SEC. 10089. All rooms or buildings occupied as biscuit, bread or Sanitation. cake bakeries shall be drained and plumbed in a manner to conduce to the proper and healthful sanitary condition thereof, and constructed with air shafts, windows or ventilating pipes, sufficient to insure ventilation. The furniture and utensils in such rooms shall be so arranged that the furniture and floor may at all times be kept in a proper and healthful sanitary condition, and no water-closet, earth closet, privy or ash pit shall be within or communicate directly with the bake room.

SEC. 10091. The sleeping apartments for the persons employed Sleeping in bakeries or confectionery establishments shall be separate and apartments. distinct from the room or rooms used for manufacture or storage of flour or meal products or for the storage of flour, meal or other articles used in the manufacture or preparation of such product.

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SEC. 10092. No employer shall knowingly require, permit or suf- Employment fer any person to work in his bake shop who is affected with consump-sons." tion of the lungs, or with scrofula or any communicable skin disease, and every person is hereby required to keep himself in a cleanly condition while engaged in the manufacture or handling of such products.

SEC. 10093. Any person who violates any of the provisions of this Penalty. article, or refuses to comply with the requirements thereof, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten or [nor] more than one hundred dollars.

SEC. 10094. It shall be the duty of [the] labor commissioner or his Enforcement. deputy to see that the provisions of this act are carried into effect, and it is hereby made the duty of the prosecuting attorneys of each county or city in this State to lend all possible aid in all prosecutions for violations of any of the provisions of this article.

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SEC. 10095. A copy of this article shall be kept conspicuously Law to be posted in every bake shop or confectionery establishment in this State.

Factories and workshops-Sweating system.

Manufactures

SECTION 10096. No room or apartment in any tenement or dwelling house shall be used by more than three persons, not immediate in tenements. members of the family living therein, for the manufacture of any wearing apparel, purses, feathers, artificial flowers or other goods for male or female wear. Every person, firm or corporation contracting for the manufacture of any of the articles mentioned in this section, or giving out the complete material from which they are to be made, or to be wholly or partially finished, shall keep a register of the names and addresses of all persons to whom such work is given to be made or whom they have contracted to do the same. Such register shall be produced for the inspection, and a copy thereof shall be furnished to the labor commissioner or factory inspector on demand.

SEC. 10097. No person, firm or corporation shall knowingly sell or. expose for sale any of the articles mentioned herein when such articles were made in violation of this article; and the labor commissioners his deputy or any officer appointed to enforce the provisions of this article, who shall find any such articles made in violation of the provisions of this article, or who shall find that the articles herein mentioned are made under unclean or unhealthy conditions, shall conspicuously affix thereto a label containing the words "tenement made or "made under unhealthy conditions,' as the case may be, printed in plain letters on a tag not less than two inches in length, and it shall be unlawful to remove such tag, except by the permission of the labor commissioner or the officer under whose direction such label was affixed.

SEC. 10098. Any person, firm or corporation engaged in the manufacture or sale of the articles herein mentioned who shall violate or who shall fail to comply with the provisions of this article, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not more than ten days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Certain goods to be labeled.

Penalty.

Sanitation.

Water-closets,

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Ventilation.

Exhaust fans.

Penalty.

Definitions.

Inspection of factories, etc.

SECTION 10099. Every person employing five or more persons in a factory, or employing children, young persons or women, five or more in number, in a workshop, shall keep such factory or workshop in a cleanly state and free from effluvia from any drain, privy or other nuisance.

SEC. 10100. Every person employing five or more persons in a factory or employing children, young persons or women, five or more in number, in a workshop, shall provide, with reasonable access, a sufficient number of proper water-closets, earth closets or privies, for the reasonable use of all persons so employed; and wherever male and female persons are employed in the same factory or workshop, a sufficient number of separate and distinct water-closets, earth closets or privies shall be provided for the use of each sex, and shall be plainly designated; and no person shall be allowed to use any such closet or privy assigned to persons of the other sex.

SEC. 10101. Every factory in which five or more persons are employed, and every workshop in which children, young persons or women, five or more in number, are employed, shall be so ventilated while work is carried on therein that the air shall not become so exhausted as to be injurious to the health of the persons employed therein, and shall also be so ventilated as to render harmless, so far as is practicable, all the gases, vapors, dust or other impurities generated in the course of the manufacturing process or handicraft carried on therein that may be injurious to health.

SEC. 10102. If, in a factory or workshop included in section 10101 of this article, any process is carried on by which dust is generated and inhaled to an injurious extent by the persons employed therein, and it appears to an inspector of factories that such inhalation could be to a great extent prevented by the use of a fan or other mechanical means, and that the same could be provided without excessive expense, such inspector may direct a fan, or other mechanical means of a proper construction, to be provided within a reasonable time; and such fan or other mechanical means shall be so provided, maintained and used. SEC. 10103. Any person employing labor in a factory or workshop, and violating any provision of this article, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than two hundred dollars; but no criminal prosecution shall be made for such violation until four weeks after notice in writing by an inspector of factories of the changes necessary to be made to comply with the provisions of this article has been sent by mail or delivered to such person, nor then, if in the meantime such changes have been made in accordance with such notification. A notice shall be a sufficient notice under this article to all the members of a firm, company or corporation, when given to one member of such firm or company, or to the clerk, cashier, secretary, agent or any other officer having charge of the business of such corporation, or to its attorney; and in case of a foreign corporation, notice to the officer having charge of such factory or workshop shall be sufficient.

SEC. 10104. The following expressions used in this article shall have the following meanings: The expression "person", means any individual, corporation, partnership, company or association. The expression "child" means a person under the age of fourteen years. The expression "young person" means a person of the age of fourteen years and under the age of eighteen years. The expression "woman" means a woman of the age of eighteen years and upward. The expres sion "factory" means any premises where steam, water or other mechanical power is used in aid of any manufacturing process there carried on. The expression "workshop" means any premises, room or place, not being a factory as above defined, wherein any manual labor is exercised by way of trade, or for purposes of gain, in or incidental to any process of making, altering, repairing, ornamenting, finishing or adapting for sale any article or part of an article, and to which or over which premises, room or place the employer of the persons working therein has the right of access or control: Provided, however, That the exercise of manual labor in a private house or room by a family dwelling therein, shall not in itself constitute such house or room a workshop within this definition.

ACTS OF 1901.

Factory inspector.

(Page 197, as amended by act, page 326, Acts of 1907.)

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the governor of the State, with the advice Inspector and consent of the senate, shall appoint a competent person to serve as be appointed. factory inspector, who shall hold office for four years from the date of his appointment, or until his successor is appointed and qualified. The factory inspector may appoint, from time to time, two assistant Assistants, etc. factory inspectors and seven deputy factory inspectors, two of whom may be women, who may be removed by him at any time for just cause. Before entering upon his official duties, the inspector shall make oath to support the constitution and faithfully demean himself in office; he shall also execute a bond to the State of Missouri, in such sum as the governor may prescribe, with two or more solvent sureties, to be approved by the governor, conditioned upon his faithful performance of the duties imposed upon him by this act.

SEC. 2. The State factory inspector may divide the State into districts, assign one or more deputy inspectors to each district, and may, at his discretion, change or transfer them from one district to another. It shall be the duty of the factory inspector, his assistants or deputy inspectors, to make not less than two inspections during each year of all factories, warehouses, freight depots, machine shops, laundries, tenement, workshops, bake shops, hotels, restaurants, bowling alleys, theaters, concert halls or places of public amusement and other manufacturing, mechanical and mercantile establishments and workshops, in all cities having a population of ten thousand inhabitants or more. The last inspection shall be completed on or before the first day of October of each year, and the factory inspector shall enforce all laws relating to the inspection of the establishments enumerated heretofore in this section, and prosecute all persons for violating the same. Any municipal ordinance relating to said establishments or their inspection, shall be enforced by the factory inspector. The factory inspector, his assistants and deputy inspectors, may administer oaths and take affidavits in matters concerning the enforcement of the various inspection laws relating to these establishments.

Districts.

Fees.

SEC. 3. The inspector provided for in this act shall be entitled to demand and receive from the owner, superintendent, manager or other person in charge of every establishment inspected, as provided for by law, the following fee for each inspection made in accordance with the provisions of this act: For the inspection of every building or shop in which three or less persons are employed or found at work, the sum of fifty cents; for the inspection of every building or shop in which more than three or not exceeding twenty-five persons are employed, the sum of one dollar; for the inspection of every building or shop in which more than twenty-five and less than sixty persons are employed, the sum of two dollars, and in every building or shop in which more than sixty persons are employed, an additional fee of one dollar shall be charged and collected for every fifty additional persons employed, or any additional fraction thereof, and the fee herein provided for shall be due immediately upon completion of the inspection. The Duties of owner, superintendent, manager or other person in charge of any owners, etc. establishment at the time of inspection, shall be required to furnish the inspector making the inspection a true statement of the number of persons employed in such establishment at the time of inspection, and any owner, superintendent, manager or other person in charge who shall fail or refuse to furnish such statement, or understate the number of persons employed in such establishment at the time of inspection, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense. Any person, firm or corporation, agent or manager, superintendent or foreman of any firm admission. or corporation, whether acting for himself or for such firm or corporation, or by himself or through subagents or foreman, superintendent or manager, who shall refuse or attempt to prevent the admission of

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any inspector authorized by this act, upon or within the premises or buildings of any such establishments or place included in this act, at any reasonable business hour, or during working hours of the persons employed therein or thereat, or shall in any manner interfere with the performance of the official duties of such inspector, or shall neglect or refuse to pay the inspection fee upon the completion of such inspection, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense: Provided, That the owner or manager of any establishment inspected shall not be required to pay for more than two such inspections between the first day of October of one year and thirtieth day of September of the next year, unless, through noncompliance with the written orders of the inspector, additional inspections are made necessary.

SEC. 4. All fees received by the factory inspector under the provisions of this act, shall be paid into the State treasury on or before the last day of each month to be placed to the credit of the “factory inspection fund." The factory inspector shall receive an annual salary of two thousand dollars; the two assistant factory inspectors shall receive an annual salary of one thousand four hundred dollars each, and the deputy factory inspectors shall each receive a salary of one hundred dollars per month for the time actually employed; and the factory inspector, assistant factory inspectors and deputy factory inspectors shall further receive actual necessary expenses incurred in the discharge of their duties, to be paid monthly upon a warrant of the State auditor, issued upon vouchers therefor. The factory inspector shall establish and maintain an office in the city of St. Louis, and also an office in the city of Kansas City. The offices herein provided for in St. Louis and Kansas City shall each be in charge of one of said assistant factory inspectors. Each of said assistant factory inspectors shall devote his entire time to the discharge of the duties of the office in the city for which he is appointed. The persons appointed assistant factory inspectors under this act shall possess all the qualifications now required of city officers by the charters of the respective cities in which their said offices are located: Provided, That no salary or expense shall be paid for the factory inspector or assistant or deputy factory inspectors or clerks in excess of the receipts from the fees paid into the factory inspection fund; And, provided further, That the salary of the factory inspector and his assistants, and all expenses for traveling, office rent, printing, stationery, postage and other items of expenditure, shall be limited for the biennial term of two years to an amount not exceeding thirty-five thousand dollars, and all money remaining in said factory inspection fund at the close of each biennial term, after the payment of the salaries and expenses herein provided for, shall be transferred to the general revenue fund.

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SECTION 1 (as approved March 24, 1903; page 251, Acts of 1903). required, when. It shall be the duty of the owner, proprietor, lessee or keeper of every * factory, office building in the State of Missouri, and every building therein where people congregate or which is used as a business place, * which has a height of three or more stories to provide said structure with stair fire escapes attached to the exterior of said building and by staircases located in the interior of said building. The fire escapes shall commence at the sill of the second-story window, and run to the upper window sill of the upper story with an iron ladder from the upper story to the roof. The fire escape shall extend downward from said second story to within nine feet of the ground pavement or sidewalk. * *In no case shall a fire escape run past a window where it is practicable to avoid it. All fire escapes required by this act must be of the kind known as stationary fire escapes. All buildings heretofore erected shall be made to conform to the provisions of this act.

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SEC. 2 (as approved March 24, 1903; page 251, Acts of 1903). When fire escapes are to be attached to buildings within a city they shall be con

structed under the supervision of and subject to the approval of the commissioner or superintendent of public buildings within such city, and if there be no such office within such city they shall be subject to the approval of the chief of the fire department of such city. Whenever a fire escape attached to any building located within a city, shall, upon inspection by the commissioner or superintendent of public buildings, or chief of the fire department of such city, be found in an unsafe and dangerous condition, the owner, lessee, proprietor or keeper of said building shall forthwith rebuild or repair same or replace same in safe condition, upon written notice of such commissioner or superintendent. When fire escapes are to be attached to buildings not within the limits of any city, they shall be subject to the approval of the sheriff of the county in which such building is located. And should such fire escape, through age or otherwise, be or become unsafe or dangerous, the same shall be repaired and placed in safe condition, upon written notice by said sheriff to the person in charge of such building. All fire escapes shall have proper and safe balconies Construction. for each story thereof, surrounded on the sides with wire bank and pipe rail not less than three feet in height with openings from the building to said balconies. Whenever a stair fire escape is to be constructed, the stairway shall where practicable, be of an angle of not more than fifty-five degrees and constructed so as to be placed on a blank wall. The stair fire escape shall be provided with one or more landings in each story, and inclosed on the sides with wire bank and pipe rail not less than three feet in height and running on the same angle as the stairs.

SEC. 3 (as approved March 24, 1903; page 251, Acts of 1903). The Number. number of fire escapes to be attached to any one building as required in this act shall, when the building is located within a city, be determined by the commissioner or superintendent of public buildings within such city, and if there be no such officer in such city, then by the chief of the fire department of such city: Provided, however, That all buildings of nonfireproof construction three or more stories in height used for manufacturing purposes, * * shall have not less than one fire escape for every fifty persons or fraction thereof for whom accommodations are provided above the second

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SEC. 4. All buildings hereafter erected in this State which shall Violation a come within the provisions of this law, shall, upon or before their misdemeanor. completion, be provided with fire escapes of the kind and number and

in the manner set forth in this law, and any violation of this section shall constitute a misdemeanor on the part of the owner of such building, punishable as provided in section five.

SEC. 5. The owner, proprietor, lessee or manager of a building which, Penalty. under the terms of this act, is required to have one or more fire escapes, who shall neglect or refuse for the period of sixty days after this law takes effect to comply with its provisions, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction, shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than two hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county or city jail not more than three months, or by both fine and imprisonment, and each day shall be deemed a separate offense.

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CODES AND STATUTES-SANDERS' EDITION-1895.

POLITICAL CODE.

Inspection of steam boilers-Examination and licensing of engineers.

SECTION 550. There must be appointed by the governor, by and Inspector with the advice and consent of the senate, one inspector of boilers, of boilers. whose duty it is to inspect all steam boilers now in use in the State, not subject to inspection under the laws of the United States, and to examine and grant licenses to steam engineers intrusted with the care and management of steam boilers and steam machinery. The salary of the inspector of boilers is twenty-four hundred dollars per year, and