GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING TRADE. or suffer such child to work in such places or establish ment, proof of the making of such demand and of such failure to produce and file such evidence shall be prima facie evidence of the illegal employment of such child in any prosecution brought therefor. fifteen years of establishments or &c. named in this section Section 18. No child under the age of fifteen years No child under shall be employed, permitted or suffered to work (1) in, age to work in about or in connection with blast furnaces, docks, wharves; (2) in the outside erection and repair of electric wires; (3) in the running or management of elevators, lifts or hoisting machines, or dynamos; (4) in oiling or cleaning machinery in motion; (5) in the operation of emery wheels or any abrasive, polishing or buffing wheel where articles of the baser metals or iridium are manufactured; (6) at switch tending; (7) gate tending; (8) track repairing; (9) or as brakemen, firemen, engineers, motormen or conductors upon railroads; (10) or as railroad telegraph operators; (11) as pilots, firemen or engineers upon boats and vessels; (12) or in or about establishments wherein nitroglycerine, dynamite, dualin, guncotton, gunpowder or other high or dangerous explosives are manufactured, compounded or stored; unless said establishments are insured under the approval of the board of insurance underwriters of the district where said establishment is situated. Health may whether any tion not for act is dan Section 19. The State Board of Health may, from State Board o time to time, after hearing duly had, determine whether determine or not any particular trade, process of manufacture or other occupaoccupation, in which the employment of children under bidden by this fifteen years of age is not already forbidden by law, or gerous any particular method of carrying on such trade, process of manufacture or occupation, is sufficiently dangerous. to the lives or limbs or injurious to the health or morals of children under fifteen years of age to justify their exclusion therefrom. No child under fifteen years of establishment determined injurious &c Right of appeal by any GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING TRADE. No child under fifteen years of age shall be employed, age to work in permitted or suffered to work in any occupation thus determined to be dangerous or injurious to such children, provided, however, that any person, firm or corporation engaged in such trade, process, manufacture or occupaperson, firm &c tion, so determined by the board of health to be dangerous to the lives or limbs or injurious to the health or morals of children under fifteen years of age, shall have the right of appeal from said determination to the Superior Court of the State of Delaware in and for either county thereof. No person un der twenty-one Section 20. No person under twenty-one years of age years of age to shall be employed, permitted or suffered to work in, about or in connection with any saloon or bar-room where intoxicating liquors are sold. work in saloon &c No girl under Section 21. No girl under eighteen years of age shall eighteen years be employed, permitted or suffered to work in any capacstantly unless ity where such employment compels her to remain standing constantly, unless seats are provided. of age to standing con seats are provided Hours of employment for cupations Section 22. No boy under the age of sixteen and no children in oc- girl under the age of sixteen years shall be employed, named in Sec. 2 permitted or suffered to work in, about or in connection with any establishment or occupation named in Section 2 (1) for more than six days in any one week; (2) nor more than fifty-four hours in any week; (3) or before the hour of seven o'clock in the morning or after the hour of six o'clock in the evening. The presence of such child in any establishment during working hours shall be prima facie evidence of its employment therein. Allowance for meal hours Section 23. Every child employed under the provisions of this act shall be entitled to thirty minutes for meal time between the hours of twelve o'clock noon and one o'clock in the afternoon. GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING TRADE. boys in Cities thousand pop Section 24. In all cities having a population of twenty Messenger thousand or over, no person under the age of eighteen over twenty years shall be employed, permitted or suffered to work ulation as a messenger for telegraph, telephone or messenger companies in the distribution, transmission or delivery of goods or messages before six o'clock in the morning or after ten o'clock in the evening of any day. er to post print tain section of Section 25. Every employer shall post and keep post- Every employed in a conspicuous place in every establishment where- ed copy of cerin any person under the age of eighteen is employed, per- this act mitted or suffered to work, a printed copy of the sections. of this act relating to hours of labor. Such copies shall be formulated by the State Child Labor Commission and shall be printed and furnished by the State Child Labor Inspector on application of any such employers. newspapers &c twenty thou Section 26. No boy under twelve years of age, and no Distribution of girl under fourteen years of age shall, in any city having in cities over a population of twenty thousand or over, distribute, sell, sand populaexpose, or offer for sale (1) newspapers, (2) magazines or (3) periodicals in any street or public place. tion places in cities thousand pop Section 27. No boy under fourteen years of age and Work in public no girl under sixteen years of age shall, in any city hav- over twenty ing a population of twenty thousand or over, be employ-ulation ed, or permitted or suffered to work at any time as (1) bootblack, or (2) in any other trade or occupation performed in any street or public place, (3) in the distribution of hand bills or circulars, or (4) any other articles except newspapers, magazines and periodicals hereinafter provided. In cities no teen or girl un distribute newspapers &c Section 28. No boy under fourteen years of age and boy underfourno girl under sixteen years of age, shall, in any city hav- der sixteen to ing a population of twenty thousand or over, distribute, they sell, expose or offer for sale in any street or public place have complied any (1) newspaper, (2) magazines, (3) or periodicals, attendance with Permit and badge Papers necessary to obtain permit and badge Refer to Sec. 27 and 28 and Sec. 10 subdivision 3 GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING TRADE. (4) or work in any of the trades or occupations mentioned in Section 27, unless he or she complies with all of the legal requirements concerning school attendance, and unless a permit and badge as hereinafter provided shall have been issued to him by the superintendent of public schools of the City of Wilmington or of the county in which such child resides, or by some person designated · in writing by said superintendent, upon the application in person of the parent, guardian or custodian of the child desiring such permit and badge, or in case said child has no parent, guardian or custodian, then upon the application of his or her next friend, being an adult. Section 29. Such permit and badge shall not be issued. until the officer issuing the same shall have received, examined, approved and filed the following papers, duly executed, viz.: (1) Evidence that such child is of age required by Sections 27 or 28, as the case may be. Such evidence of age shall consist of the proof of age required for the issuing of an employment certificate as specified in Section 10, subdivision (3), of this act. (2) The written statement of the principal or chief executive officer of the school which the child is attending, stating that such child is an attendant at such school with the grade such child shall have attained, and that he or she has reached the normal development of a child of its age and sex and is physically and mentally fit for such employment and that it is able to do such work beside the regular school work required by law. After having received, examined and placed on file such papers, the person shall issue to the child a permit and badge, provided, that in the case of a child between the ages of fourteen and sixteen having an employment GENERAL PROVISIONS RESPECTING TRADE. certificate shall be accepted by the person issuing such permit and badge in lieu of any other requirements. mits and bad warded the Lists of permits and badges shall be forwarded, filed Lists of perand kept in the office of the superintendent of public ges to be forschools in the city or county where such boy resides in same as emthe same manner as the lists of employment certificates certificate as herein provided. ployment permit Section 30. Such permit shall state the name and the Contents of date and place of birth of the child, the name and address of the parent or guardian or custodian or next friend making application for such permit, and shall describe the color of the hair and eyes, the height and weight, and any distinguishing facial marks of such child and shall further state that the papers required by the preceding sections have been duly examined and signed, and that the child named in such permit has personally appeared before the person issuing the permit. The badge furnished by the person issuing the permit shall bear on its face a number corresponding to the number of the per- Badge mit and the name of the child. Every such permit and every such badge on its reverse side shall be signed in the presence of the person issuing the same by the child in whose name it is issued. worn and dis piration of same Section 31. The badge provided for herein shall be Badge, how worn conspicuously at all times by such child while so played and exworking. All such permits and badges shall expire annually on the first day of January and no such permit or badge shall be authority beyond the period fixed therein for its duration. The color of the badge shall be changed each year. Color of badge ferable No child to whom such permit and badge are issued Not transshall transfer the same to any other person. He shall exhibit the same upon demand at any time to the State Child Labor Inspector. |
