An Act to amend and reenact § 46.1-299, as amended, of the Code of Virginia, relating to devices signalling intention to turn or stop and rules therefor.
Volume 1968 Law 99
Volume | 1968 |
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Law Number | 278 |
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Law Body
CHAPTER 278
An Act to amend and reenact § 40-109, as amended, of the Code of
Virginia, prohibiting employment of children under certain conditions.
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Approved April 1, 1968
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That § 40-109, as amended, of the Code of Virginia be amended and
reenacted as follows:
§ 40-109. (A) No child under eighteen years of age shall be em-
ployed, permitted or suffered to work:
1) in any mine, quarry, tunnel, underground scaffolding work or
handling explosives;
) in or around any dangerous machinery or * to operate or assist
in operating any dangerous machinery or passenger or freight elevator ;
provided, however, that children sixteen years of age and older may *
operate automatic passenger elevators;
(3) * in oiling or assisting in oiling, wiping and cleaning any such
machinery except as provided in § 40-100.4:1; provided further, however,
that children sixteen years of age and older who are serving a voluntary
apprenticeship as provided in Chapter 6 (§ 40-123 et seq.) of this title
may operate, oil or assist in operating, oiling, wiping and cleaning such
machinery;
(4) * in any capacity in preparing any composition in which danger-
ous or poisonous chemicals are used ;
) * 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, or * to deliver alcoholic goods;
(6) * as an X-ray technician or as an operator of X-ray equipment;
(7) * in any capacity in or about excavation or demolition opera-
tions;
(8) as a driver or a helper on a truck or commercial vehicle, pro-
vided that a boy sixteen years of age or older may be employed as a
driver or a helper on a truck or commercial vehicle provided said vehicle
has no more than two axles. The provisions of this paragraph shall not
apply to the drivers of school buses.
No boy under sixteen and no girl under eighteen shall be em-
ployed, permitted or suffered to work:
1) in any undertaking establishment or funeral home, provided,
however, that this shall not apply to children fourteen years of age and
over who are engaged in purely office work of a clerical nature;
(2) * in any scaffolding work or construction trades or in any brick,
coal or lumber yard or ice plant; provided, however, that this section shall
not apply to children fourteen years of age and over who are engaged in
purely office work of a clerical nature;
(3) * in any theater, concert hall * or club *; provided, however, that
girls sixteen years of age and over may be employed in the lighted lobby
or office, but not as ushers, in a theater or concert hall, but this exception
shall not apply to outdoor theaters; provided, however, that girls sixteen
years of age and over may engage in purely office work in separate office
rooms at a club;
(4) in any cabaret, carnival, floor show, pool hall, parking lot, place
of amusement or bowling alley; provided, however, that boys fourteen
years of age and over may be employed in bowling alleys completely
equipped with automatic pin setters, but not in or about such machines;
(5) in any roadhouse, curb service, restaurant as defined in § 35-25,
or in any hotel or motel, provided that subject to paragraph A (5) of this
section, boys fourteen years of age and over and girls sixteen years of age
and over may be employed in soda fountains, restaurant and hotel and
motel food service departments, but no such minor may be employed in
hotel room service; and provided, however, that girls sixteen years of age
and over may engage in purely office work in established bona fide office
rooms separate from the other facilities in hotels and motels. For the pur-
pose of this section, the definition of a restaurant shall be deemed not
to include a food service establishment operated by or in conjunction with
a school or college where a child employed therein is enrolled as a pupil
at such school or college;
(6) in processing work in any laundry or dry cleaning establishment;
provided, however, that children fourteen years of age or more may be
employed in branch stores, or in purely office work in separate office
rooms, and provided, however, that girls sixteen years of age or more
may work at the customer desk in laundry and dry cleaning establish-
ments provided they do not work in or around the processing machinery.
(C) No child under sixteen years of age shall be employed, permitted
or suffered to work:
(1) in any manufacturing or mechanical establishment or commer-
cial cannery at any time, except in purely office work, or to operate any
elevator as his primary employment;
(2) * in any hospital, nursing home, clinic, or other establishment
providing care for resident patients as a laboratory helper, therapist,
orderly or nurses’ aid;
(3) * at a dance studio or warehouse * or * veterinary hospital;
(4) * as a bait attendant on any boat, pier or place at which boats
are let for hire, except boys of fourteen * or more; or for concessionaires,
provided, however, that boys and girls fourteen years of age or more may
work for concessionaires operating on beaches 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 equipment.