CHAPTER 505

An Act to amend and reenact § 40-35 of the Code of Virginia, exempting
women engaged in certain employment from the requirements as to
maximum hours.

[S 294]
Approved April 5, 1954
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 40-35 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 packing
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
packing oysters, or in the dressing or processing of poultry, 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.

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
Mother’s Day.