Papers neceз essary to be proved and GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING TRADE. eral employment certificates shall entitle the child to work during the entire year; vacation employment certificates shall entitle the child to work during the entire year, excepting such days thereof as said child is required to attend public or private schools under the provisions of the laws now in force, or hereafter to be enacted. Section 10. The person authorized to issue an emexamined, ap- ployment certificate shall not issue such certificate until he has received, examined, approved and filed the following papers, duly executed, viz.: filed before issuance of certificate School record Physicians certificate Age certificate Birth certificate Passport 1. The school record of such child properly filled out and signed, as provided in this act. 2. A certificate signed by a physician appointed by the public school board or committee of the district wherein said child resides, stating that such child has been examined by him and, in his opinion, has reached the normal development of a child of its age, and is in sufficiently sound health and physically able to be employed in any of the occupations or processes in which a child between twelve and sixteen years of age may be legally employed. 3. Evidence of age showing that the child is twelve years old or upwards, which shall consist of one of the following proofs of age and shall be required in the order herein designated as follows: (a) A duly attested transcript of the birth certificate filed according to law with a Board of Health or other Board or officer charged with the duty of recording births, which certificate shall be prima facie evidence of the age of such child. (b) A passport or a duly attested transcript of a certificate of baptism showing the date of birth and place of baptism of such child. GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING TRADE. above proofs obtainable (c) In case none of the above proofs of age can be pro- In case none of duced, other documentary evidence of age which shall of age are appear to be satisfactory to the officer issuing the certificate (aside from the school record of such child or the affidavit of parent, guardian or custodian), may be accepted in lieu thereof. In such case a school census or enumeration record, duly attested, may be used as proof of age in the discretion of the officer issuing the certificate. umentary obtainable (d) In case no documentary proof of age of any kind When no doccan be produced, the person issuing the certificate may proof of age is receive and file an application signed by the parent, guardian or custodian of the child. Such application shall contain the name, alleged age, place and date of birth, and present residence of the child, together with such further facts as may be of assistance in determining the age of such child, and shall contain a statement certifying that the parent, guardian or custodian signing such application is unable to produce any of the documentary proofs of age specified in the preceding subdivisions of this section. Such application shall be filed for not less than thirty days for an examination to be made of the statements contained therein, and in case no facts appear within such period or by such examination tending to discredit or contradict any material statement of such application, the person issuing the certificate may direct such child to appear thereafter for physical examination before the State Child Labor Inspector, and in case that in his opinion, such child is at least twelve years of age or is at least fourteen years of age as the case may be, such officer shall accept such certificate as sufficient proof of the age of such child for the purposes of this section. The person issuing the certificate shall require the evidence of age specified in subdivision (a) in preference Person issuing require evi certificate to dence of age No certificate to be issued ed and examined GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING TRADE. to that specified in any subsequent subdivision and shall not accept the evidence of age permitted by any subsequent subdivision unless he shall receive and file in addition thereto an affidavit of the parent, guardian or custodian showing that no evidence of age specified in any preceding subdivision or subdivisions of this section can be produced. Such affidavit shall contain the age, date and place of birth, and present residence 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. Section 11. No employment certificate shall be issued until child per- until the child in question has personally appeared besonally appear-fore and been examined by the person issuing the certificate, nor until such person, after making such examination, has signed and filed in his office a statement that the child can read intelligently and write legibly simple sentences in the English language. Contents of employment certificate Date and signature of certificate Section 12. Every such employment certificate shall state the name, sex, the date and place of birth and the place of residence of the child, and describe the color of the hair and eyes, the height and weight and any distinguishing facial marks of such child, and shall contain a statement of the proof of age accepted and shall certify that the papers required by the preceding sections have been duly examined, approved and filed, and that the child named in such certificate has appeared before the officer issuing the certificate and has been examined. Every such certificate shall be dated the date of its issue and shall be signed by the child in whose name it is issued in the presence of the person issuing the same. The superintendent issuing said certificate shall place and keep on file in his office a duplicate thereof and any GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING TRADE. person other than the superintendent issuing such employment certificate shall immediately upon issuing the same, forward a duplicate thereof to the superintendent authorizing such person to issue such certificate and said duplicate shall be placed and kept on file in said superintendent's office in the same manner as certificates issued by him. Section 13. The school record required by this act School record shall be filled out and signed by the principal or chief executive officer of the school which such child has last attended, and shall be furnished to a child who, after the examination and investigation, may be entitled thereto. It shall contain a statement certifying that the child Contents has regularly attended the public schools or schools equivalent thereto or parochial schools for not less than one hundred and thirty days either during the twelve months previous to arriving at the age of twelve years or during the twelve months previous to applying for such school record, and is able to read intelligently and write legibly simple sentences in the English language. Such school record shall also give the name, date of birth and residence of the child as shown on the records of the school and the name of the parent or guardian or custodian. attended more In case a child has attended more than one school dur- When child has ing the twelve months previous to arriving at the age of than one school twelve years or during the twelve months previous to applying for such school record, the principal or chief executive officer of each school shall separately certify to the number of days attended by the child in such school during such period, and no employment certificate shall be isseud to such child unless the total of the days so attended shall be at least one hundred and thirty days. Certificates pers to be for mulated by State Child GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING TRADE. Section 14. The blank certificates and other papers and other pa- required in the issuing of employment certificates shall be formulated by the State Child Labor Commission and printed by the State Child Labor Inspector and furnished by him to the County Superintendents or other boards or committees requiring the use of the same. Labor Commission Superintendents of Pub lic Schools to transmit a certificates issued Section 15. The superintendents of public schools shall transmit between the first and tenth of each month monthly list of to the State Child Labor Inspector upon blanks to be furnished by him, a list of the names of the children to whom certificates have been issued, such lists shall give the name and address of the prospective employer and the nature of the occupation the child intends to engage in if such intention is known. Failure of em-, ployer to com tion 16 Section 16. The State Child Labor Inspector may make demand on any employer in or about whose place 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 filed as required by this act, that such employer shall either furnish him, within ten days, satisfactory evidence 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 place or establishment. The State Child Labor Inspector shall require from such employer the same evidence of age of such child as is required upon the issuance of an employment certificate, and the employer furnishing such evidence shall not be required to furnish and further evidence of the age of the child. Section 17. In case any employer shall fail to proply with Sec- duce and deliver to the State Child Labor Inspector within ten days after demand made pursuant to Section 16 of this act, the evidence of age therein required, and shall thereafter continue to employ such child or permit |
