New Jersey § 34:15-10

§ 34:15-10.

In the employment of minors, this article shall be presumed to apply unless the notice

be given by or to the parent or guardian of the minor. If the injured employee at the time of the accident or compensable occupational

disease is a minor under 14 years of age employed in violation of the labor law or

a minor between 14 and 18 years of age employed, permitted or suffered to work without

an employment certificate or special permit if required by law or at an occupation

prohibited at the minor's age by law, a compensation or death benefit shall be payable

to the employee or his dependents which shall be double the amount payable under the

schedules provided in R.S.34:15-12 and R.S.34:15-13 . The possession of such duly issued employment certificate shall be conclusive evidence

for an employer that the minor has reached the age certified to therein and no extra

compensation shall be payable to any minor engaged in an employment allowed by the

law for the age and sex certified to in such certificate. If the certificate presented by the employee as one issued to that person shall

have been really issued to another child and the real age of the employee shall be

such that employment in any capacity or in the particular capacity the employee was

employed by the employer was prohibited and if the employer shall show to the satisfaction

of the Division of Workers' Compensation that the employer accepted the certificate

in good faith as having been issued to the employee and could not have, despite reasonable

diligence, discovered the fraud, in such event no extra compensation shall be paid

to the employee illegally employed. The employer alone and not the insurance carrier shall be liable for the extra compensation

or death benefit which is over and above the amount of the compensation or death benefit

provided under R.S.34:15-12 or R.S.34:15-13 . Any provision in an insurance policy undertaking to relieve an employer from the

liability for the extra compensation or extra death benefit shall be void. Nothing in this chapter contained shall deprive an infant under the age of 18 years

of the right or rights now existing to recover damages in a common law or other appropriate

action or proceeding for injuries received by reason of the negligence of his or her

master. Nothing in this section regarding the payment of a compensation or death benefit in

double the amount payable under the schedules provided in R.S.34:15-12 and R.S.34:15-13 shall apply to: members of a junior firemen's auxiliary established pursuant to N.J.S.40A:14-95 ; employees, of the age of 18 years or under, employed in summer camps operated by

the Boy Scouts of America, the Girl Scouts of America, the Knights of Columbus, the

Young Men's Christian Association, the Young Women's Christian Association, the Young

Men's Hebrew Association, or any domestic corporation organized solely for religious

or charitable purposes; student-learners employed in a cooperative vocational education

program approved by the State Board of Education; persons, 18 years of age or younger,

participating, under the supervision of the Palisades Interstate Park Commission,

in volunteer programs in that part of the Palisades Interstate Park located in New

Jersey; or persons, 18 years of age or younger, doing volunteer work for the Division

of Parks and Forestry, the Division of Fish, Game and Wildlife, or the New Jersey Natural Lands Trust , as authorized by the Commissioner of Environmental Protection , or for the New Jersey Historic Trust .