A Standard Child Labor Law
| Published date | 01 June 1907 |
| Date | 01 June 1907 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/000271620702901811 |
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A
STANDARD
CHILD
LABOR
LAW.
The
best
provisions
of
the
law
of
New
York,
Illinois
and
Massachusetts
have been
included
in
the
Standard
Child
Labor
Law
which
follows:
Compiled
from
New
York
Factory
and
Mercantile
Establish-
ments
Laws
of
1903.
New
York
Compulsory
Education
Law
of
1903,
Sec.
5.
Compiled
from
Massa-
chusetts
law
and
New
York
Factory
Law
of
1903.
New
York
Factory
Law
of
1905.
Massa-
chusetts
Law
BE
IT
ENACTED,
ETC.,
AS
FOLLOWS:
Sec.
i.
No
child
under
fourteen
years
of
age
shall
be
employed,
permitted
or
suffered
to
work
in
or
in
connection
with
any
factory,
workshop,
mercantile
establishment,
store,
business
office,
telegraph
office,
restaurant,
hotel,
apartment
house
or
in
the
distribution
or
trans-
mission
of
merchandise
or
messages.
It
shall
be
unlawful
for
any
person,
firm
or
corporation
to
employ
any
child
under
fourteen
years
of
age
in
any
business
or
service
whatever,
during
any
part
of
the
term
during
which
the
public
schools
of
the
district
in
which
the
child
resides
are
in
session.
Sec.
2.
No
child
between
fourteen
and
sixteen
years
of
age
shall
be
employed,
permitted
or
suffered
to
work
in
any
factory,
workshop
or
mercantile
establishment
unless
the
person
or
corporation
employing
him
procures
and
keeps
on
file
and
accessible
to
the
truant
officers
of
the
town
or
city,
and
to
the
inspectors
of
factories,
an
employment
certificate
as
hereinafter
prescribed,
and
keeps
two
complete
lists
of
all
such
children
employed
therein,
one
on
file
and
one
conspicuously
posted
near
the
principal
entrance
of
the
building
in
which
such
children
are
employed.
On
termination
of
the
employment
of
a
child
so
regis-
tered,
and
whose
certificate
is
so
filed,
such
certificate
shall
be
forth-
with
surrendered
by
the
employer
to
the
child
or
its
parent
or
guar-
dian
or
custodian.
The
inspector
of
factories
may
make
demand
on
an
employer
in
whose
factory
a
child
apparently
under
the
age
of
sixteen
years
is
employed
or
permitted
or
suffered
to
work,
and
whose
employ-
ment
certificate
is
not
then
filed
as
required
by
this
article,
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
factory.
The
inspector
of
factories
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 re-
quired
to
furnish
any
further
evidence
of
the
age
of
the
child.
In
case
such
employer
shall
fail
to
produce
and
deliver
to
the
inspector
of
fac-
tories
swithin
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
factory,
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.
3.
An
employment
certificate
shall
be
approved
only
by
the
¡
superintendent
of
schools
or
by
a
person
authorized
by
him
in
writing,
1
or,
where
there
is
no
superintendent
of
schools,
by
a
person
authorized ,
by
the
school
committee:
provided
that
no
member
of
a
school
com-
mittee
or
other
person
authorized
as
aforesaid
shall
have
authority
to
Child
Unde
14
Years
Child
Unde
16
Years.
Child
Apparently
Under
16
Years.
Employment
Certificate
by
Whom
Approved,
48
Compiled
from
New
York
Factory
Law
of
1903
Ch.
184
and
Oregon
Factory
Law
of
1904.
approve
such
certificate
for
any
child
then
in
or
about
to
enter
his
own
employment,
or
the
employment
of
a
firm
or
corporation
of
which
he
is
a
member,
officer
or
employee.
Sec.
4.
The
person
authorized
to
issue
employment
certificate
shall
not
issue
such
certificate
until
he
has
received,
examined,
approved,
and
filed
the
following
papers
duly
executed:
(i)
The
school
record
of
such
child
properly
filled
out
and
signed
as
provided
in
this
article.
(2)
A
passport
or
duly
attested
transcript
of
the
certificate
of
birth
or
baptism
or
other
religious
record,
showing
the
date
and
place
of
birth
of
such
child.
A
duly
attested
transcript
of
the
birth
certificate
filed
according
to
law
with
a
registrar
of
vital
statistics,
or
other
officer
charged
with
the
duty
of
recording
births,
shall
be
conclusive
evidence
of
the
age
of
such
child.
(3)
The
affidavit
of
the
parent
or
guardian
or
custodian
of
a
child,
which
shall
be
required,
however,
only
in
case
such
last
men-
tioned
transcript
of
the
certificate
of
birth
be
not
produced
and
filed,
showing
the
place
and
date
of
birth
of
such
child;
which
affidavit
must
be
taken
before
the
officer
issuing
the
employment
certificate,
who
is
hereby
authorized
and
required
to
administer
such
oath,
and
who
shall
not
demand
or
receive
a
fee
therefor.
Such
employment
certificate
shall
not
be
issued
until
such
child
farther
has
personally
appeared
before
and
been
examined
by
the
officer
issuing
the
certificate,
and
until
such
officer
shall,
after
making
such
examination,
sign
and
file
in
his
office
a
statement
that
the
child
can
read
and
legibly
write
simple
sentences
in
the
English
language
and
that
in
his
opinion
the
child
is
fourteen
years
of
age
or
upwards
and
has
reached
the
normal
development
of
a
child
of
its
age,
and
is
in
sound
health
and
is
physically
able
to
perform
the
work
which
it
intends
to
do.
In
doubtful
cases
such
physical
fitness
shall
be
determined
by
a
medical
officer
of
the
board
or
department
of
health.
Every
such
employment
certificate
shall
be
signed,
in
the
pres-
ence
of
the
officer
issuing
the
same,
by
the
child
in
whose
name
it
is
issued.
Sec.
S.
Such
certificate
shall
state
the
date
and
place
of
birth of
the
child,
and
describe
the
color
of
the
hair
and
eyes,
the
height
and
weight
and
any
distinguishing
facial
marks
of
such
child,
and
that
the
papers
required
by
the
preceding
section
have
been
duly
examined,
ap-
proved
and
filed
and
that the
child
named
in
such
certificate
has
appeared
before
the
officer
signing
the
certificate
and
been
examined.
Sec.
6.
The
school
record
required
by
this
article
shall
be
signed
by
the
principal
or
chief
executive
officer
of
the
school
which
such
child
has
attended
and
shall
be
furnished,
on
demand,
to
a
child
entitled
thereto.
It
shall
contain
a
statement
certifying
that the
child
has regularly
attended
the
public
schools
or
schools
equivalent
thereto
or
parochial
schools
for
not
less
than
one
hundred
and
sixty
days
during
the
school
year
previous
to
his
arriving
at
the
age
of
fourteen
years
or
during
the
year
previous
to
applying
for
such
school
record
and
is
able
to
read
and
write
simple
sentences
in
the
English
language,
and
has
received
during
such
period
instruction
in
reading,
spelling,
writing,
English
grammar
and
geography
and
is
familiar
with
the
fundamental
operations
of
arith-
metic
up
to
and
including
fractions.
Such
school
record
shall
also
give
the
age
and
residence
of
the
child
as
shown
on
the
records
of
the
school
and
the
name
of
its
parent
or
guardian
or
custodian.
Sec.
7.
The
local
board
of
education
or
the
school
committee
of
a
city,
village
or
town,
shall
transmit,
between
the
first
and
tenth
day
of
each
month,
to
the
office
of
the
factory
inspector,
a
list
of
the
names
of
the
children
to
whom
certificates
have
been
issued.
Employment
Certificate.
Contents
of
Certificate.
School
Record
What
to
Contain.
Report
of
Certificates
Issued.
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