which are used for drinking or domestic purposes by any city, town or village within a distance of two miles above the intake or place where such city, town or village water system takes water from such river or stream; provided, however, that in the transportation of any such houseboat on any such river or stream nothing herein contained shall prevent the owner, agent, tenant or occupant of such house-boat from mooring or anchoring the same when necessary within the limits herein fixed and established; provided, such house-boat shall not remain moored or anchored within such limits for a longer period than one day. It shall be unlawful for any person to erect, construct, excavate or maintain on or near the banks of any river or stream and within two miles above the intake of any water supply used for domestic or drinking purposes in any city, town or village any privy, vault, cesspool, sewer-pipe or conduit which shall cause or suffer to be discharged into said stream or river any sewage, garbage, feculent matter, offal, filth, refuse, or any animal, mineral or vegetable matter, or substance offensive, injurious or dangerous to health. Penal clause. §2. Any person who violates any of the provisions of section 1 of this act is guilty of a misdemeanor. Each day's violation of any of the provisions of said section 1 shall constitute a separate and distinct offense. Public nuisances. Abatement of. §3. Any privy, vault, cesspool, sewer-pipe or conduit erected, coustructed, excavated or maintained on or near the banks of any river or stream within two miles above the intake of any water supply used for drinking or domestic purposes in any city, town or village, which shall cause or suffer to be discharged therefrom sewage, garbage, feculent matter, offal, refuse, filth or any animal, mineral or vegetable matter or substance, offensive, injurious or dangerous to health into such river or stream, and any house-boat or boat intended for or capable of being used as a residence, house, dwelling or habitation, which shall for more than one day be moored or anchored in or upon any river or stream within two miles above the intake of any water supply used for domestic or drinking purposes in any city, town or village are hereby declared to be public nuisances; and it is hereby made the duty of any and all sheriffs, constables, policemen and health officers to immediately abate said nuisance. § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. ACT 4369. TITLE 558. An act to secure the safety of the public at bathing places upon the seacoast and lakes. [Approved March 10, 1909. Stats. 1909, p. 261.] $1. Every person, firm of persons, or corporation, owning or conducting within this state a bathhouse, or other public place for the pur Gen. Laws-95 pose of accommodating bathers, bordering upon or adjoining the seacoast or a lake where the public resort for the purpose of bathing in the open sea or lake shall keep one or more lifeboats fully equipped with oars, oarlocks, and not less than two life-preservers, and two hundred feet of rope, always in good repair and near the bathhouse or resort. Such boat or boats shall have the words "lifeboat" plainly printed or painted upon them, and they shall be used for no other purpose than for saving of life or for other cases of emergency. §2. Any person, firm of persons, or corporation who fails to comply with the provisions of this act is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than ten nor more than two hundred dollars or be imprisoned in the county jail not less than ten days nor more than six months, or by both fine and imprisonment. §3. This act shall take effect thirty days after its passage. Incorporating Watsonville. [Stats. 1867-68, p. 688.] Amended 1873-74, p. 43; 1875-76, p. 511; 1877-78, p. 363. Superseded by incorporating, in 1889, under the statute of 1883. TITLE 560. АСТ 4376. Weaverville, preventing hogs and goats running at large in. [Stats. 1877-78, p. 33.] Repealed by estray law, 1897, p. 198. TITLE 561. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. ACT 4381. To establish a standard of weights and measures. [Stats. 1861, p. 86.] Amended 1861, p. 346; 1863, p. 737. Superseded by Political Code, §§ 3209 3223. ACT 4382. To establish a standard of weights and measures. [Stats. 1891, p. 487.] "Of doubtful constitutionality, and has never been acted under. (Condict v Police Court, 59 Cal. 278; sec. 14, art. XI, State Const.; subd. 5, sec. 8, art. I Const. of U. S.)"-Code Commissioners' Note. ACT 4383. An act relating to weights and weighers for warehousemen and wharfingers, and matters connected therewith. [Approved March 24, 1903. Stats. 1903, p. 387.] § 1. All persons now engaged in or who may hereafter engage in a general warehouse, wharfinger or storage business for the storage of grain or other commodities, which in the course of such business are weighed, shall, before they engage in such business, or within sixty days after the appointment of an inspector of weights as provided in section 4 of this act, designate in writing a person or persons as weigher or weighers for such business at the place thereof, and the person or persons so designated shall thereupon, and before they shall do any weighing for such business subscribe, before an officer authorized to administer oaths, the following oath, to wit: "(I or we) designated as (weigher or weighers) will correctly weigh all grain or other commodities brought to (here designating the business and place of business) for storage or weighing, or which may be taken out from the same, and in all cases render to the person bringing or receiving the same, as the case may be, upon demand, a full, true and correct account of the weight thereof." § 2. All persons engaged in the business in the foregoing section mentioned shall keep for and use in such business no other than true and correct scales and weights. Said designation and said oath shall thereupon and within the time aforesaid, be recorded in the office of the recorder of the county in which such business is to be or is being carried on. No person, excepting the person or persons thus designated and subscribing and recording such oath shall do any of the weighing of such business. §3. Every person engaged in the business in said section 1 mentioned, shall keep and use therein none but true weights, and scales; said weights must conform to the United States standard of weights. § 4. The board of supervisors of the respective counties of the state of California, hereby are authorized to appoint for their respective counties an inspector of weights and measures, who shall hold office at the pleasure of said board and receive such compensation as each board may allow, and whose duty it shall be from time to time to test and examine all scales and weights kept or used in the business in the foregoing sections mentioned, and report all violations of this act to the district attor ney of such county, whose duty it shall be to prosecute all violations hereof. § 5. Every violation of this act shall be and is punishable as a misdemeanor. § 6. Besides the prosecution of the criminal actions herein provided for, every person defrauded by false or incorrect weighing shall be en title to recover from the person owning or conducting such business as in the foregoing sections mentioned, in any court of competent jurisdiction, three times the amount of such shortage in weight of the grain or other commodity so delivered or taken out by him. ACT 4388. TITLE 562. WEST SIDE IRRIGATION DISTRICT. Act creating. [Stats. 1875-76, p. 731.] Supplemented 1875-76, p. 885. Superseded by 1877-78, p. 468. Repealed as to Contra Costa and Alameda counties, 1877-78, p. 887. TITLE 563. ACT 4393. In relation to warehouse and wharfinger receipts, and other matters pertaining thereto. [Stats. 1877-78, p. 949.] Citations. Cal. 75/355; 108/140, 141; 111/380. Codified by §§ 1858-1858f of Civil Code. TITLE 564. WHARVES. The Political Code, §§ 2906 et seq., 2520 et seq. and 2567 et seq., seems to have superseded the old legislation on the subject of wharves. АСТ 4398. Authorizing supervisors of counties to grant the right to construct wharves. [Stats. 1858, p. 120.] Amended 1869-70, p. 526; 1871-72, p. 908. Superseded by Political Code, 2906 et seq. ACT 4403. TITLE 565. Incorporation of. [Stats. 1873-74, p. 351.] Amended 1875-76, p. 19; 1877-78, p. 441. Superseded by incorporating, in 1891, under Municipal Corporation Act of 1883. АСТ 4408. TITLE 566. WHITTIER STATE SCHOOL. To establish the Whittier Reform School for Juvenile Offenders. [Stats. 1889, p. 111.] Amended 1893, p. 328; 1905, p. 80; 1907, p. 3; 1909, p. 988. Citations. Cal. 93/639; 110/653; 117/536; 122/296, 297, 298, 299, 300301; 138/495. App. 3/740; 5/471, 472, 473. In full in Appendix to Penal Code, p. 868. ACT 4409. To prevent evil-disposed persons from coming upon the grounds of. [Stats. 1895, p. 92.1 Codified by §§ 171a, 171b, 171c of Penal Code. ACT 4410. Relating to the commitments to the state school at Whittier and to the Preston School of Industry, fixing the authority to examine and commit to such schools with the superior court judges of the counties, and fixing the responsibilities from which commitments are made to the state for the maintenance of the persons committed therefrom; providing the manner of payment therefor and fixing the responsibility of the parents to the counties from which their children are committed. [Stats. 1895, p. 122.] Citations. Cal. 138/494, 495. In full in Appendix, Penal Code, p. 2134. АСТ 4411. An act to authorize the board of trustees of the Whittier State School to contract for the care and keeping of girls committed to said school in charitable or benevolent institutions or with private persons, and to pay for their care while in such institution or with such persons. [Approved March 18, 1905. Stats. 1905, p. 226.] Former act: See Stats. 1903, p. 514. АСТ 4412. An act to authorize the trustees of the Preston School of Industry and the Whittier State School to acquire property by gift, bequest or devise. [Approved March 6, 1909. Stats. 1909, p. 149.] АСТ 4415. TITLE 567. Incorporating town of. [Stats. 1871-72, p. 108.] Amended 1871-72, p. 446. Sections 8 and 16 repealed, 1887, pp. 108, 109. ACT 4420. TITLE 568. WOMAN'S RELIEF CORPS. To assist the Woman's Relief Corps Home Association to provide for ex-army nurses, and the worthy destitute widows, wives, mothers, and destitute maiden daughters or sisters of veterans who served honorably in the war for the Union, and making an appropriation therefor. [Approved April 1, 1897. Stats. 1897, p. 447.] Citations. App. 8/529, 530, 531, 532, 534, 536, 537. Codified by §§ 2210-2210g of Political Code. |