CHAPTER 443

AN ACT to amend and reenact § 40-109 of the Code of Virginia, relating to
certain prohibited employment. Ba
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Approved March 30, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

- n That § 40-109 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted as
ollows:

§ 40-109. No child under eighteen years of age shall:

(1) Be employed, permitted or suffered to work in any mine, tunnel,
underground scaffolding work or handling explosives;

(2) Operate or assist in operating any dangerous machinery or pas-
senger or freight elevator;

(8) Oil or assist in oiling, wiping and cleaning any such machinery;

(4) Be employed in any capacity in preparing any composition in
which dangerous or poisonous chemicals are used; or

Be employed in any capacity in the manufacturing of paints,
colors or white lead, or in any place where goods of alcoholic content are
manufactured, bottled, or sold for consumption on the premises, except
in places where the sale of alcoholic beverages is merely incidental to the
main business actually conducted.

No boy under sixteen and no girl under eighteen years of age shall
be employed, permitted or suffered to work in any scaffolding or construc-
tion work, or brick or lumber yard, or in any theatre, concert hall, cabaret,
carnival, floor show, pool hall, bowling alley or place of amusement, or in
any hotel, restaurant, road house, curb service place or dry cleaning
establishment or laundry. The provisions of this section shall not apply to
children employed by dry cleaning or laundry establishments where such
children are engaged in purely office work, or where they are employed in
branch stores where no processing is done, or to girls sixteen years or more
of age employed in the lighted lobby or offices, but not as ushers, in a
eerie picture theatre, but this exception shall not apply to outdoor
theatres.