95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB1828


 
Introduced 2/23/2007, by Rep. Ed Sullivan, Jr.
 
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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    AN ACT concerning employment.

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


 
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    Section 5. The Child Labor Law is amended  by changing 
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Section 7 as follows:
 



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    (820 ILCS 205/7)  (from Ch. 48, par. 31.7)



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    Sec. 7. No minor under 16 years of age shall be employed,

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permitted or allowed to work:

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    1. In, about or in connection with any public messenger or 
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delivery
service, bowling alley, pool room, billiard room, 
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skating rink,
exhibition park or place of amusement, garage, or 
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as a bell-boy in any
hotel or rooming house or about or in 
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connection with power-driven
machinery; except this subsection 
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shall not apply to ice skating rinks owned
and
and operated by 
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a school or unit of local government;

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    2. In the oiling, cleaning or wiping of machinery or 
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shafting;

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    3. In or about any mine or quarry; provided that office and 
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messenger
and other non-hazardous employment shall not be 
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prohibited by this Act;

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    4. In stone cutting or polishing;

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    5. In or about any hazardous factory work;

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    6. In or about any plant manufacturing explosives or 
 


 






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articles
containing explosive components, or in the use or 
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transportation of
same; provided that office and messenger and 
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other non-hazardous
employment shall not be prohibited by this 
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Act;

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    7. In or about plants manufacturing iron or steel, ore 
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reduction
works, smelters, foundries, forging shops, hot 
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rolling mills or any
other place in which the heating, melting, 
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or heat treatment of metals
is carried on; provided that office 
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and messenger and other
non-hazardous employment shall not be 
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prohibited by this Act;

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    8. In the operation of machinery used in the cold rolling 
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of heavy
metal stock, or in the operation of power-driven 
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punching, shearing,
stamping, or metal plate bending machines;

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    9. In or about sawmills or lath, shingle, or 
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cooperage-stock mills;
provided that office and messenger and 
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other non-hazardous employment
shall not be prohibited by this 
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Act;

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    10. In the operation of power-driven woodworking machines, 
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or
off-bearing from circular saws;

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    11. In the operation of freight elevators or hoisting 
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machines and cranes;

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    12. In spray painting or in occupations involving exposure 
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to lead
or its compounds or to dangerous or poisonous dyes or 
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chemicals;

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    13. In any place or establishment in which intoxicating 
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alcoholic liquors
are served or sold for consumption on the 
 


 






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premises, or in which such liquors
are manufactured or bottled, 
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except as follows:


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        (A) bus-boy and kitchen employment,
not otherwise 
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    prohibited, when in connection with the service of meals at

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    any private club, fraternal organization or veteran's 
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    organization shall
not be prohibited by this subsection;


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        (B) this subsection 13 does not apply to employment 
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    that is performed
on property owned or operated by a park 
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    district, as defined in subsection (a)
of Section 1-3 of 
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    the Park District Code, if the employment is not otherwise

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    prohibited by law;

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    14. In oil refineries, gasoline blending plants, or pumping 
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stations
on oil transmission lines;

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    15. In the operation of laundry, dry cleaning, or dyeing 
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machinery;

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    16. In occupations involving exposure to radioactive 
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substances;

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    17. In or about any filling station or service station;

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    18. In construction work, including demolition and repair;


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    19. In roofing operations;

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    20. In excavating operations;

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    21. In logging operations;

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    22. In public and private utilities and related services;

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    23. In operations in or in connection with slaughtering, 
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meat packing,
poultry processing, and fish and seafood 
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processing;

 


 






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    24. In operations which involve working on an elevated 
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surface, with or
without
use of equipment, including but not 
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limited to ladders and scaffolds;

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    25. In security positions or any occupations that require 
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the use or
carrying
of a firearm or other weapon; or

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    26. In occupations which involve the handling or storage of 
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blood, blood
products, body fluids, or body tissues.

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(Source: P.A. 90-410, eff. 1-1-98.)