The Wrangell sentinel., 1949-05-13
TERRITORIAL CHILD
 LABOR LAW IN FULL

l Many requests TOT information pertaining to the employment of children in Alaska have been re- ceived recently. In response to these the act is printed as it will go into effect June 21 1949.
 Section 1. PURPOSE OF THE ACT. The purpose of this Act is to establish protective standards for child labor to the end that their health, morals, education and fu- ture welfare will be protected dur ing the formative years and to the further end that any abuses or un- just exploitation of such labor will be effectively prohibited.
 Minors under 16 years of age are not to be employed for more than a combined total of nine hours school attendance and employment in any one day, such work to be performed between 6 a. m. and pm. and such employment outside school hours shall not exceed 23 hours in any one week, domestic work and baby-sitting excepted.
 No minor under IA years of age shall be employed, permitted or suffered to work in any occupation outside school hours; except as to domestic employment, baby-sitting and handiwork in and about pri- vate homes; newspaper delivery or sales; or in canneries in warehouse work under competent supervision casing cans.
 Nothing in the Act shall apply to situations in which child works under the direct supervision of a parent in a business owned and operated by such parent nor the work of a child on a boat owned and operated by the child's parent.
 Section 2. That no minor under Is years of age shall be employed, permitted or suffered to work in any gainful occupation for more than $ hours in any day, 40 hours in any week or for more than 6 days in any week.
 Section 8. No minor under Is years may be employed in excava- cions, or in surface mining, or un- derground in mines; or as hoist Ing engineers in mines; in the operation of cranes, derricks or hoists; and no boy under 16 years of age or girl under IS years of age may be employed, permitted or GIT fn n rncfaIIra nor shall any girl under Is be employed, permitted or suffered to work as a maid in any hotel or lodging house.
 No minor under 21 shall be em- ployed, permitted or suffered to Tsell or serve intoxicating liquors or to work in any room or other place where intoxicating liquors are sold for consumption on the premises.
 Section 4. No minor under IS years of age shall be employed, permitted or suffered to work in any occupation dangerous to life or limb or injurious to health or morals of said minor.
 Section 5. The Commissioner of Labor is hereby authorized from time to time after public notice and hearing to promulgate rules, reg ulations and orders establishing minimum standards as to safety, working conditions, kind and ex- tent of work in various phases of the respective fields of employ ment, maximum hours per day and week, and minimum rates of pay, and other reasonable safeguards compatible with the welfare of all minors under the purview of this Act; and the Commissioner of La Dor shall make cooperative arrange ments with other Territorial and Federal agencies and shall pro- mitigate such regulations as are necessary to provide opportunities for work experience in safe and , healthful occupations for such minors.
 Section 6. The Commissioner of Labor is authorized, and it shall be his duty to enforce the pro- visions of this Act.
 Section '. Any person, firm or corporation who violates any pro- vision of this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine Iof not more than $500.00 or by Imprisonment for not more than ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
 Section 8. Section 47-3-219 ACLA 1949 is hereby repealed.
 Approved March -21, 1949.