Pennsylvania Act 1911-264 — FOUNDRIES, REQUIRING TOILETS IN

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AN ACT

Requiring foundries to be provided with toilet-room and water-closet; regulating same; and providing a penalty for violation thereof.

Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That every person, firm, or corporation, being the owner or lessee of any foundry for the casting of iron, steel, brass or other metal, or any rolling mill, boiling mill, heating mill, or finishing mill, wherein ten or more men shall be employed, shall cause to be established and maintained, in a place conveniently accessible and connected with said foundry, rolling mill, boiling mill, heating mill, or finishing mill, in such a manner that access thereto can be had without exposure to the open air, a toilet-room of suitable size, wherein said employes may change their clothes. Such toilet-room shall be provided with wash-bowls, sinks, or other suitable fixed appliances, duly connected and supplied with running hot and cold water. There shall also be established and maintained, separate from said toilet-room, a suitable water-closet. It shall be the duty of the factory inspector or his duly authorized agent to enforce the provisions of this act. For that purpose, the factory inspector or his duly authorized agent may enter, at any reasonable time, any foundry, rolling mill, boiling mill, heating mill, or finishing mill, for the purpose of inspecting the same to ascertain whether the provisions of this act have been complied with.

(1 amended May 27, 1919, P.L.307, No.164)

Section 2. The said toilet-room and the said water-closet shall be connected with the foundry, rolling mill, boiling mill, heating mill, or finishing mill building, in such a way that access thereto may be had without exposure to the open air, and shall be properly heated, ventilated, cleaned, and protected, so far as reasonably practicable, from the dust of such building.

(2 amended May 27, 1919, P.L.307, No.164)

Section 3. Any person, firm, or corporation who or which shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before any magistrate, alderman, or justice of the peace, shall be sentenced to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars.

Compiler's Note: Section 28 of Act 207 of 2004 provided that any and all references in any other law to a "district justice" or "justice of the peace" shall be deemed to be references to a magisterial district judge.