No employer shall employ a minor before thoroughly reviewing the minor’s age and schooling certificate, required by law, or fail to give notice to the superintendent of schools or chief administrative officer who issued such certificate of the nonuse of the certificate within five working days from such minor’s withdrawal or dismissal from the employer’s service, or continue to employ a minor after the minor’s age and schooling certificate is void, or refuse to permit an enforcement official to observe the conditions under which minors are employed, or to make reasonable inquiry of minors or persons supposed by such official to be under eighteen in regard to matters pertaining to their age, employment, or schooling.

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Terms Used In Ohio Code 4109.03

  • Dismissal: The dropping of a case by the judge without further consideration or hearing. Source:
  • Employ: means to permit or suffer to work. See Ohio Code 4109.01
  • Employer: means the state, its political subdivisions, and every person who employs any individual. See Ohio Code 4109.01
  • Enforcement official: means the director of commerce or the director's authorized representative, the director of education and workforce or the director's authorized representative, any school attendance officer, any probation officer, the director of health or the director of health's authorized representative, and any representative of a local department of health. See Ohio Code 4109.01
  • Minor: means any person less than eighteen years of age. See Ohio Code 4109.01