(820 ILCS 205/7) (from Ch. 48, par. 31.7)
Sec. 7. No minor under 16 years of age shall be employed,
permitted or allowed to work:
1. In, about or in connection with any public |
| messenger or delivery service, bowling alley, pool room, billiard room, skating rink, exhibition park or place of amusement, garage, or as a bell-boy in any hotel or rooming house or about or in connection with power-driven machinery; except this subsection shall not apply to ice skating rinks owned and operated by a school or unit of local government;
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2. In the oiling, cleaning or wiping of machinery or
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3. In or about any mine or quarry; provided that
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| office and messenger and other non-hazardous employment shall not be prohibited by this Act;
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4. In stone cutting or polishing;
5. In or about any hazardous factory work;
6. In or about any plant manufacturing explosives or
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| articles containing explosive components, or in the use or transportation of same; provided that office and messenger and other non-hazardous employment shall not be prohibited by this Act;
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7. In or about plants manufacturing iron or steel,
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| ore reduction works, smelters, foundries, forging shops, hot rolling mills or any other place in which the heating, melting, or heat treatment of metals is carried on; provided that office and messenger and other non-hazardous employment shall not be prohibited by this Act;
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8. In the operation of machinery used in the cold
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| rolling of heavy metal stock, or in the operation of power-driven punching, shearing, stamping, or metal plate bending machines;
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9. In or about sawmills or lath, shingle, or
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| cooperage-stock mills; provided that office and messenger and other non-hazardous employment shall not be prohibited by this Act;
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10. In the operation of power-driven woodworking
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| machines, or off-bearing from circular saws;
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11. In the operation of freight elevators or hoisting
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12. In spray painting or in occupations involving
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| exposure to lead or its compounds or to dangerous or poisonous dyes or chemicals;
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13. In any place or establishment in which
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| intoxicating alcoholic liquors are served or sold for consumption on the premises, or in which such liquors are manufactured or bottled, except as follows:
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(A) bus-boy and kitchen employment, not otherwise
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| prohibited, when in connection with the service of meals at any private club, fraternal organization or veteran's organization shall not be prohibited by this subsection;
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(B) this subsection 13 does not apply to
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| employment that is performed on property owned or operated by a park district, as defined in subsection (a) of Section 1-3 of the Park District Code, if the employment is not otherwise prohibited by law;
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14. In oil refineries, gasoline blending plants, or
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| pumping stations on oil transmission lines;
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15. In the operation of laundry, dry cleaning, or
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16. In occupations involving exposure to radioactive
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17. In or about any filling station or service
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18. In construction work, including demolition and
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19. In roofing operations;
20. In excavating operations;
21. In logging operations;
22. In public and private utilities and related
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23. In operations in or in connection with
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| slaughtering, meat packing, poultry processing, and fish and seafood processing;
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24. In operations which involve working on an
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| elevated surface, with or without use of equipment, including but not limited to ladders and scaffolds;
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25. In security positions or any occupations that
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| require the use or carrying of a firearm or other weapon; or
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26. In occupations which involve the handling or
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| storage of human blood, human blood products, human body fluids, or human body tissues.
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(Source: P.A. 95-180, eff. 1-1-08.)
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