The civil service commission, for specific state services or employments, as determined by the commission, may, in examination, allow general or individual preferences in rating to veterans who have suffered permanent disability in line of duty; provided, that such disability would not prevent the proper performance of the duties required under such service or employment, and provided that such disability was of record in the files of the war department as of July 1, 1920. In the case of examination to establish eligible lists for artisans, and in which credits are allowed for experience as a journeyman, periods of service in the armed forces of the United States, whether as artisan or otherwise, shall be counted by the commission as journeyman experience. [Amendment approved July 29, 1921. Stats. 1921, p. 958.] This section was also amended in 1919. Stats. 1919, p. 1350. § 28. Purpose of act to give preference to veterans. It is the purpose of this act to give preference, in the manner set forth in the foregoing section, to all persons who have served the government and the people in the army, navy, marine corps, revenue marine service, or as active nurses in the American Red Cross or the army and navy nurse corps, and particularly to persons who have rendered such service during the Ally-Germanic war, the Spanish-American war, the Philippine insurrection, the Boxer uprising, the Indian wars, or the Civil War. [New section added May 27, 1919. In effect immediately. Stats. 1919, p. 1350.] § 29. Interpretation by court. Whenever this act or any part or section thereof is interpreted by a court, it shall be liberally construed by such court. [New section added May 27, 1919. In effect immediately. Stats. 1919, p. 1350.] § 30. Constitutionality. If any section, subsection, subdivision, sentence, clause or phrase of this act is for any reason held to be unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this act. The legislature hereby declares that it would have passed this act, and each section, subsection, subdivision, sentence, clause and phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, subdivisions, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared unconstitutional. [New section added May 27, 1919. In effect immediately. Stats. 1919, p. 1350.] § 31. Repealed. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed in so far as they are inconsistent with the provisions of this act. [New section added May 27, 1919. In effect immediately. Stats. 1919, p. 1351.] The amending act of May 27, 1919, contained the following: § 6. Emergency measure. Inasmuch as the United States military and naval forces are being demobilized and those who went into the federal service are suddenly returning in great numbers to their homes; and inasmuch as this act will assist them to re-employment, thereby simplifying the problems of reconstruction, it is hereby declared that this act. is an emergency measure necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety, under the provisions of section one of article four of the constitution of the state of California and that this act shall take effect immediately. ACT 1410. TITLE 110. An act providing for the sale of certain sovereign lands of the state of California lying within the meander lines of Clear Lake. [Approved May 9, 1923. Stats. 1923, p. 289.] § 1. Sale of state lands adjoining Robinson Lake. § 1. Sale of state lands adjoining Robinson lake. The sovereign lands belonging to the state of California in those portions of sections seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-nine, and thirty, township fifteen north, range nine west, Mount Diablo base and meridian, lying within the meander lines of the arm of Clear Lake known locally as Robinson lake shall be sold by the surveyor general under rules and regulations prescribed by him at a price to be fixed by the state board of control and the surveyor general. The owners of the lands adjoining said state lands shall have a preference right to purchase said state lands for a period of six months from the date this act takes effect. ACT 1411. Clear Lake, in Lake County, declared navigable. [Stats. 1877–78, p. 630.j "See Political Code, § 2349, from which this lake is omitted, and this statute, apparently, thereby repealed (Cardwell v. County of Sacramento, 79 Cal. 347). Renewed by Political Code, § 2349, as amended in 1907."-Code Commissioner's Note. ACT 1421. TITLE 111. Incorporating. [Stats. 1871-72, p. 164.] Amended 1871-72, p. 550; 1875-76, p. 171. Superseded by incorporating under Municipal Corporation Act of 1883. See Act 5233. АСТ 1431. TITLE 112. To authorize persons engaged in the U. S. coast survey to enter upon lands within the state; to protect the operations of the same from injury and molestation, and to ascertain the mode of assessing dam. ages and to punish offenders. [Stats. 1852, p. 147.] TITLE 113. АСТ 1441. To create and establish a commission for revising, systematizing, and reforming the laws of this state, and for the appointment of the mem bers of said commission, to be known as "The commissioners for the revision and reform of the law," and to prescribe their powers and duties; and to authorize the appointment of a secretary and stenographer therefor; and to provide for the compensation and expenses of said commission, secretary, and stenographer, and to appropriate money therefor. [Approved March 28, 1895. Stats. 1895, p. 345.] Amended 1903, p. 479; 1905, p. 403; 1907, p. 294; 1909, p. 997. The commission as originally created consisted of three persons. It was reduced to one person in 1903. The amendment of 1905 provided that the commission should terminate May 1, 1907. By the Act of 1907 the existence of the commission was continued until October 1, 1911. It was then to cease to exist. An additional appropriation was made in 1909 but the date of the termination of the commission was not changed. ACT 1451. TITLE 114. An act relating to cold storage, the regulation of refrigerating warehouses, the disposition or sale of food kept or preserved therein, and defining the duties of the state board of health in relation thereto. [Approved June 13, 1913. Stats. 1913, p. 769.] Amended 1. 1915, p. 601. 2. 1917, p. 152. § 1. "Cold storage" defined. Application to operate cold-storage plant. License fee. Restau- Use of unsanitary places for cold storage prohibited. § 2. § 3. § 4. § 5. Articles for other than human consumption to be marked. Board of health to supervise and inspect cold storage plant. § 10. § 11. Unlawful to return cold stored articles to cold storage. § 12. Penalty. § 13. Acts repealed. § 1. "Cold storage" defined. The term "cold storage" as used in this act shall be construed to mean a place artificially cooled to a temperature of forty degrees Fahrenheit or below but shall not include such a place in a private home, hotel, restaurant, or exclusively retail establishment not storing articles of food for other persons. The term "cold stored" as used in this act shall be construed to mean the keeping of "articles of food," in "cold storage" for a period exceeding thirty days. The term "articles of food" as used in this act shall be construed to mean and include fresh meat and fresh meat products (except in process of manufacture), fresh and dried fruit and vegetables, fish, shellfish, game, poultry, eggs, butter and cheese. The term "storer" as used in this act shall be construed to mean the person or persons who offer articles of food for cold storage. [Amendment approved May 19, 1915. Stats. 1915, p. 601.] § 2. Application to operate cold storage plant. License fee. Restaurants, hotels, etc., excepted. Any person, firm or corporation desiring to operate a cold storage or refrigerating warehouse wherein shall be stored "articles of food" for a period exceeding thirty days, shall make application in writing to the state board of health for that purpose, stating the location of its plant or plants. On receipt of the application the state board of health shall cause an examination to be made into the sanitary condition of said plant or plants and if found to be in a sanitary condition and otherwise properly equipped for the business of cold storage, the state board of health shall cause a license to be issued authorizing the applicant to operate a cold storage or refrigerating warehouse for and during a period of one year. License fees. The license shall be issued upon payment by the applicant of a license fee to the state board of health for each and every warehouse or plant operated by applicant under the provisions of this act for all cold storage or refrigerating warehouses or plants having a capacity of ten thousand cubic feet, or less, a fee of fifteen dollars. For all cold storage or refrigerating warehouses or plants having a capacity of more than ten thousand cubic feet and less than fifty thousand cubic feet, a fee of thirty dollars. For all cold storage or refrigerating warehouses or plants having a capacity of more than fifty thousand cubic feet and less than one hundred thousand cubic feet, a fee of forty dollars. For all cold storage or refrigerating warehouses or plants having a capacity of one hundred thousand cubic feet or more, a fee of fifty dollars. Account and disposition of fees. The secretary of the state board of health shall keep a full and correct account of all fees received under the provisions of this act, and shall, at least once each month, deposit all such fees collected with the state treasurer and make a detailed report covering same to the state controller, and such moneys shall be credited to the appropriation for the support of the pure food and drug laboratory; Restaurants, hotels and retail establishments excepted. provided, however, that nothing in this act contained shall apply to cold storage or cold storage or refrigerating plants or warehouses as herein defined which are maintained or operated by restaurants, hotels, or exclusively retail establishments not storing articles of food for other persons. [Amendment approved April 20, 1917; Stats. 1917, p. 152.] This section was also amended in 1915. Stats. 1915, p. 601. § 3. Use of unsanitary places for cold storage prohibited. In the event that any place or places, or any part thereof, covered by a license, under the provision of this act shall at any time be deemed by the state board of health to be in an unsanitary condition, it shall be the duty of the state board of health to notify licensee of such condition and upon the failure of the licensee to put said specified place or places, or the specified part thereof, in a sanitary condition within a designated time it shall be the duty of the state board of health to prohibit the use under its license [of] such specified place or places, or part thereof, as it deems in an unsanitary condition until such time as it may be put in a sanitary condition. § 4. Record of receipts and withdrawals. Quarterly reports. It shall be the duty of any person, firm or corporation, licensed to operate a cold storage or refrigeration warehouse to keep an accurate record of the receipts and the withdrawals of the articles of food, and the state board of health shall have free access to these records at any time. Every such person, firm or corporation, shall, furthermore, submit a quarterly report to the state board of health, setting forth in itemized particulars quantity of food products held in cold storage. Such quarterly reports shall be filed on or before the twenty-fifth day of January, April, July and October of each year, and the reports so rendered shall show the conditions existing on the first day of the month in which the report is filed. The state board of health shall have the authority to require such reports to be made at more frequent intervals than the times herein specified, if in the judgment of the state board of health more frequent reports shall be needed in the interest of a proper enforcement of this act, or for other reasons affecting the public welfare. § 5. Diseased articles not to be stored. Articles for other than human consumption to be marked. No storer shall place in cold storage any article of food intended for human consumption, if diseased, tainted or deteriorated so as to injure its keeping qualities, or if not slaughtered, handled and prepared for storage in accordance with the pure food and sanitary food laws and such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the state board of health for the sanitary preparation of food products for cold storage, under the authority hereinafter conferred. Any article of food if intended for use other than human consumption before being cold stored shall be marked by the owner in accordance with forms prescribed by the state board of health, under authority hereinafter conferred, in such a way as to plainly indicate the fact that such articles are not to be sold for human food. § 6. Board of health to supervise and inspect cold storage plants. It shall be the duty of the state board of health to inspect and supervise all cold storage or refrigerating warehouses in this state, and to make such inspection of the entry of articles of food therein as the state board of health may deem necessary to secure proper enforcement of this act. The members of the state board of health or its duly authorized agents, inspectors or employees, shall be permitted access to such establishments and all parts thereof at all reasonable times for purposes of inspection and enforcement of the provisions of this act. The state board of health may also appoint and designate, at such salary or salaries as it may designate, such person or persons as it deems qualified to make the inspections herein required. § 7. Dates of receipt and withdrawal marked on articles. All articles of food when deposited in cold storage shall be marked plainly on the containers in which they are packed or on the individual article with the date of receipt, in accordance with such rules and forms as may be prescribed by the state board of health, under the authority hereinafter conferred; and when removed from cold storage shall be marked in like manner with the date of withdrawal. [Amendment approved April 20, 1917; Stats. 1917, p. 153.] § 8. Maximum period twelve months. Extension of period. No person, firm or corporation as owners or having control shall keep in cold storage any article of food for a longer period than twelve |