Chap. 281.—An ACT for the protection of persons employed in the construction
or repair of railroad cars or car trucks or similar equipment. [H B 30]

Approved March 19, 1920.

Whereas, there has been a request made that the general assembly
should enact laws requiring that persons building or repairing cars
should erect suitable structures for the protection of men engaged in
such work; and

Whereas, the general assembly cannot go into the questions in-
volved as fully as thought necessary and for that reason does not
wish to declare any policy on the subject as to whether such structures
should be built or not, and if built, how they should be built, but
desires to leave all matters connected therewith, both of policy and
execution, to the State corporation commission; now, therefore,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That the
State corporation commission shall be and is empowered in its dis-
cretion after due hearings t6 require persons, firms, corporations or
receivers thereof employing men in the construction of heavy repair
of railroad cars or car trucks or similar equipment, to erect and main-
tain buildings or sheds for the protection of men employed in such
repair or construction work, from inclement weather and to promul-
gate and enforce rules, regulations and orders concerning such work
and the size and construction of such buildings or sheds, and for the
regulation of the work to be done under such buildings or sheds, to
the end that men so employed may have so much protection as can
reasonably be afforded, without an unreasonable interference with
the work or system of the institution where such work is being done.

The State corporation commission shall have power to enforce
any such order by a fine, not exceeding twenty-five dollars per day
for each day that any such employer shall fail to comply therewith;
such fine to be collected by the commission, by its process.

Should the corporation commission decide that the sheds should
be built they shall not require exceeding ten per centum to be built
in any one year.