WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR 211

NO MINOR UNDER 16 YEARS OF AGE SHALL BE EM-
PLOYED, PERMITTED OR SUFFERED TO WORK AS
A HELPER ON A COMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHICLE.

(i) Definitions. The term "motor vehicle" shall mean any
automobile, truck, truck-tractor, trailer, semitrailer, motor-
cycle, or similar vehicle propelled or drawn by mechanical
power and designed for use as a means of transportation but
shall not include any vehicle operated exclusively on rails.
The term "driver" shall mean any individual who, in the
course of his employment, drives a motor vehicle at any time.
The term "helper" shall mean any individual, other than a
driver, whose work in connection with the transportation or
delivery of goods includes riding on a motor vehicle.

(j) No male minor under 18 years of age and no female
of any age shall be employed, permitted, or suffered to work
in any coal mine, tunnel or excavation except that male
minors 16 or 17 years of age may be employed in the occupa-
tion of slate or other refuse picking at a picking table or
picking chute in a tipple or breaker or in repair or main-
tenance shops located in the surface part of any coal mining
plant and both male and female minors 16 and 17 years of
age may be employed in occupations requiring the perform-
ance of duties solely in offices located in the surface part
of the mine.

(k) Definitions. The term "coal" shall mean any rank of
coal, including lignite, bituminous, and anthracite coals. The
term "all occupations in or about any coal mine" shall mean
all types of work performed in any underground working,
open-pit or surface part of any coal-mining plant that con-
tributes to the extraction, grading, cleaning, or other hand-
ling of coal.

14. (a) No minor under 18 years of age shall be employed
in any occupation in logging nor in any of the occupations
in the operation of any saw mill, lathe mill, shingle mill or
cooperage stock mill, except that minors not less than 16
years of age may be employed in the following occupations:

(b) Work in the construction, operation, repair or main-
tenance of living and administrative quarters of logging
camps.

(c) Work in timber cruising, surveying or logging-engineer-
ing parties, work in the repair or maintenance of roads, rail-
roads or flumes, work in forest protection, such as clear-
ing fire trails or roads, piling and burning slash, maintaining
fire-fighting equipment, constructing and maintaining tele-