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occupation named in sections 4 and 5 unless the person, firm or corporation
employing such child procures and keeps on file, and accessible to any
attendance officer, inspector of factories, or other authorized inspector or
officer charged with the enforcement of this sub-title, the employment cer-
tificate as hereinafter provided, issued to said child; and unless such em-
ployment, permission or sufferance to work in, about or in connection
with said establishments or occupations shall be in accordance with the
terms and regulations laid down for said employment certificates as here-
inafter provided.
See notes to sec. 4.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 11. 1912, sec. 10. 1912, ch. 731, sec. 10.

11. Attendance officers, inspectors of factories, or other authorized
inspectors or officers charged with the enforcement of this sub-title shall
require that the employment certificates and lists provided for in this sub-
title be produced for their inspection.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 12. 1912, sec. 11. 1912, ch. 731, sec. 11. 1916, ch. 222, sec. 11.

12. On termination of the employment of a child under sixteen years
of age, the employment certificate issued to such child shall be returned by
registered mail by the employer to the official issuing the same within
twenty-four hours if said return is demanded by said child and otherwise
within fifteen days of the termination of said employment, and the official
to whom said certificate is so returned shall file and preserve the same until
another certificate is issued to said child or until said child reaches the age
of sixteen years, and on the return of said certificate shall notify the Com-
missioner of Labor and Statistics of said return. Any child whose employ-
ment certificate has been returned as above provided shall be entitled to a
new certificate without re-examination except a physician's certificate that
the child is physically able to undertake the work for which the new cer-
tificate is to be issued, and such reissue of a certificate shall be subject to
all conditions as to recording and reporting governing the original issue.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 13. 1912, sec. 12. 1912, ch. 731, sec. 12. 1916, ch. 222, sec. 12.

13. An employment certificate shall be issued in Baltimore City only
by the Commissioner of Labor and Statistics, and in the counties by said
Commissioner or by the county superintendent of schools of the county in
which said child resides, or by some person designated in writing by said
superintendent. The employment certificate shall be issued only upon ap-
plication in person of the parent, guardian, or legal custodian of the child
desiring such employment, or if said child have no parent, guardian or legal
custodian, then by next friend, but no certificate shall be issued by any
person for any child then in, or about to enter such person's own employ-
ment, or the employment of a firm or corporation of which said person is a
member, officer or employee. Employment certificates shall be of two
classes: General employment certificates and vacation employment certifi-
cates. General employment certificates shall entitle the child to work dur-
ing the entire year; vacation employment certificates shall entitle the child
to work during the entire year excepting during such time as said child
is required to attend public or private school under the provisions of the
laws now in force, or hereafter to be enacted.