CHAPTER 224. PROVIDING FOR THE REGISTRATION OF MARRIAGES. AN ACT to provide for the registration of all marriages with the state registrar of vital statistics and providing fees for the same, amending section 4859 of the General Statutes of 1909, and providing penalties for violation thereof. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas: SECTION 1. That all marriages occurring within the state shall be registered with the state registrar of vital statistics at the state capitol as hereinafter provided. SEC. 2. That section 4859 of the General Statutes of 1909 is amended to read as follows: "Sec. 4859. That the probate judges of the several counties in this state, when applied to for that purpose by any person legally entitled to a marriage license, shall issue a marriage license in substance as follows: MARRIAGE LICENSE. (Name of place where office is located, month, day and year.) TO ANY PERSON authorized by law to perform the marriage ceremony, GREETING: , and C D of aged You are hereby authorized to join in marriage A B ofaged(and name of parent or guardian consenting,) and of this license, duly endorsed, you will make due return to the office of the state registrar of vital statistics at Topeka immediately after performing the ceremony. E F, Probate judge. provided, no probate judge shall issue a license authorizing the marriage of any male person under age of twenty-one years, or female person under the age of eighteen years, except with the consent of his or her father, or, of he be dead or incapable, or not residing with his family, his or her mother or guardian, as the case may be, if she or he have one, which consent, if not given at the time in person, shall be evidenced by a certificate in writing subscribed thereto and duly attested; provided further, that where such consent shall have been given as herein provided, no license shall be issued to any male person under the age of eighteen years, or female person under the age of sixteen years, without the consent of the probate judge in addition thereto; provided further, that the probate judge may issue license upon the affidavit of the person applying therefor, or some responsible person for him, to the effect that the parties to whom such license is to issue are of lawful age, as required by this section, and the probate judge is hereby authorized to administer oaths for that purpose. Every person swearing falsely in such affidavit shall be deemed guilty of a violation of this act and shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dolars. The probate judge shall state in every license the age of the parties applying for the same, and, if either or both are minors, the name of the father, mother, or guardian consenting to such marriage." SEC. 3. The forms for license shall be furnished by the state registrar and shall contain a part to be detached and forwarded to the state registrar by the probate judge as hereinafter provided, and also a part to remain as a stub for the record of the probate judge in addition to the marriage license to be delivered to the applicant therefor. SEC. 4. The probate judge shall collect from the applicant for said license an additional registration fee of fifty cents. SEC. 5. The probate judge shall, not later than the third day of each month, forward to the state registrar that portion of the license which is to be detached and forwarded to him, and which shall contain in brief those facts set forth in the license together with a statement of the name and address of the person who is expected to perform the marriage ceremony, and shall remit to the state registrar the fifty cent fee provided for in section 4 of this act; provided, that in the event no marriage license has been issued by the probate judge during the month he shall promptly notify the state registrar to that effect on a blank provided for that purpose. SEC. 6. The state registrar shall index all records thus received and shall, when applied to, issue a certified copy of the same which shall be prima facie evidence in all courts and places of the facts stated therein, and for which he shall receive a fee of one dollar. He shall keep an accurate account of all fees received from the probate judges and all other sources and turn same over to the state treasurer not later than the 15th day of each month, and shall file with the state auditor a complete statement thereof. The fees thus collected and turned over to the state treasurer shall be used for the maintenance of the central division of vital statistics and the auditor is authorized to draw his warrants against such funds upon vouchers properly itemized and sworn to for the payment of all salaries, necessary traveling, office and other expenses; provided, that the amount so drawn shall not exceed the amounts collected and turned in to the state treasurer under the provisions of this act. SEC. 7. Every judge, justice of the peace or licensed preacher of the gospel authorized by law to perform the marriage ceremony in this state shall endorse the marriage license with his name, address and the date of performing the marriage, and return the same within seventy-two hours thereafter to the state registrar at Topeka. SEC. 8. Any probate judge or person authorized by law to perform the marriage ceremony in this state who shall fail to comply with any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, and the county attorney of any county when presented with a statement of facts and circumstances shall forthwith initiate and promptly follow up the necessary court proceedings against the parties responsible for the alleged violation of the law. SEC. 9. That section 4859 of the General Statutes of Kansas 1909 and all other acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. SEC. 10. This act shall be in force from and after its publication in the statute books. Approved March 10, 1913. CHAPTER 225. PROVIDING ANNUAL ALLOWANCE FOR THE KANSAS NATIONAL GUARD. Senate Bill No. 229. AN ACT amending section 4908 of the General Statutes of Kansas, 1909, relating to allowances to the various organizations of the Kansas National Guard, and repealing original section 4908. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas: SECTION 1. That section 4908 of the General Statutes of 1909 be amended to read as follows: Sec. 4908. The state shall pay annually, in quarterly payments, to the various organizations of the Kansas National Guard, for use of a building or rooms to be occupied as an armory or for the storage of military property and for postage and incidental expenses of said organization and for the headquarters of the brigade, regiments, separate battalions, law and pay departments, the following sums, each, or so much thereof as the military board shall deem necessary: to each band, company of infantry, company of signal corps or machine gun company, five hundred dollars; to each battery of field artillery, two thousand dollars; to brigade headquarters, two hundred dollars; to each regimental headquarters, three hundred dollars; to the hospital corps, two hundred fifty dollars; to the pay department, fifty dollars; and to the law department, fifty dollars; provided that if any sum above specified prove insufficient in any particular case or cases, the military board shall have power with the approval of the governor to make such equitable readjustments and distribution among the several organizations herein named of the sums above specified as they shall deem just and reasonable. On the certificate of the adjutant-general, approved by the governor, the state auditor shall draw his warrant, at the end of each quarter in favor of the paymastergeneral, or such officer as may be detailed as disbursing officer of the Kansas National Guard, for the amounts specified in such certificate, for the several organizations, headquarters, etc., as specified above. SEC. 2. That original section 4908 of the General Statutes of 1909 be and the same is hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after July 1st, 1913, and after its publication in the official state paper. Approved March 11, 1913. Published in official state paper March 19, 1913. CHAPTER 226. OWNER OR LESSEE OF COAL MINES TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN BATH HOUSES FOR USE OF EMPLOYEES. Substitute for Senate Bill No. 230. AN ACT amending sections 1 & 3 of chapter 222 of the Laws of 1911. Entitled an act to promote the health of employees in coal mines, by providing bath houses at coal mines and prescribing penalties for the violation thereof. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas. SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the owner, or lessee, its officers or agents, or other person or persons having the jurisdiction or direction of any coal mines within the state of Kansas to provide on and after July 1, 1913, a suitable building, which shall be convenient to the principal entrance of such mine or mines, and equipped with benches or seats; said benches or seats, and the interior part of said bath house, to be kept clean and in a sanitary condition. Said building or bath house to have sufficient floor space for the accommodation of miners or others using the same. The flooring in said wash room or bath room to be of concrete or cement, and the flooring in the changing room to be optional with the owner as to material used. All lockers in new bath houses when made of steel shall be not less than twelve inches by twelve inches, by forty-eight inches in height; when made of lumber shall be not less than twelve inches by twenty-two inches, by fortyeight inches in height, with partition in center of wood lockers. The lockers in each bath house shall be sufficient in number to accommodate the employes using the same, also proper lights, heat, hot and cold water, and a shower bath for every fifteen employes using the same, and maintain the same in good order for the purpose of washing and bathing of employes, and changing of clothing. Said employes are to furnish their own towels, soap and lock for their locker, exercise control over, and be responsible for the property by them left therein. The individual owner, operator, lessee, company or corporation shall keep said bath houses in a clean and sanitary condition. SEC. 2. No owner or lessee, its officers or agents, or other person installing such bath house at its or their mine, or mines, shall be legally liable for the loss or destruction of any property left by its or their employes at or in said bath house. SEC. 3. Any owner or lessee, its officers or agents, or other person or persons failing or refusing to comply with the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction, be fined the sum of not less than fifty dollars ($50) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100) for each violation of the provisions of this act. And each day there is a failure to comply with the provisions of this act shall be a separate offense, and punished as such. The state inspector of mines shall have general supervision of this law and the enforcement of the same, and it shall be optional with said inspector of mines to waive the provisions of this act as to all bath houses that have been constructed prior to the taking effect of this act, but said state inspector of mines is hereby given authority to require such bath houses already in existence to be changed or improved as in his judgment may be necessary. SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of all persons using said bath house to remove therefrom all cast-off wearing apparel. It shall be unlawful for any person to in anywise break, injure or destroy any bath house or any part or appurtenance thereto, or commit any nuisance therein. SEC. 5. Any person found guilty of any violation of section 4 of this act shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than five dollars nor more than ten dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail not less than ten days nor more than thirty days, or both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court; provided that the provisions of the act shall not apply to the coal mine located in counties having coal mines over 650 feet in depth. SEC. 6. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. SEC. 7. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the official state paper. Approved March 10, 1913. Published in official state paper March 13, 1913. |