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<law><site_title>Virginia Decoded</site_title><site_url>https://vacode.org</site_url><law_id>71215</law_id><section_number>40.1-101</section_number><catch_line>Qualifications as to theaters</catch_line><edition url="https://vacode.org/2025/" slug="2025" current="TRUE" last_updated="">2025</edition><referred_to_by><reference>40.1-78</reference><reference>40.1-84</reference></referred_to_by><structure><unit label="title" level="1" order_by="1" identifier="40.1">Labor and Employment</unit><unit label="chapter" level="2" order_by="1" identifier="5">Child Labor</unit></structure><text>
						<section><p>Notwithstanding the provisions of &#xA7;&#xA7;&#xA0;<a class="law" title="Certain employment prohibited or limited" href="/40.1-100/">40.1-100</a> and <a class="law" title="Employment where hazard capable of causing serious physical harm or death" href="/40.1-100.1/">40.1-100.1</a>, a child under sixteen years of age, whether a resident or nonresident of the Commonwealth, may be employed, permitted or suffered to participate in the presentation of a drama, play, performance, concert or entertainment, provided the management of the theater or other public place where such performance is to be held in the Commonwealth shall secure a permit from the <span class="dictionary">Commissioner</span>; provided, that no such permit shall be required for any nonprofit dance or music recital, nor for any television or radio broadcast in which the children participating are selected by the television or radio broadcasting station for sustaining noncommercial programs.</p></section></text><history>Code 1950, &#xA7; 40-110; 1960, c. 434; 1970, c. 321; 1973, c. 13; 1979, c. 348; 1991, c. 511.</history><metadata></metadata></law>
