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90_SB0476enr

      820 ILCS 205/2            from Ch. 48, par. 31.2
      820 ILCS 205/3            from Ch. 48, par. 31.3
          Amends the Child Labor Law.  Provides that the  Law  does
      not  apply  to  the  work  of  a 14 or 15 year old minor in a
      program organized and supervised by a park  district  with  a
      population  of less than 500,000.  Prohibits a minor under 16
      from working between 10 p.m. (rather than 9 p.m.) and 7  a.m.
      during  school summer vacation periods (rather than from June
      1 until Labor Day).  Adds provisions regarding the  permitted
      working  hours  of  minors  over  14 who are employed by park
      districts or municipal parks and recreation departments.
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 1        AN ACT to amend the Child Labor Law by changing  Sections
 2    3 and 7.
 3        Be  it  enacted  by  the People of the State of Illinois,
 4    represented in the General Assembly:
 5        Section 5.  The Child Labor Law is  amended  by  changing
 6    Sections 3 and 7 as follows:
 7        (820 ILCS 205/3) (from Ch. 48, par. 31.3)
 8        Sec.  3.   Except as hereinafter provided, no minor under
 9    16 years of age shall be employed, permitted, or  allowed  to
10    work in any gainful occupation mentioned in Section 1 of this
11    Act  for   more  than  6 consecutive days in any one week, or
12    more than 48 hours in any one week, or more than 8  hours  in
13    any  one day, or be so employed, permitted or allowed to work
14    between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m. from Labor  Day  until  June  1  or
15    between 9 p.m. and 7 a.m. from June 1 until Labor Day.
16        The  hours  of  work  of minors under the age of 16 years
17    employed outside of school hours shall not exceed 3 a day  on
18    days  when school is in session, nor shall the combined hours
19    of work outside and in school exceed a  total  of  8  a  day;
20    except  that  a  minor  under  the  age  of  16 may work both
21    Saturday and Sunday for not more than 8 hours each day if the
22    following conditions are met:  (1) the minor  does  not  work
23    outside  school more than 6 consecutive days in any one week,
24    and (2) the number of  hours  worked  by  the  minor  outside
25    school in any week does not exceed 24.
26        A  minor  14  or  more  years of age who is employed in a
27    recreational or educational activity by a  park  district  or
28    municipal  parks and recreation department while school is in
29    session may work up to 3 hours per school day twice a week no
30    later than 9 p.m. if the number of hours worked by the  minor
31    outside  school  in any week does not exceed 24 or between 10
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 1    p.m.  and  7  a.m.  during  that  school  district's   summer
 2    vacation,  or  if  the school district operates on a 12 month
 3    basis, the period during which school is not in  session  for
 4    the minor.
 5    (Source: P.A. 87-139.)
 6        (820 ILCS 205/7) (from Ch. 48, par. 31.7)
 7        Sec.  7.   No  minor  under  16  years  of  age  shall be
 8    employed, 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 room,
11    skating  rink, exhibition park or place of amusement, garage,
12    or as a bell-boy in any hotel or rooming house or about or in
13    connection   with   power-driven   machinery;   except   this
14    subsection shall not apply to ice  skating  rinks  owned  and
15    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 be
20    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
24    articles containing explosive components, or in  the  use  or
25    transportation  of  same;  provided that office and messenger
26    and other non-hazardous employment shall not be prohibited by
27    this Act;
28        7.  In or about plants manufacturing iron or  steel,  ore
29    reduction  works,  smelters,  foundries,  forging  shops, hot
30    rolling mills or  any  other  place  in  which  the  heating,
31    melting,  or heat treatment of metals is carried on; provided
32    that office and messenger and other non-hazardous  employment
33    shall not be prohibited by this Act;
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 1        8.  In  the  operation  of  machinery  used  in  the cold
 2    rolling  of  heavy  metal  stock,  or  in  the  operation  of
 3    power-driven punching, shearing,  stamping,  or  metal  plate
 4    bending machines;
 5        9.  In   or   about   sawmills   or   lath,  shingle,  or
 6    cooperage-stock mills; provided that office and messenger and
 7    other non-hazardous employment shall  not  be  prohibited  by
 8    this Act;
 9        10.  In   the   operation   of  power-driven  woodworking
10    machines, or off-bearing from circular saws;
11        11.  In the operation of freight  elevators  or  hoisting
12    machines and cranes;
13        12.  In   spray  painting  or  in  occupations  involving
14    exposure  to  lead  or  its  compounds  or  to  dangerous  or
15    poisonous dyes or chemicals;
16        13.  In any place or establishment in which  intoxicating
17    alcoholic  liquors  are served or sold for consumption on the
18    premises, or  in  which  such  liquors  are  manufactured  or
19    bottled, except as follows: ; provided that
20             (A)  bus-boy  and  kitchen employment, not otherwise
21        prohibited, when in connection with the service of  meals
22        at  any private club, fraternal organization or veteran's
23        organization shall not be prohibited by this subsection;
24             (B)  this subsection 13 does not apply to employment
25        that is performed on property owned or operated by a park
26        district, as defined in subsection (a) of Section 1-3  of
27        the   Park  District  Code,  if  the  employment  is  not
28        otherwise prohibited by law;
29        14.  In oil  refineries,  gasoline  blending  plants,  or
30    pumping stations on oil transmission lines;
31        15.  In the operation of laundry, dry cleaning, or dyeing
32    machinery;
33        16.  In  occupations  involving  exposure  to radioactive
34    substances;
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 1        17.  In or about any filling station or service station;
 2        18.  In  construction  work,  including  demolition   and
 3    repair;
 4        19.  In roofing operations;
 5        20.  In excavating operations;
 6        21.  In logging operations;
 7        22.  In   public   and   private  utilities  and  related
 8    services;
 9        23.  In operations in or in connection with slaughtering,
10    meat  packing,  poultry  processing,  and  fish  and  seafood
11    processing;
12        24.  In operations which involve working on  an  elevated
13    surface,  with or without use of equipment, including but not
14    limited to ladders and scaffolds;
15        25.  In  security  positions  or  any  occupations   that
16    require the use or carrying of a firearm or other weapon; or
17        26.  In occupations which involve the handling or storage
18    of blood, blood products, body fluids, or body tissues.
19    (Source: P.A. 88-365.)

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