General Laws of New York: Containing All Amendments to the Close of the Session of L899, Volume 2

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M. Bender, 1900 - Law

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Page 2455 - ... so constructed as to show a uniform and unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of ten points of the compass, and so fixed as to throw the light from right aliead to two points abaft the beam on the port side.
Page 2604 - A person employing or directing another to perform labor of any kind in the erection, repairing, altering or painting of a house, building or structure shall not furnish or erect, or cause to be furnished or erected for the performance of such labor, scaffolding, hoists, stays, ladders or other mechanical contrivances which are unsafe, unsuitable or improper, and which are not so constructed, placed and operated as to give proper protection to the life and limb of a person so employed or engaged.
Page 2015 - ... shall forfeit to the people of the state the sum of one hundred dollars for every such failure, and the additional sum of ten dollars for each day that such failure continues.
Page 2619 - No person shall remove or make ineffective any safeguard around or attached to machinery, vats or pans, while the same are In use, unless for the purpose of immediately making repairs thereto, and all such safeguards so removed shall be promptly replaced.
Page 2015 - In the case of mixtures or compounds which may be now or from, time to time hereafter known as articles of food...
Page 2136 - Regents' examinations in physiology and hygiene shall include a due proportion of questions on the nature of alcoholic drinks and other narcotics, and their effects on the human system. § 691 Enforcement of last section. 1 In all normal schools, teachers...
Page 1933 - Every executor, administrator or trustee shall have full power to sell so much of the property of the decedent as will enable him to pay such tax in the same manner as he might be entitled by law to do for the payment of the debts of the testator or intestate.
Page 2626 - No employee shall be required, permitted or suffered to work in a biscuit, bread or cake bakery, or confec-tionery establishment more than sixty hours in any one week, or more than ten hours in any one day, unless for the purpose of making a shorter workday on the last day of the week...
Page 2608 - ... for the purpose of receiving applications of persons seeking employment, and applications of persons seeking to employ labor. No compensation or fee shall be charged or received, directly or indirectly, from persons applying for employment or help through any such bureau. Such commissioner shall appoint for each bureau...
Page 1947 - Adjustment and shall prescribe therein the time within which a return thereto must be made and served upon the relator's attorney, which shall not be less than ten days and may be extended by the court. The allowance of the writ shall not stay proceedings upon the decision appealed from, but the court may, on application, on notice to the Board and on due cause shown, grant a restraining order.

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