2005 Missouri Revised Statutes - § 291.060. — Power and duties of director and deputies.

291.060. 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.