=Failure to produce satisfactory evidence of age.=

Sec. 13007-2.  In case any employer shall fail to produce and deliver to a factory inspector, truant officer, or other officer charged with the enforcement of this act, within ten days after demand made pursuant to section 13007-1 of this act, the evidence of age therein required, proof of the making of such demand and of such failure to produce and file such evidence shall be prima facie evidence of the illegal employment of such child in any prosecution brought therefor.

=Age and schooling certificate; by whom approved.=

Sec. 7766.  An age and schooling certificate may be issued only by the superintendent of schools and only upon satisfactory proof that the child to whom the certificate is issued is over sixteen years of age and has satisfactorily passed a test for the completion of the work of the seventh grade, provided that residents of other states who work in Ohio must qualify as aforesaid with the proper school authority in the school district in which the establishment is located, as a condition of employment or service.

Any such age and schooling certificate may be issued only upon satisfactory proof that the employment contemplated by the child is not prohibited by any law regulating the employment of such children; and when the employer of any minor for whom such age and schooling certificate shall have been issued shall keep such age and schooling certificate on file as provided by law, the provisions of section 6245-2, General Code, shall not apply to such employer in respect to such child while engaged in an employment legal for a child of the given sex and of the age stated therein.

Age and schooling certificate forms shall be formulated by the superintendent of public instruction, and except in cases otherwise specified by law must be printed on white paper.  Every such certificate must be signed in the presence of the officer issuing it by the child in whose name it is issued.  Blank certificates shall be furnished by the superintendent of public instruction upon request.

Sec. 7766-1.  The superintendent of schools shall not issue such certificate until he has received, examined, approved and filed the following papers duly executed: 

(1) The written pledge or promise of the person, partnership or corporation to legally employ the child, to permit him to attend school as provided in section 7767, General Code, and to return to the superintendent of schools the age and schooling certificate of the child or give notice of the non-use thereof within two days from the date of the child’s withdrawal or dismissal from the service of that person, partnership or corporation, giving the reasons for such withdrawal or dismissal.

(2) The school record of the child, properly filled out and signed by the person in charge of the school which the child last attended; giving the recorded age of the child, his address, standing in studies, rating in conduct, and attendance in days during the school year of his last attendance, and if that was not a full year, during the preceding school year.