3636 ARTICLE 100

Hours of Labor for Females.¹

An. Code, 1924, sec. 54. 1912, sec. 51. 1912, ch. 79, sec. 14. 1916, ch. 147.

53. No female shall be employed or permitted to work in any manu-
facturing, mechanical, mercantile, printing, baking or laundering establish-
ment more than ten hours in any one day, nor more than sixty hours
in any one week, nor more than eight hours in any one day, if any part
of her work is done, before six o'clock in the morning or after ten o'clock
in the evening of the said day, nor shall any female be employed or per-
mitted to work for more than six hours continuously at any one time in
any of the aforesaid establishments in which three, or more such persons
are employed, without an interval of, at least, a. half, hour, except that
such female may be so employed for not more than six and a half hours
continuously at one time, if she shall not be permitted to work during the
remainder of the day in her said employment. Provided, further, that
the invalidity of any portion of this sub-title, shall, in no way affect the
validity of any other portion thereof, which can be given effect, without
such invalid part. But the provisions of this section shall not apply to
females employed in: the canning or preserving, or preparing for canning
or preserving of perishable fruit and vegetables. And provided further that
in any retail mercantile establishments located outside of the city of Bal-
timore a female may be permitted to work on Saturdays and on Christmas
Eve and the five working days next preceding Christmas Eve not more
than twelve hours, if during each of such Saturdays and Christmas Eve
and five days aforesaid the female so employed shall have at least two rest
intervals of not less than one hour each, and this, provision shall only apply
to such mercantile establishments as have during the remainder of the cal-
endar year a working day. of not more than nine hours.²
See notes to sec. 4.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 55. 1912, sec. 52. 1912, ch. 79, sec. 15.

54. Every employer shall post in a conspicuous place in every room of
any manufacturing, mechanical, mercantile, printing, baking or laundering
establishment in which any females are employed, a printed notice stating
the. provisions of this law and the hours of beginning and stopping work.
The printed form of such notice shall be furnished by the.Commissioner
of Labor and Statistics.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 56. 1912, sec. 54. 1912, ch. 79, sec., 17.

55. The said Inspector and her said Assistants, in the discharge of their
duties, may enter any place, building or room of any establishment men-
tioned in section 53 of this article and shall visit and inspect all estab-

lishments named in said section 53 as often as practicable during reason-
able hours, and shall cause the provisions of this sub-title to be enfbrced
therein; they shall report any cases of illegal employment or other viola-
tions of sections 53 and 54 of this article to the State's attorney and the
grand jury of the county or city where the said offenses shall, have been
committed.

¹ No woman may work in or about a coal mine, art. 89, sec. 174.

² The act of 1916, ch. 406 (see art. 89 of the Code), creates a commission/to be known

as the state board of labor and statistics, and transfers to said board all powers and

duties now exercised by bureau of statistics and information and chief of industrial

bureau and inspector and assistant inspector of female labor under this and following

sections. Commissioner of labor and statistics superseded said board by ch.29 of 1922.

See art. 89.