§375-4 Issuance of certificates. (a) Upon receipt of an application for a special industrial homework certificate, the director of labor and industrial relations may order the issuance of such certificate provided that the application is in proper form and sets forth facts showing that the industrial homeworker:
(1) Is unable to adjust to factory work because of age or physical or mental disability; or
(2) Is unable to leave home because the industrial homeworker's presence is required to care for an invalid or children under the age of six years in the home; or
(3) Is engaged in industrial homework under the auspices or supervision of a vocational rehabilitation agency of the State.
(b) A special industrial homework certificate shall be issued only if the employer maintains a factory in the State in which persons are employed on operations the same as, or similar to, the proposed homework operations.
(c) No special industrial homework certificate may be issued to any person under the age of sixteen years.
(d) No special industrial homework certificate may be issued to any person suffering from an infectious, contagious, or communicable disease or living in a home that is not clean, sanitary, and free from infectious, contagious, or communicable disease. [L 1959, c 53, §4; Supp, §96A-4; HRS §375-4; gen ch 1985]