RCW 70.54.080
Liability of person handling steamboat or steam boiler.
Every person who shall apply, or cause to be applied to a steam boiler a higher pressure of steam than is allowed by law, or by any inspector, officer or person authorized to limit the same; every captain or other person having charge of the machinery or boiler in a steamboat used for the conveyance of passengers on the waters of this state, who, from ignorance or gross neglect, or for the purpose of increasing the speed of such boat, shall create or cause to be created an undue or unsafe pressure of steam; and every engineer or other person having charge of a steam boiler, steam engine or other apparatus for generating or employing steam, who shall wilfully or from ignorance or gross neglect, create or allow to be created such an undue quantity of steam as to burst the boiler, engine or apparatus, or cause any other accident, whereby human life is endangered, shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
[ 1909 c 249 § 280; RRS § 2532.]
NOTES:
Boilers and unfired pressure vessels: Chapter 70.79 RCW.
Industrial safety and health: Chapter 43.22 RCW.
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Title 70 - Public Health and Safety
Chapter 70.54 - Miscellaneous Health and Safety Provisions.
70.54.005 - Transfer of duties to the department of health.
70.54.010 - Polluting water supply—Penalty.
70.54.020 - Furnishing impure water—Penalty.
70.54.030 - Pollution of watershed of city in adjoining state—Penalty.
70.54.040 - Secretary to advise local authorities on sanitation.
70.54.050 - Exposing contagious disease—Penalty.
70.54.060 - Ambulances and drivers.
70.54.065 - Ambulances and drivers—Penalty.
70.54.070 - Door of public buildings to swing outward—Penalty.
70.54.080 - Liability of person handling steamboat or steam boiler.
70.54.090 - Attachment of objects to utility poles—Penalty.
70.54.130 - Laetrile—Legislative declaration.
70.54.160 - Public restrooms—Pay facilities—Penalty.
70.54.180 - Deaf persons access to emergency services—Telecommunication devices.
70.54.190 - DMSO (dimethyl sulfoxide)—Use—Liability.
70.54.200 - Fees for repository of vaccines, biologics.
70.54.220 - Practitioners to provide information on prenatal testing and cord blood banking.
70.54.222 - Cord blood banks—Regulation—Application of consumer protection act—Definitions.
70.54.230 - Cancer registry program.
70.54.240 - Cancer registry program—Reporting requirements.
70.54.250 - Cancer registry program—Confidentiality.
70.54.290 - Bone marrow donor recruitment and education program—State employees to be recruited.
70.54.305 - Bone marrow donation—Status as minor not a disqualifying factor.
70.54.310 - Semiautomatic external defibrillator—Duty of acquirer—Immunity from civil liability.
70.54.320 - Electrology and tattooing—Findings.
70.54.330 - Electrology and tattooing—Definitions.
70.54.340 - Electrology, body art, body piercing, and tattooing—Rules, sterilization requirements.
70.54.350 - Electrology and tattooing—Practitioners to comply with rules—Penalty.
70.54.355 - Scleral tattooing prohibited—Penalties—Enforcement.
70.54.370 - Meningococcal disease—Students to receive informational materials.
70.54.400 - Retail restroom access—Customers with medical conditions—Penalty.
70.54.410 - Unintended pregnancies—Sexual health education funding.
70.54.420 - Accountable care organization pilot projects—Report to the legislature.
70.54.430 - First responders—Emergency response service—Contact information.
70.54.460 - Breast health information—Mammography report—Notice.
70.54.470 - Medical debt—Limits on sale or assignment.
70.54.480 - Drayage truck operators—Access to restroom facilities.