§ 25-9-28 — Solicitation of Funds from Employees for Purposes of Retaining or Procuring Employment, Etc

Any coal mine superintendent, mine foreman or assistant mine foreman, or any other person or persons operating or controlling a coal mine, who shall receive or solicit any sum of money or other valuable consideration from any of his or their employees for the purpose of continuing such employee in his or their employ or for the purpose of procuring employment for such employee or procuring or keeping places for such employee shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not less than $50.00, nor more than $300.00 and shall be sentenced to hard labor for the county for a term of not less than six months.

Legislative History

(Acts 1949, No. 207, p. 242, §104.)