SEC. 5 (as amended by chapter 2566, Acts of 1906-7). Each elevator shaft and stairway extending to the basement of the buildings heretofore mentioned shall terminate in a fireproof compartment or inclosure, separating the elevator shaft and stairs from other parts of the basement, and no opening shall be made or maintained in such compartment or inclosure unless the same be provided with fireproof doors.

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SEC. 6. It shall be unlawful to obstruct any hall, passageway, corridor, or stairway in any building mentioned in this act with baggage, trunks, furniture, cans, or with any other thing what

soever.

SEC. 7. No door or window leading to any fire escape shall be covered or obstructed by any fixed grating or barrier, and no person shall at any time place any incumbrance or obstacle upon any fire escape or upon any platform, ladder, or stairway leading to or from any fire escape.

SEC. 8. No license shall be issued to any person to conduct any business for which a license is required in any building mentioned in this act until such building has been provided and equipped with a sufficient number of fire escapes and other appliances required by this act.

SEC. 9. Any person failing or neglecting to provide fire escapes, alarm gongs, guide signs, fire hose, fire extinguishers, or other appliances required by this act, after notice from the Commissioners of the District of Columbia so to do, shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, and shall be punished by a further fine of five dollars for each day that he fails to comply with the notice aforesaid. Any person violating any other provision of this act shall be punished, upon conviction thereof, by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense.

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SEC. 10. The said notice requiring the erection of fire escapes and other appliances mentioned in this act shall specify the char- tice. acter and number of fire escapes or other appliances to be provided, the location of the same, and the time within which said fire escapes or other appliances shall be provided, and in no case shall more than ninety days be allowed for compliance with said notice unless the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall, in their discretion, deem it necessary to extend their time. SEC. 11 (as amended by chapter 2566, Acts of 1906-7). Said Service of notice. notice shall be deemed to have been served if delivered to the person to be notified, or if left with any adult person at the usual residence or place of business of the person to be notified in the District of Columbia, or if no such residence or place of business can be found in said District by reasonable search, if left with any adult person at the office of any agent of the person to be notified: Provided, Such agent has any authority or duty with reference to the building to which said notice relates, or if no such office can be found in said District by reasonable search if forwarded by registered mail to the last known address of the person to be notified and not returned by the Post-Office authorities, or if no address be known or can by reasonable diligence be ascertained, or if any notice forwarded as authorized by the preceding clause of this section be returned by the Post-office authorities, if published on ten consecutive days in a daily newspaper published in the District of Columbia, or if by reason of an outstanding unrecorded transfer of title the name of the owner in fact can not be ascertained beyond a reasonable doubt, if served on the owner of record in the manner hereinbefore in this section provided. Any notice to a corporation shall, for the purposes of this act, be deemed to have been served on such corporation if served on the president, secretary, treasurer, general manager, or any principal officer of such corporation in the manner hereinbefore provided for the service of notices on natural persons holding property in their own right, and notice to a foreign corporation shall, for the purposes of this act, be deemed to have been served if served on any agent of such corporation personally, or if left with any person of suit

able age and discretion residing at the usual residence or employed at the usual place of business of such agent in the District of Noncompliance. Columbia: Provided, That in case of failure or refusal of the owner entitled to the beneficial use, rental, or control of any buildings specified in this act, to comply with the requirements of the notice provided for in section ten, then, and in that event, the Commissioners are hereby empowered and it is their duty to cause such erection of fire escapes and other appliances mentioned in the notice provided for, and they are hereby author ized to assess the costs thereof as a tax against the buildings on which they are erected and the ground on which the same stands, and to issue tax-lien certificates against such building and grounds for the amount of such assessments, bearing interest at the rate of ten per centum per annum, which certificates may be turned over by the Commissioners to the contractor for doing the work. SEC. 12. The supreme court of the District of Columbia, in term time or in vacation, may, upon a petition of the District of Co lumbia, filed by its said Commissioners, issue an injunction to restrain the use or occupation of any building in the District of Columbia in violation of any of the provisions of this act.

Enforcement.

What buildings

GEORGIA.

CODE-1910.

Fire escapes on factories, etc.

SECTION 3151. Owners of every building more than two stories to have fire es- in height, not including the basement, used in the third or higher

capes.

Landings.

stories, in whole or in part, as factory or workshop, shall provide more than one way of egress from each story of said building, above the second story, by stairways on the inside or outside of said building, and such stairways shall be, as nearly as may be practicable, at apposite [opposite] ends of each story, and so constructed that, in case of fire, the ground can be readily reached from the third and higher stories. Stairways on the outside of said buildings shall have suitable railed landings at each story above the first, and shall connect with each of said stories by doors or windows opening outwardly, and such doors, windows, and landDoors to open ings shall be kept at all times clear of obstructions. All the main outwardly. doors of such buildings, both inside and outside, shall open outwardly, and each story shall be amply supplied with means for extinguishing fires.

SEC. 3152. The municipal authorities of the town or city where such building is situated, or the ordinary of the county if the building is situated outside of any town or city, shall require the fire marshal or chief officer of the fire department, and if there is no fire marshal nor chief fireman, then some other suitable official, to examine such buildings at least once a year, and report in writing to said municipal authorities, or said ordinary, that said requirements have or have not been complied with. If not complied with, the municipal authorities or the ordinary, as the case may be, shall notify in writing the owner of such building to provide needful alterations or additions.

SEC. 3154. The owners of buildings referred to in this article shall make all alterations or additions necessary to comply with the requirements of this article. Examinations and reports shall be made during the month of December of each year.

ACTS OF 1911.

Commissioner of commerce and labor--Inspection of factories, etc.

(Page 133.)

SEC. 4. Said commissioner shall make investigation concerning the operation of the various laws relating to the safety of the

life and limb of employees, especially those concerning the employment of child labor, and of women, and he shall take legal steps looking to the proper enforcement and due observance of such laws.

HAWAII.

REVISED LAWS-1905.

Regulations of laundries.

SECTION 1063. The superintendent of public works may cause to Laundrics, etc. be built and erected in the district of Kona, Island of Oahu, a to be erected. sufficient number of laundries and washhouses, and to let the same to persons applying therefor at such rents, and upon such terms as the said superintendent shall deem advisable. And in like manner to designate and use for such purposes buildings already erected.

SEC. 1065. Such laundries and washhouses when erected shall be under the supervision and control of the board of health.

Board of health.

SEC. 1066 (as amended by act No. 111, Acts of 1907). Every Use of other person who shall carry on the business of laundry keeping or buildings. washing for hire, within the limits of the city of Honolulu, except in such buildings as shall be provided for such purpose, in accordance with the provisions of section 1063, or in such buildings as may be approved and designated for such purpose by the board of health, shall upon conviction be liable to a fine not to exceed ten dollars for each and every day during which he shall so carry on such business, and in default of payment of such fine shall be imprisoned until such fine is paid.

SEC. 1375. The treasurer with the approval of the governor Laundries to be may issue to any person, partnership or corporation a license to licensed. erect, maintain and operate a steam laundry within the district

of Kona, Island of Oahu, upon such conditions as to location and

otherwise as shall be set forth in the license.

SEC. 1376. Said license shall not be issued except upon the cer- Inspection. tificate of the board of health, setting forth that an agent of said board has examined the location at which it is proposed to operate said steam laundry, and that the same is suitable for the purpose.

Fee.

SEC. 1377. The annual fee for said license shall be fifty dollars. SEC. 1378. Said steam laundries shall be subject to such regula- Regulations. tions as to sanitation as may be prescribed from time to time by the board of health.

IDAHO.

REVISED CODES--1909.

Fire escapes on factories, etc.

than two stories

SECTION 1550. It is hereby made the duty of every person, firm, Factories more or corporation, or his or its agents, officers or trustees, owning or in height. having the management or control of any * factory or

other structure over two stories in height to provide and furnish such building with safe and suitable metallic, iron or fireproof ladders of sufficient strength, and to permanently and securely attach the same to the outside or outer walls of such buildings, in such manner and in such position as to be adjacent to the windows, and convenient and easy of access to the occupants of such buildings in case of fire.

SEC. 1551. Such metallic, iron or fireproof ladders must connect Ladders. with each floor above the first, and be well fastened and secure and of sufficient strength and must extend from the first story to the upper stories of such building or to the cornice thereof.

SEC. 1553. Any person, firm or corporation, or his or its agents, officers or trustees, who shall fail to comply with the provisions of 49450°-S. Doc. 645, 61-2, vol 19———56

Violation.

this chapter, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than three, nor more than six, months, or by a fine of not less than two hundred dollars, nor more than three hundred dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

ILLINOIS.

HURD'S REVISED STATUTES-1905.

CHAPTER 48.-Factories and workshops-Inspection.

SECTION 21. No room or rooms, apartment or apartments in any tenement or dwelling house used for eating or sleeping purposes, shall be used for the manufacture, in whole or in part, of coats, vests, trousers, knee pants, overalls, cloaks, shirts, ladies' waists, purses, feathers, artificial flowers or cigars, except by the immediate members of the family living therein. Every such workshop shall be kept in a cleanly state, and shall be subject to the provisions of this act; and each of said articles made, altered, repaired or finished in any of such workshops shall be subject to inspection and examination, as hereinafter provided, for the purpose of ascertaining whether said articles, or any of them, or any part thereof, are in a cleanly condition and free from vermin and any matter of an infectious and contagious nature; and every person so occupying or having control of any workshop as aforesaid, shall within fourteen days from the taking effect of this act, or from the time of beginning of work in any workshop as aforesaid, notify the board of health of the location of such workshop, the nature of the work there carried on, and the number of persons therein employed.

SEC. 22. If the board of health of any city or said State inspector finds evidence of infectious or contagious diseases present in any workshop, or in goods manufactured, or in process of manufacture therein, and if said board or inspector shall find said shop in an unhealthy condition, or the clothing and materials used therein to be unfit for use, said board or inspector shall issue such order or orders as the public health may require, and the board of health are hereby enjoined to condemn and destroy all such infectious and contagious articles.

SEC. 23. Whenever it shall be reported to said inspector or to the board of health, or either of them, that coats, vests, trousers, knee pants, overalls, cloaks, shirts, ladies' waists, purses, feathers, artificial flowers or cigars are being transported to this State, having been previously manufactured in whole or part under unhealthy conditions, said inspector shall examine said goods and the condition of their manufacture, and if upon such examination said goods, or any of them, are found to contain vermin, or to have been [made] in improper places or under unhealthy conditions, he shall make report thereof to the board of health, or inspector, which board or inspector shall thereupon make such order or orders as the public health shall require, and the board of health are hereby empowered to condemn and destroy all such articles.

SEC. 26. Every person, firm or corporation, agent or manager of a corporation employing any female in any manufacturing establishment, factory or workshop, shall post and keep posted, in a conspicuous place in every room where such help is employed, a printed notice stating the hours for each day of the week between which work is required of such persons, and in every room where children under sixteen years of age are employed a list of their names, ages and place of residence.

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SEC. 27. The words "manufacturing establishment," "factory " workshop," wherever used in this act, shall be construed to mean any place where goods or products are manufactured or repaired, cleaned, or sorted, in whole, or in part, for sale, or for wages. Whenever any house, room or place is used for the pur

pose of carrying on any process of making, altering, repairing or finishing for sale, or for wages any coats, vests, trousers, kneepants, overalls, cloaks, shirts, ladies' waists, purses, feathers, artificial flowers or cigars, or any wearing apparel of any kind whatsoever, intended for sale, it shall within the meaning of this act be deemed a workshop for the purposes of inspection. And it shall be the duty of every person, firm or corporation to keep a complete list of all such workshops in his, their or its employ, and such list shall be produced for inspection on demand by the board of health or any of the officers thereof, or by the State inspector, assistant inspector, or any of the deputies appointed under this act.

SEC. 28. Any person, firm or corporation who fails to comply Violations. with any provision of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be fined not less than three dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense. SEC. 29 (as amended by act, page 326, Acts of 1911). 1. There, Department of factory inspecis hereby created and established a separate and distinct depart- tion. ment of the State government to be known as the "Illinois Department of Factory Inspection."

2. The governor shall, upon the taking effect of this act, appoint a chief State factory inspector, whose duty it shall be to exercise general supervision over the department of factory inspection and all of its inspectors, and secure the enforcement of all laws now in force or hereafter enacted relating to the inspection of factories, mercantile establishments, mills, workshops and commercial institutions in this State, and to perform such other duties as are now or may hereafter be prescribed by law to be performed by the factory inspector. The salary of such chief State factory inspector shall be three thousand dollars ($3,000.00) per annum and his term of office shall be four (4) years.

Chief inspector.

The governor shall appoint, upon the taking effect of this act, Assistants. an assistant chief factory inspector at a salary of two thousand two hundred and fifty [dollars] ($2,250.00) per annum; one physician at a salary of fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500.00) per annum; and thirty (30) deputy factory inspectors, who shall receive a salary of twelve hundred dollars ($1,200.00) per annum, and an attorney for said department at a salary of fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500.00) per annum.

The duties of the assistant chief factory inspector, medical, Duties. expert and deputy inspectors, as herein provided, shall be the same as those now or hereafter imposed by law upon the chief State factory inspector and the assistant chief factory inspector and the deputy factory inspectors, and they shall be subject to the supervision and direction of the chief State factory inspector in the discharge of such duties. Said chief State factory inspector and the other inspectors provided for herein shall visit and inspect, at all reasonable hours, as often as practicable, the factories, mercantile establishments, mills, workshops and commercial institutions in this State, where goods, wares and merchandise are manufactured, stored, purchased or sold at wholesale or retail.

And the chief State factory inspector shall report in writing to the governor on the thirtieth (30th) day of June annually, the result of his inspections and investigations, together with such other information and recommendations as he may deem proper. And said inspectors shall make a special investigation into the conditions of labor in this State, or into any alleged abuses in connection therewith, whenever the governor shall direct, and report the results of the same to the governor.

It shall be the duty of the said inspectors to enforce the provisions of this act, and perform such other duties as now are or shall hereafter be prescribed by law, and to prosecute all violations of law relating to the inspection of factories, mercantile establishments, mills, workshops and commercial institutions in this State before any magistrate or in any court of competent jurisdiction in this State.