Every employer, superintendent, timekeeper or person in any way in charge of any laborer, who may request, permit, compel or induce said laborer to lift, transport or bear on his person any load weighing more than the limits the Secretary of Labor and Human Resources may establish by regulations shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be punished by imprisonment in jail for not more than ninety (90) days or by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100), or by both penalties in the discretion of the court.
History —May 22, 1968, No. 49, p. 81, § 3; June 22, 1975, No. 40, p. 97, § 3.