2. The provisions of article three of the labor law, relating to the bureau of labor statistics;

3. The provisions of article five of the labor law, relating to the bureau of factory inspection;

4. The provisions of article six of the labor law, relating to factories; 5. The provisions of article seven of the labor law, relating to the manufacture of articles in tenements;

6. The provisions of article eight of the labor law, relating to bakeries and confectionery establishments;

7. The provisions of article eleven of the labor law, relating to mercantile establishments, and the employment of women and children therein;

8. And any person who knowingly makes a false statement in or in relation to any application made for an employment certificate as to any matter required by articles six and eleven of the labor law to appear in any affadavit, record, transcript or certificate therein provided for, is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished for a first offense by a fine of not less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars; for a second offense by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than two hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than thirty days or by both such fine and imprisonment; for a third offense by a fine of not less than two hundred and fifty dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than sixty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Factories and workshops-Sweating system.

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Penalty.

Manufactures

in tenement houses.

SECTION 28. No room or apartment in a tenement or dwelling house, used for eating or sleeping purposes, shall be used for the manufacture, wholly or partly, of coats, vests, trousers, knee pants, overalls, cloaks, shirts, purses, feathers, artificial flowers or cigars, except by the members of the family living therein, which shall include a husband and wife and their children, or the children of either. A family occupying or controlling such a workshop shall, within fourteen days from the time of beginning work therein, notify the board of health of the city, village or town, where such workshop is located, or a special inspector appointed by such board, of the location of such workshops, the nature of the work carried on, and the number of persons employed therein; and thereupon such board shall, if it deems advisable, cause a permit to be issued to such family to carry on the manufacture Permit. specified in the notice. Such board may appoint as many persons as it deems advisable to act as special inspectors. Such special inspectors shall receive no compensation, but may be paid by the board their reasonable and necessary expenses. If a board of health or such in

spector shall find evidence of infectious or contagious diseases present Infectious in any workshop, or in goods manufactured or in process of manufacture diseases. therein the board shall issue such orders as the public health may require, and shall condemn and destroy such infectious and contagious articles, and may, if necessary to protect the public health, revoke any permit granted by it for manufacturing goods in such workshop. If a board of health or any such inspector shall discover that any such goods are being brought into the State, having been manufactured, in whole or in part, under unhealthy conditions, such board or inspector shall examine such goods, and if they are found to contain vermin, or to have been made in improper places or under unhealthy conditions, the board may make such orders as the public health may require, and may condemn and destroy such goods.

ACTS OF 1901.

CHAPTER 466.-AMENDING THE CHARTER OF GREATER NEW YORK.

CHAPTER 8.-Inspection of steam boilers-New York City. SECTION 342. Every owner, agent or lessee of a steam boiler or boilers in use in the city of New York shall annually, and at such convenient times and in such manner and in such form as may, by rules and

Boilers to be reported.

Inspection.

Certificate.

Fee.

Engineer's certificate required.

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regulations to be made therefor by the police commissioner be provided, report to the said department the location of each steam boiler or boilers, and thereupon, and as soon thereafter as practicable, the sanitary company or such member or members thereof as may be competent for the duty herein described, and may be detailed for such duty by the police commissioner shall proceed to inspect such steam boilers, and all apparatus and appliances connected therewith; but no person shall be detailed for such duty except he be a practical engineer, and the strength and security of each boiler shall be tested by atmospheric and hydrostatic pressure and the strength and security of each boiler or boilers so tested shall have, under the control of the said sanitary company, such attachments, apparatus and appliances as may be necessary for the limitation of pressure, locked and secured in like manner as may be from time to time adopted by the United States inspectors of steam boilers or the Secretary of the Treasury, according to act of Congress, passed July twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and sixtysix; and they shall limit the pressure of steam to be applied to or upon such boiler, certifying each inspection and such limit of pressure to the owner of the boiler inspected, and also to the engineer in charge of same, and no greater amount of steam or pressure than that certified in the case of any boiler shall be applied thereto. In limiting the amount of pressure, wherever the boiler under test will bear the same, the limit desired by the owner of the boiler shall be the one certified. Every owner, agent or lessee of a steam boiler or boilers in use in the city of New York shall, for the inspection and testing of such or each of such boilers, as provided for in this act, and upon receiving from the police department a certificate setting forth the location of the boiler inspected, the date of such inspection, the persons by whom the inspection was made, and the limit of steam pressure which shall be applied to or upon such boiler or each of such boilers pay annually to the police commissioner for each boiler, for the use of the police pension fund, the sum of two dollars, such certificate to continue in force for one year from the granting thereof when it shall expire, unless sooner revoked or suspended. Such certificate may be renewed upon the payment of a like sum and like conditions, to be applied to a like purpose. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons, corporation or corporations, to have used or operated within the city of New York any steam boiler or boilers except for heating purposes and for railway locomotives, without having first had such boiler or boilers inspected or tested and procured for such boiler or each of such boilers so used or operated the certificate herein provided for. The superintendent and inspectors of boilers, in the employ of the police department, in the city of Brooklyn, and the boiler inspectors in Long Island City, shall continue to discharge the duties heretofore devolved upon them, subject, however, to removal for cause, or when they are no longer needed.

SEC. 343. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to operate or use any steam boiler to generate steam except for railway locomotive engines, and for heating purposes in private dwellings, and boilers carrying not over ten pounds of steam and not over ten horsepower, or to act as engineer for such purposes in the city of New York without having a certificate of qualification therefor from practical engineers detailed as such by the police department, such certificate to be countersigned by the officer in command of the sanitary company of the police department of the city of New York and to continue in force one year, unless sooner revoked or suspended. Such certificate may be revoked or suspended at any time by the police commissioner upon the report of any two practical engineers, detailed as provided in this section, stating the grounds upon which such certificate should be revoked or suspended. Where such certificate shall have been revoked, as provided in this section, a like certificate shall not in any case be issued to the same person within six months from the date of the revocation of the former certificate held by such person.

SEC. 344. A correct record in proper form shall be kept and preserved of all inspections of steam boilers made under the direction of the police board, and of the amount of steam or pressure allowed in each case, and in cases where any steam boiler or the apparatus or appli

ances connected therewith shall be deemed by the department, after inspection, to be insecure or dangerous, the department may prescribe such changes and alterations as may render such boilers, apparatus and appliances secure and devoid of danger. And in the meantime, and until such changes and alterations are made and such appliances attached, such boiler, apparatus and appliances may be taken under the control of the police department and all persons prevented from using the same, and in cases deemed necessary, the appliances, apparatus or attachment for the limitation of pressure may be taken under the control of the said police department.

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SEC. 345. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to apply or cause to be applied to any steam boiler a higher pressure of steam than that limited for the same in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, and any person violating the provisions of the last preceding section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. In case any owner of Failing to reany steam boiler in the said city shall fail or omit to have the same reported for inspection, as provided by law, such boiler may be taken under the control of the police department and all persons prevented from using the same until it can be satisfactorily tested, as herein before provided for, and the owner shall, in such case, be charged with the expense of so testing it.

NORTH DAKOTA.

REVISED CODES OF 1905.

Fire escapes on factories, etc.

SECTION 2175. The owners and proprietors of all hotels, factories, Fire escapes public halls, offices and other buildings in this State, over two stories in to be provided. height, are required to provide safe and suitable fire escapes from all rooms above the second story of such hotel or other building, and when rooms have no outside windows there shall be affixed to the windows in the hallway leading from such room at least three fire escapes in each window as herein directed. Such fire escape shall consist of at least one good cotton rope not less than one inch in diameter, to be securely and permanently fastened with iron rings or bolts at a point immediately outside or inside of at least one window in each room above the second story; and such rope shall be of sufficient length to reach to the ground: Provided, That if the owner or proprietor of any such buildings shall pro- Proviso. vide good and sufficient iron ladders extending from each of the windows herein mentioned, and from points immediately adjacent to each of such windows, to the ground, securely and permanently fastened to such building, or shall have the fire escape ladder in each of the rooms and hall windows aforesaid, of sufficient length to reach from such windows to the ground, he will be deemed to have complied with the requirements of this section.

SEC. 2176. Any person violating any of the provisions of the last section shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars for each room in such hotel or other building not provided with fire escapes as aforesaid.

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Doors to open

SECTION 2177. All doors of ingress and egress in all buildings used for * factories, * wherein numbers of persons are em- outwardly. shall be so constructed as to open and swing outward, and doorways shall not be less than four feet in width, with proper landings and stairways of at least equal width.

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SEC. 2179. Any person failing to comply with the provisions of * [section 2177], or who shall build, maintain or permit to be used any such building contrary to the provisions hereof shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.

Fire escapes.

Inspectors.

Chief inspector,

Powers, ties, etc.

OHIO.

BATES'S ANNOTATED STATUTES-THIRD EDITION.

Factories and workshops-Inspection, etc.

SECTION 2573. It shall be the duty of any owner or agent for owner of any factory, workshop, tenement house, inn, or public house, if such factory, workshop, tenement house, inn, or public house be more than two stories high, to provide [a] convenient exit from the different upper stories of said building, which shall be easily accessible in case of fire,

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If the owner of the factory and the owner of the building are not the same person, the duty prescribed in this section devolves upon the former. 42 O. S. Rept. 458.

SEC. 2573a (as amended by act, page 530, Acts of 1904). For the purpose of providing an adequate force for the efficient and thorough inspection of workshops and factories throughout the State of Ohio, the governor shall appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, one chief inspector, who, with the approval of the governor, shall appoint thirteen district inspectors.

The chief inspector and district inspectors shall be competent and practical mechanics.

The chief inspector shall hold his office for a term of four years, and shall have his office in the statehouse, where shall be kept the records of his office; and the district inspectors shall hold their offices for a term of three years from the first day of May after their respective appointments, and until their successors are appointed and qualified: Provided, however, That the chief inspector and the district inspectors in office at the time of this act shall serve out their respective terms for which they have been appointed. In case of the resignation, removal or death of the chief inspector, or any district inspector, the vacancy shall be filled in the manner above provided for the original appointments for the unexpired term only of the position so made vacant.

2. The chief inspector shall make such assignments of all the district inspectors as the good of the service may require, and shall issue such instructions, and make such rules and regulations for the government of the district inspectors not inconsistent with the powers and duties vested in them by law as shall secure uniformity of action and proceedings throughout the different districts into which he shall divide the State.

The salary of the chief inspector shall be two thousand dollars ($2,000) per annum, and the district inspectors twelve hundred dollars ($1,200) each per annum, which salaries and all necessary traveling expenses incurred by said inspectors in the discharge of their official duties shall be paid out of the treasury of the State from any fund therein not otherwise appropriated on the warrant of the auditor, on the presentation to him of the proper vouchers.

du- 3 (as amended by act, page 338, Acts of 1902). The chief inspector and district inspectors shall give their whole time and attention to the duties of their offices respectively; they shall have the power of notary, to administer oaths and to take affidavits in matters connected with the enforcement of the provisions of all laws coming under the jurisdiction of the department of the inspection of workshops, factories and public buildings. It shall be their duty to visit all shops and factories in their respective districts as often as possible, to see that all the provisions and requirements of this act are strictly observed and carried out; they shall carefully inspect the sanitary condition of the same, and it shall be their duty to examine the system of sewerage in connection with said shops and factories, the situations and conditions of water-closets or urinals in and about such shops and factories and also the system of heating, lighting and ventilating all rooms in such shops and factories where persons are employed at daily labor; also as to the means of exit from all such places in case of fire or other disaster; and also all belting, shafting, gearing, elevators, drums and machinery of every kind and description in and about such shops and factories, and see that the same are not located so as to be dangerous to employees when engaged in

their ordinary duties, and that the same so far as practicable, are securely guarded, and that every vat, pan or structure filled with molten metal or hot liquid shall be surrounded with proper safeguards for preventing accident or injury to those employed at or near them; and that all such are in proper sanitary condition, and are adequately provided with means of escape in case of fire or other disaster.

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SEC. 2573a-2. Authority * is hereby given to appoint eight Additional inadditional district inspectors; and they shall be appointed in the same spectors. manner and possess the same qualifications, and whose term of office shall be the same and on the same conditions, and receive the same compensation as the three district inspectors authorized by said section 2573a, including sections two and three thereof. The chief inspector may assign said additional inspectors for service in the present districts, or change and make new and smaller districts, and make such assignments of all the district inspectors as the good of the service may require.

SEC. 2573b (as amended by act, page 530, Acts of 1904). The said Entering facinspector shall have entry into all shops and factories, including all tories, etc. public institutions of the State which have shops and factories, or either, at any reasonable time, and it shall be unlawful for the proprietors, agents or servants in such factories or shops to prevent, at reasonable hours, his entry into such shops or factories for the purpose of such inspection. And proof of the failure of the proprietor of any shop or factory to make the alteration or furnish the safeguards ordered by the inspector, within the time required by law, shall be deemed prima facie evidence of negligence and shall render such proprietor liable for any injury sustained by reason of such failure to make such alterations or furnish such safeguards.

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SEC. 2573c (as amended by act, page 530, Acts of 1904). Said Injurious inspectors, if they find upon such inspection that the heating, light- dangerous coning, ventilation or sanitary arrangement of any shop or factory is such as to be injurious to the health of persons employed or residing therein, or that the means of egress in case of fire or other disaster is not sufficient, or that efficient means for extinguishing fire is not provided on each floor, or that the belting, shafting, gearing, elevators, drums and machinery in such shops and factories are located so as to be dangerous to employees, and not sufficiently guarded, or that the vats, pans or structures filled with molten metal or hot liquid are not surrounded with proper safeguards for preventing accident or injury to those employed at or near them, shall notify the owners, proprietors or agents of such shops or factories by mailing such notifications to the last known address of such owners, proprietors or agents to make the alterations or additions necessary without delay: Provided, however, That for Alterations. such of the alterations and additions ordered as may be of such nature as to make it impossible to comply with immediately, the chief inspector may grant from fifteen (15) to thirty (30) days' time from date of first notification to such owners, proprietors or agents, in which to make such alterations and additions, and if such alterations are not made within the limit of time granted, such owners, proprietors or agents so notified, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not more than five hundred (500) dollars, and not less than fifty (50) dollars, and ten (10) dollars additional for each day after such conviction, until such alterations and additions necessary have been made, which fine shall be paid into the treasury of the county in which conviction is had. The district inspectors shall make a record of all examinations of shops and factories in their respective districts, showing the date when made, the condition in which shops and factories are found, and what changes were ordered, the number of shops and factories in their respective districts, the number of men, women and children employed in each shop or factory, together with all such other facts and information of public interest concerning the condition of such shops and factories as they may think useful and proper, which record shall be filed in the office of the chief inspector every week, and so much thereof as may be of public interest to be included in his annual report.

SEC. 2573d. The term "shops and factories," as used in section 2573b and 2573c of the Revised Statutes, shall be held to include the

Definitions.