upon conviction thereof shall be fined in the sum of fifty dollars for each such violation. The commissioner of labor, his assistants and deputies, shall enforce the provisions of this section. SEC. 133 (added by chapter 375, Acts of 1906). No child under six- Employment teen years of age shall be employed, permitted or suffered to work in or in mines. in connection with any mine or quarry in this State. No female shall be employed, permitted or suffered to work in any mine or quarry in this State. Employment of women and children in stores, offices, etc. (Page 2114.) SECTION 160. The provisions of this article shall apply to all villages Application and cities which at the last preceding State enumeration had a popula- of law. tion of three thousand or more. SEC. 161 (as amended by chapter 490, Acts of 1906). No child under Hours of labor. the age of sixteen years shall be employed, permitted or suffered to work in or in connection with any mercantile establishment, business office, or telegraph office, restaurant, hotel, apartment house, or in the distribution or transmission of merchandise or messages, more than fiftyfour hours in any one week, or more than nine hours in any one day, or before seven o'clock in the morning or after ten o'clock in the evening of any day. But in cities of the first class no child under the age of sixteen Night work. any day. No female employee between sixteen and twenty-one years Females. the following first day of January. Not less than forty-five minutes Time for shall be allowed for the noonday meal of the employees of any such meals. establishment. SEC. 162 (as amended by chapter 490, Acts of 1906). No child under Age limit. the age of fourteen years shall be employed, permitted or suffered to work in or in connection with any mercantile or other establishment specified in the preceding section, except that a child upward of twelve years of age may be employed therein in villages and cities of the second or third class, during the summer vacation of the public schools of the city or district where such establishment is situated. No child under the age of sixteen years shall be employed in any such establishment, unless an employment certificate issued as provided in this article, Certificate. shall have been theretofore filed in the office of the employer at the place of employment of such child. [Sections 163 to 165, inclusive, are identical with sections 71 to 73, pages 759 and 760, supra.] Vacation em SEC. 166 (as amended by chapter 255, Acts of 1903). Children of the age of twelve years or more who can read and write simple sen- ployment. tences in the English language, may be employed, in mercantile and other establishments specified in section one hundred and sixty-one, in villages and cities of the third class during the summer vacation of the public schools in the city or school districts where such children reside upon obtaining the vacation certificate herein provided. Such certificate shall be issued in the same manner, upon the same conditions, and on like proof that such child is twelve years of age or upwards, and is in sound health, as is required for the issuance of an employment certificate under this article, except that a school record of such child shall not be required. The certificates provided for in this section shall be designated summer vacation certificates, and shall correspond in form and substance as nearly as practicable to such employment certificate, and shall in addition thereto specify the time in which the same shall remain in force and effect which in no case shall be other than the time in which the public schools where such children reside are closed for a summer vacation. SEC. 167 (as amended by chapter 255, Acts of 1903, and chapter 493, Acts of 1905). The owner, manager, or agent of a mercantile or other establishment specified in section one hundred and sixty-one, employing children, shall keep or cause to be kept, in the office of such establishment, a register, in which shall be recorded the name, birthplace, age and place of residence of all children so employed under the age of sixteen years. Such register and the certificates filed in such office shall be produced for inspection, upon the demand of an officer of the board, department or commissioner of health of the town, village or city where such establishment is situated. On termination of the employment of the child so registered and whose certificate is so filed, such certificate shall be forthwith surrendered by the employer to the child or its parent or guardian or custodian. An officer of the board, department or commissioner of health of the town, village or city where a mercantile or other establishment mentioned in this article is situated, may make demand on an employer in whose establishment a child apparently under the age of sixteen years is employed or permitted or suffered to work, and whose employment certificate is not then filed as required by this chapter, that such employer shall either furnish him within ten days, evidence satisfactory to him that such child is in fact over sixteen years of age, or shall cease to employ or permit or suffer such child to work in such establishment. The officer may require from such employer the same evidence of age of such child as is required on the issuance of an employment certificate; and the employer furnishing such evidence shall not be required to furnish any further evidence of the age of the child. A notice embodying such demand may be served on such employer personally or may be sent by mail addressed to him at said establishment, and if served by post shall be deemed to have been served at the time when the letter containing the same would be delivered in the ordinary course of the post. When the employer is a corporation such notice may be served either personally upon an officer of such corporation, or by sending it by post addressed to the office of the principal place of business of such corporation. The papers constituting such evidence of age furnished by the employer in response to such demand shall be filed with the board, department, or commissioner of health and a material false statement made in any such paper or affidavit by any person, shall be a misdemeanor. In case such employer shall fail to produce and deliver to the officer of the board, department, or commissioner of health within ten days after such demand such evidence of age herein required by him, and shall thereafter continue to employ such child or permit or suffer such child to work in such mercantile or other establishment, proof of the giving of such notice and of such failure to produce and file such evidence shall be prima facie evidence in any prosecution brought for a violation of this article that such child is under sixteen years of age and is unlawfully employed. SEC. 168. Suitable and proper wash rooms and water-closets shall be provided in, adjacent to or connected with mercantile establishments where women and children are employed. Such rooms and closets shall be so located and arranged as to be easily accessible to the employees of such establishments. Such water-closets shall be properly screened and ventilated, and, at all times, kept in a clean condition. The water-closets assigned to the female employees of such establishments shall be separate from those assigned to the male employees. If a mercantile establishment has not provided wash rooms and water-closets, as required by this section, the board or department of health or health commissioners of the town, village or city where such establishment is situated, shall cause to be served upon the owner of the building occupied by such establishment, a written notice of the omission and directing such owner to comply with the provisions of this section respecting such wash rooms and water-closets. 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 Enforcement. 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. 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 Permit to state what. Badge to be worn. Limit. Selling at night Enforcement. Violations. that such male child is of the age of ten years or upwards, and shall also have received, examined and placed on file the written statement of the principal or chief executive officer of the school which the child is attending, stating that such child is an attendant at such school, that he is of the normal development of a child of his age and physically fit for such employment, and that said principal or chief executive officer approves the granting of a permit and badge to such child. No such permit or badge shall be valid for any purpose except during the period in which such proof and written statement shall remain on file, nor shall such permit or badge be authority beyond the period fixed therein for its duration. After having received, examined, and placed on file such papers the officer shall issue to the child a permit and badge. Principals or chief executive officers of schools in which children under fourteen years are pupils shall keep complete lists of all children in their schools to whom a permit and badge as herein provided have been granted. SEC. 176 (as amended by chapter 588, Acts of 1907). Such permit shall state the date and place of birth of the child, the name and address of its parent, guardian, custodian or next friend as the case may be and describe the color of hair and eyes, the height and weight and any distinguishing facial mark of such child, and shall further state that the papers required by the preceding section have been duly examined and filed; and that the child named in such permit has appeared before the officer issuing the permit. The badge furnished by the officer issuing the permit shall bear on its face a number corresponding to the number of the permit, and the name of the child. Every such permit, and every such badge on its reverse side, shall be signed in the presence of the officer issuing the same by the child in whose name it is issued. SEC. 177 (as amended by chapter 588, Acts of 1907). The badge provided for herein shall be worn conspicuously at all times by such child while so working; and all such permits and badges shall expire annually on the first day of January. The color of the badge shall be changed each year. No child to whom such permit and badge are issued shall transfer the same to any other person nor be engaged in any city of the first or second class as a newsboy, or shall sell or expose or offer for sale newspapers, magazines or periodicals in any street or public place without having conspicuously upon his person such badge, and he shall exhibit the same upon demand at any time to any police, or attendance officer. SEC. 178 (as amended by chapter 588, Acts of 1907). No child to whom a permit and badge are issued as provided for in the preceding sections shall sell or expose or offer for sale any newspapers, magazines or periodicals after ten o'clock in the evening, or before six o'clock in the morning. SEC. 179 (as amended by chapter 588, Acts of 1907). In cities of the first or second class, police officers, and the regular attendance officers appointed by the board of education who are hereby vested with the powers of peace officers for the purpose, shall enforce the provisions of this article. SEC. 179a. Any child who shall work in any city of the first or second class in any street or public place as a newsboy or who shall sell or expose or offer for sale newspapers, magazines or periodicals in violation of the provisions of this article, shall be arrested and brought before a court or magistrate having jurisdiction to commit a child to an incorporated charitable reformatory or other institution and be dealt with according to law; and if any such child is committed to an institution, it shall, when practicable, be committed to an institution governed by persons of the same religious faith as the parents of such child. The permit and badge of any child who violates the provisions of this article may be revoked by the officer issuing the same, upon the recommendation of the principal or chief executive officer of the school which such child is attending, or upon the complaint of any police officer or attendance officer, and such child shall surrender the permit and badge so revoked upon the demand of any attendance officer or police officer charged with the duty of enforcing the provisions of this article. The refusal of any child to surrender 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. (Page 3005.) * Limit of 18 SECTION 186. Any person * * 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 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 promises; 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 liable for any debts, obligations or engagements of her husband, and may be devised and bequeathed, and, with the written assent of her husband, conveyed by her as if shé were unmarried. |