ART. 48] UNSAFE SCAFFOLDING. 1255

forthwith, with instructions to prohibit the further use of such scaffold-
ing, and, if after proper examination he find 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 responsible person or persons, or by
conspicuously affixing it to the scaffold declared to be unsafe; after
such notice is served or affixed, it shall be the duty of the persons
responsible therefor to immediately remove such scaffolding, or to alter
or strengthen it in such a manner as to render it safe, in the discretion
of the officer who has condemned it or of his superiors.

1904, art. 48, sec. 78. 1894, ch. 158, sec. 2.

76. It shall be the duty of the police commissioners, marshal of
police, or other persons in charge of the police force of any city or
town of this State, when complaint is made to them or any of them
that the slings, hangers, blocks, pulleys, stays, braces, irons or ropes of
any swinging or stationary scaffolding used in the painting, cleaning
or pointing of any building within the limits of such city or town are
unsafe or liable to prove dangerous to the life or limb of any person,
to detail a competent police officer to examine, and, if necessary, test
the same; immediately after making such examination or test he shall
attach thereto a certificate stating that he has made such examination
or test and that he has found such slings, hangers, irons or ropes, or
any of them, safe or unsafe, as the case may be; if he declares unsafe
the whole or any portion of such swinging or stationary scaffolding,
he shall at once, in writing, notify the person or persons responsible
for the same of the fact, and warn them against using or suffering or
permitting any person or persons to use them, and such notice may be
served upon the person or persons responsible, or by conspicuously
affixing it to the condemned or defective article; after such notice is
served or affixed, it shall be the duty of the responsible person or
persons to remove or cause to be removed the scaffolding, or that part
of it which has been condemned, or to alter and strengthen it in
such manner as to render it safe, in the discretion of the officer who
has tested or examined it or his superiors.

Ibid. sec. 79. 1894, ch. 158, sec. 3.

77. All swinging and stationary scaffolding shall be so constructed
as to bear three times the maximum weight required to be dependent
from or placed thereon when in use, and not more than one man shall
be allowed on a given scaffold to each tackle and each man shall be