PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 582 PRINTER'S NO. 1518
No. 528 Session of 1975
INTRODUCED BY MESSRS. SULLIVAN, PIEVSKY, McGINNIS AND WORRILOW,
FEBRUARY 19, 1975
AS REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE ON LABOR RELATIONS, HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES, AS AMENDED, MAY 28, 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 ACT AS ENTERTAINERS and <--
13 perform other duties, not to include the dispensing or serving
14 of alcoholic beverages and to act as an entertainer, in any <--
15 licensed establishment whose sales of food and nonalcoholic
16 beverages are equal to forty per cent or more of the combined
17 gross sales of both food and alcoholic beverages. Before
18 employing any minor sixteen years of age and over, any
19 establishment licensed by the Liquor Control Board shall furnish
20 to the school district official authorized to issue employment
21 certificates a certification that, for a period of not less than
22 ninety consecutive days during the twelve months immediately
23 preceding the date of application, the sales of food and
24 nonalcoholic beverages by the employer at the licensed premises
25 were equal to or exceeded forty per cent of the combined gross
26 sales of food, nonalcoholic and alcoholic beverages in
27 conformity with the requirements set forth in Regulation 141 of
28 the Liquor Control Board governing the sale of alcoholic
29 beverages on Sunday.
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1 Section 2. All acts and parts of acts are repealed in so far
2 as inconsistent with the provisions of this act.
3 Section 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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