued until the child in question has personally appeared before and been examined by the officer issuing the certificate, nor until such officer, after making such examination, has signed and filed in his office a statement that the child can read and legibly write simple sentences in the English language. SEC. 4. The school record required by this act shall be signed by the principal or chief executive officer of the school which such child has attended, and shall be furnished on demand to a child entitled thereto. It shall contain a statement certifying that the child has attended the public schools or parochial schools equivalent thereto for not less than one hundred days during the year previous to his arriving at the age of fourteen years, or during the year previous to applying for such school record, and is able to read and write simple sentences in the English language. Certificates. Issue. School records. Power of in SEC. 5. Any authorized inspector or the truant officer shall make demand on any employer in or about whose place or establishment a spectors. child apparently under the age of fourteen years is employed or permitted or suffered to work, and require such employer to furnish him within ten days satisfactory evidence that such child is in fact over fourteen years of age, or shall cease to employ or permit or suffer such child to work in such factory. SEC. 6. No female under the age of twenty-one years shall be Employment employed, permitted or suffered to work in, about or in connection with of females in saloons, etc. any restaurant, resort or place of amusement where alcoholic liquors are manufactured or dispensed. SEC. 7. In cities of the first or second class no person under the age Messengers. of twenty-one years shall be employed or permitted to work as a mes senger for a telegraph or a messenger company in the distribution, trans mission or delivery of goods or messages before 5 o'clock in the morning Night work. 49450°-S. Doc. 645, 61-2, vol 19-53 |