The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-03-24
ORDINANCE
RELATING TO LICENSING. OF STA.
TIONARY ENGINEERS.


RELATING TO LICENSING. OF STA
TIONARY ENGINEERS.
In compliance with the provisions of the
Charter Of the City Of New Haven, notice
is hereby given of the following proposed
ordinance, adopted by the Board of Alder
men of the City of New Haven and aD-
proved of by his Honor, John P. Studley,
An ORDINANCE CONCERNING THE
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Be it ordained by the Board of Aldermen
of the City of New Haven:
Section l. No person shall be the engineer
of, or shall have charge Of or operate any
steam boiler or steam engine, in the City Of
New Haven, for a period exceeding one
week, who shall not have license certi-
fcate authorizing him to have charge of, or
operate, such engine or boiler, from the
Board of Examiners hereinafter constituted.
Sec. 2 The Mayor. shall, within sixty
days after passage of this ordinance, APP
point a Board of Examiners, which shall
at least, shall be an engineer who has had
ten years experience In the operation of
steam boilers, or steam engines, who shall
hold office until the first of June, 1903, and
on the first day of June, 1908, he shall
appoint one member to serve until June,
1906, one to serve until June, 1905, and one
to serve until June, 1904, and annually after
the first day Of June, 1903, one member to
serve three years or until their successors
are appointed, and shall grant the license
hereinafter provided for and serve without
pay.
| Sec 8. Before any person shall be en-
ployed as an engineer of any such boiler
or engine, or shall have charge Of or oper.
ate any such boiler or engine, he shall make
written application to said Board of Ex-
aminers for the license hereinbefore mem
toned, and shall specify In such application
the particular engine, boiler, or plant which
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which application shall be accompanied by
references as to his character and ability,
and the filing of such references with said
Board shall be considered as. compliance
with the provisions of this ordinance, for
thirty days thereafter, or until his said
application shall have been passed upon by
said Board, and said applicant, after the
filing of said references, shall have the
right to operate and have charge of any
such engine, boiler, or plant, until his appi-
cation shall have been passed upon by said
Board.
Sec. 4. Every person who shall satisfy
said Board of Examiners that he is a safe
and competent person to operate and have
charge of the steam plant, boiler or engine
specified In his application shall, on pay
ment of One ($1.00) Dollar, receive & license
permitting him to operate the same. Said
license shall apply only to the plant, boiler,
or engine for which 1t is issued; and before
taking charge Of another plant, the licensee
shall apply for another license for such
other plant, for which other license, IL the
application be made within a year, no
charge shall be made: after which period
fee of One C$1.0O Dollar shall be paid.
For the renewals above mentioned no adj
ditional hearing shall be required, unless
in the Judgment Of said Board it shall be
necessary. Said licenses must be framed
and hung in conspicuous place in the
plant, or upon or near the engine for which
1t is issued.
Sec. 5. Said Board may at any time re-
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ebriety, inc0mpetency, or negligence Of the
| holder Of any license, or for any good cause,
and no license shall be issued to any licensee
whose license shall be revoked, during the
next six months ensuing, after which time
the license revoked may be renewed, If, in
the judgment of the Board, the cause of its
revocation no longer exists.
Sec. 6. If said Board shall refuse to grant
to any applicant license, no license shall
be issued to him for the next six months
following his application, but after said
period said applicant may make another
application, and if found qualified, may be
granted a license.
Sec. I. Whenever said Board shall refuse
to grant any applicant, or shall revoke any
license they shall give immediate notice of
such refusal, or revocation, to the applicant
or licensee, and such applicant Or licensee
may appeal from the decision Of such Board
to the Mayor, in which case said applicant
or licensee shall file his appeal with the
Mayor, within ten days after receiving notice
of thefdectsion of said Board, and the Mayor
may confirm or reverse the decision. of said
Board and issue such license.
! Sec. S. Any person found guilty of any
violation Of the provisions Of this ordinance,
except Section 10 thereof, shall be fined
not more than Twenty-Five ($25O0) Dollars,
nor less than Ten $1,000 Dollars.
Sec: o. This ordinance shall not apply
to railway locomotives, nor engineers EN-
pioyed thereon, nor to steam vessels coming
under the jurisdiction of the United States
Board of Supervising Inspectors, when en-
ployed upon the vessels to which said
license applies. Nor shall it apply to auto
mobiles, private residences or buildings for
heating purposes unless In the opinion Of
said Board such boiler is SO equipped and
run as to endanger public safety. unless
operated by licensed engineer.
Sec 49, Any engineer in charge Of any
steam engine or boiler who shall abandon
it while in operation, without leaving a
person in Charge of the same, who shall,
gineef, or of the owner Of such engine, be
competent to take charge of the same, shall
be fined not more than Ten $4,000 Dollars.
Sec IL. This ordinance shall take effect
within sixty days after its passage.
Board of Aldermen, January 49, 1908.
Read for first time and ordered printed
in the Journal.
James B. Martin, Assistant City Clerk.
Board of Alderman, March 2, 1908.
Read for second time, and accepted and
ordinance as recommended herein, adopt.
ed and passed by majority vote of all alder
men, present and absent, fifteen aldermen
so voting.
James B. Martin, Assistant City Clerk.
New Haven, March Il, 1908.
Approved.
John P. Studley, Mayor
The foregoing is true and correct copy
of the Ordinance as adopted and approved.
The foregoing Ordinance will take effect
from and after the 18th day of March, 1908.
Attest: -,
HENRY q. NORRIS.
a24 St City Clerk.