vided with proper safeguards, and wherever possible machinery shall be provided with loose pulleys. All vats, saws, pans, planers, cogs, set screws, gearing and machinery of every description, shall be properly guarded when deemed necessary by the factory inspector. SEC. 9. Exhaust fans shall be provided for the purpose of carrying off dust from emery wheels and grindstones, and dust-creating machinery, wherever deemed necessary by the factory inspector. SEC. 10. Every manufacturing establishment, workshop, hotel or store in which five or more persons are employed, and every such institution in which two or more children, young persons or women are employed, shall be supplied with proper wash and dressing rooms, and kept in a cleanly state and free from effluvia arising from any drain, privy, or other nuisance, and shall be provided within reasonable access with a sufficient number of proper waterclosets, earth closets or privies for the reasonable use of the persons employed therein, at least one of such closets for each twentyfive persons employed; and wherever two or more persons and one or more female persons are employed as aforesaid, a sufficient number of separate and distinct water-closets, earth closets or privies shall be provided for the use of each sex, and plainly so designated, and no person shall be allowed to use any such closet or privy assigned to persons of the other sex. SEC. 11. Not less than forty-five minutes shall be allowed for the noonday meal in any manufacturing establishment in this State. Factory inspectors shall have power to issue written permits in special cases, allowing a shorter meal time at noon, and such permit must be conspicuously posted in the main entrance of the establishment, and such permit may be revoked at any time the inspector deems necessary, and shall only be given where good cause can be shown. SEC. 12. The commissioner of labor and deputy commissioner of labor and deputy factory inspectors shall be factory inspectors in the meaning of this act. At least one of which deputy factory inspectors shall be a woman. Said factory inspectors are hereby empowered to visit and inspect at all reasonable hours, as often as practicable or required, the factories, workshops and other manufacturing establishments in this State where the manufacture of goods is carried on, and all hotels where any person or persons are employed, also all stores employing ten or more persons. Deputy factory inspectors shall report to the commissioner of labor of this State at such time and manner as he may require. It shall also be the duty of the factory inspector to enforce all the provisions of this act and to prosecute for all violations of the same before any magistrate or in any court of competent jurisdiction in this State. The admission of an inspector to a factory is subject to reasonable regulations of the proprietor. Refusing admission by a certain door and directing the use of another affording convenient access is not a violation of the law. 76 N. W. Rep. 89. SEC. 13. Deputy factory inspectors shall make report to the commissioner of labor of each factory, hotel and store visited and inspected by them, which report shall be kept on file in the office of the commissioner, and a copy of said report shall be left with the owner or person in charge of the establishment visited and inspected. Deputy factory inspectors shall have the same power to administer oaths as is now given to notaries public, in cases where persons desire to verify documents connected with the proper enforcement of this act. SEC. 14 (as amended by act No. 46, Acts of 1903). Sections one. two and three of this act shall apply to all places where goods, wares or products are manufactured, repaired, cleaned, or sorted in whole or in part. SEC. 15. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act, the commissioner of labor is hereby authorized and required to cause at least an annual inspection of the manufacturing estab lishments, factories and hotels, also all stores employing ten or Compensa tion. more persons, in this State. Such inspection may be by the com- SEC. 16. The prosecuting attorney of any county of this State Prosecutions. is hereby authorized and required upon the complaint on oath of the commissioner of labor or factory inspectors, to prosecute to termination before any court of competent jurisdiction, in the name of the people of the State, actions or proceedings against any person or persons reported to him to have violated the provisions of this act. ments. in tene Permit re SEC. 17. No room or apartment in any tenement or dwelling Manufacturhouse shall be used for the manufacture of coats, vests, trousers, ing knee pants, overalls, skirts, dresses, cloaks, hats, caps, suspenders, jerseys, blouses, waists, waistbands, underwear, neckwear, furs, fur trimmings, fur garments, shirts, hosiery, purses, feathers, artificial flowers, cigarettes or cigars, and no person, firm or corporation shall hire or employ any persons to work in any room, apartment or in any building or parts of buildings, at making, in whole or in part, any of the articles mentioned in this section, without first obtaining a written permit from the factory inspector, or one of his deputies, stating the maximum number of persons allowed quired. to be employed therein and that the building or part of building intended to be used for such work or business is thoroughly cleaned, sanitary and fit for occupancy for such work or business. Such permit shall not be granted until an inspection of such premises is made by the factory inspector or one of his deputies. Said permit may be revoked by the factory inspector at any time the health of the community or of those so employed may require it. It shall be framed and posted in a conspicuous place in the room, or in one of the rooms to which it relates. Every person, firm, company or corporation contracting for the manufacture of any of the articles mentioned in this section, or giving out the incomplete material from which they or any of them are to be made, or to be wholly or partially finished, shall, before contracting for the manufacture of any of said articles, or giving out said material from which they or any of them are to be made, require the production by such contractor, person or persons of said permit from the factory inspector, as required in this section, and shall keep a written register of the names and addresses of all persons to whom such work is given to be made, or with whom they may have contracted to do the same. Such register shall be produced for inspection and a copy thereof shall be furnished on demand made by the factory inspector or one of his deputies: Provided, That nothing in this section shall be so construed as to prevent the employment of a seamstress by any family for manufacturing articles for such family use. None of the work men- Use of living tioned in this section shall be done in any room or apartment used rooms. Register. Proviso. diseases. for living or sleeping purposes, or which is connected with the room or rooms used for such purposes, and which has not a separate and distinct outside entrance, except by members of the Ventilation. family dwelling therein. Not less than two hundred and fifty cubic feet of air space shall be allowed for each person employed, and all work rooms shall be provided with sufficient means of light, heat and ventilation as may be prescribed by the chief facContagious tory inspector. It shall be the duty of local boards of health, health officers and physicians to report within twenty-four hours to the deputy factory inspector in their respective districts each and every case of contagious or infectious diseases coming officially to their knowledge. The chief factory inspector or any duly appointed deputy factory inspector shall have power to seize and take charge of all articles found that are being made or partially made, finished, cleaned or repaired in unhealthy or unsanitary places where there are contagious or infectious diseases, in violation of the law, and may proceed to disinfect, condemn or destroy the same as in the opinion of the local board of health or health Goods made officer, the public health or safety may require. Whenever it is under insani- reported to the chief factory inspector or to the State board of tary conditions. health, or to either of them, that any of the articles named in this section are being or have been shipped into this State, having previously been manufactured in whole or in part under unhealthy conditions, said chief factory inspector shall examine said goods and the condition of their manufacture, and if upon such examination said goods or any of them are found to contain vermin or to have been made in improper places or under unhealthy conditions, he shall make report thereof to the State board of health, which board shall thereupon make such order or orders as the public health and safety may require. Penalties. Board of examiners. SEC. 18. Any person who violates or omits to comply with any of the foregoing provisions of this act, or who interferes in any manner with the factory inspector in the discharge of his duties, or who suffers or permits any child to be employed in violation of its provisions, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than five nor more than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not less than ten nor more than ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. ACT No. 222.-Examination and licensing of plumbers. SECTION 1. Within thirty days after this act shall take effect, it shall be the duty of the local board of health, and if there be no local board of health then it shall be the duty of the mayor of each of the cities of this State to appoint a board for the examination of plumbers, to examine, license and register plumbers and formulate rules and regulations therefor subject to the approval of such boards of health. Such board shall consist of five persons, of whom one shall be an employing or master plumber of not less than ten years' experience in the business of plumbing, and one shall be a journeyman plumber of like experience, and the other members of such board shall be the officers in charge of the plumbing and drainage department of the board of health of such city, and the chief engineer having charge of sewers in such city, but in the event of there being no such officers in such city, then any other two officers having charge or supervision of the plumbing, drainage or sewerage, whom the mayor shall designate and appoint, or two members of the board of health of such city having like duties or acting in like capacities. The term of office of the master and journeyman plumbers first appointed under the provisions of this act shall be as follows, to wit: One shall be apointed and hold office from the time of such appointment until the first day of January, nineteen hundred two, and until his successor shall be appointed. One shall be appointed and hold office from the time of such appointment until the first day of January, nineteen hundred three, and until his successor shall be appointed, their term of office to expire respectively on the first day of January, nineteen hundred two, the first day of January, nineteen hundred three, and the board of health, and if there be no such board of health it shall be the duty of the mayor in making the first appointments under this act, for each one so appointed to specify the duration of the term of office to which he makes said appointments, and annually thereafter, within ten days prior to the time of the expiration of the term of office of any such member of the board, his successor shall be appointed by the board of health, and if there be no such board of health it shall be the duty of the mayor to appoint for the term of two years, or until a successor shall be appointed, and the board of health, and if there be no such board, the mayor shall have power to fill any vacancy caused in such board of examiners by the death, removal, inability to act, resignation or removal from the city of any member thereof, and such appointment shall be for the unexpired term. Such officer in charge of the plumbing and drainage department, and such chief engineer in charge of sewers, or the officers holding equivalent positions or acting in like capacities, designated or appointed by the board of health, and if there be no such board of health, by the mayor as herein provided, when they shall cease to hold the offices by reason or on account of which they were so designated or appointed, their successors shall act on the examining board in their stead. Compensa SEC. 2. The master and journeyman plumbers serving as members of such board shall severally be paid at the rate of four dol- tion. lars per day for each day's services when actually engaged in the performance of their duties pertaining to the office; but such compensation shall not exceed the sum of five dollars per month in cities of twenty-five thousand inhabitants or less, nor the sum of ten dollars per month in cities having a population of over twentyfive thousand and less than three hundred thousand, nor a sum of twenty dollars per month in cities having a population of over three hundred thousand. To be resi dents. Powers, SEC. 3. All the members of such board shall be citizens and actual residents of the city in which they are appointed. SEC. 4. The several boards of examiners who shall be appointed Meetings. under this act shall have power and it shall be their duty to meet at stated intervals in their respective cities not less than four times each year; they shall also meet whenever the board of health of such city and if there be no such board of health, then when the mayor thereof, shall in writing request them to do so; to have jurisdiction over and to examine all persons desiring to en- ties, etc. gage in the trade, business or calling of plumbing, either as journeymen or employing or master plumbers in the city in which such board shall be appointed, with the power of examining all persons applying for a license as such journeyman or employing or master plumbers, or as inspectors of plumbing, to determine their fitness and qualifications for conducting the trade, calling or business of journeyman or of master plumbers, or to act as inspector of plumbing, and to issue licenses to all such persons who shall have submitted to and passed a satisfactory examination before such board, and shall be by it determined to be qualified for engaging in, carrying on or conducting the trade, calling or business of journeyman or employing or master plumber, or competent to act as inspectors of plumbing; to formulate, with the approval of the local board of health of the city in which it shall act, a code of rules regulating all plumbing and drainage work connected therewith in such city, including the proper materials, and workmanship, and from time to time to add to, amend or alter the same; to charge and collect from each person applying for examination the sum of two dollars for each regular examination made by said board, and all money so collected shall be paid over by the board monthly to the treasurer of such city in which said board shall be appointed. H. Doc. 733, 58-2-37 du Examination required. Exception. Fee. licenses. SEC. 5. Any person desiring or intending to conduct the trade, business or calling of a plumber or of plumbing in any of the cities of this State as journeyman, employing or master plumber, shall be required to submit to an examination before such board of examiners as to his experience and qualifications in such trade, business or calling: Provided, That every person now engaged in the trade, business or calling of journeyman, master or employing plumber in any city of this State and who has been engaged for a period of two years or more, and upon satisfactory proof made before, or filed with such examining board of the truth thereof, together with a statement verified by his oath showing his name, place of business, post-office address and length of time he actually served as a plumber, and upon the payment to said board of the sum of two dollars, shall be entitled to receive from said board a license without further or other examination; all sums so collected shall be paid over to the treasurer, as in case of fees Temporary received for examination: Provided further however, That any person coming into this State and desiring to engage in any city of this State in the trade, calling or business of plumbing, either as journeyman plumber, or employing plumber, or any person in this State desiring to engage in such trade, calling or business, if at a time when said board is not in session, upon satisfactory proofs made by him either by examination of otherwise to any two members of said board of his fitness and qualifications to engage in such trade, business or calling, shall be entitled to receive from said two members a temporary license, which shall entitle him to engage in and carry on such trade, calling.or business until the next regular meeting of such board, when he shall be required to submit to the regular examination of such board; and after a period of sixty days from the time this act shall take effect it shall not be lawful in any city in this State for any person to conduct such trade, business or calling, unless he shall have first obtained a license from such board, or from two members thereof, as provided in the proviso last above set forth, of the city in which he conducts, or proposes to conduct, engage in or carry on such business, trade or calling. Registry. Proviso. Office, etc. SEC. 6. Within ninety days after this act shall take effect every journeyman, employing or master plumber carrying on his trade, business or calling in any of the cities of this State, shall register his name and post-office address at the office of the board of health of the city in which he shall carry on or conduct such trade, business or calling, under such rules and regulations as the respective boards of health of each of the cities of this State shall respectively prescribe, and thereupon he shall be entitled to receive a certificate of such registration: Provided however, That such journeyman, employing or master plumber shall at the time of applying for registration, hold a license from an examining board. And after a period of ninety days from the time this act shall take effect it shall not be lawful for any person to engage in, or carry on the trade, business or calling of journeyman, employing or master plumber in any of the cities of this State unless his name and post-office address shall have been registered, as above provided. SEC. 12. Each of such boards of examiners shall have power to procure suitable quarters for the transaction of business, to provide the necessary furniture, books and stationery, and to employ a clerk whose duty it shall be to keep a detailed and accurate record of all acts and proceedings of such board. The board of estimates and the common council of every city in this State shall annually insert in their tax levy a sufficient sum to meet the expenditures incurred under the provisions of this act; and all expenses incurred by the several boards of examiners in the execution and performance of the duties imposed by this act, including the per diem of the board of examiners and compensation of the inspector or inspectors of plumbing and drainage as fixed by the board, commissioner or department making their appointments shall be a charge on the respective cities, and shall be audited, |