{"data":{"id":"us-ca/lab-1297","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"LAB § 1297","heading":"","body":"No minor under the age of 16 years shall be employed or permitted to work as a messenger for any telegraph, telephone, or messenger company, or for the United States government or any of its departments while operating a telegraph, telephone, or messenger service, in the distribution, transmission, or delivery of goods or messages in cities of more than 15,000 inhabitants; nor shall any minor under the age of 18 years be employed, permitted, or suffered to engage in such work before 6 o'clock in the morning or after 9 o'clock in the evening. Nothing in this section shall apply to any minor employed to deliver newspapers to consumers.","path":["Labor Code - LAB","DIVISION 2. EMPLOYMENT REGULATION AND SUPERVISION [200. - 2699.8.]","PART 4. EMPLOYEES [1171. - 1413.]","CHAPTER 2. Occupational Privileges and Restrictions [1285. - 1312.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"89099394ee0426346e2d5019f4079de7d33e687fd71fcc2dd10c288a368c6d0f","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/lab-1296","next":"us-ca/lab-1298"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}