98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2013 and 2014
HB2312

 

Introduced , by Rep. Daniel V. Beiser

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
820 ILCS 205/7  from Ch. 48, par. 31.7

    Amends the Child Labor Law. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning restrictions on the employment of a minor under 16 years of age.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1    AN ACT concerning employment.
 
2    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3represented in the General Assembly:
 
4    Section 5. The Child Labor Law is amended by changing
5Section 7 as follows:
 
6    (820 ILCS 205/7)  (from Ch. 48, par. 31.7)
7    Sec. 7. No minor under 16 years of age shall be employed,
8permitted or allowed to work:
9        1. In, about or in connection with any public messenger
10    or delivery service, bowling alley, pool room, billiard
11    room, skating rink, exhibition park or place of amusement,
12    garage, or as a bell-boy in any hotel or rooming house or
13    about or in connection with power-driven machinery; except
14    this subsection shall not apply to ice skating rinks owned
15    and and operated by a school or unit of local government;
16        2. In the oiling, cleaning or wiping of machinery or
17    shafting;
18        3. In or about any mine or quarry; provided that office
19    and messenger and other non-hazardous employment shall not
20    be prohibited by this Act;
21        4. In stone cutting or polishing;
22        5. In or about any hazardous factory work;
23        6. In or about any plant manufacturing explosives or

 

 

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1    articles containing explosive components, or in the use or
2    transportation of same; provided that office and messenger
3    and other non-hazardous employment shall not be prohibited
4    by this Act;
5        7. In or about plants manufacturing iron or steel, ore
6    reduction works, smelters, foundries, forging shops, hot
7    rolling mills or any other place in which the heating,
8    melting, or heat treatment of metals is carried on;
9    provided that office and messenger and other non-hazardous
10    employment shall not be prohibited by this Act;
11        8. In the operation of machinery used in the cold
12    rolling of heavy metal stock, or in the operation of
13    power-driven punching, shearing, stamping, or metal plate
14    bending machines;
15        9. In or about sawmills or lath, shingle, or
16    cooperage-stock mills; provided that office and messenger
17    and other non-hazardous employment shall not be prohibited
18    by this Act;
19        10. In the operation of power-driven woodworking
20    machines, or off-bearing from circular saws;
21        11. In the operation of freight elevators or hoisting
22    machines and cranes;
23        12. In spray painting or in occupations involving
24    exposure to lead or its compounds or to dangerous or
25    poisonous dyes or chemicals;
26        13. In any place or establishment in which intoxicating

 

 

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1    alcoholic liquors are served or sold for consumption on the
2    premises, or in which such liquors are manufactured or
3    bottled, except as follows:
4            (A) bus-boy and kitchen employment, not otherwise
5        prohibited, when in connection with the service of
6        meals at any private club, fraternal organization or
7        veteran's organization shall not be prohibited by this
8        subsection;
9            (B) this subsection 13 does not apply to employment
10        that is performed on property owned or operated by a
11        park district, as defined in subsection (a) of Section
12        1-3 of the Park District Code, if the employment is not
13        otherwise prohibited by law;
14        14. In oil refineries, gasoline blending plants, or
15    pumping stations on oil transmission lines;
16        15. In the operation of laundry, dry cleaning, or
17    dyeing machinery;
18        16. In occupations involving exposure to radioactive
19    substances;
20        17. In or about any filling station or service station;
21        18. In construction work, including demolition and
22    repair;
23        19. In roofing operations;
24        20. In excavating operations;
25        21. In logging operations;
26        22. In public and private utilities and related

 

 

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1    services;
2        23. In operations in or in connection with
3    slaughtering, meat packing, poultry processing, and fish
4    and seafood processing;
5        24. In operations which involve working on an elevated
6    surface, with or without use of equipment, including but
7    not limited to ladders and scaffolds;
8        25. In security positions or any occupations that
9    require the use or carrying of a firearm or other weapon;
10    or
11        26. In occupations which involve the handling or
12    storage of human blood, human blood products, human body
13    fluids, or human body tissues.
14(Source: P.A. 95-180, eff. 1-1-08.)