bonds for the payment of the improvement of such highways Proviso, issue, as the commissioners of highways decide to make: Prohow approved. vided, Such issue is approved by a vote of the electors of such county or district: Provided further. That such bonds. are not issued in excess of three per cent of the valuation of the property assessable for the said highway improvement. Further proviso, limit. How applied. Election on question of issue. How governed. Further proviso, general election. SEC. 3. Such bonds shall not run for longer then twenty years, nor be sold for less than par, and it is further provided that the funds arising from the sale of such bonds shall be applied solely to the building of improved highways under the control of the road commissioners for the county or road district. SEC. 4. It is further hereby provided that the board of supervisors in the county may order an election on the question of issuing such bonds in the county or road district on petition of twenty-five freeholders residing in the territory affected, and such election may be held under the provisions of the general election laws. SEC. 5. It is further provided that, if a general election be held within six months of the filing of such a petition as is referred to above, the question of issuance of such bonds shall be submitted at such election, but if not, a special election for this question may be called by the board of supervisors. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Sections amended. [No. 169.] AN ACT to amend sections one, two, three, ten and seventeen, of act number one hundred thirteen of the public acts of nineteen hundred one, as amended by act number one hundred seventy-one, public acts of nineteen hundred five, entitled "An act to provide for the inspection of manufacturing establishments, workshops, hotels and stores in this State; to provide for the regulation of such establishments, and the employment of women and children therein; to regulate the conduct of sweatshops, so-called; to provide for the enforcement of the provisions of this act; and to make an appropriation for the purpose of carrying out the same." The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Sections one, two, three, ten and seventeen of act number one hundred thirteen of the public acts of nineteen hundred one, as amended by act number one hundred seventy-one, public acts of nineteen hundred five, entitled "An act to provide for the inspection of manufacturing estab lishments, workshops, hotels and stores, in this State; to provide for the regulation of such establishments, and the employment of women and children therein; to regulate the conduct of sweatshops, so-called; to provide for the enforcement of the provisions of this act; and to make an appropriation for the purpose of carrying out the same," is hereby amended to read as follows: limited for females. SEC. 1. No male under the age of eighteen years and no Hours of female shall be employed in any manufacturing establish- employment ment in this State for a longer period than sixty hours in minors and any one week, unless for the purpose of making necessary repairs to machinery in order to avoid the stoppage of the ordinary running of such establishments, and that no male under the age of eighteen years and no female shall be employed in any store in the State, employing more than ten persons, for a longer period than sixty hours in any one week: Provided, That no more than ten hours shall be exacted from Proviso. such male minor or female on any day unless for the purpose of making a shorter workday on the last day of the week. of children. what to SEC. 2. No child under the age of twenty-one years shall Employment be employed, permitted or suffered to work in any theatre, concert hall or place of amusement where intoxicating liquors are sold, and no child under the age of fourteen years shall be employed in any mercantile institution, store, office, hotel, laundry, manufacturing establishment, passenger or freight elevator, factory or workshop, telegraph or messenger service within this State. It shall be the duty Register, of every person employing children to keep a register in which contain. shall be recorded the name, birthplace, age and place of residence of every person employed by him or her under the age of sixteen years and that no child shall be employed between the hours of six o'clock p. m. and seven o'clock a. m. in any manufacturing establishment or workshop in this State and it shall be unlawful for any mercantile institution, store, office, hotel, laundry, manufacturing establishment, work- When unshop, telegraph or messenger service or any person coming employ, etc. within the provisions of this act to hire or employ any child under the age of sixteen years without there is first provided and placed on file a sworn statement made by the parent or guardian, stating the age, date and place of birth of said child and that the child can read and write the English language: Provided, however, That if said child has been Proviso, as to born in a foreign country, not having been a resident of the United States for three years prior to the application for permit to be employed between the age of fourteen and sixteen years a permit shall be issued to said child upon proof that said child can read and write. If said child have no Statement, parent or guardian then said statement shall be made by where filed. lawful to foreign born. how made. Further proviso. Age restriction for dangerous etc. the child, which statement shall be kept on file by the employer, and be returned to the child upon leaving his employ, and which said register and statement shall be produced for inspection on demand of any factory inspector appointed under this act: Provided further, That in the city of Detroit and the city of Grand Rapids all sworn statements shall be made before a deputy factory inspector. SEC. 3. No female under the age of twenty-one years and no male under the age of eighteen years shall be employed employment, by any person, firm or corporation at employment whereby his or her life or limb is endangered, or health likely to be injured, or his or her morals may be depraved by such employment and that no such male or female shall be allowed to clean machinery while in motion. Wash and dressing rooms. Where both sexes are employed. Proviso, in hotels. Permit for certain etc. SEC. 10. Every manufacturing establishment, workshop, hotel or store in which five or more persons are employed, and every institution in which two or more children, young persons or women are employed, shall be supplied with proper wash and dressing rooms, and kept in a cleanly state and free from effluvia arising from any drain, privy, or other nuisance, and shall be provided within reasonable access with a sufficient number of proper water closets, earth closets or privies for the reasonable use of persons employed therein, at least one of such closets for each twenty-five persons employed; and wherever two or more persons and one or more female persons are employed as aforesaid, a sufficient number of separate and distinct water closets, earth closets or privies shall be provided for the use of each sex, and plainly so designated and no person shall be allowed to use any such closet or privy assigned to persons of the other sex: Provided, That in all hotels where sleeping rooms are provided for female help such rooms shall have proper heat and ventilation. SEC. 17. No room or apartment in any tenement or dwellmanufacturing ing house shall be used for the manufacture of coats, vests, in tenements, trousers, knee pants, overalls, skirts, dresses, cloaks, hats, caps, suspenders, jerseys, blouses, waists, waist bands, underwear, neckwear, furs, fur trimmings, fur garments, shirts, hosiery, purses, feathers, artificial flowers, cigarettes or cigars, and no person, firm or corporation shall hire or employ any persons to work in any room, apartment or in any building or parts of buildings, at making, in whole or in part, any of the articles mentioned in this section, without first obtaining a written permit from the factory inspector, or one of his deputies, stating the maximum number of persons allowed to be employed therein and that the building or part of building intended to be used for such work or business is thoroughly cleaned, sanitary and fit for occupancy for such work or business. Such permit shall not be granted until an inspection of such premises is made by the factory Revocation of. inspector or one of his deputies. Said permit may be re What to state. quired. contain, etc. seamstress. rooms, voked by the factory inspector at any time the health of the community or of those so employed may require it: Provided Further proviso, light, further, That in all stores where goods are manufactured, heat, etc., in altered or repaired, work rooms shall be provided with suf- certain stores. ficient light, heat and ventilation, as prescribed in this section. It shall be framed and posted in a conspicuous place in the room, or in one of the rooms to which it relates. Every person, firm, company or corporation contracting for Production of the manufacture of any of the articles mentioned in this sec- permit retion, or giving out the incomplete material from which they or any of them are to be made, or to be wholly or partially finished, shall, before contracting for the manufacture of any of said articles, or giving out said material from which they or any of them are to be made, require the production by such contractor, person or persons of said permit from the factory inspector, as required in this section, and shall keep a written register of the names and addresses of all persons Register to be to whom such work is given to be made, or with whom they kept, what to may have contracted to do the same. Such register shall be produced for inspection and a copy thereof shall be furnished on demand made by the factory inspector or one of his deputies: Provided, That nothing in this section shall be so con- Proviso, strued as to prevent the employment of a seamstress by any family for manufacturing articles for such family use. None Sleeping of the work mentioned in this section shall be done in any certain work room or apartment used for living or sleeping purposes, or not to be done which is connected with the room or rooms used for such purposes, and which has not a separate and distinct outside entrance, except by members of the family dwelling therein. Not less than two hundred and fifty cubic feet of air space Light, ventilation, shall be allowed for each person employed, and all work etc. rooms shall be provided with sufficient means of light, heat and ventilation as may be prescribed by the chief factory inspector. It shall be the duty of local boards of health, health Contagious officers and physicians to report within twenty-four hours diseases. to the deputy factory inspector in their respective districts each and every case of contagious or infectious disease coming officially to their knowledge. The chief factory inspector Inspectors or any duly appointed deputy factory inspector shall have and disinfect power to seize and take charge of all articles found that are certain being made or partially made, finished, cleaned or repaired in unhealthy or unsanitary places where there are contagious or infectious diseases, in violation of the law, and may proceed to disinfect, condemn or destroy the same as in the opinion of the local board of health officer, the public health or safety may require. Whenever it is reported to the chief Certain goods factory inspector or to the State Board of Health, or to State. either of them, that any of the articles named in this section are being or have been shipped into this State, having previously been manufactured in whole or in part under un in. may seize articles. shipped into Further proviso, certain stores. healthy conditions, said chief factory inspector shall examine said goods and the condition of their manufacture, and if upon such examination said goods or any of them are found to contain vermin or to have been made in improper places or under unhealthy conditions, he shall make report thereof to the State Board of Health, which board shall thereupon make such order or orders as the public health and safety may require: Provided further, That in stores where goods are manufactured, altered or repaired, workrooms shall be provided with proper heat, light and ventilation, as prescribed in this section. Approved June 18, 1907. Section amended. Open season for certain water fowl. Proviso, spring duck shooting. [No. 170.] AN ACT to amend section thirteen of act number two hundred fifty-seven, of the public acts of nineteen hundred five, entitled "An act to revise and amend the laws for the protection of game and birds." The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section thirteen of act number two hundred fifty-seven of the public acts of nineteen hundred five, entitled "An act to revise and amend the laws for the protection of game and birds," is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 13. No person shall injure, kill or destroy, or attempt to injure, kill or destroy by any means whatever any kind of wild duck, snipe, plover, wood cock, or any kind of wild water fowl save only from September first in each year to January first of the year following both inclusive and then only from one-half hour before sunrise until one hour after sunset of each day: Provided, however, That in addition to the open season for wild fowl shooting hereinbefore in this section established, it shall be lawful to hunt and kill blue bills, canvas back, read head, widgeon, pin tails, whistlers, spoon bills, butter ball, and snipe, between the second day of March and the twenty-fifth day of April both inclusive in each year: And Provided further, That it shall be lawful to hunt and kill wild geese, brant and saw bill ducks and saw bills. between the first day of September in each year and the first day of January in the year following and from the second. day of March to the twenty-fifth day of April. No person or persons shall hunt, pursue, worry or kill any wild water Further proviso, geese, brant Floating devices unlawful. |