Inspector.

Inspection of steam boilers.

SECTION 4890. The governor shall appoint, in each congressional district, a suitable person to inspect steam boilers used for manufacturing, heating, and mechanical purposes, who shall hold office for three years. Said inspector shall, as often as once in each year, carefully inspect every such boiler in his district, and, if he finds such boiler to be in good order, and free from weakness and material defects, he shall give a certificate of inspection to the perInspection by son using the same; but any company incorporated by any State of company's in the United States, for the purpose of making inspection of steam boilers, and that maintains a corps of steam boiler inspectors, and has complied with the insurance laws of this State, may issue certificates of inspection in lieu of those issued by the inspectors appointed by the governor: Provided, A policy of insurance is issued covering loss or damage to person or property arising from the explosion of the boiler or boilers so inspected; and the boilers on which such certificates have been issued shall be exempt from inspection by the steam boiler inspectors of the State.

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SEC. 4891. If said inspector finds any boiler out of order, materially weak, or defective, he shall advise its owner, lessee, or user as to its necessary repairs, and if such repairs are not made, he may call in the inspector from an adjoining district, and if they agree that such boiler is not in proper condition, they shall give written notice to its owner, lessee, or user not to use it until such repairs are made as said inspectors shall specify, or if they are of the opinion that it is utterly worthless, or that its use will endanger the public safety, they shall forbid its use.

SEC. 4892. The provisions of section 4890 and 4891 shall not apply to any city or town having a system of boiler inspection, unless accepted and adopted by it.

SEC. 4894. Every person who shall neglect or refuse to have any steam boiler used by him inspected, or shall suffer it to carry a greater pressure of steam than is allowed by the certificate of the inspector, shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars.

SEC. 4895. Every person who shall use any steam boiler after its use is forbidden by the inspectors shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more than six months, or both. SEC. 4896. Every inspector who shall willfully and knowingly falsely certify to the condition of any boiler inspected by him, or who shall issue a certificate without having made a careful inspection, as provided in section 4890, shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.

SEC. 4897. The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to the boilers of locomotive engines or to boilers used exclusively for heating private residences.

SEC. 4898. Whenever in the opinion of the inspectors any person etc., of operators. operating a steam boiler, subject by law to their inspection, shall, by reason of intemperate habits or for any other cause, be incompetent to safely operate such boiler, said inspector shall order the discharge of such person, and serve written notice to that effect upon his employer. If at the expiration of thirty days from the serving of such notice such employer shall have failed to comply with the requirements thereof, he shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars.

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ACTS OF 1903.

CHAPTER 97.-Inspector of factories, etc.

SECTION 1. The governor shall, with the consent of the senate, on or before the fifteenth day of May, A. D. 1903, and before the first day of May quadrennially thereafter, appoint a factory inspector, who shall hold office for four years and until his successor is appointed and qualified. The governor may remove the inspector for cause. Said factory inspector shall receive an annual salary of twenty-five hundred dollars and necessary expenses.

Elevators, etc.,

SEC. 2. The inspector shall examine all elevators, whether in factories, mercantile establishments, storehouses, workhouses, to be inspected. dwellings, or other buildings, and may order hoistways, hatchways, elevator wells, and wellholes to be protected by trapdoors, self-closing hatches, safety catches, or other safeguards as will insure the safety of all persons therein. Due diligence shall be used to keep such trapdoors closed at all times, except when in actual use by an occupant of the building having the use and control of the same. All elevator cabs or cars, whether used for freight or passengers, shall be provided with some suitable mechanical device, if considered necessary by said inspector, whereby the cab or car will be securely held in the event of accident to the shipper rope or hoisting machinery, or from any similar cause, and said mechanical device shall at all times be kept in good working order.

SEC. 3 (as amended by chapter 241, Acts of 1907). The in- Deputies. spector may from time to time appoint deputies to assist him in the performance of his duties. Such deputies shall have the same power and authority as the inspector, subject to his approval. Each of said deputies shall receive a compensation of five dollars per day for actual services, and his or her necessary expenses incident to the performance of the duties of his or her office. The total amount expended under this section shall not exceed in any one year nine thousand dollars, which shall be paid upon proper vouchers by the deputies, signed by the inspector.

ACTS OF 1905.

CHAPTER 140.-Inspection of factories-Toilet rooms in foundries.

SECTION 1. The factory inspector shall have power and author- Power of lacity by order to that effect to require the proprietor of any foundry tory inspector. in this State in which ten or more men are employed, and situated in a locality where there is such system for the disposal of sewage as to make such order practicable, to provide for the use of such employes a toilet room of such suitable dimensions as such inspector may determine, containing wash bowls or sinks connected with running water, with facilities for heating the same, such room to be directly connected with such foundry building, properly heated, ventilated, and protected from the dust of said foundry.

SEC. 2. Any person, company, or corporation failing to comply with such order shall be fined not more than fifty dollars, in each prosecution for such neglect or refusal to obey such order.

ACTS OF 1907.

CHAPTER 241.-Factory inspectors-Female deputy.

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SECTION 1. The factory inspector shall, in addition to the deputy Advisory comfactory inspectors provided for by chapter 97 of the Public Acts mission.

of 1903, appoint, from time to time, on the recommendation of an advisory commission of three women appointed by the governor

for that purpose as specified in section five of this act, a female Female deputy. deputy factory inspector, who shall hold office until her successor is appointed and qualified, unless removed by said factory inspector for cause. Said female deputy factory inspector shall receive the compensation for services and expenses provided by section three of chapter 97 of the Public Acts of 1903 as amended by this act.

SEC. 2. Said female deputy factory inspector shall inquire into Duties. the enforcement of the laws regulating the employment of women and girls in any manufacturing, mechanical, or mercantile establishment, investigate the conditions relating to the health and welfare of women and girls employed in such establishments, and report thereon to the factory inspector: Provided, however, That she shall have no power or authority over and no duty concerning any machinery, appliances, or fixtures except sanitary fixtures.

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SEC. 3. Said female deputy factory inspector shall have the same power and authority as the factory inspector, except as to machinery, appliances, and fixtures, subject to his approval, and shall serve under the direction of said factory inspector in all respects as other deputy inspectors.

SEC. 5. The governor shall, on or before the first day of August, 1907, appoint three women, no two of whom shall be residents of the same town, who shall constitute an advisory commission for the appointment of a female deputy factory inspector and shall serve for two, four, and six years respectively; and biennially thereafter the governor shall appoint one member of said commission to serve for the term of six years. It shall be the duty of said commission to recommend to the factory inspector some woman for appointment as female deputy factory inspector, such recommendation to be made on or before October 1, 1907, and thereafter whenever a vacancy shall occur in said office.

ACTS OF 1909.

CHAPTER 10.-Fire escapes on factories, etc.

SECTION 1 (as amended by chapter 239, Acts of 1911). The factory inspector shall have power to enforce the provisions of sections 2628 and 2629 of the General Statutes as amended by this act so far as concerns workshops and manufactories and may order fire escapes erected thereon whenever deemed by him to be necessary; and any owner, agent, or lessee neglecting or refusing to comply with such order shall be subject to the penalties prescribed in section 2633 of the general statutes.

CHAPTER 120.-Inspection of bakeries, etc.-Tuberculosis, etc.,

employees.

SECTION 14. The provisions of sections 2569, 2570, 2571, and 2572 of the General Statutes relating to bakeshops shall apply to all confectionery, candy, and ice cream factories, macaroni factories, and all other factories for the preparation of foodstuffs, tobacco, and cigars. In any factory of the above-named classes where the factory inspector shall have cause to suspect that an operative or employee has any disease enumerated in the statutes thereto pertaining, he shall have authority to cause an examination to be made of such suspected case by a physician.

SEC. 15. It shall be the duty of the factory inspector to cause to be posted, in prominent places in factories and shops, such posters as may be supplied to him for that purpose by the board of directors.

ACTS OF 1911.

CHAPTER 239.-Fire escapes on factories, etc.

SECTION 4. In all cases in which any person shall suffer injury or in which the death of any person shall ensue in consequence of the failure of the owner of any building to provide the same with fire escapes or stairways, as required by the provisions of this act [amending sections 2628, 2629, G. S.], or in consequence of the failure of such owner to comply with any order of the factory inspector, made in conformity to the provisions of this act, such owner shall be liable to any person so injured for damages for such injury; and in case of death such owner shall be liable in damages for the injury caused by the death of such person. It shail be no defense to any action for the recovery of such damages that the person injured, or whose death ensued as aforesaid, had knowledge that such building was not provided with fire escapes or stairways as required by the provisions of this act, or that such person continued to work in or to occupy such building with such knowledge.

SEC. 5. The owner of any building, or in case such owner be non compos mentis or a minor, the guardian of such owner, or in case such owner be nonresident, the agent of such owner having charge of such property, who shall neglect or fail to comply with the foregoing provisions of this act shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars. In case there shall be several owners of any building the use of which shall be continued in violation of the provisions of this act, all such owners jointly, or any one of them, shall be liable to such fine.

DELAWARE.

REVISED CODE-1893.

CHAPTER 127.-Fire escapes on factories, etc.

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SECTION 1. The owner or owners of any building more than two stories in height and which shall be used in the certain buildings. third or any higher story, in whole or in part as a tory or workshop, or as a tenement house required to furnish such building with sufficient permanent fire escapes from the third and all higher stories, and which escapes shall be kept and maintained in good order. Such fire escapes may be by means of stairways or ladders outside the building, or by stairways in a separate tower or structure furnished with safe and easy communication with such building: Provided, That this act shall not apply to any building whatever that is already supplied with two or more independent stairways leading from the highest story to the ground floor, if said stairways shall not be nearer to each other at any point than a distance of sixty feet. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the chief engineer of the fire de- Inspection. partment in any city, town or borough where there may be such officers, or if there be no such officer therein, then of the mayor or chief officer thereof, and in all other places of the clerk of the school district wherein any such building is located to examine such fire escapes as to their suitableness and sufficiency, whether as to quality, location or number. If upon such examination such escapes be found to be sufficient and suitable, the person examining shall give the owner of such building or some one of them, if more than one, a certificate stating such examination and his approval, which certificate shall be good for two years, at the expiration of which time another examination shall be had and a like certificate given. Such certificate of approval shall be evidence of sufficient compliance with the requirements of this act and shall protect such owner from any penalty herein prescribed during the time for which it may have been given. The fee for such examination shall be one dollar.

SEC. 4. Every owner of any such building as is specified in this Penalty. act, whether an individual or a body corporate, who shall fail to comply with the provisions thereof shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be liable to indictment, and upon conviction shall forfeit and pay to the State a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, and in case of a corporation, payment of the fine may be enforced by a writ of fieri facias to be issued out of the court where such conviction was had on the judgment thereof and continued by venditioni exponas as upon judgments in the superior court.

ACTS OF 1897.

CHAPTER 452.-Factories and workshops-Provisions for female employees-New Castle County.

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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

ACTS OF U. S. CONGRESS, 1886-87.

CHAPTER 390.-Elevators.

SECTION 1. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia * are hereby, authorized and directed to make and publish such orders as may be necessary to regulate the construction, repair, and operation of all elevators within the District of Columbia, and prescribe such means of security as may be found necessary to protect life and limb.

SEC. 2. Any person or persons, or corporations, who shall neglect or refuse to comply with the orders made pursuant to this act, shall, upon conviction thereof in the police court of the District of Columbia, ✶ ✶✶ be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense.

ACTS OF 1897-98.

CHAPTER 8.-Factories and workshops-Water-closets.

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SECTION 9. Every building in said District sons are employed or intended to be employed in any trade or business, shall be provided with sufficient and suitable privy accommodations, having regard to the number of persons employed in or in attendance at such building; and also where persons of both sexes are employed or intended to be employed, or in attendance, with sufficient, suitable, and separate privy accommodations for persons of each sex. It shall be unlawful for any owner or agent to put any person or persons in possession of any building, or any part thereof, not provided with privy accommodations as aforesaid, except a watchman for the purpose of guarding such building or part thereof.

ACTS OF 1905-6.

CHAPTER 957.-Fire escapes on factories, etc.

SECTION 2 (as amended by chapter 2566, Acts of 1906-7). It shall be the duty of the owner entitled to the beneficial use, rental, or control of any building already erected, or which may hereafter be erected, in which ten or more persons are employed at the same time in any of the stories above the second story, except three-story buildings used exclusively as stores or for office purposes, and having at least two stairways from the ground floor each three or more feet wide and separated from each other by a distance of at least thirty feet, from one of which stairways shall be easy access to the roof, to provide and cause to be erected and affixed thereto a sufficient number of * * fire escapes, [of such material, type, and construction as the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may determine] the location and number of the same to be determined by the said Commissioners, and to keep the hallways and stairways in every such building as is used and occupied at night properly lighted, to the satisfaction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, from sunset to sunrise.

SEC. 3 (as amended by chapter 2566, Acts of 1906-7). It shall be the duty of the owner entitled to the beneficial use, rental, or control of ** * any building in which ten or more persons are employed, as set forth in section two of this act where fire escapes are required, also to provide, install, and maintain therein proper and sufficient guide signs, guide lights, exit lights, hall and stairway lights, fire hose, and fire extinguishers in such location and numbers and of such type and character as the Commissioners of the District of Columbia may determine.