291.060. Power and duties of director and deputies. - Missouri Statutes

Power and duties of director and deputies.

291.060. 1. The director of the inspection section maydivide the state into districts, assign one or more deputyinspectors to each district, and may, at his discretion, changeor transfer them from one district to another.

2. It shall be the duty of the director, his assistants ordeputy inspectors, to make not less than two inspections duringeach year of all factories, warehouses, office buildings, freightdepots, machine shops, garages, laundries, tenement workshops,bakeshops, restaurants, bowling alleys, pool halls, theaters,concert halls, moving picture houses, or places of publicamusement, and all other manufacturing, mechanical and mercantileestablishments and workshops. The last inspection shall becompleted on or before the first day of October of each year, andthe director shall enforce all laws relating to the inspection ofthe establishments enumerated heretofore in this section, andprosecute all persons for violating the same. Any municipalordinance relating to said establishments or their inspectionshall be enforced by the director.

3. The director, his assistants and deputy inspectors, mayadminister oaths and take affidavits in matters concerning theenforcement of the various inspection laws relating to theseestablishments; provided, that the provisions of this sectionshall not apply to mercantile establishments that employ lessthan ten persons that are located in towns and cities that havethree 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.