CHAPTER 352

An Act to amend and reenact § 40-118, as amended, of the Code of Vir-
ginia, relating to the working hours of, and the method of issuing
carrier certificates to, boys occupied in distributing newspapers on
regularly established routes.

[S 202]

Approved March 30, 1962

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 40-118, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, be amended and
reenacted as follows:

§ 40-118. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this chapter, any
boy between twelve and * sixteen years of age may daily engage in the
occupation of distributing newspapers on regularly established routes
between the hours * of five o’clock ante meridian and seven o’clock post
meridian, excluding the time public schools are actually in session. Such
carrier boys shall not be required to procure or carry a badge, but in
lieu thereof the publisher of the newspaper which * any such boy de-
livers on such route, * having been furnished with satisfactory proof of
age as provided in § 40-108, shall issue a newspaper carrier certificate,
on a form prescribed by the ‘Commissioner of Labor and Industry, show-
ing the name, age, address, and school attended, of such boy, and shall
send copies of such certificate to the division superintendent of schools
and the Department of Labor and Industry, and shall retain a file copy.
Such certificate shall remain in effect until the publisher is notified that
such boy does not appear physically fit from his health record or that
in the opinion of the division superintendent his school record indicates
that his school work is not compatible with such occupation. Such carrier
boy shall carry such certificate on his person at all times that he is
engaged in his duties. No such certificate shall be required of any such
carrier boy between sixteen and eighteen years of age, or of any carrier
boy so employed in any city having a population of less than ten thousand
or in any county having a population of less than ninety thousand and
which is not adjacent to any city having a population of more than ninety

ousand.