Chap. 52.--An ACT to amend and re-enact Section 15, as amended, of Chapter
489 of the Acts of Assembly of 1922, approved March 27, 1922, the act and
section relating to employment of children. [S B 44]

Approved February 27, 1946

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That section fifteen, as amended, of chapter four hundred eighty-
nine, of the Acts of Assembly of nineteen hundred twenty-two, approved
March twenty-seven, nineteen hundred twenty-two, be amended and re-
enacted, as follows:

Section 15. No boy under fourteen years of age, and no girl un-
der eighteen years of age shall be employed, permitted or suffered to
work in a street or public place in the occupation of peddling, bootblack-
ing or selling newspapers, magazines, periodicals or circulars, or en-
gaged in any gainful occupation, in a street or public place, except that
any boy between twelve and sixteen years of age may engage in the oc-
cupation of bootblacking or selling newspapers, magazines, periodicals or
circulars which are by law permitted to be distributed and sold. or run-
ning errands or delivering parcels, or caddying or other outdoor employ-
ment, at such hours between six o'clock ante meridian and seven o’clock
post meridian, when the public schools are not in session, provided such
boy procures and carries on his person a badge as hereinafter provided.
Such badge shall be issued by the same person authorized to issue an
employment certificate, and upon compliance with all the requirements
for the issuance of an employment certificate. It shall bear a number
and on its reverse side shall be signed in the presence of the person is-
suing it by the child in whose name it is issued, together with address and
date of birth. No charge shall be made for the use of the first badge
issued but application for the second will not be honored except upon
payment of a fee of twenty-five cents (25c), and all funds heretofore
accumulated or hereafter collected from this source are to be turned into
the State treasury as a continuing contingent fund for the purchasing of
new badges by the Department of Labor and Industry.
Provided, however, that any boy between twelve and fourteen years
of age may engage in the occupation of distributing newspapers on regu-
larly established routes between the hours above specified; provided,
further, any boy between fourteen and sixteen years of age may engage
in said occupation between the hours of five o'clock ante meridian and
seven o'clock post meridian; but in either case, excluding the time the
public schools are actually in session. Such carrier boys shall not be re-
quired to procure or carry a badge, but in lieu thereof, the publisher of
the newspaper which he delivers on such route shall report the names,
ages, addresses, and the school attended, of such boys to the person au-
thorized to issue employment certificates under the provisions of this act,
and thereupon, if it appears that such boy is physically fit either from his
school health record or from a certificate of physical fitness signed by a
public health or school physician, a certificate shall be issued to such car-
rier boy and shall remain in effect so long as in the opinion of the division
superintendent, his school record indicates that his school work is com-
patible with such occupation.