No person having the care, custody, or control of any child under the age of 14 years shall cause or permit any such child to be exhibited, used, or employed, or shall apprentice or let out, or otherwise dispose of, any such child to any person for the occupation or purpose of singing or playing on musical instruments on the public ways, or of ropewalking or wirewalking, dancing, begging, or peddling, or as a gymnast, contortionist, rider, or acrobat in any place whatsoever, or for any obscene, indecent, or immoral exhibition or purpose, or in or about any business, exhibition, or occupation injurious to the health or dangerous to the life or limb of such child, or cause, procure, or encourage any such child to engage therein.
No person shall take, receive, employ, use, exhibit, or have in custody any child under the age of 14 years for the purpose of employing such child in the manner expressly prohibited in this section, and no person having the care or custody of any child shall wilfully cause or permit such child to be placed in such a situation that its life or health may be endangered.
(Prior code § 190-8)