CHAPTER 167 PENAL INSTITUTIONS EIGHT-HOUR WORKDAY FOR MECHANICS AND LABORERS (H. B. No. 2, by Mr. Colgate) AN ACT TO REGULATE THE HOURS OF LABOR OF MECHANICS, WORKING MEN, LABORERS AND EMPLOYES OF THE PENAL INSTITUTIONS OF THE STATE, AND TO PRESCRIBE PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF. Be It Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado: Section 1. In all state penal institutions of this state, the persons employed by the state, or by any board, officer or agent of such institution, in any capacity except such employes as may be employed exclusively as superintendents, overseers, guards or officers in or about the farms, gardens or agricultural work conducted by such institution; and the guards, overseers and superintendents employed for the purpose of working convicts on the public roads, and those officers or employes of such institutions whose salary is specially fixed by statute, shall be within the terms of the eight-hour working day, and eight hours shall constitute a day of work in such employment, except as herein above excepted, and it shall be unlawful for any board, officer or agent to employ any person or persons, not within the herein stated exceptions, for more than eight hours a day. Section 2. Nothing in Section 1 of this act shall be construed so as to prevent work in excess of eight hours a day in emergency cases; provided, that hours in excess of eight a day shall be treated as constituting a part of subsequent day's work; and, provided, further, that in no one week of seven days shall it be permitted for any one so employed to do more than fifty-six hours of work of the character and kind in this act specified. demeanor Section 3. Any employer, board, officer, or agent who Violation misshall violate the provisions of Sections 1 and 2 of this act shall Penalty be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred ($100) dollars and not more than five hundred ($500) dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not more than one hundred (100) days, or by both fine and imprisonment at the discretion of the court. Approved: March 31, 1919. CHAPTER 168 PETROLEUM PRODUCTS Tax on petroleum products Oil inspector collect tax State Treasurer pay warrants (H. B. No. 406, by Messrs. Rotruck, Bond, Tedmon, Wilkins, Kelley, Godsman and Sutton) AN ACT PROVIDING A TAX ON PETROLEUM PRODUCTS USED IN Be It Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado: Section 1. A tax of one cent is hereby levied and shall be collected upon each gallon of kerosene, gasoline, and any fluid or substance which is a product of petroleum, or into which any product of petroleum enters, or is found as a constituent element, whether manufactured in this state or not, offered for sale or used for consumption for power purposes in propelling motor vehicles. Provided, that this tax shall not be fixed and charged upon distillate, crude petroleum, residium, gas oil or smudge oil. Section 2. It shall be the duty of the State Oil Inspector, his assistants and deputies, to collect the tax provided for in this act, at the same time and under the same rules, regulations and provisions under which he makes the collection of the one-tenth cent inspection fee provided for in Chapter 126 of the Session Laws of Colorado of 1915. Section 3. The State Treasurer is hereby authorized and directed to pay warrants, to persons found to be entitled thereto, out of the special road fund herein created, to repay any taxes erroneously collected under this act upon vouchers drawn by the State Auditor with the approval of the State Auditing Board. turned over to Treasurer daily Section 4. It shall be the duty of the State Oil Inspec- Funds collected tor to transfer daily the collections obtained from the one cent tax, provided for in this act, to the State Treasury, to be placed by the State Treasurer in a special road fund. One-half of said special road fund shall be apportioned by the State Highway Commission among the several counties of the state according to the mileage of State Routes and State Highways, as established by the State Highway Commission, in said counties, on the first day of January of each Apportionment by Highway year. Provided, that nothing in this section shall prevent Commission, the State Highway Commission from applying the money in this special road fund, or so much as may be necessary, during the year 1919 to meet the money appropriated by the United States Government, on a dollar for dollar basis, for road construction in Colorado. how made Section 5. The General Assembly hereby finds, deter- Safety clause mines and declares that this act and each and every sentence, phrase, clause, section and sub-section thereof is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety. clause Section 6. In the opinion of the General Assembly, Emergency an emergency exists; therefore, this act shall take effect and be in force from and after the date of its passage. Approved: April 9, 1919. CHAPTER 169 PSYCHOPATHIC HOSPITAL ESTABLISHMENT OF, AUTHORIZED Psychopathic Hospital established Board of Regents to supervise Admission on application Cost to patients -how based (S. B. No. 77, by Senator Knauss) AN ACT TO ESTABLISH, CONSTRUCT AND MAINTAIN A PSYCHO- Be It Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado : Section 1. There shall be established in this state an institution under the name and style of the Psychopathic Hospital and Laboratory of the University of Colorado. This institution shall be established at Denver. Section 2. The general supervision and government of said institution shall be vested in the Board of Regents of the University of Colorado. Section 3. After all patients ordered committed to said hospital by any Judge of the County Court have been received, if there is available room therein, the superintendent may, in his discretion, receive and retain therein as a boarder and patient any person who desires to submit himself for treatment and makes written application therefor. Having given to the superintendent notice in writing, any person so presenting himself as a boarder or patient, shall pay to the proper authorities of said hospital, such a sum of money for care and treatment equal to the cost per capita of care and treatment of other inmates of said hospital. Whenever the superintendent shall determine upon |