339.990 Penalties.
Anyone who employs or permits or suffers any minor to be employed or to work in
violation of KRS 339.210 to 339.450, or of any order or ruling issued under the
provisions thereof, or obstructs the Department of Workplace Standards, its officers, or
agents, or any other person authorized to inspect places of employment under KRS
339.210 to 339.450, or anyone who, having under his or her control or custody any minor,
permits or suffers him or her to be employed or to work in violation of KRS 339.210 to
339.450, or who sells to a minor any article with the knowledge that the minor intends to
sell the article in violation of KRS 339.210 to 339.450, shall be assessed a civil penalty,
in accordance with the provisions of KRS 336.985, of not less than one hundred dollars
(0) nor more than one thousand dollars (,000). Every employer who continues to
employ a minor in violation of KRS 339.210 to 339.450 after he has been notified by the
Department of Workplace Standards, its officers or agents, shall be assessed a civil
penalty, in accordance with the provisions of KRS 336.985, of one hundred dollars
(0) for each day the violation continues and the employment of any minor in violation
of KRS 339.210 to 339.450 shall with respect to each minor so employed constitute a
separate and distinct offense.
Effective: July 15, 2010
History: Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 24, sec. 1776, effective July 15, 2010. -Amended 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 42, sec. 4, effective July 13, 1990. -- Amended 1984
Ky. Acts ch. 256, sec. 7, effective July 13, 1984; and ch. 414, sec. 33, effective July
13, 1984. -- Created 1948 Ky. Acts ch. 107, sec. 25.
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