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[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:

certain power

SECTION 1. The State Board of Health and its authorized State board of agents and representatives are each hereby given supervis- health to have ory and visitorial power and control over all corporations over water supply. 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.

regulations.

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

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

plants,

SEC. 8. In case of corporations other than municipal, Filtration partnerships or individuals operating filtration plants in certain to 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- deemed 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.

statement

act.

SEC. 9. Any corporation other than municipal, partner- Violation of ship, company or individual who shall violate any provision 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.

Sections repealed and amended.

Triplicate reports, when township clerk to make, etc.

[No. 29.]

AN ACT to repeal sections one, two, three, four, five, six and eight and to amend sections seven, nine, ten and eleven of chapter four of act one hundred sixty-four of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-one, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the laws relating to public instruction and primary schools, and to repeal all statutes and acts contravening the provisions of this act," being sections four thousand six hundred ninety-two, four thousand six hundred ninety-three, four thousand six hundred ninety-four, four thousand six hundred ninety-five, four thousand six hundred ninety-six, four thousand six hundred ninety-seven, four thousand six hundred ninetynine and sections four thousand six hundred ninetyeight, four thousand seven hundred, four thousand seven hundred one and four thousand seven hundred two of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Sections one, two, three, four, five, six and eight of chapter four of act one hundred sixty-four of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-one, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the laws relating to public instruction and primary schools, and to repeal all statutes and acts contravening the provisions of this act," being sections four thousand six hundred ninety-two, four thousand six hundred ninety-three, four thousand six hundred ninety-four, four thousand six hundred ninety-five, four thousand six hundred ninety-six, four thousand six hundred ninety-seven and four thousand six hundred ninety-nine of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven are hereby repealed, and sections seven, nine, ten and eleven of said act, being sections four thousand six hundred ninety-eight, four thousand seven hundred, four thousand seven hundred one and four thousand seven hundred two of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, are hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 7. The township clerk shall receive the annual reports of the school directors of his township, and on the first Monday of August in each year he shall make triplicate reports setting forth the whole number of school districts in his township, if any, the amount of money raised and received for school libraries and such other items as shall from year to year be required by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, together with the several particulars set forth in the reports of the several school directors for the preceding year, and within ten days thereafter he shall forward two copies of the same, together with two copies of each of the reports

filed.

case of

district.

qualified

from school directors to the county commissioner of schools Copies, where and file the other copy or copies of these reports in his office, and he shall receive all communications, blanks and documents transmitted to him by the Superintendent of Public Instruction and dispose of the same in the manner directed by said superintendent: Provided, That in case the town- Proviso, in ship is organized into a township district or a fractional township township district the board of education of such township district or fractional township district shall meet on the first Monday in August and make the triplicate reports to the Superintendent of Public Instruction, and in such cases this report shall take the place of the report above provided for to be made by the township clerk, and the said board shall dispose of its reports in the same manner as is provided for the township clerk: Provided further, That the Further proviso, county commissioner of schools shall annually send to each legally township clerk and to the secretary of each board of educa- teachers. tion a complete list of the legally qualified teachers of the county, and at the time the township clerk shall make the triplicate reports herein provided for he shall compare the list of teachers employed in the township with said complete list of teachers, and if in any school district or in the township district a school shall not have been taught for the time required by law during the preceding year by a legally qualified teacher, no part of the primary school interest fund shall be distributed to such district or to such proportional Primary part of the township, although the report from such district when or township shall set forth that a school or schools have been so taught, and it shall be the duty of the township clerk or the board of education, when said board shall make the reports as hereinbefore provided, to certify all these facts as to the employment of teachers to the Superintendent of Public Instruction.

money

forfeited.

school

SEC. 9. Each township clerk shall make or cause to be Map showing made a map of his township, showing by distinct lines there- districts. on the boundaries of each school district and parts of school districts therein, if such school districts exist, and shall regularly number the same thereon as established by proper authority. One copy of such map shall be filed by said clerk Copies, in his office and one other copy he shall file with the super- where filed. visor of the township. If any division or alteration is at Alterations. any time made in the boundaries of any district or of any township district, the township clerk shall within one month thereafter file a new map and copy thereof as aforesaid showing such changes.

certify

SEC. 10. It shall be the duty of the township clerk of each Clerk to township, on or before the first day of October in each year, proposed to make and deliver to the supervisor of his township a certi- school taxes. fied copy of all statements on file in his office of moneys proposed to be raised by taxation in each of the several school districts of the township, if any, for school purposes, or to

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