1348 INSPECTIONS. [ART. 48

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 ore 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 conspicu-
ously affixing it to the condemned or defective article; after
such notice is served or affixed, it shall be the duty of the respon-
sible 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, sec. 3.

79. 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 suffi-
ciently strong to bear iwice his weight, secured independently
of the other scaffolding.

Ibid. sec. 4.

80. Any officer detailed to examine or test any scaffolding
or portion thereof as required by sections 77 and 78 shall
have free and unobstructed access at all reasonable hours to
any building or premises containing them or where they may
be in use.

Ibid. sec. 5.

81. Any person who violates or omits to comply with any
of the four preceding sections or who suffers or permits the
use of any article or scaffolding declared by a proper officer to
be defective, or who destroys or defaces any notice posted in
accordance with any of the said provisions, or who hinders