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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    AN ACT concerning employment.

 
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    Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
 
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represented in the General Assembly:


 
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    Section 5. The Child Labor Law is amended  by changing 
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Section 7 as follows:
 



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    (820 ILCS 205/7)  (from Ch. 48, par. 31.7)


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    Sec. 7. No minor under 16 years of age shall be employed,

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permitted or allowed to work:

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        1. In, about or in connection with any public messenger 
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    or delivery
service, bowling alley, pool room, billiard 
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    room, skating rink,
exhibition park or place of amusement, 
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    garage, or as a bell-boy in any
hotel or rooming house or 
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    about or in connection with power-driven
machinery; except 
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    this subsection shall not apply to ice skating rinks owned

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    and 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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    shafting;

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

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        4. In stone cutting or polishing;

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        5. In or about any hazardous factory work;

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        6. In or about any plant manufacturing explosives or 
 


 






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    articles
containing explosive components, or in the use or 
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    transportation of
same; provided that office and messenger 
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    and other non-hazardous
employment shall not be prohibited 
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    by this Act;

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        7. In or about plants manufacturing iron or steel, ore 
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    reduction
works, smelters, foundries, forging shops, hot 
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    rolling mills or any
other place in which the heating, 
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    melting, or heat treatment of metals
is carried on; 
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    provided that office and messenger and other
non-hazardous 
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    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 
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    power-driven punching, shearing,
stamping, or metal plate 
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    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 
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    and other non-hazardous employment
shall not be prohibited 
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    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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    machines and cranes;

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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 
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    poisonous dyes or chemicals;

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        13. In any place or establishment in which intoxicating 
 


 






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    alcoholic liquors
are served or sold for consumption on the 
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    premises, or in which such liquors
are manufactured or 
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    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 
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        meals at
any private club, fraternal organization or 
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        veteran's organization shall
not be prohibited by this 
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        subsection;


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            (B) this subsection 13 does not apply to employment 
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        that is performed
on property owned or operated by a 
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        park district, as defined in subsection (a)
of Section 
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        1-3 of the Park District Code, if the employment is not 
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        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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    dyeing machinery;

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        16. In occupations involving exposure to radioactive 
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    substances;

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

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        18. In construction work, including demolition and 
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    repair;

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        19. In roofing operations;

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        20. In excavating operations;

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        21. In logging operations;

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        22. In public and private utilities and related 
 


 






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    services;

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

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        24. In operations which involve working on an elevated 
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    surface, with or
without
use of equipment, including but 
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    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; 
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    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 
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    fluids, or human body tissues.

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