and approved appliances, devices, means or methods to prevent the contracting and continuance of any such disease or illness and to comply with all the provisions of this act. SEC. 13. For the purpose of disseminating a general knowledge Act of the provisions of this act and of the dangers to the health of posted. employees in any work or process covered by the provisions of this act, the employer shall post in a conspicuous place in every room or apartment in which any such work or process is carried on, appropriate notices of the known dangers to the health of any such employees arising from such work or process, and simple instructions as to any known means of avoiding, so far as possible, the injurious consequences thereof, and the chief State factory inspector shall, upon request, have prepared a notice covering the salient features of this act, and furnish a reasonable number of copies thereof to employers in this State, covered by the provisions of this act, which notice shall be posted by every such employer in a conspicuous place in every room or apartment in such place of employment. The notices required by this section shall be printed on cardboard of suitable character and the type used shall be such as to make them easily legible, and in addition to English they shall be printed in such other language or languages as may be necessary to make them intelligible to the employees. to SEC. 14. Any person, firm or corporation who shall, personally Violations. or through any agent, violate any of the provisions of this act, or who omits or fails to comply with any of its requirements, or who obstructs or interferes with any examination or investigation being made by the State department of factory inspection in accordance with the provisions of this act, or any employee who shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be punished for the first offense by a fine of not less than ten dollars ($10) or more than one hundred dollars ($100), and upon conviction of the second or subsequent offenses, shall be fined not less than fifty dollars ($50) or more than two hundred dollars ($200), and in each case shall stand committed until such fine and costs are paid, unless otherwise discharged by due process of law. SEC. 15. For any injury to the health of any employee proxi- Damages. mately caused by any willful violation of this act or willful failure to comply with any of its provisions, a right of action shall accrue to the party whose health has been so injured, for any direct damages sustained thereby; and in case of the loss of life by reason of such willful violation or willful failure as aforesaid, a right of action shall accrue to the widow of such deceased person, his lineal heirs or adopted children, or to any other person or persons who were, before such loss of life, dependent for support upon such deceased person, for a like recovery of damages for the injury sustained by reason of such loss of life, not to exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars: Provided, That every such action for damages in case of death shall be commenced within one year after the death of such employee. SEC. 16. The invalidity of any portion of this act shall not affect Invalidity the validity of any other portion thereof which can be given effect part of act. without such invalid part. Factory regulations-Bakeries, confectioneries, etc. (Page 528.) SECTION 1. Every building, room, basement, inclosure or prem- Sanitation. ises, occupied, used or maintained as a bakery, confectionery, cannery, packing house, slaughterhouse, creamery, cheese factory, restaurant, hotel, grocery, meat market, or as a factory shop, warehouse, any public or place or manufacturing establishment used for the preparation, manufacture, packing, storage, sale or distribution of any food as defined by statute, which is intended for sale, shall be properly and adequately lighted, drained, plumbed and ventilated, and shall be conducted with strict regard be of Duties of employees. to the influence of such conditions upon the health of the operatives, employees, clerks, or other persons therein employed, and the purity and wholesomeness of the food therein produced, prepared, manufactured, packed, stored, sold or distributed. SEC. 3. The side walls and ceilings of every bakery, confectionery, creamery, cheese factory, and hotel or restaurant kitchen shall be so constructed that they can be easily kept clean; and every building, room, basement or inclosure occupied or used for the preparation, manufacture, packing, storage, sale or distribution of food shall have an impermeable floor made of cement or tile laid in cement, brick, wood or other suitable material which can be flushed and washed clean with water. SEC. 5. Every such building, room, basement, inclosure, or premises occupied, used or maintained for the production, preparation, manufacture, canning, packing, storage, sale or distribution of such food, shall have adequate and convenient toilet rooms, lavatory or lavatories. The toilet rooms shall be separate and apart from the room or rooms where the process of production, preparation, manufacture, packing, storing, canning, selling and distributing is conducted. The floors of such toilet rooms shall be of cement, tile, wood, brick or other nonabsorbent material, and shall be washed and scoured daily. Such toilet or toilets shall be furnished with separate ventilating flues and pipes discharging into soil pipes or shall be on the outside of and well removed from the building. Lavatories and wash rooms shall be adjacent to toilet rooms, or when the toilet is outside of the building the wash room shall be near the exit to the toilet and shall be supplied with soap, running water and towels and shall be maintained in a sanitary condition. SEC. 6. If any such building, room, basement, inclosure or premises occupied, used or maintained for the purposes aforesaid, or if the floors, side walls, ceilings, furniture, receptacles, implements, appliances or machinery of any such establishment, shall be constructed, kept, maintained, or permitted to remain in a condition contrary to any of the requirements or provisions of the preceding five (5) sections of this act, the same is hereby declared a nuisance, and any toilet, toilet room, lavatory or wash room as aforesaid, which shall be constructed, kept, maintained or permitted to remain in a condition contrary to the requirements or provisions of section five (5) of this act, is hereby declared a nuisance; and any car, truck, or vehicle used in the moving or transportation of any food product as aforesaid, which shall be kept or permitted to remain in an unclean, unhealthful or insanitary condition is hereby declared a nuisance. Whoever unlawfully maintains, or allows or permits to exist a nuisance as herein defined shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be punished as herein provided. SEC. 7. Every person, firm or corporation operating or maintaining an establishment or place where food is produced, prepared, manufactured, packed, stored, sold or distributed shall provide the necessary cuspidors for the use of the operatives, employees, clerks, and other persons, and each cuspidor shall be thoroughly emptied and washed out daily with water or a disinfectant solution, and five ounces thereof shall be left in each cuspidor while it is in use. Whoever fails to observe the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and punished as hereinafter provided. SEC. 8. No operative, employee, or other persons shall expectorate on the food or on the utensils or on the floors or side walls of any building, room, basement or cellar where the production, preparation, manufacture, packing, storing or sale of any such food is conducted. Operatives, employees, clerks, and all other persons who handle the material from which such food is prepared or the finished product, before beginning work, or after visiting toilet or toilets, shall wash their hands thoroughly in clean water. Whoever fails to observe or violates the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punished by a fine of not more than twenty-five dollars. workrooms, etc. SEC. 9. It shall be unlawful for any person to sleep, or to allow Sleeping in or permit any person to sleep in any work room of a bake shop kitchen, dining room, confectionery, creamery, cheese factory, or any place where food is prepared for sale, served or sold, unless all foods therein handled are at all times in hermetically sealed packages. infectious SEC. 10. It shall be unlawful for any employer to require, suffer Contagious or permit any person who is affected with any contagious or venereal disease to work, or for any person so affected to work in a building, room, basement, inclosure, premises or vehicle occupied or used for the production, preparation, manufacture, packing, storage, sale, distribution, or transportation of food. SEC. 11. It shall be the duty of the State food commissioner Enforcement. and those appointed by him to enforce this act, and for that purpose the State food commissioner and his appointees shall have full power at all times to enter every such building, room, basement, inclosure or premises occupied or used or suspected of being occupied or used for the production, preparation or manufacture for sale, or the storage, sale, distribution or transportation of such food, to inspect the premises and all utensils, fixtures, furniture and machinery used as aforesaid; * * INDIANA. ANNOTATED STATUTES-REVISION OF 1901. Factories and workshops-Inspection, etc. or dis appli ances for eleva tors, etc. SECTION 7087e. It shall be the duty of the owner or lessee of any Safety manufacturing or mercantile establishment, laundry, renovating works, bakery or printing office, where there is an elevator, hoisting shaft or wellhole, to cause the same to be properly and substantially inclosed or secured, if in the opinion of the chief inspector it is necessary, to protect the lives or limbs of those employed in such establishment. It shall also be the duty of the owner, agent or lessee of each of such establishments to provide, or cause to be provided, if in the opinion of the chief inspector, the safety of persons in or about the premises should require it, such proper trap or automatic doors so fastened in or at all elevator ways as to form a substantial surface when closed, and so constructed as to open and close by the action of the elevator in its passage, either ascending or descending, but the require ments of this section shall not apply to passenger elevators that are closed on all sides. The chief inspector shall inspect the cables, gearing or other apparatus of elevators in the establishments above enumerated and require that the same be kept in safe condition with proper safety devices whereby the cabs or cars will be securely held in event of accident to the cable or rope or hoisting machinery, or from any similar cause. All Doors to open outwardly. SEC. 7087f. Proper and substantial handrails shall be provided Handrails, etc., on all stairways in all establishments above enumerated, and on stairways. where, in the opinion of the chief inspector it is necessary, the steps of said stairs in all such establishments shall be substantially covered with rubber, securely fastened thereon, for the better safety of persons employed in said establishments. The stairs shall be properly screened at the sides and bottom. doors leading in or to such establishments aforesaid shall be so constructed as to open outwardly where practicable, and shall be neither locked, bolted nor fastened during working hours. SEC. 7087g. In every manufacturing or other establishment, Communication where the machinery used is propelled by steam, communication with engine room. shall be provided between each room where such machinery is placed and the room where the engineer is stationed, by means of speaking tubes, electric bells or appliances that may control the motive power, or such other means as shall be satisfactory to the chief inspector: Provided, That in the opinion of the inspector such communication is necessary. Accidents. Guards, etc., for machinery SEC. 7087h. It shall be the duty of the owner, agent, superintendent or other person having charge of any manufacturing or mercantile establishment, mine, quarry, laundry, renovating works, bakery or printing office within this State, or of any floor or part thereof, to report in writing to the chief inspector all accidents or injury done to any person in such premises within forty-eight hours of the time of the accident, stating as fully as possible the extent and cause of such injury, and the place where the injured person is sent, with such other information relative thereto as may be required by the chief inspector. The chief inspector is hereby authorized and empowered to fully investigate the causes of such accident, and to require such reasonable precautions to be taken as will, in his judgment, prevent the recurrence of similar accidents. SEC. 70871. It shall be the duty of the owner of any aforesaid establishment, or his agent, superintendent or other person in charge of the same, to furnish and supply, or cause to be furnished and supplied therein, in the discretion of the chief inspector, where machinery is used, belt shifters or other safe mechanical contrivances for the purpose of throwing on or off belts or pulleys; and whenever possible, machinery therein shall be provided with loose pulleys; all vats, pans, saws, planers, cogs, gearing, belting, shafting, set screws and machinery of every description therein shall be properly guarded, and no person shall remove or make ineffective any safeguard around or attached to any planer, saw, belting, shafting or other machinery, or around any vat or pan, while the same is in use, unless for the purpose of immediately making repairs thereto, and all such safeguards shall be promptly replaced. By attaching thereto a notice to that effect, the use of any machinery may be prohibited by the chief inspector should such machinery be regarded as dangerous. Such notice must be signed by the chief inspector, and shall only be removed after the required safeguards are provided, and the unsafe or dangerous machine shall not be used in the meantime. Exhaust fans. Exhaust fans of sufficient power shall be provided for the purpose of carrying off dust from emery wheels and grindstones and dustCleaning ma-creating machinery from establishments where used. No person chinery in motion. under sixteen years of age, and no female under eighteen years of age, shall be allowed to clean machinery while in motion. Wash rooms, SEC. 7087j. A suitable and proper wash room and water-closets etc. shall be provided by the owner, agent or lessee in each establishment above enumerated, and such water-closets shall be properly screened and ventilated and kept at all times in a clean condition, with not less than one seat for each twenty-five persons, and one seat for each fraction thereof above ten, employed in such establishment; and if women and girls are employed in any such establishment, the water-closets used by them shall have separate approaches and be separated and apart from those used by the men. All water-closets shall be kept free of obscene writing and marking. A dressing room shall be provided for women and girls, when required by the chief inspector, in any establishment aforesaid in which women and girls are employed; and the employer Seats for female of such women and girls shall provide a suitable seat for the use employees. of each female employee placed conveniently where she works, and shall permit the use of the same when she is not necessarily engaged in the active duties for which she is employed, and such seats shall be constructed or adjusted where practicable so as to be a fixture and not obstruct such female when actually engaged in the performance of such duties when such seat can not be used. Time for noon- SEC. 1087k. Not less than sixty minutes shall be allowed for the day meal. noonday meal in any aforesaid establishment in this State. The chief inspector shall have the power to issue written permits in special cases, allowing shorter mealtime at noon, and such permit must be conspicuously posted in the main entrance of the establishment, and such permit may be revoked at any time the chief inspector deems necessary, and shall only be given where good cause can be shown. to be SEC. 70871. The walls and ceilings of each room in every estab- Walls limewashed, lishment aforesaid, shall be limewashed or painted, when in the etc. opinion of the chief inspector it shall be conducive to the health or cleanliness of the persons working therein. SEC. 7087m. The chief inspector, or other competent person des- Inspection ignated for such purpose by the chief inspector, shall inspect any building used as aforesaid, or anything attached thereto, located therein, or connected therewith which has been represented to be unsafe or dangerous to life or limb. If it appears upon such inspection that the building or anything attached thereto, located therein, or connected therewith, is unsafe or dangerous to life or limb, the chief inspector shall order the same to be removed or rendered safe and secure, and if such notification be not complied with within a reasonable time, he shall prosecute whoever may be responsible for such delinquency. SEC. 7087n. No room or rooms, apartment or apartments in any Sweat shops. tenement or dwelling house shall be used for the manufacture of coats, vests, trousers, knee pants, overalls, cloaks, furs, fur trimmings, fur garments, shirts, purses, feathers, artificial flowers or cigars, for sale, excepting by the immediate members of the family living therein. No person, firm or corporation shall hire or employ any person to work in any one room or rooms, apartment or apartments, in any tenement or dwelling house, or building in the rear of a tenement or dwelling house at making, in whole or in part, any vests, coats, trousers, knee pants, fur, fur trimmings, shirts, purses, feathers, artificial flowers or cigars, for sale, without obtaining first a written permit from the chief inspector, which permit may be revoked at any time the health of the community, or of those employed therein, may require it, and which permit shall not be granted until an inspection of such premises is made by the chief inspector or a deputy inspector, and the maximum number of persons allowed to be employed therein shall be stated in such permit. Such permit shall be framed and posted in a conspicuous place in the room, or in any one of the rooms to which it relates. SEC. 70870. No less than two hundred and fifty cubic feet of air Air space. space shall be allowed for each person in any workroom where persons are employed during the hours between six o'clock in the morning and six o'clock in the evening, and not less than four hundred cubic feet of air space shall be provided for each person in any workroom where persons are employed between six o'clock in the evening and six o'clock in the morning. By a written permit the chief inspector may allow persons to be employed in a room where there are less than four hundred cubic feet, but not less than two hundred and fifty cubic feet of air space for each person employed between six o'clock in the evening and six o'clock in the morning: Provided, Such room is lighted by electricity at all times during such hours while persons are employed therein. There shall be sufficient means of ventilation provided Ventilation. in each workroom of every manufacturing or mercantile establishment, laundry, renovating works, bakery or printing office within this State, and the chief inspector shall notify the owner in writing to provide, or cause to be provided, ample and proper means of ventilation for such workroom, and shall prosecute such owner, agent or lessee if such notification be not complied with within twenty days of the service of such notice. Discrimination SEC. 7087p. Proprietors, agents or managers of any manufacturing or mercantile establishment, mine or quarry, laundry, in employment. renovating works, bakery or printing office, are prohibited from discriminating against any person or persons, or class of labor seeking work, by posting notices or otherwise. SEC. 7087q. It shall be unlawful for notaries public and other Notaries' fees. officers to receive more than ten cents for the preparing and certi fying to a "certificate of parent or guardian," provided for in this act. SEC. 7087г. The language used in this act shall be interpreted to Definitions. have the following meaning: The word "person means any in |