Miss. Code Ann. § 71-1-29
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Miss. Code Ann. § 71-1-29
Official statutory text
Any person, firm, or corporation, or the superintendent or any officer of the mill, cannery, workshop, factory, or manufacturing establishment employing any child, or permitting any child to be employed by or to work in, or to be detained in any mill, cannery, workshop, factory, or manufacturing establishment in this state contrary to law shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00), or may be sentenced to the county jail for not less than ten (10) days nor more than sixty (60) days, or both such fine and imprisonment.
Status: in_force
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