PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 88 PRINTER'S NO. 1328
No. 88 Session of 1991
INTRODUCED BY HOLL, REIBMAN, MUSTO, BRIGHTBILL, ROBBINS, FUMO,
LAVALLE AND BAKER, JANUARY 28, 1991
SENATOR MADIGAN, LABOR AND INDUSTRY, AS AMENDED, JUNE 12, 1991
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 reducing minimum age requirements of minors who sell
24 newspapers or merchandise in public places.
25 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
26 hereby enacts as follows:
27 Section 1. Section 7 of the act of May 13, 1915 (P.L.286,
28 No.177), known as the Child Labor Law, amended October 4, 1978
1 (P.L.938, No.182), is amended to read:
2 Section 7. No minor under [twelve] eleven years of age,
3 shall distribute, sell, expose, or offer for sale any newspaper,
4 magazine, periodical, or other publication, or any article of
5 merchandise of any sort, in any street or public place. No minor
6 under fourteen years of age, shall be suffered, employed, or
7 permitted to work at any time as a scavenger, bootblack, or in
8 any other trade or occupation performed in any street or public
9 place. No minor under sixteen years of age, shall engage in any
10 occupation mentioned in this section before [six] FIVE o-clock <--
11 in the morning, or after eight o-clock in the evening, of any
12 day.
13 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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