Chap. 538.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1808 of the Code of Vir-
ginia, and to repeal an act entitled an act regulating the hours of labor of
women, approved March 14, 1918, and also to repeal an act entitled 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 establishments where females
and children under fourteen years of age are employed as operatives, ap-
proved March 4, 1890, as heretofore amended, approved Maret Ss vel

Approved March 25, 1926.

1. Beit enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That section
eighteen hundred and eight of the Code of Virginia be amended and
re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 1808. Regulation of hours of work of women.—No female
shall be employed, suffered, or permitted to work in any factory,
workshop, laundry, restaurant, mercantile or manufacturing estab-
lishment in this State more than ten hours in any one day of twenty-
four hours. All contracts heretofore or hereafter made for the em-
ployment of any female in any factory, workshop, laundry, restaurant,
mercantile or manufacturing establishment to work for more than ten
hours in any one day of twenty-four hours, shall be deemed to be void.
But nothing in this section shall be construed to apply to females
whose full time is employed as bookkeepers, stenographers, cashiers
or office assistants; or in factories engaged exclusively in packing
fruits or vegetables, or in mercantile establishments in towns of less
than two thousand inhabitants or in country districts.

Every employer to whom this section shall apply shall keep posted
in a conspicuous place in the workroom where such females shall be
employed or permitted to work, a printed or typewritten copy of this
section; and a printed or typewritten schedule stating the number of
hours per day for each day of the weeks required of such persons, and
the time when such work shall begin and end, and the time when the
lunch reriod shall begin and end, shall be kept posted in a conspicuous
place in each room where females are employed.

Any person having authority to contract for the employment of
persons to work in any factory, workshop, laundry, restaurant, mer-
cantile or manufacturing establishment, who shall engage or contract
with any female, or suffer or permit any female, to work in any factory,
workshop, laundry, restaurant, mercantile or manufacturing estab-
lishment in violation of this section, or who shall otherwise violate
this section, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction be
fined not less than ten nor more than twenty-five dollars upon the first
conviction, and not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty
dollars upon any second or subsequent conviction.

The commissioner of labor is hereby charged with the duty of en-
forcing this section and prosecuting all violations thereof, and of sup-
plying printed copies of the section to employers upon application.

2. An act entitled an act regulating the hours of labor of women,
approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and an
act entitled an act to amend and re-enact section one of an act entitled
an act to regulate the hours of labor in factories and manufacturing
establishments where females and children under fourteen years of
age are employed as operatives, approved March fourth, eighteen
hundred and ninety, as heretofore amended, approved March twenty-
seventh, nineteen hundred and eighteen, are hereby repealed.