CHAPTER 496

An Act to amend and reenact § 40-35 of the Code of Virginia, relating to
certain exceptions to the regulation of hours of work of women.
[S 224]

Approved April 5, 1954
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 40-85 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as

follows:

§ 40-35. Nothing in the preceding section shall be construed to apply
to females whose full time is employed:

(1) As bookkeepers, stenographers, cashiers or office assistants,
buyers, managers or assistant managers and office executives,
(2) In factories engaged exclusively in canning, processing or pack-
ing fruits or vegetables during the fruit and vegetable seasons,

(3) In the handling or redrying of leaf tobacco during the tobacco
market seasons, or in shelling or cleaning peanuts or in shucking and pack-
ing oysters, provided such females are not employed more than ten hours
in any one day of twenty-four hours for a period of not exceeding ninety
days in any one year, or

(4) In mercantile establishments located in towns of less than two
thousand inhabitants or in country districts,

_ (5) Inany hospital, whenever an emergency situation exists, whereby
strict compliance with this article might reasonably be calculated to
jeopardize the lives or health of persons relying upon such hospital for care
or treatment.

Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding section, women em-
ployed in florist shops and greenhouses may be employed for as many as,
but not in excess of, ten hours in one day, for the three days preceding and
on February fourteenth, December twenty-fifth, Easter Sunday and
Mothers’ Day.