ACT 2473. Quarterly meetings of supervisors. [Stats. 1873-74, p. 239.] АСТ 2474. Authorizing supervisors to remove bodies of certain deceased persons. [Stats. 1877-78, p. 104.] To change the name of New San Pedro to Wilmington. [Stats. 1863, See "Schools." p. 328.] NORMAL SCHOOLS. TITLE 349. NORTH BEACH AND MISSION RAILROAD COMPANY. АСТ 2489. Granting certain privileges to. [Stats. 1871-72, p. 761.] See Acts 3260, 3261, post. ACT 2490. Granting certain privileges to. [Stats. 1877-78, p. 278.] TITLE 350. NORTH SAN FRANCISCO HOMESTEAD AND RAILROAD ASSOCIATION. АСТ 2495. Authorizing sale and conveyance of lands in San Francisco to. [Stats. 1863-64, p. 482.] This act authorized the commissioners of swamp and overflowed lands to convey certain overflowed land to this corporation. ACT 2500. TITLE 351. Fresno, Tulare, and Humboldt counties, additional notaries for. [Stats. 1873-74, p. 20.] Repealed by Political Code, § 791. See Act 1564, ante. ACT 2501. Additional for certain counties. [Stats. 1873-74, p. 30.] This act provided for additional notaries in the counties of Santa Clara, Napa, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and Sonoma. АСТ 2502. Defining duties of. [Stats. 1871-72, p. 792.] Supplementing act of April 25, 1862. Repealed by Political Code, § 791. АСТ 2505. TITLE 352. Declaring Novato Creek or estuary in Marin County navigable. [Stats. 1860, p. 257.] Declared navigable. [Stats. 1858, p. 127.J Incorporated in Political Code, § 2349. ACT 2506a. TITLE 354. An act declaring property infested with certain rodents to be a public nuisance; requiring owners, occupants, and persons having possession of or dominion over such property to endeavor to exterminate and destroy such rodents; providing for the inspection of property by boards of health and health officers; authorizing boards of supervisors and other governing bodies to purchase materials and employ inspectors to prosecute such work of extermination; authorizing state and local health authorities to prosecute such work in certain cases; providing for the payment of the expense thereof; making the amount of such expense a lien on the property; providing for the collection of such amount by foreclosure of such lien; and declaring any violation of the provisions thereof to be a misde meanor. [Approved March 13, 1909. Stats. 1909, p. 311.] Duty of persons to exterminate rodents. § 1. It shall be and is hereby declared to be the duty of every person, firm, copartnership, company and corporation, owning, leasing, oceupying, possessing or having charge of or dominion over, any land, place, building, structure, wharf, pier, dock, vessel or water craft, which is infested with rats, mice, gophers or ground squirrels, or as soon as the presence of the same shall come to his, their, or its knowledge, at once to proceed and to continue in good faith to endeavor to exterminate and destroy such rodents, by poisoning, trapping, and other appropriate means. State board of health, authority of. § 2. The state board of health and inspectors appointed by such board, and local health officers and inspectors appointed for the purpose, as hereinafter provided, shall have authority and shall be permitted to enter into and upon any and all lands, places, buildings, structures, wharves, piers, docks, vessels and water craft, for the purpose of ascertaining whether the same are infested with such rodents and whether the requirements of this act as to the extermination and destruction thereof are being complied with; provided, however, that no building occupied as a dwelling, hotel or rooming-house, shall be entered for such purpose except between the hours of 9 o'clock in the forenoon and 5 o'clock in the afternoon of any day. Supervisors may appropriate moneys. §3. The board of supervisors of each county and the city council or other governing body of each city and county, city and town, whenever it may by resolution determine that it is necessary for the preservation of the public health or to prevent the spread of contagious or infectious disease, communicable to mankind, or when such board shall so determine that it is necessary to prevent great and irreparable damage to crops or other property, may appropriate money for the purchase of, and may purchase, poison, traps and other materials for the purpose of exterminating and destroying such rodents, in such county, city and county, city or town, and may employ and pay inspectors, who shall have authority to and shall prosecute such work of extermination and destruction, under the direction of such board, or of the local health officer, or board of health, on both private and public property, in such county, city and county, city or town. Refusal to exterminate. Expense of extermination. Sale of Property. § 4. Whenever any person, firm, copartnership, company or corporation, owning, leasing, occupying, possessing or having charge of or dominion over, any land, place, building, structure, wharf, pier, dock, vessel or water craft, which is infested with such rodents, shall fail, neglect or refuse to proceed and to continue to endeavor to exterminate and destroy such rodents, as herein required, it shall be the duty of the state board of health, its inspectors and the local board of health and health officer, at once to cause such nuisance to be abated by exterminating and destroying such rodents. The expense thereof shall be a charge against the county, city and county, city or town, wherein the work is done, and the board of supervisors or other governing body shall allow and pay the same. Thereupon, the clerk of such board shall file in the office of the county recorder a notice of such payment, claiming a lien on such prop erty for the amount of such payment. Any and all sums so paid by such county, city and county, city or town, shall be a lien on the property on which said nuisance shall have been abated, and may be recovered in an action against such property, which action to foreclose such lien shall be brought, within ninety days after such payment, and be prosecuted by the district, city or town attorney, in the name of such county, city and county, city or town, and for its benefit. When the property is sold, enough of the proceeds shall be paid into the treasury of such county, city and county, city or town, to satisfy such lien and the costs, and the overplus, if any there be, shall be paid to the owner of the property, if known, and if not known shall be paid into court for the use of such owner when ascertained. When it appears from the complaint in such action that the property on which such lien is to be foreclosed is likely to be removed from the jurisdiction of the court, the court may appoint a receiver to take possession of the property and hold the same while the action may be pending or until the defendant shall execute and file a bond, with sufficient sureties, conditioned for the payment of any judgment that may be recovered against him in the action and all costs. Penalty. § 5. Any violation of the provisions of this act shall be deemed a misdemeanor and shall be punishable as such. АСТ 2507. To prevent certain public nuisances. [Stats. 1852, p. 100.] АСТ 2508. Authorizing and directing district attorneys to bring suits to abate public nuisances. [Stats. 1899, p. 103.] Citations. Cal. 147/380; 150/197. Superseded by § 4156 of Political Code: See Penal Code, § 373a, and P. v. McCue, 33 Cal. Dec. 45. ACT 2508a. TITLE 355. An act to promote the better education of practitioners of nursing the sick in the state of California, to provide for the issuance of certificates of registration as a registered nurse to qualified applicants by the board of regents of the University of California, and to provide penalties for violation hereof. [Approved March 20, 1905. Stats. 1905, p. 533.] § 1. Commencing in the month of July, 1905, and at least semi-annually thereafter, the board of regents of the University of California shall hold, or cause to be held, such examination or examinations as they may deem proper to test the qualifications and fitness of applicants for certification and registration as registered nurses within the state of California. Such examinations shall be practical in character, and a reasonable notice designating the time and place thereof must be given by publication in at least two daily papers published within the state of California. § 2. All applicants for examination must furnish satisfactory evidence of good moral character and of having complied with the provisions of this act relative to qualifications; and any examiner may inquire of any applicant for examination concerning his or her character, qualifications or experience, and may take testimony in regard thereto, under oath, which he is hereby empowered to administer. § 3. All persons satisfactorily passing such examinations shall be granted by the board of regents of the University of California, a certificate stating that he or she is a registered nurse within the state of California, and shall thereafter be known and styled as a registered nurse. The secretary of the said board of regents shall keep in his office a book showing the names of all persons to whom certificates as registered nurses have been granted. Graduates of all training schools for nurses which shall have been approved by the said board of regents may be certified as registered nurses, without examination, at any time within three years after the passage of this act, upon payment of the fee prescribed in section four hereof. §4. Every person applying for examination, or for registration as a registered nurse, shall pay to the secretary of the said board of regents a fee of five dollars, which shall in no case be refunded. A certificate of registration shall be void three years after the date thereof, but a new certificate may be issued to the holder upon the payment of a fee of one dollar. All expenses incurred in carrying out the provisions of this act shall be paid from the fees and fines collected hereunder, and the surplus receipts, if any, shall be used to provide for education in nursing. § 5. (I) No person shall be eligible for examination or for registration as a registered nurse who shall not furnish satisfactory evidence of having graduated, from a nurses' training school: (a) that is attached to a reputable hospital; (b) that gives a general training and a systematic, theoretical and practical course of study covering a period of at least two years; (c) and that has been approved by the board of regents of the University of California. (II) After January 1, 1908, no person shall be eligible for examination or for registration as a registered nurse, unless: (a) He or she is at least twenty-one years of age; (b) He or she is a graduate of a training school approved by the board of regents of the University of California, and after said date no school shall be approved or remain on the list of schools approved by said |