(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;

2. In the oiling, cleaning or wiping of machinery or shafting;

3. In or about any mine or quarry; provided that office and messenger and other non-hazardous employment shall not be prohibited by this Act;

4. In stone cutting or polishing;

5. In or about any hazardous factory work;

6. In or about any plant manufacturing explosives or 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;

7. In or about plants manufacturing iron or steel, 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;

8. In the operation of machinery used in the cold rolling of heavy metal stock, or in the operation of power-driven punching, shearing, stamping, or metal plate bending machines;

9. In or about sawmills or lath, shingle, or cooperage-stock mills; provided that office and messenger and other non-hazardous employment shall not be prohibited by this Act;

10. In the operation of power-driven woodworking machines, or off-bearing from circular saws;

11. In the operation of freight elevators or hoisting machines and cranes;

12. In spray painting or in occupations involving exposure to lead or its compounds or to dangerous or poisonous dyes or chemicals;

13. In any place or establishment in which intoxicating alcoholic liquors are served or sold for consumption on the premises, or in which such liquors are manufactured or bottled, except as follows:

(A) bus-boy and kitchen employment, not otherwise 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;

(B) this subsection 13 does not apply to 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;

14. In oil refineries, gasoline blending plants, or pumping stations on oil transmission lines;

15. In the operation of laundry, dry cleaning, or dyeing machinery;

16. In occupations involving exposure to radioactive substances;

17. In or about any filling station or service station;

18. In construction work, including demolition and repair;

19. In roofing operations;

20. In excavating operations;

21. In logging operations;

22. In public and private utilities and related services;

23. In operations in or in connection with slaughtering, meat packing, poultry processing, and fish and seafood processing;

24. In operations which involve working on an elevated surface, with or without use of equipment, including but not limited to ladders and scaffolds;

25. In security positions or any occupations that require the use or carrying of a firearm or other weapon; or

26. In occupations which involve the handling or storage of human blood, human blood products, human body fluids, or human body tissues.

(Source: P.A. 95-180, eff. 1-1-08.)