2005 Minnesota Statutes - 183.62 — Liability of persons operating boats, boilers or pressure vessels; penalty.

     183.62 Liability of persons operating boats, boilers or 
  pressure vessels; penalty. 


    Every person who shall apply, or cause to be applied, to a 
 boiler or pressure vessel a higher pressure than is allowed by 
 law, or by the inspector, officer, or person authorized to limit 
 the same; and every owner and lessee of a boiler or pressure 
 vessel having knowledge of such application, or of circumstances 
 which would cause such an application, shall be guilty of a 
 gross misdemeanor.  Every captain or other person having charge 
 of the machinery of a boat used for the conveyance of passengers 
 in the waters of this state and every engineer or other person 
 having charge of a boiler, steam engine, or other apparatus for 
 generating or employing steam, who shall willfully, or from 
 ignorance or gross neglect, create, or allow to be created any 
 condition whereby human life is endangered, and every owner and 
 lessee of a boat, boiler, steam engine, or other apparatus for 
 generating or supplying steam who has knowledge of such a 
 condition, or of circumstances which would cause such a 
 condition, shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor. 


    HIST: (10265) RL s 5003; 1982 c 379 s 26