Pennsylvania Act 1895-99 — ELEVATORS, SAFETY GUARDS REQUIRED

Act text

ELEVATORS, SAFETY GUARDS REQUIRED
                  Act of May 30, 1895, P.L. 129, No. 99               Cl. 12
                                  AN ACT

     To provide for safety guards upon passenger elevators and
        providing a penalty for violation thereof.

        Section 1.  Elevators must be equipped with automatic locking
     device
        All elevators that are now in use or that may hereafter be
     erected in the State for the carriage of passengers are required
     to have placed thereon or attached thereto an automatic locking
     device, electro mechanical or mechanical, such device or devices
     to be approved by the Department of Labor and Industry.  1895,
     May 30, P.L. 129, Sec. 1; 1925, March 19, P.L. 58, Sec. 1
        Section 2.  Time for compliance; penalty for omission
        Any person or persons, firm or corporation who may own any
     building where passenger elevators are used shall be required,
     within one year from and after the passage of this act, to have
     said automatic locking device, electrical or mechanical, placed
     thereon or attached thereto and in perfect operation, or be
     subject to a penalty or fine of three dollars per day for each
     and every day said elevator is in use without the above named
     device.  Said fine to be collected as other debts due the
     Commonwealth and paid to the county treasurer where such offense
     is committed.  1895, May 30, P.L. 129, Sec. 2