IOWA STATUTES AND CODES
92.5 - FOURTEEN AND FIFTEEN -- PERMITTED OCCUPATIONS.
92.5 FOURTEEN AND FIFTEEN -- PERMITTED OCCUPATIONS.
Persons fourteen and fifteen years of age may be employed or
permitted to work in the following occupations:
1. Retail, food service, and gasoline service establishments.
2. Office and clerical work, including operation of office
machines.
3. Cashiering, selling, modeling, art work, work in advertising
departments, window trimming and comparative shopping.
4. Price marking and tagging by hand or by machine, assembling
orders, packing and shelving.
5. Bagging and carrying out customers' orders.
6. Errand and delivery work by foot, bicycle, and public
transportation.
7. Clean-up work, including the use of vacuum cleaners and floor
waxers, and maintenance of grounds.
8. Kitchen work and other work involved in preparing and serving
food and beverages, including the operation of machines and devices
used in the performance of such work, including but not limited to,
dishwashers, toasters, dumb-waiters, popcorn poppers, milk shake
blenders, and coffee grinders.
9. Work in connection with motor vehicles and trucks if confined
to the following:
a. Dispensing gasoline and oil.
b. Courtesy service.
c. Car cleaning, washing and polishing. Nothing in this
subsection shall be construed to include work involving the use of
pits, racks or lifting apparatus or involving the inflation of any
tire mounted on a rim equipped with a removable retaining ring.
10. Cleaning vegetables and fruits, and wrapping, sealing,
labeling, weighing, pricing and stocking goods when performed in
areas physically separate from areas where meat is prepared, for sale
and outside freezers or meat coolers.
11. Other work approved by the rules adopted pursuant to chapter
17A by the labor commissioner. Section History: Early Form
[SS15, § 2477-a; C24, 27, 31, 35, 39, § 1529; C46, 50, 54, 58,
62, 66, § 92.4; C71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, § 92.5] Section History: Recent Form
86 Acts, ch 1245, § 922
Referred to in § 92.6