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2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 62 - Minors Under Eighteen

Section 62. No person shall employ a minor under eighteen or permit him to work: (1) in or about blast furnaces; (2) in the operation or management of hoisting machines; (3) in oiling or cleaning hazardous machinery in motion; (4) in the operation or use of any polishing or buffing wheel; (5) at switch tending; (6) at gate tending; (7) at track repairing; (8) as a brakeman, fireman, engineer, motorman or conductor upon a railroad or railway; (9) as a fireman or engineer upon any boat or vessel; (10) in operating motor vehicles of any description, except golf carts on a golf course if the minor is licensed to operate a motor vehicle, and except in the course of employment in an automobile repair shop; (11) in or about establishments wherein gunpowder, nitroglycerine, dynamite or other high or dangerous explosive is manufactured or compounded; (12) in the manufacture of white or yellow phosphorous or phosphorous matches; (13) in any distillery, brewery, or any other establishment where alcoholic beverages, as defined in section one of chapter one hundred and thirty-eight, are manufactured, packed, wrapped or bottled; (14) in that part of any hotel, theatre, concert hall, place of amusement or other establishment where intoxicating liquors are sold; (15) in any room or other subdivision of a building at a height of more than thirty feet above the floor of such room or other subdivision, or in any other place at a height of more than thirty feet above the ground level or water level, as the case may be; in the operation or management of any type of elevator other than a self-service elevator, as defined in the regulations of the board of elevator regulations and duly filed with the office of the state secretary, or in the cleaning or repairing of any type of elevator; or (16) in any job or occupation requiring the possession or use of a firearm. This section shall not prohibit the employment of minors in drug stores or retail food stores, nor shall it prevent the employment of a minor, to whom has been issued a license to operate motor vehicles, in the operation on a farm, or on a way for a distance not exceeding ten miles therefrom, of any truck, tractor, trailer or self-propelled agricultural instrument registered by a farmer under chapter ninety, nor in the operation of any vehicle not registered in accordance with the provisions of section nine of said chapter ninety if such vehicle is used exclusively for agricultural purposes.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 62a - Employment of Vocational Agricultural Students

Section 62A. The provisions of sections sixty-one and sixty-two prohibiting the employment of certain minors shall not prohibit the employment of minors fourteen years of age and older to operate, or to assist in the operation of, small power equipment of the kind utilized by home gardeners nor shall it prohibit the operation of a farm tractor operated on a farm; provided, that such minors under the age of sixteen have been certified as having satisfactorily completed a training program in vocational agriculture by the department of education. The provisions of section sixty-two shall not prohibit the employment of minors sixteen years of age or older, consistent with federal law; provided, that such minors are enrolled in a course of study and training in a co-operative vocational training program, including co-operative agricultural programs, under a state or local authority; and provided, further, that such minors are employed under written agreements, that the work of such minors shall be incidental to their training, that such work shall be intermittent and for short periods of time, shall be under the direct and close supervision of a qualified and experienced person and that safety instruction given in any such course shall be correlated by the employer with on-the-job training. The provisions of sections sixty-one and sixty-two prohibiting the employment of certain minors shall not prohibit the employment of minors who are graduates of trade or vocational high schools; provided that such minors are employed in the same occupation as they were trained for in such trade or vocational school.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 63 - Dangerous or Injurious Employment of Minors; Hearing and Determination

Section 63. The attorney general may, after a hearing duly held, determine whether or not any particular trade, process of manufacture or occupation, in which the employment of minors under the age of sixteen or eighteen is not forbidden by law, or any particular method of carrying on such trade, process of manufacture or occupation, is sufficiently dangerous or is sufficiently injurious to the health or morals of minors under sixteen or eighteen to justify their exclusion therefrom. Employment of a minor between the ages of sixteen and eighteen in a facility licensed under section twenty-seven of chapter ten or under section three of chapter one hundred and twenty-eight A shall not be determined to be injurious to the morals of minors. No minor under sixteen or eighteen shall be employed or permitted to work in any trade, process or occupation thus determined to be dangerous or injurious to such minors, respectively.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 64 - Employment of Minors Where Liquor Sold; Taking or Sending Minors to Immoral Places

Section 64. No person shall employ a minor or permit him to work in, about or in connection with any saloon or bar room where alcoholic liquors are sold. No person shall knowingly take or send any such minor or cause or permit him to be sent to any disorderly house or house of prostitution or assignation or other immoral place of resort or amusement.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 65 - Hours and Days Of, and Time For, Work of Minors Under Sixteen; Time in Continuation School or Courses of Instruction

Section 65. No person shall employ a minor under sixteen, or permit him to work, in any occupation for which a permit for employment is required, for more than six days in any one week, or more than forty-eight hours in any one week, or more than eight hours in any one day, or, except as provided in section sixty-nine, before half past six o'clock in the morning, or after seven o'clock in the evening, except from July first through Labor Day, when evening hours shall be extended to nine o'clock in the evening. If the work performed by any such minor in a day is not continuous, but is divided into two or more periods, the person employing such minor shall so arrange such minor's work that all such periods of work shall fall within a period of nine consecutive hours. The time spent by such a minor in a continuation school or course of instruction as required by section twenty-two of chapter seventy-one shall be reckoned as a part of the time he is permitted to work.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 66 - Time of Work for Children; Exceptions

Section 66. A person shall not employ a child or permit a child to work in, about or in connection with any establishment or occupation before 6:00 a.m. or after 10:00 p.m.; provided, however, that a child may be employed as an operator in a regular service telephone exchange or a telegraph office until, but not after, 11:00 p.m.; provided, further, that a child 16 years of age or older may be employed until, but not after, 11:30 p.m. on any night other than a night preceding a regularly scheduled school day; provided, further, that a child 16 years of age or older may be employed in a restaurant or race track until, but not after, 12 o'clock in the evening on any night other than a night preceding a regularly scheduled school day; and provided, further, that an establishment which stops serving clients or customers at 10:00 p.m. may employ a child until, but not after, 10:15 p.m. A person shall not employ a child or permit a child to work in, about or in connection with any establishment or occupation after 8:00 p.m. unless the child is under the direct and immediate supervision of an adult acting in a supervisory capacity, who is situated in the workplace and is reasonably accessible to the child. This section shall not apply to a child employed at a kiosk, cart, or stand located within the common areas of an enclosed shopping mall that employs security personnel, a private security company or a public police detail every night from 8:00 p.m. until the mall is closed to the public.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 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.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 90 - Employment of Child Under Sixteen in Violation of Statute; Penalties; Forged Evidence of Age or Birth; Certification of False Statements In, and Alteration Of, Permit

Section 90. Whoever employs a child under sixteen, or whoever procures, or, having under his control a child under sixteen, permits him to be employed in violation of section eighty-six, shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one month; and whoever continues to employ a child under sixteen in violation of said section, after being notified thereof by a supervisor of attendance or by an inspector, shall for every day thereafter while such employment continues be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than two hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than two months; and whoever forges, or procures to be forged, or assists in forging a certificate of birth or other evidence of the age of such child, and whoever presents or assists in presenting a forged certificate or evidence of birth to the superintendent of schools or to a person authorized by law to issue permits, for the purpose of fraudulently obtaining the employment permit required by section eighty-six, shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten nor more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both. Whoever, being authorized to sign an employment permit, knowingly certifies to any materially false statement therein shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten nor more than two hundred dollars. Whoever, without authority, alters an employment permit after the same is issued shall be punished by a fine of ten dollars.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 91 - Cessation of Employment for Non-Attendance of Continuation School; Violation of Statute

Section 91. The employer of any minor between fourteen and sixteen who is required by section twenty-two of chapter seventy-one to attend a continuation school or course of instruction shall cease forthwith to employ such minor when notified in writing by the superintendent of schools, or by his representative duly authorized in writing, having jurisdiction over such minor's attendance, of his non-attendance in accordance with said section. An employer failing to comply with this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 92 - Visiting to Ascertain Employment of Children; Reporting Illegal Employment; Complaint; Violation of Statute

Section 92. Supervisors of attendance may visit the factories, workshops, manufacturing, mechanical and mercantile establishments, theatres, and places of public exhibition in their several towns, and ascertain whether any children are employed therein contrary to this chapter, and shall report in writing any cases of such illegal employment to the superintendent of schools or the school committee and to the department or its authorized officers or agents. Inspectors shall visit all factories, workshops, manufacturing, mechanical and mercantile establishments within their respective districts, and ascertain whether any children are employed therein contrary to this chapter, and shall enter complaint against whomever is found to have violated any of its provisions. No inspector shall knowingly or wilfully violate any provision of this section.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 93 - Employment Contrary to Statute; Taking Minor to School; Reporting Evidence to Court or Justice; Complaint; Violation of Statute

Section 93. A supervisor of attendance shall apprehend and take to school, without a warrant, any minor employed in any factory, workshop, manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishment, or in any theatre or place of public exhibition contrary to this chapter; and such supervisor of attendance shall forthwith report to the district court or trial justice within whose judicial district the illegal employment occurs the evidence in his possession relating to the illegal employment of any minor so apprehended, and shall make complaint against whomever the court or trial justice may direct. No supervisor of attendance shall knowingly and wilfully violate any provision of this section.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 94 - Employment Permits, Educational Certificates and Lists of Employed Minors Produced for Inspection; Evidence of Illegal Employment

Section 94. Supervisors of attendance, representatives of the office of the attorney general, agents of the department of education or of the department of labor, or any authorized agent or inspector of either of those departments may require that the permit for employment and lists of minors employed in any establishment or occupation shall be produced for their inspection. A failure so to do upon request shall be prima facie evidence of the illegal employment of any minor whose permit for employment or educational certificate is not produced or whose name is not so listed.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 95 - Minors 16 Years or Older Who Have Not Completed Requirements for Sixth Grade; Attendance at School

Section 95. If a minor 16 years of age or older fails to meet the requirements for the completion of the sixth grade, a person shall not employ that minor while a public evening school is maintained in the town where the minor resides or in the town of employment if he is authorized to attend a public evening school therein, unless that minor is a regular attendant at the evening school or at a day school and presents to his employer each week a school record of his attendance. When his record shows unexcused absences, his attendance shall be deemed to be irregular and insufficient, but the person authorized to issue permits for employment, or teachers acting on his authority, may excuse justifiable absence or waive the school attendance requirements if, in the opinion of the school physician, the physical or mental condition of that minor is such as to render attendance harmful or impracticable.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 95a - Work-Study Program Exception to Permit for Employment Requirement; Exceptions

Section 95A. A school committee of any city, town or regional school district which accepts the provisions of this section may permit a minor over sixteen and under eighteen who is attending school to be employed in industry without the permit for employment required by section 86; provided, however, that such minor is part of a co-operative work-study program operated by said school committee and approved by the department of education. Said minor, while so employed, shall be subject to the provisions of chapter one hundred and fifty-two.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 96 - Manual Training and Industrial Education; Effect of Statutes

Section 96. Sections eighty-six to ninety-five, inclusive, shall not prevent children of any age from receiving manual training or industrial education in or in connection with any school in the commonwealth duly approved by the local school committee or by the department of education.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 100 - Hours of Work Without Interval for Meal; Duration; Violation of Statute

Section 100. No person shall be required to work for more than six hours during a calendar day without an interval of at least thirty minutes for a meal. Any employer, superintendent, overseer or agent who violates this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than three hundred nor more than six hundred dollars.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 101 - Nonapplicability of Statute Relating to Mealtimes and Intervals for Meals

Section 101. The preceding section shall not apply to iron works, glass works, paper mills, letterpress establishments, print works, bleaching works, or dyeing works; and the attorney general, if it is proved to his satisfaction that in any other factories or workshops or mechanical establishments it is necessary, by reason of the continuous nature of the processes or of special circumstances affecting such establishments, including collective bargaining agreements to exempt them from the preceding section and that such exemption can be made without injury to the persons affected thereby, may grant such exemption as, in his discretion, seems necessary.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 102 - Labor During Mealtime Without Knowledge of Employer

Section 102. If a minor shall, without the orders, consent or knowledge of the employer or of the superintendent, overseer or other agent of the employer, labor in a manufacturing or mechanical establishment, factory or workshop during a part of any time allowed for meals in such establishment, factory or workshop, according to the notice required by section fifty-six, and if a copy of such notice was posted in a conspicuous place in the room where such labor was performed, with a rule of the establishment, factory or workshop forbidding such minor to labor during such time, neither the employer nor a superintendent, overseer or other agent of the employer shall be held responsible for such labor.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 103 - Seats for Employees; Violation of Statute

Section 103. Employers shall provide suitable seats for the use of their employees and shall permit such employees to use such seats whenever they are not necessarily engaged in the active duties of their employment, and shall also provide for their use and permit them to use suitable seats while at work, except when the work cannot properly be performed in a sitting position or when such seats may reasonably be expected to result in an unsafe or hazardous working condition. Whoever violates this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than two hundred dollars.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 104 - Children Participants in Public Exhibitions; Violation of Statute

Section 104. No person shall employ a child under fifteen years of age, or permit him to appear as a participant in a theater, circus or any other public exhibition as a singer, dancer, acrobat, actor or in any other entertainment capacity; but this section shall not prevent the education of children in vocal and instrumental music or dancing or their participation in any exhibition of dancing conducted as a part of its graduation exercises by a school furnishing them instruction in dancing, or their participation in a church, chapel, school or school exhibition, or prevent their taking part in any festival, concert or other non-commercial exhibition upon the special written permission of the local licensing authority; nor shall it prevent children under fifteen from taking part on the stage for a limited period in a play or musical comedy in a theater wherein not more than two performances are given in any one day and not more than eight performances are given in any one week if the attorney general, after being satisfied that the supervision of such children is adequate, that their living conditions are healthful and that their education is not neglected, gives his written permission to such taking part. This section shall not prevent participation of a child under fifteen years of age in a fashion show, provided such child is accompanied by either one of his parents. Whoever violates this section shall be punished by a fine of not more than two hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than six months.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 105 - License for Theatrical Exhibitions or Shows in Which Children Are Employed

Section 105. A license shall not be granted for a theatrical exhibition or public show in which children under fifteen are employed as acrobats or contortionists or in any feats of gymnastics or equestrianism, or in which such children attending the public schools are employed or allowed to take part as performers on the stage in any capacity, or if, in the opinion of the board authorized to grant licenses, such children are employed in such a manner as to corrupt their morals or impair their health; but this section shall not prevent granting the special permission authorized by the preceding section.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 105b - Violation of Secs. 105a to 105c; Discharge or Discrimination Because of Complaint, Proceedings or Testimony; Penalties

Section 105B. Any employer who violates any provision of sections one hundred and five A to one hundred and five C, inclusive, or who discharges or in any other manner discriminates against any employee because such employee has made any complaint to his employer, the attorney general, or any other person, or instituted, or caused to be instituted, any proceeding under or related to said sections, or has testified or is about to testify in any such proceedings, shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars.
2023 Massachusetts General Laws › Part I - Administration of the Government › Title XXI - Labor and Industries › Chapter 149 - Labor and Industries › Section 105c - Entry of Premises, and Investigation to Determine Compliance With Secs. 105a to 105c

Section 105C. For the purpose of enforcing the provisions of sections one hundred and five A to one hundred and five C, inclusive, the attorney general, or his authorized representative, may enter places of employment, other than places of employment of persons engaged in domestic service in the home of the employer, may inspect pay rolls, may compare character of work and operations on which employees are engaged, may question employees, and may take such other action as is reasonably necessary to determine compliance therewith.