Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-02-07

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vent the use of any boiler or steam gener-
ator which may not be constructed of riv-
eted iron or steel plates, when the board
of inspectors have satisfactory evidence
that such boiler or steam generator is equal
In strength and as safe from explosion as
boilers of the best quality constructed of
riveted iron or steel plates.
boiler or steam pipe of iron or steel plates.
known to be faulty or imperfect. or who
drills any rivet-hole to make it come fair,
or who delivers any such boiler for use,
knowing it to be imperfect in its hues,
flanges, riveting, bracing, or in other of its
parts, shall be fined two hundred (200) dol
lars, one. half for the use of the informer.
SEC. 8. In addition to the annual in
spection. it shall be the duty of each in
spector to examine at any time, when in
his opinion Juch examination shall become
necessary, all such boilers within his dis
trict as shall become unsafe from any
cause and to notify the owners or
person using such boilers of any defect,
and what repairs are necessary
in order to render them safe: and it shall
be the duty of the person operating or
owning any such boiler to cease to use the
same until such repairs are made; and in
case of failure to comply with the require
ments of said inspector, the person operat-
ing or owning any such boiler shall be liza
Ult U u hut llOU SACCtulllS OIt HuIIuItu
(100) dollars and liable for any damage
to person or property resulting therefrOm.
SEC. 9. Every steam boiler shall be pro-
vided with a fusible plug of good banca
tin, inserted in the tlues, crown sheet or
other part of the boiler most exposed to
the heat of the furnace when the water
falls below the prescribed limits.
SEC. 10. 1t shall be the duty of owners
or managers Of steam boilers, mentioned in
this act. to allow said inspector free access
to the same. and it is hereby made the duty
Of engineer operating the same to assist
the inspector in his examination, and to
point out any defect they may know in the
boiler or machinery in their charge.
SEC. IL. No person shall be intrusted
steam machinery who has not been eX-
amined by an inspector and found cOmpe-
tent to perform the duties of an engineer
and received from such inspector a written
or printed license to SO act. Engineers
shall be divided into three classes,
viz: chief engineer, assistant engi-
neeT s sSall So SeeG srantsd Sn e = pers So
to perform the duties of chief engineer
whose knowledge of steam machinery and
experience as an engineer is not such as to
Justify the belief that he is competent to
take charge of all classes of boilers and
machinery. No license shall be granted to
any person to act as assistant engineer un-
less his knowledge of steam machinery and
habits of life are such as to warrant the
belief that he is competent to manage safe
ly and without danger to life. ordinary
Steam machinery. Special engineers may be
licensed to operate steam thresher engines
and engines of kindred class. when found
on examination to be sufficiently &C.
quainted with the duties Of an engis
neer to warrant the belief
that he can safely be entrusted to perform
such duty. Whenever complaint is made
against an engineer holding a license from
a state inspector that he has, through neg
ligence. want of skill or inattention to
duty, permitted his boilers to burn or 9TH
erwise become in bad condition, it shall be
the duty of the inspector. upon satisfactory
proof OF such negligence, to revoke the
license of such engineer; and nc engineer
shall run his engine longer than seven (7)
days without cleaning out the boiler under
penalty OF this act.
SEC. IL. An engineer running a station
airy engine, shall keep his license in a pub
lie place in the engine room, which license
spector or Other public official. Engineers
running or operating boilers and engines
other than stationary ones, shall keep their
certificates with them and subject to eX-
animation by any inspector. public official,
or other person interested therein. Any
person operating a steam boiler or engine
without a license as provided for by this
operate a steam boiler or engine, who does
not have a certificate as provided in this
act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanOr and
fined not to exceed two hundred (20O) dol
lars, or imprisonment in the county Jail not
to exceed one year, or both such fine and
Imprisonment, as the court may deem adj
visable. The license OF chief and assistant
engineers shall be good for the time issued
in any part OF the state, but special license
Shall be good only in the judicial district
where granted, and in case of removal to
another district a new license must be
taken out in said district, and a failure or
neglect so to do will incur the penalty in
paragraph 2 of this section.
SEC. 10. In making the inspection of
boilers, machinery or steam vessels herein
provided for, the inspectors may act joint
ly or separately, but the inspector or in
spectorS making such inspection shall, in
all ca~ses,subscribe and make an oath to the
certificate OF inspection; any inspector
who shall willfully certify falsely regard
ing any steam boiler or its attachments, OF
the hull and equipments of any steam YES
sci, or grant license to incompetent persons
to act as engineers, or grant a license to
any person better than the grade he should
have shall, on conviction thereof, be pun
ished by a fine not exceeding five hundred
(50O) dollars, or imprisonment not exceed
ing one year in the state prison, or both, at
the discretion of the court.
SEC. IA. Each inspector shall be author
lied to charge a fee of tOur az dollars for
the inspection of each single boiler and its
steam connections, within his district, and
two ~ dollars for each additional boiler,
when connected. said fee being payable at
the TIM of the delivery of the inspectors
certificate of approval. The fee for the ex-
animation of engineers and for the issuing
of a license certificate shall be two (2) dol
lars, and for the annual renewal of the
same fifty (50) cents, said amounts to be
the property of the inspector, who shall re-
ceive no other compensation for his servi-
ceS.
Sec. Is. This act shall not apply to rail-
road locomotives, nor to boilers owned or
controlled by railway companies. unless
used upon steam vessels navigating the in
land waters of the state; nor shall engin-
GERS employed by railroad companies be re-
CURED to procure licenses from the state
board Of inspectors, but the penalties here
in provided for shall not obtain in any case
prior to the time the inspector or inspect
Ors have notified the persons affected that
they are ready to make inspection as here
in provided for.
SEC. Is. No inspector shall act as agent
for any machinery manufacturer in the
sale OF machinery, under penalty of re-
mOval by the governor.
SEC IL: All acts or parts of acts incon-
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