Sec. 31-30. Home workers. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 31-30. Home workers. Any person, other than a member of the immediate family residing therein, who, or firm, partnership or corporation which, engages in the manufacture of any products, or parts thereof, in any dwelling house, tenement house, rooming house, apartment house or other residential building, which has been licensed in accordance with section 31-29, shall conform in every respect to the provisions of the general statutes governing the registration and operation of manufacturing and mechanical establishments. Any member or members of the immediate family residing in any dwelling house, tenement house, rooming house, apartment house or other residential building, whether licensed for such purpose or not, may use such place of residence for the purpose of manufacturing products, or parts thereof, either on their own behalf, or on behalf of other manufacturing or mechanical establishments located within the state as hereinafter provided. Such home workers shall conform in every respect to the provisions of the general statutes governing the working hours and conditions of women and minors in manufacturing and mechanical establishments, and, in the observance thereof, they shall be subject to inspection under the supervision of said commissioner. Said commissioner shall report to the board of health, humane society or other agency having jurisdiction any condition believed to be unhealthful, insanitary or otherwise prejudicial to the well-being of such home workers, in order that such condition may be investigated and corrected by such agency.

      (1949 Rev., S. 3763.)