Limited certificate permitting employment of child may be issued when and how.

Minors under sixteen years

mitted to operate certain

work. All special permits to work shall be uniform throughout the state and on a form, including the commissioner's findings, that shall be provided by the commissioner. Except as provided in this clause all special permits to work shall be issued in accordance with and subject to all the provisions and penalties of this chapter."

SEC. 4. Section 1 of chapter 85 of the general laws, entitled "Of factory inspection," is hereby amended by adding thereto the following clause:

"Clause 12. The school committee of each town, or such person as the school committee may designate, may issue for any child who has completed fourteen years of age and who has complied with all the requirements of this chapter a special limited certificate permitting the employment of such child on Saturdays and other days on which schools are not in session, and on school days at hours in which schools are not in session at any legal employment and subject to the requirements of law limiting the employment of children. Said certificate shall be uniform throughout the state and the form thereof prescribed and provided by the commissioner of education. The school committee of each town, or such person as the school committee may designate to issue the certificate provided for in this clause, shall keep on file a copy of each certificate granted, together with the evidence on which such certificate was granted."

SEC. 5. Section 6 of chapter 85 of the general laws, entitled "Of factory inspection," is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

"Sec. 6. No minor under sixteen years of

age shall

of are not per- be employed or permitted to work in operating or assisting in operating any of the following machines: circular or bandsaws, wood-shapers, wood-jointers,

machines, etc.

planers, sand paper or wood-polishing machinery; Same subject. picker machines or machines used in picking wool, cotton, fur, hair or any upholstering material, paperlace machines; burnishing machines in any tannery or leather manufactory; job or cylinder printing presses having motive power other than foot; woodturning or boring machinery; stamping machines used in sheet metal or tin-ware manufacturing or in washer and nut factories; machines used in making corrugating rolls; steam boilers; dough brakes or cracker machinery of any description; wire or iron straightening machinery; rolling mill machinery, power punches, shears, or drop-presses; washing, grinding or mixing machinery; calendar rolls in rubber manufacturing; or laundering or dry-cleaning machinery; or in any capacity in adjusting or assisting in adjusting any belt to any machinery or in oiling or cleaning machinery in motion; or in any capacity in preparing any composition in which dangerous or poisonous acids are used; or in the manufacture or packing of paints, dry colors, or red or white lead; or in dipping, dyeing or packing matches; or in the manufacture, packing or storing of powder, dynamite, nitro-glycerine compounds, fuses or other explosives, or in stripping, assorting, manufacturing or packing tobacco; or in a tunnel; or in a pool or billiard room; or upon any railroad, whether steam or electric; or in any foundry; or in any place where dangerous belting or gearing is not provided with proper safeguards; or in any other work, occupation, place or process declared by the state board of health to be injurious, dangerous or hazardous for minors under sixteen years of age. The state board of health shall be empowered and it is hereby authorized, under such rules as it may determine, to declare any particular work, occupation, trade, place or

State board of declare certain dangerous, etc.

health may

work, etc.,

This act, when effective.

H 851.

Approved

June 16, 1923.

Coal or coke, how to be sold.

process injurious, dangerous or hazardous for minors under sixteen years of age. The state board of health shall also be empowered and it is hereby authorized, under such rules as it may determine, to declare any particular work, occupation, trade, place or process injurious, dangerous or hazardous for any particular minor under sixteen years of age, although such work, occupation, trade, place or process may not have been declared injurious, dangerous or hazardous for all minors under sixteen years of age as hereinbefore provided; and thereupon it shall be unlawful for such particular minor to be employed or permitted to work in such particular work, occupation, trade, place or process so declared by the board to be injurious, dangerous or hazardous for him."

SEC. 6. Sections 1, 2, 3 and 4 of this act shall take effect on September 1st, A. D. 1924. The remainder of this act shall take effect upon its passage, and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed: Provided, however, that this act shall not affect the validity of any work certificate lawfully issued prior to September 1st, 1924.

CHAPTER 483.

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AN ACT TO REGULATE THE SALE OF COAL IN THIS STATE AND REPEALING SECTIONS 23 AND 24 OF CHAPTER 221 OF THE GENERAL LAWS.

It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

SECTION 1. All coal or coke shall be sold by weight and except when sold by the cargo or carload, two thousand pounds avoirdupois shall be the standard for the ton. Coal and coke in quantities of less than

one hundred pounds per unit shall be sold in bags, Same subject. baskets or other vessels or receptacles; said bags, baskets, vessels or receptacles shall be plainly marked in solid letters, at least one inch in height, stating thereon the weight of coal or coke therein contained, the name of the dealer putting up the same, together with the size and kind, that is, in the case of coal, whether anthracite or bituminous, and if anthracite or coke, whether egg, stove, chestnut, range, pea, buckwheat or smaller sizes, or any combination of the aforesaid sizes of anthracite, the sizes and quantities of each contained in said combination shall be stated; provided, however, that coal or coke shall not be sold in bags, baskets, vessels or other receptacles in units of less than eighteen pounds. A statement signed by the seller or seller's agent setting forth the seller's name, the business address of the seller or the seller's agent, the name and address of the purchaser, the date of delivery and the kind, size and weight of said coal or coke, shall accompany the delivery of any anthracite or coke sold to consumers in the state of Rhode Island in quantities in excess of one hundred pounds and shall be given to the purchaser or purchaser's agent upon delivery of such anthracite or coke.

Anthracite to

quality.

SEC. 2. All anthracite sold or distributed to domes- be of what tic consumers in this state shall be of the same preparation and quality as fresh mined merchantable coal, as determined by the commissioner of labor, hereinafter termed the commissioner.

SEC. 3. The commissioner by himself or by his authorized agents may enter each place where coal is stored or kept for sale and each railroad train or car or any vehicle used for its conveyance and may inspect said coal or take therefrom fair and proper samples for analysis or inspection, one-half of said sample to be retained by the owner or owner's agent.

Commissioner

of

labor or his inspect coal, sale or dis

agents may

and prohibit

License for sale of coal or coke to be obtained.

Licensee to furnish evidence of possession of facilities.

Wagon to be marked, and license displayed.

Classes of licenses.

First Class:

Fee.

Second Class:

Fee.

Said commissioner may cause any sample taken to be analyzed, inspected or otherwise satisfactorily tested and shall record and preserve as evidence the results thereof. If, in the opinion of said commissioner, upon inspection, analysis or satisfactory test, said coal is not of a merchantable quality, said commissioner may prohibit the sale or distribution of such coal and cause the same to be disposed of as may be directed by him.

SEC. 4. Except as herein otherwise provided, it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to physically handle coal or coke for sale without first obtaining a license for such purpose from the commissioner. Every licensee shall furnish the commissioner with satisfactory evidence of the possession of proper facilities for weighing and distributing coal or coke. Every wagon or other vehicle used by a licensee in the sale or delivery of coal or coke shall be marked in such manner as the commissioner may require and each licensee shall display his license in a conspicuous manner at his place of business.

SEC. 5. There shall be two classes of said licenses, as follows: First class-Authorizing the licensee or his servants or agents to sell and deliver or distribute coal or coke in any quantities in any part of the state at wholesale or retail. The fee for each license of the first class shall be ten dollars. Second classAuthorizing the licensee or his servants or agents to sell and deliver or distribute coal or coke in less than one hundred pound units, at wholesale or retail, and to deliver the same in any city or town for which he is licensed. The fee for each license of the second class shall be two dollars for each city or town for which such license is issued; provided, however, that any retail dealer in coal or coke put up in bags, baskets, vessels or other receptacles, upon approval