Such owner shall, within fifteen days after the receipt of such notice, cause such wash rooms and water-closets to be provided. SEC. 169. If a lunch room is provided in a mercantile establishment Lunch rooms. where females are employed, such lunch room shall not be next to or adjoining the water-closets, unless permission is first obtained from the board or department of health or health commissioners of the town, village or city where such mercantile establishment is situated. Such permission shall be granted unless it appears that proper sanitary conditions do not exist, and it may be revoked at any time by the board or department of health or health commissioner, if it appears that such lunch room is kept in a manner or in a part of the building injurious to the health of the employees. SEC. 170. Chairs, stools or other suitable seats shall be maintained Seats. in mercantile establishments for the use of female employees therein, to the number of at least one seat for every three females employed, and the use thereof by such employees shall be allowed at such times and to such extent as may be necessary for the preservation of their health. If the duties of the female employees, for the use of whom the seats are furnished, are to be principally performed in front of a counter, table, desk or fixture, such seats shall be placed in front thereof; if such duties are to be principally performed behind such counter, table, desk or fixture, such seats shall be placed behind the same. SEC. 171. Women or children shall not be employed or directed Basements. to work in the basement of a mercantile establishment, unless permitted by the board or department of health, or health commissioner of the town, village or city where such mercantile establishment is situated. Such permission shall be granted unless it appears that such basement is not sufficiently lighted and ventilated, and is not in good sanitary condition. SEC. 172 (as amended by chapter 255, Acts of 1903). The board or department of health or health commissioners of a town, village or city affected by this article shall enforce the same and prosecute all violations thereof. Proceedings to prosecute such violations must be begun within thirty days after the alleged offense was committed. All officers and members of such boards, or department, all health commissioners, inspectors, and other persons appointed or designated by such boards, departments or commissioners may visit and inspect at reasonable hours and when practicable and necessary, all mercantile or other establishments herein specified within the town, village or city for which they are appointed. No person shall interfere with or prevent any such officer from making such visitations and inspections, nor shall he be obstructed or injured by force or otherwise while in the performance of his duties. All persons connected with any such mercantile or other establishment herein specified shall properly answer all questions asked by such officer or inspector in reference to any of the provisions of this article. Enforcement. SEC. 173 (as amended by chapter 255, Acts of 1903). A copy of this Law to be article shall be posted in three conspicuous places in each establishment posted. affected by its provisions. SEC. 174 (as amended by chapter 588, Acts of 1907). No male child Selling newsunder ten and no girl under sixteen years of age shall in any city of the papers. first or second class sell or expose or offer for sale newspapers, magazines or periodicals in any street or public place. SEC. 175 (as amended by chapter 588, Acts of 1907). No male child Badges. under fourteen years of age shall sell or expose or offer for sale said articles unless a permit and badge as hereinafter provided shall have been issued to him by the district superintendent of the board of education of the city and school district where said child resides, or by such other officer thereof as may be officially designated by such board for that purpose, on the application of the parent, guardian or other person having the custody of the child desiring such permit and badge, or in case said child has no parent, guardian or custodian then on the application of his next friend, being an adult. Such permit and badge shall not be issued until the officer issuing the same shall have received, examined, approved and placed on file in his office satisfactory proof provisions of this article. buc. 17. Any child who shall work in any city of the first or sec of exyee or offer for sale newspapers, magazines or periodicals n violation of the provisions of this article, shall be arrested and brought before a court or magistrate having jurisdiction to commit a child to dealt with according to law; and if any such child is committed to an incorporated charitable reformatory or other institution and be such child. The permit and badge of any child who violates the tion governed by persons of the same religious faith as the parents of an institution, it shall, when practicable, be committed to an instituprovisions of this article may be revoked by the officer issuing the plaint of any police officer or attendance officer, and such child shall officer of the school which such child is attending, or upon the com surrender the permit and badge so revoked upon the demand of any the provisions of this article. The refusal of any child to surrender attendance officer or police officer charged with the duty of enforcing same, upon the recommendation of the principal or chief executive such permit and badge, upon such demand, or the sale or offering for sale of newspapers, magazines or periodicals in any street or public place by any child after notice of the revocation of such permit and badge shall be deemed a violation of this article and shall subject the child to the penalties provided for in this section. 2. Nothing in this act shall be deemed or construed to repeal, amend, Law construed. modify, impair or in any manner affect any provision of the penal code or the code of criminal procedure. females. SEC. 207. Any person employing females in a factory or mercantile Failure to establishment who does not provide and maintain suitable seats for provide seats for the use of such employees and permit the use thereof by such employees to such an extent as may be reasonable for the preservation of their health, is guilty of a misdemeanor. SEC. 209 (as amended by chapter 380, Acts of 1903). Any person Sundry Viowho violates or does not comply with: 1. The provisions of article six [sections 70 to 92] of the labor law, relating to factories; 4. The provisions of article eleven [sections 160 to 173] of the labor law, relating to mercantile establishments, and the employment of women and children therein; lations. 5. Any person who knowingly makes a false statement in or in Penalty. relation to any application made for an employment certificate as to any matter required by articles six and eleven of the labor law to appear in any affidavit, record, transcript or certificate therein provided for, is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished for a first offense by a fine of not less than twenty nor more than one hundred dollars; for a second offense by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than two hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than thirty days or by both such fine and imprisonment; for a third offense by a fine of not less than two hundred and fifty dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than sixty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Age of employment of telegraph operators on railroads. SECTION 186. Any person (Page 3005.) * Limit of 18 * who employs a person as a telegraph operator who is under the age of eighteen years, or who has years. less than one year's experience in telegraphing, to receive or transmit a telegraphic message or train order for the movement of trains, is guilty of a misdemeanor. ACTS OF 1903. CHAPTER 486.-Employment of females in barrooms, etc. * It shall not be lawful for any person, whether Employment SECTION 31. * * having paid such [liquor] tax or not, * * * * f. To permit any girl or woman, not a member of his family, to sell or serve any liquor upon the premises; NORTH CAROLINA. CONSTITUTION. * * * ARTICLE X.-Earnings of married women. SECTION 6. The real and personal property of any female in this Earnings sepState acquired before marriage, and all property, real and personal, to which she may, after marriage, become in any manner entitled, shall be and remain the sole and separate estate and property of such female, and shall not be be liable for any debts, obligations or engagements of her husl and may be devised and bequeathed, and, with the w husband, conveyed by her as if she were unt Age limit. Exceptions. Hours of labor. Statement to age. as Failure to bor. BULLETIN OF THE BUREAU OF LABOR. REVISAL OF 1905. Earnings of married women. SECTION 2093. [This section repeats the language of the section of the State constitution given above.] Employment of children. SECTION 3362. If any mill owner, superintendent or other person acting in behalf of a factory or manufacturing establishment shall knowingly and willfully employ any child under twelve years of age to work in any factory or manufacturing establishment, except in oyster canning and packing manufactories where said canning and packing manufactories pay for opening or shucking oysters by the gallon or bushel, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Employment of minors in violation of this section is negligence, which, if followed by injury, gives a cause of action. 53 S. E. Rep. 891. Illegal employment is negligence per se. 57 S. E. Rep. 11. Overseers, SEC SEC. 3363. If any mill owner, superintendent, or other person act ing in behalf of a factory or manufacturing establishment shall know. ingly and willfully require any person under eighteen years of age, except engineers, firemen, machinists, superintendents, tion and yard hands, office men, watchmen or repairers of breakdowns. to work in such factories or establishments a longer period than sixtysix hours in one week, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. SEC. 3364. If any parent or person standing in the relation of parent. upon hiring his children to any factory or manufacturing establish ment, shall fail to furnish such establishment a written statement ci the age of such child or children being so hired, and if any such parent, or person standing in the relation of parent to such child or children shall, in such written statement misstate the age of such child of children being so employed he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished at the discretion of the court. Employing minors with intent to defraud. pay price for la- SECTION 3428a. Whenever any person having a contract with any corporation, company or person for the manufacture or change of any raw material by the piece or pound shall hire and employ any minor to assist in said work upon the faith of and by color of said contract and with intent to cheat and defraud said minor, and shall secure the have performed his part of said contract work, whether done by the when he ste day or by the job, the person so offending shall be guilty of a misde meanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not more than fifty dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days. Penalty. Consent of par ents. Employing minors for service outside of State. SECTION 3630. If any person shall employ and carry beyond the limits of this State, any minor, or shall induce any minor to go beyond the limits of this State for the purpose of employment without the consent in writing, duly authenticated, of the parent, guardian or other hundred and not more than one thousand dollars for each offense. The demeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined not less than five person having authority over such minor, he shall be guilty of a misthe going out of the State by the minor, at the solicitation of the person fact of the employment and going out of the State of the minor, or of for the purpose of employment, shall be prima facie evidence of knowl edge that the person employed or solicited to go beyond the limits of the State is a minor. Hiring out women and children to support men in idleness. SECTION 3740. If any person shall come within any of the following Who are classes, he shall be deemed a vagrant, and shall be fined not exceeding grants. fifty dollars or imprisoned not exceeding thirty days. 6. All able-bodied men who have no other visible means of support who shall live in idleness upon the wages or earnings of their mother, wife or minor child or children, except male child or children over eighteen years of age. Employment of children in mines. SECTION 4931. No minor under twelve years of age shall be allowed Age limit. to work in any mine, and in all cases of minors applying for work the agent of such mine shall see that the provisions of this section are not violated; and the inspector may, when doubt exists as to the age of any person found working in any mine, examine under oath such person and his parents, or other witnesses, as to his age. SEC. 4952. The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to or affect, Application of any mine in which not more than ten men are employed at the same time; * * * law. va ACTS OF 1907. CHAPTER 463.--Employment of children. SECTION 1. No child under twelve years of age shall be employed or worked in any factory or manufacturing establishment within this State: Provided further, That after one thousand nine hundred and seven no child between the ages of twelve and thirteen years of age shall be employed or work in a factory except in apprenticeship capacity, and only then aiter having attended school four months in the preceding twelve months. No Age limit. SEC. 2. Not exceeding sixty-six hours shall constitute a week's work Hours of labor. in all factories and manufacturing establishments of this State. person under eighteen years of age shall be required to work in such factories or establishments a longer period than sixty-six hours in one week: Provided, That this section shall not apply to engineers, firemen, machinists, superintendents, overseers, section and yard hands, office men, watchmen or repairers of breakdowns. SEC. 3. All parents, or persons standing in the relation of parent, Certificates. upon hiring their children to any factory or manufacturing establish ment, shall furnish such establishment a written statement of the age of such child or children being so hired, and certificate as to school at tendance; and any parent, or person standing in the relation of parent Penalty. court. SEC. 4. After one thousand nine hundred and seven no boy or girl Night work. SEC. 5. This act shall be in force from and after January first, one Act when. in force, |