ROBERT L. EHRLICH, JR., Governor                            S.B. 303

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.]

[112.

It shall be the duty of the police commissioner, inspector 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 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 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 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.]

[113.

All swinging and stationary scaffolding shall be so constructed as to bear three
times the maximum weight required to be dependent from or placed thereon when in
use, and not more than one person shall be allowed on a given scaffold to each tackle
and each person shall be provided with a lifeline sufficiently strong to bear twice his
weight, secured independently of the other scaffolding.]

[114.

Any officer detailed to examine or test any scaffolding or portion thereof as
required by §§ 111 and 112 shall have free and unobstructed access at all reasonable
hours to any building or premises containing them or where they may be in use.]

[115.

Any person who violates or omits to comply with any of §§ 111 to 114 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 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 one
hundred dollars.]

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