Sec. 31-30. Home workers.
Sec. 31-30. Home workers. Any person, other than a member of the immediate
family residing therein, who, or firm, partnership or corporation which, engages in the
manufacture of any products, or parts thereof, in any dwelling house, tenement house,
rooming house, apartment house or other residential building, which has been licensed
in accordance with section 31-29, shall conform in every respect to the provisions of
the general statutes governing the registration and operation of manufacturing and mechanical establishments. Any member or members of the immediate family residing in
any dwelling house, tenement house, rooming house, apartment house or other residential building, whether licensed for such purpose or not, may use such place of residence
for the purpose of manufacturing products, or parts thereof, either on their own behalf,
or on behalf of other manufacturing or mechanical establishments located within the
state as hereinafter provided. Such home workers shall conform in every respect to the
provisions of the general statutes governing the working hours and conditions of women
and minors in manufacturing and mechanical establishments, and, in the observance
thereof, they shall be subject to inspection under the supervision of said commissioner.
Said commissioner shall report to the board of health, humane society or other agency
having jurisdiction any condition believed to be unhealthful, insanitary or otherwise
prejudicial to the well-being of such home workers, in order that such condition may
be investigated and corrected by such agency.
(1949 Rev., S. 3763.)