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 or otherwise become in bad condition, it shall be the duty of the inspector, upon satisfactory proof of such negligence, to revoke the license of such engineer; and no engineer shall run his engine longer than seven days without cleaning out the boiler under penalty of this act.

§ 12. LICENSE TO BE CONSPICUOUSLY POSTED.] An engineer running a stationary engine, shall keep his license in a public place in the engine room, which license shall be subject to inspection by any inspector or other public official. Engineers running or operating boilers and engines other than stationary ones, shall keep their certificates with them and subject to examination by any inspector, public official, or other person interested therein. Any person operating a steam boiler or engine without a license as provided for by this act, or any person employing anyone to operate a steam boiler or engine, who does not have a certificate as provided in this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not to exceed two hundred (200) dollars, or imprisoned in county jail not to exceed one year, or both such fine and imprisonment, as the court may deem advisable. The license of chief and assistant engineers shall be good for the time issued in any part of the State, but special licenses shall be good only in the judicial district where granted, and in case of removal to another district a new license must be taken out in said district, and a failure or neglect so to do will incur the penalty in Paragraph 2 of this section.

§ 13. INSPECTORS MAY ACT JOINTLY.] In making the inspection of boilers, machinery or steam vessels herein provided for, the inspectors may act jointly or separately, but the inspector or inspectors making such inspection shall, in all cases, subscribe and make an oath to the certificate of inspection; any inspector who shall willfully certify falsely regarding any steam boiler or its attachments, or the hull and equipments of any steam vessel, or grant license to incompetent persons to act as engineers, or grant a license to any person better than the grade he should have shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred (500) dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding one year in the State prison, or both, at the discretion of the court.

§ 14. FEES FOR INSPECTION.] Each inspector shall be authorized to charge a fee of four (4) dollars for the inspection of each single boiler and its steam connections, within his district, and two (2) dollars for each additional boiler, when connected, said fee being payable at the time of the delivery of the inspector's certificate of approval. The fee for the examination of engineers and for the issuing of a license certificate shall be two (2) dollars, and for the annual renewal of the same fifty (50) cents, said amounts to be the property of the inspector, who shall receive no other compensation for his services.

§ 15. RAILROAD LOCOMOTIVES EXEMPT.] This act shall not apply to railroad locomotives, nor to boilers owned or controlled