38-602. Children under 18, employment; rules and regulations. No child under eighteen (18) years of age shall be at any time employed in any occupation, trade or business which is in any way dangerous or injurious to the life, health, safety, morals or welfare of such minor. The state labor commissioner is hereby authorized and empowered, from time to time, to hold public hearings to determine work, trade or occupations which are within the prohibition of this section, and he shall adopt appropriate rules and regulations, after public hearings thereon, prohibiting or regulating employment of minors in any work, trade or occupation found to be dangerous or injurious to the life, health, safety, morals or welfare of minors under the age of eighteen (18) years: Provided, That no child under the age of eighteen (18) shall be employed in any of the occupations declared by the United States secretary of labor to be within the hazardous occupation regulations issued pursuant to the child labor provisions of the fair labor standards act on July 1, 1973.
History: L. 1917, ch. 227, § 2; R.S. 1923, 38-602; L. 1943, ch. 178, § 1; L. 1973, ch. 183, § 2; July 1.
Structure Kansas Statutes
38-601 Children under 14, employment.
38-602 Children under 18, employment; rules and regulations.
38-603 Children under 16, employment.
38-604 Work permit required; exception.
38-605 Notice of hours of labor.
38-606 Work permits, requirements before issuance.
38-608 Blanks for permits; duplicates; permit as evidence of age.
38-609 Return of permit on termination of employment.
38-611 Duties of inspector and county attorney.
38-612 Penalty for unlawful employment.
38-613 Federal aid, labor commissioner authorized to receive.
38-614 Activities not considered employment; performance prohibited, when.
38-615 Employment of minor child entertainers; definitions.
38-616 Same; infants, requirements; violations, penalty.
38-617 Same; earnings sole property of minor child.
38-618 Same; contracts affected.
38-619 Same; disaffirmance precluded upon judicial approval of contract; approval procedure.