Distinctions of Adults

Only adults can work as state employees (including work in the armed forces), pilot motor-driven vehicles on public roads, airways, or waterways without adult supervision, take custody of or operate a purpose designed deadly weapon without adult supervision, hold public office, vote in elections for public office, be paid for more than twenty hours of work per week, control land through ownership, or enter into contract enforceable at court, except that non-adults can be recipients in money contracts.

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