[No. 19.] AN ACT to provide for the protection and legal employment of minors between the ages of sixteen and eighteen years. The People of the State of Michigan enact: deemed SECTION 1. Any minor over sixteen and under eighteen Who years of age engaged in an occupation approved by the depart- employed. ment of labor and industry as required by section eleven of act number two hundred eighty-five of the public acts of nineteen hundred nine, as amended, shall, within the meaning of said act, be considered to be legally employed, and shall in all cases be subject to act number ten of the public acts of nineteen hundred twelve (extra session), as amended, known as the workmen's compensation law, provided that the employer has filed the required permit or certificate for said minor. Approved April 2, 1927. [No. 20.] AN ACT to amend section thirty-five of act number two hundred eighty-five, public acts nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act to provide for the creation of a department of labor; to prescribe its powers and duties; to regulate the employment of labor; to make an appropriation for the maintenance of such department, and to prescribe penalties for the violation of this act," as amended by act number one hundred ninety-one, public acts nineteen hundred eleven, and act number two hundred sixteen, public acts nineteen hundred fifteen, being section five thousand three hundred fifty-six, compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, as amended by act number two hundred six, public acts nineteen hundred twenty-three, and to add a new section to said act to stand as section thirty-five a. The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. Section thirty-five of act number two hundred Section eighty-five, public acts nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act to provide for the creation of a department of labor; to prescribe its powers and duties; to regulate the employment of labor; to make an appropriation for the maintenance of such department, and to prescribe penalties for the violation of this act," as amended by act number one hundred ninetyone, public acts nineteen hundred eleven, and act number two Section added. Free employment bureaus. Fee. May advertise. Proviso. Registration fund. hundred sixteen, public acts nineteen hundred fifteen, being section five thousand three hundred fifty-six, compiled laws nineteen hundred fifteen, as amended by act number two hundred six, public acts nineteen hundred twenty-three, is hereby amended and a new section is hereby added to said act to be known as section thirty-five a, said amended and added sections to read as follows: SEC. 35. The commission is hereby authorized to organize and establish in this state such free employment bureaus as it deems advisable for the purpose of receiving applications of persons seeking employment and applications of persons seeking to employ labor. Such bureaus shall be designated and known as Michigan public employment bureaus. The commission shall control the public employment bureaus authorized by this act, and require the payment by all persons seeking employment of a registration fee of not more than one dollar for the period of one year. For each fee there shall be issued a receipt which shall be in triplicate; one copy to be given to the applicant, one copy to be filed in the local office and one copy to be filed in the office of the department of labor and industry at Lansing. Receipts and all fees shall be sent to the department of labor and industry at Lansing at least once each week. Every person paying such regis tration fee shall be entitled without further charge for the period of one year, to the service, of any Michigan public employment bureau, maintained and operated by the department of labor and industry. It shall be the duty of said commission to use all diligence in securing the cooperation of employers of labor with the purpose and objects of said employment bureau. To this end it shall be competent for said commission to advertise in the columns of newspapers or to use other mediums for such situations as it or its agents have applicants to fill, and for such help as may be called for by employers. Said commission may also advertise in a general way for the cooperation of large contractors and employers, in such trade journals or special publications as reach such employers, whether such trade journals are published in the state of Michigan or not, and it may pursue such other methods as in its judgment will best tend to accomplish the purpose of this act: Provided, That all managers or superintendents in charge of state public employment bureaus shall devote their entire time to the work of their office while receiving salary or wages from the state. SEC. 35a. All moneys received by the department of labor and industry under the provisions of section thirty-five of this act shall be set aside and shall be known as the Michigan public employment bureau registration fund, and shall be held and retained in the state treasury as a separate fund and shall be used and disbursed under the direction of said department of labor and industry, subject to the consent and approval of the state administrative board for the purpose of conducting, maintaining and improving said Michigan public employment bureaus and the balance of said fund, if any, shall be used for such purposes as said department of labor and industry, subject to the approval of the said state administrative board, shall see fit. Approved April 2, 1927. [No. 21.] AN ACT to amend section nine of act number two hundred eighty-five of the public acts of nineteen hundred nine, as last amended by act number two hundred six of the public acts of nineteen hundred twenty-three, entitled "An act to provide for the creation of a department of labor, to prescribe its powers and duties, to regulate the employment of labor, to make an appropriation for the maintenance of such department, and to prescribe penalties for the violation of this act," being compiler's section five thousand three hundred thirty of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, as amended. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section nine of act number two hundred Section eighty-five of the public acts of nineteen hundred nine, as last amended. amended by act number two hundred six of the public acts of nineteen hundred twenty-three, entitled "An act to provide for the creation of a department of labor, to prescribe its powers and duties, to regulate the employment of labor, to make an appropriation for the maintenance of such department, and to prescribe penalties for the violation of this act," being compiler's section five thousand three hundred thirty of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 9. No male under the age of eighteen years, and no Hours of female shall be employed, permitted or suffered to work in any labor. factory, mill, warehouse, workshop, quarry, clothing, dressmaking or millinery establishment, or any place where the manufacture of any kinds of goods is carried on, or where any goods are prepared for manufacturing, or in any laundry, store, shop, or any other mercantile establishment, or in any office or restaurant, theater, concert hall, music hall, hotel, or operating an elevator, or on street or electric railways, for a period longer than an average of nine hours a day or fiftyfour hours in any week nor more than ten hours in any one day; and all such establishments shall keep posted a copy of Copy of this section printed in large type, in a conspicuous place. In section establishments having a time clock such copy shall be posted near the time clock. Copies of this section suitable for post posted. Proviso, exception. ing shall be furnished upon the application of any employer by the commission: Provided, however, That the provision of this section in relation to the hours of employment shall not apply to nor affect any person, corporation or association engaged in preserving and shipping perishable goods in fruit and vegetable canning or fruit packing establishments. Such employment shall be approved by the commission, or any duly authorized representative, as not being injurious to the health Restrictions. of the person or persons so engaged. No female under the age of eighteen years shall be employed in any manufacturing establishment between the hours of six o'clock p. m. and six o'clock a. m. No child under the age of sixteen years shall be employed in any manufacturing establishment or workshop, quarry, mine or messenger service in this state between the hours of six o'clock p. m. and six o'clock a. m. No child under the age of eighteen years shall be employed between the hours of ten o'clock p. m. and five o'clock a. m. in the transmission, distribution or delivery of messages or merchandise. Approved April 6, 1927. School census. [No. 22.] AN ACT to provide for the taking of the school census in each school district of the state, and the filing and reporting of the same. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. There shall be taken in each school district of the state a school census in accordance with the provisions of law during the last twenty days of May of each year. School districts having a population of less than three thousand shall file their census lists in the office of the county commissioner of schools on or before the third Monday of June following the taking of the census. On or before the transmitted. second Monday of September thereafter, the county commissioner of schools for school districts having a population of less than three thousand, and the secretary of the school board for all other school districts, shall transmit to the superintendent of public instruction the entire census by districts, together with the proper affidavits. To whom This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 23.] AN ACT to amend sections two, three and five of act number one hundred thirty-eight of the public acts of nineteen hundred twenty-one, entitled "An act to promote the establishing of deep-water connections between the great lakes and the Atlantic ocean, to provide for a commission to carry out the object hereof, to make an appropriation for expenses incurred hereunder, and to provide a tax to meet the same," as last amended by act number seventy-five of the public acts of nineteen hundred twenty-five. The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. Sections two, three and five of act number one Sections hundred thirty-eight of the public acts of nineteen hundred twenty-one, entitled "An act to promote the establishing of deep-water connections between the great lakes and the Atlantic ocean, to provide for a commission to carry out the object hereof, to make an appropriation for expenses incurred hereunder, and to provide a tax to meet the same," as last amended by act number seventy-five of the public acts of nineteen hundred twenty-five, is hereby amended to read as follows: sion, etc., SEC. 2. On or after June thirty, nineteen hundred twenty- Commisone, the governor shall appoint said commission and a secre- appointtary of said commission, who shall be a member thereof. The ment of. secretary shall keep the minutes of the meetings of the commission, and other records pertaining thereto, and shall maintain his office at the city of Lansing. All members of the commission, including the secretary, shall serve without compensation, but necessary clerical assistance may be employed by the commission, and all members of the commission, and the employes thereof, shall be entitled to their actual expenses incurred while engaged in the performance of the duties pertaining to their respective offices or employment. The said commission shall continue in existence to and including the thirtieth day of June, A. D. nineteen hundred twenty-nine. governor. On or before the thirty-first day of December, nine. Report to teen hundred twenty-eight, the said commission shall make a report to the governor covering the results of its investigation and study with reference to the establishment of said deep waterway connection, together with such recommendations as to possible action by the state of Michigan as may be deemed expedient. Immediately on the convening of the legislature at the regular session in the year nineteen hundred twenty-nine, the governor shall cause a copy of said report to be transmitted to each house. The cost of compiling and printing such report shall be paid out of the moneys hereinafter appropriated. |