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costs any party so convicted shall be sentenced to jail for not more than
five days; provided, however, that smoking cars in which cuspidors are
not placed by the company operating the same shall be exempt from
the operation of this section.

Health—Salesladies, Chairs for.

1904, art. 27, sec. 239. 1896, ch. 147, sec. 151A. 1904, ch. 287, sec. 147A.

260. All proprietors or owners of any retail, jobbing or wholesale -
dry goods store, notion, millinery or any other business where any
female salespeople or other female help are employed for the purpose
of serving the public, shall provide a chair or stool for each one of such
female help, in order that when they are not actively engaged in mak-
ing sales or taking stock or in performing such other duties as they
may have been engaged to perform, they shall have an opportunity to
rest, and they shall not be forbidden to avail .themselves of such oppor-
tunity. Any such owner or proprietor who shall neglect or refuse to
obey the provisions of this section shall be considered to have com-
mitted a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined in
an amount not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars
for the first oft'ense; and in the event that such proprietor or owner
shall continue to disobey the provisions of this section, he shall be
subject to a fine at the rate of one dollar a day, daily, for every chair
or stool he fails to so furnish his said employes. It shall be the duty
of the board or department of health or health commissioner or com-
missioners of the cities and towns in the State to cause this section to
be enforced, and whenever any of its provisions are violated, to cause
all violators thereof to be prosecuted, and for that purpose the health
commissioner or commissioners and the officer or officers of the board
of health of every city and town in the State, or the inspectors thereof,
or any other persons designated by such board of health or health
commissioner or commissioners are authorized and empowered to visit
and inspect at all reasonable hours and as often as shall be practicable
and necessary all mercantile establishments in the city or town in
which the office of the said board or department of health or health
commissioner or commissioners is situated, and it shall be unlawful
for any person to interfere with or obstruct any such inspecting official
while in the performance of his or her duties or to refuse to properly
and truthfully answer questions made pertinent by this section when
asked by such inspecting official.

Health—Schools.

Ibid. sec. 240. 1894, ch. 524, sec. 1.

261.* Boards of school commissioners in every city and county of
the State shall provide suitable and convenient, water closets or out-

*See article 43, section 66A, et seq.