95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2007 and 2008
HB4979

 

Introduced , by Rep. Careen M Gordon

 

SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
 
820 ILCS 205/7   from Ch. 48, par. 31.7

    Amends the Child Labor Law. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning restrictions on the employment of a minor under 16 years of age.


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A BILL FOR

 

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1     AN ACT concerning employment.
 
2     Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
 
4     Section 5. The Child Labor Law is amended by changing
5 Section 7 as follows:
 
6     (820 ILCS 205/7)  (from Ch. 48, par. 31.7)
7     Sec. 7. No minor under 16 years of age shall be employed,
8 permitted or allowed to work:
9         1. In, about or in connection with any public messenger
10     or delivery service, bowling alley, pool room, billiard
11     room, skating rink, exhibition park or place of amusement,
12     garage, or as a bell-boy in any hotel or rooming house or
13     about or in connection with power-driven machinery; except
14     this subsection shall not apply to ice skating rinks owned
15     and and operated by a school or unit of local government;
16         2. In the oiling, cleaning or wiping of machinery or
17     shafting;
18         3. In or about any mine or quarry; provided that office
19     and messenger and other non-hazardous employment shall not
20     be prohibited by this Act;
21         4. In stone cutting or polishing;
22         5. In or about any hazardous factory work;
23         6. In or about any plant manufacturing explosives or

 

 

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1     articles containing explosive components, or in the use or
2     transportation of same; provided that office and messenger
3     and other non-hazardous employment shall not be prohibited
4     by this Act;
5         7. In or about plants manufacturing iron or steel, ore
6     reduction works, smelters, foundries, forging shops, hot
7     rolling mills or any other place in which the heating,
8     melting, or heat treatment of metals is carried on;
9     provided that office and messenger and other non-hazardous
10     employment shall not be prohibited by this Act;
11         8. In the operation of machinery used in the cold
12     rolling of heavy metal stock, or in the operation of
13     power-driven punching, shearing, stamping, or metal plate
14     bending machines;
15         9. In or about sawmills or lath, shingle, or
16     cooperage-stock mills; provided that office and messenger
17     and other non-hazardous employment shall not be prohibited
18     by this Act;
19         10. In the operation of power-driven woodworking
20     machines, or off-bearing from circular saws;
21         11. In the operation of freight elevators or hoisting
22     machines and cranes;
23         12. In spray painting or in occupations involving
24     exposure to lead or its compounds or to dangerous or
25     poisonous dyes or chemicals;
26         13. In any place or establishment in which intoxicating

 

 

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1     alcoholic liquors are served or sold for consumption on the
2     premises, or in which such liquors are manufactured or
3     bottled, except as follows:
4             (A) bus-boy and kitchen employment, not otherwise
5         prohibited, when in connection with the service of
6         meals at any private club, fraternal organization or
7         veteran's organization shall not be prohibited by this
8         subsection;
9             (B) this subsection 13 does not apply to employment
10         that is performed on property owned or operated by a
11         park district, as defined in subsection (a) of Section
12         1-3 of the Park District Code, if the employment is not
13         otherwise prohibited by law;
14         14. In oil refineries, gasoline blending plants, or
15     pumping stations on oil transmission lines;
16         15. In the operation of laundry, dry cleaning, or
17     dyeing machinery;
18         16. In occupations involving exposure to radioactive
19     substances;
20         17. In or about any filling station or service station;
21         18. In construction work, including demolition and
22     repair;
23         19. In roofing operations;
24         20. In excavating operations;
25         21. In logging operations;
26         22. In public and private utilities and related

 

 

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1     services;
2         23. In operations in or in connection with
3     slaughtering, meat packing, poultry processing, and fish
4     and seafood processing;
5         24. In operations which involve working on an elevated
6     surface, with or without use of equipment, including but
7     not limited to ladders and scaffolds;
8         25. In security positions or any occupations that
9     require the use or carrying of a firearm or other weapon;
10     or
11         26. In occupations which involve the handling or
12     storage of human blood, human blood products, human body
13     fluids, or human body tissues.
14 (Source: P.A. 95-180, eff. 1-1-08.)