Chap. 414.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1 of an act entitled an act
to regulate the hours of labor in factories and manufacturing establish-
ments where females and children under fourteen years of age are
employed as operatives, approved March 4, 1890, as heretofore amended.

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Approved March 27, 1918.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That
ection one of an act entitled an act to regulate the hours of labor
n factories and manufacturing establishments where females and
hildren under fourteen years of age are employed as operatives,
ipproved March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety, as heretofore
mended, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 1. No female and no child under fourteen years of age
shall work as an operative in any factory, workshop, laundry, mer-
vantile, or in any manufacturing establishment in this State more
han ten hours in any one day of twenty-four hours. All contracts
nade or to be made for the employment of any female or of any
child under fourteen years of age, as an operative in any factory,
workshop, laundry, mercantile, or in any manufacturing establish-
ment to work more than ten hours in any one day of twenty-four
hours, are and shall be void. ;

Any person having the authority to contract for the employment
of persons as operatives in any factory, workshop, laundry, mer-
cantile, or in any manufacturing establishment, who shall engage or
contract with any female or any child under fourteen years of age
to work as an operative in such factory, workshop, laundry, mer-
cantile, or in any manufacturing establishment during more than
ten hours in any one day of twenty-four hours shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor, and be fined not less than five nor more than twenty
dollars; provided, that nothing contained in sections one and two
of this act shall apply to mercantile establishments in towns of less
than two thousand inhabitants or to county stores; provided, how-
ever, that the commissioner of labor shall be, and he is hereby au-
thorized to grant a permit to leaf tobacco prizeries in towns and
cities of less than thirty thousand population according to the United
States census of nineteen hundred and ten to employ women for
more than ten hours in a day where it appears to the commissioner
that such permit is necessary to provide for an emergency and
where such additional time is voluntary on the part of the employees:
where such permits are granted, the employees shall be paid for over-
time at the rate of one and one-half times. Such permit shall state
the time and conditions of such employment, and such plant may
employ such labor for the time and under the conditions set forth
in such permit; and this provision shall terminate February first,
nineteen hundred and twenty.