Pennsylvania Act 1992-154 — CHILD LABOR LAW - AMEND CHANGING AGE FOR MINORS TO SELL

Act text

Session of 1992

No. 1992-154

SB 88

AN ACT

Amending the act of May 13, 1915 (P.L.286, No.177), entitled, as amended, "An act to provide for the health, safety, and welfare of minors: By forbidding their employment or work in certain establishments and occupations, and under certain specified ages; by restricting their hours of labor, and regulating certain conditions of their employment; by requiring employment certificates or transferable work permits for certain minors, and prescribing the kinds thereof, and the rules for the issuance, reissuance, filing, return, and recording of the same; by providing that the Industrial Board shall, under certain conditions, determine and declare whether certain occupations are within the prohibitions of this act; requiring certain abstracts and notices to be posted; providing for the enforcement of this act by the Secretary of Labor and Industry, the representative of school districts, and police officers; and defining the procedure in prosecutions thereunder, and establishing certain presumptions in relation thereto; providing for the issuance of special permits for minors engaging in the entertainment and related fields; providing penalties for the violation of the provisions thereof; and repealing all acts or parts of acts inconsistent therewith," reducing minimum age requirements of minors who sell newspapers or merchandise in public places.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1. Section 7 of the act of May 13, 1915 (P.L.286, No.177), known as the Child Labor Law, amended October 4, 1978 (P.L.938, No.182), is amended to read:

Section 7. No minor under [twelve] eleven years of age, shall distribute, sell, expose, or offer for sale any newspaper, magazine, periodical, or other publication, or any article of merchandise of any sort, in any street or public place. No minor under fourteen years of age, shall be suffered, employed, or permitted to work at any time as a scavenger, bootblack, or in any other trade or occupation performed in any street or public place. No minor under sixteen years of age, shall engage in any occupation mentioned in this section before [six] five o-clock in the morning, or after eight o-clock in the evening, of any day.

Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

APPROVED--The 16th day of December, A. D. 1992.

ROBERT P. CASEY