monwealth with suitable and proper bundle racks, and as shall be approved by the Kentucky Railroad Commission. Said racks shall be placed on the sides of the cars at a convenient height above the seats occupied by passengers, and be sufficient in size and of such design as will accommodate small packages and hand baggage; provided, that this law shall only apply to interurban lines twenty-five miles or more in length. § 2. Any interurban railway company described above, which fails or refuses to equip its passenger cars with racks, as described and required in Section 1 hereof, within six months after this law becomes effective, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not less than five nor more than fifty dollars for each offense, and each day said passenger cars shall be operated without installing the racks directed herein, shall constitute a separate offense. Neither approved nor disapproved. CHAPTER 102. AN ACT to repeal and re-enact Sub-section 4 of Section 331-A of Kentucky Statutes, Carroll's Edition 1915, relating to the Employment of Children. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: That Sub-section 4 of Section 331A of Kentucky Statutes, Carroll's Edition 1915, be, and the same is hereby repealed, and that said Sub-section be amended and re-enacted, and when so amended and re-enacted shall read as follows: Sub-section 4. The persons authorized to issue employment certificates, age certificate or permit under the authority of this Act, shall issue such certificates to any minor making applications therefor, notwithstanding such applicants may have passed the age of sixteen years, and only upon the application in person of the child desiring employment, accompanied by its parent, guardian or custodian, and after having received, examined and approved in addition to the school record of such child properly filled out and signed, as provided herein below, documentary evidence of age, showing that the child is fourteen years of age or over; which evidence shall consist of one of the following named proofs of age, to be required in the order herein designated as follows: (a) A birth certificate or attested transcript thereof issued by a registrar of vital statistics or other officer charged with the duty of recording births. (b) A record of baptism or a certificate or attested transcript showing the date of birth and place of baptism of the child. (c) A bona fide contemporary record of the date and place of the child's birth kept in the Bible in which the records of the births in the family of the child are preserved, or other satisfactory documentary evidence, such as a passport showing the age of the child, a certificate of arrival in the United States, issued by the United States immigration officers and showing the age of the child, or a life insurance policy; provided that such other satisfactory documentary evidence has been in existence at least one year prior to the time it is offered in evidence; and provided further that a school record or a parent's, guardian's or custodian's affidavit, certificate, or other written statement of age shall not be accepted except as specified in paragraph (d). (d) A certificate signed by a public-health physician or a public school physician, specifying what in the opinion of such physician is the physical age of the child; such certificate shall show the height and weight of the child and other facts concerning its physicial development revealed by such examination and upon which the opinion of the physician as to the physical age of the child is based. A parent's, guardian's or custodian's certificate, or affidavit, as to the age of the child and a record of age as given on the register of the school which the child first attended, or in the school census, if obtainable, shall be submitted with the physicians' certificates showing physical age. The officer issuing the age certificate for a child shall require the evidence of age specified in subdivision (a) in preference to that specified in any subsequent subdivision and shall not accept the evidence of age permitted by any subsequent subdivision, unless he shall receive and file evidence that the evidence of age required by the preceding subdivision or subdivisions can not be obtained. Such application must be accompanied by the written statement of the person, firm or corporation into whose service the child is about to enter that he intends to employ the child, which statement shall give the nature of the occupation for which the child is to be employed. Any person who knowingly makes a false statement, or presents false evidence in or in relation to any such certificates or applications therefor shall be amenable to prosecution and to the fine or imprisonment, as provided in Section 16 of this Act. No employer shall be prosecuted under the provisions of this Act for any violation, if such employer has in good faith procured at the time of employing such child, and has since in good faith relied upon and kept on file such age certificates, employment certificate or permit, issued in such form and under such conditions and by such persons as prescribed in this Act, showing that the child so employed was of such age as is not prohibited by this Act. The Superintendent of Schools in any city, town, county, or district, wherever there is one, and where there is none, then the County Superintendent shall between the first and tenth days of each month, transmit to the office of the labor inspector a report, which report shall give (1) The name of each child to whom a certificate has been issued in the preceding month, together with the name and address. of the establishment where such child was to be employed; and (2) the name of each child to whom a certificate has been denied in the preceding month, together with the ground of such denial. A refusal or failure to transmit such report, by any person charged under this section with the duty of transmitting same to the labor inspector, shall constitute a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not more than twenty-five dollars nor less than five dollars, to be disposed of as provided in the section of this Act number 16. Whenever an inspector duly authorized under this act shall find that the age of a child employed in any mill, cannery, workshop, factory, manufactur ing establishment, mine, or quarry as given on a certificate is incorrect, or that the time record is not kept in accordance with the provisions of this act, he shall notify the child, the employer and the issuing officer that the certificate or the acceptance of a State certificate for the purposes of this act is suspended and indicate such suspension on the certificate or certificates. A statement of the facts for which the suspension was made shall be forwarded by the inspector to the Commissioner of Labor, or such person as he may designate, who will either (a) revoke or withdraw the certificate or the acceptance of the certificate, or (b) veto the suspension, as in his judgment the facts of the case warrant. Due notice shall be sent to the child's parent, guardian, or custodian, to the employer, and to the issuing officer of the action taken in regard to a suspended certificate. If the suspension of a certificate be vetoed, a new certificate shall be issued upon the surrender of the one suspended. If for any reason such new certificate can not be obtained from a State issuing officer, the notice of the veto if attached to a suspended certificate shall be recognized and accepted as meeting the requirements of this act. Neither approved nor disapproved. CHAPTER 103. AN ACT to Repeal an Act of the General Assembly of 1880, Incorporating the Town of McKinney, Lincoln County, Kentucky. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 1. That an Act entitled "An Act to incorporate the town of McKinney, Lincoln County," being Chapter 475, Session Acts 1879-80, which Act was approved March 20, 1880, be and the same is hereby |