with the provisions of this section in accordance with such order, and such order shall be enforced as hereinafter provided for the enforcement of all other orders by the commission, other than orders for the payment of money. The com- Switching mission shall have power, and is hereby authorized, to fix and rules. establish reasonable switching rules and regulations, and establish reasonable limits for said switching and reasonable rates therefor, including rules and regulations regarding absorption of switching rates; to industrial (b) Every railroad shall provide a reasonable, adequate Spur tracks and suitable spur track to and to and upon the grounds of plants. any mill, elevator, storehouse, warehouse, dock, wharf, pier, manufacturing establishment, lumber yard, coal dock or other industry or enterprise, wherever such spur track does not necessarily exceed two miles in length and is practically indispensable to the successful operation of any such industry or enterprise, and shall connect such spur track with its main track and operate the same in connection therewith: Pro- Proviso. vided, That such railroad may require the person or persons, firm, corporation or association primarily to be served there by, to pay the legitimate cost and expense of acquiring by condemnation or purchase where necessary the rights of way for such spur track, and of constructing the same, in which case the total estimated cost thereof shall be deposited with the railroad before the railroad shall be required to incur any expense whatever therefor. No railroad shall, however, be required to provide a spur track where it is unusually unsafe and dangerous: Provided, That in the event of the Proviso. failure of said shipper and the said railroad to agree, the necessity for, reasonableness of, and practical safety of such spur track and connection and the operation thereof shall be decided by the said Public Utilities Commission upon complaint and hearing as provided in section twenty-two of this act. Approved May 18, 1921. Section amended. State insurance department established. Proviso. [No. 391.] AN ACT to amend section one of chapter one, part one, of act number two hundred fifty-six of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, entitled "An act to revise, consolidate and classify the laws of the state of Michigan relating to the insurance and surety business; to regulate the incorporation of domestic insurance and surety companies and associations and the admission of foreign companies; and to provide for the departmental supervision and regulation of the insurance and surety business within this state," as amended by act number fifteen of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nineteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section one of chapter one, part one, of act number two hundred fifty-six of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, entitled "An act to revise, consolidate and classify the laws of the state of Michigan relating to the insurance and surety business; to regulate the incorporation of domestic insurance and surety companies and associations and the admission of foreign companies; and to provide for the departmental supervision and regulation of the insurance and surety business within this state," as amended by act number fifteen of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nineteen, is hereby amended to read as follows: There is hereby established a separate and distinct state department which shall be especially charged with the execution of the laws in relation to insurance and surety business and to perform such other duties as may be required by law: Provided, however, That the said department so established shall be deemed and considered as in continuation of and the successor to the insurance bureau established by act number one hundred eight of the Session Laws of eighteen hundred seventy-one, and other acts amending Commissioner and supplementing the same. The chief officer of the said department shall be known as the Commissioner of Insurance. He shall be a citizen of this state, and shall have his office at the seat of government, and shall personally superintend the duties of his office, and shall not be a stockholder or directly or indirectly connected with the management of affairs of any insurance company. He shall be appointed by the Governor by and with the consent of the senate, and shall hold his office until his successor is appointed and qualified. Approved May 18, 1921. of insurance chief officer. [No. 392.] AN ACT to authorize counties to make provisions for the care, custody and maintenance of feeble-minded and epileptic persons, to authorize the levying and collection of taxes, the borrowing of money and issuing bonds for such purpose and to provide for the care of state patients by counties and the reimbursement of such counties for such care. The People of the State of Michigan enact: of feeble SECTION 1. The several counties of the state of Michigan Care, etc.. shall have power and authority, by resolution of the board minded, etc. of supervisors, to provide for the care, custody and maintenance of all feeble-minded and epileptic persons within such counties and for this purpose such counties may raise money Money, how by tax or by loan and issue the bonds of the county to secure provided. the repayment of any such loan in the manner and within the limits provided by law for the erection of buildings and for the purchase of equipment. Such counties may raise by tax, in the manner and within the limits provided by law, such sum or sums as may be needed, from year to year, for the support, maintenance and care of feeble-minded and epileptic persons committed to the care of any institution maintained by such counties under and by authority of law. SEC. 2. The several courts of the state of Michigan having who may jurisdiction over proceedings relating to feeble-minded and commit. epileptic persons, may commit such feeble-minded and epileptic persons as are by law authorized to be committed to institutions supported by the state of Michigan to the institutions maintained within the counties where such feebleminded and epileptic persons may be domiciled and the state Reimburseof Michigan shall reimburse the counties so maintaining such county. institutions for the care of such patients to an amount equal to the cost of maintaining patients in the institutions maintained and supported by the state. ment to care of counties. SEC. 3. Counties maintaining institutions for the care of Contracts for feeble-minded and epileptic persons as herein provided may patients from make contracts with the state for the care of feeble-minded other and epileptic persons committed to such institutions from other counties and when patients, from other counties, are so committed to institutions, maintained by the several counties of the state under the provisions of law, the state shall pay to such counties the entire cost of the care, custody and maintenance of such patients. SEC. 4. In counties having a population of less than one Resolutions, hundred thousand inhabitants, the resolution or resolutions approval of. of the board of supervisors passed under and by authority of the powers herein granted to counties shall not become effective until approved by the electors of such counties, and This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Section amended. Annual in spection of certain state institutions. [No. 393.] AN ACT to amend section three of act number one hundred ninety-two of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred seventyone, entitled "An act to provide for the appointment of a board of commissioners for the general supervision of penal, pauper, and reformatory institutions and defining their duties and powers," being section one thousand nine hundred eighty-two of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section three of act number one hundred ninetytwo of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred seventy-one, entitled "An act to provide for the appointment of a board of commissioners for the general supervision of penal, pauper, and reformatory institutions and defining their duties and powers," being section one thousand nine hundred eighty-two of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 3. The said commissioners by one of their number, or by their secretary, or any of their employes, shall, at least once in each year, visit and examine into the condition of each and every county infirmary, county jail, and place of detention for juveniles, and shall have authority to inspect each and every city and village jail, police station or lock-up, and private incorporated institution for the care and maintenance of the aged or defective. The said board, or a majority thereof, with their secretary, shall, at least once in each year, visit and examine every state penal, reformatory, charitable and eleemosynary institution, and the Detroit House of Correction, and the Wayne county asylum, for the purpose of ascertaining the actual conditions of the institutions by them visited, the method of instruction, government, or management therein pursued, the official conduct of the superintendents or other officers and employes in charge thereof, or connected therewith, the condition of the buildings, tions. grounds or other property thereunto belonging, and the facts as to all other matters in any manner pertaining to the usefulness and proper management of the said institutions. The To have free commissioners, their secretary and their employes, shall access. have free access to all institutions or places herein named at any and all times, and shall have authority to administer oaths and examine any person or persons in any way connected with or having knowledge of the conditions, management and discipline of such institutions or places, as to any matters or inquiries not contrary to the purposes or provisions of this act. Whenever, in the opinion of said board, any county jail, county infirmary, detention place for juveniles, city or village jail, police station or lock-up, or any private incorporated institution for the care and maintenance of the aged or defective, or any part, division, or de- Insanitary, partment thereof becomes insanitary or is dangerous to the etc., condilife or the health of the inmates thereof, or is so constructed as not to hold them securely, or as not to permit of proper classification or separation of inmates, or is inadequate, it Notice. shall be their duty to notify the proper authorities in the premises, by filing a written notice with the county clerk in the case of a county jail, county infirmary or detention place for juveniles, with the city clerk in the case of a city jail or police station, with the village clerk in the case of a village jail or lock-up, and with any officer of a private incorporated institution for the care and maintenance of the aged or defective. Such notice shall state the findings of said board What to and its opinion as to whether the conditions stated can be state. remedied by renovation or repair, or whether a new building or department should be provided, and shall also fix a time not less than sixty days, nor more than one year from the date of filing thereof within which the conditions set forth in said notice must be remedied. If within the time fixed Condemnain said notice, said building, division or department, is not properly repaired or renovated, or new and suitable quarters provided for the inmates thereof, said board shall condemn such county jail, county infirmary, detention place for juveniles, city or village jail, police station or lock-up, or any private incorporated institution for the care and maintenance of the aged or defective, or part, division, or department thereof, by filing a written order with the county clerk in the case of a county jail, county infirmary, or detention place for juveniles, with the city clerk in case of a city jail or police station, with the village clerk in the case of a village jail or lock-up, and with any officer of a private incorporated institution for the care and maintenance of the aged or defective. It where filed. shall be the duty of the county, city or village clerk with whom such order of condemnation is filed, to file forthwith a copy of such order with the sheriff or acting sheriff in the case of a county jail; with the keeper in the case of a county infirmary; and with the chief of police in the case of a city tion. |