no such employer shall fail or neglect to do every other thing reasonably necessary to protect the life and safety of such employees, and no such employer shall occupy or maintain any place of employment that is not safe.

§ 54. Construction of Place of Employment.-No employer, owner or lessee of any real property in this state shall construct or cause to be constructed any place of employment that is not safe.

§ 55. Interference With Protective Device by Employee.-No employee shall remove, displace, damage, destroy or carry off any safety device or safeguard furnished and provided for use in any employment or place of employment, or interfere in any way with the use thereof by any other person, or interfere with the use of any method or process adopted for the protection of any employee in such employment, or place of employment, or fail or neglect to do every other thing reasonably necessary to protect the life and safety of such employees.

§ 56. Supervision by Commission. The commission is vested with full power and jurisdiction over, and shall have such supervision of, every employment and place of employment in this state as may be necessary adequately to enforce and administer all laws and all lawful orders requiring such employment and place of employment to be safe, and requiring the protection of the life and safety of every employee in such employment or place of employment.

$57. Protective Powers of Commission. The commission shall have power, after a hearing had upon its own motion or upon complaint, by general or special orders, rules or regulations, or otherwise:

(1) To Prescribe Methods of Protection.-To declare and prescribe what safety devices, safeguards or other means or methods of protection are well adapted to render the employees of every employment and place of employment safe as required by law or lawful order.

(2) To Fix Standards of Protection. To fix such reasonable standards and to prescribe, modify and enforce such reasonable orders for the adoption, installation, use, maintenance and operation of safety. devices, safeguards and other means or methods of protection, to be as nearly uniform as possible, as may be necessary to carry out all laws and lawful orders relative to the protection of the life and safety of employees in employments and places of employment.

(3) To Fix Standards for Construction. To fix and order such reasonable standards for the construction, repair and maintenance of places of employment as shall render them safe.

(4) To Require Any Other Act. To require the performance of any other act which the protection of the life and safety of employees in employments and places of employment may demand.

(5) To Prescribe Form of Reports.-To declare and prescribe the general form of industrial accidents reports, the accidents to be reported and the information to be furnished in connection therewith,

and the time within which such reports shall be filed. Nothing in this act contained shall be construed to prevent the commission from requiring supplemental accident reports.

§ 58. Notice of Hearing for Purpose of Considering General Safety Order. Upon the fixing of a time and place for the holding of a hearing for the purpose of considering and issuing a general safety order or orders as authorized by section 57 hereof, the commission shall cause a notice of such hearing to be published in one or more daily newspapers of general circulation published and circulated in the city and county of San Francisco, and also in one or more daily newspapers of general circulation published and circulated in the county of Los Angeles, such newspapers to be designated by the commission for that purpose. No defect or inaccuracy in such notice or in the publication thereof shall invalidate any general order issued by the commission after hearing had.

§ 59. Order to Render Employment or Place of Employment Safe. Whenever the commission, after a hearing had upon its own motion. or upon complaint, shall find that any employment or place of employment is not safe or that the practices or means or methods or operations or processes employed or used in connection therewith are unsafe, or do not afford adequate protection to the life and safety of employees in such employments and places of employment, the commission shall make and enter and serve such order relative thereto as may be necessary to render such employment or place of employment safe and protect the life and safety of employees in such employments and places of employment and may in said order direct that such additions, repairs, improvements or changes be made and such safety devices and safeguards be furnished, provided and used, as are reasonably required to render such employment or place of employment safe, in the manner and within the time specified in said order.

§ 60. Time for Compliance.-The commission may, upon application of any employer, or other person affected thereby, grant such time as may reasonably be necessary for compliance with any order, and any person affected by such order may petition the commission for an extension of time, which the commission shall grant if it finds such an extension of time necessary.

§ 61. Summary Investigation. Whenever the commission shall learn or have reason to believe that any employment or place of employment is not safe or is injurious to the welfare of any employee it may, of its own motion, or upon complaint, summarily investigate the same, with or without notice or hearings, and after a hearing upon such notice as it may prescribe, the commission may enter and serve such order as may be necessary relative thereto, anything in this act to the contrary notwithstanding.

§ 62. Compliance With Orders.-Every employer, employee and other person shall obey and comply with each and every requirement of every order, decision, direction, rule or regulation made or pre

scribed by the commission in connection with the matters herein specified, or in any way relating to or affecting safety of employments or places of employment, or to protect the life and safety of employees in such employments or places of employment, and shall do everything necessary or proper in order to secure compliance with and observance of every such order, decision, direction, rule or regulation.

§ 63. Review by Courts.-The orders of the commission, general or special, its rules or regulations, findings and decisions, made and entered under the safety provisions of this act, may be reviewed by the courts specified in sections 84 and 85 of this act and within the time and in the manner therein specified and not otherwise.

§ 64. Standard of Safety to be Construed With Local Order.Nothing contained in this act shall be construed to deprive the board. of supervisors of any county, or city and county, the board of trustees of any city, or any other public corporation or board or department, of any power or jurisdiction over or relative to any place of employment; provided, that whenever the commission shall, by order, fix a standard of safety for employments or places of employment, such order shall, upon the filing by the commission of a copy thereof with the clerk of the county, city and county, or city to which it may apply, establish a minimum requirement concerning the matters covered by such order and shall be construed in connection with any local order relative to the same matter and to amend or modify any requirement in such local order not up to the standard of the order of the commission.

§ 65. Further Powers.-The commission shall have further power and authority:

(1) Museums of Safety. To establish and maintain museums of safety and hygiene in which shall be exhibited safety devices, safeguards and other means and methods for the protection of the life and safety of employees, and to publish and distribute bulletins on any phase of this general subject.

(2) Lectures. To cause lectures to be delivered, illustrated by stereopticon or other views, diagrams or pictures, for the information of employers and their employees and the general public in regard to the causes and prevention of industrial accidents, occupational diseases and related subjects.

(3) Advisers. To appoint advisers who shall, without compensation assist the commission in establishing standards of safety and the commission may adopt and incorporate in its general orders such safety recommendations as it may receive from such advisers.

§ 66. Rules Conclusively Presumed Reasonable.-Every order of the commission, general or special, its rules and regulations, findings and decisions, made and entered under the safety provisions of this act shall be admissible as evidence in any prosecution for the violation of any of the said provisions and shall, in every such prosecution, be

conclusively presumed to be reasonable and lawful and to fix a reasonable and proper standard and requirement of safety, unless, prior to the institution of the prosecution for such violation or violations, proceedings for a rehearing thereon or a review thereof shall have been instituted as provided in sections 81 to 85, inclusive, of this act and not then finally determined.

§ 67. Penalty for Violation of Safety Provision-Burden of Proof. Every employer, employee or other person who, either individually or acting as an officer, agent or employee of a corporation or other person, violates any safety provision contained in sections 52, 53, 54 or 55 of this act, or any part of any such provision, or who shall fail or refuse to comply with any such provision or any part thereof, or who, directly or indirectly, knowingly induces another so to do is guilty. of a misdemeanor. In any prosecution under this section it shall be deemed prima facie evidence of a violation of any such safety provision, that the accused has failed or refused to comply with any order, rule, regulation or requirement of the commission relative thereto and the burden of proof shall thereupon rest upon the accused to show that he has complied with such safety provision.

§ 68. Continuing Violation.-Every violation of the provisions contained in section 52, 53, 54, or 55, of this act, or any part or portion thereof, by any person or corporation is a separate and distinct offense, and, in the case of a continuing violation thereof, each day's continuance thereof shall constitute a separate and distinct offense.

§ 69. Accident Prevention Fund.-All fines imposed and collected under prosecutions for violations of the provisions of sections 51 to 72 inclusive of this act, shall be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the "accident prevention fund," which fund is hereby created.

§ 70. Divulging Confidential Information. It shall be unlawful for any member of the commission, or for any officer or employee of the commission, to divulge to any person not connected with the administration of this act any confidential information obtained from any person, concerning the failure of any other person to keep any place of employment safe, or concerning the violation of any order, rule or regulation issued by the commission. Any member of the commission or any officer or employee of the commission divulging such confidential information shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 71. (a) Report of Accident.-Every employer of labor, and every insurance carrier, is hereby required to file with the commission, under such rules and regulations as the commission may from time to time make, a full and complete report of every accident to an employee arising out of or in the course of his employment and resulting in loss of life or injury to such person. Such reports shall be furnished to the commission in such form and such detail as the commission shall from time to time prescribe, and shall make specific answers to all questions required by the commission under its rules and regulations. Any

such employer or insurance carrier who shall furnish such report shall be exempt from furnishing any similar report or reports authorized or required under the laws of this state.

(b) Filling Blanks.-Every employer or insurance carrier receiving from the commission any blanks with directions to fill out the same shall cause the same to be properly filled out so as to answer fully and correctly each question propounded therein; in case he is unable to answer any such questions a good and sufficient reason shall be given for such failure.

(c) Information to be Secret.-No information furnished to the commission by an employer or an insurance carrier shall be open to public inspection or made public except on order of the commission, or by the commission or a commissioner in the course of a hearing or proceeding. Any officer or employee of the commission who, in violation of the provisions of this subsection, divulges any information shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 72. (a) Investigating Cause of Accidents.-The commission shall investigate the cause of all industrial accidents occurring within the state in any employment or place of employment, or directly or indirectly arising from or connected with the maintenance or operation of such employment or place of employment, resulting in personal injury or death and requiring, in the judgment of the commission, such investigation; and the commission shall have the power to make such orders or recommendations with respect to such accidents as may be just and reasonable, provided that neither the order nor the recommendation of the commission, nor any accident report filed with the commission, shall be admitted as evidence in any action for damages or any proceeding to recover compensation, based on or arising out of such injury or death.

(b) Right to Enter Place of Employment.-For the purpose of making any investigation which the commission is authorized to make under the provisions of this section, or for the purpose of collecting. statistics or examining the provisions made for the safety of employees, any member of the commission, inspector or other person designated by the commission for that purpose, may enter any place of employ

ment.

(c) Obstructing Commission.-Any employer, insurance carrier or any other person who shall violate or omit to comply with any of the provisions of this section, or who shall in any way obstruct or hamper the commission, any commissioner or other person conducting any investigation authorized to be undertaken or made by the commission, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

73. (a) Jurisdiction.-All proceedings for the recovery of compensation, or concerning any right or liability arising out of or incidental thereto, or for the enforcement against the employer or an insurance carrier of any liability for compensation imposed upon him by this act in favor of the injured employee, his dependents or any