shall be separate from the rooms where food products are manufactured or stored. After inspection the factory inspector shall issue a certificate to the owner or operator of such bakery that it is conducted in compliance with the provisions of law, which said certificate shall be kept posted by the owner or operator of such bakery in a conspicuous place in his bake shop; but where orders are issued by said inspector to improve the condition of a bakery, no such certificate shall be issued until such orders shall have been complied with.

Underground

No rooms.

2. No room or rooms either wholly or partly underground, not now used as a bakery, shall hereafter be used as a bakery. room or rooms wholly or partly underground, now used as a bakery, which shall hereafter be closed, shall be again used as a bakery.

3. No room or rooms wholly or partly underground which shall have been closed on account of fire, attachments, observance of religious ceremonies, or quarantine regulations, shall be deemed to be closed within the meaning of this act.

4. A bake shop shall be deemed to be closed whenever, for any reason except those specified in section three, the business of baking for the public shall be suspended therein.

5. Every person who violates any provision of this act shall be subject to the penalties provided by section 2572 of the general statutes.

SEC. 2570. No employer shall permit any person to work in his bake shop who is affected with pulmonary tuberculosis, scrofulous, or venereal disease, or with a communicable skin affection, and every employer shall maintain himself and his employees in a clean and sanitary condition while engaged in the manufacture, handling, or sale of such food products.

Closing defined.

Same.

Violations.

Contagious

diseases.

Notice to be

SEC. 2571. The owner, agent, or lessee of any property used as a bakery shall, within thirty days after the service of notice upon complied with. him of an order issued by the factory inspector, comply therewith, or cease to use or allow the use of such premises as a bake shop; such notice shall be in writing and may be served upon such owner, agent, or lessee, either personally or by mail, and a notice by registered letter, mailed to the last known address of such owner, agent, or lessee, shall be sufficient service.

SEC. 2572. Every person who violates any provision of sections 2569, 2570 or 2571, or who fails to comply with an order of the factory inspector, shall be fined not more than fifty dollars for the first offense, not more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than ten days for the second offense, and not more than two hundred dollars and imprisoned not more than thirty days for each subsequent offense.

Employment of children-Elevators.

Violations.

Children un

SECTION 2614. No person, partnership, or corporation shall permit or employ a person under the age of sixteen years to have der sixteen. the care, custody, operation, or management of an elevator. Every person, partnership, or corporation violating any provision of this section shall forfeit not more than twenty-five dollars for each offense.

Fire escapes on factories, etc.

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workshop, manufactory,

Fire escapes

SECTION 2629. If any or other building in which more than twenty persons required, when. shall be employed above the first story, shall be more than two stories in height, it shall be provided with at least one fire escape, of iron or other incombustible material, on the outside of said building; unless, in the opinion of the authority inspecting the same, such building is sufficiently supplied with safe and proper means of egress; and if such building shall be more than one hundred and fifty feet in length it shall be provided with one such fire escape for every one hundred and fifty feet, or fractional part

thereof exceeding fifty feet, and such fire escapes shall be conveniently accessible from each story of said building.

SEC. 2630. The owner of every such building shall provide such fire escapes and means of egress, or cause the same to be provided, and, if he shall neglect to do so for a period of three months after notice from the building inspector or other proper authority, he shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than six months, or both.

SEC. 2631. The building inspector of each city, the warden of each borough, or the first selectman of each town not having a building inspector, either by himself or by some proper person appointed by him, shall inspect all the above-named buildings at least once each year between April first and October first, and shall see that the provisions of sections * * 2629, and 2630

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are complied with; and for such purpose he shall have the right to enter any of said buildings in the daytime, between the hours of nine and five o'clock. Said city, borough, or town shall fix and pay the compensation for all such services.

Employment of minors in barrooms, etc.

SECTION 2682. No person having a license under the provisions of this title shall employ any minor as bartender, porter, or in any other capacity, in any saloon where spirituous and intoxicating liquors are kept for sale, and upon such employment the county commissioners shall revoke the license of such person. Every person so licensed employing any minor as aforesaid shall be subject to the penalties of section 2712. [Fine for first offense; fine or imprisonment for subsequent offenses.]

Profit sharing by corporations.

SECTION 3342. Any corporation organized after May thirty-first, 1886, under any general or special law, may, by its board of directors, distribute to the persons employed in its service, or to any of them, such portion of the profits of its business as said board may deem just and proper. Any corporation organized on or prior to May thirty-first, 1886, may give to its board of directors the power to make such distribution, by a majority vote of all the stockholders at a meeting warned for the purpose.

Safety appliances on railroads-Telltales.

SECTION 3731. Every railroad company shall, if required by the commissioners, erect and thereafter maintain suitable bridge guards at every bridge over its railroad when the overhead structure is less than eighteen feet in height above the track. Such bridge guards shall be approved by the commissioners, and be erected and adjusted to their satisfaction. Every company refusing or neglecting to comply with the provisions of this section shall forfeit fifty dollars to the State for each month of continuance in such refusal or neglect.

Sunday labor-Railroads.

SECTION 3749. No railroad company shall run any train on any road operated by it within this State, between sunrise and sunset on Sunday, except from necessity or mercy: Provided, That it may run trains carrying the United States mail, and such other trains or classes of trains as may be authorized by the railroad commissioners, on application made to them on the ground that the same are required by the public necessity or for the preservation of freight.

SEC. 3750. No such company shall permit the handling, loading, or unloading of freight on any road operated by it, or at any of its stations within this State, between sunrise and sunset on Sunday, except from necessity or mercy: Provided, That the commissioners may suspend the operation of this section, so as to permit

the handling, loading, or unloading of freight by transfer of said freight between steamboats and cars, until eight o'clock in the forenoon, at any depot or station where, upon application made to them, they shall find that the same is required by public necessity or for the preservation of freight.

SEC. 3751. Every such company which shall violate any provision of sections 3749 or 3750 shall forfeit to the State the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars for each violation.

Safety appliances on railroads.

SECTION 3762. Every company, operating a railroad located wholly or partly in this State, shall cause every freight car built or purchased for use on such railroad to be provided with couplers so arranged as to render unnecessary the presence of any person between the ends of the cars for the purpose of coupling the same. SEC. 3763. No couplers shall be placed on any such freight car, nor shall any couplers be substituted for any in use, until the same shall have been approved by the commissioners, and such couplers shall be hung at such height above the railroad track as shall be designated by the commissioners.

Violations.

Couplers.

Commission

ers to approve.

SEC. 3764. Every railroad company which shall permit a viola- Penalty. tion of any provision of sections 3762 or 3763 shall forfeit fifty dollars to the State for every such violation.

Railroads Brakes and brakemen.

SECTION 3799. Upon every train run, or intended to be run, upon any railroad in this State, at a greater average speed than thirty miles an hour between stations, and including more than two passenger cars, one brakeman shall be kept at the brake of each car; but when the double-action brake is used on any such train, but one brakeman need be kept upon and for every two cars connected with such train. The commissioners may grant permission to any company to reduce the number of brakemen required upon passenger trains, when such company has adopted a system of brakes to be operated by the engineer, which in the opinion of the commissioners will render such number of brakemen unnecessary. The commissioners may revoke such permission when they consider that public safety requires; and on such revocation the company shall place upon its trains the number of brakemen required by law.

Accidents on railroads.

Number of brakemen.

Accidents to

SECTION 3800. Every railroad company shall, within twenty-four hours after the occurrence of any accident attended with personal be reported. injury, give notice of the same to the commissioners in writing, who, upon receiving such notice or upon public rumor of such accident, may repair, or dispatch one of their number, to the scene of said accident, and inquire into the facts and circumstances thereof. The commissioners shall, without charge, furnish any person injured, or the friends of any person killed, any information they may have acquired in relation to such accident, and the names of the persons from whom the same was obtained or by whom the same may be proved.

Protection of employees on street railways-Inclosed platforms.

Power of com

SECTION 3869. When the railroad commissioners deem it necessary, in the interests of the public, or of the employees concerned, missioners. that the platforms of any or all of the cars operated by any street railway company should be protected by gates or vestibules, or that fenders should be placed upon such cars, said commissioners may order the company operating such cars to inclose the platforms thereon with gates or vestibules, or both, or to place fenders upon such cars, of such kind and in such manner as they may deem necessary and proper, first giving such company reasonable

Negligence of companies.

Street cars may be run.

Duty of inspector.

Lighting, etc.

ances.

notice to appear and be heard, and may, after similar notice, modify or revoke any such order. The commissioners shall have sole and exclusive jurisdiction over the inclosing of such platforms and the placing of fenders on such cars; but nothing in this section shall prevent any such company from inclosing its platforms or placing fenders on its cars without such order.

SEC. 3870. Any company operating such car or cars which shall neglect or refuse to comply with any order relating to platforms made pursuant to section 3869 shall forfeit to the State twentyfive dollars for each day of such neglect or refusal.

Sunday labor-Street railways.

SECTION 3875. No law affecting travel, business, or labor on Sunday, or the operation on Sunday of any railroad or railway, shall apply to any railroad company or street railway company so as to prohibit or limit the operation on Sunday of electric cars.

Inspection of factories, etc.

SECTION 4515. The inspector shall, as often as practicable, examine all buildings and places where machinery is used, and may enter such buildings and places at all proper times for the purposes of inspection. He shall, on or before the first of December in each year, make a report to the governor of the condition, as respects safety to life and health, of the factories, buildings, and places visited by him.

SEC. 4516. All factories and buildings where machinery is used shall be well lighted, ventilated, and kept as clean as the nature Safety appli- of the business will permit. The belting, shafting, gearing, machinery, and drums, of all factories and buildings where machinery is used, when so placed as, in the opinion of the inspector, to be dangerous to the persons employed therein while engaged in their ordinary duties, shall, as far as practicable, be securely guarded. No machinery other than steam engines in a factory shall be cleaned while running after notice forbidding the same is given by the inspector to the owners or operators of the factory. SEC. 4518. Every person, firm, or corporation using stained, painted, or corrugated glass in factory windows, where the same is injurious to the eyes of the workmen therein, shall remove the same upon the order of the factory inspector.

Colored windows.

Water-closets.

Enforcement.

Buffing, grinding, etc.

Violations.

SEC. 4519. Every person or corporation managing or operating any factory, or owning or controlling the use of any other building where more than five persons are employed, shall provide and keep in good sanitary condition suitable water-closet accommodations for the use of the persons employed.

SEC. 4520. The inspector shall enforce the provisions of this chapter by giving proper orders or notices to the persons or corporations owning, operating, or managing the factories or buildings inspected by him, and shall make complaint to the State's attorneys of all violations of this chapter.

SEC. 4521. Whenever the inspector, on complaint of any person, shall find it necessary, for the preservation of the health of the employees in any manufacturing establishment, factory, or mill in which is carried on the business of buffing, polishing, or grind ing metals, or any operations in which an excessive amount of dust is generated, that such dust should be removed from the atmosphere of the rooms or apartments used for that purpose, he shall, in writing, direct the person, or corporation owning, occupying, or carrying on business in such premises, within three months from the date of said order, to introduce and operate such appliances or devices as may be necessary to remove, so far as the nature of the business will permit, such excessive dust or foreign matter: Provided, That such appliances or devices do not restrict or interfere with the aforesaid business or operations.

SEC. 4522 (as amended by chapter 53, Acts of 1903). Every owner, lessee, or occupant of a factory, or building included within

the provisions of this chapter, or owning or controlling the use of any room in such building, shall for the violation of any provision of sections 4516, 4517, 4518, 4519, or 4521, or for obstructing or hindering the inspector of factories or his deputies in carrying out the duties imposed on them by law, be fined not more than fifty dollars; but no prosecution shall be brought for any such violation until four weeks after notice has been given by the inspector to such owner, lessee, or occupant of any changes necessary to be made to comply with the provisions of said sections, and not then, if, in the meantime, such changes have been made in accordance with such notification. Nothing herein shall limit the right of a person injured to bring an action to recover damages.

SEC. 4523. The orders and notices given by the inspector under this chapter shall be written or printed, signed by him officially, and may be served by himself or any proper officer or indifferent person, by leaving an attested copy thereof with or at the usual place of abode of the person upon whom service is to be made; and the notice, properly indorsed with the doings of the person or officer serving the same, shall be returned to the office of the town clerk of the town in which is located the factory, building, or business to which such notice appertains, where it shall be kept on file. Such notice, or copies thereof duly certified by the town clerk, shall be prima facie evidence that notice was given as therein appears. Notice to one member of a firm shall be notice to every member thereof, and notice to the president, secretary, or treasurer of a corporation shall be notice to such corporation. The fees for serving such orders and notices, unless served by the inspector, shall be the same as for the service of process in civil actions, and shall be included in the necessary expenses of the inspector.

SEC. 4524. Any person, firm, or corporation aggrieved by any order of the factory inspector may appeal to the superior court in the county where the person, firm or corporation owns, leases, or occupies the factory or building to which said order relates, within four weeks after notice of such order shall be given. Said appeal shall operate as a supersedeas, shall be made in writing, and shall contain a brief statement of the facts and reasons of appeal and a citation to the inspector to appear before said court, and said court or a judge thereof may direct the time of appearance and the manner of service. Said court may review the doings of the factory inspector, confirm, change, or set them aside, and make such orders in the premises, including orders as to costs, as it may find to be proper and equitable.

SEC. 4527. The inspector shall, as often as practicable, examine all buildings, apartments, rooms, and places in any tenement or dwelling house used for residential purposes and used in whole or in part by others than the immediate members of the family therein, for the manufacture of artificial flowers, purses, cigars, cigarettes, or any articles of wearing apparel intended for sale.

SEC. 4528. The persons engaged in the manufacture of such goods in such premises, within thirty days after beginning such manufacture, shall notify said inspector of the location of said workrooms, the nature of the work there carried on, and the number of persons therein employed.

Notices.

Appeals.

Sweat shops.

Notice of use.

SEC. 4529. The person operating said workrooms shall keep the Sanitation, same at all times in a clean and sanitary condition, properly etc. lighted, ventilated, and fit for the occupancy of the persons engaged in work therein. The inspector or any of his special agents shall notify the owner of such premises, and the person using the same for the purposes set forth in section 4527 to provide ample means for lighting or ventilating such workrooms, and to put the same in a clean, sanitary, and fit condition for occupancy for said work; and if said notification be not complied with in thirty days after the service of such notice, said inspector or any of his special agents shall cause complaint to be made to the proper prosecuting authority.