ART. 48] DEFECTIVE OR UNSAFE SCAFFOLDING. 385

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 compe-
tent 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 exami-
nation 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 per-
sons 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.

1894, ch. 158.

77. All swinging and stationary scaffolding shall be so con-
structed 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 provided with a life line sufficiently
strong to bear twice his weight, secured independently of the
other scaffolding.

Ibid.

78. Any officer detailed to examine or test any scaffolding or
portion thereof, as required by sections 75 and 76, shall have
free and unobstructed access at all reasonable hours to any build-
ing or premises containing them or where they may be in use.

Ibid.

79. Any person who violates or omits to comply with any of
the tour preceding sections, or who suffers or permits the use of
any article or scaffolding declared by a proper officer to be defec-
tive, or who destroys or defaces any notice posted in accordance
with any of the said provisions, or who hinders or obstructs any
officers who may be detailed to enforce said provisions, shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction in a court of
competent jurisdiction, be fined not less than twenty-five nor
more than ope hundred dollars.