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§ 7. Name, address, etc. furnished. Every person applying for and procuring a license as herein provided shall furnish to the state board of fish and game commissioners his name and resident address. Such applicant shall also furnish to the board of fish and game commissioners a written description of himself by age, height, nationality, color of eyes and hair and shall also give information relative to the sections of the state in which he intends to trap.

§ 8. Term. All licenses issued as herein provided shall be valid and shall authorize the person to whom issued to trap fur-bearing mammals for profit on and from the first day of July of the year in which said license is issued until the date of expiration written or stamped thereon, but no license shall continue in force for a longer period than one year.

§ 9. Statement of mammals taken. Every person to whom a license is issued, under the provisions of this act, must, before the first day of July following the date issued, send to the fish and game commission a sworn statement showing the number of each kind of fur-bearing mammals taken together with the name and address of the firm or person to whom they were shipped or sold. A new license cannot be granted unless this provision is complied with; provided, however, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to persons eighteen years of age or under.

§ 10. What are fur-bearing mammals. For the purpose of this act, the following shall be considered fur-bearing mammals: Black and brown bear, ring-tailed cat, coon, pine martin, fisher, wolverine, mink, skunk, river otter, grey, cross, silver and red fox.

§ 11. Moneys credited to game preservation fund. All moneys collected from licenses as provided herein and all fines collected for violations of the provisions hereof shall be paid into the state treasury and credited to the game preservation fund.

§ 12. No more than one license. Not more than one license shall be issued to any one person for the same fiscal year, except upon an affidavit by the applicant that the one issued has been lost or destroyed and no license issued as herein provided shall be transferable or used by any other person than the one to whom it was issued.

§ 13. Disturbing traps. Every person who shall disturb or remove the traps of any licensed trapper while trapping on the public domain or on lands where he has permission to trap is guilty of a misdemeanor.

§ 14. Refusal to exhibit license. Every person having a license as provided herein who refuses to exhibit such license or any furs that may be in his possession or control upon the demand of any officer authorized to enforce the game and fish laws of this state or any peace officer of the state shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and every person lawfully having such license who transfers or disposes of same to another person to be used as a trapping license or who violates any of the laws for the protection of game shall forfeit the same.

§ 15. Penalty. Every person violating any of the provisions of this act shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars or more than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail for a term of not less than ten or more than one hundred days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

§ 16. Propagation in confinement. Nothing in this act shall prohibit the propagation of fur-bearing mammals in confinement in accordance with any rules and regulations that may be specified by the fish and game commission. [New section added May 13, 1919; Stats. 1919, p. 389.]

In the title of the amendatory act of 1919 it says that section 2 of the act was amended. No such amendment, however, appears in

the body of the act.

ACT 2922.

Seagulls at Santa Monica, protection of. [Stats. 1875-76, p. 287.] This act prohibited the killing of seagulls within five miles of the town.

Codified by § 599 of Penal Code, 1905. See note to § 599, Penal Code. АСТ 2923.

To prevent capture and destruction of blue cranes. [Stats. 1889, p. 205.] Codified by § 599 of Penal Code, 1905. See note to § 599, Penal Code. АСТ 2924.

To prevent destruction of fish and game in the waters of Lake Merritt, Alameda County. [Stats. 1869-70, p. 325.]

Continued in force by Political Code, § 19, and Penal Code, § 23.

ACT 2925.

Napa County, for the protection of fish and game in. [Stats. 1871-72, p. 550.]

"Probably repealed by the general laws upon the subject. See Penal Code, §§ 635, 636, 636a."-Code Commissioners' Note.

АСТ 2926.

An act to provide for the acquisition, equipment and use of a railway car for the purpose of distributing live fish and stocking the waters of this state with fish, and making an appropriation therefor. [Approved March 21, 1907. Stats. 1907, p. 777.]

ACT 2927.

An act to authorize the board of fish commissioners of the state to construct a fish repository on the Stanislaus River in Tuolumne County, and making an appropriation therefor. [Approved March 13, 1907, Stats. 1907, p. 249.

АСТ 2928.

To create the office of fish and game warden, and to prescribe the powers, duties, and salary of such officer. [Stats. 1895, p. 169.]

Amended 1905, p. 319.

Codified: See Political Code, §§ 4149b-4149d.

ACT 2929.

Authorizing the fish commissioners to purchase the land on which the state fish hatcheries at Sisson are situated. [Stats. 1891, p. 258.]

АСТ 2930.

To provide for purchasing land for the state fish hatchery at Sisson, in Siskiyou County, and for making certain improvements and repairs at said hatchery, and making an appropriation therefor. [Approved March 25, 1903. Stats. 1903, p. 434.]

ACT 2931.

Authorizing commissioners to remove obstructions in American River, [Approved March 5, 1889. Stats. 1889, p. 66.]

АСТ 2932.

To provide for removing obstructions in Pitt River, above the mouth of Hat Creek, so as to enable salmon to reach the spawning-grounds on the upper waters of said river and its tributaries, and making an appropriation therefor. [Approved March 25, 1901. Stats. 1901, p. 808.]

АСТ 2933.

Authorizing the board of fish commissioners to construct a steam launch. [Stats. 1885, p. 124.].

АСТ 2934.

To authorize the board of fish commissioners to purchase or construct a gasoline launch, to aid in carrying out the purposes of said board, and appropriating money therefor. [Stats. 1893, p. 346.]

ACT 2935.

Authorizing fish commissioners to dispose of the steam launch Governor Stoneman and to replace it by two smaller boats to be used as patrol boats. [Stats. 1889, p. 350.]

АСТ 2936.

To authorize state board of fish commissioners to import game birds into the state for propagation. [Stats. 1889, p. 304.]

This act appropriated $2,000 for the purpose indicated.

ACT 2937.

Authorizing fish commissioners to build and maintain a salmon hatchery. [Stats. 1885, p. 31.]

АСТ 2938.

Authorizing the board of fish commissioners to dispose of the hatchery located on Battle Creek in Tehama County, and to expend the proceeds of the same. [Stats. 1897, p. 89.]

АСТ 2939.

Nevada County, protecting game in. [Stats. 1873-74, p. 80.] "Probably modified and repealed by Penal Code, §§ 626e, 626f, 626h, and 6261."-Code Commissioner's Note.

ACT 2940.

Yolo County, restricting the hunting of game in. [Stats. 1871-72,

p. 411.]

"Probably superseded by the general laws on the subject. See Penal Code, §§ 635, 636, 636a.”—Code Commissioners' Note.

TITLE 219.

GAS.

АСТ 2950.

For the protection of gaslight companies. [Stats. 1859, p. 309.].
Superseded by Penal Code, § 498.

ACT 2951.

Concerning gas companies. [Stats. 1869-70, p. 815.]

This act provided for the granting of franchises to gas companies. It was continued in force by § 19, Political Code, but was superseded by the constitution of 1879, art. XI, § 19.

АСТ 2952.

An act to regulate the use of illuminating gas. [Approved March 20, 1903.

§ 1. Gas not to be turned off at meter.

§ 2. Act takes effect when.

Stats. 1903, p. 289.]

§ 1. Gas not to be turned off at meter. Every hotel-keeper, lodginghouse keeper, and innkeeper, or keeper of any place where rooms are let to lodgers in which, or any of which such places illuminating gas is used, who shall turn off, or cause to be turned off at the meter the flow of such illuminating gas, during the time of the use of any such room or rooms, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; provided, however, that this act shall not apply to any of the persons herein enumerated, when such person or persons shall have connected every exit orifice upon the gas fixtures used in such place or places with a practical and safe automatic gas-igniter.

§ 2. Act takes effect when. This act shall take effect and be in force immediately from and after its passage.

АСТ 2953.

An act to regulate the quality and standard illuminating power and the price of gas in all cities within the state of California having a population of one hundred thousand or more. [Approved March 4, 1878. Stats. 1877-78, p. 167.]

Repealed as to San Francisco by c. 2 of art. I of the charter.

ACT 2954.

An act prohibiting the unnecessary wasting of natural gas into the atmosphere; providing for the capping or otherwise closing of wells from which natural gas flows; and providing penalties for violating the provisions of this act.

[Approved March 25, 1911. Stats. 1911, p. 499.]

§ 1. Waste of gas prohibited.

§ 2. Wells to be capped.

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§ 1. Waste of gas prohibited. All persons, arms, corporations and associations are hereby prohibited from willfully permitting any natural gas wastefully to escape into the atmosphere.

§ 2. Wells to be capped. All persons, firms, corporations or associations digging, drilling, excavating, constructing or owning or controlling any well from which natural gas flows shall upon the abandonment of such well, cap or otherwise close the mouth of or entrance to the same in such a manner as to prevent the unnecessary or wasteful escape into the atmosphere of such natural gas. And no person, firm, corporation or association owning or controlling land in which such well or wells are situated shall willfully permit natural gas flowing from such well or wells, wastefully or unnecessarily to escape into the atmosphere.

§ 3. Penalty. Any person, firm, corporation or association who shall willfully violate 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 thousand dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

§ 4. Each day a violation. For the purposes of this act each day during which natural gas shall be willfully allowed wastefully or unnecessarily to escape into the atmosphere shall be deemed a separate and distinct violation of this act.

§ 5. Repealed. All acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

§ 6. Takes effect when. This act shall take effect immediately.

TITLE 220.
GASOLINE.

ACT 2964.

An act to regulate and license the business of producing, refining or distributing gasoline, distillate and other motor vehicle fuels, providing for the collection and disposition of license taxes, prescribing penalties for violation of the provisions of said act, and repealing all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith.

§ 1.

§ 2.

[Approved May 30, 1923. Stats. 1923, p. 571.]

Words and phrases defined.

Registration and licensing of distributors.

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§ 7.

§ 8.

§ 9.

§ 10.

§ 11.

What considered to be a sale of motor vehicle fuel.
Penalties regarding statements.

Fixing tax where no return is made. Duty of attorney general.
Sales, etc., not to be taxed.

Refund of tax on certain sales.

§ 12. Examination by board of equalization.

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