2006 Alabama Code - Section 25-8-45 — Work permits — When required; conclusive evidence of age.

(a) No person under 18 years of age shall engage in any occupation mentioned in Section 25-8-39 unless he or she has secured and has with him or her a work permit as provided in this chapter.

(b) No person, firm, or corporation shall employ, permit, or suffer any person 14 or 15 years of age to work in any gainful occupation, except in agricultural service, unless the person, firm, or corporation procures and keeps on file for the inspection by the officials charged with the enforcement of this chapter, a work permit for every person 14 or 15 years of age and a complete list of those persons 14 or 15 years of age employed therein.

(c) No person, firm, or corporation shall employ, permit, or suffer any person 18 years of age to work in any capacity in, about or in connection with any mine, coke breaker, coke oven, or quarry, or any person 16 or 17 years of age to work in any other gainful occupation, except in agricultural service, unless the person, firm, or corporation procures and keeps on file work permits for those minors.

(d) A work permit, when issued in accordance with this chapter, shall be conclusive evidence of the age of the person for whom issued in any proceeding involving the employment of the person under this chapter.

(e) No work permit shall be required from June 1 through August 31 for those persons employed in a federally funded summer youth program; however, the hour and prohibited occupation restrictions shall not be waived.

(Acts 1995, No. 95-604, p. 1263, §14.)