The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1894-05-04


scaffolding used in the construction, alt
ering, repairing or painting of any build
ing within the limits of such city or
town, is unsafe and dangerous to the
life and limb of any person, it shall be
the duty of such Police Commissioners,
Marshal of Police, or other person in
charge of the police force, to immedi-
ately detail a competent police officer to
inspect such scaffolding forthwith, with
instructions to prohibit the further use
of such scaffolding, if, after proper eX-
animation, he may find the complaint
well-founded, to require that it be alter
ed or reconstructed in such manner as to
render it no longer dangerous 10 life or
limb 1t shall be the duty of the officer
making the examination to attach a no.
tice to said scaffOlding stating that he
has made such examination, and that
he has found it safe or unsafe, as the
case may be. If he declares it to be I'M
safe, he shall at once, in writing, notify
the person or persons responsible for its
erection, of the fact, and warn them
against using it, or permitting or suffer-
ing any person or persons to use 1t, and
such notice may be served upon the re-
sponsible person or persons, or by con-
spicuously aftixing it to the scaffold de-
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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 man
ner as to render it safe, in the discretion
of the officer who has condemned it, or
of his superiors.
Section 3 1t shall be the duty of the
police commissioners, marshal of police
or other person in charge of the police
force of any city or town in this State,
when complaint is made to them, or
any of them, that the sings, hangers,
blocks, pulleys, stages, braces, irons or
ropes of any swinging or stationary
scaffolding used in the painting, clean
ing or pointing of any building within
the limits of such city or town, are I'M
safe or liable to prove dangerous to the
life or limb, of any person, to detail
competent police officer to examine, land,
if necessary, test the same. Imme-
dately after making such examination or
test, he shall attach thereto certificate
stating that he has made such examina-
lion or test and that he has found such
sings, 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 swing or stationary
scaffolding, he shall at once, in writing,
notify the person or persons respon l.
BILE for the same of the fact, and warn
them against using or suffering or per-
hitting any person or persons to use
them, and such notice may be served
upon the person or persons responsible,
or by conspicuously atfiXing 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 re-
moved the scaffolding, or that part of it
which has been condemned, or to alter
and strengthen it in such manner as to
render 1t safe, in the discretion of the
officer who has tested or examined it,
or of his superiors.
Sec. 3. All swinging and stationary
scaffolding shall be SO constructed as to
bear three times the maximum weigh
required to be dependent from or placed
thereon when in use; and not more than
one man shall be allowed on a given
scaffold to each tackle, and each man
shall be provided with life line sutii-
GENTLY strong to bear twice his weigh
secured independently of the other
scaffolding.
Sec. 4. ANY officer detailed to exam
inc or test any scaffoldlng or portion
thereof, as required by sections l and
of this Act, shall have free and unob-
structed access at all reasonable hours
to any building or premises containing
them or where they may be in use.
Section 5. Any person who violates or
omits to comply with any of the fore
going provisions of this act, or who suf-
fers or permits the use of any article or
scaffolding declared by proper officer
to be defective, or who destroys or de-
faces any notice posted in accordance
with the provisions of this Act, or who
binders or obstructs any officer who may
be detailed to enforce its provisions,
shall be deemed guilty of mis-
demeanor, and on conviction in court
of competent jurisdiction be fined not
less than Twenty-Five nor more than
One Hundred dollars.
Section 6. All Acts or parts of Acts in
consistent with the provisions of this
Act are hereby repealed.
Section Z. This Act shall take effect
Immediately.
Approved March 90, 1894.
FRANK BROWN, Governor.
JOHN WALTER SMITH,
President of the Senate.
JAMES H. PRESTON,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
We hereby certify that the aforegoing