It is unlawful for any person having the care, custody, control, confidence, or influence over any child to willfully cause or permit the life of such child to be endangered, or the health of such child to be injured, or the morals of such child to be impaired; or to willfully cause or permit such child to be placed in such a situation, business or occupation that its life, health, or morals shall be endangered; or to willfully abandon such child; or to torture, torment, cruelly punish, or willfully or negligently deprive such child of necessary food, clothing, or shelter, or in any other manner injure such child unnecessarily. (Ord. 15 §17, 1963)

It is unlawful for any person to take, receive, hire, or employ any child under the age of fourteen years to labor in any smelter, mill, mine, or factory, or in or about any business or employment whatever, within the city during the school hours of any school day. (Ord. 15 §18, 1963)