Conduct of school.

SEC. 8. The board of trustees shall cause said school to be conducted as may seem best calculated to carry out the intentions of this act. There shall be organized a course of study corresponding as far as practicable with the course of study in the public schools of the state. There shall also be provided in said school the proper facilities and equipment for vocational training such as domestic science, dressmaking, horticulture, agriculture and such business instruction as may be practicable for women, and such instruction and training given to each and every inmate committed to said school to the end that every innate may, upon discharge, be qualified for honorable and profitable employment.

Superintendent to reside at school.

SEC. 9. The superintendent shall reside at the school and shall be furnished suitable quarters, furniture, food supplies, and laundry for herself and family. The board may make similar provision for such other officers and employees as the interests of the school may require to reside on the premises.

Commitments.

SEC. 10. The said school shall receive into its custody all girls who may be committed to it in accordance with law.

Merit system. Parole.

SEC. 11. There shall be established in said school a system of marking based upon merit or attainments and general conduct, by which any girl committed hereto may work out her way to parole and honorable discharge. When; in the opinion of the superintendent, a girl, according to the regulations, has earned the right to a parole, a reputable home or place of employment shall be provided for her, where she may be employed and earn an honorable living, and said superintendent shall then recommend her to the board for parole, which shall grant it if deemed for her welfare, under such conditions as the board may deem best. This parole shall continue until she has proved her ability for honorable self-support, whereupon she shall be discharged. Any girl, who, while on parole, violates the conditions thereof, may be returned to the school.

Girls incapable of reformation.

SEC. 12. Any girl committed to said school who, after due trial, is, in the opinion of the superintendent, incapable of reformation, or so morally deficient as to render her detention detrimental to the interests of said school, or who has misrepresented her age to the court which committed her, or has been previously convicted of a felony may be returned to the committing court, and said court may thereupon revoke the previous judgment committing her to said institution and resume proceedings where the same were suspended when such commitment was made.

Aiding inmate to escape.

SEC. 13. Any person who knowingly permits or aids any inmate to escape from said school, or conceals her with the intent of enabling her to elude pursuit, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Any fugitive from said school, or from the parties with whom she has been placed on parole, may be arrested and returned to said school by any person, upon written order of said superintendent.

Commission on location. Appropriation.

SEC. 14. A commission consisting of the state engineer and four members to be appointed by the governor, is hereby created, and it shall, as soon as practicable, with the approval of the board of control, establish a location for said school, purchase a site therefor to consist of not less than one hundred acres of good agricultural land, and the state department of engineering shall, in conformity to law, erect, construct and equip the necessary buildings therefor. For the purposes of paying the expenses of the provisions incurred by this act there is hereby appropriated out of the state treasury the sum of two hundred thousand dollars, one half of which shall be available immediately after this act becomes effective, and one half available January 1st, 1914.

Trustees to have control of girls' department at Whittier.

SEC. 15. Immediately after this act becomes effective, or as soon thereafter as a majority of the persons appointed as trustees shall have qualified and organized the said board, it shall take possession of and assume the control and management of the girls' department of the Whittier State School, and the board of trustees of the Whittier State School shall turn over to the board of trustees of the California school for girls hereby created, the custody and management of said girls' department, including the buildings now occupied by, and all property, records and papers now used by or belonging to said girls' department, or any of its inmates. When the said school for girls is located and the buildings constructed ready for occupancy, the board of trustees of said school for girls shall remove all girls from the said girls' department of the Whittier State School, whereupon all buildings and property, except such personal property as has been purchased for the express use of the girls, shall revert to the Whittier State School.

Controller's warrant.

SEC. 16. The controller of the state is hereby directed on requisition of said board, duly audited by the state board of control, to draw his warrant on the state treasurer in favor of said board for any moneys duly appropriated to pay for the necessary expenditures in the establishment and maintenance of said school, and the said treasurer is directed to pay the same from the appropriations provided therefor.

Construction of act. Pay to inmates authorized.

SEC. 17. This act shall be construed in conformity with the intent as well as the express provisions thereof, and shall confer upon the board authority to do all those lawful acts which it deems necessary to promote the prosperity of the school and the well being and education of its inmates, including the organization of trade schools, purchase of materials for use therein, the doing of all other things, not prohibited, which are required to carry out the purposes of this act. The board is further authorized to pay those committed to said school small weekly or monthly sums in lieu of clothing and other necessary articles, if in its judgment, such a course would better promote discipline and training. Nothing herein contained however, shall permit said board to incur any indebtedness in excess of the appropriations allowed by law for the establishment of said school.

Girls' department at Whittier superseded.

SEC. 18. It is the purpose of this act that the school hereby established shall supersede and supplant the girls' department of the Whittier State School and that all commitments of girls authorized by law shall be made to the California school for girls, but girls so committed shall be kept under the control of the said California school for girls at the present girls' department of the Whittier State School until the school provided for by this act is ready for the reception of girls.

TRADES AND TRAINING SCHOOL FOR ORPHANS. [Repeal of act of 1909, approved June 14, 1913. Statutes 1913, p. 947.] SECTION 1. An act entitled "An act to authorize the establishment of the California state trades and training school for dependent orphans, half orphans, abandoned children and children committed by court and placed under guardianship of the board of trustees, the appointment of a board of trustees, the purchase of a site, the preparation of plans and specifications for grounds and buildings, and to make the necessary appropriation therefor," approved April 14, 1909, is hereby repealed.

PAROLE HEADQUARTERS FOR STATE SCHOOLS.

[Act approved June 16, 1913. Statutes 1913, p. 1034.]

SECTION 1. The board of trustees or other administrative body of any state reformatory or state school is hereby empowered and authorized to establish and maintain parole headquarters out of funds made available for their use and to pay rental and such incidental expenses as may be incurred in maintaining such headquarters and to advance money to any boy or girl who may now or hereafter be on furlough, parole or discharge from any such reformatory or state school, and to assist them in obtaining employment and in becoming established as useful and law-abiding members of society.

JUVENILE COURT LAW.

[Amendment to act of 1909, approved June 16, 1913. Statutes 1913, p. 1285.]

Short title.

SECTION 1. This act shall be known as the "juvenile court law" and shall apply only to persons under the age of twenty-one years and not now or hereafter inmates of a state institution.

"Neglected person" defined.

SEC. 2. Within the meaning of this act the words "neglected person" shall include any person:

(1) Whose home by reason of neglect, cruelty or depravity of his parents or either of them, or on the part of his guardian, or on the part of the person in whose care or custody he may be, is an unfit place for such person; or

(2) Whose father is dead or has abandoned his family or is an habitual drunkard, and it appears that such person is destitute of a suitable home, or of adequate means of obtaining an honest living, and is in danger of being brought up to lead an idle and dissolute, or immoral life; or

(3) Who has not the proper care and discipline essential to the welfare of such person, and who is without parent or guardian able or willing to give such care and enforce such discipline; or

(4) Who, being under the age of sixteen years, is found wandering and not having any home or settled place of abode, or any visible means of subsistence; or

(5) Who, being under the age of fifteen years, is in a condition of extreme want, and is without parent or other person able and willing to maintain such person; or

(6) Who, being under the age of fifteen years, is found begging, or receiving or gathering alms in any street, road or public place, or who is there for the purpose of so doing, whether actually begging or doing so under pretext of peddling, or selling any article or articles, or singing or playing any musical instrument, or giving any public entertainment in such street, road or public place, or who accompanies or is used in aid of any person so doing.

Who not regarded as "neglected person."

SEC. 2a. It is hereby provided that no person shall be dealt with under this act as a neglected person who properly can be dealt with under any other law of the State of California now or hereafter in force providing for the placing, care and custody of neglected persons.

"Dependent person" defined.

SEC. 3. Within the meaning of this act the words "dependent person" shall include any person:

(1) Who has no parent or guardian willing to exercise, or capable of exercising proper paternal control, and for the want of such proper paternal control such person is wayward and addicted to vicious habits, and

is in danger of being brought up to lead an idle and dissolute, or immoral life; or

(2) Who knowingly associates with thieves or other vicious or immoral persons; or

(3) Who is found living or being in any house of prostitution or assignation, knowing at the time that such house is a house of prostitution or assignation; or

(4) Who habitually visits, without parent or guardian, any billiard room or pool room, or any saloon, or place where any spirituous, vinous or malt liquors are sold, bartered or given away; or

(5) Who is incorrigible, that is, who is beyond the control and power of his parents, guardian or custodian by reason of the vicious conduct or nature of said person; or

(6) Who is an habitual truant within the meaning of an act entitled "An act to enforce the educational rights of children and providing penalties for the violation of said act," approved March 24, 1903, and any act or acts amending or superseding the same, and who is not placed in a parental school under the provision of said act, or who being over the age of fifteen years refuses to attend public or private school as directed by his parents, guardian or custodian; or

(7) Who habitually uses intoxicating liquor as a beverage; or, who habitually smokes cigarettes; or, who habitually uses opium, cocaine, morphine or other similar drug, without the direction of a competent physician; or

(8) Who from any cause of personal depravity is in danger of growing up to lead an idle and dissolute, or immoral life.

"Delinquent person" defined.

SEC. 4. Within the meaning of this act the word "delinquent person" shall include any person who violates any law of this state, or any ordinance of any town, city, county or city and county of this state, defining crime, and which involves moral turpitude.

Jurisdiction in superior court. Judge to
Juvenile court record.

serve three years only.

SEC. 5. The superior court in every county of this state shall exercise the jurisdiction conferred by this act, and, while sitting in the exercise of its jurisdiction, shall be known and referred to as the "juvenile court," and is hereinafter so referred to. In counties having more than one judge of the superior court, the judges of such court shall annually designate one or more of their number whose duty it shall be to hear all cases coming under this act; provided, that no judge shall be designated to serve in such capacity for less than one year; and that no judge shall be designated to serve in such capacity who has already or shall hereafter have served for three consecutive years, until an interval of one year has elapsed; provided, however, that nothing in this section contained shall be construed in conflict with that portion of article VI, section 6, of the Constitution of the State of California, applying to the city and county of San Francisco. The orders and findings, if any, of the superior court, in all cases