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92_SB0788
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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
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
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1 that office and messenger and other non-hazardous employment
2 shall not be prohibited by this Act;
3 8. In the operation of machinery used in the cold
4 rolling of heavy metal stock, or in the operation of
5 power-driven punching, shearing, stamping, or metal plate
6 bending machines;
7 9. In or about sawmills or lath, shingle, or
8 cooperage-stock mills; provided that office and messenger and
9 other non-hazardous employment shall not be prohibited by
10 this Act;
11 10. In the operation of power-driven woodworking
12 machines, or off-bearing from circular saws;
13 11. In the operation of freight elevators or hoisting
14 machines and cranes;
15 12. In spray painting or in occupations involving
16 exposure to lead or its compounds or to dangerous or
17 poisonous dyes or chemicals;
18 13. In any place or establishment in which intoxicating
19 alcoholic liquors are served or sold for consumption on the
20 premises, or in which such liquors are manufactured or
21 bottled, except as follows:
22 (A) bus-boy and kitchen employment, not otherwise
23 prohibited, when in connection with the service of meals
24 at any private club, fraternal organization or veteran's
25 organization shall not be prohibited by this subsection;
26 (B) this subsection 13 does not apply to employment
27 that is performed on property owned or operated by a park
28 district, as defined in subsection (a) of Section 1-3 of
29 the Park District Code, if the employment is not
30 otherwise prohibited by law;
31 (C) this subsection 13 does not apply to employment
32 that is performed at a sports facility that:
33 (i) is operated by a corporation that is: (I)
34 exempt from federal income taxation under Section
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1 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and (II)
2 organized under the General Not For Profit
3 Corporation Act of 1986; and
4 (ii) is located in a county with a population
5 between 115,000 and 120,000, as determined by the
6 1990 decennial United States Census;
7 14. In oil refineries, gasoline blending plants, or
8 pumping stations on oil transmission lines;
9 15. In the operation of laundry, dry cleaning, or dyeing
10 machinery;
11 16. In occupations involving exposure to radioactive
12 substances;
13 17. In or about any filling station or service station;
14 18. In construction work, including demolition and
15 repair;
16 19. In roofing operations;
17 20. In excavating operations;
18 21. In logging operations;
19 22. In public and private utilities and related
20 services;
21 23. In operations in or in connection with slaughtering,
22 meat packing, poultry processing, and fish and seafood
23 processing;
24 24. In operations which involve working on an elevated
25 surface, with or without use of equipment, including but not
26 limited to ladders and scaffolds;
27 25. In security positions or any occupations that
28 require the use or carrying of a firearm or other weapon; or
29 26. In occupations which involve the handling or storage
30 of blood, blood products, body fluids, or body tissues.
31 (Source: P.A. 90-410, eff. 1-1-98.)
32 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
33 becoming law.
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