HERBERT R. O'CONOR, GOVERNOR. 289
CHAPTER 326.

(Senate Bill 136)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section
22 of Article 100 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1939 Edition), title "Work—Hours of, in Factories, "
sub-title "Employment of Minors, " to clarify the pro-
visions of said section.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 22 of Article 100 of the Annotated Code of
Maryland (1939 Edition), title "Work—Hours of, in Fac-
tories, " sub-title "Employment of Minors, " be and it is
hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

22. No child under the age of eighteen years shall be
employed, permitted or suffered to work in, about or in
connection with blast furnaces, docks or wharves; or in
the outside erection and repair of electric wires; in the
running or management of elevators, lifts or hoisting
machines or dynamos; in oiling or cleaning machinery in
motion; in the operation of emery wheels or any abrasive
polishing or buffing wheel where articles of the baser
metals or iridium are manufactured, if in the judgment of
the Commissioner, it shall be deemed hazardous; at switch
tending, gate tending, track repairing or as brakemen, fire-
men, engineers, motormen or conductors upon railroads, or
as railroad telegraph operators; pilots, firemen or engineers
upon boats and vessels; or in or about establishments
where nitroglycerine, dynamite, daulin, guncotton, gun-
powder or other high explosive or dangerous explosives
are manufactured, compounded or stored; or in the manu-
facture of white or yellow phosphorus or phosphorus
matches; or in any distillery, brewery or other establish-
ment where malt or alcoholic liquors are manufactured,
packed, wrapped or bottled; or in any theatre, concert hall,
club or other place of amusement wherein intoxicating
liquors are sold.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall
take effect June 1, 1945.

Approved March 24, 1945.
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