CHAPTER 567

An Act to amend and reenact § 40-96 of the Code of Virginia, relating to
the employment of children under the ages of fourteen and sixteen
years, and to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section num-
bered 40-100.6, to provide for the issuance of part time employment
certificates to certain children under certain conditions. a is

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Approved March 31, 1956

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 40-96 of the Code of Virginia be amended and reenacted and
that the Code of Virginia be amended by adding a section numbered
40-100.6 as follows:

§ 40-96. No child under fourteen years of age shall be employed, per-
mitted or suffered to work in, about or in connection with any gainful
occupation, except farm work performed outside of school hours with the
consent of the child’s parent or guardian, and except as specified in this

pter.

No child under sixteen years of age shall be employed, permitted or
suffered to work in, about or in connection with any gainful occupation
during school hours, unless he has completed high school, or unless he
has reached the age of fourteen and a provisional employment certificate
has been issued for his employment as provided in § 40-100.5, or unless
he has reached the age of fourteen and is enrolled in a regular school work-
training program and a work-training certificate has been issued for his
employment as provided in § 40-100.4 or unless a part time employment
certificate has been issued as provided in § 40-100.6. .

No child under sixteen years of age shall be employed, permitted or
suffered to work in any manufacturing or mechanical establishment or
commercial cannery at any time, except in purely office work or, in such
canneries, work not involving and in separate rooms from the actual
processing of food products. Nothing in the preceding sentence shall be
construed as applying to community non-commercial packing or canning
establishments, and nothing in this or the following section shall be con-
strued as qualifying the provisions of §§ 40-109, 40-110 or 40-111.

§ 40-100.6. A part time employment certificate shall be issued, which
shall permit the employment of a child between fourteen and sixteen years
of age when the division superintendent of schools shall find it in the best
interests of the child to follow a program of part time school attendance
and part time employment. Such employment shall be under the super-
vision of the division superintendent of schools.