2913. Same-Basement room defined. For the purpose of this act a basement room shall mean any room, the floor of which is below the surface of the surrounding ground on all sides of said room. ('09 c. 52 § 2) 2914. Same Penalty. Any such school director of any public school violating section one [2912] of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor for each and every offence. ('09 c. 52 § 3) 4679. Same Teachers, pupils, etc.-Certificate.-No teachér, pupil or employee about a school building who is afflicted with pulmonary tuberculosis shall remain in or about such building without having a certificate issued by the local board of health or by an agent duly authorized by said board stating that said person is in no sense a source of danger to others. ('13 c. 434 § 4) C. Midwifery. 4982. Midwifery defined. Within the meaning of this subdivision, a person who shall publicly profess to be a midwife, or for a fee shall attend to women in child birth, shall be regarded as practicing midwifery. But nothing herein shall apply to gratuitous emergency services, or to authorized medical practitioners. (2301) 4983. Midwifery licenses.-A person desiring to practice midwifery in the state, if not already authorized so to do, shall apply to the state board of medical examiners for a license. Such license shall be granted upon the production of a diploma from a school of midwifery recognized by the board, or, after examination of the applicant, upon the consent of seven members thereof. Examinations shall be held concurrently with those provided for applicants for physicians' licenses. The fee for a license granted on diploma shall be one dollar, and on examination two dollars. (2302) 4984. Renewal, revocation, and refusal. All licenses to practice midwifery, heretofore or hereafter issued by the board must be annually renewed, and a fee of one dollar be paid for each renewal. Licenses may be revoked or renewals thereof refused by the board for unprofessional or dishonorable conduct, or neglect to make proper returns to health officers of births, deaths, puerperal fever, and other contagious diseases. (2303) CHAPTER VII. Support and Maintenance in Certain Cases. A. Liability of Relatives and Public Authorities for Care of Poor. 3067. Support of poor-Liability of relatives. Every poor person who for any reason is unable to earn a livelihood shall be supported by his children, parents, brothers and sisters, grandchildren, or grandparents; and relatives having sufficient ability shall be called on for such support in the order above named; Provided, that a person who becomes a pauper from intemperance or other bad conduct shall not be entitled to support from any relative except parent or child. Every such relative who refuses or fails to support any poor person whom he is bound by law to support, when directed by the board or council of the county, town, city, or village in which such person has a settlement, shall forfeit and pay to such county, town, city or village, for the use of the poor thereof, fifteen dollars per month, to be recovered in any court having jurisdiction. (1485) 3068. Failure to support-Recovery under town system. --Whenever any relative chargeable with the support of any poor person fails or neglects, after being directed by any town, city, or village under the town system of poor relief, to furnish to such poor person support, maintenance, burial, and in case of non-resident, expenses of removal, any such town, city or village furnishing the same may recover in any court of competent jurisdiction from such relation who is resident of this state, any such sum so furnished by it whether such poor person is a resident of such town, city or village or not. In the event that said poor person shall have no relative chargeable therewith, such town, city or village so expending the same may after like notice recover from any town, city or village within this state, which is charged by law with the support of such poor person, any sum so expended. ('89 c. 170 § 8, amended '05 c. 327 § 1) 3069. Liability of county, town, etc.-When any such poor person has none of the relatives named in § 3067, or they are not of sufficient ability, or refuse or fail, to support him, he shall receive such support or relief as the case may require from the county, town, city, or village in which he has a settlement at the time of applying therefor, as hereinafter provided. (1486) 3085. Minors, how provided for.-When a minor becomes chargeable upon any county, the county board shall secure his admission to the state public school, or provide a home for him with some respectable householder, if one can be found who will take him. (1502) 3096. Powers and duties of supervisors and councils.-Each board and council shall have the following powers and duties: 1. It may appoint a practicing physician to be physician of the poor, who shall hold office during its pleasure, and receive such compensation as it may from time to time determine. When directed by a member of the board or council, such physician shall attend upon and prescribe for any sick poor person entitled to support or relief from the town, city, or village. 2. When application for relief is made by a person who has a settlement in some other county, town, city, or village, its chairman or president shall warn him to depart; and, if he is unable or refuses to do so within a reasonable time, and is likely to become a public charge, such chairman or president may, in writing, require any constable or marshal of the town, city, or village to convey him to the place of his settlement. If such person is so sick or infirm as to render it unsafe or inhuman to remove him, and is in immediate need of support or relief, the board or council shall provide such assistance as it deems necessary, and, if he die, shall give him decent burial. The expense so incurred shall be paid by the town, city, or village, and shall thereupon become a charge against the county. Upon payment thereof, the county may recover the same from the county, town, city, or village of such person's settlement. Within five days after any such person becomes a public charge, the board or council shall notify the county auditor and thereupon the county board may take him in charge, or relieve him in such manner as it may see fit. 3. When any minor becomes chargeable upon any town, city, or village for support, the board or council, or a member thereof shall apply to the county board to secure his admission to the state public school, or secure him a home with some respectable householder, if one can be found who will take him. (1511) B. Support of Dependent Relatives of Soldiers in Certain Cases. 3970. Same-Wife or dependent children. This act shall not be construed in such a manner as to prevent or prohibit the soldiers' home board from making and enforcing a regulation requiring inmates of such soldiers' home to pay to such board of managers for the support of the wife or dependent children of such inmate all or any part of the United States pension received by such inmate in excess of the sum of four dollars per month. ('11 c. 150 § 3) Chapter 429, 3972. Wife or dependent children-Disposal of pensions --Relief. If such applicant or if any inmate of such home have a wife or children dependent upon him for support, the soldiers' home board may in its discretion require that any such applicant or inmate, who receives a United States pension exceeding four dollars per month, shall pay, not to exceed however, one-half thereof, to be determined by such board of managers for the support and maintenance of such wife or dependent children. Such board may in addition grant to such dependents a monthly allowance from the relief fund in such sum as shall be determined by such board. (R. L. § 1847, amended '11 c. 150 § 5) 3973. Widow, deserted wife or minor children-Relief.— In addition to the persons to whom the soldiers' home board is now authorized to extend relief outside of Minnesota soldiers' home from the soldiers' relief fund, the board is hereby authorized to extend relief, outside the home, to the widow, deserted wife or any minor child under fourteen years of age of any honorably discharged ex-soldier, ex-sailor, or ex-marine who served in the army or navy of the United States during the War of the Rebellion, provided any such widow or deserted wife is more than fifty-five (55) years of age and shall have married her soldier husband prior to the year of 1903; provided, further that no such relief shall be granted under the provisions of this act to any person unless he or she shall have been a resident of the state of Minnesota for at least five (5) years next preceding his or her application for such relief. The granting of such relief and the extent and character thereof shall in all cases be in the discretion of the board and subject to such terms as it may prescribe. ('13 c. 186 § 1) C. County Aid for Certain Families Whose An act to provide for the relief, assistance and support of children Laws 1921, of school age required by law to attend school. Section 1. Every Board of Education or School Board of any school district shall investigate or cause to be investigated, by a truant cfficer or other authorized officer, all cases reported to it or coming to its knowledge of any child within its jurisdiction required by law to attend school that it is claimed to be unable to do so by reason of the fact that the services of such child are required for the support of himself or herself, or to assist in the support or care of others legally entitled to his or her services, such person or persons being unable to support or care for themselves, and when such Board of Education, or School Board shall report to the County Auditor of the county in which the school district is situated the facts as ascertained by them and that such relief is necessary, and thereupon the County Board may after investigation, furnish such relief as will enable the child to attend school during the entire school year, such relief to be furnished by such county board from the poor fund of such county, and the Board of Education or School Board of the school district shall furnish for the use of such child the necessary text books free of charge. Sec. 2. The Truant Officer or other authorized officer shall notify the teacher to whom any child receiving aid under the provisions of this act may be assigned, and it shall be the duty of the teacher having charge of such child to report monthly to the Board of Education, or the School Board of the School District through the Superintendent of Schools, the progress such child is making in his or her school work, and the record of attendance, together with such other information as may be deemed necessary. Said Truant Officer or other authorized officer, shall receive the same compensation for the time engaged under the provisions of this act as he receives for similar services performed by him and shall be paid in the same manner. Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval. Approved April 23, 1921. D. Legal Settlement of Poor Persons. An act to amend Section 1488, Revised Laws 1905, the same being Chapter 128, Section 3071, General Statutes 1913, relating to the settlement of poor Laws 1919, persons, so as to provide for the termination of a settlement in this state. Page 127. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota: Section 1. When the settlement shall be declared lost.That section 1488, Revised Laws, 1905, the same being section 3071, General Statutes, 1913, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 3071. Every person, except those hereinafter mentioned, who has resided one year continuously in any county, shall be deemed to have a settlement therein, if it has the county system; if it has the town system, he shall have a settlement in the town, city or village therein in which he has longest resided within such year. Every person who has resided one year continuously in the state, but not in any one county, shall have a settlement in the county in which he has longest resided within such year, if it has the county system; if it has the town system, his settlement shall be in the town, city or village therein in which he has longest resided within such year. The time during which a person has been an |