98TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
State of Illinois
2013 and 2014
HB2312
 
Introduced , by Rep. Daniel V. Beiser
 
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,
 
3represented in the General Assembly:

 
4    Section 5. The Child Labor Law is amended by changing 
5Section 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,

8permitted 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.)