Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1911-01-26


ING TO THE EMPLOYMENT OF
MINORS.
BE IT ENACTED by the Legislature
of the State of West Virginia:
Section /. No child under the age
of fourteen years shall be employed,
permitted or suffered to work in, about
or in connection with any factory. mill.
workshop, business Office, telephone or
telegraph Office, theatre, restaurant.
laundry. bakery, hotel, mercantile es-
adjustment; bowling alley, bootblack
stand, nor in the distribution or trans
mission of merchandise or messages.
1t shall be unlawful for any person.
firm or corporation to employ any
child under fourteen years of age in
any business or service whatever dur
ing the hours when the public schools
of the district in which such child
resides are actually in session.
Section 2. No child under the age
of sixteen years shall be employer, per-
mitted or suffered to work in, about
or in connection with any of the es-
Establishments or occupations named in
Section 1 Of this act unless the per-
son, firm or corporation employing
such child procures and keeps on file
accessible to any truant officer, inspec-
tor of factories, or authorized agent OF
the Humane Society, an employment
certificate as hereinafter prescribed.
On termination of employment OF
child whose employment certificate is
on file, such. certificate shall be forth
with returned by the employer to the
person who issued the same. The en-
ployment certificate shall be issued
only by the superintendent Of schools,
or by person authorized by him in
writing or where there is no superin-
tendent Of schools then by a per-
son authorized by the local
school board; provided however,
that no member of a school board or
other person authorized as aforesaid
shall have authority to issue such GER
tificate to any child then in or about
to enter such persons own employ
ment or the employment of firm or
corporation of which he is member
officer or employee. The person au-
thorized to issue an employment certl-
ficate shall not issue such certificate
until he has received, examined, ap-
proved and filed the following papers
duly executed:
"a The school record of such child
filed out and signed.
(2) A passport or duly attested
transcript of the certificate OF birth
or baptism or other religious record
or transcript of the school census rec
ord, showing the date and place OF
such child.
ga The affidavit of the parent or
guardian or custodian of such child
(which shall be required, however,
only in case no one of the above men
toned proofs of age is obtainable),
showing the place and date OF birth Oh
such child: such affidavit must be
taken before the officer issuing the
emnlovment. certificate, who is hereby
authorized and required to administer
such oath without demanding or recelV
ing any fee therefore. No employment
certificate shall be issued until tne
child in question has personally ap-
Eneared before the officer issuing the
certificate. nor until such officer mas
satisfied himself that the child can
read and legibly write simple SEN
fences in English language, and tnae
the child is fourteen years OF age OF
UPWARDS and has reached the normal
development of a child of its age, and
is in sufficiently sound health ana
physically able to perform the WORK
which it intends to do, which shall De
stated. In all cases of doubt sucn
ldevelopment, health and physical NJ
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ness shall be determined by a medical
officer of the board or department OF
health or by a physician appointed by
E+ba school board. Every such employ
mont certificate shall state the name
residence, sex and the date and place
Of birth of the child and that the pa
ners required by the preceding sections
nave been duly examined, approved
and filed. Every such certificate shan
i be signed in the presence of the ON
Ger issuing the same, by the child IN
whose name it is issued and 1t snal
show the date of its issue. The scnoo
required by this act shall be signed Ds
the principal or chief executive oficel
Of the school which such child has at
4ondad and shall be furnished on de