Board of ex

ACT No. 222.—Examination and licensing of plumbers. SECTION 1. Within thirty days after this act shall take effect, it shall be the duty of the local board of health, and if there be no aminers. local board of health then it shall be the duty of the mayor of each of the cities of this State to appoint a board for the examination of plumbers, to examine, license and register plumbers and formulate rules and regulations therefor subject to the approval of such boards of health. Such board shall consist of five persons, of whom one shall be an employing or master plumber of not less than ten years' experience in the business of plumbing, and one shall be a journeyman plumber of like experience, and the other members of such board shall be the officers in charge of the plumbing and drainage department of the board of health of such city, and the chief engineer having charge of sewers in such city, but in the event of there being no such officers in such city, then any other two officers having charge or supervision of the plumbing, drainage or sewerage, whom the mayor shall designate and appoint, or two members of the board of health of such city having like duties or acting in like capacities. The term of office of the master and journeyman plumbers first appointed under the provisions of this act shall be as follows, to wit: One shall be appointed and hold office from the time of such appointment until the first day of January, nineteen hundred two, and until his successor shall be appointed. One shall be appointed and hold office from the time of such appointment until the first day of January, nineteen hundred three, and until his successor shall be appointed, their term of office to expire respectively on the first day of January, nineteen hundred two, the first day of January, nineteen hundred three, and the board of health, and if there be no such board of health it shall be the duty of the mayor in making the first appointments under this act, for each one so appointed to specify the duration of the term of office to which he makes said appointments, and annually thereafter, within ten days prior to the time of the expiration of the term of office of any such member of the board, his successor shall be appointed by the board of health, and if there be no such board of health it shall be the duty of the mayor to appoint for the term of two years, or until a successor shall be appointed, and the board of health, and if there be no such board, the mayor shall have power to fill any vacancy caused in such board of examiners by the death, removal, inability to act, resignation or removal from the city of any member thereof, and such appointment shall be for the unexpired term. Such officer in charge of the plumbing and drainage department, and such chief engineer in charge of sewers, or the officers holding equivalent positions or acting in like capacities, designated or appointed by the board of health, and if there be no such board of health, by the mayor as herein provided, when they shall cease to hold the offices by reason or on account of which they were so designated or appointed, their successors shall act on the examining board in their stead.

Compensa

SEC. 2. The master and journeyman plumbers serving as members of such board shall severally be paid at the rate of four dol- tion. lars per day for each day's services when actually engaged in the performance of their duties pertaining to the office; but such compensation shall not exceed the sum of five dollars per month in cities of twenty-five thousand inhabitants or less, nor the sum of ten dollars per month in cities having a population of over twentyfive thousand and less than three hundred thousand, nor a sum of twenty dollars per month in cities having a population of over three hundred thousand.

SEC. 3. All the members of such board shall be citizens and actual residents of the city in which they are appointed.

SEC. 4. The several boards of examiners who shall be appointed under this act shall have power and it shall be their duty to meet at stated intervals in their respective cities not less than four

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Meetings.

Powers, ties, etc.

times each year; they shall also meet whenever the board of health of such city and if there be no such board of health, then du- when the mayor thereof, shall in writing request them to do so; to have jurisdiction over and to examine all persons desiring to engage in the trade, business or calling of plumbing, either as journeymen or employing or master plumbers in the city in which such board shall be appointed, with the power of examining all persons applying for a license as such journeyman or employing or master plumbers, or as inspectors of plumbing, to determine their fitness and qualifications for conducting the trade, calling or business of journeyman or of master plumbers, or to act as inspector of plumbing, and to issue licenses to all such persons who shall have submitted to and passed a satisfactory examination before such board, and shall be by it determined to be qualified for engaging in, carrying on or conducting the trade, calling or business of journeyman or employing or master plumber, or competent to act as inspectors of plumbing; to formulate, with the approval of the local board of health of the city in which it shall act, a code of rules regulating all plumbing and drainage work connected therewith in such city, including the proper materials, and workmanship, and from time to time to add to, amend or alter the same; to charge and collect from each person applying for examination the sum of two dollars for each regular examination made by said board, and all money so collected shall be paid over by the board monthly to the treasurer of such city in which said board shall be appointed.

Examination

required.

Exception.

Fee.

licenses.

SEC. 5. Any person desiring or intending to conduct the trade, business or calling of a plumber or of plumbing in any of the cities of this State as journeyman, employing or master plumber, shall be required to submit to an examination before such board of examiners as to his experience and qualifications in such trade, business or calling: Provided, That every person now engaged in the trade, business or calling of journeyman, master or employing plumber in any city of this State and who has been engaged for a period of two years or more, and upon satisfactory proof made before, or filed with such examining board of the truth thereof, together with a statement verified by his oath showing his name, place of business, post-office address and length of time he actually served as a plumber, and upon the payment to said board of the sum of two dollars, shall be entitled to receive from said board a license without further or other examination; all sums so collected shall be paid over to the treasurer, as in case of fees reTempo r ar y ceived for examination: Provided further however, That any person coming into this State and desiring to engage in any city of this State in the trade, calling or business of plumbing, either as journeyman plumber, or employing plumber, or any person in this State desiring to engage in such trade, calling or business, if at a time when said board is not in session, upon satisfactory proofs made by him either by examination or otherwise to any two members of said board of his fitness and qualifications to engage in such trade, business or calling, shall be entitled to receive from said two members a temporary license, which shall entitle him to engage in and carry on such trade, calling or business until the next regular meeting of such board, when he shall be required to submit to the regular examination of such board; and after a period of sixty days from the time this act shall take effect it shall not be lawful in any city in this State for any person to conduct such trade, business or calling, unless he shall have first obtained a license from such board, or from two members thereof, as provided in the proviso last above set forth, of the city in which he conducts, or proposes to conduct, engage in or carry on such business, trade or calling.

Registry.

SEC. 6. Within ninety days after this act shall take effect every journeyman, employing or master plumber carrying on his trade, business or calling in any of the cities of this State, shall register his name and post-office address at the office of the board of health of the city in which he shall carry on or conduct such

trade, business or calling, under such rules and regulations as the respective boards of health of each of the cities of this State shall respectively prescribe, and thereupon he shall be entitled to receive a certificate of such registration: Provided however, That such journeyman, employing or master plumber shall at the time of applying for registration, hold a license from an examining board. And after a period of ninety days from the time this act shall take effect it shall not be lawful for any person to engage in, or carry on the trade, business or calling of journeyman, employing or master plumber in any of the cities of this State unless his name and post-office address shall have been registered, as above provided.

SEC. 12. Each of such boards of examiners shall have power to procure suitable quarters for the transaction of business, to provide the necessary furniture, books and stationery, and to employ a clerk whose duty it shall be to keep a detailed and accurate record of all acts and proceedings of such board. The board of estimates and the common council of every city in this State shall annually insert in their tax levy a sufficient sum to meet the expenditures incurred under the provisions of this act; and all expenses incurred by the several boards of examiners in the execution and performance of the duties imposed by this act, including the per diem of the board of examiners and compensation of the inspector or inspectors of plumbing and drainage as fixed by the board, commissioner or department making their appointments shall be a charge on the respective cities, and shall be audited, levied, collected and paid in the same manner as other city charges are audited, levied, collected and paid.

SEC. 13. Any person violating any of the provisions of this act, or any of the rules and regulations of the board of examiners as approved by the board of health of any city in this State regulating the plumbing and drainage work connected therewith of such city, shall upon conviction thereof be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and be punished by a fine of not exceeding $100 and the cost of prosecution, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period not exceeding ninety days, or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.

SEC. 14. After the passage of this act the commissioner or the board of public works of any city, or the officer or officers acting in a like capacity in any of the cities of this State, and having charge of the sewers and water mains, shall not issue a license to anyone to connect with the sewers or with the water mains of such cities, unless such person has obtained and shall produce a certificate of registration, which is then in force, from the board of health of such city.

SEC. 15. This act shall not apply to cities containing less than fifteen thousand inhabitants.

ACTS OF 1903.

ACT No. 87.-Inspection of factories-Duty to make improvements.

ments.

SECTION 1. Whenever fire escapes, elevator protection or re- Owner to pairs, water-closets and other permanent improvements to build- make improveings are ordered by factory or deputy factory inspectors under the provisions of act one hundred thirteen, Session Laws of nineteen hundred one, said improvements shall be made by the owner of the building or premises where such improvements are ordered: Provided, That nothing in this section shall be construed to interfere with any contract between owner and tenant whereby the tenant agrees to make such improvements when ordered by factory or deputy factory inspectors.

Proviso.

Tenant may

SEC. 2. Whenever the owner of any building or premises, as mentioned in section one of this act, is a nonresident of this State, deduct cost. the tenant shall make such improvements and may deduct the cost thereof from the amount of rent for use of said premises.

Contracts to

Children.

ACT No. 106.-Employment of labor-Contracts involving removal from home locality.

SECTION 1. Any person, company or corporation, or any agent be in writing. or officer thereof who shall induce another person, by promise of wages or other valuable consideration, to agree to work for the person, company or corporation in whose behalf the offer of inducements is made, at a point away from his or her home locality, shall specify in writing the terms and conditions under which the said work is to be performed, the rate of wages and how, when and where said wages are agreed to be paid, and may furnish a copy of such statement of agreement to the person so induced by the promises therein to agree to work for the person, company or corporation offering said inducements: Provided, That it shall be unlawful for any person to make a tender of inducement to go away from the home locality to work, to any child under sixteen years of age unless the written consent of the parents of such child has been first obtained, as well as the consent of the truant officer or county agent of the board of corrections and charities for the locality where said child belongs; and in case such consent is obtained and the child goes abroad under the influence of the inducements so offered, such child under sixteen years of age shall be safely returned to its home at any time when its parents shall request, in writing, such return. Any person or any agent or officer of any corporation who shall, in offering inducements to any person to work for hire at any place apart from his or her home locality, misrepresent any of the conditions of such employment as mentioned above, shall be liable to pay to the person injured by such misrepresentation, the full amount of the damage sustained and shall be further liable to the penalties provided in section three of this act.

Fraudul ent

advances.

SEC. 2. Every person, who, with intent to defraud, shall accept acceptance of or receive transportation provided by or at the instance or expense of his employer, from any point in this State to or in the direction of the place where he has contracted to perform labor for, or render services to such employer, or who shall knowingly, and with intent to defraud, accept or receive the benefit of any other pecuniary advancements made by or at the instance and cost of his employer, under an agreement on the part of such person to perform labor or render services in repayment of the cost of such transportation or of such other benefits, shall be deemed Misdemeanor. and adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor if he shall neglect or refuse to render services or perform labor of an equal value to the full amount paid for such transportation or other benefits, or shall neglect or refuse to pay such employer in money the amount paid therefor. The value of the services to be rendered, or labor to be performed shall be determined by the price agreed to be paid therefor by such employer under his contract with the employee. The failure or refusal of any such employee to perform such labor or to render such services in accordance with his contract, or to pay in money the amount paid for such transportation or other benefits, shall be prima facie evidence of his intent to defraud.

Penalty.

Offering

bribes.

SEC. 3. Every person found guilty of violating the provisions of this act shall be punished by a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars or by imprisonment of not less than ten nor more than sixty days.

ACTS OF 1905.

ACT No. 210.-Bribery, etc., of employees.

SECTION 1. Whoever corruptly gives, offers or promises to an agent, employee or servant any gift or gratuity whatever, with intent to influence his action in relation to his principal's, employer's or master's business; or an agent, employee or servant, who corruptly requests or accepts a gift or gratuity or a promise to make a gift or to do an act beneficial to himeslf, under an agreement or

with an understanding that he shall act in any particular manner in relation to his principal's, employer's or master's business; or an agent, employee or servant, who, being authorized to procure materials, supplies or other articles either by purchase or contract for his principal, employer or master, or to employ service or labor for his principal, employer or master, receives directly or indirectly, for himself or for another, a commission, discount or bonus from the person who makes such sale or contract, or furnishes such materials, supplies or other articles, or from a person who renders such service or labor; and any person who gives or offers such an agent, employee or servant such commission, discount or bonus, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the State prison for a period of not more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.

ACTS OF 1907.

Receiving

same.

of

Penalty.

huskers.

ACT No. 124.-Guards to be placed on corn huskers. SECTION 1. Hereafter it shall be unlawful for any person, part- Sale or use nership, association or corporation, or for any officer or agent unguarded thereof, to sell or offer for sale, or to use within the State of Michigan, the machine commonly known as a corn husker, unless the same is safeguarded by an automatic feeder or other safety device, that shall compel the person, or persons, feeding said machine, to stand at a reasonably safe distance from the snapping rollers, and designed effectually to protect the person or persons operating the same from bodily injury while engaged in such operation.

SEC. 2. Any person, partnership, association or corporation, or officer or agent thereof, who shall be found guilty of a violation of the provisions of section one of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court.

ACT No. 152.-Iron foundries-Inspection, etc.

SECTION 1. All entrances to foundries shall be constructed and maintained so as to minimize drafts.

SEC. 2. All passageways in foundries, now in operation or hereafter to be built, shall be constructed and maintained of sufficient width to make them reasonably safe for the workmen, and no unnecessary obstructions shall be allowed in such passageways during the hours of casting.

SEC. 3. Whenever a foundry is so constructed or operated that smoke, steam, dust or noxious gases are not promptly carried off by the general ventilation, exhaust fans shall be provided. No salamanders or open fireplaces shall be used unless ample provision is made for conveying the gases arising therefrom directly from the building.

Violations.

Drafts.

Passageways.

Ventilation.

Light and

SEC. 4. Foundries shall be reasonably well lighted throughout working hours, and reasonably well heated during the cold and in- warmth. clement weather. Hot water shall be kept available for washing purposes during the season in which artificial heating is necessary. When it is thought necessary and advisable by a State factory inspector, facilities shall be provided for drying the clothing of persons employed therein.

Guards and

SEC. 5. All pits around furnaces in any such foundry shall be covered with substantial iron gratings, unless a special permit to stairways. use wood for such purposes is granted by the State factory inspector. All stairways around such furnaces shall be constructed of iron.