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fires, and prescribe limits within which no dangerous nor obnoxious and offensive business may be carried on.

Fire ordinances.

Sec. 22. They may adopt such ordinance, within the purview of the preceding section, as they may deem proper to prevent fires and conflagrations, and for the protection of property at and during the pendency of any fire, and for that purpose may provide that at and during the pendency of any fire the officers of the fire company or companies present shall be vested with police powers. Such ordinances shall be signed by the said fire commissioners, and published in a newspaper printed in said town or village, or posted in three of the most public places thereof, for the period of two weeks, at the end of which time it shall be and become a law for the government of the inhabitants of said town or village.

Misdemeanor.

Sec. 23. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of said ordinance shall be guilty of misdemeanor.

Prosecutions.

Sec. 24. Any justice of the peace within the townships within which said town or village is situated shall have jurisdiction of all prosecutions under this act, and sections fourteen hundred and twenty-six to fourteen hundred and forty-nine, both inclusive, title nine, chapter one, of the Penal Code, are hereby made applicable to proceedings under this act.

Repeal of prior acts.

Sec. 25. All acts or parts of acts, so far as they do conflict with the provisions hereof, are hereby repealed.

Act takes effect when.

Sec. 26. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

An Act authorizing and requiring boards or commissions having the management and control of paid fire departments, to grant the members thereof yearly vacations.

[1. Approved March 26, 1895; Stats. 1895, p. 76. 2. Amended, becoming a law, under constitutional provision, without governor's approval, March 4, 1899; Stats. 1899, p. 57. 3. Amended March 8, 1905; Stats. 1905, p. 39.]

Vacations for members.

Section 1. In every city or city and county of this state where there is a regularly organized paid fire department, the board of supervisors, common council, commissions or other body having the management and control of the same are authorized and required once in every year to provide for each regular or permanent member thereof, a leave of absence from active duty of not less than five, nor more than fifteen days, in each year and in addition thereto a leave of absence from active duty of four days in every month of such service. Leave of absenee so granted, as aforesaid, must be arranged by said board of [or] commissions, so as not to interfere with or [in] any way impair the efficiency of the said department; no deduction must be made from the salary or pay of any member of such fire department granted such leave of absence in [under] the provisions of this act. [Amendment. Approved March 3, 1905; Stats. 1905, p. 39.]

Act takes effect when.

Sec. 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

An Act to authorize the board of supervisors or other governing authority of the several counties, cities and counties, cities, and towns of the state to provide pensions or benefits for the relief of aged, infirm, or disabled firemen.

[1. Approved March 11, 1889; Stats. 1889, p. 108. 2. Amended March 23, 1901;
Stats. 1901, p. 575.]
Pensions for aged, infirm, or disabled firemen.
Qualifications of beneficiaries under this act.
Act takes effect when.

§ 1.

§ 2.

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Amount of pension. Exception.

Pensions for aged, infirm, or disabled firemen.

Section 1. The board of supervisors, or other governing authority of the several counties, cities and counties, cities and towns of the state in which fire departments exist, shall, upon the written petition of a majority of the lawfully registered electors of any such political division respectively, by appropriate ordinances, provide a fund by general tax upon the property of the county, city and county, city, or town, for

the relief of aged, infirm, or disabled firemen; provided, that such disability shall be caused by exposure while in the discharge of such duty. [Amendment. Approved March 23, 1901; Stats. 1901, p. 575.]

Qualifications of beneficiaries under this act. Amount of pension. Ex

ception. Sec. 2. No person shall be entitled to any benefits from any fund created by authority of this act, unless he shall have served as an active member in the fire department of such county, city and county, city, or town, at least fifteen years, and any person having served in the fire department of such county, city and county, city, or town, at least fifteen years, may make application to be placed on the retired list of such fire department, and he shall receive the sum of not more than twenty-five (25) dollars and not less than fifteen (15) dollars per month, to be paid out of said fund, and those members of a fire department who have been paid a stipulated salary, having served fifteen years in such fire department, shall receive an amount equal to one half of the salary provided by law at the time of such retirement; provided, that any person injured in the actual discharge of fire duty shall be entitled to the benefits of this act regardless of his length of service in the fire department of any such county, city and county, city, or town. [Amendment. Approved March 23, 1901; Stats. 1901, p. 575.]

Act takes effect when.

Sec. 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage.

An Act to provide for increasing the efficiency of fire departments within municipalities of the first class in the state of California.

[Approved March 4, 1897; Stats. 1897, p. 61.]

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Section 1. Whenever the public interest, safety, or convenience may require, or it be deemed expedient, the city council of any municipality of the first class may, by ordinance, make and enforce such rules and regulations within said municipality as may be necessary or proper for increasing the efficiency of its fire department, and to that end, among other things, may provide for and authorize the appointment and continued employment of such officers, engineers, members, firemen, em

ployees, and other help in and for said fire department, in addition to those whose employment is now or may be hereafter authorized by law, as the needs of said department may require; and may fix their salaries and compensation, and may increase the salaries and compensation of the officers, engineers, members, firemen, employees, and other help now or hereafter authorized by law, whose salaries and compensation, as now or hereafter fixed, may be deemed inadequate. And said eity council may in like manner provide for the purchase and repair, and authorize to be purchased and kept in repair, in addition to those for the purchase and repair of which provision is now or may be hereafter made by law, all additional engines, horses, hook-and-ladder wagons, and all such other engines, machinery, implements, extinguishers, and other apparatus that may be necessary, advantageous, or auxiliary, to extinguish or afford adequate protection against fire. And in order to provide the necessary funds with which to accomplish the foregoing ends, may make all necessary and supplementary appropriations, allowances, and payments in addition to those now or hereafter authorized by law.

Control of appointees.

Sec. 2. The officers, engineers, members, firemen, employees, and other help to be appointed as provided in section one of this act, shall be appointed, governed, and controlled in the same manner and by the same laws as their fellow-officers, engineers, members, firemen, employees, and other help whose appointment is now or may be hereafter authorized by law are appointed, governed, and controlled. The engines, wagons, machinery, implements, extinguishers, and other apparatus, the purchase and repair of which are authorized by section one of this act, shall be purchased and repaired in like manner and under the same regulations as like articles, the purchase and repair of which are now or may be hereafter authorized by law are purchased and repaired. City council, defined.

Sec. 3.

The term "city council" as used in this act is hereby declared to include any body or bodies, board or boards, which, under law, constitute the legislative department of any municipality of the first class. Act takes effect when.

Sec. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

An Act relating to fire departments of municipalities of the first class, and fixing the salaries of officers thereof.

[Approved March 27, 1897; Stats. 1897, p. 192.]

Salaries of officers of fire departments in cities of first class.

Section 1. In municipalities of the first class the following officers of its fire department shall receive the following salaries per annum:

Chief engineer, five thousand dollars.

Assistant chief engineer, three thousand six hundred dollars.
Secretary, or clerk, three thousand dollars.

Assistant engineers, two thousand one hundred dollars each.
Veterinary surgeons, one thousand eight hundred dollars.

Said salaries shall be paid in the same manner as is now provided by law.

Act takes effect when.

Sec. 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

Code commissioner's note. "Apparently unconstitutional, under the rule announced in Popper v. Broderick, 123 Cal. 456."

GOVERNOR.

An Act to authorize the governor to employ a stenographer for his office, and to provide for the payment of his salary.

[Approved January 15, 1891; Stats. 1891, p. 1.]

§ 1. Governor to appoint stenographer.

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Section 1. The governor of California is hereby authorized to appoint a stenographer to assist him in the duties of his office, and who shall serve during his pleasure. He shall perform such duties as may be assigned him by the governor from time to time. The salary of such stenographer shall be sixteen hundred dollars per annum, payable as the salary of state officers.

Appropriation.

Sec. 2. The sum of eight hundred dollars is hereby appropriated out of the general fund of the state treasury for the payment of the salary of the stenographer during the forty-second fiscal year.

Act takes effect when.

Sec. 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage.

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