ACT 1516. To prevent the spreading of fruit and fruit tree pests and diseases, and to provide for their extirpation. [Approved March 9, 1885. Stats. 1885, 40.] Superseded 1899, 91. ACT 1517. For the protection of horticulture, and to prevent the introduction into this state of insects, or, diseases or animals injurious to fruit or fruit-trees, vines, bushes, or vegetables, and to provide for a quarantine for the enforcement of this act. [Stats. 1899, p. 91] Amended 1903, 32. 1 TITLE 210. ACT 1522. HOSPITALS. Conferring power upon the governing body of municipal corporations of the first class to provide for the erection of a municipal hospital, and to levy a tax therefor. [Approved. February 16, 1897. Stats. 1897, p. 9.]. ACT 1523, An act to provide for the licensing and inspecting of maternity hospitals, lying-in asylums and homes for children; defining the duties of persons conducting the same; and the duties and powers of the county boards of health or county health officers and other health officers in relation thereto, and providing a penalty for the violation of its provisions. [Approved March 20, 1903. Stats. 1903, p. 317.] The people of the state of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Any person who, without first having obtained a license in writing so to do from the county board of health or county health officers, as hereinafter provided, manages, conducts, establishes or maintains within any county or city and county in this state any maternity hospital or lying-in asylum where females may be received, cared for or treated during pregnancy, or during or after delivery; or manages, conducts, establishes or maintains within any county or city and county in this state any institution, boarding-house, home or other place for the reception or care of children, or keeps, at any such place, any child under the age of twelve years, not his relative, apprentice, or ward, without legal commitment; or neglects, refuses or omits to comply with the provisions of this act, or who violates the provisions of such act, is guilty of a misdemeanor. Sec. 2. For such places within the limits of their respective territorial jurisdictions, the county board of health in all counties or city and county governments, having a county board of health, and in all other counties or city and county governments, the county health officer shall have power to issue licenses, and every such license must specify the name and residence of the person so undertaking the care of such females or children; and the location within the county or city and county of the place where the same are kept and the number of females or children thereby allowed to be received, boarded or kept therein, and shall be revocable for cause by the said county board of health or county health officer, as the case may be, in any case where the provisions of this act are violated, or in any case where, in the opinion of such county board of health or such county health officer, such hospital, asylum, institution, home, boarding-house or other place is being managed, conducted or maintained without proper regard for the health, comfort or morality of the inmates thereof, or without due regard or proper sanitation or hygiene. Sec. 3. Every person so licensed must keep a register, wherein he shall enter the names and addresses of all such females, the names and ages of all such children, and of all children born on the premises, and the names and residences of their parents, so far as is known, and the time of the reception and discharge of such children and the reasons therefor, and also the name and age of every child who is given out, adopted, taken away, or indentured from such place, to or by any person, together with the name and residence of the person so adopting, taking away or indenturing such child; and within forty-eight hours after such child is so given out, taken away or indentured, shall cause a correct copy of the register relating to such child to be sent to the county board of health or county health officer, as the case may be. Sec. 4. It shall be lawful for the officers and repre sentatives of such county board of health, or for such county health officers and their representatives, and for all health officers, at all reasonable times, to enter and inspect the premises wherein such females and children are so boarded, received or kept, and to call for and inspect the license and the register and to also to see and visit such children and females. ACT 1528. TITLE 211. An act to regulate the use of illuminating gas. [Approved March 20, 1903. Stats. 1903, 289.] The people of the state of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Every hotel-keeper, lodging-house keeper, and inn-keeper, or keeper of any place where rooms are let to lodgers in which, or any of which such places illuminating gas is used, who shall turn off, or cause to be turned off at the meter the flow of such illuminating gas, during the time of the use of any such room or rooms, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; provided, however, that this act shall not apply to any of the persons herein enumerated, when such person or persons shall have connected every exit orifice upon the gas fixtures used in such place or places with a practical and safe automatic gas igniter. Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force immediately from and after its passage. TITLE 212. HOURS OF LABOR. Of minors, see title Infancy, post. ACT 1533. To limit the hours of labor. [Stats. 1867-8, 63.] Superseded by Political Code, secs. 3244, 3245, and Penal Code, sec. 651. ACT 1534. Limiting the hours of daily services of laborers, workmen, and mechanics employed upon the public works of or work done for the state of California, or any political subdivision thereof, providing for the insertion of certain stipulations in contracts for publie works, imposing penalties for violations of the provisions of this act, and providing for the enforcement thereof. [Stats. 1899, 149.3] Superseded by the following act:→→→ ACT 1535. An act limiting the hours of daily service of laborers. workmen, and mechanics employed upon the public works of, or work done for, the state of California, or any political subdivision thereof; providing for the insertion of certain stipulations in contracts for public works; imposing penalties for violations of the provisions of this act, and providing for enforcement thereof. [Approved March 23, 1901. Stats. 1901, 561.1 The people of the state of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: 10 Section 1. The time of service of all laborers, workmen, and mechanics employed upon any public works of, or work done for, the state of California, or for any political subdivision thereof, whether said work is done by contract or otherwise, is hereby limited and restricted to eight hours in any one calendar day; and it shall be unlawful for any officer of the state, or of any political subdivision thereof, or for any person, corporation, or association acting in behalf thereof, whose duty it shall be to employ, or to direct and control the services of such said laborers, workmen, or mechanics upon any of the above said public works, or who have, in fact, the employment, or the direction and control of the services of such said laborers, workmen, or mechanics upon any of said works, to require or permit them, or any of them, to labor thereupon more than eight hours in any one calendar day, except in cases of extraor dinary emergency caused by fire, flood, or danger to life. property, or except to work upon public, military, or naval works or defenses in time of war. Sec. 2. In every case in which a contract is made for or on behalf of the state of California, or for or on behalf of any political subdivision thereof, which involves the em ployment of laborers, workmen, or mechanics to do work to be done upon the public works of, or work to be done for the said state, or for the said political subdivision thereof, under the terms of said contract, the officer, board, commission, or other agent or agency of the said state, or of the said political subdivision, acting for or on behalf of said state, or of said political subdivision, as the case may be, in making and awarding the said contract, shall cause to be inserted therein, and to be agreed to by every person, firm, or corporation to whom said contract or any interest therein is awarded, as a condition upon which such award is made and accepted, a stipulation, namely: That no laborer, workman, or mechanic employed at any time by the said contractor or contractors, or by any sub-contractor or sub-contractors under him or under them, upon the work, or upon any part of the work contemplated by the said contract, shall be required or permitted to work thereupon more than eight hours in any one calendar day, except in cases of extraordinary emergency caused by fire, flood, or danger to life or property, or except to work upon public, military, or naval works or defenses in time of war; that the said contractor or contractors thereby agrees or agree to forfeit, out of any moneys becoming due to him or to them from the state, or from the political subdivision thereof, as the case may be, under the terms of the said contract, the sum of ten dollars for each laborer, workman, or mechanic, for each and every calendar day upon which he shall labor more than eight hours in violation of the terms of the said stipulation, and that the state, or the political subdivision thereof, as the case may be, is thereby authorized and directed to, through its proper representatives, withhold from the said contractor, or from the said contractors, as the property of the state, or of the political subdivision thereof, as the case may be, all sums forfeited as described under the terms of the said stipulation. It shall be the duty of the officer, board, commission, or other agent or agency of the said state, or of the said political subdivision thereof, as the case may be, acting for or on behalf of said state, or of said political subdivision, in making and awarding any contract such as is described in this section, to take cognizance of all violation of the herein provided for stipulation in said contract, and to report the same to the officer, or other person, representing the said state, or political subdivision thereof, whose duty it shall be to pay the moneys due under such contract, and it shall be the |