therefrom until properly and suitably cleansed or disinfected; and said health officer shall determine the manner in which such apartments or premises shall be disinfected, cleansed or renovated in order that they may be rendered safe and suitable for occupancy. If the health authorities determine

that disinfection is sufficient to render them safe and suitable for occupancy, such apartments or premises, together with all infected articles therein, shall immediately be disinfected by the health authorities at public expense. Should the health authorities determine that such apartments or premises are in need of thorough cleansing and renovation, a notice in writing to this effect shall be served upon the owner or agent of said apartments or premises, and said owner or agent shall thereupon proceed to the cleansing or renovating of such apartments or premises in accordance with the instruction of the health authorities, and such cleansing and renovation shall be done at the expense of the said owner or agent.

SEC. 7. Prohibiting occupancy until order of health officer is complied with.-In case the orders or directions of the local health officer requiring the disinfection, cleansing or renovation of any apartments or premises or any articles therein as herein before provided, shall not be complied with within forty-eight hours after such orders or directions shall be given, the health officer may cause a placard in words and form substantially as follows to be placed upon the door of the infected apartments or premises: "Tuberculosis is a communicable disease. These apartments have been occupied by a consumptive and may be infected. They must not be occupied until the order of the health officer directing their disinfection or renovation has been complied with. This notice must not be removed under the penalty of the law except by the health officer or other duly authorized official." SEC. 8. Prohibiting carelessness of a person having tuberculosis. Any person having tuberculosis who shall dispose of his sputum, saliva or other bodily secretion or excretion so as to cause offense or danger to any person or persons occupying the same room or apartment, house, part of a house or premises, shall, on complaint of any person or persons subjected to such offense or danger, be deemed guilty of a nuisance and any person subjected to such a nuisance inay make complaint in person or writing to the health officer of any township, city or village where the nuisance complained of is committed. It shall be the duty of the local health officer receiving such complaint to investigate, and if it appear that the nuisance complained of is such as to cause offense or danger to any person occupying the same room, apartment, house, part of a house or premises, he shall serve a notice upon the person so complained of, reciting the alleged cause of offense or danger and requiring him to dispose of his sputum, saliva or other bodily secretion or excretion in such a manner as to remove all reasonable cause

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 prac ticing 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:

supply.

SECTION 1. The State Board of Health and its authorized State board of agents and representatives are each hereby given supervis- health to have 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.

rules and

SEC. 3. The State Board of Health shall have authority May enforce to make and enforce such rules and regulations as it may regulations. 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

SEC. 5. The expense of the investigation and analysis made investigation. 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- statement 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.

deemed

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.