1776 ARTICLE 48.

Protection of Workingmen and Others Against Unsafe Scaffolding.

An. Code, sec. 75. 1904, sec. 77. 1894, ch. 158, sec. 1.

90. Whenever complaint is made to the commissioner of police or to
the marshal, 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 commissioners, marshal 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 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 ease 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 re-
move 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.

An. Code, sec. 76. 1904, sec. 78. 1894, ch. 158, sec. 2.

91. 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 stat-
ing 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 con-
spicuously 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