of, a director of agriculture, as authorized by section six hundred and [one] two of this chapter, and establishing, maintaining and conducting an organization and course of instruction in such subject, approved by the commissioner of education, a sum equal to one-half of the salary paid to such director by such city, town or district, or by two or more of such towns of districts, not exceeding in each year the sum of six hundred dollars for each director employed. Where the apportionment is made on account of a director employed by two or more towns or districts, it shall be apportioned to such towns or districts in accordance with the proportionate amount paid by each of such towns or districts under the contract made with such director.

5. The commissioner of education, in his discretion, may apportion to a district or city maintaining such schools or employing such teachers for a shorter time than thirty-six weeks, or for a less time than a regular school day, an amount pro rata to the time such schools are maintained or such teachers are employed. This section shall not be construed to entitle manual training high schools or other secondary schools maintaining manual training departments, to an apportionment of funds herein provided for.

Any person employed as teacher as provided herein may serve as principal of the school in which the said industrial or trade school or course, or school or course of agriculture, mechanic arts and homemaking, is maintained.

§ [605] 606. Application of such moneys. All moneys apportioned by the commissioner of education for schools under this article shall be used exclusively for the payment of the salaries of teachers employed in such schools in the city or district to which such moneys are apportioned.

[606] 607. Annual estimate by board of education and appropriations by municipal and school districts. [1. The board of education of each city or the officer having the management and supervision of the public school system in a city not having a board of education shall file with the common council of such city, within thirty days after the commencement of the fiscal year of such city, a written itemized estimate of the expenditures necessary for the maintenance of its general industrial schools, unit trade or technical schools, schools of agriculture, mechanic arts and homemaking, part-time or continuation schools, practical arts or homemaking schools or evening vocational schools, and the estimated amount which the city will receive from the state school moneys applicable to the support of such schools. The common council shall give a public hearing to such persons as wish to be heard in reference thereto. The common council shall adopt such estimate and, after deducting therefrom the amount of state moneys applicable to the support of such schools, shall include the balance in the annual tax budget of such city. Such amount shall be levied, assessed and raised by tax upon the real and personal property liable to taxation in the city at the time and in the manner that other taxes for school purposes are raised. The common council shall have power by a two-thirds vote to reduce or reject any item included in such estimate.]

[2.] The board of education [in a union free] of each city and the board of education or trustees of each school district which maintains a general industrial school, unit trade or technical school, [a] school of agriculture, mechanic arts and home making, part-time or continuation schools, practical arts or homemaking schools or evening vocational schools, shall include in its estimate of expenses pursuant to the provisions of [sections three hundred

and twenty-three and three hundred and twenty-seven of] this chapter the amount that will be required to maintain such schools after applying toward the maintenance thereof the amount apportioned therefor by the commissioner of education. Such amount shall thereafter be levied, assessed and raised by tax upon the taxable property of the city or district at the time and in the manner that other taxes for school purposes are raised in such city or district.

§ [607] 608. Courses in schools of agriculture for training of teachers. The state schools of agriculture at Saint Lawrence University, at Alfred University and at Morrisville may give courses for the training of teachers in agriculture, mechanic arts, domestic science or homemaking, approved by the commissioner of education. Such schools shall be entitled to an apportionment of money as provided in section six hundred and [four] five of this chapter for schools established in union free school districts. Graduates from such approved courses may receive licenses to teach agriculture, mechanic arts and homemaking in the public schools of the state, subject to such rules and regulations as the commissioner of education may prescribe.

§ 2. Section six hundred and twenty-two of such chapter, as amended by chapter seven hundred and forty-eight of the laws of nineteen hundred and thirteen, is hereby repealed.

83. This act shall take effect August first, nineteen hundred and nineteen. Approved May 10.

Chapter 544.

An Act to amend the labor law, in relation to employment in elevators. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. Subdivision one of section eight-a of chapter thirty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act relating to labor, constituting chapter thirty-one of the consolidated laws," as added by chapter seven hundred and forty of the laws of nineteen hundred and thirteen and amended by chapter six hundred and forty-eight of the laws of nineteen hundred and fifteen is hereby amended to read as follows:

1. Every employer of labor engaged in carrying on any factory or mercantile establishment in this state, or in operating an elevator either for freight or passengers in any building or place in this state, shall allow every person, except those specified in subdivision two, and as otherwise herein provided, employed in such factory or mercantile establishment, or in caring for, having the custody or management of or operating any such elevator, at least twenty-four consecutive hours of rest in every calendar week. No employer shall operate any factory or mercantile establishment, or any such elevator, on Sunday unless he shall have complied with subdivision three. Provided, however, that this section shall not authorize any work on Sunday not now or hereafter authorized by law.

§ 2. Subdivision two of section ninety-three of such chapter as last amended by chapter four hundred and sixty-four of the laws of nineteen hundred and thirteen, is hereby amended to read as follows:

2. No child under the age of sixteen years shall be employed or permitted to work at adjusting or assisting in adjusting any belt to any machinery,

oiling or assisting in oiling, wiping or cleaning machinery; or in any capacity in preparing any composition in which dangerous or poisonous acids are used; or in the manufacture or packing of paints, dry colors, or red or white lead; or dipping or dyeing matches; or in the manufacture, packing or storing of powder, dynamite, nitro-glycerine, compounds, fuses, or other explosives; or in or about any distillery, brewery, or any other establishment where malt or alcholic liquors are manufactured, packed, wrapped, or bottled; and no female under the age of sixteen shall be employed or permitted to work in any capacity where such employment compels her to remain standing constantly. No [child] male minor under the age of sixteen years shall be employed or permitted to have the care, custody or management of or to operate an elevator either for freight or passengers. No [person] male minor under the age of eighteen years shall be employed or permitted to have the eare, custody or management of or to operate an elevator either for freight or passengers running at a speed of over two hundred feet a minute. No male persons under eighteen years or woman under twenty-one years of age shall be permitted or directed to clean machinery while in motion. No male child under the age of eighteen years, nor any female, shall be employed in any factory in this state in operating or in using any emery, tripoli, rouge, corundum, stone, carborundum, or any abrasive, or emery polishing or buffing wheel, where articles of the baser metals or of iridium are manufactured.

§ 3. Such chapter is hereby amended by inserting therein, after article twelve, a new article, to be article twelve-a, to read as follows:

ARTICLE 12-A.

EMPLOYMENT IN ELEVATors.

Section 175. Employment of females under eighteen prohibited. 176. Hours of labor of women in elevators.

177. Seats for women employed in elevators.

178. Time allowed for meals.

179. Posting notice as to number of hours employed.

180. Washrooms, washing facilities and water closets.
181. Exceptions.

§ 175. Employment of females under eighteen prohibited. No female minor under the age of eighteen years shall be employed or permitted to have the care, custody or management of or to operate an elevator, either for freight or passengers, in any building or place within the state. A female of the age of eighteen years or upwards shall be deemed a woman within the meaning of this article.

§ 176. Hours of labor of women in elevators. 1. No woman shall be employed or permitted to work, in caring for, having the custody or management of or operating any such elevator more than six days or fifty-four hours in any one week or more than nine hours in any one day.

2. No woman shall be so employed or permitted to work before seven o'clock in the morning or after ten o'clock in the evening of any day; except that if the elevator be used in connection with a business or industry in which the employment of women between six and seven o'clock is not pro

hibited, a woman may begin work at the employment prescribed in this section not earlier than six o'clock in the morning.

$177. Seats for women employed in elevators. Suitable seats shall be provided and maintained for any woman employed in caring for, having the custody or management of or operating any such elevator. Such employee shall be allowed the use thereof at such times and to such extent as may be necessary for the preservation of their health.

§ 178. Time allowed for meals. Not less than forty-five minutes shall be allowed for the noon-day meal of women employed in caring for, having the custody or management of or operating any such elevator, unless the commission shall permit a shorter time. Such permit shall be kept conspicuously posted in the elevator or over or near the main or ground floor opening leading thereto. The permit may be revoked at any time. Whenever any such employee is employed or permitted to work after seven o'clock in the evening, such employee shall be allowed at least twenty minutes to obtain lunch or supper between five and seven o'clock in the evening.

§ 179. Posting notice as to number of hours employed. A printed notice, in a form which shall be furnished by the commission, stating the number of hours per day for each day of the week required of women employed in caring for, having the custody or management of or operating any such elevator, and the time when their work shall begin and end, shall be kept posted in a conspicuous place in the elevator or over or near the main or ground floor opening thereto. Such employees may begin their work after the time for beginning and stop before the time for stopping such work, but they shall not otherwise be employed, permitted or suffered to work, in such employment, except as stated in the notice. The terms of the notice shall not be changed after the beginning of labor on the first day of the week without the consent of the commission.

§ 180. Washrooms, washing facilities and water closets. There shall be provided and maintained for the use of all employees, whether men, women or children, adequate and convenient washrooms or washing facilities and a sufficient number of suitable and convenient water closets. Where the elevator is used in or in connection with a factory or mercantile establishment, the provisions of sections eighty-eight, eighty-eight-a, one hundred and sixtyeight-c and one hundred and sixty-eight-e shall apply to washrooms, washing facilities and water closets for employees mentioned in this section; and where the elevator is used in any other building or place, the provision of such sections one hundred and sixty-eight-e and one hundred and sixtyeight-e shall apply to washrooms, washing facilities and water closets for employees engaged in caring for, having the custody or management of or operating an elevator in such building or place. For the purpose of so applying the sections last referred to, the term mercantile establishment " as therein used shall be deemed to mean and include a building in which the elevator is located or with which it connects. Where washrooms, washing facilities and water closets, not required by this chapter before this article takes effect, shall not have been heretofore provided, the time for installing and providing the same shall be fixed by the commission; but such time shall not be earlier than September first, nineteen hundred and nineteen, nor later than January first, nineteen hundred and twenty.

§ 181. Exceptions. The provisions of subdivision two of section one hundred and seventy-six shall not apply to the care, custody, management or operation of an elevator in a hotel, by a woman over twenty-one years of age. § 4. This act shall take effect September first, nineteen hundred and nineteen.

Approved May 10.

Chapter 545.

An Act to amend the labor law, in relation to inpection of scaffolding. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. Section nineteen of chapter thirty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act relating to labor, constituting chapter thirty-one of the consolidated laws," is hereby amended to read as follows:

§ 19. Inspection of scaffolding, ropes, blocks, pulleys and tackles [in cities]. Whenever complaint is made to the commission [er of labor] that the scaffolding or the slings, hangers, blocks, pulleys, stays, braces, ladders, irons, or ropes of any swinging or stationary scaffolding used in the construction, alteration, repairing, painting, cleaning or pointing of buildings [within the limits of a city] are unsafe or liable to prove dangerous to the life or limb of any person, such commission[er of labor] shall immediately cause an inspection to be made of such scaffolding, or the slings, hangers, blocks, pulleys, stays, braces, ladders, irons or other parts connected therewith. If, after examination, such scaffolding or any of such parts is found to be dangerous to life or limb, the commission [er of labor] shall prohibit the use thereof, and require the same to be altered and reconstructed so as to avoid such danger. The commission [er of labor or deputy factory inspector making the examination] shall attach a certificate to the scaffolding, or the slings, hangers, irons, ropes, or other parts thereof examined by [him] it, stating that [he] it has made such examination, and that [he] it has found [it] them safe or unsafe, as the case may be. If [he] it declares [it] them unsafe, [he] it shall at once, in writing, notify the person responsible for [its] their erection of the fact, and warn him against the use thereof. Such notice may be served personally upon the person responsible for [its] their erection, or by conspicuously affixing it to the scaffolding, or the part thereof declared to be unsafe. After such notice has been so served or affixed, the person declared responsible therefor shall immediately remove such scaffolding or part thereof and alter or strengthen it in such manner as to render it safe, in the discretion of the officer who has examined it, or of his superiors. The commission[er of labor] and any of [his] its deputies whose duty it is to examine or test any scaffolding or part thereof, as required by this section, shall have free access, at all reasonable hours, to any building or premises containing them or where they may be in use. All swinging and stationary scaffolding shall be so constructed as to bear four times the maximum weight required to he dependent therefrom or placed thereon, when in use, and not more than four men shall be allowed on any swinging scaffolding at one time.

§ 2. Section twenty of such chapter, as last amended by chapter four hundred and ninety-two of the laws of nineteen hundred and thirteen, is hereby amended to read as follows: