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92_HB3972

 
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 1        AN ACT concerning labor.

 2        Be it enacted by the People of  the  State  of  Illinois,
 3    represented in the General Assembly:

 4        Section  5.   The  Child Labor Law is amended by changing
 5    Section 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
 8    employed, permitted or allowed to work:
 9        1.  In,  about or in connection with any public messenger
10    or delivery service, bowling alley, pool room, billiard room,
11    skating rink, exhibition park or place of amusement,  garage,
12    or as a bell-boy in any hotel or rooming house or about or in
13    connection   with   power-driven   machinery;   except   this
14    subsection  shall  not  apply  to ice skating rinks owned and
15    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 be
20    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
24    articles  containing  explosive  components, or in the use or
25    transportation of same; provided that  office  and  messenger
26    and other non-hazardous employment shall not be prohibited by
27    this Act;
28        7.  In  or  about plants manufacturing iron or steel, ore
29    reduction works,  smelters,  foundries,  forging  shops,  hot
30    rolling  mills  or  any  other  place  in  which the heating,
31    melting, or heat treatment of metals is carried on;  provided
 
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 1    that  office and messenger and other non-hazardous employment
 2    shall not be prohibited by this Act;
 3        8.  In the  operation  of  machinery  used  in  the  cold
 4    rolling  of  heavy  metal  stock,  or  in  the  operation  of
 5    power-driven  punching,  shearing,  stamping,  or metal plate
 6    bending machines;
 7        9.  In  or  about   sawmills   or   lath,   shingle,   or
 8    cooperage-stock mills; provided that office and messenger and
 9    other  non-hazardous  employment  shall  not be prohibited by
10    this Act;
11        10.  In  the  operation   of   power-driven   woodworking
12    machines, or off-bearing from circular saws;
13        11.  In  the  operation  of freight elevators or hoisting
14    machines and cranes;
15        12.  In  spray  painting  or  in  occupations   involving
16    exposure  to  lead  or  its  compounds  or  to  dangerous  or
17    poisonous dyes or chemicals;
18        13.  In  any place or establishment in which intoxicating
19    alcoholic liquors are served or sold for consumption  on  the
20    premises,  or  in  which  such  liquors  are  manufactured or
21    bottled, except as follows:
22             (A)  bus-boy and kitchen employment,  not  otherwise
23        prohibited,  when in connection with the service of meals
24        at any private club, fraternal organization or  veteran's
25        organization shall not be prohibited by this subsection;
26             (B)  this subsection 13 does not apply to employment
27        that is performed on property owned or operated by a park
28        district,  as defined in subsection (a) of Section 1-3 of
29        the  Park  District  Code,  if  the  employment  is   not
30        otherwise prohibited by law;
31        14.  In  oil  refineries,  gasoline  blending  plants, or
32    pumping stations on oil transmission lines;
33        15.  In the operation of laundry, dry cleaning, or dyeing
34    machinery;
 
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 1        16.  In occupations  involving  exposure  to  radioactive
 2    substances;
 3        17.  In  or about any filling station or service station,
 4    except that this subsection 17 does not  prohibit  employment
 5    of  a  15  year  old  minor  at  a  convenience store if that
 6    employment does not require the operation of gasoline pumps;
 7        18.  In  construction  work,  including  demolition   and
 8    repair;
 9        19.  In roofing operations;
10        20.  In excavating operations;
11        21.  In logging operations;
12        22.  In   public   and   private  utilities  and  related
13    services;
14        23.  In operations in or in connection with slaughtering,
15    meat  packing,  poultry  processing,  and  fish  and  seafood
16    processing;
17        24.  In operations which involve working on  an  elevated
18    surface,  with or without use of equipment, including but not
19    limited to ladders and scaffolds;
20        25.  In  security  positions  or  any  occupations   that
21    require the use or carrying of a firearm or other weapon; or
22        26.  In occupations which involve the handling or storage
23    of blood, blood products, body fluids, or body tissues.
24    (Source: P.A. 90-410, eff. 1-1-98.)

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