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To display light.

Penalty.

[No. 126.]

AN ACT to regulate the use of the public streets and highways of the state by certain vehicles, to require such vehicles to display lights during the period from one hour after sunset to one hour before sunrise, and to provide a penalty for the violation thereof.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. It is hereby declared to be unlawful for any person to drive, or to cause or permit to be driven, upon any incorporated village or city street or a trunk line highway of this state, any vehicle, including wagons, buggies and carriages, drawn by horses or other draft animals, during the period, or any part or portion thereof, from one hour after sunset to one hour before sunrise unless there shall be displayed in a conspicuous place on the left side of such vehicle. a light of such an arrangement and character that the same may be plainly seen either from the front or rear at a distance of not less than three hundred feet.

Any person violating the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be liable to a fine of not more than five dollars. Approved May 6, 1921.

[No. 127.]

AN ACT to amend sections two, five, six, eleven, fourteen, sixteen and nineteen of act number three hundred eightyseven of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred thirteen, entitled "An act to regulate the occupation of barbering, to create a board of examiners of barbers for the examination and licensing of persons to carry on such practice, to insure the better education of such practitioners, to authorize rules regulating the proper sanitation of barber shops, barber schools and colleges, to prevent the spreading of communicable diseases, to provide and fix penalties for violations of the provisions of this act, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith," being sections six thousand eight hundred twenty-nine, six thousand eight hundred thirty-two, six thousand eight hundred thirty-three, six thousand eight hundred thirty-eight, six thousand eight hundred forty-one, six thousand eight hundred forty-three and six thousand eight hundred forty-six of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, as amended.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

amenced.

SECTION 1. Sections two, five, six, eleven, fourteen, sixteen Sections and nineteen of act number three hundred eighty-seven of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred thirteen, entitled "An act to regulate the occupation of barbering, to create a board of examiners of barbers for the examination and licensing of persons to carry on such practice, to insure the better education of such practitioners, to authorize rules regulating the proper sanitation of barber shops, barber schools and colleges, to prevent the spreading of communicable diseases, to provide and fix penalties for violations of the provisions of this act, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith," being compilers' sections six thousand eight hundred twentynine, six thousand eight hundred thirty-two, six thousand eight hundred thirty-three, six thousand eight hundred thirtyeight, six thousand eight hundred forty-one, six thousand eight hundred forty-three and six thousand eight hundred forty-six of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, as last amended by act number one hundred seventy-eight of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, are hereby amended to read as follows:

pointment,

SEC. 2. A board of examiners of barbers, to consist of Board of exthree persons, is hereby created to carry out the purposes and miners, apenforce the provisions of this act. Said members of this board etc. shall be appointed by the Governor on the first day of September of each year, and said term of office shall commence on the following first day of October, the appointees to be chosen from practical barbers, at least one of whom shall

Term of office.

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Further proviso.

Secretary to keep record.

President, etc., salary.

How paid.

Proviso, not to exceed fees.

Permit to practice.

To be displayed.

Proviso.

be a journeyman, who have for the last five years prior to their appointment followed the occupation and have been residents of the state of Michigan for a period of five years. Each member of said board of examiners of barbers last appointed shall serve a term of three years and until his successor is appointed and qualifies: Provided, That members of the board of examiners of barbers last appointed under act number two hundred twelve of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-nine, shall be continued in office and constitute the board created in this act, until their successors are appointed, and qualify, and shall serve out the balance of the terms for which each was originally appointed, unless sooner removed by the Governor: Provided further, That said board shall immediately meet and reorganize when this act shall take effect in accordance with the provisions of this'

act.

SEC. 5. A true record shall be kept by the secretary of said board showing to whom the certificates of the board have been issued, and said board shall on the first and fifteenth of each month make and file with the Treasurer of the state of Michigan a list of all persons so certified. The treasurer of said board shall at the same time render an account of all receipts of said board, and pay over to the Treasurer of the state of Michigan for the benefit of the general fund of the state all sums of money received by him as treasurer of said board.

SEC. 6. The president and secretary of said board shall devote their undivided time to the duties of their office. The president and secretary shall each receive an annual salary of two thousand dollars, and the treasurer shall receive an annual salary of one thousand dollars. The salaries and actual expenses of members of said board and deputies appointed shall be paid out of the funds of the state not otherwise appropriated, under the laws of the state of Michigan relating to the payment of salaries and expenses of officers and employes of the state: Provided, That in no event shall the salaries and all the expenses of said board exceed the fees received under this act.

SEC. 11. All persons making application for examination under the provisions of this act shall be allowed to practice the occupation of a barber under a licensed barber until the next meeting of the said board, and said board shall issue a permit authorizing him or her to so practice said occupation until the next meeting of said board. Such permit shall be displayed in a conspicuous place in front of his or her working chair. No further permit shall be issued to such a person if upon examination he fails to qualify, but he shall be granted an apprentice certificate as in other cases, without additional fee: Provided, however, That no person to whom a permit is issued under the provisions of this section shall be authorized to open or operate as proprietor or manager

any barber shop within this state, except he or she works under a barber holding a state license.

SEC. 14. Said board shall furnish to each person to whom Certificate. a certificate of registration is issued, a card bearing the seal and signature of the board, certifying that the holder thereof has paid the fees provided for and is entitled to practice the occupation of a barber in this state, and it shall be the duty Posting of. of the holder of such a card to post the same in a conspicuous place in front of his or her working chair, where it may be readily seen by all persons whom he or she may serve. Said cards and renewals thereof shall entitle the holder thereof to practice for one year after issuance, but shall be renewed Renewal. on or before the first day of October of each year, and the holder of said certificate of registration and card shall pay in advance to the secretary of said board the sum of one dollar for each renewal card. All certificates shall be dated as of the date of issuance, and it shall state the date of expiration. Upon the failure of any holder of a certificate of regis- When tration to apply for a renewal of his or her card on or before the first day of October in each year, his or her certificate shall be revoked by said board, unless it is made to appear by affidavit to said board that such failure was due to unavoidable causes.

revoked.

adopt rules,

amine shop,

SEC. 16. Said board shall have power to adopt rules and Board may regulations prescribing the sanitary requirements of barber etc. shop, barber school or college, subject to the approval of the State Board of Health. All barber shops must have hot and cold running water and sewerage connections, where such connections can be made. No gravity tanks or containers shall be allowed where connections can be made with water works system. Any member of said board, or duly authorized May exdeputy, shall have power to enter and make reasonable ex- etc. amination of any barber shop, barber school or barber college in this state during business hours for the purpose of ascertaining the sanitary conditions thereof. Any barber shop, barber school or barber college in which tools, appliances and furnishings in use therein are kept in an insanitary condition, so as to endanger health, is hereby declared to be a public nuisance, and the proprietor thereof, or person operating such barber shop, barber school or barber college, shall be subject to prosecution and punishment therefor. If any such barber shop, barber school or barber college, on such inspection, is found to be neglecting or refusing to comply with the rules and regulations as provided for in this section, said inspector shall serve notice on the proprietor of the same, stating wherein said rules are not being complied with, and order said rules and regulations to be complied with within twenty-four hours. Failure to comply with said order shall subject the offender to the penalty as prescribed in section nineteen of this act, in addition to being liable to having his certificate revoked as hereinbefore provided.

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SEC. 19. Any person practicing the occupation of a bardeemed, ber, or barber's apprentice or student, in this state, without having obtained a certificate of registration, or permit, as provided by this act, or employing a barber or apprentice who has not such a certificate or permit, or falsely pretending to be licensed to practice said occupation under this act, or who fails to display his or her card or insignia or permit as provided by this act, or who shall violate any of the sanitary rules adopted by said board, or any other provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than ten days and more than ninety days, or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.

Penalty.

Approved May 6, 1921.

Act repealed.

Transfer of unexpended balance.

State treasurer

[No. 128.]

AN ACT to repeal act number one hundred forty-seven of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nineteen, entitled "An act to create a community council commission, county community boards and community councils, and to define the powers and duties thereof; to provide for the appointment, election and removal of members thereof; and to make an appropriation for the purposes of this act ;" and to provide for the disposition of the Michigan patriotic fund.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Act number one hundred forty-seven of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nineteen, entitled "An act to create a community council commission, county community boards and community councils, and to define the powers and duties thereof; to provide for the appointment, election and removal of members thereof; and to make an appropriation for the purposes of this act," is hereby repealed.

SEC. 2. The unexpended balance of the appropriation made in the act which is repealed by this act is hereby transferred to the emergency fund of the state and re-appropriated for any purpose for which such emergency fund may be used.

SEC. 3. The State Treasurer is hereby designated to be to be trustee. the trustee of the Michigan patriotic fund, so-called, the same being a fund raised within this state during the late war with Germany and Austria, by popular subscription for charitable and patriotic purposes, and of which there remains a large sum unexpended. It shall be the duty of the State Treasurer to have and keep the custody of all of the moneys, securities,

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