a. “Professional employment” means employment for pay as an actor or performer in a theatrical production.

b. “Theatrical production” means and includes stage, motion picture and television performances and rehearsals therefor.

c. “Prohibited performance” means and includes appearances as a rope or wire walker or rider, gymnast, wrestler, boxer, contortionist, acrobat, rider of a horse or other animal unless the minor is trained to safely ride such horse or animal, or rider of any vehicle other than that generally used by a minor of the same age, or appearance in any illegal, indecent, or immoral exhibition, practice, or theatrical production or in any practice, exhibition, or theatrical production dangerous to the life, limb, health or morals of a minor, or appearance or exhibition of a minor with a physical or mental disability.

L.1962, c.91, s.1; amended 1981, c.147, s.1; 1981, c.331, s.4; 2017, c.131, s.132.