136                             LAWS OF MARYLAND                      [CH. 105

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Sections 4, 10, 16(b), 20(a), 23(d), 24(c), and 24(d) of Article
100 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1964 Replacement Volume
and 1967 Cumulative Supplement) title "Work, Labor and Employ-
ment", subtitle "Employment of Minors," be and they are hereby
repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read as follows:

4.

As used in this subtitle "gainful occupation" does not include
employment in farm work or in domestic service in a private home
provided such farm work and domestic service is performed out-
side school hours, nor in occasional employment by a householder in
connection with the household and not in connection with the house-
holder's business or occupation and when confined to casual domestic
tasks performed outside regular school hours and with the consent
of the parent or legal guardian, nor does it apply to the delivery of
newspapers [by newspaper boys on regularly scheduled routes, ex-
cept as provided by Section 26 of this subtitle.] to the consumer, nor
to children employed by their parents in occupations other than man-
ufacturing or mining or hazardous occupations.

10.

No [male] minor under 16 years of age [and no female minor
under 18 years of age] shall be employed, permitted or suffered to
work on any scaffolding or construction work or erection of build-
ings or any of the building trades, in any brick or lumber yard, at
airports or upon any railroad, whether steam or electric or hydraulic,
or upon any vessel or boat engaged in navigation or commerce or in
any factory where tobacco or tobacco products are prepared, manu-
factured, assorted or packed, or in any [hotel, roadhouse, curb-
service place,] dry-cleaning establishment or laundry, nor in the
adjustment of any belt to any machinery nor in any capacity in
which dangerous or poisonous acids are used, nor in packing of
paints, colors, white or red lead, nor in occupations causing dust
in injurious quantities, nor in the use of dangerous or poisonous
dyes, or compositions with dangerous or poisonous gases, nor in
the use of composition of lye in which the quantity thereof is
injurious to health, except minors 14 and 15 when not legally
required to attend school may be employed where such minors are
engaged in purely office work or where employed in branches of
laundering or dyeing establishments where no processing is done
£, and provided that no minor under 16 years of age shall be em-
ployed, permitted or suffered to work in any restaurant].

Definitions.—The term "elevator" shall mean any power-driven
hoisting or lowering mechanism equipped with a car or platform
which moves in guides in a substantially vertical direction. The term
shall include both passenger and freight elevators (including porta-
ble elevators or tiering machines), but shall not include dumbwaiters
[.] or fully automatic, enclosed elevators.

The term "crane" shall mean a power-driven machine for lifting
and lowering a load and moving it horizontally, in which the hoisting
mechanism is an integral part of the machine. The term shall in-

16(b).