S.B. 303                                                  VETOES

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1999 Replacement Volume and 2002 Supplement)

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - State Government
Section 8-403(b)(37) and (46), (46), and (55)
Annotated Code of Maryland

(1999 Replacement Volume and 2002 Supplement)
(As enacted by Section 1 of this Act)

BY repealing

Article—State Government

Section 8-403(b)(55)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1999 Replacement Volume and 2002 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That Section(s) 5-101(e) through (h), respectively, of Article - Labor
and Employment of the Annotated Code of Maryland be renumbered to be Section(s)
5-101(f) through (i), respectively.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That Section(s) 8-403(b)(23)
through (54), respectively, of Article - State Government of the Annotated Code of
Maryland be renumbered to be Section(s) 8-403(b)(24) through (55), respectively.

SECTION 3. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That the Laws of Maryland
read as follows:

Article 48 - Inspections

[Protection of Workingmen and Others Against Unsafe Scaffolding]

[111.

Whenever complaint is made to the commissioner of police or to the inspector, or
other persons in charge of the police force of any city or town in this State, that the
scaffolding used in the construction, altering, repairing or painting of any building
within the limits of such city or town is unsafe and dangerous to the life and limb of
any person, it shall be the duty of such police commissioner, inspector of police, or
other persons in charge of the police force to immediately detail a competent police
officer to inspect such scaffolding forthwith, with instructions to prohibit the further
use of such scaffolding, and, if after proper examination he finds the complaint well
founded, to require that it be altered or reconstructed in such manner as to render it
no longer dangerous to life or limb. It shall be the duty of the officer making the
examination to attach a notice to such scaffolding, stating that he has made such
examination, and that he has found it safe or unsafe, as the case may be. If he
declares it to be unsafe he shall at once, in writing, notify the person or persons
responsible for its erection of the fact, and warn them against using it, or permitting
or suffering any person or persons to use it, and such notice may be served upon the

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