TITLE 356a. OCEAN PARK. A city of the sixth class. See California Blue Book, 1907, p. 304. TITLE 357. ODD FELLOWS. ACT 2536. Amending act relating to corporations. [Stats. 1853, p. 274.] This act authorized ten or more citizens to assume corporate powers for the purpose of erecting Odd Fellows' halls. ACT 2537. Independent Order of Odd Fellows, authorizing trustees to lease a lot in San Francisco. [Stats. 1877-78, p. 561.] Educational offices, making women eligible to. [Stats. 1873-74, p. 356.] Citations. Cal. 71/121; 123/618, 619. This act appears in full in Political Code, Appendix, title "Officers." ACT 2543. To secure to native-born and naturalized citizens the exclusive right to be employed in the public service. [Stats. 1901, p. 589.] See Act 126, ante. ACT 2544. To provide for the payment by the state or counties, or cities, or cities and counties, of the premium or charge on official bonds when given by surety companies. [Stats. 1903, p. 476.] This act appears in full in Political Code, Appendix, tit. "Bonds." ACT 2545. Civil officers, removal of for violation of official duty. [Stats. 1873-74, p. 911.] "Repealed by the constitution of 1879 and the County Government Acts. (Fraser v. Alexander, 75 Cal. 147.)"-Code Commissioners' Note. Citations. Cal. 52/623; 75/148, 150, 151, 154; 97/381. ACT 2546. Concerning confirming and ratifying leases and other contracts made by any officer or boards of officers of the state. [Stats. 1901, p. 601.] ACT 2547. To protect candidates for certain public offices, to prohibit certain acts by such candidates, and to provide a punishment for infractions of this law. [Stats. 1897, p. 53.] Codified by § 55a of Penal Code. See note to § 55a, Penal Code. This act prohibited the pledging of candidates or the giving of pledges by candidates. ACT 2548. Relating to the intoxication of officers. [Stats. 1880, p. 77.] ACT 2549. To protect the wages of labor and the salaries and fees of subordinate officers. [Stats. 1871-72, p. 951.] Codified by §§ 74a and 653d of Penal Code 1905: See notes to §§ 74a, 653d Penal Code. This act made it a felony to receive or retain a portion of the wages of laborers employed upon public works or the fees or salaries allowed to subordi nate officers. ACT 2550. Concerning officers. [Stats. 1861, p. 139.] This act related to the signature of ex officio officers. ACT 2551. An act forbidding the employment of the inmates of state institutions in the manufacture, or production of articles, for the use of state of ficers, or the officers and employers of state institutions. [Approved March 19, 1903. Stats. 1903, p. 210.] § 1. No inmate of any state institution shall be employed in the manu. facture or production, of any article, intended for the private and personal use of any state officer, or officer, or employee, of any state institution; provided, that this act shall not prevent repairing of any kind nor the employment of such inmates in household or domestic work connected with such institution. § 2. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act, are hereby repealed. § 3. This act shall take effect on and after its passage. ACT 2552. An act to execute and carry into effect section 3 of article 20 of the constitution of the state of California. [Approved March 23, 1901. Stats. 1901, p. 552.] § 1. Whenever any person within this state shall hold any office or position of public trust and shall have taken the oath of office prescribed by section 3 of article 20 of the state constitution upon entering upon such office, or shall, after his election or appointment, have offered to take such oath, it shall be unlawful to remove such person from such office or position of public trust because such person has not complied with some or any provision of any law, charter, or regulation prescribing an additional test or qualification for such office or position of public trust, and any person who is removed or threatened with removal from any office or position of public trust under any pretense or device whatever, if the real reason be because of noncompliance with provisions requiring such additional test or qualification, shall be entitled to restrain such unlawful removal or to enforce restoration by process of injunction, both prohibitory and mandatory. § 2. It shall be unlawful for any person having the power of removal from office of any public official, state or local, to remove or threaten to remove such official from his office because such official in the appointment of any person to a position of public trust under such last-named official, refuses to require any test or additional qualification than the oath referred to in section one of this act as a condition of permitting such appointee to enter upon or remain in such position of public trust; and such person making or threatening such unlawful removal from office may be restrained by prohibitory and mandatory injunction from effecting such removal under any pretense or device if the real reason of such removal or threatened removal be or was such as herein declared unlawful. § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. ACT 2553. An act providing for vacations for certain employees of the state. [Approved March 15, 1909. Stats. 1909, p. 383.] §1. Each employee regularly employed at the state hospitals and each employee regularly employed in the service of any of the state commissions, or state boards or in the state printing office who shall have been employed for a period of not less than six months shall be allowed, during each year of his service, a vacation of not less than fifteen days' duration; said vacation to be without loss of pay, and the time allowed for said vacation to be designated by the management of such state hospitals, and by the members of the state commissions and state boards and by the superintendent of state printing. § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Gen. Laws-59 TITLE 359. OIL. ACT 2556. An act to prevent injury to oil or petroleum-bearing strata or formations by the infiltration or intrusion of water therein. [Approved March 24, 1903. Stats. 1903, p. 399.] Repealed 1909, p. 586. ACT 2557. An act to prevent injury to oil, gas or petroleum-bearing strata or formations by the penetration or infiltration of water therein. [Approved March 20, 1909. Stats. 1909, p. 586.] § 1. It shall be the duty of the owner of any well now drilled or that may be drilled in the state of California on lands producing or containing oil, gas or petroleum, to properly case such well or wells, with metal casing in accordance with most approved methods, and to effectually shut off all water overlying or underlying the oil-bearing strata and to effectually prevent any water from penetrating such oil-bearing strata. § 2. It shall be the duty of the owner of any well referred to in section 1 of this act, before abandoning the same to withdraw the casing therefrom, and to securely fill such well with clay, earth or cement mortar, or other good and sufficient materials, used alone or in suitable combination, and thoroughly pack and tamp the same into such well to a point as far above the upper oil-bearing strata as the commissioner hereinafter provided for may decide shall be necessary, and while withdrawing the casing therefrom to effectually and permanently shut off and exclude all water underlying and overylying said oil-bearing strata, and to the satisfaction of the commissioner, whether any oil-bearing strata has been encountered or not. §3. It shall be the duty of the owner of any well referred to in see tion 1 of this act, to keep a careful and accurate log of the drilling of such well, such log to show the character and depth of the formations passed through or encountered in the drilling of such well, and particularly to show the location and depth of the water-bearing strata, together with the character of the water encountered from time to time, and to show at what point such water was shut off, if at all, and if not to so state in such log, and show the depth at which oil-bearing strata is encountered, the depth and character of the same, and whether all water overlying and underlying such oil-bearing strata was successfully and permanently shut off so as to prevent the percolation or penetration into such oil-bearing strata; said record of well to be kept on file and subject to the inspection of hereinafter mentioned commissioner at any time during business hours. § 4. The term "owner" as herein used shall mean and include each and every person, persons, partnership, copartnership, association or corpora tion owning, leasing, managing, operating, drilling or possessing any well mentioned in sections 1 and 2 of this act, either as principal or principals, lessee or lessees of such principal or principals, contractor or contractors, and their and each of their employees. The term "oil-bearing strata" as herein used shall mean and include any bed, seam or stratum of rock or sand or other material which contains, includes, or yields earth oil, rock oil, or petroleum oil or natural gas or either of them. In order to carry out the provision of sections 1 and 2 of this act, upon petition of three or more operating oil companies, within the county, it shall be the duty of the board of supervisors of said county to appoint a commissioner who shall be a practical oil man, whose term of office shall be until December 31st of the year following time of appointment or until his successor is appointed. The duties of said commissioner shall be to see that the provisions of this act shall be enforced. The compensation of said commissioner shall be fixed by the board of supervisors and shall be paid out of the general county fund. Upon the filing of a complaint with said commissioner alleging the violation of any of the provisions of sections 1 or 2 of this act, it shall be the duty of the herein before mentioned commissioner of the county, if so requested by the complainants, to make or cause to be made, a thorough investigation of the well in question, to determine whether or not any of the provisions of this act have been violated and for such purpose he is hereby empowered to appoint all necessary agents and assistants to conduct such examination and such agents and assistants may enter upon the premises where such well is situated and may take charge of such well for the purpose of making such investigations. If the defendant in the action shall be convicted of a violation of any of the provisions of sections 1 or 2 of this act, he shall, in addition to the penalties hereafter set forth, pay all reasonable and proper costs incident to the making of such investigations. Any well drilled and abandoned, in violation of sections 1 or 2 of this act is hereby declared a public nuisance. If any well, under the provision of sections 1 or 2 of this act be declared a public nuisance, it shall be the duty of commissioner of the county in which such well is situated to enter upon the premises, take possession of such well and to abate said nuisance and to take all necessary steps to prevent the percolation or penetration of water into the oil-bearing strata. He shall keep an accurate account of the expense of such work and all expenses so incurred shall be a charge against the owner of such well and a lien upon the same. Any person violating the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Any owner of any well referred to in sections 1 or 2 of this act, who refuses to permit the commissioner to inspect the same or who willfully hinders or delays the commissioner in the performance of his duty is guilty of a misdemeanor. |