necessary by the factory inspector, an impermeable floor, constructed of cement, or of tiles laid in cement, or an additional flooring of wood, properly saturated with linseed oil. The side walls of such room shall be plastered and wainscoted. The factory inspector may require the side walls and ceiling to be whitewashed at least once in three months. He may also require the woodwork of such walls to be painted. The furniture and utensils shall be so arranged as to be readily cleansed, and not to prevent the proper cleaning of any part of the room. The manufactured butterine and ice cream shall be kept in dry and airy rooms, Storage, etc. so arranged that the floors, shelves and all other facilities for storing the same can be properly cleaned. No domestic animal shall be allowed to remain in a room where butterine or ice cream is manufactured or stored, and no water closets or ash pit shall be within or connected with the rooms used in the manufacture of butterine or ice cream.

SEC. 3. The State factory inspector shall cause such manufactories to be inspected. If it be found, upon such inspection, that the manufactories so inspected are constructed and conducted in compliance with the provisions of this act, the factory inspector shall issue a certificate to the persons owning or conducting such manufactories.

SEC. 4. If, in the opinion of the State factory inspector, alterations are required in or upon premises occupied and used as butterine and ice cream manufactories, in order to comply with the provisions of this act, a written notice shall be served by him upon the owner, agent or lessee of such premises, either personally or by mail, requiring such alterations to be made within sixty days after such service, and such alterations shall be made accordingly.

Inspection.

Alterations.

SEC. 5. Any person who violates any of the provisions of this act, or Violations. refuses to comply with any of the requirements as provided herein, of the factory inspector or his deputy, who are hereby charged with the enforcement of this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50) nor more than two hundred dollars ($200), nor more than five hundred dollars ($500) for the second offense, or imprisonment for not more than thirty days, and for a third offense by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars ($500) nor more than sixty (60) days imprisonment, or both.

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created.

SECTION 1. There is hereby created and established a separate and Department distinct department of the State government to be known as the "Illinois Department of Factory Inspection.

Assistant and

SEC. 2. The governor shall, upon the taking effect of this act, ap- Chief inspector. point a chief State factory inspector, whose duty it shall be to exercise general supervision over the department of factory inspection, 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) per annum and his term of office shall be four years. The governor shall also appoint upon the taking effect of this act, an assistant chief factory inspector at a salary of one thousand five hundred dollars deputies. ($1,500) per annum, and twenty-five deputy factory inspectors at a salary of one thousand two hundred dollars ($1,200) per annum, and at [an] attorney for said department at a salary of one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) per annum. The duties of the assistant chief factory inspector and the deputy factory inspectors shall be the same as those now or hereafter imposed by laws upon the chief State factory inspector, the assistant chief factory inspector, and the deputy factory inspectors. Said chief State factory inspector, assistant chief factory inspector and deputy factory inspectors, shall visit and inspect at all reasonable hours, as often as practicable, the factories, mercantile establishments, mills and workshops, and commercial institutions in this State, where goods, wares or merchandise are manufactured, stored, purchased or sold, at wholesale or retail. And the chief State factory inspector shall report in writing to the

Duties.

Districts.

Sanitation.

governor on the 15th day of December 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 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 any court of competent jurisdiction in this State. And it shall be the duty of the State's attorney of the proper county, upon request of the chief State factory inspector or his deputies, to prosecute any violation of law which it is made the duty of the factory inspectors to enforce. And it shall be the duty of the attorney for such department to prosecute, when required by the chief State factory inspector, any infractions or violations of law which is now or may be hereafter made the duty of the factory inspectors to enforce. Said chief State factory inspector shall, by written order filed with the governor, divide the State into inspection districts, due regard being had to the number of factories and the amount of work required to be performed in each district. And he shall assign to each district a deputy inspector, who shall have charge of the inspection in the district to which he is assigned, under the supervision of the chief State factory inspector. The chief State factory inspector may at any time, when in his discretion the good of the service requires, change a deputy inspector from one district to another, or reassign the districts of the State among the several deputy inspectors under his charge. He may at any time, when the conditions are changed or in his discretion the good of the service requires, by a like order filed with the governor, redivide the State into inspection districts, changing the territory embraced within the several districts, as to him may seem advisable.

INDIANA.

ANNOTATED STATUTES OF 1894-REVISION OF 1901.

Regulation and inspection of bakeries, etc.

SECTION 6725a. Every building, room, basement, or cellar occupied or used as a bakery or confectionery, canning, packing, pickling, or preserving establishment, or for the manufacture (for sale) of any food product shall be properly heated, lighted, drained, plumbed and ventilated and conducted with a strict regard to the health of the operatives and the purity and wholesomeness of the food articles produced. SEC. 6725b. The floors, side walls, ceilings, fixtures, furniture and work- utensils of every establishment or place where food products are manufactured or stored, shall at all times be kept in a clean, healthful and sanitary condition.

Construction,

etc., of

rooms.

Inspection.

The side walls and ceilings of every bake room or confectionery shall be well plastered, wainscoted or ceiled with metal or lumber. Plastered walls and ceilings shall be oil painted or kept well lime washed and all interior woodwork in every bakery or confectionery shall be kept well oiled or painted with oil paint and kept washed clean with soap and water. And every building, room, basement, or cellar occupied or used for the manufacture of any food products shall have, if deemed necessary by the chief inspector, an impermeable floor made of cement or tile laid in cement.

SEC. 6725c. The chief inspector or deputy inspector of the department of inspection or any health officer shall have the full power at all times to enter and inspect every building, room, basement, or cellar occupied or used as aforesaid, and if such inspection shall disclose a noncompliance with the purpose and provisions of this act the chief inspector shall require the execution of such lawful sanitary measures or alterations in or about such premises as will conform to the requirements of this act, and secure the production of the food products thereof in a clean and wholesome condition.

SEC. 6725d. Flour and meal shall be stored in dry and well ventilated rooms only, and no basement or cellar not now occupied or used as a bakery or confectionery shall hereafter be used as such except that the requirements of section 1 of this chapter [sec. 6725a] shall have been first fully complied with.

Basements,

etc.

for workmen.

SEC. 6725e. The sleeping place or places for the persons employed, Sleeping places in a bake shop shall be separate and apart from the bake room; and no person shall be allowed to sleep in a bake room or place where flour or meal or the products thereof are stored.

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SEC. 6725f. No employer shall knowingly require, permit or suffer Employment any person to work in a bakery or confectionery who is affected with of diseased perconsumption of the lungs, or with scrofula, or with any venereal disease or with any communicable skin disease. Cuspidors shall be provided by the owner or operator for each workroom of every bakery or confectionery, and no employee or other person shall expectorate on the floor or side walls of any bakery or confectionery or place where the manufacture of any food product is conducted.

Plain notices shall be posted in every place where food products of any kind are produced forbidding all persons expectorating on the floors of such establishment.

SEC. 6725g. The door and window openings of every food produc- Screens. ing establishment during fly season shall be fitted with self-closing wire screen doors and top outward-tipping wire window screens.

SEC. 6725h. Every bakery and confectionery shall be provided with Wash wash room and water-closet or closets but separate and apart from the etc. bake room or rooms where the manufacture of any food product is conducted.

SEC. 67251. Any person who violates any of the provisions of this Penalty. act or refuses to comply with any lawful requirements, of the chief inspector, duly made in writing shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction shall be punished for the first offense by a fine not less than ten dollars ($10) or more than fifty dollars ($50), for the second offense by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50) or more than one hundred dollars ($100), and third offense not less than two hundred dollars ($200) or by imprisonment for not more than sixty days or both fine and imprisonment.

rooms,

Act to be

A copy of this act shall be conspicuously posted in each workroom of every establishment effected [affected] by the provisions of this act. posted.

Factories and workshops—Inspection, etc.

appli

SEC. 7087e. It shall be the duty of the owner or lessee of any manuSafety ances for elevafacturing or mercantile establishment, laundry, renovating works, tors, etc. 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 requirements 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.

ways.

on

stair

SEC. 7087f. Proper and substantial hand rails shall be provided on all Hand rails, stairways in all establishments above enumerated, and where, in the etc.,, 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

Doors to open and bottom. All doors leading in or to such establishments aforesaid outwardly. shall be so constructed as to open outwardly where practicable, and shall be neither locked, bolted nor fastened during working hours. Communica- SEC. 7087g. In every manufacturing or other establishment, where tion with engine the machinery used is propelled by steam, communication 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.

room.

Accidents.

etc.,

Guards, 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 pe 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 Exhaust fans. used in the meantime. Exhaust fans of sufficient power shall be provided for the purpose of carrying off dust from emery wheels and grindstones and dust-creating machinery from establishments where used. No person under sixteen years of age, and no female under eighteen years of age, shall be allowed to clean machinery while in motion.

Cleaning chinery in tion.

ma-
mo-

Wash rooms,

etc.

Seats for female employees.

The duty to provide guards is put upon the employer by the statute, and is not dependent on the request of the employee to have the machine guarded. 69 N. E. Rep. 1033.

SEC. 7087j. A suitable and proper wash room and water-closets 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 separate 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 of such women and girls shall provide a suitable seat for the use 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.

for

SEC. 7087k. Not less than sixty minutes shall be allowed for the Time noonday meal in any aforesaid establishment in this State. The meals. chief inspector shall have the power to issue written permits in special cases, allowing shorter meal time 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. SEC. 70871. The walls and ceilings of each room in every establishment aforesaid, shall be limewashed or painted, when in the opinion limewashed, of the chief inspector it shall be conducive to the health or cleanliness' of the persons working therein.

Walls to be

etc.

SEC. 7087m. The chief inspector, or other competent person desig- Inspection. nated 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 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.

Sweat shops.

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 ventila- Ventilation tion provided 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.

SEC. 7087p. Proprietors, agents or managers of any manufacturing Discrimination or mercantile establishment, mine or quarry, laundry, renovating in employment. works, bakery or printing office, are prohibited from discriminating

against any person or persons, or class of labor seeking work, by post

ing notices or otherwise.

SEC. 7087q. It shall be unlawful for notaries public and other officers Notaries' fees. to receive more than ten cents for the preparing and certifying to a "Certificate of parent or guardian," provided for in this act.