34:9A-20. Certified labor camps; application; inspections; erection, construction or alteration

Each person employing any person to work in or at camps to which this article applies shall apply, not later than 60 days prior to the opening of any such camp in any calendar year to the bureau for a certificate of compliance of such camp with the requirements of this act. Such application shall be made on such forms and contain such information, drawings or photographs as the commissioner may deem necessary to enable him to determine the fact of compliance. A separate application shall be made and a separate certificate issued for each camp. The commissioner shall cause each camp to be inspected within 45 days of receipt of an application for a certificate of compliance. If the commissioner finds from the application and inspection that a camp fully complies with the requirements of this act, he shall issue a certificate to that effect. No camp shall be maintained, operated, used or occupied until the commissioner shall have issued therefor a certificate as required by this section; provided, that if no inspection of a camp has been made within 45 days of the receipt of an application for a certificate of compliance, such camp may open but shall be closed by the commissioner if subsequent inspection discloses the fact that such camp does not substantially comply with the requirements of this act.

No camp shall be erected, constructed or substantially altered subsequent to the effective date of this act until the plans and specifications for such erection, construction or alteration have been submitted to, and approved by, the commissioner. The commissioner shall approve any plans and specifications submitted to him pursuant to this section if he finds that such plans and specifications fully comply with the requirements of this act and any rule or regulation duly issued hereunder.

L.1945, c. 71, p. 357, s. 20. Amended by L.1967, c. 91, s. 11, eff. June 7, 1967; L.1967, c. 259, s. 3, eff. Dec. 26, 1967.