Arizona Laws 23-231. Prohibited employments of persons under the age of eighteen
A. Unless a variance is granted pursuant to section 23-241, a person shall not employ or allow a person under the age of eighteen years to work in, about or in connection with:
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 23-231
- Automatic elevator: means a passenger or freight lift operated by push buttons so that the starting, moving, leveling, holding and opening and closing of the doors is entirely automatic. See Arizona Laws 23-230
- Construction: means building, altering, repairing, adding to, subtracting from, improving, moving, wrecking or demolishing a building, highway, road, railroad, excavation or other structure, project, development or improvement, including the erection and use of scaffolding or a similar structure and providing mechanical or structural service for a structure, project, development or improvement. See Arizona Laws 23-230
- Elevator: means a power-driven hoisting or lowering mechanism equipped with a car or platform which moves in guides in a substantially vertical direction. See Arizona Laws 23-230
- Logging: means felling timber, bucking or converting timber into logs, poles, piles, ties, bolts, pulpwood, chemical wood, excelsior wood, cordwood, fence posts or similar products, collecting, skidding, yarding, loading, transporting and unloading such products, constructing, repairing and maintaining roads, railroads, flumes or camps used in connection with logging, moving, installing, rigging and maintenance of machinery or equipment used in logging, operation of a sawmill, lath mill, shingle mill or cooperage stock mill in connection with the storing of logs and bolts, converting logs or bolts into sawed lumber, laths, shingles or cooperage stock and storing, drying and shipping lumber, laths, shingles and cooperage stock or other products of such mills. See Arizona Laws 23-230
- Manufacturing: means designing, assembling, fabricating, producing, constructing or preparing a product or part of a product before sale or use. See Arizona Laws 23-230
- Mine or quarry: means an underground or surface rock or mineral extracting, placer, dredging or bore-hole operation including all grinding and metal mills, washer plants and any other cutting, crushing, grinding, screening, sizing, washing or cleaning operation performed on extracted rocks or minerals. See Arizona Laws 23-230
- Motor vehicle: means an automobile, truck, truck tractor, trailer, semitrailer, motorcycle or similar vehicle propelled or drawn by mechanical power and designed for use as a means of transportation. See Arizona Laws 23-230
- Outside helper: means a person who rides on a motor vehicle other than in the driver or passenger compartment for the purpose of transporting, loading or unloading items. See Arizona Laws 23-230
- Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
- Power-driven bakery machine: means a horizontal or vertical dough mixer, batter mixer, bread dividing, rounding or molding machine, dough brake, dough sheeter, combination bread slicing and wrapping machine, cake cutting band saw, cookie machine or cracker machine. See Arizona Laws 23-230
- Power-driven hoist: means an apparatus for raising or lowering a load by the application of a pulling or pushing force including a crane, derrick or forklift. See Arizona Laws 23-230
- Power-driven meat processing machine: means a meat patty forming machine, meat and bone cutting saw or knife, head splitter, guillotine cutter, snout puller, jaw puller, skinning machine, horizontal rotary washing machine, casing cleaning machine, grinding, mixing, chopping and hashing machines and meat presses. See Arizona Laws 23-230
- Power-driven paper products machine: means a platen die-cutting press, platen printing press, punch press which involves hand feeding of the machine, arm-type wirestitcher or stapler, circular or band saw, corner cutter or mitering machine, corrugating and single or double-lacing machine, envelope die-cutting press, guillotine paper cutter or shear, horizontal bar scorer, laminating or combining machine, sheeting machine, scrap paper baler or vertical slotter or other machine used in the remanufacture or conversion of paper or pulp into a finished product. See Arizona Laws 23-230
- Power-driven woodworking machine: means a fixed or portable machine or tool driven by power and used or designed for cutting, shaping, forming, surfacing, nailing, stapling, wire stitching, fastening, assembling, pressing or printing wood or veneer. See Arizona Laws 23-230
- Processing: means an activity involving an addition to, subtraction from, change in or cleaning of any food or foodstuff including filleting fish, dressing poultry or cracking nuts. See Arizona Laws 23-230
- Radiation: means ionizing radiation including gamma rays, x-rays, alpha and beta particles, high speed electrons, neutrons, protons and other nuclear particles or rays. See Arizona Laws 23-230
- Roofing: means all work performed in connection with the application of weatherproofing materials and substances, including tar, pitch, asphalt, prepared paper, tile, slate, metal, translucent materials and shingles of asbestos, asphalt or wood, to roofs of buildings and other structures. See Arizona Laws 23-230
- Silica refractory products: means items produced from raw materials and containing free silica as their main constituent. See Arizona Laws 23-230
1. An establishment manufacturing or storing explosives, except a retail establishment if the employment does not include any handling of explosives other than prepackaged small arms ammunition. In this paragraph "small arms ammunition" means ammunition not exceeding .60 caliber in size, shotgun shells or blasting caps.
2. Occupations as a motor vehicle driver or outside helper, except for driving incidental to employment if the person has a valid license for operation of the vehicle and either:
(a) The total driving time does not exceed two hours per day or twenty-five per cent of the work period per day.
(b) The total mileage driven is fewer than fifty miles per day.
3. Mine or quarry occupations.
4. Logging occupations.
5. Occupations involving the operation, setup, repair, adjustment, oiling or cleaning of a power-driven woodworking machine.
6. Occupations involving exposure to radioactive substances and to radiation in excess of 0.5 rem per year.
7. Occupations involving the operation or assistance in the operation of a power-driven hoist with a capacity exceeding one ton or an elevator, except operation of an automatic elevator incidental to employment.
8. Occupations involving the operation of a power-driven metal working, forming, punching or shearing machine.
9. Occupations involving slaughtering, meat packing, processing or rendering of meat or the operation, setup, repair, adjustment, oiling or cleaning of a power-driven meat processing machine.
10. Occupations involving the operation of a power-driven bakery machine.
11. Occupations involving the operation of a power-driven paper products machine.
12. Occupations involving the manufacture of clay construction products or silica refractory products.
13. Occupations involving the operation of a power-driven saw.
14. Occupations involving wrecking, demolition and ship-breaking operations.
15. Occupations involving roofing operations or equipment attached to or placed on roofs.
16. Occupations in excavation or tunnel operations, except manual excavation, backfilling or working in trenches or other penetrations of the ground surface that do not exceed two feet in depth at any point.
B. The industrial commission may by regulation declare other occupations to be dangerous to lives or limbs or injurious to the health and morals of persons under the age of eighteen years and prohibit the employment or allowance to work in, about or in connection with the occupations by such persons unless a variance is granted.