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N.Y. Education Law § 4108: Persons employing Indian children unlawfully to be fined

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  1. Education Law
  2. Title 6. Special Schools and Instruction
  3. Article 83. Indian Schools

§ 4108. Persons employing Indian children unlawfully to be fined. A

person, firm, association or corporation shall not employ any Indian

child residing on any Indian reservation between six and fourteen years

of age, in any business or service whatever during any part of the term

during which the school in the community or district in which such child

resides or the school where such child should attend is in session, nor

shall employ any Indian child residing on any reservation between

fourteen and sixteen years of age, who does not, at the time of such

employment present a consent in writing signed by the principal teacher

of the reservation or the principal of the district which educates the

children in the community in which such child resides to the effect that

such child may be employed, and specifying the nature of the service and

the duration of such service or employment. Any person, firm,

association or corporation who shall employ any Indian child contrary to

the provisions of this section shall for each offense forfeit and pay to

the principal teacher of the reservation or to the commissioner of

education the sum of twenty-five dollars to be sued for in the name of

the people of the state of New York by the attorney general. Such

penalty, when paid, shall be used for the support and maintenance of the

schools on said reservation or for said reservation.

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