FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

necessary, test the same; immediately after making such ex-
amination 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 responsi-
ble 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 respon-
sible, or by conspicuously affixing it to the condemned or defec-
tive 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.

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SEC. 3. All swinging and stationary scaffolding shall be so
constructed as to bear three times the maximum weight re-
quired 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.

Scaffolding,
how to be
constructed.

SEC. 4. Any officer detailed to examine or test any scaffold-
ing or portion thereof, as required by sections one and two of
this act, shall have free and unobstructed access at all reason-
able hours to any building or premises containing them or
where they may be in use.

SEC. 5. Any person who violates or omits to comply with

Officers to
have access
to all build-
ings.

any of the foregoing provisions of this act, 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 the provisions of this act, or
who hinders or obstructs any officers who may be detailed to
enforce its 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 one hundred dollars.

Penalty.

SEC.6. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the pro-
visions of this act are hereby repealed.

Repeal

SEC. 7. This act shall take effect immediately.
Approved March 29th, 1894.

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Effective.