Excerpt from General Acts Passed and Joint Resolutions Adopted by the Seventieth General Assembly, at Its Adjourned Session, Vol. 90: Begun and Held in the City of Columbus, January 3, 1893

Sec. 2572. Whoever, being the owner or having control as an oficer, agent, or otherwise, of any opera-house, hall, theater, church, school-house, hospital, medical institute, asy lum, or other place, for the public assemblage of people, in a municipal corporation, permits it to be used when any door afl'ording exit therefrom is locked or barred, or opens inwardly; when the place is not provided with ample means for the safe and speedy egress of the persons who may be there assembled; when, if it is on another than the first floor, suficient water and proper means to apply it, or other eficient means are not provided in such place to extinguish any fire which may occur thereat; or when the certificate provided for in section twenty-five hundred and sixty-nine or section twenty-five hundred and seventy, as the case may be, has not been issued, or is not in full force, shall, for each day or night he permits such place to be so used or occupied, forfeit or pay any sum not more than one thousand dollars, nor less than fifty dollars, to be recovered with costs, in a civil action, in the name and for the use of the municipal corporation; and it shall be the duty of the mayor, with the aid of the police to see that the provisions of this section are strictly enforced.

Sec. 2572a. That whenever any structure referred to in section 2572 shall have been inspected by the state inspector of shops and factories, and such inspector shall have issued to the owner thereof or his agent, a certificate that such structure is properly arranged for the safe and speedy egress of persons who may be assembled therein, and also properly provided with means for the extinguish ment of fire at or in such structure, as now required by law, then such certificate shall dispense with all other inspec tions and certificates required by law in regard to the safety of such structures for public assemblages; and in case such inspector shall find on inspection that such struc ture is not properly arranged for the safe and speedy egress of persons who may be there assembled, or not properly provided with means for the extinguishment of fire at or in such structure, as now required by law, or that such strue ture is such as to endanger the lives of the persons who may be there assembled, from fire or other cause, he shall notify the owner, omcer or agent in charge of such structure and the mayor of the municipal corporation wherein the same is located, in writing, of the fact that he refuses such certificate, specifying his reasons and the alterations, additions and appliances necessary to be made and furnished before a cer tificate will be issued; and no certificate required by law, in regard to the safety of such structure, shall be issued by the mayor or any officer or person under any provision of 'the law till the requirements of the foregoing notice are complied with to the satisfaction of the state inspector and it shall be the duty of the mayor of any municipality, with the aid of the police, upon receiving such notification, to rohibit the use of such buildings for the public assemblage 0 people until the necessary changes, alterations and additions have been made and the inspector's certificate has been issued. Section 2. That the original sections 2568, 2572 and 25721 of the Revised Statutes be and the same are hereby repealed. Section 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. L. C. Laylin, Speaker at tlze House of Representatives. Andrew L. Harris, President of tbe Senate.

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