Section 7. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this act, or any person who shall make a false statement, or shall present a forged birth certificate or baptismal certificate or passport, or other official or religious record of the minor's age, or a forged attested transcript thereof, for the purpose of securing an employment certificate under the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall for the first offense be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than ten dollars ($10) nor more than twenty-five dollars ($25), or to undergo an imprisonment in the proper county jail of not more than ten days, or both, at the discretion of the court; and for the second and each subsequent offense shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than fifty dollars ($50), or to undergo an imprisonment in the proper county jail of not more than ninety days, or both, at the discretion of the court.
It shall be the duty of the Chief of the Department of Mines, and the truant officers of the various school districts of this Commonwealth, to carry out the provisions of this act; and prosecutions for violations thereof may be instituted by either the Chief of the Department of Mines or the truant officer of the proper school district.
(7 amended Apr. 15, 1913, P.L.70, No.48)