PRINTER'S NO. 582
No. 528 Session of 1975
INTRODUCED BY SULLIVAN, PIEVSKY, McGINNIS AND WORRILOW,
FEBRUARY 19, 1975
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LABOR RELATIONS, FEBRUARY 19, 1975
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 for certain minors, and
8 prescribing the kinds thereof, and the rules for the
9 issuance, reissuance, filing, return, and recording of the
10 same; by providing that the Industrial Board shall, under
11 certain conditions, determine and declare whether certain
12 occupations are within the prohibitions of this act;
13 requiring certain abstracts and notices to be posted;
14 providing for the enforcement of this act by the Secretary of
15 Labor and Industry, the representative of school districts,
16 and police officers; and defining the procedure in
17 prosecutions thereunder, and establishing certain
18 presumptions in relation thereto; providing for the issuance
19 of special permits for minors engaging in the entertainment
20 and related fields; providing penalties for the violation of
21 the provisions thereof; and repealing all acts or parts of
22 acts inconsistent therewith," authorizing the employment of
23 minors as entertainers in certain licensed establishments.
24 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
25 hereby enacts as follows:
26 Section 1. The third paragraph of section 5, act of May 13,
27 1915 (P.L.286, No.177), known as the "Child Labor Law," amended
28 December 21, 1973 (No.155), is amended to read:
1 Section 5. * * *
2 No minor under eighteen years of age shall be employed or
3 permitted to work in, about, or in connection with, any
4 establishment where alcoholic liquors are distilled, rectified,
5 compounded, brewed, manufactured, bottled, sold, or dispensed;
6 nor in a bowling alley; nor in a pool or billiard room:
7 Provided, That male or female minors sixteen years of age and
8 over may be employed and permitted to work in a bowling alley,
9 or that part of a motel, restaurant, club or hotel in which
10 liquor or malt or brewed beverages are not served: And, provided
11 further, That minors sixteen years of age and over may be
12 employed to serve food, clear tables and perform other duties,
13 not to include the dispensing or serving of alcoholic beverages
14 and to act as an entertainer, in any licensed establishment
15 whose sales of food and nonalcoholic beverages are equal to
16 forty per cent or more of the combined gross sales of both food
17 and alcoholic beverages. Before employing any minor sixteen
18 years of age and over, any establishment licensed by the Liquor
19 Control Board shall furnish to the school district official
20 authorized to issue employment certificates a certification
21 that, for a period of not less than ninety consecutive days
22 during the twelve months immediately preceding the date of
23 application, the sales of food and nonalcoholic beverages by the
24 employer at the licensed premises were equal to or exceeded
25 forty per cent of the combined gross sales of food, nonalcoholic
26 and alcoholic beverages in conformity with the requirements set
27 forth in Regulation 141 of the Liquor Control Board governing
28 the sale of alcoholic beverages on Sunday.
29 * * *
30 Section 2. All acts and parts of acts are repealed in so far
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1 as inconsistent with the provisions of this act.
2 Section 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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