{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-labor-code-51.032","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Labor Code § 51.032","heading":"DEFENSE TO PROSECUTION.","body":"It is a defense to prosecution of a person employing a child who does not meet the minimum age requirement for a type of employment that the person relied in good faith on an apparently valid certificate of age presented by the child that showed the child to meet the age requirement for that type of employment.\nActs 1993, 73rd Leg., ch. 269, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.","path":["LABOR CODE","TITLE 2. PROTECTION OF LABORERS","SUBTITLE B. RESTRICTIONS ON LABOR","CHAPTER 51. EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN","SUBCHAPTER D. PENALTY AND DEFENSE"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/LA/htm/LA.51.htm#51.032","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:24Z","sha256":"f50d5fbe08e3137545df9e0c401501d0bd213c2618c5833dc31f49a447c7eaca","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-labor-code-51.031","next":"us-tx/tex.-labor-code-51.033"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}