[No. 206.] AN ACT to amend sections two, nine, ten, eleven, fifteen and thirty-five of act number two hundred eighty-five of the public acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act to provide for the creation of a department of labor, to prescribe its powers and duties, to regulate the employment of labor, to make an appropriation for the maintenance of such department, and to prescribe penalties for the violation of this act," being sections five thousand three hundred twenty-three, five thousand three hundred thirty, five thou sand three hundred thirty-one, five thousand three hundred thirty-two, five thousand three hundred thirty-six and five thousand three hundred fifty-six of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen as last amended by act number three hundred forty-one of the public acts of nineteen hundred nineteen, act number two hundred eighty of the public acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, act number two hundred fifty-five of the public acts of nineteen hundred fifteen and act number two hundred sixteen of the public acts of nineteen hundred fifteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Sections two, nine, ten, eleven, fifteen and Sections thirty-five of act number two hundred eighty-five of the public amended. acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act to provide for the creation of a department of labor, to prescribe its powers and duties, to regulate the employment of labor, to make an appropriation for the maintenance of such department, and to prescribe penalties for the violation of this act," being sections five thousand three hundred twenty-three, five thousand three hundred thirty, five thousand three hundred thirtyone, five thousand three hundred thirty-two, five thousand three hundred thirty-six and five thousand three hundred fifty-six of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, as last amended by act number three hundred forty-one of the public acts of nineteen hundred nineteen, act number two hundred eighty of the public acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, act number two hundred fifty-five of the public acts of nineteen hundred fifteen and act number two hundred sixteen of the public acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, are hereby amended to read as follows: commission. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the commission to collect Duty of in the manner herein provided, assort, systematize and present to the governor, on or before the first day of January of each year in which a regular session of the legislature is held, statistical details relating to all departments of labor in this state, including the penal institutions thereof, particularly concerning the hours of labor, the number of employes and sex thereof, and the daily wages earned, the condition of all manu Proviso, publication of statistics. Further proviso. Employment of males and females. posted. Who to furnish. facturing establishments, hotels, stores, workshops and premises, where labor is employed, except farms and households, with such other matter relating to the industrial, social, educational, moral and sanitary conditions of the laboring classes and the productive industries of the state, including the name of firms, companies or corporation, where located, the kind of goods produced or manufactured, the time operated each year, the number of employes, male or female, the number engaged in clerical work and the number engaged in manual labor, with a classification of the number of each sex engaged in each occupation and the average daily wages paid each: Provided, That the commission or any one connected with its office, shall not publish, make public, nor give to any individual or to the public the individual statistics obtained from any manufacturing establishment, but all such statistics may be published in connection with other similar statistics and given to the public in aggregate and averages: Provided further, That nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit other state departments from taking transcripts of such individual statistics for statistical and classifi cation purposes only. SEC. 9. No male under the age of eighteen years, and no female shall be employed, permitted or suffered to work in any factory, mill, warehouse, workshop, quarry, clothing, dressmaking or millinery establishment, or any place where the manufacture of any kinds of goods is carried on, or where any goods are prepared for manufacturing, or in any laundry, store, shop, or any other mercantile establishment, or in any office or restaurant, theater, concert hall, music hall, hotel, or operating an elevator, or on street or electric railways, for a period longer than an average of nine hours a day or fifty-four hours in any week nor more than ten hours in any Copy of law one day; and all such establishments shall keep posted a copy of this section printed in large type, in a conspicuous place. In establishments having a time clock such copy shall be posted near the time clock. Copies of this section suitable for posting shall be furnished upon the application of any employer by the commission: Provided, however, That the provision of this section in relation to the hours of employment shall not apply to nor affect any person engaged in preserving perishable goods in fruit and vegetable canning establishments. No female under the age of eighteen years shall be employed in any manufacturing establishment between the hours of six o'clock p. m. and six o'clock a. m. No child under the age of sixteen years shall be employed in any manufacturing establishment or workshop, quarry, mine or messenger service in this state between the hours of six o'clock p. m. and six o'clock a. m. No child under the age of eighteen years shall be employed between the hours of ten o'clock p. m. and five o'clock a. m. in the transmission, distribution or delivery of messages or merchandise. Proviso, perishable goods. Child under 16 years, etc. 15 years. SEC. 10. No child under fifteen years of age shall be em- Child under ployed, permitted or suffered to work in or in connection with any mercantile institution, store, office, hotel, laundry, manufacturing establishment, mine, bowling alley, billiard or pool room conducted for profit, theater, passenger or freight elevator, factory or workshop, quarry, telegraph or messenger service within this state during school hours: Provided, This Proviso. section shall not apply to any child of the age of fourteen years or over, working on Saturdays or other days during the school year, outside of school hours or during the established vacation periods in preserving perishable goods in fruit or vegetable canning establishments or in any mercantile institutions, store, office, hotel, laundry, manufacturing establishment, factory or workshop, quarry, telegraph or messenger service within this state. employes. for children. (a) It shall be the duty of every mercantile institution, Register of store, hotel, office, laundry, manufacturing establishment, mine, bowling alley, workshop, quarry, telegraph or messenger service or any person coming within the provisions of this act to keep a register in which will be recorded the name, birthplace, age and place of residence of every person employed under the age of eighteen years and it shall be unlawful for any such establishment or person to hire or employ or permit to be hired or employed or suffered to work, any child under Work permit the age of seventeen years without there is first provided and placed on file in the business office thereof a permit or certificate. In localities where no continuation school is established such permit shall be required only for children under the age of sixteen years. Such permit or certificate shall be issued Who to issue. by the superintendent of schools of the school district in which such child resides, or the county commissioner of schools, or some one duly authorized by him in writing, any of whom shall have power to administer oaths in relation thereto. Such permit or certificate shall be returned immediately to the issuing officer by the employer when such child leaves such employment prior to reaching the age of seventeen years. A child shall be considered as having withdrawn from his employment when he or she shall have absented himself or herself from work for five full working days without explanation. Every limited vacation permit, hereinafter to be described, shall, upon its expiration, be void and of no effect. The said register and permit or certificate. shall be produced for inspection on demand of any authorized representative of the commission. No fee shall be charged for such permit or certificate or other record required by this act by any officer by whom it shall be issued. Every employer complying with the provisions of this section shall be at liberty to employ the person so presenting the permit or certificate herein before referred to, and is justified in considering and treating such person as of the age shown in such permit or certificate and shall not be liable, if it transpire that such person is under the age represented in such permit When issued. School report. or certificate to any greater extent than such employer would be liable if such person were of the age represented. (b) The person authorized and required to issue such permit or certificate shall not issue the same until he has received, examined, approved and filed the following papers duly executed: First. The school report of said child properly filled out and which shall be signed by the principal or chief executive officer of the school which such child has attended shall be furnished on demand of a child entitled thereto. It shall contain a statement that the child has attended the public school, or schools equivalent thereto, or parochial schools, previous to applying for such school record, and is able to read intelligently and write legibly simple sentences in the English language, and in the case of the public schools, has passed satisfactorily the work of the school up to and including the work of the sixth grade, as provided in the course of study of the public schools, or in the case of schools other than public, the equivalent thereto. Such school record shall also give the age and residence of the child as shown on the records of the school and the name of its parents or Proviso, lim- guardians or custodians: Provided, That in the case of limited vacation permits or in the case of persons over sixteen years of age requirements relating to educational qualifications shall be waived. Limited vacation permits referred to in this act shall be construed to mean permits issued for working during vacation periods and on Saturdays or other days during the school year outside of school hours and all such permits shall expire upon the first Monday in September commonly called Labor day, shall contain a conspicuous statement of the time at which they shall expire and shall be of a special color distinct from the regular permit or certificate. ited vacation permits. Defined. Record of birth. Physician's statement, what to certify. Second. A passport, or duly attested transcript of the record of birth, as kept by any duly authorized public authority, or a record of baptism or other religious record, showing the date and place of birth of such young person. Third. A statement from a physician connected officially with the board or department of health, which shall be required, however, only in case the above mentioned official or religious record cannot be produced, which statement shall certify that in the opinion of the physician issuing said statement, the young person is of the age stated therein, is in sound health and physically able to perform the work which it intends to do. Such statement shall also certify to the correct weight and height of said young person, and shall be kept on file by the person issuing working permits or certificates; such person may in his discretion require also an affidavit from the parents or guardian of the young person concerned or other evidence as additional proof of age. (c) On the permit or certificate shall appear a statement by the issuing officer that he has examined said child, that in his opinion the child can read intelligently and write legibly misdemeanor. (d) Any person who shall make a false statement, tran- False script, passport, school certificate, certificate of physical fit- statement, ness, school record or any other writing required to be made or filed by the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars or imprisonment for not less than ten days nor more than ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion. of the court. (e) Any child under seventeen years of age living or working in a school district maintaining a continuation school under act number four hundred twenty-one of the public acts of nineteen hundred nineteen, as amended, shall be subject to that act. clean ma SEC. 11. No female or male under the age of eighteen who not years shall be allowed to clean machinery while in motion allowed to nor employed in any hazardous employment, or where, their chinery, etc. health may be injured or morals depraved, nor, shall females be unnecessarily required in any employment to remain standing constantly. No child under the age of sixteen years shall be employed in or about any theater, variety show, moving picture show, burlesque show, or other kind of play house, music or dance hall, pool room or billiard room: Provided, Proviso. however, That any male person over sixteen and under eighteen years of age, may be employed in any occupation, other than the cleaning of machinery while in motion subject to the following conditions: Such employment shall be for a total of not more than fifty-four hours in any week nor more than ten hours in any one day. The occupation in |