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Employers are hereby forbidden to impose, either directly or indirectly, personally or through their agents, as an express or implied condition for the admission of any laborer, any stipulation relative to the place where, or the way in which, the laborer shall spend his wages, in whole or in part, or any other stipulation requiring him to reside on any property of the employer. Employers or their agents are also forbidden to dismiss any laborer because he may have spent his wages, in whole or in part, in a certain place, in a certain way, or with a specified person, or because he does not reside on any property of the employer or of his agent. History —Apr. 17, 1931, No. 17, p. 194, § 2, eff. 90 days after Apr. 17, 1931.