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MA Gen L ch 149 § 67 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 67 - Days and Hours of Work for Boys or Girls Under Eighteen

Section 67. Except as limited by section fifty-six, no person shall employ a boy or a girl under eighteen or permit such a boy or girl to work in, about or in connection with any establishment or occupation named in section fifty-six or sixty for more than six days in a week, or more than forty-eight hours in a week, or more than nine hours in a day, and, if the work performed by such boy or girl in a day is not continuous but is divided into two or more periods, the person employing such boy or girl shall so arrange his or her work that all such periods shall fall within a period of twelve consecutive hours.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 68 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 68 - Time for Work of Minor Messengers

Section 68. Except for the delivery of messages directly connected with the business of conducting or publishing a newspaper to a newspaper office or directly between newspaper offices, no person shall employ a minor or permit him to work as messenger for a telegraph, telephone or messenger company in the distribution, transmission or delivery of goods or messages before five o'clock in the morning or after ten o'clock in the evening.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 69 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 69 - Children as Newspaper Vendors; Restrictions; Penalty

Section 69. No boy or girl under twelve shall sell, expose or offer for sale any magazines, periodicals or any other articles of merchandise of any description, or exercise the trade of bootblack or scavenger, or any other trade, in any street or public place.  A boy or girl nine years of age or older may engage or be employed in any city or town in the sale or delivery of newspapers; provided, however, that the publisher or distributor of the newspapers provides the boy or girl with written policies regarding the activities and responsibilities of the boy or girl and of the publisher or distributor; provided, further, that the publisher or distributor provides an orientation and training program for the boy or girl before he or she undertakes responsibility for newspaper sales or delivery; and provided further that the boy or girl provides the publisher or distributor with a written statement of permission to sell or deliver newspapers from a parent or guardian, said parent or guardian having previously reviewed the policies of the newspaper relative to sales or delivery.  No child shall be so employed during the hours that the public schools in the city or town in which such boy or girl resides are in session nor before six o'clock in the morning nor after eight o'clock in the evening.  Any newspaper which willingly and knowingly employs any boy or girl contrary to the provisions of this section shall be subject to a fine of not less than two hundred and fifty nor more than five hundred dollars.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 70 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 70 - Minors Under Sixteen as Vendors and Bootblacks, Scavengers or Other Trade in Street or Public Places; Charge for Badge for Employment

Section 70. No boy or girl under sixteen shall engage or be employed in any of the trades or occupations mentioned in section sixty-nine unless such boy or girl complies with all the provisions of sections seventy-one, seventy-two and seventy-three and with all the legal requirements concerning school attendance, and unless a badge has been issued to such boy or girl by the officer authorized to issue employment permits in the city or town where such boy or girl resides. The charge, if any, for such a badge issued to such boy or girl engaged or employed in the sale of newspapers in a street shall be such sum, not more than twenty-five cents, as shall be determined by the officer issuing the same.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 71 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 71 - Issuance of Badges to Minors; Proof of Age; Grounds for Refusal to Issue

Section 71. Such badge shall not be issued until the officer issuing the same shall have received, examined, approved and filed evidence that such boy or girl is twelve or over, which shall consist of either a birth certificate, a baptismal certificate showing the date of birth, or a certified copy of the official school record of the applicant showing his date of birth. Such officer may refuse to issue such badge to any boy or girl who in his opinion, after due investigation, is found physically or mentally incompetent or unable to do such work in addition to the regular school attendance required by law.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 72 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 72 - Badges; Wearing; Transfer; Exhibition; Regulations for Issuing

Section 72. The badge shall be worn, conspicuously exposed at all times, by such boy or girl while so working. No boy or girl to whom said badge has been issued shall transfer the same to any other boy or girl. Said boy or girl shall exhibit the same upon demand at any time to any officer mentioned in section seventy-seven. The school committee of any city may make further regulations and requirements for issuing such badges.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 73 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 73 - Time for Work of Minors Under Sixteen Engaged as Vendors, Bootblacks, Scavengers or in Any Other Trade in Streets or Public Places

Section 73. No boy or girl under sixteen shall engage in any of the trades or occupations mentioned in section sixty-nine in any street or public place after eight o'clock in the evening or before six o'clock in the morning, nor, except in the case of a boy or girl granted an employment permit by the superintendent of schools when such superintendent determines that the welfare of such boy or girl will be better served through the granting of such permit, during the hours when the public schools in the city or town where such boy or girl resides, or the school which such boy or girl attends, are in session.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 74 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 74 - Posting of Notice of Hours of Work of Minor; Employment at Other Times; Changing Terms

Section 74. Except as provided in section fifty-six, every person employing any minor in any establishment mentioned in section sixty shall keep posted in a conspicuous place in the room where such minor is employed or permitted to work a printed notice stating the number of hours such minor is required or permitted to work on each day of the week, with the total for the week, the hours of commencing and stopping work, and the hours when the time allowed for meals begins and ends for each day of the week.  The employment of any minor at any time other than as stated in said printed notice shall be deemed a violation of this section. The terms of such notice for any week or part thereof shall not be changed after the beginning of labor on the first day of the week without the written consent of the attorney general.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 75 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 75 - Forms of Notice Furnished by Attorney General

Section 75. The attorney general, shall, upon application, furnish the printed forms of the lists and notices required by sections fifty-six and seventy-four to all persons required to post the same.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 76 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 76 - Inspectors; Duties; Prosecutions

Section 76. Inspectors shall visit and inspect the places of employment mentioned in sections sixty to sixty-eight, inclusive, and shall ascertain whether any minors are employed therein contrary to said sections. They shall report to the school authorities any cases of children under sixteen discharged for illegal employment. Any person may prosecute violations of sections sixty to seventy-four, inclusive.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 77 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 77 - Enforcement of Statutes; Supervisors of Attendance; Appointment; Powers

Section 77. Sections sixty-nine to seventy-three, inclusive, relating to minors engaged in the occupations mentioned in section sixty-nine, shall be enforced by supervisors of attendance, who are hereby vested with full police powers for the purpose, and by police officers. The school committee of each city may appoint or designate one or more special supervisors of attendance to have supervision over minors engaged in such occupations and over the enforcement of said sections.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 78 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 78 - Employment Of, and Permitting Work By, Minors Contrary to Statutes; Reports of Violations

Section 78. Whoever, by himself or for others, or through agents, servants or foremen, employs, induces or permits any minor to work contrary to sections 60 to 74, inclusive, shall be punished by a fine of not less than $500 nor more than $5,000 or by imprisonment for not more than 1 month, or both. The employment of any minor in violation of said sections, after the person employing such minor has been notified thereof in writing by any authorized inspector or supervisor of attendance, shall constitute a separate offence for every day during which the employment continues. Violations of sections 56 to 105, inclusive, shall be reported by the department to the division of industrial accidents.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 79 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 79 - Hindering Inspectors, Supervisors of Attendance or Department Representatives; Refusal of Admittance or to Give Information

Section 79. Any person who hinders or delays any authorized inspector or supervisor of attendance in the performance of his duties, or who refuses to admit to or locks out any such inspector or supervisor from any place which such inspector or other authorized representative of the department or supervisor is authorized to inspect, or who refuses to give to such inspector or other authorized representative of the department or supervisor such information as may be required for the proper enforcement of the provisions of, or any rule or regulation adopted under this chapter shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five nor more than two hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than two months, or both.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 80 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 80 - Furnishing Minors With Articles for Sale In, and Encouragement Of, Violation of Statutes

Section 80. Whoever furnishes or sells to any minor any article of any description with the knowledge that the minor intends to sell such article in violation of any provision of sections sixty-nine to seventy-three, inclusive, or after having received written notice to this effect from any officer charged with the enforcement thereof, or knowingly procures or encourages any minor to violate any provisions of said sections, shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten nor more than two hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than two months, or both.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 81 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 81 - Compelling or Permitting Minor to Work in Violation of Statute; Certification of False Statement

Section 81. Any parent, guardian or custodian having a minor under his control who compels or permits such minor to work in violation of any provision of sections sixty to seventy-four, inclusive, or knowingly certifies to any materially false statement for the purpose of obtaining the illegal employment of such minor, shall for a first offence be punished by a fine of not less than two nor more than ten dollars or by imprisonment for not more than five days, or both; and for a subsequent offence by a fine of not less than five nor more than twenty-five dollars or by imprisonment for not more than ten days, or both.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 82 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 82 - Violation of Statutes by Persons Issuing Badges or Enforcing Statutes

Section 82. Any inspector, supervisor of attendance, superintendent of schools or other person authorized to issue the badges required by section seventy, or any other person charged with the enforcement of any of the provisions of sections sixty to eighty-three, inclusive, who knowingly violates or fails to comply with any provision of said sections, shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten nor more than two hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than two months, or both.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 83 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 83 - Violation of Statutes by Minors; Revocation of Badge; Refusal to Surrender; Working After Revocation

Section 83. Any minor who engages in any of the trades or occupations mentioned in section sixty-nine in violation of any provision of sections sixty-nine, seventy or seventy-two to seventy-four, inclusive, shall for the first offence be warned by the supervisors or officers mentioned in section seventy-seven, and the parent, guardian or custodian shall be notified. In case of a second violation, such minor may be arrested and dealt with as a delinquent child, or, if over seventeen, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding fifteen dollars. Upon the recommendation of the principal or chief executive officer of the school which such minor attends, or upon the complaint of any supervisor of attendance, police officer, inspector or probation officer, the badge of any minor violating any provision of sections seventy to seventy-three, inclusive, or who becomes delinquent or fails to comply with all legal requirements concerning school attendance, may be revoked for three months by the officer issuing the same and the badge taken from such minor. If any minor refuses to surrender such badge, or works at any of the occupations mentioned in section sixty-nine after notice of the revocation of such badge, he shall be deemed to have violated section seventy.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 84 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 84 - Service of Summons or Warrants

Section 84. A summons or warrant issued by any court or trial justice having jurisdiction of the violation of any provision of sections sixty to eighty-three, inclusive, or sections ninety to ninety-seven, inclusive, may be served at the direction of the court or justice by an inspector or by a supervisor of attendance or by any officer qualified to serve criminal process.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 85 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 85 - Nonapplicability of Secs. 60 to 83

Section 85. Sections sixty to eighty-three, inclusive, shall not apply to the juvenile reformatories, other than the Massachusetts reformatory, or prevent minors of any age from receiving manual training or industrial education in or in connection with any school which has duly been approved by the school committee or by the department of education.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 86 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 86 - Employment of Children With Permit; Particular Employments; Filing, Accessibility and Return Of, and Failure to Return, Permit; List of Employed Children

Section 86. A person shall not employ a child, other than a child over the age of 14 granted an employment permit by the superintendent of schools when the superintendent determines that the welfare of the child will be better served through the granting of the permit, in any place of employment, other than street trades described in section 69; but a child 14 years of age or older in co-operative courses in a public school may be employed by a co-operating establishment upon securing from the superintendent of schools a permit covering the co-operating employment. Children between fourteen and sixteen who possess the educational qualifications set forth in section one of chapter seventy-six and are employed in private domestic service or service on farms shall be required to secure a permit issued by the superintendent of schools covering such employment. A person employing a minor 14 years of age or older shall procure and keep on file, accessible to the supervisors of attendance of the town, to agents of the department of education, and to the attorney general or his authorized agents or inspectors, the permit for employment issued to the minor and shall keep a complete list of the names and ages of all minors so employed.  On termination of the employment of a child whose permit for employment is on file said permit shall be returned by the employer within two days after said termination to the office of the superintendent of schools or school committee from which it was issued. Any person who retains a permit for employment contrary to this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 88 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 88 - School Record for Employment Permit; Educational Qualification; Necessary School Attendance

Section 88. The school record required by section eighty-seven shall be filled out and signed by the principal or teacher in charge of the school which the child last attended, and shall be furnished only to a child who, after due examination and investigation, is found to be entitled thereto. Said school record shall state the grade last completed by such child and the studies pursued in completion thereof. It shall state the number of days during which such child has attended school during the twelve months next preceding the time of application for said school record. It shall also give the name, date of birth, and the residence of the child as shown on the records of the school and the name of the parent, guardian or custodian. If the school record is not obtainable from the principal or teacher in charge of the school which such child last attended, the requirement of a school record may be waived.  No such school record shall be issued or accepted and no employment permit granted unless the child possesses the educational qualifications described in section one of chapter seventy-six; provided, that a child over fourteen who does not possess such qualifications may be granted a limited employment permit good only during hours when school is not in session.  No such school record shall be issued or accepted unless the child has regularly attended the public or other lawfully approved schools for not less than one hundred and thirty days after becoming thirteen; provided, that the school record may be accepted in the case of a person who has been an attendant at a public day or other lawfully approved school for a period of not less than seven years, if in the opinion of the superintendent of schools such person is mentally incapable of acquiring the educational qualifications herein prescribed; and provided, further, that the superintendent may suspend this requirement in any case when in his opinion the interests of the child will best be served thereby.
MA Gen L ch 149 § 89 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XXI - Labor and Industries|Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries|Section 89 - Employment Permits; Contents; Signatures; Fee; Duplicate; Records; Papers Furnished by Department; Explanatory Matter

Section 89. The employment permit required under this chapter shall state the name, sex, date and place of birth and the place of residence of the child, and describe the color of his hair and eyes and any distinguishing facial marks. It shall certify that the child named in such permit has personally appeared before the person issuing the permit and has been examined, and, except in the case of a limited permit, found to possess the educational qualifications described in section one of chapter seventy-six, and that all the papers required by section eighty-seven have been duly examined, approved and filed and that all the conditions and requirements for issuing an employment permit have been fulfilled. It shall state the grade last completed by said child. Every such permit shall be signed in the presence of the person issuing the same by the child in whose name it is issued. It shall state the name of the employer for whom, and the nature of the employment in which, the permit authorizes the child to be employed. It shall bear a number, show the date of its issue and be signed by the person issuing it. No fee shall be exacted by a town clerk or other official for an employment permit or for any paper required by sections eighty-seven to ninety-five, inclusive. No duplicate employment permit shall be issued until it shall appear to the satisfaction of the person authorized to issue permits that the original has been lost. A record giving all the facts contained on every employment permit issued shall be filed in the office issuing the same, together with the papers required by section eighty-seven. A record shall also be kept of the names and addresses of all children to whom permits have been refused, together with the names of the schools which said children should attend and the reasons for refusal. All the aforesaid records and papers shall be preserved until such children, if living, have become 18. Such records and statistics concerning the issuance of employment permits as may be prescribed by the department of education shall be kept, and shall be open to the inspection of said department, its officers or agents. The blank permits and other papers required in connection with the issuing of employment permits and educational certificates under this chapter shall be furnished to the local school committees by the department of labor standards, by which they shall be prepared after conference with the department of education and the approval of the forms thereof by the attorney general. Said permits, certificates and papers may bear explanatory matter necessary to facilitate the enforcement of this chapter or to comply with future legislative requirements.