77 CALIFORNIA STATE TRADES AND TRAINING SCHOOL. Act 513, §§ 1-5 TITLE 74. CALIFORNIA STATE TRADES AND TRAINING SCHOOL. ACT 513. An act to authorize the establishment of the California State Trades and Training School for dependent orphans, half-orphans, abandoned chil dren and children committed by court and placed under guardianship of the board of trustees, the appointment of a board of trustees, the purchase of a site, the preparation of plans and specifications for grounds and buildings, and to make the necessary appropriation therefor. [Approved April 14, 1909. Stats. 1909, p. 887.] California State Trades and Training School. §1. There is hereby established in this state a school to be known as the California State Trades and Training School. The purpose of this school is to furnish to the dependent orphans, half-orphans, abandoned children and children ordered committed by the court, of both sexes, mental and manual training, in the arts, sciences and trades, including agriculture, mechanics, engineering, business methods, domestic economy and such other branches as will fit the students for the different occupations of life. Location of. §2. The California State Trades and Training School shall be located at such a place as may be selected by the governor, attorney general, secretary of state, one member of the senate and one member of the assembly appointed by the governor, who are hereby named as a commission to select a proper site for the aforesaid school, the same to be as near as possible centrally located in the state, with a view to making it the most useful, convenient and economical in its conduct. Appointment of trustees. §3. Within thirty days after this act goes into effect the governor shall appoint four persons who, in connection with the secretary of the state board of examiners, shall constitute a board of trustees of said school. Term of office. § 4. The term of office of the trustees shall be four years, except that in the appointment of the four persons mentioned in section 3, the governor, in the first appointment of trustees shall appoint two for a term of two years and two for four years, and the acting secretary of the state board of examiners shall constitute the other member of said board who will act during his term of office. Appropriation. $5. The sum of $125,000 is hereby appropriated out of any moneys belonging to the state, not otherwise appropriated, for the purchase of a site and the preparation of the necessary plans and specifications for grounds and buildings; provided, that if any or all of the money is not expended as provided above then it shall immediately become available for the purchase of material and employment of labor for erection of the buildings needed for the school. Who eligible to admission. § 6. The children who are eligible for admission to the California State Trades and Training School must be dependent orphans, abandoned children and half-orphans whose surviving parent is unable to support such children, and such other children as may be ordered committed by court and placed under guardianship of the board of trustees of the California State Trades and Training School who have been taken from parents for their protection and education. Conditions of admission. §7. Children admitted to the California State Trades and Training School must be at least fourteen years of age and not over eighteen years, and must be of sound mind, free from contagious or other diseases that would unfit them for admission, and must be acceptable to the board of trustees in other ways, and any such children on arriving at the age of eighteen years shall be discharged and the trustees of said school be relieved from further guardianship. Control of children. § 8. All children admitted either from orphan homes, juvenile or other courts, or any other source, must first be placed under guardianship of the board of trustees of the California State Trades and Training School by a competent order of court, and any and all other control of such child be absolutely relinquished to such board of trustees, who will have power to make any disposition of such child as may be deemed best for its future welfare. Estates of children. § 9. Any estate, moneys or other property that may belong to any child in the school shall be held in trust for such inmate, and upon approval of court may be invested for his benefit, and if of the value of over five hundred dollars such amount in excess of said five hundred dollars may be used by the board of trustees to pay the expense of support of such child to an amount not exceeding fifteen dollars per month while in the said school. Education. § 10. The system of education shall be such as not to conflict with that provided for the public schools of the state and such other branches as may be deemed advisable by the board of trustees. Expenses of trustees. § 11. The board of trustees shall receive their necessary traveling expenses while in the discharge of their official duties incidental to the management of the school. Expenses of school. §12. The expenditures of all moneys necessary for the expense of purchase, management and control of the above-mentioned school shall be paid out of the funds provided by law and in the same manner as other state institutions. § 13. This statute is to be construed liberally by the board of trustees and the courts of the state in order that the greatest good may be accomplished. Satisfactory proof of the needs of all children for state support must be furnished the board of trustees before their admission and at any time during their presence at the school when deemed necessary by the board of trustees. Only children of bona fide citizens and residents of the state, who were such prior to their death, are to be admitted. The principal object of this statute and the establishment of the California State Trades and Training School hereunder, is to provide education and training for such dependent children who have been cared for in the different orphan homes in this state and by county boards of supervisors, and who no longer are entitled to draw state aid because of the age limit of fourteen years, and for children ordered committed by court, and in this way assist them until they are eighteen years of age by giving them a practical training and education in order that they may be self-supporting. Bules for management. §14. The board of trustees are hereunder given authority to adopt such rules and regulations for the management of the institution as may seem best when not in conflict with the direction and approval of the state board of examiners. ACT 515. TITLE 75. CALIFORNIA STATUTES, INDEX TO. An act authorizing the superintendent of state printing to have prepared and printed an index of all the laws of California, 1850-1907 inclusive. [Approved March 18, 1907. Stats. 1907, p. 572.] This act authorized the compiling, printing and distribution of a complete index to the California Statutes. For the former act, see Stats. 1893, p. 150. TITLE 76. ACT 520. CALIFORNIA VOLUNTEERS. To provide for the revision of the records of the California volunteers, to authorize the adjutant-general to employ additional clerks for that purpose, and to authorize the superintendent of state printing to print, bind and issue the same. [Stats. 1889, p. 228.] TITLE 77. ACT 525. CANAL CORPORATIONS. Authorizing incorporation of canal companies, and the construction of canals. [Stats. 1862, p. 540.] Amended 1865-66, pp. 53, 604, 786; 1867-68, p. 134. ACT 526. Authorizing incorporation of canal companies, and providing for the construction of ditches and canals. [Stats. 1869-70, p. 660.] "Supplemented 1871-72, p. 732, but repealed, except as to pre-existing corporations, by § 288, Civ. Code."-Code Commissioners' Note. TITLE 78. ACT 531. To develop agricultural interests and aid the construction of a canal in Colusa, Solano, and Yolo counties. [Stats. 1865-66, p. 451.] TITLE 79. CAPITOL. ACT 536. To prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors in the state capitol. [Stats. 1880, p. 80.] Compare 172, Penal Code. ACT 537. Fixing the salary of the janitor of the state capitol building, defining his duties and making an appropriation therefor. [Stats. 1893, p. 46.] ACT 538. Authorizing the construction and maintenance of drinking fountains in the state capitol grounds. [Stats. 1901, p, 298.] ACT 543. TITLE 80. To protect the bodies of deceased persons and public graveyards. [Stats. 1854, p. 20.] Superseded by Penal Code, §§ 290–297. ACT 544. Providing for the removal of human remains from cemeteries in cities having a population of more than five thousand and not exceeding one hundred thousand. [Approved March 23, 1893. Stats. 1893, p. 234. Amended 1895, p. 157.] §1. The city council of any city in this state having a population of more than fifteen hundred and not exceeding one hundred thousand, may, by ordinance duly passed, and under such lawful rules and regulations which it may adopt, provide for the exhuming, taking up, and removal from cemeteries within the boundary lines of such city, or from cemeteries owned and controlled by such city that may have been located without its boundaries (and in which such cemeteries no interments of human remains have been made for a period of not less than two years), of all the human remains interred in such cemeteries. [Amendment approved March 26, 1895. Stats. 1895, p. 157.] ACT 545. An act to protect public health from infection caused by exhumation and removal of the remains of deceased persons. [Approved April 1, 1878. Stats. 1877-78, p. 1050. Amended 1889, p. 139.] Disinterring of bodies unlawful without permit. §1. It shall be unlawful to disinter or exhume from a grave, vault, or other burial place, the body or remains of any deceased person, unless the person or persons so doing shall first obtain, from the board of health, health officer, mayor, or other head of the municipal government of the city, town, or city and county where the same are deposited, a permit for said purpose. Ñor shall such body or remains disinterred, exhumed, or taken from any grave, vault, or other place of burial or deposit, be removed or transported in or through the streets or highways of any city, town, or city and county, unless the person or persons removing or transporting such body or remains shall first obtain, from the board of health or health officer (if such board or officer there be), and from the mayor or other head of the municipal government of the city or town, or city and county, a permit, in writing, so to remove or transport such body or remains in and through such streets and highways. Permits granted upon what. § 2. Permits to disinter or exhume the bodies or remains of deceased persons, as in the last section, may be granted, provided the person applying therefor shall produce a certificate from the coroner, the physician who attended such deceased person, or other physician in good standing cognizant of the facts, which certificate shall state the cause of death or disease of which the person died, and also the age and sex of such deceased; and provided further, that the body or remains of deceased shall be inclosed in a metallic case or coffin, sealed in such manner as to prevent, as far as practicable, any noxious or offensive odor or effluvia escaping therefrom, and that such case or coffin contains the body or remains of but one person, except where infant children of the same parent or parents, or parent and children, are contained in such case or coffin. And the permit shall contain the above conditions and the words: "Permit to remove and transport the body of, age sex ," and the name, age, and sex shall be written therein. The officer of the municipal government of the city or town, or city and Gen. Laws-6 |