It shall be unlawful for any girl under the age of 18 years to distribute, sell, expose or offer for sale, any newspapers, magazines, periodicals, gum, or any other merchandise, or to distribute handbills, circulars, or other articles, or to exercise the trade of a bootblack, or any other trade or occupation, or to solicit money or other thing of value, in any public way or other public place in the city. It shall be unlawful for any person to employ such girl under the age designated herein, or permit or suffer such girl to be employed at the trade of a bootblack, or any other trade or occupation, in any public way or other public place in the city.
No boy under the age of 14 years shall pursue any of the occupations mentioned in the above paragraph upon the public ways or other public places of the city before 5:00 a.m. or after 8:00 p.m. No boy between 14 and 16 years of age shall pursue any of the said occupations upon the public ways or other public places of the city before 5:00 a.m. or after 8:00 p.m., unless he shall be provided with and have on his person an employment certificate issued in accordance with the requirements of an act of the general assembly concerning child labor, approved June 26, 1917, as amended.
Any girl under the age of 18 years or any boy under the age of 16 years, who shall violate any of the above mentioned provisions of this section shall be warned by any police officer who shall discover any violation of this section forthwith to comply with the provisions of the same and to desist from further violation thereof. Such officer shall also without delay report such violation to his superior officer, who shall cause a written notice to be served upon the parent, guardian, or person in control or charge of such boy or girl, setting forth the manner in which the section has been violated. In case any girl under the age of 18 years or any boy under the age of 16 years after such warning shall again pursue any occupation contrary to the provisions of this section, he or she shall be subjected to the penalty herein provided.
In case any parent, guardian, or person in control or charge of such boy or girl, who has received notice as provided for herein, shall knowingly permit such boy or girl again to violate the provisions of this section, or shall procure or engage such boy or girl after such notice to pursue an occupation in a manner contrary to the provisions of this section, such parent, guardian, or person in control or charge of such boy or girl shall also be subject to the penalty herein provided.
Any violation of this section, after the warning or notice herein provided for, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $100.00.
(Prior code § 190-9)