§ 50-5-106 — Prohibited employment for minors

(a) A minor may not be employed in connection with the following: (1) Occupations in or about plants or establishments manufacturing or storing explosives or articles containing explosive components; (2) Motor vehicle driving occupations; (3) Coal mine occupations; (4) Logging occupations and occupations in the operation of any sawmill, lath mill, shingle mill or cooperage-stock mill; (5) Occupations involved in the operation of power-driven woodworking machines; (6) Occupations involving exposure to radioactive substances and to ionizing radiations; (7) Occupations involved in the operation of elevator and other power-driven hoisting apparatus; (8) Occupations involved in the operation of power-driven metal-forming, punching and shearing machines; (9) Occupations in connection with mining elements other than coal; (10) Occupations involving slaughtering, meat-packing, processing or rendering; (11) Occupations involved in the operation of hazardous power-driven bakery machines; (12) Occupations involved in the operation of hazardous power-driven paper products machines; (13) Occupations involved in the manufacture of brick, tile and kindred products; (14) Occupations involved in the operation of circular saws, band saws and guillotine shears; (15) Occupations involved in wrecking, demolition and ship-breaking operations; (16) Occupations involved in roofing operations; (17) Occupations in excavation operations; (18) [Deleted by 2023 amendment.] (19) Occupations that the commissioner shall by regulation, pursuant to this part, declare to be hazardous or injurious to the life, health, safety and welfare of minors; (20) (A) Occupations involving posing or modeling, alone or with others, while engaged in sexual conduct for the purpose of preparing a film, photograph, negative, slide or motion picture; (B) As used in (20)(A), "sexual conduct" means actual or simulated conduct, sexual intercourse, sodomy, sexual bestiality, masturbation, sadomasochistic abuse, excretion, or the exhibition of the male or female genitals; and (21) Occupations involved in youth peddling. (b) (1) If a minor is fifteen (15) years of age or younger, the minor must not be employed in a place of employment where the average monthly gross receipts from the sale of intoxicating beverages exceed twenty-five percent (25%) of the total gross receipts of the place of employment or where a minor will be permitted to take orders for or serve intoxicating beverages, regardless of the amount of intoxicating beverages sold in the place of employment. (2) If a minor is sixteen (16) or seventeen (17) years of age, the minor may be employed in a place of employment where the average monthly gross receipts from the sale of intoxicating beverages exceed twenty-five percent (25%) of the total gross receipts of the place of employment if the minor is not permitted to take orders for or serve intoxicating beverages.

Legislative History

Amended by 2023 Tenn. Acts, ch. 68, Secs.s 1, s 2 eff. 3/23/2023. Acts 1976, ch. 480, § 7; 1977, ch. 227, § 1; T.C.A., § 50-707; Acts 1999, ch. 203, § 2.