CHAPTER 463

An Act to amend and reenact § 40-109 of the Code of Virginia, relating to
certain employment prohibited for children under eighteen years of
age.

(S 174]
Approved March 30, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
Ea 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;

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

(4) Be employed in any capacity in preparing any composition in
which dangerous or poisonous chemicals are used; or
(5) 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, * road house, curb service place, * dry cleaning establishment,
* laundry, or restaurant as defined in § 35-25, provided, however, that
for the purposes of this section, the definition of restaurant shall be deemed
not to include schools and colleges; and provided further, that boys four-
teen and over may be employed in restaurants, and girls sixteen and over
may be employed for a period not exceeding four months in a calendar year
in restaurants operated in conjunction with a hotel subject to regulation
by the State Board of Health under Title 35 of the Code, which is operated
on a seasonal basis. 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 employed by concessionaires oper-
ating on beaches wholly within the corporate limits of cities where the
duties and work of such children pertain to the handling and distribution
of beach chairs, umbrellas, floats and other similar or related beach equip-
ment.