Section 50-6-1 – Children under fourteen; employment prohibited.
No child under fourteen years of age shall be employed or permitted to labor at any gainful occupation unless otherwise provided for in the Child Labor Act [Chapter 50, Article 6 NMSA 1978]. History: Laws 1925, ch. 79, § 1; C.S. 1929, § 80-106; 1941 Comp., § 57-501; 1953 Comp., § 59-6-1; Laws 1973, ch. […]
Section 50-6-1.1 – Short title.
Chapter 50, Article 6 NMSA 1978 may be cited as the “Child Labor Act”. History: Laws 2007, ch. 257, § 1. ANNOTATIONS Effective dates. — Laws 2007, ch. 257 contained no effective date provision, but, pursuant to N.M. Const., art. IV, § 23, was effective June 15, 2007, 90 days after the adjournment of the […]
Section 50-6-2 – Work permit for children fourteen to sixteen.
A child over the age of fourteen years and under the age of sixteen years shall not be employed or permitted to labor at any gainful occupation without procuring and filing a work permit unless otherwise provided for in the Child Labor Act. History: Laws 1925, ch. 79, § 2; C.S. 1929, § 80-107; 1941 […]
Section 50-6-3 – Maximum hours for children fourteen to sixteen.
A. Children over the age of fourteen and under the age of sixteen years shall not be employed or permitted to labor at any gainful occupation for more than forty hours in any one week nor more than eight hours in any one day when school is not in session unless otherwise provided for in […]
Section 50-6-4 – Prohibited occupations for children under sixteen; exceptions.
A. A child under the age of sixteen years shall not be employed or permitted to labor at any of the following occupations or in any of the following positions: (1) on or around belted machines while in motion; (2) on or around power-driven woodworking machines used for cutting, shaping, forming, surfacing, nailing, stapling, wire […]
Section 50-6-5 – Prohibited occupations for children under eighteen.
No child under the age of eighteen years shall be employed or permitted to labor in any mine or quarry underground or at or about any place where explosives are used. However, children under the age of eighteen years but not under the age of fourteen years may be employed to separate mica if blasting […]
Section 50-6-6 – Repealed.
History: Laws 1925, ch. 79, § 7; C.S. 1929, § 80-112; 1941 Comp., § 57-507; Laws 1943, ch. 112, § 2; 1953 Comp., § 59-6-7; Laws 1973, ch. 115, § 6; repealed by Laws 2007, ch. 257, § 16. ANNOTATIONS Repeals. — Laws 2007, ch. 257, § 16 repealed 50-6-6 NMSA 1978, as enacted by […]
Section 50-6-7 – Work permit; issuance; authorized officials; application; contents; proof; copies; maximum term.
A. Work permits shall be issued only by the school superintendents, school principals, designated issuing school officers or the director of the labor and industrial division of the labor department or the director’s designee. B. A work permit shall not be issued to a child until satisfactory proof has been furnished that the work in […]
Section 50-6-8 – Renewal of work permits.
The officer authorized to issue work permits may renew a work permit at the expiration date thereof for a period not exceeding one year upon a satisfactory showing upon the part of the child, the child’s parent, guardian or custodian that the provisions of the Child Labor Act are being complied with and that the […]
Section 50-6-9 – Employer’s records; form of permits.
Whenever any child is employed or permitted to labor at any gainful occupation permitted by the laws of this state, the employer of the child shall preserve on file the work permit of the child and shall keep posted in a conspicuous place about the premises where the child is employed a list of all […]