certificates issued between June 25th and December 25th of any year shall be filed not later than December 31st of such year; and those issued between December 25th and June 25th of the ensuing year shall be filed not later than June 30th of each year. The county superintendent of schools of each county shall file with the commissioner of the bureau of labor statistics, a report showing the number of age and schooling certificates issued to male and female minors and such other detailed information as the commissioner may require. Said report to be filed during the months of January and July of each year for the preceding six months, ending June 25th and December 25th of each year, and cover certificates issued during said periods and on file in the office of the county superintendent of schools as described in this section. [Amended, Statutes 1915, p. 1205.]

Not to remain idle during school hours.

§ 11. No minor having an age and schooling certificate, as hereinbefore described, and no other minor under sixteen years of age, who would by law be required to attend school, shall, while the public schools are in session, be and remain idle and unemployed for a period longer than two weeks, but must enroll and attend school; provided, that within one week after any minor having such age and schooling certificate shall have ceased to be employed by any employer, such employer shall, in writing, giving the latest correct address of such minor known to such employer, notify the issuing officer that such minor is no longer employed by such employer; and such issuing officer shall thereupon immediately notify the attendance officer having jurisdiction in the place of such minor's residence, giving the said latest known correct address of such minor, that such minor is neither at work nor in school; and provided, further, that no such minor shall be permitted to cease school attendance, without securing an age and schooling certificate as provided in this act. [Amended, Statutes 1915, p. 1207.]

Employer to keep record of minors employed.

§ 12. Every person, firm, corporation or agent, or officer of a firm or corporation, employing minors under the age of eighteen years shall keep a register containing the names and addresses of such minor employees and shall post and keep posted in a conspicuous place, in every room where such minors are employed, a written or printed notice stating the hours per day for each day of the week required of such minors, and shall keep on file all permits and certificates required by this act for minors under the age of sixteen years. Such records and files shall be open at all times to the inspection of the school attendance and probation officers and the officers of the state bureau of labor statistics.

All certificates and permits shall be given up to such minor upon his quitting such employment. Where such minor works for himself and not for others, such minor shall keep in his possession such certificate. Such certificate shall be subject to revocation at any time by such commissioner

of the bureau of labor statistics, or by the authority issuing such certificate, whenever such commissioner or the authority issuing such certificate shall find that conditions for the legal issuance of such certificate do not exist. [Amended, Statutes 1915, p. 1207.]

Penalty. Fines paid into school fund.

§ 13. Any person, firm, corporation, agent or officer of a firm or corporation that violates or omits to comply with any of the foregoing provisions of this act, or that employs or suffers or permits any minor to be employed in violation thereof, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars or more than two hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than sixty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, for each and every offense. A failure to produce any age and schooling certificate or vacation permit to work or to post any notice required by this act shall be prima facie evidence of the illegal employment of any minor whose age and schooling certificate or permit to work is not produced, or whose name is not so posted. Any fine collected under the provisions of this act shall be paid into the school funds of the county, or city, or city and county, in which the offense occurred; except such fines imposed and collected as the result of prosecutions by the officers of the bureau of labor statistics, in which cases one-half of the resulant fine or fines shall be paid into the state treasury and credited to the contingent fund of the bureau of labor statistics, and one-half paid into the school funds of the county, or city, or city and county, in which the offense occurred. [Amended, Statutes 1915, p. 1208.]

Agricultural, etc., employment not prohibited. Theatre.

$ 14. Nothing in this act shall be construed to prohibit the employment of minors sixteen years of age or over at agricultural, horticultural, or viticultural, or domestic labor. Nor shall anything in this act be construed to prohibit the employment of minors at agricultural, horticultural, or viticultural, or domestic labor, during the time the public schools are not in session, or during other than school hours. For the purpose of this act, horticultural shall be understood to include the curing and drying, but not the canning of all varieties of fruit. Nor shall anything in this act be construed to prohibit any minor between the ages of fifteen and eighteen years, who is by any statute or statutes of the State of California, now or hereafter in force, permitted to be employed as an actor, or actress, or performer in a theatre, or other place of amusement, previous to the hour of ten o'clock p. m., in the presentation of a performance, play or drama, continuing from an earlier hour till after the hour of ten o'clock p. m. from performing his or her part in such presentation as such employee between the hours of ten and twelve o'clock p.m.; provided, the written consent of the commissioner of the bureau of labor statistics is first obtained. Nor shall anything in this act prevent, or be construed to prohibit, the employment of any minor, whether resident or nonresident, in the presentation of a drama, play, performance, concert

or entertainment, with the written consent of the commissioner of the bureau of labor statistics, but no such consent shall be given unless the officer giving it is satisfied that the environment in which the drama, play, performance, concert or entertainment is to be produced is a proper environment for the minor, and that the conditions of such employment are not detrimental to the health of such minor, and that the minor's education will not be neglected or hampered by its participation in such drama, play, performance, concert or entertainment, and the commissioner may require the person charged with the issuance of age and schooling certificates to make the necessary investigation into such conditions; and every such written consent shall specify the name and age of the minor together with such other facts as may be necessary for the proper identification of such minor, and the dates when, and the theatres or other places of amusement in which such drama, play, performance, concert or entertainment is to be produced, and shall specify the drama, play, performance, concert or entertainment in which the minor is permitted to participate, and every such consent shall be revocable at the will of the officer giving it. Dramas and plays shall include the production of motion picture plays. [Amended, Statutes 1917, p. 826.]

When work is deemed done.

$ 15. Work shall be deemed to be done for a manufacturing establishment within the meaning of this act, whenever it is done at any place upon the work of a manufacturing establishment or upon any of the materials entering into the product of the manufacturing establishment, whether under contract or arrangement with any person in charge of or connected with such manufacturing establishment directly or indirectly, through the instrumentality of one or more contractors or other third persons. [Amended, Statutes 1915, p. 1209.]

Boys under ten and street occupations.

§ 16. No boy under ten years of age, nor girl under eighteen years of age, shall be employed, permitted or suffered to work at any time in or in connection with the street occupation of peddling, boot blacking, the sale or distribution of newspapers, magazines, periodicals or circulars nor in any other occupation pursued in any street or public place; provided, however, that nothing in this section shall be construed to apply to cities whose population is less than twenty-three thousand according to the last federal census.

Any person, firm, corporation, or agent, or officer of a firm or corporation, or any parent or guardian violating the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than fifty dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than sixty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. [Enacted, Statutes 1915, p. 1209.]

Duty of labor commissioner, and attendance officers.

$ 17. The bureau of labor statistics shall enforce the provisions of this act. The commissioner, his deputies and agents, shall have all the

powers and authority of sheriffs or other peace officers, to make arrests for violation of the provisions of this act, and to serve any process or notice throughout the state.

The attendance officer of any county, city and county, or school district in which any place of employment, in this act named, is situated, or the probation officer of such county, shall have the right and authority, at all times, to enter into any such place of employment for the purpose of investigating violations of the provisions of this act, or violations of the provisions of an act entitled "An act to enforce the educational rights of children and providing penalties for the violation of the act," approved March 24, 1903, and any act amending or superseding the same; provided, however, that if such attendance or probation officer is denied entrance to such place of employment, any magistrate may, upon the filing of an affidavit by such attendance or probation officer setting forth the fact that he has a good cause to believe that the provisions of this act, or the act hereinbefore referred to, are being violated in such place of employment, issue an order directing such attendance or probation officer to enter said place of employment for the purpose of making such investigations. [Enacted, Statutes 1915, p. 1210.]

Repealed.

§ 18. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby expressly repealed. [Enacted, Statutes 1915, p. 1210.]

Constitutionality.

19. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this act is for any reason held to be unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this act. The legislature hereby declares that it would have passed this act, and each section, subsection, sentence, clause and phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more other sections, subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared unconstitutional. [Enacted, Statutes 1915, p. 1210.]

NIGHT WORK BY MINORS.

An act to prohibit minors under the age of eighteen years to vend and sell goods, engage in, or conduct any business between the hours of ten o'clock in the evening and five o'clock in the morning, and providing penalties for violations thereof.

[Approved May 1, 1911; Statutes 1911, p. 1341.]

$ 1. It shall be unlawful for any minor under the age of eighteen years to vend and sell goods, engage in, or conduct any business between the hours of ten o'clock in the evening and five o'clock in the morning.

$ 2. Any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not more than twenty dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than ten days, or by both such fine and imprisonment for each offense.

EIGHT HOUR LAWS FOR WOMEN.

An act limiting the hours of labor of females employed in any manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishment, laundry, hotel, or restaurant, or telegraph or telephone establishment or office, or by any express or transportation company; compelling each employer in any manufacturing, mechanical, or mercantile establishment, laundry, hotel or restaurant, or other establishment employing any female to provide suitable seats for all female employees and to permit them to use such seats when they are not engaged in the active duties of their employment; and providing a penalty for failure, neglect or refusal of the employer to comply with the provisions of this act, and for permitting or suffering any overseer, superintendent, foreman or other agent of any such employer to violate the provisions of this act.

[Approved March 22, 1911; amended, 1913, 1917; Statutes 1911, p. 437; 1913, p. 713, 1917, p. 828.]

Females not to work more than eight hours per day-Not applicable to harvesting, nurses, etc.

§ 1. No female shall be employed in any manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishment, laundry, hotel, public lodging house, apartment house, hospital, place of amusement, or restaurant, or telegraph or telephone establishment or office, or by any express or transportation company in this state more than eight hours during any one day or more than forty-eight hours in one week. The hours of work may be so arranged as to permit the employment of females at any time so that they shall not work more than eight hours during the twenty-four hours of one day, or forty-eight hours during any one week; provided, however, that the provisions of this section in relation to hours of employment shall not apply to or affect graduate nurses in hospitals, nor the harvesting, curing, canning or drying of any variety of perishable fruit, fish or vegetable during such periods as may be necessary to harvest, cure, can or dry said fruit, fish or vegetable in order to save the same from spoiling. [Amended, Statutes 1917, p. 828.]

Seats for female employees.

§ 2. Every employer in any manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishment, laundry, hotel, or restaurant, or other establishment employing any female, shall provide suitable seats for all female employees, and shall permit them to use such seats when they are not engaged in the active duties of their employment. [Amended, Statutes 1913, p. 714.] Enforement of act.

§ 3. The bureau of labor statistics shall enforce the provisions of this act. The commissioner, his deputies and agents, shall have all powers and authority of sheriffs or other peace officers, to make arrests for violations of the provisions of this act, and to serve all processes and notices thereunder throughout the state. [Amended, Statutes 1913, p. 714.]