Fee. Certificate inspection. Marking. les. of Certificates is SEC. 11. Every boiler insurance company shall report immediately to the chief inspector of boilers the name of the owner or user and the location of every boiler herein required to be inspected, upon which they have canceled or refused insurance, giving the reasons for so doing. SEC. 12. Boilers and their appurtenances used exclusively for heating purposes, but which are not herein required to be inspected, shall be provided with such appliances to insure safety as shall be prescribed by the board of boiler rules, and it shall be the duty of the boiler inspection department to inspect such boilers upon application of the owner. SEC. 13. The owner or user of a boiler herein required to be inspected which is not insured by a boiler insurance company, shall, after due notice, prepare the boiler for internal and external inspection, at the appointed time, by drawing the water from the boiler and removing the manhole and hand-hole plates. The boiler inspection department shall give the owner at least fourteen days' notice to prepare boilers for this inspection, but shall not be required to give notice of external inspec tion. SEC. 14. The owner or user of a boiler inspected by the boiler inspection department shall pay to the inspector five dollars for each boiler internally and externally inspected, and two dollars for each visit for external inspection. The inspector shall give receipts for the same, and shall pay all sums so received to the chief inspector of boilers, who shall pay the same to the treasurer of the Commonwealth. SEC. 15. If, upon inspection the inspector finds the boiler to be in safe working order, with the fittings necessary to safety, and properly set up, he shall issue to the owner or user thereof a certificate of inspection stating the maximum pressure at which the boiler may be operated, as ascertained by the rules established by the board of boiler rules, and thereupon such owner or user may operate the boiler mentioned in the certificate. If the inspector finds that the boiler is not in safe working condition, or is not provided with fittings necessary to safety, or if the fittings are improperly arranged, he shall withhold his certificate until the boiler and its fittings are put in a condition to insure safety of operation, and the owner or user shall not operate the boiler, or cause it to be operated, until such certificate has been granted. SEC. 16. Every boiler which has been inspected by the boiler inspection department shall be numbered either by stamping the number upon the boiler or by attaching a numbered metal tag by a seal or otherwise to the boiler or its fittings. No person except a member of the boiler inspection department shall deface or remove any such number or tag. SEC. 17. Insurance companies engaged in the business of inspecting sued by compan- and insuring steam boilers shall, after each internal and external inspection, if they deem the boiler to be in safe working condition, issue a certificate of inspection stating the maximum pressure at which the boiler may be operated. This maximum pressure shall be determined under the rules established by the board of boiler rules. Limit. Certificate state what. SEC. 18. No insurance company shall issue a policy of insurance on a steam boiler for a longer period than three years. If a boiler is insured which has not previously been inspected externally and internally and a certificate of inspection issued, the company so insuring shall forthwith notify the chief of the boiler inspection department of the district police to that effect, and shall inspect such boiler internally and externally within one month after the insurance is effected. No insurance shall be effected on any boiler installed after May first, nineteen hundred and eight, which does not conform to the rules of construction formulated by the board of boiler rules. to SEC. 19. The certificate of inspection issued by the boiler inspection department, or by an insurance company, shall state the name of the owner or user, the location, size and number of the boiler, the date of inspection and the maximum pressure at which the boiler may be operated, under the signature of the person who made the inspection, and shall also contain such quotations from the statutes as shall be deemed necessary by the board of boiler rules, and shall so be placed as to be easily read in the engine room or boiler room of the plant where the boiler is located, except that the certificate of inspection for a portable boiler shall be kept on the premises and shall be accessible at all times. SEC. 20. No person shall use, or cause to be used, a steam boiler, Safety plugs. excepting boilers upon motor road vehicles, steam fire engines, boilers in private residences, or boilers under the jurisdiction of the United States, unless it is provided with a fusible safety plug made of lead or some other equally fusible material, as specified by the rules to be established by the board of boiler rules. Notice of de SEC. 21. The owner or user of any boiler herein required to be inspected shall immediately notify the boiler inspection department, if fects. the boiler is being operated under the inspection of that department, or the insurance company, if it is being operated under its inspection, in case a defect affecting the safety of the boiler is discovered. SEC. 22. If the insurance on any boiler herein required to be in- Operation spected expires, or is canceled because the insurers deem it unsafe to cease, when. continue the operation of the boiler, the owner or user shall cease to operate it until it has been put in a safe condition, satisfactory to the insurers, or has been inspected by the boiler inspection department and a certificate of inspection has been issued. to Hydrostatic SEC. 23. If, in the judgment of the inspector or of the insurance company, it is advisable to apply a hydrostatic pressure test to a boiler, the test. owner or user shall prepare the boiler for such test, as directed by the inspector or by the insurance company. SEC. 24. The governor, within thirty days after the passage of this act, with the consent of the council, shall appoint a board of five persons, to be known as the board of boiler rules, of whom the last four shall be appointed to serve as follows: Two for a term of two years each and two for a term of three years each. At the expiration of their terms of office their successors shall be appointed for terms of three years each. The members of the board, other than the chairman hereinafter designated, shall receive for their services the first year in office the sum of five hundred dollars each. Thereafter they shall receive as compensation for their services and reimbursement for their expenses such amount as the governor and council shall order, not exceeding in the aggregate in any one year the sum of one thousand dollars. The board shall be constituted as follows: The chief inspector of the boiler inspection department of the district police, who shall be its chairman; one member representing the boiler using interests; one member representing the boiler manufacturing interests; one member representing the boiler insurance interests; and one member who is an operating engineer. Board boiler rules. SEC. 25. The chief inspector of boilers of the boiler inspection depart- Clerk. ment of the district police shall appoint a clerk, who shall be a stenographer, and who shall also act as secretary of the board of boiler rules, and whose salary shall be twelve hundred dollars a year. The necessary expenses of the board, including those of the secretary of the board, Expenses. incurred in the discharge of their duty during the first year, shall be paid out of the treasury of the Commonwealth, but shall not exceed the sum of fifteen hundred dollars for that year. The attorney-general of the Commonwealth shall furnish all needed assistance to the board in the framing of the rules hereinafter provided for. SEC. 26. It shall be the duty of the board of boiler rules to formulate rules for the construction, installation and inspection of steam boilers, and for ascertaining the safe working pressure to be carried on said boilers, to prescribe tests, if they deem it necessary, to ascertain the qualities of materials used in the construction of boilers; to formulate rules regulating the construction and sizes of safety valves for boilers of different sizes and pressures, the construction, use and location of fusible safety plugs, appliances for indicating the pressure of steam and the level of water in the boiler, and such other appliances as the board may deem necessary to safety in operating steam boilers; and to make a standard form of certificate of inspection. Rules. of Governor to SEC. 27. The rules so formulated shall be submitted to the governor for his approval, and when approved shall have the force of law, and approve. shall be printed and furnished to those requesting them by the boiler inspection department. SEC. 28. The boiler inspection department of the district police shall enforce the provisions of the preceding sections, and such rules as shall be promulgated by the board of boiler rules with the approval of Enforcement. Fire escapes to be provided. Inspection. Alterations. Penalty. Fans or blow when. the governor. Whoever violates any provision of this act or of the said rules shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty nor more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. A trial justice shall have jurisdiction of complaints for violation of the provisions of this act, and in such cases may impose a fine of not more than fifty dollars. All members of the boiler inspection department of the district police shall have authority in the pursuance of their duty to enter any premises on which a boiler is situated, and any person who hinders or prevents or attempts to prevent any member of the boiler inspection department from so entering shall be liable to the penalty specified in this section. MICHIGAN. COMPILED LAWS OF 1897. Fire escapes on factories, etc. SECTION 5534. It shall be the duty of the owner, proprietor, or lessee of any building, factory, mill, warehouse, or workshop, more than two stories in height, where male or female help is employed above the second story in such building, to provide suitable ladders, or such other fire escapes as may be deemed necessary, for the escape of such help or other persons occupying such building, in cases of fire, as provided in section four of this act [sec. 5536]. * * * SEC. 5536. It shall be the duty of the board of building inspectors, to examine from time to time, at least once in each year, within their respective jurisdictions, any and all such places mentioned in the preceding sections of this act, and to submit without delay to their respective township or village boards, or common council, as the case may be, such recommendations, in addition to the provisions and requirements of this act, as they may deem proper and necessary for the protection against fire, and the escape therefrom, in the several places named in the preceding sections of this act. SEC. 5537. It shall be the duty of the township or village boards, or common council, as the case may be, on receiving such report, to direct all such needful alterations and additions to such places as recommended for the safety and escape from fire to be maɗe within such reasonable time as they may determine, by causing a written notice to be served on the owner, proprietor, manager, lessee, or keeper of such several places, stating therein fully the alterations and additions to be made, and the time for their completion. * * * SEC. 5538. If any such owner, proprietor, manager, lessee, or keeper of any such places named in this act shall neglect or refuse to comply with any such requirements within the time and in the manner specified in such notice, he or they shall be liable to a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars, or [nor] more than one hundred dollars, for each and every month that he or they shall fail to comply with the provisions of this act. * * * ACTS OF 1899. Acr. No. 202.-Factories and workshops-Blowers for emery wheels, etc. SECTION 1. All persons, companies or corporations, operating any ers to be used, factory or workshop, where wheels or emery belts of any description are in general use, either leather, leather covered, felt, canvas paper, cotton or wheels or belts rolled or coated with emery or corundum, or cotton, wheels used as buffs, shall provide the same with fans or blowers, or similar apparatus, when ordered by the commissioner of labor, which shall be placed in such a position or manner as to protest [protect] the person or persons using the same from the particles of the dust produced and caused thereby, and to carry away the dust arising from, or thrown off by such wheels or belts, while in operation, directly to the outside of the building or to some other receptacle placed so as to receive and confine such dust, and the same shall be placed in such factory or work shop within three months after this act shall take effect, in the manner and according to the directions and specifications as herein, in this act set forth: Provided, That grinding machines upon which water is used at the point of grinding contact shall be exempt from the conditions of this act: And provided further, That this act shall not apply to solid emery wheels used in sawmills or planing mills or other woodworking establishments. Proviso. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of any person, company or corporation Construction operating any such factory or workshop to provide or construct such of apparatus. appliances, apparatus, machinery or other things necessary to carry out the purpose of this act, as set forth in the preceding section, as follows: Each and every such wheel shall be fitted with a sheet or cast-iron hood or hopper of such form and so applied to such wheel or wheels that the dust or refuse therefrom will fall from such wheels or will be thrown in such hood or hopper by centrifugal force and be carried off by the current of air into a suction pipe attached to same hood or hopper. SEC. 3. Each and every such wheel six inches or less in diameter Suction pipes. shall be provided with a three-inch suction pipe; wheels six inches to twenty-four inches in diameter with four-inch suction pipe; wheels from twenty-four inches to thirty-six inches in diameter with a fiveinch suction pipe; and all wheels larger in diameter than those stated above shall be provided each with a suction pipe, not less than six inches in diameter. The suction pipe from each wheel, so specified, must be full sized to the main trunk suction pipe, and the said main suction pipe to which smaller pipes are attached shall, in its diameter and capacity, be equal to the combined area of such smaller pipes attached to the same; and the discharge pipe from the exhaust fan, connected with such suction pipe or pipes, shall be as large or larger than the suction pipe. SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of any person, company or corporation Velocity of air operating any such factory or workshop, to provide the necessary fans current, etc. or blowers to be connected with such pipe or pipes, as above set forth, which shall be run at such a rate of speed as will produce a velocity of air in such suction or discharge pipes of at least nine thousand feet per minute or an equivalent suction or pressure of air equal to raising a column of water not less than five inches high in a U-shaped tube. All branch pipes must enter the main trunk pipe at an angle of forty-five degrees or less. The main suction, or trunk pipe, shall be below the polishing or buffing wheels and as close to the same as possible and to be either upon the floor or beneath the floor on which the machines are placed to which such wheels are attached. All bends, turns or elbows in such pipes must be made with easy smooth surfaces having a radius in the throat of not less than two diameters of the pipe on which they are connected. SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of any factory inspector, sheriff, constable Enforcement. or prosecuting attorney of any county in this State, in which any such factory or workshop is situated, upon receiving notice in writing, signed by any person or persons, having knowledge of such facts, that such factory or workshop, is not provided with such appliances as herein provided for, to visit any such factory or workshop and inspect the same and for such purpose they are hereby authorized to enter any factory or workshop in this State during working hours, and upon ascertaining the facts that the proprietors or managers of such factory or workshops have failed to comply with the provisions of this act, to make complaint of the same in writing before a justice of the peace, or police magistrate having jurisdiction, who shall thereupon issue his warrant directed to the owner, manager or director in such factory or workshop, who shall be thereupon proceeded against for the violation of this act as hereinafter mentioned, and it is made the duty of the prosecuting attorney to prosecute all cases under this act. Basement SEC. 5a (added by act No. 193, Acts of 1903). No person shall be employed to operate any of the wheels, buffers or belts mentioned in this rooms. act in any basement so-called, or any room lying wholly or partly beneath the surface of the ground, unless such workrooms shall be provided with sufficient means of light, heat and ventilation as shall be prescribed by the State factory inspector. Penalty. SEC. 6. Any such person or persons or company or managers or directors of any such company or corporation who shall have the charge or management of such factory or workshop, who shall fail to comply with the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof before any court of competent jurisdiction shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars and not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not less than thirty days, or exceeding ninety days or both such fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court. * * * Employment SEC. 7 (added by act No. 172, Acts of 1905). No female shall be emof females for-ployed in operating or using any of the wheels or belts specified in section one of this act. bidden. Alarms to be The provisions of this act are not violative of the constitution. 382. 66 N. W. Rep. ACT No. 209.-Inspection of steam boilers-Low-water alarms. SECTION 1. All stationary steam boilers operated or used, or caused installed, when. to be operated or used, by any person, firm or corporation within the State of Michigan shall whenever so ordered by the chief factory inspector or any of his duly authorized deputies, have upon them some device which will sound an alarm for the purpose of calling the attention of the engineer, fireman or person in charge of any such boiler to the depth of water in the boiler before the same reaches the danger point: Provided, That the kind of device or alarm so used shall be approved by the chief factory inspector of the State; and he or any of his duly authorized deputies shall be authorized to enter upon the premises of any person, firm or corporation within this State for the purpose of inspecting any stationary steam boiler so used or operated. Proviso. SEC. 2. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to operate any stationary steam boiler without its having a low-water alarm attached thereto after the chief factory inspector or any duly authorized deputy has ordered the same to be used as specified in sec tion one of this act. SEC. 3. Any person, the members of any firm or the board of directors of any corporation violating any of the provisions of this act or who shall refuse or neglect to comply with any such order made by the chief factory inspector or his duly authorized deputy shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars and costs of prosecution, or by imprisonment in the county jail of the county where such conviction shall be had, or in the State House of Correction and Reformatory at Ionia, for not less than six months nor more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court, for each and every offense. ACTS OF 1901. ACT No. 113.-Inspection of factories and workshops. SECTION 5. It shall be the duty of the owner, agent or lessee of any manufacturing establishment where hoisting shafts or wellholes are used, to cause the same to be properly inclosed and secured. It shall also be the duty of the owner, agent or lessee to provide or cause to be provided at all elevator openings in any manufacturing establishment, workshop, hotel or store such proper trap or automatic doors or automatic gates, so constructed as to open or close by the action of elevators either ascending or descending. The factory inspector, assistant factory inspector, or deputy factory inspector, shall inspect the cables, gearing or other apparatus of elevators in manufacturing establishments, workshops, hotels and stores at least once in each year, and more frequently if necessary, and require that the same be kept in a safe condition. SEC. 6 (as amended by act No. 140, Acts of 1907). Fire escapes shall be provided for all manufacturing establishments, hotels, stores, theaters, schools, halls, apartment houses and public buildings, two or more stories in height, if in the opinion of the factory inspector it is necessary to insure the safety of persons in such places; said fire escapes |