Employing or permitting child under 16 years of age to work in certain occupations prohibited.
1. No child under the age of 16 years shall be employed, permitted or suffered to work in any capacity in, about or in connection with:
(a) The preparation of any composition in which dangerous or poisonous acids are used.
(b) The manufacture of paints, colors or white lead.
(c) Dipping, drying or packing matches.
(d) The manufacture of goods for immoral purposes.
(e) Any mine, coal breaker, quarry, smelter, ore reduction works, laundry, tobacco warehouse, cigar factory or other factory where tobacco is manufactured or prepared.
(f) Any distillery, brewery or any other establishment where malt or alcoholic liquors are manufactured, packed, wrapped or bottled.
(g) Any glass furnace, smelter, the outside erection and repair of electric wires, the running or management of elevators, lifts or hoisting machines, or oiling hazardous or dangerous machinery in motion.
(h) Switch tending, gate tending, or track repairing.
2. No child under the age of 16 years shall be employed or permitted or suffered to work as a brakeman, fireman, engineer, motorman or conductor upon any railroad in or about establishments where nitroglycerin, dynamite, dualin, guncotton, gunpowder or other high or dangerous explosives are manufactured, compounded or stored.
3. No child under the age of 16 years shall be employed or permitted or suffered to work in any other employment declared by the Labor Commissioner to be dangerous to the lives or limbs, or injurious to the health or morals, of children under the age of 16 years.
Last modified: February 25, 2006