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USA Statutes : missouri
Title : LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Chapter : Chapter 291 Industrial Inspection
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Before the director of the inspection section shall enter upon
the duties of his office, he shall give a good and sufficient bond to the
state of Missouri in the penal sum of twenty thousand dollars, to be
approved by the attorney general as to form, and by the governor as to
sufficiency, conditioned upon the faithful performance of the duties of
his office, and that he will render an honest and accurate accounting of
all funds which may come into his hands through the performance of his
official duties, and said director shall be held liable on his official
bond for any defalcations of any of his deputies, agents, assistants or
other employees. (RSMo 1939 § 10143, A.L. 1945 p. 1097 § 10141)
Prior revision: 1929 § 13169
*The Reorganization Act of 1974 transferred all the powers, duties and
functions of the division of industrial inspection to the inspection
section, by type I transfer, which was therein created, and provides that
all employees of this section are to be employed pursuant to the
provisions of the merit system law, Chap. 36, RSMo.
CROSS REFERENCE: Section of industrial inspection of department of labor
and industrial relations created, RSMo 286.110
The principal office of the section shall be kept and maintained
in Jefferson City, Missouri. In addition to the principal office in
Jefferson City there shall be kept and maintained one branch office in
the city of St. Louis, Missouri, and one branch office in Kansas City,
Missouri, located in such quarters as may be designated by the director
with the approval of the secretary of the labor and industrial relations
commission of Missouri. Each of such branch offices shall be in charge of
an assistant director of the inspection section and each such assistant
director shall be empowered to do and perform in the name of the director
any act which the director himself might perform, subject however to the
supervision and approval of said director of the inspection section.
(RSMo 1939 § 10144, A.L. 1945 p. 1097 § 10142)
Prior revision: 1929 § 13170
1. Subject to the provisions of the merit system law, chapter
36, RSMo, the director of the department of labor and industrial
relations shall employ and prescribe the duties and powers of such
persons as may be required and may make expenditures within the
appropriation therefor as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of
the law.
2. Any person employed by the inspection section more than six months
prior to August 13, 1972, shall be admitted to the qualifying examination
covering the position held by him and may be retained at the discretion
of the director provided that he attains a passing grade in such
examination. Any employee appointed within six months prior to August 13,
1972, and any employee appointed from and after August 13, 1972, shall be
appointed subject to the merit system law. (RSMo 1939 § 10147, A.L. 1945
p. 1097, A.L. 1957 p. 569, A.L. 1965 p. 440, A.L. 1967 p. 382, A.L. 1972
H.B. 1260)
Prior revision: 1929 § 13173
The salaries and compensation of the subordinate officials and
employees provided for in section 291.030, shall be paid in like manner
and from the same source as the salary of the director of the inspection
section, upon vouchers approved by the director. The salaries and
compensation shall be as follows: Assistant director of the inspection
section, not exceeding six thousand six hundred dollars per annum each;
chief clerk, not exceeding six thousand six hundred dollars per annum;
administrative secretary, not exceeding four thousand eight hundred
dollars per annum; three special safety inspectors, not to exceed five
thousand four hundred dollars per annum each; inspectors, not to exceed
five thousand four hundred dollars per annum; secretary, not exceeding
four thousand two hundred dollars per annum; and stenographer, not to
exceed four thousand two hundred dollars per annum, except that the two
stenographers who act as office managers in the two branches shall
receive a salary not to exceed four thousand five hundred dollars per
annum; statistician, not to exceed six thousand six hundred dollars per
annum. Such compensation shall be paid the janitor as is fixed by the
director, not to exceed the sum of two hundred dollars per month for the
time employed. (RSMo 1939 § 10148, A.L. 1945 p. 1097, A.L. 1953 p. 524,
A.L. 1957 p. 569, A.L. 1965 p. 440, A.L. 1967 p. 382, A.L. 1973 S.B. 253)
Prior revision: 1929 § 13174
The director of the inspection section, his deputies, inspectors
and other assistants and appointees shall be entitled to their actual
traveling expenses when traveling within the state of Missouri on
necessary business of the inspection section, which said expenses shall
be paid on itemized accounts, approved by the director as other sectional
expenses are approved and paid. (RSMo 1939 § 10145)
Prior revision: 1929 § 13171
1. The director of the inspection section may divide the state
into districts, assign one or more deputy inspectors to each district,
and may, at his discretion, change or transfer them from one district to
another.
2. It shall be the duty of the director, his assistants or deputy
inspectors, to make not less than two inspections during each year of all
factories, warehouses, office buildings, freight depots, machine shops,
garages, laundries, tenement workshops, bakeshops, restaurants, bowling
alleys, pool halls, theaters, concert halls, moving picture houses, or
places of public amusement, and all other manufacturing, mechanical and
mercantile establishments and workshops. The last inspection shall be
completed on or before the first day of October of each year, and the
director shall enforce all laws relating to the inspection of the
establishments enumerated heretofore in this section, and prosecute all
persons for violating the same. Any municipal ordinance relating to said
establishments or their inspection shall be enforced by the director.
3. The director, his assistants and deputy inspectors, may administer
oaths and take affidavits in matters concerning the enforcement of the
various inspection laws relating to these establishments; provided, that
the provisions of this section shall not apply to mercantile
establishments that employ less than ten persons that are located in
towns and cities that have three thousand inhabitants or less. (RSMo 1939
§ 10179)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13218; 1919 § 6782; 1909 § 7824
CROSS REFERENCES: Child labor laws, director to enforce, RSMo 294.090
County superintendent of welfare, may act as deputy factory inspector,
RSMo 205.920 Employment agencies, department of economic development to
enforce laws regulating, RSMo 289.010 to 289.050 Mattresses, laws
regulating manufacture and sale, department of social services to
enforce, RSMo 421.005 to 421.038
(1966) This section was not broad enough to be applicable to railroad
operations. Kansas City Railroad Co. v. Industrial Commission (Mo.), 396
S.W.2d 678.
The director may adopt, amend or rescind rules and regulations
necessary to implement any of the provisions of this law; provided,
however, that no such rule or regulation shall be adopted except after a
public hearing before the labor and industrial relations commission to be
held after thirty days prior notice by public advertisement of the date,
time and place of the hearing and opportunity given to the public to be
heard. Thereafter, subject to the provisions of chapter 536, RSMo, such
rules and regulations are to become effective ten days after their
approval by the commission, and after copies thereof have been filed in
the office of the secretary of state. The adoption, amending or
rescinding of rules and regulations relating to the internal management
of the section shall not require prior approval of the labor and
industrial relations commission, nor public hearing to become effective.
(L. 1972 H.B. 1260)
The inspection section shall collect, assort and systematize
statistical details and information relating to the commercial,
industrial, social, educational and sanitary conditions of the laboring
classes of the state and to the permanent prosperity of the productive
industries of the state. (RSMo 1939 § 10153, A. 1949 S.B. 1106)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13179; 1919 § 6738; 1909 § 7784
The director of the inspection section is hereby directed to
collect any information he may deem necessary to carry out the objects of
the department as set forth in section 291.070, and is hereby authorized
to furnish suitable blanks to managers of public service corporations,
county, city and township officers, and to the officers of prisons, penal
and reformatory institutions, and it shall be the duty of all such
managers and officers to furnish such information as the director may
require and which may be in their possession with the least possible
delay. (RSMo 1939 § 10158)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13184; 1919 § 6745; 1909 § 7791
The labor and industrial relations commission of Missouri, with
the assistance of the director of the inspection section of the
department of labor and industrial relations shall, on or before the
first day of February of each year, present a report in writing to the
governor, which shall contain statistical details relating to the
operation of the section under sections 196.270 to 196.305, and chapters
290, 292 and 421, RSMo, including such information as is contemplated by
section 291.070. (RSMo 1939 § 10154, A.L. 1945 p. 1097)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13180; 1919 § 6740; 1909 § 7786
1. The owner, superintendent, manager or other person in charge
of every establishment inspected as provided by law shall pay to the
state director of revenue the following fee for each inspection made in
accordance with the provisions of sections 196.270 to 196.305, and
chapters 292 and 421, RSMo, or elsewhere authorized or required of said
inspector by law to be made:
(1) For the inspection of every building or shop in which ten or less
persons are employed or found at work, no charge shall be made;
(2) For the inspection of every building or shop in which more than ten
and not exceeding fifteen persons are employed, the sum of three dollars;
(3) For the inspection of every building or shop in which more than
fifteen and less than twenty-five persons are employed, the sum of four
dollars;
(4) For the inspection of every building or shop in which more than
twenty-five persons and less than fifty persons are employed, the sum of
five dollars; and
(5) In every building or shop in which more than fifty persons are
employed an additional fee of one dollar shall be charged and collected
for every fifty additional persons employed, or any additional fraction
thereof, and the fee herein provided for shall be due immediately upon
completion of the inspection.
2. The owner, superintendent, manager or other person in charge of any
establishment at the time of inspection shall furnish the inspector
making the inspection a true statement of the number of persons employed
in the establishment at the time of inspection, and any owner,
superintendent, manager or other person in charge who fails or refuses to
furnish such statement, or understates the number of persons employed in
the establishment at the time of inspection, is guilty of a misdemeanor,
and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than twenty-five
dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense.
3. Any person, firm or corporation, agent or manager, superintendent or
foreman of any firm or corporation, whether acting for himself or for the
firm or corporation, or by himself or through subagents or foreman,
superintendent or manager, who refuses or attempts to prevent the
admission of any inspector authorized by this chapter, upon or within the
premises or building of any establishments or place which he is required
by law to inspect at any reasonable business hour, or during working
hours or in any manner interferes with the performance of the official
duties of the inspector, or neglects or refuses to pay the inspection fee
upon the completion of the inspection, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and,
upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars
nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense; except, that the
owner or manager of any establishment inspected shall not be required to
pay for more than two inspections between the first day of October of one
year and thirtieth day of September of the next year, unless through
noncompliance with the written orders of the inspector, additional
inspections are necessary. (RSMo 1939 § 10180, A.L. 1947 V. I p. 357,
A.L. 1965 p. 440)
Prior revisions: 1929 § 13219; 1919 § 6783; 1909 § 7825
The director of the inspection section shall make an
investigation of all accidents serious enough to require physical
rehabilitation, under the provisions of the state board of
rehabilitation, and make safety recommendations to the employers of the
injured employees. (L. 1965 p. 440 § 1)
The director shall also make and submit to the governor on or
before the last Monday in January in each year, a report containing a
full and complete account of the investigations, together with any other
suggestions and recommendations he considers to be of value to the people
of the state, which shall be laid before the next succeeding general
assembly. (L. 1965 p. 440 § 2)
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