Every railroad company, express company, car-loading and freight-forwarding company and airline company, which is a common carrier of passengers and freight, or either, or both, and which has or shall have in this State, a station, office, depot, shop, platform shelter houses, section headquarters, assembly points or other place incidental to the conduct of its business as a common carrier, where its employees are required to assemble or to be in attendance in the performance of their work as such employees, shall provide and maintain for its employees, in such cases as the Commissioner of Labor and Industry of New Jersey shall certify to be necessary, adequate facilities for the health and comfort of said employees, including rest rooms, rooms wherein lunches may be eaten, lockers, washrooms and toilets, with separate facilities for men and women where both men and women are employed. As used in this section, “stations” shall include stations for passengers and freight, “offices” shall include yard offices as well as other offices, “depots” shall include passenger and freight depots, “shops” shall include locomotive shops, diesel shops and other shops and “platforms” shall include platforms for loading or unloading of freight and express, or for either, or both. And “shelter houses, section headquarters, assembly points” shall include tool houses, car houses or any location used as an assembly point.

L.1966, c. 112, s. 2.