such consent shall be revocable at the will of the officer giving it. Dramas and plays shall include the production of motion picture plays.

§ 6. Employer to keep register. Report by authority issuing permits. Every person, firm, corporation or agent, or officer of a firm or corporation, employing either directly, or indirectly through the instrumentality of one or more contractors or other third persons, minors under the age of eighteen years, shall keep a separate register containing the names, ages and addresses of such minor employees and shall post and keep posted in a conspicuous place in every room where such minors are employed, a written or printed notice stating the hours per day for each day of the week required of such minors, and shall keep on file all permits and certificates either to work or to employ, issued under the provisions of this act, or under the provisions of an act entitled "An act to enforce the educational rights of children and providing penalties for the violation of the act," approved March 24, 1903, as amended. Such records and files shall be open at all times to the inspection of the school attendance and probation officers, the state board of education and the officers of the state bureau of labor statistics.

All such certificates and permits to work or to employ shall be returned to the authority issuing the same within five days after the minor quits his employment. Such certificate or permit shall be subject to cancellation at any time by such commissioner of the bureau of labor statistics, or by the authority issuing the same, whenever such commissioner or such issuing authority shall find that the conditions for the legal issuance of such certificate or permit no longer exist or have never existed.

At least once in every six months, to wit, on or before January tenth and on or before July tenth of each year, the authority issuing all such permits and certificates either to work or to employ, shall file a full written report of the same, stating the names, ages and addresses of the minors under sixteen years of age affected thereby, with the state bureau of labor statistics and the state board of education.

§7. Penalty. Fines to be paid into school funds. Report of violation of act. Any person, firm, corporation, agent, or officer of a firm or corporation, employing either directly or indirectly through the instrumentality of one or more contractors or other third persons, or any parent or guardian of a minor affected by this act, who violates or omiis to comply with any of the provisions hereof, or who employs or suffers or permits any minor to be employed in violation thereof, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars, nor more than two hundred dollars, by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than sixty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment for each and every offense.

A failure to produce any permit or certificate either to work or to employ or to post any notice required by this act shall be prima facie evidence of the illegal employment of any minor whose permit or certificate is not so produced or whose name is not so posted. Any fine collected under the provisions of this act shall be paid into the school funds of the county, or city, or city and county, in which the offense occurred, except such fines as are imposed and collected as the result of prosecutions by the officers of the bureau of labor statistics, in which cases one-half of the resultant fine or fines shall be paid into the state treasury and credited to the contingent fund of the bureau of labor

GENERAL LAWS.

statistics and one-half paid into the school funds of the county, or city, or city and county, in which the offense occurred. violations of the provisions of this act, whether prosecuted or not, must All reported be reported in writing immediately after their occurrence by the state bureau of labor statistics to the state board of education. Such report shall state the name and address of the person or corporation charged with such violation, the nature of such charge and the name, age and address of the minor or minors affected thereby, and shall be followed, at least once in every six months, to wit, on or before January tenth, and on or before July tenth of each year, by a written summary of all violations of the provisions of this act which have occurred during the preceding period of six months.

§ 8. Duty of labor commissioner. Duty of attendance officers. The bureau of labor statistics shall enforce the provisions of this act. The commissioner, his deputies and agents, shall have all the powers and authority of sheriffs or other peace officers, to make arrests for violation of the provisions of this act, and to serve any process or notice throughout the state.

The attendance officer of any county, city and county, or school district in which any place of employment, in this act named, is situated, or the probation officer of such county, shall have the right and authority, at all times, to enter into any such place of employment for the purpose of investigating violations of the provisions of this act, or violations of the provisions of an act entitled "An act to enforce the educa tional rights of children and providing penalties for the violation of the act," approved March 24, 1903, and any act amending or superseding the same; provided, however, that if such attendance or probation officer is denied entrance to such place of employment, any magistrate may, upon the filing of an affidavit by such attendance or probation officer setting forth the fact that he has a good cause to believe that the provisions of this act, or the act herein before referred to, are being violated in such place of employment, issue an order directing such attendance or probation officer to enter said place of employment for the purpose of making such investigations.

§ 9. Repealed. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby expressly repealed.

§ 10. Constitutionality. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this act is for any reason held to be unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this act. The legislature hereby declares that it would have passed this act, and each section, subsection, sentence, clause and phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more other sections, subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared unconstitutional.

ACT 3626.

An act to prohibit minors under the age of eighteen years to vend and sell goods, engage in, or conduct any business between the hours of 10 o'clock in the evening and 5 o'clock in the morning, and providing penalties for violations thereof.

[Approved May 1, 1911. Stats. 1911, p. 1341.]

§ 1. Unlawful for minor under eighteen to conduct business between 10 P. M. and 5 A. M.

§ 2. Punishment for violation of statute.

§ 1. Unlawful for minor under eighteen to conduct business between 10 P. M. and 5 A. M. It shall be unlawful for any minor under the age of eighteen years to vend and sell goods, engage in, or conduct any business between the hours of 10 o'clock in the evening and 5 o'clock in the morning.

§ 2. Punishment for violation of statute. Any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a msdemeanor and shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not more than twenty dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than ten days, or by both such fine and imprisonment for each offense.

ACT 3627.

To regulate the hours of labor and employment of minors. [Stats. 1889, p. 4.]

This act is not in terms repealed but it is probably superseded by later acts on the subject.

See ante, Acts 3624, 3625.

ACT 3628.

To regulate the employment, hours of labor, etc., of children. [Stats. 1901, p. 631.]

Superseded by Act of 1905, p. 11. See ante, Act 3624.

ACT 3629.

An act to aid the enforcement of an act entitled, "An act to enforce the educational rights of children and providing penalties for violation of the act," approved March 24, 1903.

§ 1. § 2.

[Approved March 8, 1909. Stats. 1909, p. 209.]

Compulsory schooling required.

Labor commissioner to enforce act.

§ 3. Act takes effect when.

§ 1. Compulsory schooling required. All minors coming within the provisions of an act entitled, "An act regulating the employment and hours of labor of children, prohibiting the employment of minors under certain ages, prohibiting the employment of certain illiterate minors, providing for the enforcement hereof by the commissioner of the bureau of labor statistics and providing penalties for the violation hereof" (approved February 20, 1905), and found employed and at work without the necessary legal authorization as provided for and required in said act, and whose ages are between the maximum and minimum age limits as described in an act entitled, "An act to enforce the educational rights of children and providing penalties for violation of the act," shall be placed or delivered into the custody of the school district authorities of the county, city, or city and county in which they are found illegally at work.

§ 2. Labor commissioner to enforce act. The commissioner of the bureau of labor statistics is hereby authorized, directed and empowered to enforce the provisions of this act.

§ 3. Act takes effect when. This act shall take effect immediately.

ACT 3630.

An act to provide for the transportation of certain dependent children for whom proper homes are offered outside the state and making an appropriation therefor.

[Approved May 24, 1923. Stats. 1923, p. 442.]

§ 1. Appropriation: Transportation of orphans, etc.

§ 1. Appropriation: transportation of orphans, etc. There is hereby appropriated out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be used by the board of control during the seventy-fifth and seventy-sixth fiscal years for the purpose of transporting to proper homes without the state, when such homes are offered, minor orphans, half orphans, abandoned children, or children of a father who is incapacitated for gainful work by permanent physical disability or who is suffering from tuberculosis in such a stage that he cannot pursue a gainful occupation; provided, that the county from which the children are removed shall pay onehalf of the total expense necessarily incurred by the state in effecting such transportation.

ACT 3631.

An act to provide for the registration of minors.

[Approved May 9, 1919. Stats. 1919, p. 437. In effect July 22, 1919.] § 1. Appointment of registrar of minors by school board.

§ 2. Appointment by county superintendent.

§ 3.

Registration of minors.

§ 4.

Report of registrar.

§ 6.

Expenses.

§ 5. Report to superintendent of public instruction.

§ 1. Appointment of registrar of minors by school board. It shall be the duty of the governing board of every school district, except high school districts, to appoint a registrar of minors, and such assistant registrars as may be necessary, such appointments to be made on or be fore the fifteenth day of October, 1919. Such registrar of minors and assistants shall be residents of the school district and at least twentyone years of age, and may be allowed such compensation as the governing board shall fix, not exceeding four dollars a day for the time actually and necessarily employed. Before entering upon the discharge of his duties, each registrar and assistant registrar must qualify and file his oath of office with the superintendent of schools of the county.

§ 2. Appointment by county superintendent. If the governing board of any school district shall fail to appoint a registrar of minors as herein provided, it shall be the duty of the county superintendent of the schools having jurisdiction over such district to appoint a registrar of minors and such assistant registrars as may be necessary for such dis

trict and to fix their compensation, not exceeding four dollars a day for the time actually and necessarily employed. He shall also draw a warrant on the funds of such district in payment of the services of such registrar and assistants.

§ 3. Registration of minors. It shall be the duty of the registrar of minors during the month of November, 1919, to visit each habitation, residence, domicile or place of abode in his school district and make a complete registration of minors residing in the school district on the first day of November, 1919, on blanks provided by the superintendent of public instruction.

Such registration shall show the name and residence of cach head of a family in the school district, the names of all minor children in each family, the nativity, sex, race, date of birth of each minor child, the school attended by each minor child if he is attending school, the grade in which he is placed in school, the occupation of each minor child if he is employed in a gainful occupation and the name and address of the employer. Wherever a district is formed lying partly in two or more adjoining counties, the registrar must report to each county superintendent the data concerning the families and children residing in the county under the jurisdiction of such superintendent. Minors who are absent attending institutions of learning shall be registered in the districts where their parents or guardians reside. Orphans, halforphans and children living in orphanages shall be registered in the district in which the orphanage is situated. Minors under guardianship shall be registered in the district in which the guardian resides.

§ 4. Report of registrar. The registrar shall on or before the first day of January, 1920, file a complete report of such registration, attested by oath, with the county superintendent of schools and a duplicate report with the clerk of the governing board of the district. Such report shall include a statistical abstract showing the number of families enumerated; the total number of boys; the total number of girls; the total number of native-born and foreign-born children, segregated according to sex; the total number of boys and girls of each race, segregated according to sex; the total number of minors under six years of age, segregated according to sex; the total number of minors six and seven years of age, segregated according to sex; the number of minors between the ages of eight and fifteen years inclusive, segregated according to sex; the total number of minors between the ages of sixteen and twenty, inclusive, segregated according to sex; the total number of minors between the ages of sixteen and twenty inclusive, attending school, segregated according to sex; the total number of minors under sixteen years of age employed in gainful occupations; and the total number of minors over sixteen years of age employed in gainful occupations; and the total number of (1) crippled children, (2) blind children, (3) dumb children and (4) deaf children, segregated according to age and sex.

§ 5. Report to superintendent of public instruction. It shall be the duty of the county superintendent of each county to make a report of the registration of his county to the superintendent of public instruction on or before the first day of March, 1920. Such report shall be compiled from the statistical abstracts filed by registrars of minors of his county and shall be on forms prescribed by the superintendent of public instruction.