Penalty for Violation; When in Effect Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, etc., That all officers and directors of the railway companies that shall refuse or neglect to comply with the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) or not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or be imprisoned for not less than thirty or more than ninety days at the discretion of the Court. Repealing Clause Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, etc., That all laws or parts of laws contrary to or inconsistent with the provisions of this act be and the same are hereby repealed, and that this act shall take effect and be in full force ninety days after its promulgation. TITLE SEATS FOR CONDUCTORS AND MOTORMEN Act 20 of 1912, P. 26 AN ACT to provide for seats on each end of street cars, etc. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana, That, from and after the passage of this Act, it is made the duty of all persons, partnerships and corporations engaged in the operation of street railroads to provide the cars operated by them with good substantial seats on each platform of every car and to maintain them in good order for the use of the operator and conductor on the car and to permit and allow the operator and conductor of the car to use the seats so provided and seat and rest themselves thereon when in service on the cars on which they are employed while the cars are passing over portions of the road bed out of the business district of any city, town or village in this State. Any persons, partnership or corporation found guilty of violating any of the provisions of this act shall upon conviction be fined not less than Fifty Dollars nor more than Five Hundred Dollars or be imprisoned in the Parish Jail not less than three months nor more than one year. Repealing Clause Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, etc., That all laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith be and the same are hereby repealed. VESTIBULES FOR ELECTRIC CARS Act 16 of 1914, P. 40 TITLE AN ACT prohibiting the operation of Electric Street Railway cars in this State, during the period beginning September 1st, and ending May 1st, of each year, except said cars are equipped with solid vestibules for the protection of employees and the public, etc. Unlawful to Operate Cars Without Vestibules, etc. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana, That it shall be unlawful for any corporation, person or receiver operating a line of electric street railways in the State of Louisiana, to require or permit the operation upon its lines of any electric car during the period beginning September 1st, and ending May 1st, of each year, unless each end of such car be provided with solid vestibule which shall fully protect the motormen, conductor and such passengers as may be compelled to stand on the platform. Violation and Penalty Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, etc., That the officers and manager of any corporation or any person or receiver operating a line of electric street railways in the State of Louisiana, who shall in any manner violate any of the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof before any court of competent jurisdiction, shall be fined not more than three hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than six months or both at the discretion of the Court having jurisdiction, provided that each day upon which said Act shall be violated shall constitute a separate offense and shall be punished as such. Repealing Clause Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, etc., That this Act shall take effect on and after September 1st, 1914, and that all laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. HEALTH AND SAFETY LAWS REGARDING WORKERS CONSTRUCTION OF BUILDINGS, ETC., AND PROTECTION OF PERSONS Act 264 of 1908, P. 384 TITLE AN ACT providing for the protection and safety of persons in and about construction, repairing, alteration or removal of buildings, bridges, viaducts and other structures and to provide for the enforcement thereof, in cities of thirty thousand or more population, etc. Requirements of Contractors SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana, That for the safety of persons in and about the construction, repairing, alteration or removal of buildings, bridges, viaducts or other structures, all scaffolds, hoists, cranes, stays, ladders, supports or other mechanical contrivances erected or constructed by any person, firm or corporation in this State for use in the erection, repairing, alteration or removing or painting of any house, building, bridge, viaduct or other structure in cities of more than thirty thou sand inhabitants, shall be erected and constructed, placed and operated so as to give proper and adequate protection to the life and limb of any person or persons employed or engaged thereon, or passing under or by the same, and in such manner as to prevent the falling of any material that may be used or deposited thereon. How Scaffolding Must Be Erected Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, etc., That in the construction or repairing, alteration or removal of any structures, that scaffolding or staging, swung or suspended from any overhead support, more than twenty feet from the ground or floor, shall have, where practicable, a safety rail properly bolted, secured and braced and rising at least thirty-four (34) inches above the floor or main portion of such scaffolding or staging and extending along the entire length outside and ends thereof, and properly attached thereto, and such scaffolding or staging shall be so fastened as to prevent the same from swaying from the building or structure. Support for Inclosing Walls Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, etc., That in any house, building or structure in process of erection or construction, where the distance between the inclosing walls is more than twenty-four feet in the clear, there shall be built, kept and maintained proper intermediate supports for the joists, which supports shall be either brick walls or iron or steel columns, beams, trusses or girders of wood, or other material of sufficient strength, and the floor in all such houses, buildings or struc tures in process of erection or construction shall be designed, and constructed in such manner as to be capable of bearing in all their parts in addition to the weight of the floor construction, partitions and permanent fixtures and mechanisms that may be set upon the same, a live load of twenty-five (25) pounds for every square foot of surface in such floor, and it is hereby made the duty of every owner, builder, lessee, contractor or sub-contractor of such house, building or construction, or the superintendent or agent of either, to see that all the provisions of this section are complied with. Placard Showing Load Per Square Foot Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, etc., That it shall be the duty of every owner of every house, building or structure (except buildings exclusively for residential purpose,) now under construction or hereafter to be constructed, to affix and display conspicuously on each floor of such building during construction, a placard stating the load per square foot of the floor surface, which may with safety be applied to that particular floor during such construction, or if the strength of different parts of the floor varies, then there shall be such placards for each varying part of such floor. It shall be unlawful to load any such floors or any part thereof to a greater extent than the load indicated on such placard and all such. placards shall be verified and approved by the City Engineer or Inspector of Buildings or other proper authority of the city charged with the enforcement of building laws. Inspector Must Notify Builder of Faulty Construction Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, etc., That whenever it shall come to the notice of the Building Inspector in any city in this State of more than thirty thousand inhabitants charged with the duty of enforcing the buildings laws, that the scaffolding, stays, hangers, blocks, pulleys, sling braces, ladders, irons, or ropes of any swinging or stationary scaffolding platform or other similar device, used in the construction, repairing, alteration, removing, cleaning or painting of buildings, bridges or viaducts within said cities are unsafe or liable to prove dangerous to the life or limb of any person, such local authorities shall immediately cause an inspection to be made of such scaffolding, platform or device or the slings, hangers, blocks, pulleys, stays, braces, ladders, iron or other parts connected therewith, and if after an examination, such scaffolding, platform or other device or any parts thereof is found to be dangerous to the life and limb of any person, the said local authorities shall at once notify the person responsible for the maintenance of such fact and warn him against the use, maintenance of operation thereof and prohibit the use thereof and require the same to be altered and reconstructed, so as to avoid such danger. Such notice may be served personally upon the one responsible for its erection or by conspicuously affixing it to the scaffolding, platform or other device, or the part thereof declared to be unsafe, after such notice has been served or affixed the person responsible therefor shall cease using and immediately remove such scaffolding, platform or other device or part thereof or alter or strengthen it in such manner as to render it safe. The officer or such local authority whose duty it is to examine or test any scaffolding, platform or similar device or part thereof required to be erected and maintained, by this section, shall have free access at all times during reasonable hours to any buildings or structures or premises containing such scaffolding, platform or other similar device or parts thereof or where they may be in use. All swinging or stationary scaffolding, platform or other similar devices shall be so constructed as to bear four times the maximum weight required to be dependent thereon or placed thereon when in use and such swinging scaffolding, platform or other similar devices shall not be so loaded or crowded as to render them unsafe or dangerous. Protection for Workmen on Standpipes, Steeples, etc. Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, etc., That any person, firm or corporation in this State, hiring, employing or directing another to perform labor of any kind in erecting, repairing, altering or painting any water pipe, stand pipe, smoke stack, chimney, tower, steeple, pole, staff, dome, or cupola with the use of any scaffold, staging, swing hammock, support, temporary platform, or other similar contrivance, for such labor, shall keep and maintain at all times while such labor is being performed and such mechanical device, in use or operation a safe and proper scaffold, stay, support, or other suitable device, not less than sixteen feet below such working scaffold, staging, swaying hammock, support or temporary platform when such work is being performed at a height of thirty-two (32) feet or more, for the purpose of protecting the person or persons performing such labor from falling in case of any accident to such working scaffold, staging, swaying hammock support or temporary platform. Flooring as Work Progresses Sec. 7. Be it further enacted, etc., That all contractors and owners when constructing buildings where the plans and specifications require the floors to be arched betwen the beams thereof or where the floors or filling in between the floors are fireproof material or brick work shall complete the flooring or filling it as the building progresses to not less than within three tiers or beams below and on which the iron works is being erected. If the plans and specifications of such building do not require the filling in between the beams of the floors with brick or fireproof material, said contractor or owner shall lay in the underflooring thereof or a safe temporary floor on each story as the building progresses to not less than within two stories of the floor below the one to which said building has been erected and where double floors are not to be used, such owners or contractors shall keep planks over the floor to two stories of the floor below the story where the |