§ 25. Minors, who are. Minors are:
1. Males under twenty-one years of age;
2. Females under eighteen years of age.§ 26. Periods of minority, how calculated.
The periods specified in the preceding section must be calculated from the first minute of the day on which persons are born to the same minute of the corresponding day completing the period of minority. Employment of minors.
Section 1. No minor under the age of eighteen
shall be employed in laboring in any manufacturing, mechanical, or mercantile establishment, or other place of labor, more than ten hours in one day, except when it is necessary to make repairs to prevent the interruption of the ordinary running of the machinery, or when a different apportionment of the hours of labor is made for the sole purpose of making a shorter day's work for one -day of the week; and in no case shall the hours of labor exceed sixty hours in a week. Age of minor to be recorded.
Sec. 2. No child under ten years of age
shall be employed in any factory, workshop, or mercantile establishment; and every minor under sixteen years of age when so employed shall be recorded by name in a book kept for the purpose, and a certificate (duly verified by his or her parent or guardian, or if the minor shall have no parent or guardian, then by such minor, stating age and place of birth of such minor) shall be kept on file by the employer, which book and which certificate shall be produced by him or his a-gent at the requirement of the commissioner of the bureau of labor statistics. Notice of hours of labor to be posted.
Sec. 3. Every person or corporation employing
minors under sixteen years of age
in any manufacturing establishment shall post, and keep posted, in a conspicuous place in every room where such help is employed, 'a printed notice stating the number of hours per day for each day of the week required of such persons, and in every room where minors under sixteen years of age are employed, a list of their names, with their ages. Civil Code of the State of California
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