38-602. Children under 18, employment; rules and regulations.
38-602
38-602. Children under 18, employment; rules and regulations.No child under eighteen (18) years of age shall be at any time employedin any occupation, trade or business which is in any way dangerous orinjurious to the life, health, safety, morals or welfare of such minor. Thestate labor commissioner is hereby authorized and empowered, from time totime, to hold public hearings to determine work, trade or occupations whichare within the prohibition of this section, and he shall adopt appropriaterules and regulations, after public hearings thereon, prohibiting orregulating employment of minors in any work, trade or occupation found tobe dangerous or injurious to the life, health, safety, morals or welfare ofminors under the age of eighteen (18) years: Provided, That no childunder the age of eighteen (18) shall be employed in any of the occupationsdeclared by the United States secretary of labor to be within the hazardousoccupation regulations issued pursuant to the child labor provisions of thefair labor standards act on July 1, 1973.
History: L. 1917, ch. 227, § 2; R.S. 1923, 38-602; L. 1943, ch. 178, § 1; L.1973, ch. 183, § 2; July 1.