ART. 27] HEALTH—SALESLADIES—SCHOOLS. 859

Health—Salesladies, Chairs for.

1896, ch. 147, sec. 151 A. 1904, ch. 287, sec. 147 A.

239. All proprietors or owners of any retail, jobbing or
wholesale dry goods store, notion, millinery or any other busi-
ness 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 making 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
opportunity. Any such owner or proprietor who shall neglect
or refuse to obey the provisions of this section shall be con-
sidered to have committed a misdemeanor, and shall, upon con-
viction thereof, be fined in an amount not less than ten dollars
nor more than one hundred dollars for the first offense; and in
the event that such proprietor or owner shall continue to dis-
obey 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
commissioners 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 practi-
cable 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 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.

1894, ch. 524, sec. 1.

240. Boards of school commissioners in every city and
county of the State shall provide suitable and convenient water
closets or outhouses for each of the schools under their official