No boy or girl under the age of eighteen (18) years shall be employed, permitted, or suffered to work in any occupation for more than six (6) days in any week or more than fifty-four (54) hours in any week, nor more than ten (10) hours in any one (1) day or before 6:00 a.m. or after 11:00 p.m., except that the limitation of 11:00 p.m. shall not apply to children under the age of eighteen (18) years employed on nights preceding nonschool days. 

History. Init. Meas. 1914, No. 1, § 6, Acts 1915, p. 1505; C. & M. Dig., § 7091; Pope's Dig., § 9073; Acts 1973, No. 449, § 2; 1975, No. 11, § 1; 1977, No. 326, § 1; A.S.A. 1947, § 81-707.