CHAPTER 232

An Act to amend and reenact § 40-35, as amended, of the Code of Virginia,
relating to hours of work of women. rH 27}

Approved March 11, 1960

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 40-35, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted, as follows:

§ 40-35. Nothing in the preceding section shall be construed to
apply to females whose full time is employed:

(1) As bookkeepers, stenographers, cashiers or office assistants, buy-
ers, managers or assistant managers and office executives,

(2) In factories engaged exclusively in canning, processing or pack-
ing fruits or vegetables during the fruit and vegetable seasons,

(3) In the handling or redrying of leaf tobacco during the tobacco
market seasons, or in shelling or cleaning peanuts or in shucking and
packing oysters, or in the dressing or processing of poultry, provided such
females are not employed more than ten hours in any one day of twenty-
four hours for a period of not exceeding ninety days in any one year,

(4) In mercantile establishments located in towns of less than two
thousand inhabitants or in country districts, or

(5) In any hospital, whenever an emergency situation exists, where-
by strict compliance with this article might reasonably be calculated to
jeopardize the lives or health of persons relying upon such hospital for
care or treatment.

Notwithstanding the provisions of the preceding section, women
employed in florist shops and greenhouses may be employed for as many
as, but not in excess of, ten hours in one day, for the three days preceding
and on February fourteenth, December twenty-fifth, Easter Sunday and
Mothers’ Day. Also, women employed in the developing and printing o}
amateur photographic film may be employed for as many as, but not in
excess of, ten hours in one day, for three working days following Decem-
ber twenty-fifth, January one, Easter Sunday, July fourth and Labor Day
2. An emergency exists and this act is in force from its passage.