moval of buildings, bridges, viaducts and other structures, all scaffolds, hoists, cranes, stays, ladders, supports or other mechanical contrivances erected or constructed by any person, firm or corporation in this State for use in the erection, repairing, alteration, removing or painting of any house, building, bridge, viaduct or other structure in cities of more than thirty thousand inhabitants, shall be erected and constructed, placed and operated so as to give proper and adequate protection to the life and limb of any person or persons employed or engaged thereon, or passing under or by the same, and in such manner as to prevent the falling of any material that may be used or deposited thereon.

How Scaffolding Must Be Erected.

4107. [Sec. 2.] In the construction or repairing, alteration or removal of any structures, that scaffolding or staging, swung or suspended from any overhead support, more than twenty feet from the ground or floor, shall have, where practicable, a safety rail properly bolted, secured and braced and rising at least thirty-four (34) inches above the floor or main portion of such scaffolding or staging and extending along the entire length outside and ends thereof, and properly attached thereto, and such scaffolding or staging shall be so fastened as to prevent the same from swaying from the building or structure.

Support for Inclosing Walls.

4108. [Sec. 3.] In any house, building or structure in process of erection or construction, where the distance between the inclosing walls is more than twenty-four feet in the clear, there shall be built, kept and maintained proper intermediate supports for the joists, which supports shall be either brick walls. or iron or steel columns, beams, trusses or girders of wood, or other material of sufficient strength, and the floor in all such houses, buildings or structures in process of erection or construction shall be designed, and constructed in such manner as to be capable of bearing in all their parts in addition to the weight of the floor construction, partitions and permanent fixtures and mechanisms that may be set upon the same, a live load of twentyfive (25) pounds for every square foot of surface in such floor, and it is hereby made the duty of every owner, builder, lessee, contractor or sub-contractor of such house, building or construction, or the superintendent or agent of either, to see that all the provisions of this section are complied with.

Placard Showing Load Per Square Foot.

4109. [Sec. 4.] It shall be the duty of every owner of every house, building or structure (except buildings exclusively for residential purpose), now under construction or hereafter to be constructed, to affix and display conspicuously on each floor of such building during construction, a placard stating the load per square foot of the floor surface, which may with safety be applied to that particular floor during such construction, or if the strength of different parts of the floor varies, then there shall be such placards for each varying part of such floor.

It shall be unlawful to load any such floors or any part thereof to a greater extent than the load indicated on such placard and all such placards shall be verified and approved by the City Engineer or Inspector of Buildings or other proper authority of the city charged with the enforcement of building laws.

Inspector Must Notify Builder of Faulty Construction.

4110. [Sec. 5.] [Sec. 5.] Whenever it shall come to the notice of the Building Inspector in any city in this State of more than thirty thousand inhabitants charged with the duty of enforcing the building laws, that the scaffolding, stays, hangers, blocks, pulleys, sling braces, ladders, irons, or ropes of any swinging or stationary scaffolding platform or other similar device, used in the construction repairing alteration removing, cleaning or painting of buildings, bridges or viaducts within said cities are unsafe or liable to prove dangerous to the life or limb of any person, such local authorities shall immediately cause an inspection to be made of such scaffolding, platform or device or the slings, hangers, blocks, pulleys, stays, braces, ladders, iron or other parts connected therewith, and if after an examination, such scaffolding, platform or other device or any parts thereof is found to be dangerous to the life and limb of any person, the said local authorities shall at once notify the person, responsible for the maintenance of such fact and warn him against the use, maintenance of operation thereof and prohibit the use thereof and require the same to be altered and reconstructed, so as to avoid such danger.

Such notice may be served personally upon the one responsible for its erection or by conspicuously affixing it to the scaffolding, platform or other device, or the part thereof declared to be unsafe, after such notice has been served or affixed the person responsible therefor shall cease using and immediately remove

such scaffolding, platform or other device or part thereof or alter or strengthen it in such manner as to render it safe. The officer or such local authority whose duty it is to examine or test any scaffolding, platform or similar device or part thereof required to be erected and maintained, by this section, shall have free access at all times during, reasonable hours to any buildings or structures or premises containing such scaffolding, platform or other similar device or parts thereof or where they may be in use. All swinging or stationary scaffolding, platform or other similar devices shall be so constructed as to bear four times the maximum weight required to be dependent thereon or placed thereon when in use and such swinging scaffolding, platform or other similar devices shall not be so loaded or crowded as to render them unsafe or dangerous.

Protection for Workmen on Standpipes, Steeples, etc.

4111. [Sec. 6.] Any person, firm or corporation in this State, hiring, employing or directing another to perform labor of any kind in erecting, repairing, altering or painting any water pipe, stand pipe, smoke stack, chimney, tower, steeple, pole, staff, dome, or cupola with the use of any scaffold, staging, swing hammock, support, temporary platform, or other similar contrivance, for such labor, shall keep and maintain at all times while such labor is being performed and such mechanical device, in use or operation a safe and proper scaffold, stay, support, or other suitable device, not less than sixteen feet below such working scaffold, staging, swaying hammock, support or temporary platform when such work is being performed at a height of thirty-two (32) feet or more, for the purpose of protecting the person or persons performing such labor from falling in case of any accident to such working scaffold, staging, swaying hammock support or temporary platform.

Flooring as Work Progresses.

4112. [Sec. 7.] [Sec. 7.] All contractors and owners when constructing buildings where the plans and specifications require the floors to be arched between the beams thereof or where the floors or filling in between the floors are fireproof material or brick work shall complete the flooring or filling it as the building progresses to not less than within three tiers or beams below and on which the iron works is being erected. If the plans and specifications of such building do not require the filling in between the beams of the floors with brick or fire proof material, said con

tractor or owner shall lay in the underflooring thereof or a safe temporary floor on each story as the building progresses to not less than within two stories of the floor below the one to which said building has been erected and where double floors are not to be used, such owners or contractors shall keep planks over the floor to two stories of the floor below the story where the work is being performed, and if the floor beams are not iron or steel, the contractor for the iron or steel work in the course of construction or the owner of such building shall thoroughly plank over the entire tier of iron or steel beams on which the structural iron or steel work is being erected, except such spaces as may be reasonably required for the proper construction of such iron or steel work, and for the raising and lowering of material to be used in the construction of such building.

Elevator Shaft; Foundation for Engine.

4113. [Sec. 8.] If, elevating machines or hoisting apparatus are used within a building in the course of construction for the purpose of lifting material, the contractor or owner shall cause the shafts or openings in each floor to be enclosed or fenced in on all sides by substantial barrier or railing at least four feet in height provided any hoisting machine or engine used in such building construction shall, where practicable, be set up or placed on the ground and where it is necessary to place such hoisting machines or engines on the same floor above the ground floor, such machines or engines must be properly and securely supported with a foundation capable of sustaining twice the weight of such machine or engine, and if the building in course of construction is five stories or more in height, no material needed for such construction, shall be hoisted or lifted over any public street or alley, unless, such street or alley shall be barricaded from use by the public or so covered as to prevent injury to pedestrians.

Elevator Signals.

4114. [Sec. 9.] If elevating machines or hoisting apparatus, operated or controlled by other than hand power, be used in the construction, alteration or removal of any building or other structures, a complete adequate system of communication by means of signals shall be provided and maintained by the owner, contractor or sub-contractor during the use and operation of such elevating machines or hoisting apparatus in order that prompt and perfect communication may be had at all times between the operator of the engine or motive power of such elevating machine

and hoisting apparatus and the employes or persons engaged thereon or in using or operating the same, and the officers of any city charged with the enforcement of the building laws are hereby charged with the enforcement of this provision of this Act and in case of their failure so to do, the police authorities shall pursuant to the terms of this Act enforce the provisions thereof.

Penalty.

4115. [Sec. 10.] Any contractor, sub-contractor, foreman or other person having charge of the erection, construction, repairing, alteration, removal or painting of any building, viaduct, bridge, or other construction within the provisions of this Act violating any of the provisions hereof, upon conviction thereof shall be subject to a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) or more than five hundred dollars or imprisonment for not less than three months or more than two years or both fine and imprisonment in discretion of the court.

LANDLORD AND TENANT.

How Tenant Ejected.

4116.

[R. S. 2155.] When any person, having leased any house, store or other building, or landed estate, for a term of one or more years or by the month or otherwise, either verbally or otherwise, shall be desirous of obtaining possession of the said leased premises upon the termination of the lease, either by limitation or by non-payment of the rent when due, or any other breach of the said lease, he shall demand and require in writing his tenant to remove from and leave the same, on allowing him ten days from the day such notice is delivered, and if the owner or his agent shall be desirous of obtaining the possession of the said leased premises for any other reason or cause, such as for the purpose of leasing the said premises to another tenant, or otherwise, he shall give to the tenant a notice in writing to vacate, ten days before the expiration of the month, if the same be a monthly lease, or thirty days before the expiration of the lease, if the said lease be in writing, and for a term of one or more years, or otherwise, other than by the month; and if the tenant shall refuse to comply therewith, and with the said notice, after the expiration of such delay, and to remove from the said premises, it shall be lawful