With parental consent, no age limit for agriculture work, including operation of power-driven farm machinery. No specific agriculture HOs. Children 16 may operate, assist in operating, or otherwise per- form work involving a truck, excluding a tractor trailer, or farm vehicle. Children 14 may perform work as a helper on a truck or commer- cial vehicle, while engaged in such work exclusively on a farm. 14 and 15 on school day.
Laws generally exclude minors employed by parents on family farms.
The child labor law was amended in 1998 to delete a limited statutory list of hazardous occupations for minors under age 18 and to replace it with a requirement that the Director of the Bureau of Labor Standards establish a list of hazardous occupations by rule. The list is to conform, as far as practicable, to the child labor provisions enforced by the U.S. Department of Labor.