IIindering SEC. 5. Any person who willfully impedes or prevents the commissioner or his deputy in the full and free performance of his or commissioner. their duty shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction of the same shall be fined not less than ten (10) nor more than fifty (50) dollars, or imprisonment not less than seven (7) nor more than thirty (30) days in the county jail or both. SEC. 6. * the officers thereof [of the bureau] shall give Information to all persons requesting it all needed information which they to be furnished may possess. by bureau. Witnesses. Access to fac SEC. 7 (as amended by chapter 10, Acts of 1889). The commissioner shall have power to send for persons and papers whenever in his opinion it is necessary, and he may examine witnesses under oath, being hereby qualified to administer the same in the performance of his duty, and the testimony so taken must be filed and preserved in the office of said commissioner; he shall have free access to all places and works of labor, and any principal, owner, operator, manager, or lessee of any mine, factory, work- tories, etc. shop, warehouse, manufacturing or mercantile establishment, or any agent or employee of such principal, owner, operator, manager, or lessee, who shall refuse to said commissioner, or his duly authorized representative, admission therein, or who shall, when requested by him, willfully neglect or refuse to furnish to him any statistics or information pertaining to his lawful duties, which may be in the possession or under the control of said principal, owner, operator, lessee, manager, or agent thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty nor more than two hundred dollars. Information SEC. 8 (added by chapter 10, Acts of 1889). No use shall be made in the reports of the bureau of the names of individuals, confidential. firms, or corporations supplying the information called for by this act, such information being deemed confidential, and not for the purpose of disclosing any person's affairs; and any agent or employee of said bureau violating this provision shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed six months. SEC. 9 (as amended by chapter 10, Acts of 1889). The commissioner shall appoint a deputy, who shall have the same powers as the said commissioner, and such agents or assistants, not exceeding three, as he may from time to time require * Deputy. SEC. 12 (added by chapter 23, Acts of 1901). Whenever com- Inspection of plaint is made to the commissioner that the scaffolding or the scaffolding, etc. slings, hangers, blocks, pulleys, stays, braces, ladders, irons, or ropes of any swinging or stationary scaffolding used in the construction, alteration, repairing, painting, cleaning or painting of building are unsafe or liable to prove dangerous to the life or limb of any person, such commissioner shall immediately cause an inspection to be made of such scaffolding or the slings, hangers, blocks, pulleys, stays, braces, ladders, iron or other parts connected therewith. If after examination such scaffolding or any of such parts is found to be dangerous to life or limb, the commissioner shall prohibit the use thereof, and require the same to be altered and reconstructed so as to avoid such danger. The commissioner, deputy commissioner, or agent or assistant making the examination shall attach a certificate to the scaffolding or the slings, hangers, irons, ropes or other parts thereof, examined by him, stating that he has made such examination and that he found it safe or unsafe as the case may be. If he declares it unsafe, he shall at once in writing notify the person responsible for its erection of the fact and warn him against the use thereof. Such notice may be served personally upon the person responsible for its erection or by conspicuously affixing it to the scaffolding or the part thereof declared to be unsafe. After such notice has been so served or affixed the person responsible therefor shall immediately remove such scaffolding or part thereof and alter or strengthen it in such manner as to render it safe, in the discretion of the officer who has examined it or of his superiors. The commissioner, his Map. Same to be tion. deputy and any duly authorized representative whose duty it is to examine or test any scaffolding or part thereof as required by this section, shall have free access, at all reasonable hours, to any building or premises containing them or where they may be in use. All swinging and stationary scaffolding shall be so constructed as to bear four times the maximum weight required to be dependent therefrom and placed thereon, when in use, and not more than four men shall be allowed on any swinging scaffolding at one time. ACT No. 2223.-Mine regulations-Coal mines. SECTION 1. The owner or agent of every coal mine shall make or cause to be made an accurate map or plan of the workings of such coal mine, on a scale of one hundred feet to the inch. SEC. 2. A true copy of which map or plan shall be kept at the open to inspec- office of the owner or owners of the mine, open to the inspection of all persons, and one copy of such map or plan shall be kept at the mines by the agent or other person having charge of the mines, open to the inspection of the workmen. Escape shaft. SEC. 3. The owner or agent of every coal mine shall provide at least two shafts, or slopes, or outlets, separated by natural strata of not less than one hundred and fifty feet in breadth, by which shafts, slopes, or outlets distinct means of ingress and egress are always available to the persons employed in the coal mine: Provided, That if a new tunnel, slope, or shaft will be required for the additional opening, work upon the same shall commence immediately after the passage of this act, and continue until its final completion, with reasonable dispatch. SEC. 4. The owner or agent of every coal mine shall provide and establish for every such mine an adequate amount of ventilation, of not less than fifty-five cubic feet per second of pure air, or thirty-three hundred feet per minute, for every fifty men at work in such mine, and as much more as circumstances may require, which shall be circulated through to the face of each and every working place throughout the entire mine, to dilute and render harmless and expel therefrom the noxious, poisonous gases, to such an extent that the entire mine shall be in a fit state for men to work therein, and be free from danger to the health and lives of the men by reason of said noxious and poisonous gases, and all workings shall be kept clear of standing gas. SEC. 5. To secure the ventilation of every coal mine, and provide for the health and safety of the men employed therein, otherwise and in every respect, the owner, cr agent, as the case may be. in charge of every coal mine, shall employ a competent and practical inside overseer, who shall keep a careful watch over the ventilating apparatus, over the air ways, the traveling ways, the pumps and sumps, the timbering, to see as the miners advance in their excavations that all loose coal, slate, or rock overhead is carefully secured against falling; over the arrangements for signaling from the bottom to the top, and from the top to the bottom of the shaft or slope, and all things connected with the [and] appertaining to the safety of the men at work in the mine. He, or his assistants, shall examine carefully the workings of all mines generating explosive gases, every morning before the miners enter, and shall ascertain that the mine is free from danger, and the workmen shall not enter the mine until such examination has been made and reported, and the cause of danger, if any, be removed. SEC. 6. The overseer shall see that hoisting machinery is kept constantly in repair and ready for use, to hoist the workmen in or out of the mine. SEC. 7. The word “owner” in this act shall apply to lessee as well. SEC. 8. For any injury to person or property occasioned by any violation of this act, or any willful failure to comply with its provisions, a right of action shall accrue to the party injured for any direct damages he or she may have sustained thereby, before any court of competent jurisdiction. Negligence of SEC. 9. For any willful failure or negligence on the part of the overseer of any coal mine, he shall be liable to conviction of mis- overseer. demeanor, and punished according to law: Provided, That if such willful failure or negligence is the cause of the death of any person, the overseer, upon conviction, shall be deemed guilty of manslaughter. SEC. 10. All boilers used for generating steam in and about coal mines shall be kept in good order, and the owner or agent thereof shall have them examined and inspected, by a competent boiler maker, as often as once in three months. SEC. 11. This act shall not apply to opening a new coal mine. ACT No. 2224.-Miners' hospital. * Boilers. Exception. SECTION 1. There shall be erected, as soon as conveniently may Object. be, upon some suitable site, a public hospital and asylum for the reception, care, medical, and surgical treatment, and relief of the sick, injured, disabled, and aged miners, which shall be known as the "California State Miners' Hospital and Asylum." SEC. 5. Indigent miners shall be charged for medical attendance, Charges. surgical operations, board, and nursing while residents in the hospital and asylum, no more than the actual cost; paying patients, whose friends can pay their expenses, and who are not chargeable upon townships and counties, shall pay according to the terms directed by the trustees. etc. Patients SEC. 6. The several boards of supervisors of counties, or any constituted authority in the State having care and charge of any indi- from counties, gent sick, or aged person or persons, if satisfactorily proven by them to have been miners, shall have authority to send to the “California State Miners' Hospital and Asylum" such persons, and they shall be severally chargeable with the expenses of the care, maintenance, and treatment, and removal to and from the hospital and asylum of such patients. ACT No. 2225.—Minc regulations—Signals. SECTION 1. Every person, company, corporation, or individual operating any mine within the State of California-gold, silver, copper, lead, coal, or any other metal or substance where it is necessary to use signals by means of bell or otherwise for shafts, inclines, drifts, crosscuts, tunnels, and underground workingsshall, after the passage of this bill, adopt, use, and put in force the following system or code of mine bell signals, as follows: 1 bell, to hoist. (See Rule 2.) 3 bells, man to be hoisted; run slow. (See Rule 2.) 4 bells, start pump, if not running, or stop pump if running. 1-3 bells, start or stop air compressor. 5 bells, send down tools. (See Rule 4.) 6 bells, send down timbers. (See Rule 4.) 7 bells, accident; move bucket or cage by verbal orders only. 1-4 bells, foreman wanted. 2-1-1 bells, done hoisting until called. 2-1-2 bells, done hoisting for the day. (See Rule 3.) 2-2-2 bells, change buckets from ore to water, or vice versa. 3-2-1 bells, ready to shoot in the shaft. Engineer's signal, that he is ready to hoist, is to raise the bucket or cage two feet and lower it again. (See Rule 3.) Levels shall be designated and inserted in notice hereinafter mentioned. (See Rule 5.) SEC. 2. For the purpose of enforcing and properly understanding the above code of signals, the following rules are hereby established: Rule 1. In giving signals make strokes on bell at regular intervals. The bar (-) must take the same time as for one stroke of the bell, and no more. If timber, tools, the foreman, bucket, or Mine signals. Rules. Liability for violation. Limit of ten hours per day. Employers restricted. Violations. cage, are wanted to stop at any level in the mine, signal by number of strokes on the bell, the number of the level first before giving the signal for timber, tools, etc. Time between signals to be double bars (——). Examples: 6--5, would mean stop at sixth level with tools. 4--1-1--1, would mean stop at fourth level, man on, hoist. 2--1-4, would mean stop at second level with foreman. Rule 2. No person must get off or on the bucket or cage while the same is in motion. When men are to be hoisted, give the signal for men. Men must then get on bucket or cage, then give the signal to hoist. Bell cord must be in reach of man on the bucket or cage at stations. Rule 3. After signal "Ready to shoot in shaft," engineer must give his signal when he is ready to hoist. Miners must then give the signal of "men to be hoisted," then "spit fuse," get into the bucket, and give the signal to hoist. Rule 4. All timbers, tools, etc., "longer than the depth of the bucket," to be hoisted or lowered, must be securely lashed at the upper end to the cable. Miners must know they will ride up or down the shaft without catching on rocks or timbers, and be thrown out. Rule 5. The foreman will see that one printed sheet of these signals and rules for each level and one for the engine room are attached to a board not less than twelve inches wide by thirty-six inches long, and securely fasten the board up where signals can be easily read at the places above stated. Rule 6. The above signals and rules must be obeyed. Any violation will be sufficient grounds for discharging the party or parties so doing. No person, company, corporation, or individuals operating any mine within the State of California shall be responsible for accidents that may happen to men disobeying the above rules and signals. Said notice and rules shall be signed by the person or superintendent having charge of the mine, who shall designate the name of the corporation or the owner of the mine. SEC. 3. Any person or company failing to carry out any of the provisions of this act shall be responsible for all damages arising to or incurred by any person working in said mine during the time of such failure. ACT No. 2665 (as amended by chapter 224, Acts of 1907).—Hours of labor of drug clerks. SECTION 1. As a measure for the protection of public health, no person employed by any person, firm or corporation, shall for more than an average of ten hours a day or sixty hours a week of six consecutive calendar days perform the work of selling drugs or other medicines, or compounding physicians' prescriptions, in any store, establishment or place of business, where and in which drugs or medicines are sold at retail, and where and in which physicians' prescriptions are compounded: Provided, That the answering of and attending to emergency calls shall not be construed as a violation of this act. SEC. 2. No person, firm or corporation employing another person to do work which consists wholly or in part of selling, at retail, drugs or medicines, or of compounding physicians' prescriptions, in any store, or establishment or place of business where or in which medicines are sold and where and in which physicians' prescriptions are compounded shall require or permit said employed person to perform such work for more than an average of ten hours a day, or sixty hours a week of six consecutive calendar days. SEC. 3. Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor and shall be punished therefor by a fine not less than twenty dollars nor more than fifty dollars or by imprisonment for not exceeding sixty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court. Enforce SEC. 5. The commissioners of the State bureau of labor statistics are [sic] hereby authorized, directed and empowered to enforce the ment. provisions of this act. ACT No. 2838.—Plumbers to be registered. SECTION 1. Every master or journeyman plumber carrying on Registration his trade shall, under such rules and regulations as the board of required. health of such county, or city and county, shall prescribe, register his name and address at the health office of such county, or city and county; and after the said date it shall not be lawful for any person to carry on the trade of plumbing in any county, or city and county, unless his name and address be registered as above, provided. SEC. 2. A list of the registered plumbers shall be published in the yearly report of the health office. List to be published. License re ACT No. 2839.—Examination and licensing of plumbers. SECTION 1. It shall not be lawful for any person to carry on business, or labor as a master or journeyman plumber, in any quired. incorporated city, or in any city and county, in this State until he shall have obtained from the board of health of said city or city and county a license authorizing him to carry on business, or labor as such mechanic. A license so to do shall be issued only Examination. after a satisfactory examination by the board of each applicant upon his qualifications to conduct such business or to so labor. All applications for license, and all licenses issued, shall state the name in full, age, nativity, and place of residence of the applicant or person so licensed. It shall be the duty of the secretary of each board of health to keep a record of all such licenses issued, together with an alphabetical index to the same. List. SEC. 2. A list of all licensed plumbers shall be published in the yearly report of the health officer or board of health. ACT NO. 2894.-Rates of wages of employees on public works. $2 a mini SECTION 1. The minimum compensation to be paid for labor upon all work performed under the direction, control, or by the author- mum wage. ity of any officer of this State acting in his official capacity, or under the direction, control, or by the authority of any municipal corporation within this State, or of any officer thereof acting as such, is hereby fixed at two (2) dollars per day; and a stipulation to that effect must be made a part of all contracts to which the State, or any municipal corporation therein, is a party: Provided, however, That this act shall not apply to persons employed regularly in any of the public institutions of the State, or any city, city and county, or county. COLORADO. CONSTITUTION. ARTICLE 5.-Hours of labor in mines, smelters, etc. SECTION 25a. The general assembly shall provide by law, and shall prescribe suitable penalties for the violation thereof, for a period of employment not to exceed eight (8) hours within any twenty-four (24) hours (except in cases of emergency where life or property is in imminent danger), for persons employed in underground mines or other underground workings, blast furnaces, smelters; and any ore reduction works or other branch of industry or labor that the general assembly may consider injurious or dangerous to health, life or limb. Proviso. Eight hours a day's work. |