of offense or danger. Any person failing or refusing to comply with orders or regulations of the local health officer of any township, city or village, requiring him to cease to commit such nuisance, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be fined not less than one nor more than ten dollars. SEC. 9. Protection of patient's family.-It shall be the duty of a physician attending a patient having tuberculosis to take all proper precautions and to give proper instructions to provide for the safety of all individuals occupying the same house or apartment, and if no physician be attending such patient this duty shall devolve upon the local health officer, and all duties imposed upon physicians by any section of this act shall be performed by the local health officer in all cases of tuberculosis not attended by a physician. SEC. 10. It shall be the duty of every local health officer to transmit to every physician reporting any case of tuberculosis, or to the person reported as suffering from this disease, provided the latter has no attending physician, a circular of information provided by the State Board of Health. This circular of information shall inform the consumptive of the precautions necessary to avoid transmitting the disease to others. SEC. 11. Penalty for failure of physician to perform duties or for making false reports.-Any physician or person practicing as a physician who shall fail to report any case of tuberculosis or who shall knowingly report as affected with tuberculosis any person who is not so affected, or who shall wilfully make any false statement concerning the name, nativity, age, sex, color, occupation, place where last employed if known, or address of any person reported as affected with tuberculosis, or who shall certify falsely as to any of the precautions taken to prevent the spread of infection, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be subject to a fine of not more than one hundred dollars. SEC. 12. Reporting recovery of patient.-Upon the recovery of any person having tuberculosis, it shall be the duty of the attending physician to make a report of this fact to the local health officer, who shall record the same in the records of his office, and shall relieve said person from further liability to any requirements imposed by this act. SEC. 13. General penalty.-Any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished, except as herein otherwise provided, by a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than fifty dollars. SEC. 14. Repealing all acts, et cetera.-All acts and parts of acts contrary to or inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. Approved March 31, 1909. [No. 28.] AN ACT in relation to the supervision and control by the State Board of Health over water works systems, and providing penalties for the violation of this act. The People of the State of Michigan enact: health to have supply. SECTION 1. The State Board of Health and its authorized State board of agents and representatives are each hereby given supervis- certain power ory and visitorial power and control over all corporations over water other than municipal, partnerships and individuals engaged in furnishing water to the public for household or drinking purposes and over the plants and systems owned or operated by such companies or individuals. inspect. SEC. 2. The State Board of Health, its agents and repre- Authority to sentatives referred to in the preceding section, shall have the enter upon and power and authority to enter upon, at all reasonable times, the pumping plants, filtering plants, reservoirs, standpipes, cribs and other property of said companies or individuals, for the purpose of inspecting the same and carrying out the authority vested in them by this act. regulations. SEC. 3. The State Board of Health shall have authority May enforce to make and enforce such rules and regulations as it may rules and deem necessary, governing and providing a method of conducting and operating the entire or any part of the system of water works, including the filtration plants owned or operated by said corporations other than municipal, partnerships or individuals, and may provide penalties for the non-compliance with such rules and regulations, and said board shall, in addition to the other powers hereby vested in it, whenever it shall deem it necessary for the protection of health, have authority to direct a corporation, partner- May direct ship or individual operating water works systems to cleanse cleansing. any portion of such system as it may deem necessary, and to operate the same in such a manner as to furnish pure and wholesome water, and to enforce such directions by rule or regulations. SEC. 4. Whenever the mayor of a city, president of a vil- When duty to lage, supervisor of a township, health officer or representa- investigate. tive of the State Board of Health has reason to believe that the water furnished by any corporation other than municipal, partnership or individual is contaminated, then it shall be the duty of the State Board of Health to investigate the same and to determine by laboratory analysis the condition of said water, and the certificate of the State Bacteriologist Certificate of showing result of such analysis shall be prima facie evidence analysis. of the matters stated in such certificate and also as to the source of the water and the time and place of taking, and of all matters that may be stated in said certificate. Expense of investigation. SEC. 5. The expense of the investigation and analysis made by the State Board of Health, whenever called upon by a jurisdiction wherein a corporation other than municipal, partnership or individual is operating a public water plant shall be borne by the locality, and shall be paid for at the rate of five dollars per day and necessary traveling expenses while making said investigation and analysis, and shall constitute a charge against the city, village or township asking When credited for such investigation; the said amount of five dollars to be to laboratory covered into the State treasury to the credit of the State Board of Health laboratory fund in addition to the amount already appropriated. fund. Plans and where filed. SEC. 6. It shall be the duty of all companies, except as specifications, herein provided, partnerships or individuals now or hereafter operating water works systems in this State to file with the clerk of the city, village or township where such system is operated or located and also with the State Board of Health a true copy of the plans and specifications of the entire system owned or operated by such corporation other than municipal, partnership or individual including such filtration or other purifying plant as may be operated by them, and also plans and specifications of all alterations, additions or improvements to said system which may be made by such corporation other than municipal, partnership What to show. or individual from time to time. The plans and specifications herein referred to shall, in addition to all other things, show all the sources through or from which water is or may be at any time pumped or otherwise permitted or caused to enter into such system. Such plans and specifications shall be certified by some proper officer of said company or by some individual member of any unincorporated company, who is acquainted with the facts. If within sixty days after this act shall take effect or within sixty days after any corporation other than municipal, partnership or individual shall commence to operate or within sixty days after any alterations, additions or improvements shall be made by such corporation other than municipal, partnership or individual, any corporation other than municipal, partnership or individual, subject to the provisions of this act shall fail to file a copy of the plans and specifications as provided in the preceding section or shall file false or incomplete copies of such plans and specifications, such corporation other than municipal, partnership or individual shall be subject to a penalty of twenty-five dollars for each and every day it shall fail or neglect to file such plans and specifications, which penalty may be collected in any court of competent jurisdiction by the said city, village or township in which such plans and specifications should be filed and such penalty shall be in addition to all other penalties in this act. False or incomplete plans, etc. Per diem penalty. Certain words construed. SEC. 7. The words "plans and specifications," as used in this act shall be construed to mean a true representation of the entire system operated by such corporation, partnership or individual as the same shall be actually in use at the time of filing the same, and also a full and fair statement of how the same is operated. certain to SEC. 8. In case of corporations other than municipal, Filtration partnerships or individuals operating filtration plants in plants, which there are beds or other appliances to be cleansed, it report. shall be the duty of such companies to file with the State Board of Health, clerk of the city, village or township in which the system is operated an annual report under oath, on or before the first day of January of each year, showing the dates on which and the number of times such beds or appliances were cleansed during the preceding year. Such report shall be sworn to by any person acquainted with the facts and employed by the company at the time of making said report. Any person making a false statement under the False provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of and sub- deemed ject to the penalty of perjury. Any corporation, partner- perjury. ship or individual whose duty it shall be to file the report as herein provided shall be subject to a fine of fifty dollars Fine and for each and every violation thereof, and in addition thereto penalty. a penalty of fifty dollars to be recovered in any court of competent jurisdiction by the city, village or township in which such system is operated. statement SEC. 9. Any corporation other than municipal, partner- Violation of ship, company or individual who shall violate any provision act. of this act where no other penalty is provided herein, or who shall violate or fail to or neglect to perform or comply with any rule or regulation made or adopted by any board or officer under the provisions of this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished therefor as provided by law. Approved April 12, 1909. Sections repealed and amended. Triplicate reports, when township clerk to make, etc. [No. 29.] AN ACT to repeal sections one, two, three, four, five, six and eight and to amend sections seven, nine, ten and eleven of chapter four of act one hundred sixty-four of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-one, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the laws relating to public instruction and primary schools, and to repeal all statutes and acts contravening the provisions of this act," being sections four thousand six hundred ninety-two, four thousand six hundred ninety-three, four thousand six hundred ninety-four, four thousand six hundred ninety-five, four thousand six hundred ninety-six, four thousand six hundred ninety-seven, four thousand six hundred ninetynine and sections four thousand six hundred ninetyeight, four thousand seven hundred, four thousand seven hundred one and four thousand seven hundred two of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Sections one, two, three, four, five, six and eight of chapter four of act one hundred sixty-four of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-one, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the laws relating to public instruction and primary schools, and to repeal all statutes and acts contravening the provisions of this act," being sections four thousand six hundred ninety-two, four thousand six hundred ninety-three, four thousand six hundred ninety-four, four thousand six hundred ninety-five, four thousand six hundred ninety-six, four thousand six hundred ninety-seven and four thousand six hundred ninety-nine of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven are hereby repealed, and sections seven, nine, ten and eleven of said act, being sections four thousand six hundred ninety-eight, four thousand seven hundred, four thousand seven hundred one and four thousand seven hundred two of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, are hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 7. The township clerk shall receive the annual reports of the school directors of his township, and on the first Monday of August in each year he shall make triplicate reports setting forth the whole number of school districts in his township, if any, the amount of money raised and received for school libraries and such other items as shall from year to year be required by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, together with the several particulars set forth in the reports of the several school directors for the preceding year, and within ten days thereafter he shall forward two copies of the same, together with two copies of each of the reports |