The following sections of the Iowa Code concern meal and rest period law in Iowa .
92.2 Over ten and under sixteen years of age.
A person over ten and under sixteen years of age cannot be employed, with or without compensation, in street occupations
or migratory labor as defined in section 92.1, unless the person holds a work permit issued pursuant to this chapter
and the school the person attends has certified that the person is regularly attending school and the potential
employment will not interfere with the person's progress in school. A written agreement, as defined in section
92.11, subsection 1, shall not be required for the issuance of a work permit under this section.
1. Notwithstanding section 92.7, a person with a permit to engage in migratory labor shall only work between
five a.m. and seven-thirty p.m. from Labor Day through June 1, and between five a.m. and nine p.m. for the remainder
of the year.
2. Notwithstanding section 92.7, a person with a permit to engage in street occupations shall only work between
four a.m. and seven-thirty p.m. when local public schools are in session and between four a.m. and eight-thirty
p.m. for the remainder of the year.
The requirements of section 92.10 shall not apply to a person, firm, or corporation employing a person engaged
in street occupations pursuant to this section.
92.7 Under sixteen--hours permitted.
A person under sixteen years of age shall not be employed with or without compensation, except as provided in
sections 92.2 and 92.3, before the hour of seven a.m. or after seven p.m., except during the period from June 1
through Labor Day when the hours may be extended to nine p.m. If such person is employed for a period of five hours
or more each day, an intermission of not less than thirty minutes shall be given. Such a person shall not be employed
for more than eight hours in one day, exclusive of intermission, and shall not be employed for more than forty
hours in one week. The hours of work of persons under sixteen years of age employed outside school hours shall
not exceed four in one day or twenty-eight in one week while school is in session.
]92.20. Penalty.
The parent, guardian, or person in charge of any migratory worker or of any child who shall engage in any street
occupation in violation of any of the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a simple misdemeanor.
Any person who furnishes or sells to any minor child any article of any description when the person knows or should
have known that said minor intends to sell in violation of the provisions of this chapter, shall be guilty of a
simple misdemeanor.
Any other violation of this chapter for which a penalty is not specifically provided, shall be guilty of a simple
misdemeanor. Every day during which any violation of this chapter continues shall constitute a separate and distinct
offense, and the employment of any person in violation of this chapter shall, with respect to each person so employed,
constitute a separate and distinct offense.
135.30A Breast-feeding in public places.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, a woman may breast-feed the woman's own child in
any public place where the woman's presence is otherwise authorized.