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maintenance of sewers, which certificates shall be paid from the proceeds of the issuance and sale of sewer bonds to be issued and sold as herein provided.

§ 6. This act shall take effect immediately.

CHAPTER 164

AN ACT to legalize and confirm a certain conveyance of real property situate in the village of Suffern, Rockland county, made by the Ramapo Masonic Association to Samuel Greenstein.

Became a law March 16, 1925, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

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Section 1. Notwithstanding any provision of the benevolent Conveyorders law or any other law, general or special, describing the validated. method by which a corporation or body organized under the provisions of the benevolent orders law shall convey real property, and notwithstanding any authorization or consent which may or may not be required before the conveyance of real property by such a corporation or body can legally be made, the deed of con veyance executed by Ramapo Masonic Association, a corporation organized under the benevolent orders law of the state of New York, dated May first, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, and recorded in the office of the clerk of the county of Rockland on May twentieth, nineteen hundred and twenty-two, in liber two hundred and eighty-three of conveyances at page five hundred and four, conveying to Samuel Greenstein certain parcels of real property situated in the village of Suffern, Rockland county, New York, is hereby validated, ratified and confirmed, and the title to the said Title in parcels of real property embraced within said deed in the said Greenstein Samuel Greenstein, his heirs, personal representatives, successors validated. and assigns, pursuant to such deed, is hereby ratified, validated and confirmed in all respects without any further or other action or consent by the said Ramapo Masonic Association, or its trustees, or any other masonic lodge, body or order or their trustees.

§ 2. This act shall not affect any action or proceeding now pending.

§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

CHAPTER 165

AN ACT to amend the village law, in relation to appropriations for shade

trees.

Became a law March 16, 1925, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Samuel

Pending actions.

L. 1909, § 167a

Section 1. Section one hundred and sixty-seven-a of chapter ch. 64, sixty-four of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An amended.

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L. 1922, ch. 48, art. 15

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act relating to villages, constituting chapter sixty-four of the consolidated laws,' as added by chapter four hundred and thirtyeight of the ws of nineteen hundred and fifteen, is hereby amended to read as follows:

§ 167-a. Appropriations for shade trees. In any incorporated village having no board of public works the board of trustees of such village may, by resolution, appropriate from the general or street funds, in any one year, a sum not to exceed one tenth of one per centum of the assessed valuation of the taxable property in such village, as shown by the last preceding assessment roll,' to be known as the "shade tree fund." Such fund shall be expended for the setting out or preservation of shade trees along the public streets of such village in such manner as the board of trustees may direct.

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

CHAPTER 166

AN ACT to amend the farms and markets law, in relation to prevention of disease among bees.

Became a law March 16, 1925, with the approval of the Governor.

three-fifths being present.

Passed.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. Article fifteen of chapter forty-eight of the laws of nineteen hundred and twenty-two, entitled "An act in relation to farms and markets, constituting chapter sixty-nine of the consolidated laws, as amended, is hereby repealed and a new article to be article fifteen, is hereby inserted in place thereof, to read 175, 175a) as follows:

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ARTICLE XV.

BEE DISEASES.

Eradication of bee diseases.

Keeping of diseased bees prohibited; existence of disease to be reported.

Transportation of bees and bee material.

175-a. Assessors shall list and report owners of bees.

§ 173. Eradication of bee diseases. The commissioner may cause inspections to be made of apiaries in the state for the discovery of infectious, contagious or communicable diseases. He may also cause investigations to be made as to the best method for the eradication of diseases of bees, and he may plan and execute appropriate methods for the eradication of such diseases.

The commissioner shall have access to all apiaries, structures, appliances or premises where bees or honey or comb used in apiaries may be. He may open any hive, colony, package or receptacle of any kind containing or which he has reason to believe con

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1 Words one tenth of one per centum of the assessed valuation of the taxable property in such village, as shown by the last preceding assessment. roll," substituted for words "two hundred dollars."

tains any bees, comb, bee products, used beekeeping appliances, or anything else which is capable of transmitting contagious or infectious diseases of bees.

§ 174. Keeping diseased bees prohibited; existence of disease to be reported. No person shall keep in his possession or under his care any colony of bees affected with a contagious or infectious disease. Any person who knows that any bees owned or controlled by him are affected with any contagious or infectious disease shall at once report such fact to the commissioner, stating all facts known to him with reference to said contagion or infection.

If any inspection made by the commissioner or his duly authorized representative discloses that any apiary, appliances, structures, colonies or comb are infected, the commissioner or his duly authorized representatives may give the owners or caretakers of such infected property instructions for treating such infection. If, in the judgment of the commissioner or his duly authorized representatives, it is necessary, he may order such owner to completely destroy the infected apiaries, colonies, structures, appliances or combs, or any such part of them as, in his judgment. he may deem best for the eradication or control of said infection. Said owner or person in charge shall carry out said instructions or orders within ten days after a date which shall be specified in said instructions or orders.

If said owner or person in charge refuses or neglects to carry out such instructions or orders within said period of ten days, the said commissioner or his duly authorized representative may apply said treatment or may, in his discretion, destroy such infected property. No damage shall be awarded to the owner for the loss of any infected apiary, bees, hives, apiary appliance, or bee product destroyed under the provisions of this section or any regulation or order made in pursuance thereof.

Persons keeping bees shall keep them in hives of such construction that the frames may be easily removed for examination of the brood for the purpose of determining whether disease exists in the brood.

No person shall expose in any place to which bees have access any bee product, hive or other apiary appliance in such manner that contagious or infectious diseases of bees may be disseminated. therefrom.

§ 175. Transportation of bees and bee material. No person shall transport any colony of bees, used comb, used beekeeping material, or live bees on comb, which is infected with or has been exposed to bee disease, unless it be within the beekeeper's own premises, or unless it be by permit from the commissioner.

Every shipment of a colony of bees, used comb, used beekeeping equipment, or live bees on comb into this state from another state or foreign country, shall be accompanied by a certificate of freedom of disease from an official of such state or foreign country recognized by the commissioner, and shall be held in quarantine at destination until inspected and released by the commissioner. Every transportation company upon the receipt of such shipment shall immediately notify the commissioner thereof, giving the name and address of the consignor and consignee.

L. 1909, ch. 30, § 282e amended.

L. 1903, ch. 36, 8 1

amended.

§ 175-a. Assessors shall list and report owners of bees. Assessors shall file with their annual assessment roll a list of the names and addresses of all owners of bees within their respective districts. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

CHAPTER 167

AN ACT to amend the highway law, in relation to the liability for death or injury to persons or property when a motor vehicle is operated by a person other than the owner.

Became a law March 16, 1925, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. Section two hundred and eighty-two-e of chapter thirty of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act relating to highways, constituting chapter twenty-five of the consolidated laws," as added by chapter five hundred and thirtyfour of the laws of nineteen hundred and twenty-four, is hereby amended to read as follows:

§ 282-e. Negligence of operator other than owner attributable to owner. Every owner of a motor vehicle operated upon a public highway shall be liable and responsible for death or injuries to person or property resulting from negligence in the operation of such motor vehicle, in the business of such owner or otherwise. by any person legally using or operating the same with the permission, express or implied, of such owner. All bonds executed by or policies of insurance issued to the owner of a motor vehicl shall contain a provision for indemnity or security against the liability and responsibility provided in this section. If a moto vehicle be sold under a contract of conditional sale whereby the title to such motor vehicle remains in the vendor, such vendor or his assignee shall not be deemed an owner within the provisions of this section, but the vendee or his assignee shall be deemed such owner notwithstanding the terms of such contract.

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

CHAPTER 168

AN ACT to amend chapter thirty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and three, entitled "An act to make the oflice of sheriff of Clinton county a salaried office, in part, and to regulate the management thereof," in relation to maintenance.

Became a law March 16, 1925, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. Section one of chapter thirty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and three, entitled "An act to make the office of 1 Following sentence new.

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sheriff.

sheriff of Clinton county a salaried office, in part, and to regulate the management thereof," is hereby amended to read as follows: § 1. After the expiration of the term of office of the present Salary and sheriff of the county of Clinton, the sheriff of that county shall nance of receive as compensation for all services hereinafter enumerated, an annual salary of fifteen hundred dollars, and in addition maintenance for himself and family, as herein provided. Such maintenance shall include only (a) a furnished residence in the city of Plattsburgh, or wherever the site of the county jail may be; (b) proper light, heat and water for such residence; and (c) food and laundrying for the sheriff and his family, and for the jailer, turnkey, matron and cook when maintained and supported in the residence of and as a part of the sheriff's family.

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

CHAPTER 169

AN ACT making an appropriation to the department of public works for maintenance and operation.

Became a law March 16, 1925, with the approval of the Governor. Passed, three-fifths being present.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. The following sums are hereby appropriated to the department of public works, for the purposes herein specified.

MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION.

Repairs, including dredging.

Painting, including structures and bridges, guards,

gates and all other canal equipment. . . .

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

$1,475,000.
100,000.

CHAPTER 170

AN ACT to amend the prison law, in relation to bonds of certain officers of state prisons.

Became a law March 18, 1925, with the approval of the Governor. Passed. three-fifths being present.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

ch. 47,

Section 1. Section one hundred and nineteen of chapter forty- L. 1909, seven of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act § 119 relating to prisons, constituting chapter forty-three of the consoli- amended. dated laws," as amended by chapter six hundred and thirty-one

1 Following sentence substituted for sentence which read: "Such maintenance shall not include clothing for the sheriff or his family."

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