Nebraska § 48-420 Fire escapes; when required

Nebraska Statutes

§ 48-420 — Fire escapes; when required

Nebraska § 48-420

Ch. 48Labor

This text of Nebraska § 48-420 (Fire escapes; when required) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Nebraska primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.

Bluebook

Neb. Rev. Stat. § 48-420 (2026).

Text

Every factory or other institution, more than two stories in height, shall be equipped with outside fireproof iron stairways, chutes or toboggans, and one automatic fire escape for every fifteen persons working or congregating therein at any time, who, for any reason, are unable to reach or use the outside fireproof stairways, chutes or toboggans.

Free access — add to your briefcase to read the full text and ask questions with AI

Legislative History

Source: Laws 1919, c. 190, tit. IV, art. IV, § 16, p. 562; C.S.1922, § 7697; C.S.1929, § 48-416; R.S.1943, § 48-420. Annotations: Under former penal statute relating to fire escapes, law will not be extended to include agents of owners who fail, after notice, to erect fire escapes. State v. Dailey, 76 Neb. 770, 107 N.W. 1094 (1906).