Sec. 31-24. Hazardous employment of children forbidden.
Sec. 31-24. Hazardous employment of children forbidden. Except in state vocational schools or in public schools teaching manual training, no child under sixteen years
of age shall be employed or permitted to work in adjusting or assisting in adjusting any
belt upon any machine, or in oiling or assisting in oiling, wiping or cleaning machinery,
while power is attached, or in preparing any composition in which dangerous acids are
used, or in soldering, or in the manufacture or packing of paints, dry colors or red or
white lead, or in the manufacture, packing or storing of gun or blasting powder, dynamite,
nitroglycerine compounds, safety fuses in the raw or unvarnished state, electric fuses for
blasting purposes or any other explosive, or in the manufacture or use of any dangerous or
poisonous gas or dye, or composition of lye in which the quantity thereof is injurious
to health, or upon any scaffolding, or in any heavy work in any building trade or in any
tunnel, mine or quarry, or in operating or assisting to operate any emery, stone or buffing
wheel; and, except as otherwise provided in subsection (b) of section 31-23, no child
under sixteen years of age shall be employed or permitted to work in any capacity
requiring such child to stand continuously.
(1949 Rev., S. 7353; P.A. 74-185, S. 3; P.A. 87-195, S. 2; P.A. 97-263, S. 11; P.A. 06-139, S. 5.)
History: P.A. 74-185 prohibited employment of all children under 16, regardless of sex, in capacity which requires
continuous standing where previously prohibition applied to females only; P.A. 87-195 allowed children under 16 years
of age to work in jobs requiring them to stand continuously as provided in Sec. 31-23; P.A. 97-263 increased amount of
fine from $100 to $200; P.A. 06-139 eliminated provision re penalty for violation of section, effective January 1, 2007.
See Secs. 31-15a, 31-69a re penalties for violation of section.
Cited. 243 C. 66.