Connecticut General Statutes
Chapter 168 - School Attendance and Employment of Children
Section 10-197. - Penalty for employment of child under fourteen.

Any person who employs a child under fourteen years of age during the hours while the school which such child should attend is in session, and any person who authorizes or permits on premises under his or her control any such child to be so employed, shall be fined not more than twenty dollars for each week in which such child is so employed.

(1949 Rev., S. 1458; P.A. 78-218, S. 125.)
History: P.A. 78-218 amended section to include feminine personal pronoun.

Structure Connecticut General Statutes

Connecticut General Statutes

Title 10 - Education and Culture

Chapter 168 - School Attendance and Employment of Children

Section 10-184. - Duties of parents. School attendance age requirements.

Section 10-184a. - Special education programs or services for children educated in a home or private school.

Section 10-184b. - Waiver provisions not applicable to equivalent instruction authority of parents.

Section 10-185. - Penalty.

Section 10-186. - Duties of local and regional boards of education re school attendance. Hearings. Appeals to state board. Establishment of hearing board. Readmission. Transfers.

Section 10-187. - Appeal from finding of hearing board.

Section 10-188. - Private schools and instruction.

Section 10-189 to 10-192. - Leaving certificate. Educationally retarded children, exception. Physical examination. Employer's duty upon receiving leaving certificate.

Section 10-193. - Certificate of age for minors in certain occupations.

Section 10-194. - Penalty.

Section 10-195. - Evidence of age.

Section 10-196. - Agents.

Section 10-197. - Penalty for employment of child under fourteen.

Section 10-198. - False statement as to age.

Section 10-198a. - Policies and procedures concerning truants.

Section 10-198b. - State Board of Education to define “excused absence”, “unexcused absence” and “disciplinary absence”.

Section 10-198c. - Attendance review teams.

Section 10-198d. - Chronic absenteeism prevention and intervention plan.

Section 10-198e. - Truancy intervention models.

Section 10-198f. - Mental health wellness days.

Section 10-199. - Attendance officers. Duties.

Section 10-200. - Habitual truants.

Section 10-201. - Fees for arresting truants.

Section 10-202. - Warrant and hearing.

Section 10-202a to 10-202d. - Dropout prevention pilot program; establishment. Attendance plan. Testing; inventory of skills and interests. Programs and services; assistance; report.

Section 10-202e. - Policy on dropout prevention.

Section 10-202f. - Dropout prevention grant program.