Public Act 90-0410 of the 90th General Assembly

State of Illinois
Public Acts
90th General Assembly

[ Home ] [ Public Acts ] [ ILCS ] [ Search ] [ Bottom ]


Public Act 90-0410

SB476 Enrolled                                 LRB9002348WHmg

    AN ACT to amend the Child Labor Law by changing  Sections
3 and 7.

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

    Section 5.  The Child Labor Law is  amended  by  changing
Sections 3 and 7 as follows:

    (820 ILCS 205/3) (from Ch. 48, par. 31.3)
    Sec.  3.   Except as hereinafter provided, no minor under
16 years of age shall be employed, permitted, or  allowed  to
work in any gainful occupation mentioned in Section 1 of this
Act  for   more  than  6 consecutive days in any one week, or
more than 48 hours in any one week, or more than 8  hours  in
any  one day, or be so employed, permitted or allowed to work
between 7 p.m. and 7 a.m. from Labor  Day  until  June  1  or
between 9 p.m. and 7 a.m. from June 1 until Labor Day.
    The  hours  of  work  of minors under the age of 16 years
employed outside of school hours shall not exceed 3 a day  on
days  when school is in session, nor shall the combined hours
of work outside and in school exceed a  total  of  8  a  day;
except  that  a  minor  under  the  age  of  16 may work both
Saturday and Sunday for not more than 8 hours each day if the
following conditions are met:  (1) the minor  does  not  work
outside  school more than 6 consecutive days in any one week,
and (2) the number of  hours  worked  by  the  minor  outside
school in any week does not exceed 24.
    A  minor  14  or  more  years of age who is employed in a
recreational or educational activity by a  park  district  or
municipal  parks and recreation department while school is in
session may work up to 3 hours per school day twice a week no
later than 9 p.m. if the number of hours worked by the  minor
outside  school  in any week does not exceed 24 or between 10
p.m.  and  7  a.m.  during  that  school  district's   summer
vacation,  or  if  the school district operates on a 12 month
basis, the period during which school is not in  session  for
the minor.
(Source: P.A. 87-139.)

    (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: ; provided that
         (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 blood, blood products, body fluids, or body tissues.
(Source: P.A. 88-365.)

[ Top ]