Bill Text: IL SB2752 | 2009-2010 | 96th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: 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.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-06-27 - Pursuant to Senate Rule 3-9(b) / Referred to Assignments [SB2752 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2009-SB2752-Introduced.html

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96TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2009 and 2010 SB2752 Introduced 1/28/2010, by Sen. John J. Cullerton 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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AN ACT concerning employment.
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
Section 7 as follows:
(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 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

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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

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alcoholic liquors are served or sold for consumption on the
premises, or in which such liquors are manufactured or
bottled, except as follows:
(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

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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 human blood, human blood products, human body
fluids, or human body tissues.
(Source: P.A. 95-180, eff. 1-1-08.)