PRINTER'S NO. 1254
No. 1095 Session of 1983
INTRODUCED BY SAURMAN, PETRARCA, NAHILL, E. Z. TAYLOR, GLADECK,
BUNT, DeWEESE, JOHNSON, LASHINGER, CIMINI, F. E. TAYLOR,
JACKSON, WILSON, FREIND, COY, HERMAN, TELEK, WASS AND CLYMER,
MAY 25, 1983
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LABOR RELATIONS, MAY 25, 1983
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," further providing for minor
23 volunteer fire company member activities.
24 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
25 hereby enacts as follows:
26 Section 1. Section 7.3(a) of the act of May 13, 1915
27 (P.L.286, No.177), known as the Child Labor Law, added June 27,
1 1973 (P.L.70, No.30) and the section heading amended May 29,
2 1976 (P.L.130, No.57), is amended to read:
3 Section 7.3. Minor Volunteer Fire Company, Volunteer
4 Ambulance Corps, Volunteer Rescue Squads and Volunteer Forest
5 Fire Crew Member Activities.--(a) Minors who are members of a
6 volunteer fire company and volunteer forest fire crew may
7 participate in training and fire-fighting activities as follows:
8 (1) Drivers of trucks, ambulances or other official fire
9 vehicles must be eighteen years of age.
10 (2) Minors sixteen and seventeen years of age who have
11 successfully completed a course of training equal to the
12 standards for basic fire-fighting established by the Department
13 of Education and the Department of Environmental Resources, may
14 engage in fire-fighting activities provided that such minors are
15 under the direct supervision and control of the fire chief, an
16 experienced line officer or a designated forest fire warden.
17 (3) No person under [eighteen] sixteen years of age shall be
18 permitted to (i) operate an aerial ladder, aerial platform or
19 hydraulic jack, (ii) use rubber electrical gloves, insulated
20 wire gloves, insulated wire cutters, life nets or acetylene
21 cutting units, (iii) operate the pumps of any fire vehicle while
22 at the scene of a fire, or (iv) enter a burning structure.
23 * * *
24 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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