(a) No child sixteen (16) years of age shall be employed, permitted, or suffered to work:

1. (1) More than six (6) days in any week;
2. (2) More than fifty-four (54) hours in any week;
3. (3) More than ten (10) consecutive hours in any day;
4. (4) More than ten (10) hours in a twenty-four-hour period; or
5. (5) Before 6:00 a.m. or after 11:00 p.m., except that children sixteen (16) years of age may be employed until 12:00 midnight on nights preceding nonschool days.

(b) Children sixteen (16) years of age may be employed between the hours of 12:00 midnight and 6:00 a.m. on nights preceding nonschool days, except in the occupations or circumstances listed below and provided the work is not otherwise prohibited by state or federal law:

1. (1) In any convenience or retail store of less than four thousand five hundred square feet (4,500 ft²);
2. (2) In any restaurant, except that a child sixteen (16) years of age may work in a locked restaurant or fast food restaurant if only the drive-through window is open to the general public;
3. (3) In any business where a child would be working without direct supervision by an adult twenty-one (21) years of age or older;
4. (4) In any business which serves alcohol;
5. (5) In any business which provides adult entertainment, including nude or topless entertainment;
6. (6) At any truck stop or service station;
7. (7) At any racetrack or gambling establishment;
8. (8) As a security guard;
9. (9) As a delivery person; or
10. (10) In violation of any local curfew ordinance.

(c) For the purpose of determining compliance and assessing penalties, the Division of Labor shall enforce the prohibition against more than ten (10) hours of work in a twenty-four-hour period provided by Arkansas Code § 11-6-110(4) and subdivision (a)(4) of this section, in the following manner:

1. (1) If a child sixteen (16) years of age has a rest break between shifts or periods of work of at least ten (10) hours, the division will determine compliance by the hours worked between midnight of one (1) calendar day and midnight of the following calendar day; and
2. (2) If a child sixteen (16) years of age does not have a rest break between shifts or periods of work of at least ten (10) hours, the division will determine compliance by the hours worked in any twenty-four-hour period.