384 INSPECTIONS. [ART. 48

not exceeding $100, or by imprisonment in the county jail for
not exceeding three months, or by both fine and imprisonment.

Protection of Workingmen and Others Against Unsafe

Scaffolding.

1894, ch. 158.

75. 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 instruc-
tions 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 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.

Ibid.

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