HOURS OF LABOR OF FEMALES.

An act limiting the hours of labor of females employed in any manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishment, laundry, hotel, or restaurant, or telegraph or telephone establishment or office, or by any express or transportation company; compelling each employer in any manufacturing, mechanical, or mercantile establishment, laundry, hotel or restaurant, or other establishment employing any female to provide suitable seats for all female employees and to permit them to use such seats when they are not engaged in the active duties of their employment; and providing a penalty for failure, neglect or refusal of the employer to comply with the provisions of this act, and for permitting or suffering any overseer, superintendent, foreman or other agent of any such employer to violate the provisions of this act.

[Approved March 22, 1911.]

SECTION 1. No female shall be employed in any manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishment, laundry, hotel, or restaurant, or telegraph or telephone establishment or office, or by any express or transportation company in this state more than eight hours during any one day or more than forty-eight hours in one week. The hours of work may be so arranged as to permit the employment of females at any time so that they shall not work more than eight hours during the twenty-four hours of one day, or forty-eight hours during any one week; provided, however, that the provisions of this section in relation to the hours of employment shall not apply to nor affect the harvesting, curing, canning or drying of any variety of perishable fruit or vegetable.

SEC. 2. Every employer in any manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishment, laundry, hotel, or restaurant, or other establishment employing any female, shall provide suitable seats for all female employees, and shall permit them to use such seats when they are not engaged in the active duties of their employment.

SEC. 3. Any employer who shall require any female to work in any of the places mentioned in section one more than the number of hours provided for in this act during any day of twenty-four hours, or who shall fail, neglect, or refuse to so arrange the work of females in his employ so that they shall not work more than the number of hours provided for in this act during any day of twenty-four hours, or who shall fail, neglect, or refuse to provide suitable seats as provided in section two of this act, or who shall permit or suffer any overseer, superintendent, foreman, or other agent of any such employer to violate any of the provisions of this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined for each offense not less than fifty dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the county jail not less than five nor more than thirty days, or both fined and imprisoned.

BANK DEPOSITS OF MARRIED WOMEN AND MINORS.

An act to define and regulate the business of banking.

SECTION 16. When any deposit with a bank shall be made by or in the name of any married woman or minor, the same shall be held for the exclusive right and benefit of such depositor, and free from the control or lien of all other persons, except creditors, and shall be paid, together with the dividends, if any, and interest, if any, thereon to the person in whose name deposits shall have been made, and the receipt or acquittance of such minor shall be a valid and sufficient release and discharge for such deposit, or any part thereof, to the bank. When any deposit with a bank shall be made by any person in trust for another, and no other or further notice of the existence and terms of a legal and valid trust shall have been given in writing to such bank, in the event of the death of the trustee, the same or any part thereof, together with the dividends or interest, if any, thereon, may be paid to the person for whom the deposit was made. When a deposit with a bank shall be made by any person in the names of such depositor and another person or persons, and in form to be paid to either or the survivor or survivors of them, such deposit thereupon, and any additions thereto made by either of such persons upon the making thereof, shall become the property of such persons as joint tenants, and the same, together with all interest thereon, shall be held for the exclusive use of the persons so named, and may be paid to either during the lifetime of all or any or to the survivor or survivors after the death of one or more of them, and such payments and the receipt or acquittance of the one to whom such payment is made shall be valid and sufficient release and discharge to said bank for all payments made on account of such deposit. The surviving husband or wife of any deceased person, or, if no husband or wife is living, then the children of said decedent, or, if no children are living, then the father or mother of such decedent, and if neither the father or mother is living, then the brothers and sisters of such decedent, may, without procuring letters of administration, collect of any bank any sum which said deceased may have left on deposit in such bank at the time of his or her death; provided, such deposit shall not exceed the sum of five hundred dollars. Any bank, upon receiving an affidavit stating that said depositor is dead, and that affiant is the surviving husband or wife, as the case may be, or stating that decedent left no husband or wife, and that affiant is, or affiants are, the children, or stating that decedent left neither husband, wife or children, and that affiant is the father or mother, as the case may be, of said decedent, or stating that the decedent left neither husband, wife, children, father or mother, and that affiants are the brothers and sisters, as the case may be, and that the whole amount that decedent left on deposit in any and all banks of deposit in this state, does not exceed the sum of five hundred dollars, may pay to said affiant or affiants, any deposit of said decedent, if the same does not exceed the sum of five hundred dollars and the receipt of such affiant is sufficient acquittance therefor. [Amended April 21, 1911.]

MATERNITY HOSPITALS.

An act to provide for the licensing and inspecting of maternity hospitals, lying-in asylums and homes for children; defining the duties of persons conducting the same; and the duties and powers of the county boards of health or county health officers and other health officers in relation thereto, and providing a penalty for the violation of its provisions.

[Approved March 20, 1903.]

SECTION 1. Any person who, without first having obtained a license in writing so to do from the county board of health or county health officers, as hereinafter provided, manages, conducts, establishes or maintains within any county or city and county in this state any maternity hospital or lying-in asylum where females may be received, cared for or treated during pregnancy, or during or after delivery; or manages, conducts, establishes or maintains within any county or city and county in this state any institution, boarding house, home or other place for the reception or care of children, or keeps, at any such place, any child under the age of twelve years, not his relative, apprentice, or ward, without legal commitment; or neglects, refuses or omits to comply with the provisions of this act, or who violates the provisions of such act, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

SEC. 2. For such places within the limits of their respective territorial jurisdictions, the county board of health in all counties or city and county governments, having a county board of health, and in all other counties or city and county governments, the county health officer shall have power to issue licenses and every such license must specify the name and residence of the person so undertaking the care of such females or children; and the location within the county or city and county of the place where the same are kept and the number of females or children thereby allowed to be received, boarded or kept therein, and shall be revocable for cause by the said county board of health or county health officer, as the case may be, in any case where the provisions of this act are violated, or in any case where, in the opinion of such county board of health or such county health officer, such hospital, asylum, institution, home, boarding house or other place is being managed, conducted or maintained without proper regard for the health, comfort or morality of the inmates thereof, or without due regard or proper sanitation or hygiene.

SEC. 3. Every person so licensed must keep a register, wherein he shall enter the names and addresses of all such females, the names and ages of all such children, and of all children born on the premises, and the names and residences of their parents, so far as is known, and the time of the reception and discharge of such children and the reasons therefor, and also the name and age of every child who is given out, adopted, taken away, or indentured from such place, to or by any person, together with the name and residence of the person so adopting, taking away or indenturing such child; and within forty-eight hours after such child is so given out, taken away or indentured, shall cause a correct copy of the register

relating to such child to be sent to the county board of health or county health officer, as the case may be.

SEC. 4. It shall be lawful for the officers and representatives of such county board of health, or for such county health officers and their representatives, and for all health officers, at all reasonable times, to enter and inspect the premises wherein such females and children are so boarded, received or kept, and to call for and inspect the license and the register and also to see and visit such children and females.

PREVENTION OF BLINDNESS IN INFANTS.

An act to reguate medical practice to prevent blindness in infants. [Approved February 17, 1897.]

SECTION 1. Should one or both eyes of an infant become reddened or inflamed at any time within two weeks after birth, it shall be the duty of the midwife, nurse, or person having charge of said infant, to report the condition of the eyes at once to some legally qualified practitioner of medicine of the city, town, or district in which the parents of the infant reside.

SEC. 2. Any failure to comply with the provisions of this act shall be punishable by a fine not to exceed one hundred dollars, or imprisonment not to exceed six months, or both.

SEC. 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage.

JUVENILE COURT LAW.

An act to amend an act entitled "An act concerning dependent and delinquent minor children, providing for their care, custody and maintenance until twenty-one years of age; providing for their commitment to the Whittier State School and the Preston State School of Industry, and the manner of such commitment and release therefrom, establishing a probation committee and probation officers to deal with such children, and fixing the salaries of probation officers; providing for detention homes for said children; providing for the punishment of persons responsible for, or contributing to, the dependency or delinquency of children; and giving to the superior court jurisdiction of such offenses, and repealing inconsistent acts," approved March 8, 18991909

[Approved April 5, 1911.]

SECTION 1. An act entitled, "An act concerning dependent and delinquent minor children, providing for their care, custody and maintenance until twenty-one years of age; providing for their commitment to the Whittier State School and the Preston State School of Industry, and the manner of such commitment and release therefrom, establishing a probation committee and probation officers to deal with such children, and fixing the salaries of probation officers; providing for detention homes for said children; providing for the punishment of persons responsible for, or contributing to, the dependency or delinquency of children; and giving to the superior court jurisdiction of such offenses, and repealing inconsistent acts," approved March 8, 1909, is hereby amended to read as follows:

Juvenile court law.

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 not now or hereafter inmates of a state institution.

For the purposes of this act, the words "dependent person" shall mean any person under the age of twenty-one years:

(1). Who is found begging, receiving or gathering alms, whether actually begging or under the pretext of selling or offering anything for sale; or (2). Who is found in any street, road or public place for the purpose of so begging, gathering or receiving alms; or

(3). Who is a vagrant; or

(4). Who is found wandering and not having any home, or any settled place of abode, or any proper guardianship, or any visible means of subsistence; or

(5). Who has no parent or guardian; or who has no parent or guardian willing to exercise, or capable of exercising, proper parental control; or (6). Who is destitute; or

(7). 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 custody or care he may be, is an unfit place for such person; or

(8). Who frequents. the company of reputed criminals, vagrants or prostitutes; or

(9). Who is found living or being in any house of prostitution or assignation; or

(10). 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

(11). Who persistently refuses to obey the reasonable and proper orders or directions of his parents or guardian; or

(12). 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

(13). Whose father is dead or has abandoned his family or is an habitual drunkard, or whose father or mother does not provide for such person, and it appears that such person is destitute of a suitable home or of adequate means of obtaining an honest living, or who is in danger of being brought up to lead an idle and dissolute or immoral life; or where both parents of such person are dead, or the mother or father, if living, is unable to provide proper support and care of such person; or

(14). 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 suspending the same and who is not placed in a parental school under the provisions of said act, or who being over the age of fourteen years refuses to attend public or private school, as directed by his parents, duly authorized guardian or legal custodian; or

(15). Who habitually uses intoxicating liquor as a beverage or habitu