PRINTER'S NO. 3308
No. 2290 Session of 2008
INTRODUCED BY BENNINGHOFF, CALTAGIRONE, CARROLL, CREIGHTON,
J. EVANS, HARPER, JAMES, KORTZ, KULA, MILNE, MOUL, MURT,
PETRONE, ROAE, SAYLOR, SIPTROTH, SONNEY, STERN AND
YOUNGBLOOD, MARCH 5, 2008
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LABOR RELATIONS, MARCH 5, 2008
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of May 13, 1915 (P.L.286, No.177), entitled, as
2 amended, "An act to provide for the health, safety, and
3 welfare of minors: By forbidding their employment or work in
4 certain establishments and occupations, and under certain
5 specified ages; by restricting their hours of labor, and
6 regulating certain conditions of their employment; by
7 requiring employment certificates or transferable work
8 permits for certain minors, and prescribing the kinds
9 thereof, and the rules for the issuance, reissuance, filing,
10 return, and recording of the same; by providing that the
11 Industrial Board shall, under certain conditions, determine
12 and declare whether certain occupations are within the
13 prohibitions of this act; requiring certain abstracts and
14 notices to be posted; providing for the enforcement of this
15 act by the Secretary of Labor and Industry, the
16 representative of school districts, and police officers; and
17 defining the procedure in prosecutions thereunder, and
18 establishing certain presumptions in relation thereto;
19 providing for the issuance of special permits for minors
20 engaging in the entertainment and related fields; providing
21 penalties for the violation of the provisions thereof; and
22 repealing all acts or parts of acts inconsistent therewith,"
23 further providing for exceptions.
24 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
25 hereby enacts as follows:
26 Section 1. Section 2 of the act of May 13, 1915 (P.L.286,
27 No.177), known as the Child Labor Law, amended October 4, 1978
1 (P.L.938,No.182), is amended to read:
2 Section 2. No minor under sixteen years of age shall be
3 employed or permitted to work in, about, or in connection with,
4 any establishment or in any occupation except that a minor
5 between the ages of twelve and fourteen years may be employed as
6 a caddy subject to the limitation that he or she carry not more
7 than one golf bag at a time and for not more than eighteen holes
8 of golf in any one day or may be employed as an official in an
9 amateur sport and except that a minor between the ages of
10 fourteen and sixteen years may be employed as hereinafter
11 provided in such work as will not interfere with school
12 attendance: Provided, however, That nothing contained in this
13 section shall be construed as superseding or modifying any
14 provisions contained in section seven of the act to which this
15 is an amendment.
16 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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