Any person, firm, or corporation, or the superintendent or any officer of the mill, cannery, workshop, factory, or manufacturing establishment employing any child, or permitting any child to be employed by or to work in, or to be detained in any mill, cannery, workshop, factory, or manufacturing establishment in this state contrary to law shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not less than Fifty Dollars ($50.00) nor more than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00), or may be sentenced to the county jail for not less than ten (10) days nor more than sixty (60) days, or both such fine and imprisonment.
Structure Mississippi Code
Chapter 1 - Employer and Employee
§ 71-1-1. Occupational health and safety program
§ 71-1-17. Children under fourteen not to work in mills or factories
§ 71-1-19. Child labor in accord with school attendance
§ 71-1-21. Regulating hours of labor
§ 71-1-23. Sheriff to enforce law
§ 71-1-25. County health officer to inspect
§ 71-1-27. Misdemeanor to fail or refuse to obey order of officer
§ 71-1-29. Misdemeanor to violate child labor laws
§ 71-1-31. Certain canneries excepted
§ 71-1-37. Discounting trade checks prohibited
§ 71-1-39. Trade checks must be paid in cash
§ 71-1-41. Employee trust plan
§ 71-1-43. Income or principal of employee trust plan not to be encumbered
§ 71-1-45. Assignment or pledge of wages
§ 71-1-47. Denial or abridgment of work