[No. 2.] AN ACT to amend act two hundred sixty-six of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred thirteen, entitled "An act to amend act number two hundred eighty-three of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled 'An act to revise, consolidate and add to the laws relating to the establishment, opening, improvement, maintenance and use of the public highways and private roads, the condemnation of property and gravel therefor; the building, repairing and preservation of bridges, setting and protecting shade trees, drainage, cutting weeds and brush within this State, and providing for the election and defining the powers, duties and compensation of State, county, township and district highway officials,' approved June two, nineteen hundred nine, by adding thereto a new chapter to be known as chapter twenty-five, providing for the repair and improvement of highways by means of assessment of statute labor, for the election of overseers of highways, prescribing the qualifications and duties thereof, providing for carrying the same into effect, and prescribing the conditions under which the same shall supersede all provisions inconsistent therewith; and enabling townships to adopt or repeal the provisions hereof upon a referendum vote of a majority of the qualified voters voting thereon ; providing for assessments for highway purposes, for the performance of labor on highways and the commutation therefor, and to prescribe penalties, forfeitures and general duties of overseers," approved June eight, nineteen hundred thirteen, by amending sections twenty, twentytwo, thirty and thirty-nine of said chapter twenty-five, being said sections of said act number two hundred sixtysix. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Act number two hundred sixty-six of the Pub- Act amended. lic Acts of nineteen hundred thirteen, entitled "An act to amend act number two hundred eighty-three of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled 'An act to revise, consolidate and add to the laws relating to the establishment, opening, improvement, maintenance and use of the public highways and private roads, the condemnation of property and gravel therefor; the building, repairing and preservation of bridges, setting and protecting shade trees, drainage, cutting weeds and brush within this State, and providing for the election and defining the powers, duties and compensation of State, county, township and district highway officials,' approved June two, nineteen hundred nine, by adding thereto a new chapter to be known as chapter twenty-five, providing for the repair and improvement of highways by Sections amended. means of assessment of statute labor, for the election of over- Per diem penalties. Set off against assessment. Petition for improvement. Grade. Proviso. Time of ompletion. CHAPTER XXV. SEC. 20. Every person assessed to work on the highways who has been duly notified, who shall not commute, and who shall refuse or neglect without good cause, to appear in obedience to such notice, shall, for every day's refusal, pay the sum of one dollar and fifty cents; and if such person was lawfully required to furnish a team, man or implements, and shall refuse or neglect without good cause to comply, he shall pay as follows: First, For wholly refusing to comply with such requisition, three dollars fifty cents for each day; Second, For omitting to furnish a cart, wagon, plow or scraper, one dollar twenty-five cents for each day; Third, For omitting to furnish a yoke of oxen or span of horses, one dollar fifty cents for each day; Fourth, For omitting to furnish a man to manage the same, one dollar fifty cents for each day. SEC. 22. Every sum of money collected for a refusal or neglect to appear and work on the highways shall be set off against the assessment upon which it was founded, estimating every one dollar fifty cents collected, exclusive of the costs of the proceedings, as a satisfaction for one day's work. SEC. 30. The commissioner of highways of any township, upon the written petition of not less than three persons, taxpayers in the township, and liable for road tax on the road proposed to be improved, may authorize the improvement of all or any portion of road described in said petition, said road to be situate within the township. The commissioner of highways of the township in which such road is situated shall furnish a grade for such road and direct the manner in which such road shall be graded: Provided, That it shall not be graded less than sixteen feet wide, nor graveled more than twelve feet wide. He shall also designate the time in which said road shall be completed. Upon the satisfactory for work. completion of said road, the commissioner of highways shall make an estimate of the work done by each party working on said road, as provided under the general road law, and shall issue certificates therefor, stating the number of days Certificates of work done, stating when authority was granted to improve such road, and when the same was completed in his township, and accepted by him. In case of dispute between Disputes. the commissioner of highways and any person interested in such improvement as to the manner of making the same or the value of the work, the matter in dispute shall be submitted to the supervisor of the township, and his decision shall be final. collection SEC. 39. The commissioner shall, between the first and Returns, fifteenth days of November in each year, call upon each over- and deposit. seer of his township for the purpose of procuring the returns mentioned in section forty-five of this chapter, and shall on or before the twentieth day of November, deposit the returns mentioned in the sixth subdivision of said section with the supervisor of his township, whose duty it shall be to cause the amount of all arrearages of labor, estimating Arrearages the same at one dollar fifty cents for each day to be levied on any lands or other taxable property owned by the persons in arrears, collected in the same manner that the contingent charges of the township are collected, and the same when collected shall be paid into the township treasury, and credited to the district in which the same accrued. Approved March 9, 1915. of labor. [No. 3.] AN ACT to amend section seventeen of act number two hundred eighty-five of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act to provide for the creation of a Department of Labor, to prescribe its powers and duties, to regulate the employment of labor; to make an appropriation for the maintenance of such department, and to prescribe penalties for the violation of this act," approved June two, nineteen hundred nine. The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. Section seventeen of act number two hundred Section eighty-five of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act to provide for the creation of a Department of Labor; to prescribe its powers and duties, to regulate the employment of labor; to make an appropriation for the maintenance of such department and to prescribe penalties for the violation of this act," approved June second, nineteen hundred nine, is hereby amended to read as follows: Wash and dressing rooms. Closets Distinction of sexes. Heat and ventilation. SEC. 17. Every manufacturing establishment, workship, hotel or store in which five or more persons are employed, and every institution in which two or more children, young persons or women are employed, shall be supplied with proper wash and dressing rooms, and kept in a cleanly state and free from effluvia arising from any drain, privy or other nuisance, and shall be provided, within reasonable access, with a sufficient number of proper water closets, earth closets or privies for the reasonable use of persons employed therein, at least one of such closets for each twenty-five persons employed; and whenever two or more persons and one or more female persons are employed as aforesaid, a sufficient number of separate and distinct water closets, earth closets or privies shall be provided for the use of each sex, and plainly so designated, and no person shall be allowed to use any such closet or privy assigned to persons of the other sex. In all hotels where sleeping rooms are provided for female help, such rooms shall have proper heat and ventilation. Where railway cars are used for sleeping or living purposes or where other premises for sleeping or living accommodations are furnished by any employer or his agent, for men or women engaged in construction of railroad or other work, such cars or other premises shall be maintained in a cleanly and sanitary condition and kept sufficiently heated and well lighted and ventilated and a separate place and facilities shall also be provided for the purpose of drying clothes. Any firm, person or corporation or any agent or foreman thereof, or any contractor or other person Prosecutions. who has control over such conditions may be prosecuted at the instance of the factory inspector or other proper authority when there occurs a violation of this section with respect to the conditions specified therein, over which such person, firm or corporation has control. It shall be unlawful for any employe to do anything to hinder or make difficult, compliance with this section: Provided, That the provisions of this section shall not apply to railway sleeping cars used exclusively for the transportation and accommodation of passengers carried by said railways. Cars, sanitary regulations. Proviso, sleeping cars. Approved March 9, 1915. [No. 4.] AN ACT to amend section eighty-four of act two hundred six of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-three, being "An act to provide for the assessment of property and the levy and collection of taxes thereon, and for the collection of taxes heretofore and hereafter levied; making such taxes a lien on the lands taxed, establishing and continuing such lien, providing for the sale and conveyance of lands delinquent for taxes, and for the inspection and disposition of land bid off to the State and not redeemed or purchased; and to repeal act two hundred of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-one and all other acts and parts of acts in anywise contravening any of the provisions of this act," being section three thousand nine hundred seven of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, as amended by act two hundred sixtytwo of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-nine. The People of the State of Michigan enact: amended. SECTION 1. Section eighty-four of act two hundred six Section of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-three, entitled "An act to provide for the assessment of property and the levy and collection of taxes thereon, and for the collection of taxes heretofore and hereafter levied; making such taxes a lien on the lands taxed, establishing and continuing such lien, providing for the sale and conveyance of lands delinquent for taxes, and for the inspection and disposition of land bid off to the State and not redeemed or purchased; and to repeal act two hundred of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-one and all other acts and parts of acts in anywise contravening any of the provisions of this act," being section three thousand nine hundred seven of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, as amended by act two hundred sixty-two of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-nine, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 84. Any person may purchase any State tax lands Purchase or any State bids, at any time except during the annual tax sale at the county treasurer's office and for the period of fifteen days prior thereto by paying therefor to the Auditor General the amount for which the same was bid off to the State, with interest on the same at the rate of one per cent per month or fraction thereof from the first day of the month in which such lands were bid off to the State, together with the other taxes which have been returned to the Auditor General and remain a lien on such lands at the time of the purchase so made, with the interest thereon at the rate provided in this act: Provided, That purchase may Proviso, be made of any State bid within the period for redemption without payment of the taxes of subsequent years as a condi of state tax land. state bid. |