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PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915
A Summary, by Subjects and Synopsis, of All
Bills Introduced During First Half of
Forty-first Session, California
Legislature.
SAN FRANCISCO:
The Recorder Printing and Publishing Company
689 Stevenson Street
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915
A Summary, by Subjects and Synopsis, of All
Bills Introduced During First Half of
Forty-first Session, California
Legislature.
SAN FRANCISCO:
The Recorder Printing and Publishing Company
689 Stevenson Street
FOREWORD
When the people of California, in 1912, adopted the double
legislative session with a mid-session recess for the examina-
tion and discussion of measures introduced, "The Recorder'
conceived and issued "Pending Legislation, 1913," as a guid<
to the measures pending, and in order that the public migh
have some handy reference book on this important subject.
Although the demand for this work was in no way in pro-
portion to its value, it has been thought advisable, in th(
absence of any adequate official compendium, to issue th(
work again, which accounts for its appearance at this time.
In its preparation it was necessary to examine 2,686 bills*—
1,484 Assembly and 1,202 Senate — and 78 Constitutional Amend-
ments— 41 Assembly and 37 Senate — a total of 2,764 measures
In view of the expense and labor in compiling this publica-
tion, the publishers* "bespeak^ or* jjt a larger measure of public
S'upport than was "accorded ttievlirijtjal issue. In fact, sue!
support is eAsekhfia] to* insure a continuance of its preparatior
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THE EDITOR.
San Francisco, February 20, 1915.
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INDEX
Amendments to Codes — Page
Civil Code 14-34
Code of Civil Procedure 35-68
Penal Code 69-89
Political Code 90-129
Amendments to Constitution 1-13
Appropriations —
Agricultural Park 130
Armories 130
Claims, County 131
Claims, Private 132
Expositions 137
Educational —
California Polytechnic School 137
State Normal School, Chico 138
Fresno 138
Humboldt 138
Los Angeles 138
San Diego 139
San Francisco 140
San Jose 140
Santa Barbara (Manual Arts) 140
University of California 141
Free Text Books 143
Highways 143
Historic Landmarks 146
Monuments 146
Miscellaneous 146
National Guard 149
River and Harbor Improvements 150
State Institutions —
Adult Blind, Industrial Home for 151
Deaf and Blind, California School for 151
Feeble Minded, Sonoma State Home for 155
Girls, California School for 153
State Hospital, Agnews 151
State Hospital, Folsom 151
State Hospital, Mendocino 152
State Hospital, Norwalk 152
State Hospital, Napa 153
State Hospital, Southern California 155
State Hospital, Stockton 155
Preston School of Industry 154
State Prison, Folsom 152
State Prison, San Quentin T54
Veterans' Home 156
Women's Relief Corps Home 156
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Whittier State School 156
State Offices and Depa rtments 157
General Laws —
Advertising 159
Agriculture 159
Animals, Diseases of (see Cattle, Horses and Live-
stock) 170
Animals, Trespassing of 162
Anti-Alien Land Law 162
Architecture 163
Asexualization 163
Assessment 163
Banking 163
Barbers 164
"Blue Sky" Law (see Investment Companies, Regu-
lation of) 227
Board of Health, State 164
Bonds 165
Bonds, Official, Premium on 165
Brokers 165
Building and Loan Law 167
Capital and Labor 168
Cattle, Horses and Livestock 170
Cemeteries 173
Charities and Correction 177
Child Labor 177
Children 178
Civil Service 178
Coal 179
Collection Agencies 181
Commission Merchants 181
Common Carriers 182
Conservation Commission 182
Containers 183
Contracts, State 183
Corporation License Tax 183
County Offices and Officers 184
Day of Rest 184
Dairies and Dairy Products 185
Deaf and Blind 188
Defender, Public 189
Dentists 191
Department of Engineering 204
Detectives 196
Educational 197
Electricity 198
Elections . . 198
Elevators 201
Embalmers 201
Employment Bureau, State 202
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Employment Agencies, private 203 .
Engineering, Department of 204
Estrays 207
Firearms 207
Food Products, Destruction of 208
Fish and Game, Protection of 208
Flood Control Districts 211
Forests and Forestry 211
Franchises 213
Fraternal Benefit Societies 213
Gambling 213
Harbor Commissioners of San Francisco 214
Harbor Districts 214
Highways 214
Horticulture 217
Hospitals and Nurses 219
Hotels and Lodging Houses 219
Immigration and Housing 220
Indigent Persons, Orphans and 273
Industrial Commission and Investigation 221
Inferior Courts 221
Inheritance Tax 222
Initiative and Referendum 222
Interest Rate 222
Insurance 223
Investment Companies, Regulation of 227
Irrigation 229
Juvenile Court Law 233
Labor, Capital and 168
Legal Aid 235
Legislative Counsel Bureau 237
Libraries 237
Liens of Material Men, Mechanics, etc 237
Lighting Districts 238
Liquors, Sale of 238
Local Option 239
Los Angeles State Building 240
Maps, Recording of 241
Markets and Marketing 241
Marriage and Divorce 242
Material Men, Mechanics, etc., Liens of 237
' McEnerney Act 242
Medical Practice Act 242
Meetings' of Unincorporated Societies, How Called 246
Mines and Mining 247
Miscellaneous —
Animals, Use of Live for Experimental Purposes, In
vestigation of 250
Art Commission, Creating State 252
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Awards of Court or Judgments, to Provide for Pay-
ment of 256
Bonded Fiduciaries, Deposit of Moneys and Assets
Held By 254-255
Cigarettes or Cigarette Papers, Prohibiting Sale or
Giving Away of 254
Citizens, to Secure Exclusive Employment of, by State,
County and Municipal Governments . 251
Codes, Providing for Printing and Binding and Dis-
tribution of, by State 251
Company Store, Relating to Conducting of 255
Compensation for Persons Arrested But Not Convicted. 257
Constitutional Convention of 1879, Recognizing and
Establishing Unpaid Expenses of, etc 253
Contracts for Exchange of Indemnity, Denning Cer-
tain Classes of 254
Contracts for Instalment Payments 251
County Boundaries, Alteration of 253
County Government Act, Amending Section 38 of 253
County Government Act, Amending Section 15 of 254
Deformed or Diseased Human Beings or Parts There-
of, Prohibiting Exposure or Exhibition of 256
Delinquents, Care and Confinement of 251
Dining Cars, Use of as Sleeping Quarters, Prohibited.. 256
Fences and Structures Erected to Annoy, Amending
Section 1 of Act in Relation to 255
Financial Transactions of Counties, Report of 251
Fraternities, Oath-Bound, Prohibiting 253
Hedges, Declaring, to be Private Nuisance 253
Highway, Permitting Adjoining Counties to Appro-
priate Money for Survey for 256
Historical Material, Local, Creating Commission to
Make Survey of 256
Jails, County, etc., Regulation of 251
Kelp Beds, Declaring to be Property of State of Cali-
fornia 253
Land Information Bureau, State, Creating 255
Libel and Slander, Concerning 257
Music Teaching, to Promote Better Condition of 252
Natural Resources, Creating Department of 251
Packing Houses and Other Places Where Labor is
Employed, Requiring to be Comfortably Heated 254
Peace Officers, to Prevent Person Against Whom Un-
paid Judgment Pending for False Imprisonment,
from Holding Office of 256
Pilot Commissioners, San Diego, Amending Section 14
of Act Creating 252
Planning Commission, State Capitol, Creating 255
"PortS'mouth," U. £>. Ship, Providing for Acceptance
of and Repairs Thereto, etc 256
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Prices, to Prevent Discrimination in 253
Public Work, Requiring to be Done Under Superin-
tendent 252
Purchasing Department, State, Creating 254
Railroad, State, on The Embarcadero, San Francisco,
Providing Passenger Service on 253
Receiver, Providing for Return of Money Deposited by. 256
Reformatories, State, Relating to Arrests by Officers
and Employees of 253
San Diego Bay Fund, Transferring Money from Dis-
puted Title to Lands on, to General Fund, 257
Shingles, Regulating Sale of 255
Soldiers, Sailors and Marines, Relief of 253
Song, State, Designating "I Dive You California" as. . 251
Stockton State Hospital, Providing for Sale of Prop-
erty of 253
Submerged Lands on San Francisco Water Front, to
Provide for Appropriation of for Aquatic Sports 252
Supervisors, Boards of, Requiring Publication of Pro-
ceedings of 255
Transportation Districts, Creating 253
Trees, Requiring Owner of to Prevent Injury to Prop-
erty of Adjoining Owner 254
University of California, Transferring to Land
Acquired as Site for State Reformatory 252
Vacations for State Employees 253
Whittier State School, Empowering Board of Trustees
of to Transfer Water Rights 255
Motor Vehicles, Regulation of 257
Municipal Corporations 26 1
Municipal Corporations Act 269
National Guard 271
Nurses and Nursing 272
Officers, Public 272
Official Bonds, Premium on 165
Oil and Gas 273
Orphans and Indigent Persons 272
Parks and Parkways 274
Parole and Pardon 275
Pawnbrokers (see Brokers) 165
Pensions 275
Personal Loan Brokers (see Brokers) 165
Pharmacy 277
Poisons 277
Prisons and Prisoners 278
Premium on Official Bonds 165
Protection Districts 278
Produce Exchange Commission 279
Public Buildings 280
Public Defender 189
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Public Health and Sanitation 280
Public Improvements 283
Public Lands 284
Public Money 285
Public Officers 286
Public Utilities, Acquisition of 287
Public Utility Districts 287
Pure Food and Drug Act 287
Pure Products 288
Racing 289
Railroad Commission 290
Railroads 292
Real Estate Brokers, Regulation of (see Brokers) 292
Reclamation and Drainage 293
Recreation 296
River Improvement 296
. Rural Credits 297
Salt Marsh and Tide Lands, Cession and Recession of.. 301
Sanitary Districts 302
Schools 302
Sewer Districts 304
Ship Subsidy 304
State Board of Health 164
Steam Boilers and Engineering 304
Street Improvement 305
Suits Against State 310
Superior Courts 311
Taxation 311
Teachers 313
Tenement Houses 314
Theater Tickets, to Prevent Fraud in Sale of 314
Trade Marks 314
Tuberculosis 315
Unemployment 316
Unincorporated Societies, Meetings of, How Called .. . 246
Usury 315
Vaccination 316
Veterans, War 317
Vital Statistics 317
Vocational Schools (see Educational) 197
Voters and Voting 317
Wage Brokers (see Brokers) 166
Wages and Hours • 318
Water Districts 320
Water and Water Rights 322
Weeds, Noxious, Propagation of 323
Weights and Measures 323
Women and Children 324
Workmen's Compensation Act 325
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915
AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE I.
Declaration of Rights.
A. C. A. 29. Canepa. Adding Section liy2 to Article I of
the Constitution, providing that the value, use or earning
capacity of property assessed and taxed shall not be destroyed
or impaired by operation of any law without just compensa-
tion; and exacting a bond for the protection of property from
damages by litigation affecting property, and providing for
the indemnifying of those who lose lawful employment by or
through a law, or the operation of any law.
S. C. A. 29. Finn. Identical with A. C. A. 29. Canepa.
A. C. A. 40. Bruck. Adding Section UV2 to Article I of
the Constitution, providing that no law or constitutional
amendment which shall damage, injure, destroy the value of
or prevent the use of any vineyard, wine cellar, hop field,
brewery, distillery or other property used in manufacturing,
producing or shipping wine, beer, malt or distilled liquors, shall
take effect until just compensation shall have been first made
to or paid into court for the owner.
A. C. A. 3. Downing. Adding Section 26 to Article I of the
Constitution, relating to human rights and providing that the
State shall engage in certain industries to give employment
to citizens.
Provides that the State, in order that its citizens may ob-
tain steady employment, shall engage in such work of internal
improvement, and shall establish, own and control such farms,
factories, workshops and such other industries or means of
employment as the Legislature or people may designate and
shall distribute, sell or supply the product to the people, the
profits to be employed in the extension, betterment and mainte-
nance thereof; the State may also buy or condemn land, im-
prove it and lease it to actual farmers on easy terms, but
such lands shall never be sold absolutely.
A. C. A. 28. Hayes. Adding Section 26 to Article I of
the Constitution, declaring the right of the State of California
and each municipal corporation therein to engage in industrial
pursuits.
S. C. A. 24. Scott. Identical with A. C. A. 28. Hayes.
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ARTICLE II.
Right of Suffrage.
A. C. A. 6. Downing. Amending- Section 1 of Article II of
the Constitution, extending* the right of suffrage.
Provides that an elector may vote in this State who has
been in the State 90 days and in the county 60 days next pre-
ceding the election, instead of one year and 90 days as at pres-
ent; and adds a provision that any duly qualified elector shall
be deemed for purposes of voting to be a resident of the precinct
in which registered for 30 days after removal therefrom if
removal was within the county.
A. C. A. 39. Browne. Amending Section 1 of Article II of
the Constitution, relating to the right of suffrage.
Reduces the age limit for voting purposes from 21 to 18
years.
S. C. A. 5. Ballard. Adding Section 7 to Article II of the
Constitution, in relation to the qualification of electors to vote
on any question of incurring any bonded indebtedness of this
State or of any county, city and county, municipality or other
political subdivision of this State.
Provides that no elector shall vote at any bond election
unless he be owner of property liable to be taxed for payment
of indebtedness created by such bonds and assessed to him
on last assessment roll.
ARTICLE IV.
Legislative Department.
S. C. A. 3. Duncan. Amending Section 1 of Article IV of the
Constitution, relating to legislative powers, and reserving to
the people of the State of California the power to propose
laws, statutes and amendments to the Constitution and to
enact the same at the polls, independent of the Legislature,
and also reserving to the people of the State of California the
power to approve or reject at the polls any Act or section or
part of any Act of the Legislature.
Provides for submission of initiative petitions to the electors
at the next general election occurring 200 days subsequent to
presentation of petition instead of 90 days as at present.
S. C. A. 22. Chandler. Amending Section 1 of Article IV of
the Constitution, relating to legislative powers, and reserving
to the people of the State of California the power to propose
laws, statutes and amendments to the Constitution and to
enact the same at the polls, independent of the Legislature, and
also reserving to the people of the State of California the
power to approve or reject at the polls any Act or section or
part of any Act of the Legislature.
A. C. A. 32. Ashley. Amending Section 1 of Article IV of
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the Constitution, relating to the legislative power reserved to
the people known as the initiative and referendum.
The proposed amendments not only safeguard the initiative,
referendum and recall, but it would be possible for a single
elector to have an initiative petition made available for signa-
tures in each county in the State without cost to him.
Soliciting signatures is eliminated, only qualified electors
being permitted to sign petitions, which are to be filed with
county clerks or registrars of voters and kept available for
examination and signature during regular office hours. It is
also provided that petitions shall be kept available for signa-
tures' at all branch offices of clerks, and also that itinerant
registration deputies shall carry with them copies of any
petition. All clerks and deputies are forbidden to express any
opinion favoring or opposing any proposed act, statute or
amendment to the constitution when informing an elector
that a certain petition is available for signature.
The changes proposed would allow any elector or group of
electors to propose any act or statute merely by filing the
proposition with any county clerk or registrar. Automatically
it becomes the duty of the Secretary of State to initiate the
identical measure in all other counties of the State, and the
electorate is notified by means of advertisements in news-
papers that such a petition is available for signature.
The percentages required to invoke the initiative, referen-
dum and recall are left the same as< at present — 8 per cent for
initiative petitions, 5 per cent for referendum petitions, and
12 per cent for recall petitions, or 20 per cent for the recall of
a State officer.
S. C. A. 16. Campbell. Amending Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 19 and 23 of Article IV of the
Constitution, relating to the legislative department.
Provides for a single chamber Legislature of 40 members,
to be elected for a term of four years, half every two years,
to remain in session for one year. Most of the changes are
verbal for the purpose of making the sections conform to the
plan for a single chamber.
A. C. A. 38. Rigdon. Identical with S. C. A. 16. Campbell,
x A. C. A. 8. Rodgers. Amending Section 2 of Article IV of
the Constitution, relating to sessions of the Legislature.
Retains the "bifurcated" session, but reduces the period of
the first session to 20 days and of the recess to 10 days.
S. C. A. 14. Owens. Amending Section 2 of Article IV of the
Constitution, relating to sessions of the Legislature.
Restores this section to the same language as prior to the
amendment of 1911, creating the so-called "bifurcated" ses-
sion, which is sought to be abolished.
A. C. A. 7. Brown, H. W. Amending Section 16 of Article
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IV of the Constitution, relative to approval of bills by the
Governor and the veto power.
Provides, in case of measures before the Governor during
the 30 day period following the adjournment of the Legislature
and which, unless signed, are of no effect, that the Governor
shall deposit and file such bills as he disapproves, with his
objections thereto, with the Secretary of State, who shall
return them to the house in which they originated at the next
session of the Legislature, where they shall be reconsidered
as if returned by the Governor at the previous session; but no
bill shall be presented to the Governor within two days next
previous to final adjournment of Legislature.
A. C. A. 17. Chamberlin. Amending Section 20 of Article
IV of the Constitution, relative to eligibility to hold office.
Adds a provision that "no person holding any lucrative
office under State, county or municipal jurisdiction shall be
eligible to a seat in the Senate or Assembly of this State, nor
shall any member elected to either branch of the Legislature
be appointed to any lucrative office in the State during the
term for which he was elected."
A. C. A. 41. Avey. Amending Section 22 of Article IV of
the Constitution, relating to how money may be appropriated
and drawn from the State Treasury.
Omits all that portion relating to the Panama-Pacific Inter-
national Exposition fund.
S. C. A. 8. Purkitt. Amending Section 23 of Article IV of
the Constitution, relating to officers, employees and attaches
of the Legislature.
Increases the amount now allowed for attaches from $500
to $650 for regular sessions, and from $200 to $300 for extra
sessions, on the basis of $250 per day for the Senate and $400
per day for the Assembly for regular, and $100 per day for
the Senate and $200 per day for the Assembly for extra ses-
sions. An amendment similar to this was defeated at the
1913 general election.
S. C. A. 17. Brown. Amending Section 31 of Article IV of
the Constitution, relating to the loan by the State of its
credit to public or private corporations.
Adds a provision that nothing in this or any section of the
Constitution shall prevent the Legislature from establishing a
trust fund for giving and creating credit in aid of agriculture,
authorizing the trustees to issue bonds on collateral securities
of this fund, and guaranteeing on behalf of the State the
principal and interest of such bonds; and validating any Acts
of the Legislature passed within the contemplation of this
proviso; and validating the "Land Settlement Act."
A. C. A. 36. Schmitt. Adding Section 37 to Article IV of
the Constitution, relating to limiting the powers of the Legis-
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lature to enact police regulations for the State as a whole by
restricting- the rights of the people of the State as a whole
from initiating such police regulations, and placing the power
for the enactment of such police regulations in the several
counties of the State.
ARTICLE V.
Executive Department.
S. C. A. IS. Benedict. Amending Section 17 of Article V
of the Constitution, relating to the election and term of
office of a Secretary of State, a Controller, a Treasurer, an
Attorney-General and a Surveyor-General and also amending
Section 19 of Article V of the said Constitution, relating to
the compensation of the Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, Sec-
retary of S'tate, Controller, Treasurer, Attorney-General and
Surveyor-General.
Provides (Sec. 17, Art. V) for the appointment of the Secre-
tary of State, Treasurer and Surveyor-General by the Gov-
ernor, to hold office at his pleasure; and (Sec. 19, Art. V) in-
cludes the words "or appointed."
ARTICLE VI.
Judicial Department.
A. C. A. 5. Downing. Amending Section 1 of Article VI of
the Constitution, relating to the judicial powers.
Adds a provision that no court shall have power to declare
unconstitutional any law enacted by the Legislature or by the
people directly, the power to determine the constitutionality
of laws being hereby vested in the lawmakers.
A. C. A. 26. Fish. Adding Section 1 to Article VI of the
Constitution, relating to the method of selection of court com-
missioners, of the Justices of the Supreme Court, Justices of
the District Courts of Appeal, Judges of the Superior Courts,
and Justices of the Peace.
Creates a court commission for the appointment of all
judges (including justices of the peace) with the advice and
consent of the Senate; and to hear and determine all charges
and complaints of misconduct of any judicial officer, with
power of removal.
A. C. A. 9. Spengler. Amending Section 3 of Article VI of
the Constitution, relative to terms of Supereme Court Justices.
Reduces the term to six years, but provides that any justice
in office when the amendment takes effect shall serve out the
term for which he was elected.
S. C. A. 10. Benedict. Amending Section 4 of Article VI
of the Constitution, relating to the jurisdiction of the Supreme
Court and District Courts of Appeal.
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Adds a provision to the paragraph relating to the appoint-
ment of justices pro tempore of the District Courts of Appeal
to the effect that "whenever a justice pro tempore is selected,
such justice may act in all causes and matters that may come
before the court during the time designated in the minute
order providing for his selection. In the event the presiding
justice of the court shall be disqualified or unable to act, the
justice of the court who is the senior in point of the length
of his service shall act as presiding justice."
A. C. A. 21. Gebhart. Adding Section 4^4 to Article VI
of the Constitution, relating to the powers of courts to declare
laws unconstitutional.
Provides that no Act of the Legislature approved by the
Governor and not vetoed by the people by referendum, and no
initiative measure, and no act, law or ordinance of any political
subdivision of the State adopted pursuant to its organic law
and to this Constitution, shall be declared void in whole or
in part as contravening the Constitution of the State unless
all but one of the judges of the Supreme Court concur; the judge
before whom a case is pending involving constitutionality shall,
upon probable cause, certify same to the Supreme Court,
which shall give it a speedy hearing and render a decision
thereon within 90 days.
S. C. A. 20. Flaherty. Identical with A. C. A. 21. Gebhart.
A. C. A. 18. Mouser. Adding Section 4a to Article VI
of the Constitution, in relation to the judicial department.
Provides that if serious error of law has occurred at any
stage of proceedings in any civil or criminal case in the
Superior Court, manifestly prejudicial to the rights of a party
thereto, that party may have a writ of error to court having
appellate jurisdiction; such writs shall be made returnable
within 30 days and receive speedy hearing; petition for writ
of error shall be bar to appeal; it must be filed within 10 days
after verdict or written notice of judgment, and time within
which to file petition shall not be extended. Refusal to grant
new trial or motion in arrest of judgment shall not constitute
ground for writ of error.
S. C. A. 23. Flaherty. Identical with A. C. A. 18. Mouser.
A. C. A. 25. Chamberlin. Amending Section 6 of Article
VI of the Constitution, relating to Superior Courts.
Provides for the appointment of judges of the Superior Court
by the Governor, subject to confirmation by a committee on
appointments, to consist of the Chief Justice and Associate
Justices of the Supreme Court and of the District Court of
Appeal of the district in which such Superior Court is located.
S. C. A. 2. Finn. Adding Section 6% to Article VI of the
Constitution, relating to the term of Judges of the Superior
Court.
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Provides that term shall be twelve years from and after
the first Monday of January next succeeding their election;
term of all judges holding office on second Monday of January,
1917, shall be twelve years from and after first Monday of
January next succeeding the date on which they were elected
except in case of judge elected for remainder of unexpired
term, in which case judge shall hold office until expiration of
a term of twelve years from and after first Monday of January
next succeeding date on which judge was elected to hold office
for full term of which such remainder of unexpired term is
part.
A. C. A. 2. Ryan. Identical with S. C. A. 2. Finn.
S. C. A. 11. Benedict. Adding Section 10^ to Article VI
of the Constitution, relating to the length of time a person
appointed to fill a vacancy in the office of Justice of the
Supreme Court, Justice of the District Court of Appeal or
Judge of a Superior Court shall hold office.
Provides that a person appointed by the Governor to fill a
vacancy in the office of Justice of the Supreme Court, or of
the District Court of Appeal, or judge of the Superior Court,
where the term fixed by law of the person whose place is so
filled expires on the first Monday in January after the next
succeeding general election, shall hold office for the remainder
of the unexpired term.
A. C. A. 14. Kennedy. Adding Section 11 y2 to Article VI
of the Constitution, relating to the election, appointment,
duties, salaries, responsibilities, fees and perquisites of office,
tenure and term of office of judges of such inferior courts as
the Legislature may establish, or has established in any town-
ship, district, incorporated city, or town, county or city and
county, in pursuance of Sections 1 and 11 of said Article
VI, except police judges and judges of municipal courts.
Fixes the term of such judges at eight years; compensation
to be such salary as may be fixed by the Legislature, which
shall also fix fees to be charged; no judge shall draw any
salary unless he make affidavit that no case remains pending
and undecided before him that has been submitted for a
period of 30 days, or such shorter time as may be fixed by the
Legislature.
S. C. A. 9. Beban. Identical with A. C. A. 14. Kennedy.
S. C. A. 26. Slater. Amending Section 17 of Article VI of
the Constitution, relating to salaries of justices of the Supreme
Court and District Courts of Appeal, and of judges of the
Superior Court.
Change proposed is merely verbal.
A. C. A. 16. Chamberlin. Amending Section 23 of Article
VI of the Constitution, relative to the eligibility of justices
and judges.
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Adds: "And shall have been engaged in the active practice
of law within the State of California for a period of not less
than 10 years."
S. C. A. 1. Chandler. Adding Section 26 to Article VI of
the Constitution, relative to the method of selecting the Jus-
tices of the Supreme Court, Justices of the District Courts of
Appeal and Judges of the Superior Courts.
Briefly this amendment provides:
1. Appointment of all Superior Judges and Justices of the
Appellate and Supreme Courts by the Governor.
2. Confirmation by the people of all appointments made by
the Governor at general elections following the appointment.
3. The term of office of Superior Judges to be for six years,
and that of Justices of Appellate and Supreme Courts for
twelve years.
4. The Governor to announce his appointments of judges
and justices in July preceding the general election prior to the
expiration of the judicial terms on December 31.
5. , Vacancies occurring through death, resignation or recall,
to be filled by the Governor in much the same manner as
vacancies are now filled, but appointments to be made follow-
ing completion of unexpired terms filled in this manner, to be
subject to the confirmation of the people.
ARTICLE IX.
Education
S. C. A. 12. Jones. Amending Section 2 of Article IX of
the Constitution, relating to the election and salary of a
Superintendent of Public Instruction and repealing Section
10 of Article XXII of said Constitution, relating to the term
of officers first elected under the Constitution and also to the
election and term of office of the successors of such officers
and also to the election of judicial officers and the Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction.
Provides (Sec. 2, Art. IX) that the Superintendent of Public
Instruction shall be appointed by the State Board of Educa-
tion, to hold office at its pleasure, and receive such salary as
may be fixed by the Legislature.
S. C. A. 15. Hans. Amending Section 7 of Article IX of
the Constitution, relating to free text books in the elementary
and secondary schools of the State.
Provides that the Legislature shall provide for the election
of a State Eoard of Education which shall compile or cause
to be compiled text books for free distribution to all pupils in
day and evening elementary and secondary schools through-
out the State.
A. C. A. 23. Sisson. Amending Section 8 of Article IX of
the Constitution, relating to the prohibition of the use of
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public money for sectarian or denominational schools and pro-
hibiting the teaching of denominational or sectarian doctrines
in public schools.
Adds a provision authorizing the Governor to appoint a com-
mission of three members, one Protestant, one Roman Catholic
and one Jew, to compile from the Bible and New Testament
such selections as they may unanimously agree upon to be
incorporated into a text book for use in the public schools,
and to designate the manner in which said selections shall be
taught.
A. C. A. 24. Dennett. Adding Section SV2 to Article IX
of the Constitution, relating to the Bible in public schools.
Provides that the Bible shall not be deemed a sectarian
book, and shall not be excluded from the public schools, and
authorizing the board of trustees or other governing body of
any school to require it to be read in school without sectarian
comment. No pupil shall be required to read it or to be
present during the reading thereof contrary to wish of parent,
guardian or other person having him in charge.
S. C A. 33. Purkitt. Amending Section 16% of Article IX
of the Constitution, relating to deposit of public funds in banks.
Provides that no deposit shall at any one time exceed 85
per cent of the paid up capital stock of such depository bank
or banks, instead of 50 per cent as at present.
ARTICLE X.
State Institutions and Public Buildings.
S. C. A. 35. Thompson. Amending Section 1 of Article X
of the Constitution, so as to provide for State institutions
and the maintenance of prisoners, insane, delinquents, depend-
ents and other wards of the State, and to repeal Sections 2,
3, 4 and 5 of Article X of the Constitution relating to the
powers and duties of the State Board of Prison Directors and
officers of the prisons.
A. C. A. 4. Mouser. Adding Sections 7 and 8 to Article X
of the Constitution, relating to indeterminate sentence.
Provides (Sec. 7) that the Legislature shall by law provide
for indeterminate sentences of imprisonment for persons con-
victed of crime and shall (Sec. 8) provide for custody, control,
care, parole, release and discharge of all prisoners committed
under indeterminate sentences.
ARTICLE XI.
Counties, Cities and Towns.
A. C. A. 27. Prendergast. Adding Section 6% to Article
XI of the Constitution, relating to the imposition of licenses
and license fees.
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Prohibits any political subdivision of the State from impos-
ing- a higher, different or other license fee upon non-residents
doing business within their limits than is imposed upon resi-
dents. Licenses shall be issued for such period as parties
desiring them shall request and fees shall be proportionate to
length of time for which license given, provided no license
need be issued for less than five days.
•S. C. A. 28. Finn. Identical with A. C. A. 27. Prendergast.
g. C. A. 25- Breed. Amending Section 7% of Article XI of
the Constitution, relating to charters of counties and amend-
ments to such charters and to the surrender thereof.
A. C. A. 34. Sisson. Identical with S. C. A. 25. Breed.
A. C. A. 1. Cary. Adding Section UV2 to Article XI of
the Constitution, relating to the creation, organization, duties
and powers of a commission to be known as the fruit commis-
sion of the State of California.
Creates a commission of three members, to be appointed by
the Governor for term of four years, this commission to hold
public hearings and after such hearings to "fix or change
standards of quality, of size, of color, of percentage of sugar,
and of package, of all fruits, nuts and vegetables grown in
the said State and said commission shall prescribe the proper
labels for designating standards. The commission is also
empowered to inspect or provide for inspection of all fruits,
nuts and vegetables and may forbid sale thereof if not up to
standard.
S. C. A. 19. Tyrrell. Amending Section 16% of Article XI
of the Constitution, relating to the deposit of moneys belonging
to the State or to any county or municipality within the State
in any bank or banks.
Provides that money shall be so deposited pursuant to any
law adopted by the people under the initiative or by a two-
thirds vote of each house of the Legislature and approved by
the Governor and subject to referendum; laws now governing
deposit of money shall continue in force until such laws shall
be amended, changed or repealed as in this section authorized.
S. C. A. 37. Butler. Amending Section 19 of Article XI of
the Constitution, relating to the operation of public utilities
by municipal corporations.
Adds provision that whenever a franchise is granted by a
municipal corporation to any person to establish, equip, main-
tain or operate any public utility, the rates thereof shall at
all times be subject to be fixed and regulated in the manner
provided by law.
S. C. A. 27. Benedict. Adding Section 20 to Article XI of
the Constitution, relating to the taking of property for public
use and additional property in excess thereof, and for the pay-
ment therefor.
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This is the so-called "excess condemnation" amendment de-
feated at the last general election.
ARTICLE XII.
Corporations.
S. C. A. 6. Ballard. Amending Section 3 of Article XII of
the Constitution, relating to the liability of stockholders in
corporations and joint stock companies and to the liability
of directors and trustees thereof.
Provides that stockholders shall be liable to the amount of
the par value of the stock or shares owned by them in the
corporation; and omits the last paragraph exempting exposi-
tion stockholders.
A. C. A. 10. Bartlett. Identical with S. C. A. 6. Ballard.
A. C. A. 37. S"chmitt. Adding Section 23b to Article XII
of the Constitution, relating to public utilities, their super-
vision and regulation.
Declares all public utilities operated by any political sub-
division of the State to be subject to the provisions of the
Public Utilities Act, and within the jurisdiction, control and
regulation of the Railroad Commission.
ARTICLE XIII.
Revenue and Taxation.
A. C. A. 19. Chamberlin. Adding Section lb to Article XIII
of the Constitution, exempting all motor vehicles upon which
a motor vehicle tax is paid from personal property taxation.
A. C. A. 15. Rominger. Amending Section 1% of Article
XIII of the Constitution, relating to the exemption of churches
from taxation.
Includes buildings and property "for social activities con-
ducted by the association using said property for such wor-
ship."
S. C. A. 4. Duncan. Adding Section 5 to Article XIII of
the Constitution, relating to the exemption from ad valorem
taxation of certain vehicles when the same shall pay certain
license or registration fees.
A. C. A. 22. Rodgers. Adding Section 5 to Article XIII of
the Constitution, exempting automobiles, motor vehicles and
motorcycles from taxation, except for the State purposes
enumerated in the Motor Vehicle Act.
A. C. A. 20. Gelder. Adding Section 8% to Article XIII of
the Constitution, relating to revenue and taxation.
This is the "Home Rule in Taxation" amendment defeated
at the last general election.
S. C. A. 18. Duncan. Identical with A. C. A. 20. Gelder.
S.-C. A. 31. Thompson. Amending Section 9 of Article XIII
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of the Constitution, relating to State and county boards of
equalization and to the assessment of taxable property in the
State, and creating a State tax commission and denning its
powers and duties, and the powers of the Legislature relative
to assessment and taxation.
A. C. A. 31. Gelder. Amending Section 10 of Article XIII,
adding Section 10 to Article XI and repealing Section 14 of
Article XIII of the Constitution, all relating to revenue and
taxation.
Provides (Sec. 10, Art. XIII) that franchise, roadway, road-
bed, rails and rolling stock of all railroads operated in more
than one county shall be assessed by State Board of Equaliza-
tion at actual value and apportioned to counties, cities and
counties, cities, townships or districts in which located in pro-
portion to mileage; and (Sec. 10, Art. XI) that no political
subdivision or its inhabitants or property therein shall be
released or discharged from its or their proportionate share
of taxes to be levied for State purposes nor shall commutation
of 'taxes be authorized in any form whatsoever.
A. C. A. 12. Sisson. Amending Section lO1^ of Article XIII
of the Constitution, relative to the exemption of personal
property.
Increases the exemption to $500.
A. C. A. 11. McDonald, W. A. Adding Section 12 to Article
XIII of the Constitution, providing for the assessment, levy and
collection of a tax for the care and support of orphans and
half-orphans and dependent children.
Provides for the annual levy and collection of a special tax
of not to exceed one mill on the dollar as an "orphan fund,"
to be expended under the exclusive control of the State for
the care and support of orphans, half -orphans and dependent
children.
S. C. A. 36. Campbell. Amending Section 12 of Article XIII
of the Constitution, relative to poll tax.
Restores the section to the same form as before amendment
abolishing the poll tax.
A. C. A. 35. Phelps. Amending Section 14 of Article XIII
of the Constitution, relating to revenue and taxation.
S. C. A. 30. Thompson. Adding Section 15 to Article XIII of
the Constitution, authorizing and empowering the Legis-
lature, at its forty-second session, to revise, amend or
annul the provisions of Section 14 of Article XIII of the Con-
stitution, relative to the separation of State and local taxation
of public service and other corporations.
ARTICLE XIV.
Water and Water Rights.
A. C. A. 30. Sisson. Adding Section 3 to Article XIV of the
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Constitution, creating a river control commission, providing
for its appointment, defining its powers and duties and con-
ferring jurisdiction upon such commission to hear and deter-
mine controversies.
S. C. A. 34. Mott. Identical with A. C. A. 30. Sisson.
ARTICLE XVI.
State Indebtedness.
S'. C. A. 32. Benson. Adding Section 2 to Article XVI
of the Constitution, relating to the issuance and sale of State
bonds and purchasing with the proceeds thereof bonds of
irrigation, drainage, flood control and reclamation districts.
ARTICLE XX.
Miscellaneous Subjects.
S. C. A. 7. Scott. Amending Section 16 of Article XX of
the Constitution, relating to term of officers when not fixed
by the Constitution.
Provides that term of office of officers of the militia shall
not be limited by this section.
ARTICLE XXIII.
Recall of Public Officials.
S. C. A. 21. Chandler. Amending Section 1 of Article XXIII
of the Constitution, providing for the recall by the electors of
public officials.
A. C. A. 33. Ashley. Amending Section 1 of Article XXIII
of the Constitution, relating to the recall of public officials.
ARTICLE XXIV (New).
Athletics.
A. C. A. 13. Marron. Adding Article XXIV to the Consti-
tution, establishing a State athletic commission and regulat-
ing boxing and sparring in the State.
Creates a commission of three persons, to be appointed by
the Governor for a term of four years, without compensation,
to have sole direction, management, control and jurisdiction
of all boxing and sparring matches and exhibitions limited to
10 rounds, conducted by clubs, corporations or associations,
to be licensed by the commission.
The proposed amendment goes into great detail over the
powers of the commission.
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AMENDMENTS TO THE CODES
CIVIL CODE.
S. B. 87. Slater. Amending Section 7, Civil Code, relating
to holidays. Declares February 12, "Lincoln Day," a legal
holiday.
S. B. 36. Butler. Amending Section 59, Civil Code, relating
to marriages that are incestuous and void. Adds "cousins of
the first degree" to the prohibited degrees.
S. B. 516. Irwin. Repealing Section 79, Civil Code, relating
to marriage without license.
A. B. 1079. Sisson. Amending Section 92, Civil Code,
relating to grounds of divorce.
Adds a seventh ground, permanent and incurable insanity,
where spouse has been by court order committed to some hos-
pital for the insane and has been an inmate thereof for as
much as three years next prior to bringing action for divorce.
A. B. 1480. Chenoweth (by reque&'t). Amending Section 92,
Civil Code, relating to causes for divorce.
Adds a seventh ground, "incurable insanity", and provides
that no divorce shall be granted on that ground unless defend-
ant shall have been regularly adjudged insane by legally con-
stituted authorities of this or any other State, and shall have
been confined to an asylum for at least 10 years prior to
commencement of action and unless* by testimony of competent
witness it shall appear to the court that the insanity is in-
curable; nor shall granting of divorce on such ground relieve
plaintiff of obligation to provide for, care, support and main-
tenance of defendant, and decree shall so provide; nor shall
any decree be granted on ground of incurable insanity if
same was caused by some act of plaintiff subsequent to mar-
riage, or isi the result of childbirth.
S. B. 230. Anderson. Adding Section 128a (new), to the
Civil Code, providing for the service of summons and complaint
on the district attorney in actions for divorce or annulment
of marriage, and conditioning the courts' jurisdiction thereon.
S. B. 562. Benedict. Amending Section 131, Civil Code,
relating to actions for divorce, so as to make the time allowed
for appeal in such actions correspond with the other amend-
ments.
A. B. 809. McKnight. Identical with S. B. 562. Benedict.
A. B. 43. Schmitt. Amending Section 137, Civil Code,
relating to alimony pending suit for divorce.
Provides that wife may maintain action for maintenance
when husband wilfully fails to provide for her for sixty days.
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A. B. 648. Wright. Adding Section 146a (new) to the Civil
Code, relating to husband and wife, and providing that all
property conveyed to either spouse after interlocutory decree
in divorce and before final decree is presumptively separate
property of spouse to whom conveyed, and presumption shall
be conclusive against purchaser or incumbrancer in good
faith, and for valuable consideration.
A. B. 647. Wright. Adding Section 149 (new) to the Civil
Code, providing that where an interlocutory decree in divorce
is granted, all property not disposed of thereby or in final
decree shall be presumptively separate property of spouse in
whose name title stands of record, notwithstanding it may be
community property, and this presumption shall be conclusive
in favor of purchaser or incumbrancer in good faith and for
valuable consideration.
S. B. 258. Luce. Amending Section 162, Civil Code, defining
the separate property of the wife.
Adds provision that earnings and accumulations of the wife,
whether living with or apart from her husband, and the earn-
ings and accumulations of the minor children living with her,
or in her custody while living apart from her husband, are
the separate property of the wife.
A. B. 1122. Brown, H. W. Amending Section 164, Civil
Code, relating to community property and conveyances to and
by married women.
A. B. 1354. Brown, H. W. Amending Section 164, Civil Code,
relating to community property and conveyances to and by
married women.
S. B. £59. Luce. Repealing Section 169, Civil Code, relating
to the separate property of the wife.
S. B. 221. Scott. Amending Section 171, Civil Code, relating
to the liability of the wife's separate property for debts in-
curred in certain cases.
Eliminates the provision excepting the separate property of
the wife held by her at time of her marriage or acquired by
her by devise or succession after marriage.
A. B. 227. Prendergast. Identical with S. B. 221. Scott.
S. B. 178. Luce. Amending Section 172, Civil Code, relating
to the management and control of community property.
Adds provision that husband cannot convey or encumber the
real or personal property that is part of the community prop-
erty unless the wife sign and acknowledge the deed or instru-
ment conveying or encumbering it.
A. B. 824. Chamberlin. Amending Sections 172 and 1401,
Civil Code, and repealing Section 1402 of said code, relating
to the management, control and disposition of community
property.
Provides (Sec. 172) for joint management of community
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property, and prohibits sale, conveyance, encumbrance or dis-
posal without consent in writing of each spouse; also (Sec 140)
upon death of either spouse, survivor takes half of com-
munity property, and balance being subject to testamentary
disposition of deceased; if no testamentary disposition, then
all goes to survivor subject to community debts, family al-
lowance and expenses of administration.
S. B. 26. Purkitt. Adding Section 172*4 to the Civil Code,
relating to community property.
Requires a full and complete inventory of community prop-
erty to be made out, signed and acknowledged by husband
and wife and hied with county recorder in county where
parties reside and in every county where they own real
property described therein; upon the death of either, property
described in inventory vests absolutely in survivor.
A. B. 878. Pettis. Amending Section 174, Civil Code, relat-
ing to the liability of the husband for necessaries furnished
to the wife.
Includes minor children, and adds a provision that the wife
shall be deemed the agent of the husband in contracting for
such articles or services.
S. B. 922. Butler. Amending Section 196a, Civil Code, re-
lating to the support of illegitimate children.
S. B. 140. S'tuckenbruck. Amending Section 207, Civil Code,
relating to the neglect of a parent to provide articles neces-sary
for his minor child or minor children.
Provides that if a parent neglects to provide "the necessary
food, clothing, shelter or medical attendance for his minor
child or minor children," third person may in good faith supply
such necessaries, and recover reasonable value from parent.
A. B. 1049. Harris. Amending Section 223, Civil Code, re-
lating to the adoption of minor children.
Adds provision "unless consent cannot be obtained, by reason
of his or her having absconded or concealed their place of
residence".
S. B. 990. Irwin (by request). Identical with A. B. 1049.
Harris.
A. B. 751. McDonald, W. A. Amending Section 224, Civil
Code, relating to persons whose consent is necessary to the
adoption of a minor child.
Language but not substance is changed.
A. B. 752. McDonald, W. A. Amending Section 226, Civil
Code, relating to proceedings on adoption.
Provides for investigation by probation officer.
S. B. 474. Breed. Amending Lection 290, Civil Code, relat-
ing to articles of incorporation and what they must set forth.
Changes the words "social purposes" in Subdivision 5 to f'for
purposes other than profit."
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A. B. 1438. Encell. Amending Section 290, Civil Code, re-
lating to the contents of articles of incorporation of corpo-
rations'.
Adds a further provision to Subdivision 6 "that the preferred
and common stock shall be of the same par value".
S. B. 670. Hans. Amending Section 290a, Civil Code, relating
to corporations authorized to act as executor, administrator,
guardian, assignee, receiver, depositary or trustee or to engage
in the business of banking.
Adds provision requiring approval of Superintendent of Banks
before Secretary of State shall issue any certificate of incor-
poration or files any amended articles of incorporation, cer-
tificate increasing or decreasing capital stock, extending or
shortening corporate existence or increasing or decreasing num-
ber of directors of any corporation specified in this section.
A. B. 1437. Encell. Amending Section 296, Civil Code, re-
lating to filing of articles of incorporation.
Adds a provision that the Secretary of State shall issue and
file in his office a duplicate of the certificate and copies thereof
duly certified shall have the same force and effect as the
original.
S. B. 421. King. Adding Section 302a (new) to the Civil
Code, providing for the sending of a financial statement to the
stockholders of every corporation prior to the annual meeting.
S. B. 646. Thompson (by request). Adding Section 306 (new)
to the Civil Code, relating to attendance at directors' meetings.
S. B. 647. Thompson (by request). Adding Section 306a
(new) to the Civil Code, relating to duties of directors of
corporations.
Provides that if a director of a corporation is at place where
directors' meeting is lawfully convened and fails or refuses to
vote on any question, he shall be considered as favoring it
and counted as voting in the affirmative.
S. B. 279. Thompson. Amending Section 312, Civil Code,
relating to meeting of stockholders of corporations.
Adds a provision "except in cases specified in Section 313,
Civil Code, no person shall be eligible to act as a proxy or
representative of a stockholder of a corporation formed for
profit, who is not, at the time he acts as its proxy or repre-
sentative, a bona fide stockholder in said corporation".
A. B. 1436. Encell. Adding Section 316 (new) to the Civil
Code, relating to increasing or decreasing the number of
directors or trustees of corporations or associations.
Number of directors* or trustees may be increased or dimin-
ished by vote or written assent of stockholders representing
inajority of subscribed capital stock, or if it have no capital
stock, by vote or written assent of majority of members.
Certificate over corporate seal setting forth action taken and
stating new number of directors shall be signed by president
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and secretary and filed with County Clerk of county where
original articles were filed and copy, certified by County Clerk,
filed with Secretary of State.
S. B. 429. Jones. Adding Section 318a (new) to the Civil
Code, relating to the calling of stockholders' meetings.
S. B. 917. Campbell. Amending Section 319, Civil Code,
relating to the meetings of stockholders and boards of directors
of corporations.
Provides that meetings must be held at either principal
place of business or at such other place in California as shall
be designated by board of directors or fixed by by-laws.
S. B. 642. Thompson. Adding Section 320a (new) to the
Civil Code, relating to waiver of notice of meeting by directors
of corporations.
Provides that by consent in writing, a waiver of notice of
meeting may be made.
S. B. 197. Ballard. Amending Section 322, Civil Code,
relating to liability of stockholders in corporations.
Provides that each stockholder is, "to the amount of the
par value of the stock or shares owned by him", individually
liable; and any creditor "after first proceeding against, and
exhausting, the assets of the corporation" may institute an
action against such stockholders.
A. B. 371. Bartlett. Identical with S. B. 197. Ballard.
S. B. 316. Tyrrell. Amending Section 329, Civil Code, relat-
ing to lost, destroyed or stolen bonds of a corporation.
Permits remedy to be invoked in case of loss of bonds "by
robbery, burglary or other crime".
A. B. 492. Encell. Identical with S. B. 316. Tyrrell.
S. B. 1072. Ballard (by request). Adding Section 330 to the
Civil Code, relating to debts owing to and stock standing in
the name of decedents.
Provides that foreign executor or administrator may dis-
charge debts owing by persons, firms and corporations doing
business in this State, including dividends on stock, and may
secure transfer to his name of shares of stock standing in
name of decedent upon presenting stock certificate, duly en-
dorsed with transcript of record of appointment and certificate
from clerk of court having jurisdiction in place of residence
of decedent that he is entitled thereto, together with affidavit
that there is no person in this State that is or claims to be a
creditor, or, if there be such, naming him, but no such pay-
ment or transfer shall be made prior to three months after
death of decedent, or if administration has been applied for
in this State; after such payment or transfer there shall be
no administration thereon in this State. The vendee, assignee
or transferee of any such executor or administrator may secure
transfer to his name in similar manner.
A. B. 1131. Bartlett. Adding Section 530 (new) to the Civil
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Code, relating to debts owing to and stock standing in the name
of decedents.
A. B. 1440. Encell. Amending Section 359, Civil Code, re-
lating to the issuance of stocks or bonds of corporations, to
the increase or diminution of their capital stock, and to the
creation or increase of bonded indebtedness of corporations*,
including the creation or increase of a consolidated bonded in-
debtedness by two or more corporations.
A. B. 1439. Encell. Amending Section 362, Civil Code, re-
lating to amendment of articles of incorporation.
S. B. 134. Duncan. Amending Section 405, Civil Code, by
providing that each corporation, joint stock company or asso-
ciation doing business in this State must within 40 days from
time it commences business in this State or if an existing
corporation, etc., within 60 days after taking effect of this
section, designate some person upon whom service of process
may be made and providing for method of service upon cor-
porations, joint stock companies or associations.
S. B. 124. Thompson. Amending Section 421, Civil Code,
relating to investments by insurance companies.
S. B. 802. Luce. Adding Sections 423, 423a, 423b, 423c, 423d,
423e and 423f, Civil Code, all relating to insurance and the
investment of the funds of life insurance companies.
A. B. 860. Prendergast. Amending Section 452a, Civil Code,
relating to the formation of mutual benefit and life associa-
tions.
Forbids the issuance of contracts of insurance until 5000
persons have applied in writing therefor, and have paid $200,-
000 into . the treasury, which sum shall be invested in bonds
or securities approved by Insurance Commissioner in trust.
No corporation formed hereunder has legal existence after
one year from date of articles unless organization completed
and business commenced; nor shall such concern solicit any
business until Section 633, Political Code, has been complied
with.
S. B. 1153. Benedict. Identical with A. B. 860. Prendergast.
S. B. 324. Thompson. Amending Sections 453t and 453y,
Civil Code, relating to title insurance companies.
S. B. 415. Slater. Amending Section 465, Civil Code, relat-
ing to the powers of railroad corporations.
Adds to Subdivision 4 provision that where railroad crosses
or intersects any farm or private road, the railroad corporation
shall restore such farm or private road so that it may be used
without inconvenience or delay to the owner thereof.
S. B. 715. Stuckenbruck. Amending Section 485, Civil Code,
relating to liability of railroad for damages for killing or
maiming animals or stock.
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Strikes out the words "which passes through or along the
property of the owner thereof".
A. B. 1387. Wishard (by request). Identical with S. B. 715.
Stuckenbruck1.
S. B. 344. Slater. Adding Section 485a (new) to the Civil
Code, relating to crossings of railroads.
S. B. 32. Hans. Adding S'ection 550a (new) to the Civil
Code, relating to the furnishing of water for family use.
Requires water corporation to make service connections from
main to curb or property line, and make necessary meter
installation, as governing board of town or city may require,
such pipe and meter installations to be under jurisdiction
of Railroad Commission. Failure for more than 10 days
after demand to furnish water subjects company to penalty
of $50 damages for each day thereafter.
A. B. 1167. Edwards, L. Amending Section 595, Civil Code,
relating to the amount of real estate that may be owned by
non-profit corporations.
S. B. 458. Carr. Amending SectxOn 598, Civil Code, relating
to mortgages, sales and conveyances of real property, by
religious, social and benevolent corporations.
Provides that "corporations of the character mentioned in
Section 593, may mortgage, sell or convey any or all real prop-
erty held by them, in like manner as ordinary corporations
formed for profit, without obtaining any order of court author-
izing such sale, mortgage or conveyance.
A. B. 941. Fish (by request). Amending Section 598, Civil
Code, relating to mortgages, sales and conveyances of real
property, by religious, social and benevolent corporations.
Provides that this may be done without order of court.
S. B. 475. Breed. Amending Section 599, Civil Code, relat-
ing to what may be provided for in the by-laws, ordinances,
constitutions or articles of incorporation of corporations now
organized or that may hereafter be organized for purposes
other than profit.
Permits by-laws to provide any manner of selection or elec-
tion of directors or officers; and adds a new subdivision (4«
providing that the manner of voting may be by ballot or any
other method provided in the by-laws.
S. B. 868. Scott. Amending Section 610, Civil Code, relating
to property of cemetery corporations.
Provides that cemetery corporations may take and hold as
much personal property as may be necessary to fulfil the
purposes of the corporations. All funds must be disposed of
in the improvement of the cemetery and paying incidental
expenses and in no other manner, but where further burial
of human remains shall have been prohibited in any cemetery
any funds of the corporation may be used in building or
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otherwise providing a suitable place within such cemetery for
deposit of any human remains removed from any other por-
tion thereof and for such historical, biographical, scientific,
religious, or other public purposes as shall not conflict with
primary use thereof as place of deposit for such remains, and
for maintenance and perpetual care thereof, etc.
A. B. 1280. McDonald, J. J. (by request). Identical with
S. B. 868. Scott.
S. B. 869. Scott. Amending Section 613, Civil Code, relating
to the title to cemetery lots.
Provides when all bodies buried in any lot shall have been
removed, or the cemetery or portion thereof shall have been
abandoned, the entire title thereto shall be and remain in the
cemetery corporation that originally transferred it; but the
owners of the lot shall retain the right to share in the surplus
assets of the corporation on the basis held by them prior to
the removal of the last body therefrom or the abandonment
or abolishment of the cemetery.
A. B. 1281. McDonald, J. J. (by request). Identical with
S. B. 869. Scott.
S. B. 870. Scott. Adding Section 618 (new) to the Civil
Code, relating to membership in cemetery corporations and
the rights of members to the assets thereof.
Provides lot owners are members of cemetery corporation,
assets of which shall belong to members in such proportion
as the number of square feet of land owned by each member
shall bear to the whole number of square feet of land sold,
but where any lot is sold on agreement that it shall be paid
for only as interments are made, only such part of the lot
actually in use shall constitute the interest of such member
in the assets of the corporation. Whenever a cemetery shall
have been abandoned or abolished and all human remains
removed lot owners or their heirs at law shall retain their
rights of membership so long as the land shall remain un-
disposed of and the surplus assets undivided. No member of
such corporation shall have any right in or to the assets
thereof while he claims title to the land adversely to the
corporation nor until he shall have released and conveyed to
said corporation any portion of land so claimed adversely to
the corporation. Nor shall any member have a right to de-
mand or receive any share of the assets until all human
remains shall have been removed, the land disposed of and
the care of remains removed provided for, and there shall
remain in the treasury surplus moneys not needed for any
other purpose.
A. B. 1282. McDonald, J. J. (by request). Identical with
S. B. 870. Scott.
A. B. 570. Canepa. Adding Section 629a (new) to the
22 PENDING: LEGISLATION, 1915.
Civil Code, relating to certain requirements of gas or electric
corporations before supplying gas or electricity.
S. B. 3. Birdsall. Amending Section 632, Civil Code,
relating to the right to shut off supply of gas or electricity.
Includes telephone corporations and service, but provides
that the right to enter premises to remove property "shall not
extend to and no charge shall be made for readiness to serve,
or for rental of any meter, pipes, wires, fittings, instruments
or appliances."
A. B. 591. Rigdon. Amending Sections 633, 634, 635, 636,
€37, 638, 639, 640, 641, 642, 643, 644, 645, 646, 647, 648, Civil
Code, and repealing Section 648a thereof, all relating to land
and building Corporations.
Strikes out (Sec. 633) the right to receive money and to
execute certificates therefor, and to borrow money for making
of loans and of paying withdrawals and maturities; restores
the first three paragraphs of Section 634 to practically the
same form as before amendment in 1913, but strikes out of
paragraph 3 the right to charge a withdrawal fee; paragraph
5 provides that capital stock may be issued on which member
or holder must pay, on each share, dues in such amounts and
at such times as by-laws may provide and on which payments
must continue until, with profits, it reaches matured value,
or is withdrawn or cancelled. Such stock may be issued in
series, and when so issued payment of dues in each series
shall begin with issue of shares therein. No share of prior
series shall be issued after issue of shares of new series,
except by way of transfer; omits from Section 635 "other than
guarantee stock"; provides (Sec. 636) that matured value
shall be paid, with interest from time board of directors shall
declare shares to have matured until notified that payment is
ready to be made by the association; the present Section 637,
as amended in 1913, is superseded by a provision that "Loans
may be made on such terms and conditions as may be pre-
scribed by the board of directors or the by-laws"; restores
Section 638 to condition before amendment in 1913, except that
provision that there need be no such pledge [of shares] in
loans made to others than members; strikes out of Section 639
the words "or loan instalments"; no change in Section 640;
strikes out all of Section 641 except the first sentence; strikes
out (Sec. 642) reference to investors and investment certificates
and omits the last sentence; no change in Section 643; omits
the word "investors" from Section 644; no change in Section
645 or Section 646; the name "building and loan association"
(Sec. 647), as used in this title, shall include only corporations
formed for purpose of receiving moneys from _ and loaning
money to their members only; strikes out of former Section 648a
reference to guarantee stock and renumbers it Section 648.
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915. 23
S. B. 676. Campbell. Amending Sections 633, 634, 635, 636,
637, 638, 639, 640, 641, 642, 643, 644, 645, 646, 647, 648, Civil
Code, and repealing Section 648a, Civil Code, all relating to
land and building corporations.
S. B. 683. Cohn. Amending Section 634, Civil Code, relating
to building and loan associations, and to their installment or
full paid investment certificates and security for investment
certificate liabilities of the same.
Adds a provision to subdivision e, that the aggregate of
guarantee capital stock or permanent non-withdrawable capi-
tal stock, or both, or reserve fund, of every building and loan
association issuing installment or full-paid investment cer-
tificates must equal the following percentages of its invest-
ment certificate liabilities: 10 per cent of any amount up to
and including $1,000,000; iy2 per cent of any amount in excess
of $1,000,000 up to and including $2,000,000; 5 per cent of any
amount in excess of $2,000,000 up to and including $5,000,000.
A. B. 724. Chenoweth. Identical with S. B. 683, Cohn.
S. B. 84. Benson. Adding Section 642a (new) to the Civil
Code, relating to building and loan associations. Provides
that where applications for withdrawal of free shares or
certificates or demand for payment of matured shares shall
have been unpaid for one year, all receipts and proceeds
after payment of expenses and general indebtedness shall
be applied toward payment of such withdrawals and
maturities upon a ratable and proportionate basis; failure
to pay within two years vests power in supervising officer
to forthwith take possession of and liquidate business.
A. B. 50. Wright, T. M. Identical with S. B. 84. Benson.
S. B. 83. Benson. Amending Section 646, Civil Code,
relating to building and loan associations. Provides that
every foreign building and loan association or similar con-
cern shall not do business in California or sell its stock, bonds
or other securities in this State without first depositing
$50,000 in money or acceptable bonds or other security
satisfactory to the superintendent as a guarantee fund;
it must procure the license required by law, pay the
statutory fee and annually renew same; substitution of
securities is permitted with the consent of the supervising
officer, and the fund shall not be withdrawn except upon
satisfactory proof of liquidation of all liabilities to residents
of California.
A. B. 54. Wright, T. M. Identical with S. B. 83. Benson.
S. B. 80. Jones. Amending Section 647, Civil Code, relat-
ing to building and loan associations. Includes "bonds of
any public utility corporation" among those that may be
invested in or taken as security, subject to approval by
the officer vested with powers of supervision and license.
24 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
A. B. 82. Wright, T. M. Identical with -g. B. 80. Jones.
A. B. 1406. Ryan. Adding Section 653h a (new) to the Civil
Code, providing for the manner of calling meetings of an un-
incorporated society, organization or association, when the
manner of calling the same is unprovided for in the constitu-
tion or by-laws of such unincorporated society, organization or
association, or the officer whose duty it is to call such meeting
fails or refuses so to do.
Identical in subject-matter with A. B. 65. Ryan.
S. B. 129. Thompson. Amending Section 715 of the Civil
Code, relating to restraints upon alienation.
Provides that except in the single case mentioned in Section
772, Civil Code, the absolute power of alienation cannot be
suspended for a longer period than during continuance of lives
in being at creation of limitation or condition, or for period
not to exceed 20 years from time of creation of suspension.
A. B. 1418. Sharkey. Amending Section 718, Civil Code,
relating to limits to certain leases.
Provides that the property of any municipality shall not be
leased for a longer period than 25 years.
A. B. 935. Rutherford. Amending Section 933, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to proceedings in police courts.
A. B 929. Brown, H. W. Amending Section 955, Civil Code,
relating to the assignment of wages or salary.
Strikes out the provision making any power of attorney to
assign or collect wages shall be revocable at any time by the
maker.
S. B. 522. Luce. Amending Section 1006, Civil Code, relating
to "occupancy".
S. B. 1043. Thompson. Amending Section 1006, Civil Code,
relating to occupancy of real property.
Adds provision that neither this section nor occupancy alone
shall in any case be construed to confer any right upon a
mere trespasser upon real property against one making or
having a bona fide claim or ownership under color of title.
A. B. 993. Burke. Adding Section 1109a (new) to the Civil
Code, relating to transfer of property for highway purposes.
Provides that whenever land is granted or condemned for
highway purposes, reservations of right to cross or otherwise
use such land may be made and exercised, subject to regulation
by competent authority.
S. B. 959. Ballard (by request). Identical with A. B. 993.
Burke.
S. B. 273. Jones. Amending Section 1207, Civil Code, relating
to defectively acknowledged instruments of record in the office
of the county recorder prior to the first day of January, 1915.
Changes the date at end of second line of such section
(Deering's Civil Code, p! 351) from 1913 to 1915.
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915. 25
S. B. 238. Strobridge. Amending Section 1313, Civil Code,
relating to restrictions on devises or bequests for charitable
uses.
Adds a further provision exempting bequests and devises to
the State or to any State institution, or for the use and benefit
thereof, from the restrictions of this section.
A. B. 314. Encell. Identical with S. B. 238. Strobridge.
A. B. 27. Prendergast. Amending Section 1401 of the Civil
Code, relating to community property.
Provides that upon death of either husband or wife, the
entire community property, without administration, belongs
to the survivor.
A. B. 42. Ashley. Amending Sections 1401 and 1402, Civil
Code, relating to the succession to, and the disposition of,
the common property.
Provides (Sec. 1401) that upon the death of "either the
husband or wife" the entire community property, without
administration, belongs to the surviving spouse; and (Sec.
1402) upon dissolution of community by death of either spouse,
the entire community property is equally subject to their
debts, subject to provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure
relating to succession to or disposition of homesteads selected
during life of either spouse.
S. B. 5. Eutler. Amending Section 1402, Civil Code, relating
to community property. Provides that upon the death of
either spouse the entire property goes to the survivor with-
out administration, "subject to debts contracted by either
during coverture, the family allowance and expenses of the
last illness".
A. B. 26. Prendergast. Amending Section 1402, Civil Code,
relating to community property.
Provides that upon death of either spouse all community
property goes to survivor without administration.
A. B. 870. Shartel. Amending Sections 1410 and 1415, Civil
Code, and other sections with reference to the acquiring and
appropriation of water.
S. B. 889. Breed. Adding Section 1410b (new) to the Civil
Code, relating to acts to be done to maintain the flow of
water in a natural stream to the intake of any canal diverting
water for sale, rental or distribution to the public.
Provides that flow of water in any natural stream to intake
of any canal diverting water for sale, rental or distribution
to public may be maintained by repairing any break in bank
of stream, by maintaining banks of stream, and by preventing
by physical structure and other means any increased flow of
water through natural byways of water that carry or threaten
to carry such increase of water away from intake.
A. B. 1094. Satterwhite. Identical with S. B. 889. Breed.
26 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
A. B. 426. Dennett. Amending Section 1416, Civil Code,
relating to the work required to be done in the appropriation
of the waters of the State.
Includes "irrigation districts."
A. B. 1306. Shartel. Amending Section 1426n, Civil Code,
relating to fees for recording affidavits of labor or improve-
ments of mining claims.
Pees fixed at 10 cents per folio, 20 cents for endorsement
and 10 cents for indexing name of each claim and each owner.
S. B. 1193. Benedict. Amending Section 1624 of the Civil
Code, and repealing Article II of Chapter III of Title IV of
Division II of the Civil Code, and repealing Sections 3308, 3309,
3310, 3311, 3312, 3313, 3314, 3353, 3354, 3355, 1739 and 1740 of
the Civil Code, Chapter II of Title I of Part IV of Division III
of the Civil Code, Chapter III of Title I of Part IV of Division
III of the Civil Code, Chapter IV of Title I of Part IV of Divi-
sion III of the Civil Code, and to add Chapters II, III, IV, V,
VI and VII of Title I of Part IV of Division III of said Civil
Code in place thereof, relating to the sale of personal property.
This is the Uniform Sales of Goods Act, drafted by the
Commissioners of Uniform State Laws, endorsed by the Ameri-
can Bar Association and the California Bar Association,
adopted by the Federal Government and most of the states.
S. B. 840. Scott. Adding Section 1624a (new) to the Civil
Code, relating to contracts in foreign languages, and actions
thereon.
Provides that all contracts involving $50 or more, to which
any alien of less than two years' residence in the United
States is a party, must be in writing in English language and
also in the language of the alien party to the contract, and
must be subscribed by the party to be charged or by his
agent; such contract shall be invalid as to such alien if not in
conformity herewith, In actions arising out of such con-
tracts, both copies shall be considered and neither shall be
binding over the other.
A. B. 910. Sisson. Identical with S. B. 840. Scott.
S. B. 965. Stuckenbruck. Adding Section 1657a (new) to
the Civil Code, relating to the time for completion of real
estate improvement work under a contract silent as to the
time for such completion.
Provides that where no definite time is fixed in instrument
for completion of work, then the "reasonable time" for com-
pletion shall be considered to mean not more than 2 years
from date of instrument.
A. B. 1165. Ashley. Identical with S. B. 965. Stuckenbruck.
A. B. 855. Hayes. Amending Section 1674, Civil Code, in
relation to contracts in restraint of trade.
Adds provision that section shall not be construed to vali-
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915. 27
date any contract or terms of employment whereby an em-
ployee, soliciting trade for his employer, shall upon discharge
or resignation be prevented from soliciting trade or receiv-
ing orders from former customers of such employer.
S. B. 734. Flaherty. Amending Section 1674, Civil Code,
in relation to contracts in restraint of trade.
A. B. 207. Hawson. Adding Section 1677 (new) to the
Civil Code, prohibiting secret liens on personal property.
Declares contracts creating secret liens void. Every con-
tract whereby seller of personal property reserves or retains
title after delivery until purchase price is paid is deemed to
create secret lien and is to that extent void; every contract
of hire or rental of personal property where the sums paid
for hire or rental are ultimately to be taken as purchase
money for any personal property delivered thereunder shall
be deemed a contract of sale and title to said property shall
pass with delivery thereof. Every shift, artifice, or device,
whereby any of the provisions of this section is sought or
intended to be evaded, shall be null and void.
S. B. 70. Scott. Adding Section 1716 (new) to the Civil
Code, relating to negligence and the enforcement of claims
against municipal corporations because of negligence in cer-
tain cases.
Provides that where a contract has been entered into for
street work the cost of which will be a lien on private prop-
erty if all steps required by law have been legally taken and
the contract contains a clause exempting the municipality
from liability, all courts shall construe the contract as an
undertaking on the part of the municipality that it and its
officers, boards and departments have and will legally per-
form every act required by law to make the contract price a
valid lien against the specific private property affected; and
where the contractor is unable to collect the contract price
because of any error, defect, or omission by the municipality,
or the unconstitutionality of any statute, or the non-owner-
ship by the municipality, necessary to constitute a valid lien,
the person so unable to collect shall have a cause of action
against the municipality for negligence, entitling him to dam-
ages in the amount of the expense, value or contract price
for the work. The provisions of Title II, Part II, Code of
Civil Procedure, shall not apply, and the person having such
claim shall have the right to present same for allowance to
the proper officers of the municipality at any time within 20
days after the passage of this Act, any other statute, regu-
lation or ordinance to the contrary notwithstanding.
A. B. 330. McDonald, J. J. Identical with S. B. 70. Scott.
S. B. 1178. Brown. Adding Section 1739a (new) to the
Civil Code, relating to permanent records of conditional sales.
28 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
Declares all such agreements void as to all subsequent pur-
chasers in good faith and creditors, unless conditions shall be
evidenced in writing, executed, acknowledged and recorded as
provided in cases of mortgages of personal property.
S. B. 882. Luce. Adding Section 1742 (new) to the Civil
Code, relating to conditional sales.
Provides that no sale, contract or lease wherein transfer of
title or ownership of personal property depends on any condi-
tion shall be valid against any purchaser or judgment creditor
of vendee or lessee in actual possession, unless same be in
writing, signed by vendee or lessee, and copy recorded in
county recorder's office, together with an affidavit showing
the interest of vendor or lessor therein. All such sales shall
cease to be valid against purchasers in good faith or judgment
or attaching creditors without notice at expiration of five
years unless vendor or lessor shall within 30 days prior to
expiration of five years from date of sale or transfer, file
verified copy thereof in county recorder's office and validity
of sale may be preserved by annual refiling. Does not apply
to chattel mortgages.
A. B. 1027. Gebhart. Adding Section 1742 (new) to the
Civil Code, relating to contracts of conditional sale.
Provides that every contract of sale of personal property,
other than a thing in action, wherein title is reserved until
whole or part of purchase price shall be paid, or wherein trans-
fer of title is dependent upon any condition, shall in respect
to such reservation and condition be void as to creditors of
vendee or intended vendee and as to all subsequent purchasers
and incumbrancers of such property in good faith and for
value, unless contract be in writing and signed by vendee or
intended vendee.
S. B. 1127. Kehoe. Adding Section 1771a (new) to the Civil
Code, relating to the sale of live stock.
Provides that any person selling- live stock thereby warrants
it sound and merchantable and free from contagious or in-
fectious diseases when so sold.
A. B. 298. Avey. Amending Section 1861, Civil Code, relat-
ing to the lien of hotel, inn, boarding-house and lodging-house
keepers upon the baggage and other property of value of their
guests, or boarders, or lodgers, by including therein a lien for
apartment house keepers upon the property of their tenants.
S. B. 543. Cogswell. Identical with A. B. 298. Avey.
A. B. 434. Chamberlin. Amending Section 1861, Civil Code,
relating to lien of hotel keepers on property of guests for
charges.
A. B. 653. Encell. Amending Section 1861, Civil Code, re-
lating to lien of hotel keepers on property of guests for
charges.
PENDING LEOISIiATION, 1915. 29
Gives a lien on baggage and other property "belonging to
or legally under the control" of guests "which may be in" the
hotel, etc., "for the proper charges due from" such guests
for "their accommodation," etc., "and for all money paid for
or advanced to such guests, or boarders or lodgers, and for
the costs of enforcing such lien"; unless charges are paid
within 60 days, property may be sold at public auction, after
giving notice of sale by publication once a week for four
successive weeks in a newspaper and by mailing at least 15
days before date of sale a copy of such notice addressed to
such guest at his postoffice address; if there be any residue
from said sale, and no demand is made for it within six
months, it shall be paid into treasury of county, and if not
demanded within one year thereafter, shall be transferred
into general fund.
A. B. 1410. Lostutter. Amending Sections 1917 and 1918,
Civil Code, relating to rate of interest.
Fixes (Sec. 1917) the legal rate of interest at 6 per cent,
and limits (Sec. 1918) the maximum amount that may be
agreed upon at 12 per cent, but excepts contracts of building
and loan associations.
A. B. 3. Brown. Amending Sections 1917, 1918, 1919 and 1920,
Civil Code, and adding Section 1921 (new) thereto, relating to
the loan of money, and the rate of interest to be allowed and
charged therefor.
The legal rate of interest (Sec. 1917) on all moneys after
same become due is fixed at 7 per cent; but on contracts
interest up to 9 per cent per annum, and no more, may be
charged by express agreement in writing. In computing in-
terest for a period less than a year, 360 days are deemed to
constitute a year.
No person shall (Sec. 1918) directly or indirectly in money
or in any other manner receive greater interest than provided
in this chapter. Interest must not be compounded in any
manner.
If it shall be ascertained (Sec. 1919) in any action on con-
tract that a greater rate of interest has been contracted for
than provided in Section 1917, the same shall be deemed
usurious and shall forfeit the entire interest so contracted for,
and the court shall enter judgment for the original sum loaned
without interest.
The interest rate on judgments (Sec. 1920) is reduced from
7 to 6 per cent.
The bona fide assignee (Sec. 1921 [new]) of any usurious
contract may by proper action recover against his original
assignor or original usurer the full amount paid by him for
the contract, provided it is proven that assignee had no
notice of the usury.
30 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
This act not to be construed as affecting any rate of in-
terest to be received by virtue of any contract entered into
before it shall take effect. (A. B. 881. Brown. "Pending
Legislation, 1913," p. 61.)
S. B. 914. Flint. Identical with A. B. 3. Brown.
S. B. 138. Luce. Amending Section 1920. Civil Code, relating
to interest on judgments.
Fixes interest rate at 12 per cent, provided that party
against whom judgment is rendered may within 30 days after
rendition thereof file with Clerk of Court a waiver of right
of appeal in which event interest rate shall be 7 per cent, but
must not be compounded in any manner.
A. B. 60S. Johnson. Amending Section 1955, Civil Code,
relating to the letting and hiring of personal property.
Provides that letter of personal property must deliver it
to hirer in condition fit for purpose for which let and from
time to time repair all deteriorations not caused by fault of
hirer or natural result of use; secure hirer against all lawful
claimants, subject to terms of any agreement between them.
When any personal property has been delivered by owner to
hirer under written agreement that hirer may purchase same
after payment of full rental thereof, such agreement shall be
conclusively presumed to be a lease thereof only with option
in to purchase for additional sum stated therein. Hirer shall
have no right to said property except according to terms of
agreement until he shall have exercised option to purchase
and paid additional sum stated therein for purchase of title
according to terms of agreement.
S. B. 697. Ballard. Identical with A. B. 608. Johnson.
A. B. 1000. Bartlett. Identical with S. B. 697, Ballard, and
A. B. 608, Johnson.
S. B. 9S5. Lyon. Amending Sections 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 and
2003, Civil Code, relating to employees.
S. B. 1071. Crowley. Amending Section 2181 of the Civil Code,
relating to personal and sample baggage or luggage and to
place rules, regulations and liability relative thereto under the
jurisdiction of the Railroad Commission of the State of Cali-
fornia, and to limit the operations of this section to common
carriers subject to the jurisdiction of said Railroad Commis-
sion and to the handling of baggage originating and terminate
ing within the State of California.
A. B. 1370. Beck (by request). Identical with S. B. 1071.
Crowley.
A. B. 1028. Gebhart. Adding Section 2264 (new) to the
Civil Code, relating to sales by trustees under express trusts.
Provides that no sale of trust property shall be made by
trustee under terms of any instrument creating express trust
as security for performance Of any obligation until at least 10
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915. 31
days after trustee or beneficiary shall have sent by registered
mail or delivered personally to trustor or his successor in
interest and to beneficiary under any subsequent trust affecting-
trust property and to holder of any subsequent incumbrance
appearing of record, a notice of time and place of sale; failure
to give such notice shall not affect title of property sold, but
beneficiary under trust shall be liable in damages to any per-
son who shall suffer detriment.
A. B. 921. Ryan. Amending Section 2268, Civil Code, relat-
ing to the power of trustees.
Permits action by majority of trustees, unless declaration
of trust provides otherwise.
S. B. 60. Finn. Amending Section 2286, Civil Code, relat-
ing to the power of trustees. Provides that a majority of
the trustees may act and bind the trust property, etc.
S. B. 751. Maddux. Amending Section 2287, Civil Code,
relating to appointment of trustees.
S. B. 59. Finn. Amending Section 2289, Civil Code, relat-
ing to the appointment of trustees, by adding "or with a less
number of trustees than were originally appointed, or with
one or more trustees."
A. B. 922. Ryan. Identical with S. B. 59. Finn.
S. B. 57. Finn. Adding Section 2301 (new) to the Civil
Code defining agencies. Declares any person who while in
lawful possession of an article of personal property causes
alterations or repairs to be made or labor to be employed
thereon for its protection, improvement, safe-keeping or car-
riage, to be the agent of the owner of such automobile or
motor vehicle for the purposes of Part IV, Title XIV, Chap-
ter VII, Art. Ill, Civil Code.
A. B. 377. Chamberlain. Identical with S. B. 57. Finn.
S. B. 506. Campbell. Amending Section 2453, Civil Code,
relating to the notice necessary for termination of liability
of a general partner for the acts of his copartners.
S. B. 568. Benedict. Repealing Section 2633a, Civil Code,
relating to the time for notice of loss in casualty or accident
insurance policies.
A. B. 1229. Fish. Identical with S. B. 568. Benedict.
A. B. 996. Chamberlin. Adding Section 2903a (new) to the
Civil Code, relating to the foreclosure of deeds of trust and
redemption.
Provides that deeds of trust in nature of mortgages may at
option of cestuis que trust, etc., be foreclosed and property sold
in same manner as mortgages, and all real estate which may
be sold by trustees, according- to terms of deed, without deed
of trust having been foreclosed, and which shall be bought In
by cestui que trust, his assignee or any other person for them,
shall be subject to redemption by grantor any time within
32 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915,
three months from date of sale, on payment of debt and inter-
est secured by deed of trust and all legal charges and costs
of sale, and at such sale purchaser shall receive certificate of
purchase setting forth property sold and amount of purchase
money received, which certificate shall be delivered to trustee
on application for deed at expiration of three months.
S. B. 649. Thompson. Amending Section 2924, Civil Code,
relating to mortgages and deeds of trust.
Provides that deeds of trust made as security for debt shall
be foreclosed by sale of property by the trustee; notice of such
case shall be given by publication as in the deed of trust
provided, but not less than once a week for at least three
weeks, in a newspaper in the county in which the property
to be sold is situated, by posting at least three weeks before
date fixed for sale in conspicuous place on premises to be
sold; and by delivering to the person in possession of the
premises, if occupied, a notice in writing not less than three
weeks before the sale. Upon sale, trustee shall record cer-
tificate showing time and place of sale, name of purchaser,
and price for which sold, and stating that if not redeemed
within four months after date of recording trustee will execute
deed; if owner or successor in interest shall redeem within four
months by paying trustee amount of purchase price, together
within interest thereon at 1 per cent a month from date of
sale, effect of sale shall terminate and owner be restored to
his estate; upon redemption trustee shall pay redemption
money, less fees and costs of trustee, to purchaser at sale, or
his successor in interest, and shall issue certificate of redemp-
tion, which shall be recorded, said recording to clear the title
of lien created by deed of trust and sale; if not redeemed,
trustee shall execute deed and pass title thereto.
Fixes maximum fees of trustee, including attorney's fees,
as follows: For any sum not exceeding $500, $75; over $500
and not exceeding $1000, $100; over $1000 and not exceeding
$2000, $150; over $2000 and not exceeding $3500, $200; over
$3500 and not exceeding $5000, $235; over $5000 and not ex-
ceeding $7500, $285; over $7500 and not exceeding $10,000, $320;
over $10,000 and not exceeding $15,000, $350; $25 for each $5000
or fraction thereof over $15,000, and any provision in any trust
deed for any greater compensation shall be void as to excess
over such amounts.
A. B. 853. Manning. Amending Section 2924, Civil Code,
relating to mortgages and deeds of trust.
Similar to S. B. 649 — Thompson, but contains no. schedule
of fees.
A. B. 717. McDonald, J. J. Amending Section 2924, Civil
Code, relating to transfer of interest, when a mortgage and
when a pledge in property.
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Strikes out the words "other than in trust."
S. B. 72. Duncan. Adding Section 2940% (new) to the
Civil Code relating to presumption payment of mortgages.
Provides that if no suit in foreclosure has been instituted
for a period of ten years after maturity of the obligations
mentioned therein, it is to be conclusively presumed that
the mortgage has been fully paid and discharged and is no
longer a lien on the property.
A. B. 200. Rodgers. Amending Section 2967, Civil Code,
relating to the foreclosure of mortgages on personal property.
Provides foreclosure may be made as prescribed by Sections
726 to 729, inclusive, of the Code of Civil Procedure.
S. B. 428. Jones. Amending Section 2969, Civil Code, relat-
ing to limitation of rights of officers to levy on mortgaged
personal property.
S. B. 56. Finn. Amending Section 3051, Civil Code, re-
lating to liens upon personal property. Includes "other motor
propelled vehicles" and extends the lien to "gasoline, distil-
late, oils, grease, supplies and accessories furnished the owner
or legal possessor of such automobiles or other motor pro-
pelled vehicles."
A. B. 376. Chamberlain. Identical with S. B. 56. Finn.
S. B. 302. Breed. Amending Section 3088, Civil Code, re-
lating to negotiable instruments.
Adds provision that "bonds payable to bearer shall be
negotiable, notwithstanding any condition contained therein
or in the mortgage, deed of trust or other instrument secur-
ing the same".
A. B. 3^7. Satterwhite. Identical with S. B. 302. Breed.
S. B. 661. Rush. Amending Section 3423, Civil Code, relating
to injunctions to prevent the Reclamation Board, or any reclama-
tion district, levee district, swamp land district, drainage dis-
trict, municipal corporation or public agency from constructing
or maintaining on land which it owns or over which it has
a right of way, and by-pass, weir, levee, dam, dike, embank-
ment, canal, ditch, or other work, approved by the Reclama-
tion Board, and which carry out, or aid in carrying out, or
are designed to carry out the plans of the California Debris
Commission transmitted to the Speaker of the House of Repre-
sentatives of the United States by the Secretary of War on
the 27th day of June, 1911, with such amendments and modi-
fications as may be adopted by the Reclamation Board.
A. B. 764. Sisson. Identical with S. B. 661. Rush.
S. B. 651. Thompson. To revise and amend Chapter VIII
of Title II of Part IV of Division I of the Civil Code, relating
to mortgage insurance.
S. B. 1192. Benedict. To repeal Article 3 of Chapter III of
Title VII of Part IV of the Civil Code of the State of Cali-
24 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
fornia, and to enact a new Article III of Chapter III of Title VII
of Part IV of the Civil Code of the State of California, relat-
ing to bills of lading.
This is the Uniform Bills of Lading Act, drafted by the
Commissioners of Uniform State Laws, endorsed by the Ameri-
can Bar Association and the California Bar Association,
adopted by the Federal Government and most of the states.
S. B. 1194. Benedict. Repealing Title XV of Part IV of
Division III of the Civil Code of the State of California, and
to add a new Title XV of Part IV of Division III of said Code
in place thereof, relating to negotiable instruments, and to
make the law of negotiable instruments in the State of Cali-
fornia uniform with the laws of other states.
This is the Uniform Negotiable Instruments Act, drafted by
the Commissioners of Uniform State Laws, endorsed by the
American Bar Association and the California Bar Association,
adopted by the Federal Government and most of the states.
A. B. 1434. Gebhart. Identical with S. B. 1194. Benedict.
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915. 35
CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE.
S. B. 85. Slater. Amending Section 10, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating- to holidays. Declares the 12th of
February, "Lincoln Day," a legal holiday.
A. B. 1143. Chamberlin. Amending Section 67a, Code of
Civil Procedure, relating to Superior Court of Los Angeles
County.
S. B. 1082. Benedict. Amending Section 67a, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to the number of Superior Court judges,
and providing for the appointment of two additional Superior
Court judges in counties of the first class, and providing for
their compensation,
Increases the number of judges in Los Angeles county from
eighteen to twenty.
A. B. 270. Ryan. Amending Sections 85 and 97, Code of
Civil Procedure, relating to justices' courts and justices of
the peace in cities and counties of over 400,000 inhabitants.
Adds a provision (Sec. 85) that each justice of the peace
must, at the time of his election, be an elector of such city
and county and qualified to practice in all courts of this State;
and (Sec. 97) increases the salary of such justices of the
peace to $4200 per year.
S. B. 306. Crowley. Identical with A. B. 270. Ryan.
A. B. 269. Ryan. Amending Section 86, Code of Civil Pro-
cedure, relating to clerks of justices' courts in cities and coun-
ties, and repealing all Acts inconsistent herewith.
Provides for the appointment by the clerk of a chief deputy
and a cashier, at $1800 per year each, and three deputy clerks
and one messenger at $1500 per year each.
S. B. 308. Finn. Identical with A. B. 269. Ryan.
A. B. 83. Bartlett. Amending Section 99, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to justices' courts and justices in town-
ships having population between 250,000 and 400,000, by in-
creasing the number of justices from four to six. This ap-
plies particularly to Los Angeles.
A. B. 689. Phillips. Amending Section 101, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to Justices' courts and justices in town-
ships having a population of 250,000 or over.
Provides for appointment by each justice of a courtroom
clerk and by the justices of six deputy clerks.
A. B. 688. Phillips. Amending Section 102b, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to justices' courts and justices in town-
ihips having a population of 250,000 or over.
Increases the salary of the clerk to $2100, that of the as-
sistant clerk to $1800, and that of deputy clerks and court-
room clerks to $1500.
36 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
A. B. 1142. Chamberlin. Amending Section 102b, Code of
Civil Procedure, relating- to salaries of justices and clerks.
Increases the salary of justices from $3000 to $3600, and of
deputy clerks from $1200 to $1500 per annum.
A. B. 202. Hawson. Amending Section 103, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to justices of the peace.
Adds provision that whenever provided by law that salary
of city justice of the peace be paid by county clerk shall
make report and pay over all money collected as fines, for-
feitures and fees to the county auditor and county treasurer
respectively.
A. B. 253. Bartlett. Amending Section 103, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to justices' court and justices and the
number of justices in cities and towns of various classes.
Increases the number of justices of the peace in cities of the
first and one-half class to seven.
A. B. 1330. Widenmann. Amending Section 103, Code of
Civil Procedure, relating to justices of the peace.
S. B. 969. Benson. Adding Section 103a to the Code of
Civil Procedure, relating to the duties of clerks of certain
Justices of the Peace.
A. B. 1210. Wright, T. M. Identical with S. B. 969. Benson.
S. B. 881. Luce. Adding Section 103b (new) to the Code
of Civil Procedure, relating to justices' court clerk and fixing
the powers and duties.
A. B. 203. Hawson. Amending Section 103%, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to clerks of justices' courts in cities or
towns of the second and one-half class and third class, and
appointments, salaries and duties of same.
A. B. 945. Phillips. Adding Section 104% (new) to the Code
of Civil Procedure, relating to the holding of court by Justices
of the Peace.
Requires every Justice of the Peace having no clerk to be
in his office for dispatch of official business at least two hours
daily.
A. B. 69. Gelder. Amending Section 110, Code of Civil Pro-
cedure, relating to the term of office of Justices of the Peace;
increases the term of office to six years from and after 12 m.
on the first Monday after the first day of January next suc-
ceeding their election.
A. B. 706. Gebhart. Amending Section 125, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to the private trial of issues of fact in
certain cases.
Strikes out the word "divorce."
A. B. 1458. Arnerich. Amending Section 125, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to private sittings of Courts of Justice.
Strikes out actions of divorce and breach of promise of
marriage, and extends provisions* of section to "all other cases
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915. 37"
where the question of sex is involved, and in hearings of all
juvenile cases", and in such cases makes a private hearing
mandatory.
A. B. 705. Gebhart. Adding Section 126 (new) to the Code
of Civil Procedure, providing that all hearings and trials in
actions for divorce shall in all cases be open to the public.
A. B. 1088. Ellis. Amending Section 130, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to rules of courts of record.
Adds provision that rules adopted by County Inferior Courts
shall take effect fifteen days after their publication.
A. B. 432. Chamberlin. Amending Section 156, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to qualification of Justices of Supreme
Court.
Adds qualification "and shall have been engaged in active
practice of law within the State of California for a period of
not less than 10 years next preceding his election or appoint-
ment."
A. B. 433. Chamberlin. Amending Section 157, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to qualification of Superior Judges.
A. B. 893.- Byrnes. Adding Section 188 (new) to the Code
of Civil Procedure, relating to the disposition of funds paid
by order of court.
Provides that money paid into court shall be immediately
deposited with the Treasurer and a duplicate receipt of the
Treasurer filed with the Auditor. Certificate of Auditor that
receipt is filed necessary to discharge of obligation imposed
on County Clerk or person required to make such deposit.
Money so deposited may be withdrawn only on order of court
directing Auditor to draw warrant therefor.
S. B. 597. Butler. Amending Sections 190, 192, 193, 194 and
195, Code of Civil Procedure, relating to jurors, and providing
for service by women on grand and trial juries.
S. B. 899. Birdsall. Identical with (A- B. 893. Byrnes.
A. B. 1076. Downing. Amending Sections 190, 192, 193, 194
and 195, Code of Civil Procedure, relating to jurors.
A. B. 29. McPherson. Adding Section 192a to the Code of
Civil Procedure, relating to the service of retiring grand
jurors on the succeeding grand jury in the same court.
Provides that three members of each retiring grand jury,
to be chosen by vote of retiring grand jury, shall serve on
succeeding grand jury; no grand juror shall serve for more
than two years in succession; if any member so elected fails
to qualify then the one receiving the next highest number
of votes shall qualify.
A. B. 38. Ferguson. Amending Section 198, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to qualifications of jurors.
Eliminates property qualifications.
A. B. 59. McDonald, W. A. Amending Section 198, Code of
38 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
Civil Procedure, by substituting in lieu of the property qual-
ification, a provision that the names of the persons selected
shall be on the Great Register.
A. B. 789. Gebhart. Amending Section 198, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to persons competent to act as jurors.
A. B. 1449. Downing. Amending Section 198, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to qualifications of jurors.
Includes both sexes, strikes out property qualification and
provides that any person whose name appears in the great
register is eligible.
A. B. 115. McPherson. Amending Sections 199 and 200,
Code of Civil Procedure, relating to the classification of per-
sons incompetent to act as jurors, and to exemptions from
jury duty.
Rearranges without changing effect of Section 199, and
makes change in verbiage in Section 200, Subdivision 13, with-
out altering effect.
S. B. 196. Ballard. Amending Section 200, Code of Civil
Procedure, designating persons who are exempt from jury duty.
Adds to Subdivision 12 "a superintendent or zanjero in the
employ of a water company", and provides also for the ex-
emption for one year of any person on the regular trial jury
panel of any court of record after he has remained thereon
for three months, this exemption not to apply in counties of
less than 100,000 population.
A. B. 245. Chamberlin. Identical with S. B. 196. Ballard.
S. B. 659. Benson. Amending Section 200, Code of Civil Pro-
cedure, relating to exemptions from liability to act as a juror.
Includes railroad firemen in subdivision 12.
A. B. 1130. Mouser. Amending Section 200, Code of Civil
Procedure, designating persons who are exempt from jury duty.
Includes in subdivision 10, superintendents, employees or
operators of electric light and gas companies; and provides, in
subdivision 12, that a person on a regular jury panel, after
serving three months thereon, shall be exempt for one year
from the time he was placed on the panel.
A. B. 1075. Downing. Amending Section 201, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to the excusing of jurors from the duty of
serving.
A. B. 1384. Dennett. Amending Sections 204, 205, 206, 207,
209, 210, 211, adding thereto Sections 212 and 213, and repeal-
ing Section 208, Code of Civil Procedure, relating to the selec-
tion and return of jurors for courts of record.
Provides (Sec. 204) that in January of each year County
Clerk in each city and county or county shall prepare list of
all persons eligible, suitable and competent to serve as jurors,
who are on last preceding assessment roll, and file same at
his office, writing the names on separate pieces of paper of
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915. 39
same size and appearance and folding all alike so as to con-
ceal name thereon, and deposit slips in trial jury box. Such
persons (Sec. 205) shall serve for one year and until new
list is compiled, except that when any persons are drawn to
serve in any trial they shall be eligible to serve for 30 days
only. Persons selected (Sec. 206) shall be such as are suitable
and competent, on last preceding assessment roll, not exempt
from serving, and who are in possession of natural faculties,
not infirm or decrepit, of fair character and approved integrity,
and of sound judgment. Persons drawn (Sec. 207) as trial
jurors shall serve for one period only of 30 days, except where
entire list is exhausted in trial of cases, in which event entire
list of jurors shall be replaced in trial jury box and used
again. Section 209 is in practically the same language as
present Section 204, except that it relates to grand jurors only.
List of grand jurors (Sec. 210) shall contain only number of
persons designated in court's order, and shall be selected from
different wards or townships in proportion to number of in-
habitants as nearly as same can be estimated, said lists to
be kept separate one from the other. Certified list (Sec. 211)
of persons selected to serve as grand jurors shall at once be
placed in possession of and filed with County Clerk. On
receiving list (Sec. 212) County Clerk shall write names on
slips and place in grand jury box. Names of persons drawn
for grand jurors (Sec. 213) shall be drawn from grand jury
box, and those who have not been drawn to serve as grand
jurors may be placed on list of grand jurors for succeeding
year.
A. B. 58. McDonald, W. A. Amending Section 205, Code of
Civil Procedure, relating to the selection and listing of jurors,
by omitting the requirement that persons- selected for jury
service shall be on the assessment roll.
S. B. 75. Duncan. Adding Section 205a (new), Code of
Civil Procedure, relating to the verification of the qualifier
tions of jurors. Provides that prior to filing lists of jurors
the names shall be submitted to the Tax Collector for a
report as to whether or not they are on the assessment roll.
Other names shall be substituted for those not on assess-
ment roll.
A. B. 1074. Downing. Amending Section 206, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to the number of names which lists of
jurors shall contain.
Adds provision that lists shall contain names of men and
women in equal numbers.
A. B. 1385. Dennett. Amending Sections 214 and 215, Code
of Civil Procedure, relative to the drawing of jurors for courts
of records.
Adds to Section 214 provision that where business of court
40 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
requires attendance of trial jurors for more than 30 days new
trial jurors shall be drawn every 30 days until business dis-
posed of. Provides also (Sec. 215) that drawing shall be in
"open court" instead of "in the presence of the court", as at
present.
S. B. 377. Shearer. Amending Section 225, Code of Civil Pro-
cedure, relating to the manner of serving jurors by the sheriff.
Adds: "or by mailing such notice by registered mail."
S. B. 74. Duncan. Amending Section 227, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to summoning jurors to complete a
panel and the duties of the officers summoning the same.
Provides that persons so summoned must answer under
oath to the sheriff or elisor questions touching their citizen-
ship, knowledge of the English language, whether or not
they are on the last assessment roll; whether they have
served or been discharged as grand or trial jurors within
one year; whether if they are members of the National
Guard, the paid fire department or exempt members of a
duly organized fire company, they claim their exemption
from jury duty. If the answers establish that the juror is
not qualified his name must not be included in the return.
All officers summoning jurors are authorized to administer
the necessary oath.
A. B. 821. Rominger. Repealing Sections 230, 231 and 232,
Code of Civil Procedure, relating to the summoning of jurors
of courts not of record.
A. B. 1158. Gebhart (by request). Amending Section 231,
Code of Civil Procedure, relating to the summoning of jurors
in justice courts, police courts or other inferior courts.
Provides that jurors may be summoned by notifying them
in writing delivered personally or through the United States
mail.
A. B. 820. Rominger. Adding Sections 233, 233a, 233b, 233c,
233d, 233e, 233f and 233g (new) to the Code of Civil Procedure,
relating to the listing, drawing and summoning of jurors for
courts not of record.
S. B. 589. Campbell. Amending Section 241, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to grand jurors.
Requires the drawing of two grand juries in each year in
all counties having three or more Superior Court judges.
A. B. 1409. Canepa (by request). Amending Section 259,
Code of Civil Procedure,, relating to the powers of Court Com-
missioners.
Omits from subdivision 3 the clause: "and to take acknowl-
edgments and proof of deeds, mortgages, and other instru-
ments requiring proof or acknowledgment for any purpose under
the law of this State".
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915. 41
S. B. 121. Scott. Amending Section 274, Code of Civil Pro-
cedure, relating to official reporters.
Provides that official reporters shall be paid by the county,
or city and county, "such fees and compensation as the Board
of Supervisors shall fix and determine."
A. B. 183. McDonald, J. J. Identical with g. B. 121. Scott.
S. B. 1044. Thompson (by request). Amending Section 274
and repealing Section 274b, Code of Civil Procedure, both
relating to and fixing the fees to be received by official re-
porters of the Superior Court.
Provides that for transcribing, the reporter shall receive
for one copy 10 cents per folio, for two copies 8 cents per
folio, for three copies 6 cents per folio, and for four or more
copies 5 cents per folio.
S. B. 627. Luce. Amending Section 274b, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to the fees charged by phonographic re-
porters in transcribing evidence.
Fixes compensation for making an original and three carbon
copies, in any criminal case, 10 cents a folio, provided he shall
receive no compensation unless testimony has been transcribed
by him within time provided by law.
A. B. 808. McKnight. Amending Section 276, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to testimonials examination before Dis-
trict Court of Appeal.
Adds that, in addition to satisfactory testimonials of good
moral character, the applicant must produce proof of having
studied law in a law school, or in the office of an attorney
at law for three years, and of having the equivalent of a high
school education, and undergo a strict examination in open
court, part of which must be in writing, as to his qualifications
by the justices of one of the District Courts of Appeal.
S. B. 82. Jones. Amending Sections 276, 277 and 279,
Code of Civil Procedure, and adding Sections 276a, 276b
and 276c (new), relating to the admission and license of
attorneys and counsellors at law, and making an appro-
priation to carry out the purposes of this Act.
Provides (Sec. 276) three years' study and passing of ex-
amination by State Board of Law Examiners as qualifica-
tion for admission to practice law.
Provides (Section 276a, new) for the appointment by the
Supreme Court of a board of three attorneys of at least 5
years' active practice, to hold office at the court's pleasure,
to act as a Board of State Law Examiners, who shall
receive $750 each per year as salary, in addition to actual
necessary traveling expenses, not to exceed in the aggregate
for the board $750 a year. The board may appoint a
secretary at $100 per annum, and is allowed $1000 per
annum for other necessary expenses, including office rent.
42 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
Applicants shall pay (Sec. 276b) such examination fee as
may be fixed by the Supreme Court, to be paid into the
State treasury, to defray the expenses of the board of
examiners, but one examination fee shall entitle the appli-
cant to the privilege of not exceeding two examinations.
Rules and regulat ons (Sec. 276c) shall be made by the
Supreme Court rela* ng to qualifications of applicants, course
of study, time, method and scope of examinations, but the
examinations must consist, in whole or in part, of a written
test of the learning and capacity of the applicants.
Upon presentation of the necessary evidence (Sec. 277)
any District Court of Appeal may admit the applicant to
practice, and direct the issuance of a certificate by the
clerk.
Every citizen of the United States or person resident in
this State (Sec. 279), who has bona fide declared his in-
tention to become a citizen, who has been admitted to
practice law in the highest court of another State, or of a
foreign country, where the common Ifcw of England is the
basis of jurisprudence, and who has been engaged in actual
practice therein for at least 3 years may be admitted to
practice by any District Court of Appeal upon production of
his license and satisfactory evidence that it has not been
revoked, that he is of good moral character, and has been
engaged in actual practice for at least three years; but
the court may examine the applicant as to his qualifications.
All Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent herewith are repealed,
but nothing herein shall be construed as a repeal or
modification of Sections 280a or 280b, or any other existing
law relating to the admission of graduates of law schools,
nor as depriving any Court of Appeal of the right to require
an examination of any applicant as to his qualifications
when deemed proper. (S. B. 291, Jones; Pending Legislation,
1913, p. 76.)
A. B. 226. Prendergast. Amending Section 280, Code of
Civil Procedure, relating to licenses to practice law.
Extends to graduates of Saint Ignatius University the right
to be admitted to practice law without examination.
S. B. 268. Scott. Identical with A. B. 226. Prendergast.
S. B. 693. Wolfe. Identical with A. B. 226. Prendergast.
S. B. 643. Thompson. Adding Section 300 (new) to the
Code of Civil Procedure, relating to costs in proceedings for
the removal and suspension of attorney*.
Provides that such costs shall be a charge upon the county.
S. B. 131. Thompson (by request). Amending Section 323,
Code of Civil Procedure, defining adverse possession under
written instrument of judgment.
Adds to Subdivision 2 the provision "or, if not so inclosed,
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915. 4'3
when all county and city taxes and assessments on the land
for a period of ten years have been heretofore, or shall here-
after be, paid by such person claiming title thereto, or by his
privies."
A. B. 1379. Wright, H. W. Identical with S. B. 131. Thomp-
son.
A. B. 768. Dennett. Adding Section 329 (new) to the Code
of Civil Procedure, relating to the time of commencing actions
based upon a claim of riparian rights.
Provides that no action based on an allegation or claim of
riparian rights can be maintained unless commenced within
six months after commencement of construction of works al-
leged to interfere with flow of stream upon which riparian
rights are claimed; does not apply where water is being put to
beneficial use or is in process of being so applied with reason-
able diligence considering magnitude of work; section shall not
be construed as permitting diversion from one watershed to
another.
S. B. 224. Scott (by request). Amending Section 337, Code
of Civil Procedure, relating to time within which certain ac-
tions must be commenced.
Omits from Subdivision 1 the provision added in 1906 to
protect the rights of action that would expire between June
1, 1906, and January 1, 1907.
A. B. 228. Prendergast. Identical with S. B. 224. Scott.
A. B. 1140. Chamberlin. Amending Section 337, Code of
Civil Procedure, relating to time of commencing actions.
S. B. 223. Scott (by request). Adding Section 337a (new),
to the Code of Civil Procedure, relating to the time when an
action upon an open book account accrues.
Provides where an open book account consists of more than
one item cause of action deemed to have accrued from time
of last item proved.
A. B. 229. Prendergast. Identical with S\ B. 223. Scott.
A. B. 880. Pettis. Amending Section 344, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to time within which certain actions must
be commenced.
Includes actions on an open book account.
S. B. 921. Strobridge. Amending Section 348, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to the limitation of actions brought to
recover money or other property deposited with any bank,
banker, trust company or savings and loan society, by includ-
ing therein building and loan associations.
A. B. 1332. Dennett. Identical with S. B. 921. Strobridge.
S. B. 662. Rush. Amending Section 394, Code of Civil Pro-
cedure, relating to the place of trial of actions, and provid-
ing where actions to prevent work, approved by the Recla-
mation Board, to carry out the plans of the California Debris
44 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
Commission, transmitted to the Speaker of the House of
•Representatives of the United States by the Secretary of
War on June 27, 1911, with such amendments and modifica-
tions as may be approved by the Reclamation Board, shall
be commenced and tried, for the transfer of such actions, and
making the Reclamation Board defendants on such actions.
A. B. 765. Sisson. Identical with S. B. 662. Rush.
S. B. 1045. Thompson. Amending Section 394, Code ol
Civil Procedure, relating to the place of trial of actions.
Cities and counties are included; and a provision is added
that an action instituted by a county, city and county or city
may be commenced and tried in any county or city and county,
subject to defendant's right to a change of venue. This sec-
tion shall aply to actions now pending or hereafter brought.
A. B. 1243. McKnight. Identical with S. B. 1045. Thompson.
S. B. 717. Stuckenbruck. Amending Section 396, Code of
Civil Procedure, relating to change of place of trial to the
proper county.
S. B. 1196. Benedict. Amending Section 398, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to the disqualification of Judges of the
Superior Court.
Makes the section apply only to Superior Courts.
A. B. 933. Rutherford. Amending Sections 398 and 399, Code
of Civil Procedure, relating to the transfer of actions.
Provides (Sec. 398) for transfers from Police Courts exer-
cising- civil jurisdiction, and (Sec. 399) includes a police judge
and;: requires all fees and costs accruing after transfer to.
inure to benefit of jurisdiction to which transferred.
S; B. 133. Duncan. Amending Section 411, Code of Civil
Procedure,' relative to the manner of serving summons in
civil actions.
Provides "(S'ubd. 1) if suit is against a corporation, "joint
stock company or association to the person designated as the
one upon whom process may be served as provided in Section
405, Civil Code; and eliminates Subdivision 2, relating to for-
eign corporations, "from the present section.
A. B. 118. Hawson. Amending Section 411, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to service of summons, writ, notice, or
other paper necessary or proper in the course of judicial pro-
ceedings.
Adds to Subdivisions 1 and 2 that, in case of domestic and
foreign corporations, or non-resident joint stock companies
or ; associations, beside the president or other head of the
concern, secretary, cashier or managing agent, summons may
be* served on any ticket agent, freight agent or other agent
of such corporation, etc., found within the county where
action has been commenced and summons issued, and any
other .process, writ, notice or paper may be so served; but
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if party be represented by attorney of record, in such
action, then on such attorney.
A. B. 380. Avey. Amending Section 413, Code of Civil Pro-
cedure, relating to the service of summons, and making clear
the intent of the law regarding the service of summons on non-
residents.
Provides that where publication is ordered and court directs
mailing of complaint and summons to known address of de-
fendant, "the service of summons is complete at expiration of
time prescribed by order for publication, a,nd that when per-
sonal service is made outside of the State, service is complete,
and defendant shall have 30 days thereafter within which to
appear.
A. B. 44. Schmitt. Amending Section 427, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to what causes of action may be joined
by omitting the last paragraph of the section as amended
(Stats. 1913, p. 219).
A. B. 610. Manning. Amending Section 437, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to what an answer shall contain.
A. B. 916. Conard. Amending Section 437, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to the contents of the answer of the de-
fendant, by omitting the last paragraph.
S. B. 287. Kehoe. Amending Section 441, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to answers.
Adds a provision "that the admission of a fact in any de-
fense inconsistent with any denial, or allegation in the answer,
shall operate to make such denial or allegation ineffectual".
S. B. 639. Thompson. Amending Section 442, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to cross-complaints.
Strikes out the words "to the action" after the word party,
in the second line.
S. B. 1047. Thompson. Amending Section 454, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to pleading accounts and bills of par-
ticulars.
Adds provision that the court may in any case direct a bill
of particulars of claim of either party to be delivered to ad-
verse party.
S. B. 425. Thompson. Amending Section 475, Code of Civil
Procedure, by providing that in certain cases on appeal, the
Appellate Court may disregard errors of the trial court and
determine substantial rights upon the record.
S. B. 904. Benedict. Amending Section 475, Code of Civil
Procedure and providing that in certain cases on appeal the
Appellate Court may disregard errors of the trial court and
determine substantial rights upon the record.
Adds provision that in all cases on appeal tried in Superior
Court without jury where testimony is preserved in bill of
exceptions or statement sufficiently to enable Appellate Court
46 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
to do substantial justice between parties, Appellate Court may
disregard any orders, rulings, findings or want of findings,
and upon consideration of whole record on appeal, may affirm,
reverse or modify order, judgment or decree of court below or
enter such order, judgment or decree as may be agreeable
to justice.
S. B. 660. Rush. Amending Section 529, Code of Civil Pro-
cedure, requiring counties and municipal corporations to give
security on the granting of an injunction or restraining order
to prevent the Reclamation Board of the State of California,
or any reclamation district, levee district, swamp land district,
drainage district, municipal corporation or public agency from
building, constructing or maintaining on land which it owns
or over which it has an easement or right of way, any by-
pass, weir, levee, dam, dike, embankment, canal, ditch or
other work, approved by the Reclamation Board, and which
carries out or aids in carrying out, or is designed to carry
out, the plans of the California Debris Commission, trans-
mitted to the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the
United States by the Secretary of War on the 27th day of
June, 1911, with such modifications and amendments as may
be adopted by the Reclamation Board.
A. B. 766. Sisson. Identical with S. B. 660. Rush.
A. B. 328. Hawson. Adding Section 534 (new) to the Code
of Civil Procedure, relating to actions concerning water rights.
A. B. 149. Brown, H. W. Amending Section 538, Code of
Civil Procedure, relating to attachments in civil actions, and
providing what the affidavit for attachment shall contain.
Omits Subdivisions 2 and 3 as in present Section and adds
the following facts that may be shown: That defendant is a
foreign corporation, or not a resident of this State, or con-
ceals himself, or has abandoned or absents himself from his
usual place of abode in this State, so that ordinary process
cannot be served upon him, or has or is about to remove
any of his property from the State, or has assigned, secreted
or disposed of his property, or is about to do so, with intent
to delay or defraud his creditors or is about to convert his
property or portion thereof into money for purpose of plac-
ing it beyond reach of his creditors; or has been guilty of
fraud in contracting the debt or incurring obligation for
which action is brought.
S. B. 235. Jones. Amending Section 542a, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to attachment liens.
A. B. 45. Schmitt. Amending Section 543, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to written instructions to be given to
Sheriff on attachment.
Provides that any person holding such credits, or other
personal property, when served with attachment, deliver to
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915. 47
Sheriff a statement thereof or amount owing defend-
ant, which Sheriff must keep available for plaintiff and his
attorney but no one else. Any person who, after demand
by Sheriff, refuses such statement or account, shall be liable
to plaintiff for all costs and expenses incurred by him in
obtaining such statement or account, together with reasonable
fee for plaintiff's attorney, which can be collected in separate
action.
S. B. 312. Ballard. Amending Sections 544 and 545, Code of
Civil Procedure, relating to garnishment.
Provides (Sec. 544), as to debts owing to defendant, "which
at the time of the service upon them of a copy of the writ
and notice, as provided in the last two sections are then due
or thereafter become due", and (Sec. 545) any persons owing
debts "as described in Section 544, Code of Civil Procedure".
A. B. 70. Gebhart. Adding Section 557a (new) to the Code
of Civil Procedure, relating to the allowance of attorney's fees
upon motion for the dissolution of a writ of attachment levied
on property exempt from execution.
Requires court to allow prevailing party on motion to dis-
solve attachment made on ground property was exempt from
execution under Section 690, Code of Civil Procedure, $15 at-
torney's fees as part of costs.
S. B. 4. Breed. Amending Section 570, Code of Civil Pro-
cedure, relating to the disposition of unclaimed funds in the
hands of a receiver.
Provides that such funds covered into the State treasury
"shall be paid out by the State Treasurer to the owner thereof
or his order upon receiving satisfactory evidence of the iden-
tity of such owner".
S. B. 1100. Campbell. Amending Section 583, Code of Civil
Procedure, relative to the dismissal of actions in certain cases.
Adds provision that in absence of stipulation extending time
action shall be dismissed by court upon ex parte motion of
defendant, or of any other person interested in subject-matter
of action, unless action is brought to trial within five years
after defendant has filed his answer.
S. B. 626. Luce. Amending Section 585, Code of Civil Pro-
cedure, referring to judgment upon failure to answer.
Adds a new subdivision (4) providing that in all cases
affecting title to or possession of real property, where service
of summons was by publication and defendant failed to answer,
no judgment shall be rendered upon mere proof of occupancy,
unless such occupancy covered such time as would confer
title by prescription, and where plaintiff bases claim upon
paper title court shall require title to be established by com-
petent evidence, provided that in actions involving merely
possession where complaint is verified and shows no party to
48 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
action claims title to property, but only possession thereof,
court may render judgment on proof of occupancy by plaintiff
and ouster by defendant.
S. B. 146. Scott. Amending Section 592, Code of Civil Pro-
cedure, relating to trials by jury.
Provides that all actions where issues of fact are raised by
pleadings shall be tried by jury, if within 5 days after filing
of answer any of parties file written demand for jury. Verdict
of jury on any of issues shall determine fact for all purposes
including appeal. If no jury is demanded as herein provided
or no other provision of law requires jury trial, issues may
be determined by judge.
A. B. 180. McDonald, J. J. Identical with S. B. 146. Scott.
S. B. 120. Scott. Adding Section 592a (new) to the Code of
Civil Procedure, relating to the fees and expenses of jurors
by providing that all fees and expenses of the jury in cases
under Section 592, Code of Civil Procedure, shall be paid by
the county or city and county.
A. B. 181. McDonald, J. J. Identical with S. B. 120. Scott.
A. B. 361. Downing. Adding Section 599 (new) to the Code
of Civil Procedure, relating to the payment of fees and mile-
age of jurors in civil actions, and providing that fees and
mileage of jurors in civil actions shall be paid by the county
in which the action is pending in the same manner as in
criminal cases.
A. B. 120. Scott, Chas. E. Amending Section 601, Code of
Civil Procedure of the State of California relating to chal-
lenge of jurors.
Inserts provision "unless it appear from pleadings or other-
wise that the interests of the parties upon the same side are
conflicting," in which instance each party shall be treated as
a separate party and shall be entitled to challenge without
the other party or parties upon the same side whose interests
are conflicting joining in the challenges.
S. B. 200. Ballard. Identical with A. B. 120. Scott.
A. B. 919. Conard. Amending Section 601, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to the challenges of jurors to which the
parties are entitled and the number of challenges to which the
parties are entitled.
Allows six peremptory challenges.
S. B. 179. Luce. Adding Section 602a (new) to the Code
of Civil Procedure, relating to examining, challenging and
excusing jurors.
Provides that court, without aid of counsel, shall ascertain
whether any general or particular cause of challenge prescribed
by Sections 1072, 1073 and 1074, Penal Code, exists against any
juror, and if such exist, juror must be excused. During
examination of jurors by court, counsel may interpose chal-
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lenges and may examine juror within reasonable limits fixed
by court. After twelve jurors have been called against whom
no general or particular cause of challenge has been allowed,
counsel shall have right of examination for purpose of deter-
mining exercise of peremptory challenges, within such rea-
sonable limits as court in its discretion, shall determine. No
reversal on appeal shall be predicated on any ruling under
this section except for gross abuse of discretion.
A. B. 917. Conard. Adding Section 603a (new) to the Code
of Civil Procedure, relating to the examination and hearing
of jurors challenged for cause.
Provides that examination of any juror challenged for cause
shall be conducted exclusively by the court and soundness of
challenge inquired into and settled by court alone. Juror chal-
lenged and any other person suggested by parties may be ex-
amined on trial of challenge.
A. B. 918. Conard. Amending Section 608, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to the scope of the charge of the court to
the jury and the obligations of the court relative thereto.
Permits court to comment in charge on evidence adduced.
S. B. 976. Flint. Amending Section 643, Code of Civil Pro-
cedure, relating to the order in which debts must be paid, and
fixing the rate of interest to be paid on demands against
estates of decedents.
Strikes out of the last paragraph at beginning of last sen-
tence the words "if the estate is insolvent."
S. B. 488. Kehoe. Amending Section 650, Code of CiviJ
Procedure, relating to exceptions.
S. B. 577. Kehoe. Amending Section 656, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to new trials and appeals.
Abolishes appeal from order denying or granting a new trial
and makes all rulings heretofore reviewable on such appeal
reviewable on appeal from judgment. Notice of intention to
move for new trial and of hearing thereof, for any cause
except newly discovered evidence, may be joined and must be
served within 10 days after entry of judgment or order; and
time for hearing must not exceed 10 days from filing of notice.
No statement of bill of exceptions is necessary; such motion
must be heard and submitted within 10 days after hearing,
and must be decided within 35 days after entry of judgment
or order; if not so decided, then motion to be deemed denied;
time of appeal from judgment shall not begin to run until
motion for new trial is determined; times fixed herein shall
not be extended; motions for new trial because of newly
discovered evidence may be made upon 10 days' notice, which
must be served and filed within 90 days after entry of judg-
ment or order, but no notice of intention need be given;
affidavits to be used on hearing must be served and filed with
50 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
notice; appeal may be taken from order denying or granting
such motion, but pendency of such motion, or right thereto,
or of appeal from order made thereon, shall not delay execu-
tion or proceedings on judgment, or prevent same from be-
coming final; court may order a stay of proceedings; after
appeal appellate court shall have like power.
A. B. 1118. Fish. Identical with S. B. 577. Kehoe.
A. B. 905. Schmitt (by request). Amending Section 657,
Code of Civil Procedure, relating to when a new trial may be
granted.
Adds a provision that no fact tried and determined by a
jury shall be re-examined in or set aside by any court of
this State, and no court or judge shall weigh the evidence
or decide the conflict or contradictions of testimony or evi-
dence contrary to such verdict.
S. B. 964. Beban. Identical with A. B. 905. Schmitt.
S. B. 489. Jones. Amending Sections 658, 659 and 660,
and repealing Sections 661 and 662, Code of Civil Procedure,
all relating to new trials.
Provides (Sec. 658) for motion for new trial on affidavits or
on minutes of court only; permits extensions of 20 days (Sec.
659) only to either party to file affidavits, and eliminates pres-
ent Subdivisions 2, 3 and 4, relating to bills of exceptions,
statement of case and minutes of court, respectively; and that
(Sec. 660) a motion for new trial shall be heard at earliest
practicable time and has precedence; power of court to pass
on new trial shall expire within three months after verdict of
service of notice of decision, and if not determined within
three months shall be deemed denied. (S. B. 610. Kehoe.
"Pending Legislation, 1913, p. 85).
Section 661, relating to records on appeal, and Section 662,
relating to new trial on court's own motion, are repealed.
A. B. 682. Fish. Identical with S. B. 489. Jones.
S. B. 578. Kehoe. Amending Section 658, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to new trials.
Provides in last clause that motion for new trial "for any
other cause may be made either with or without a bill of
exceptions or statement of the case prepared and settled before
the hearing".
A. B. 1117. Fish. Identical with S. B. 578. Kehoe.
S. B. 579. Kehoe. Amending Section 660, Code of Civil Pro-
cedure, relating to new trials.
Strikes out the first sentence of present section.
A. B. 1119. Fish. Identical with S. B. 579. Kehoe.
S. B. 576. Kehoe. Amending Section 661, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to new trials and appeals.
Adds to first paragraph provision that if motion is made
for insufficiency of evidence or that decision is against law,
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or for errors at trial and no bill of exceptions or statement
was used on hearing, a bill of exceptions to be subsequently
prepared and settled shall constitute a part of record to be
used on appeal from order denying- motion for new trial. All
matter not pertinent to specifications of particulars filed pur-
suant to subdivision 3 of Section 656 shall be excluded. Time
shall not be extended beyond 60 days respectively, except for
good cause shown.
A. B. 1120. Fish. Identical with S. B. 576. Kehoe.
S. B. 490. Jones. Amending Section 663a, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to the setting aside of a judgment of the
Superior Court and the rendition of a new judgment without
a new trial.
A. B. 683. Fish. Identical with S. B. 490. Jones.
A. B. 1141. Chamberlin. Amending Section 671, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to judgment lien.
Extends the continuance of the lien from five to ten years.
A. B. 660. Spengler. Amending Subdivision 4 of Section
690, Code of Civil Procedure, relating to property exempt
from execution.
Includes with the tools or implements of a mechanic or
artisan "a reasonable amount of material" necessary to carry
on his trade.
A. B. 1044. Widenmann. Amending Section 690, Code of
Civil Procedure, relating to property exempt from execution.
Adds to Subdivision 6 one automobile, the selling price of
which when new shall not have exceeded $1250, together with
accessories for same, selling price of which when new shall
not have exceeded $250, used by a physician, surgeon, constable
or minister of the gospel in legitimate practice of profession
or business.
A. B. 1172. Ryan. Amending Subdivision 9 of Section 690,
Code of Civil Procedure, relating to property exempt from
execution, by including "persons sent from this State to work
in fish canneries located outside of this State".
A. B. 1320. Gelder. Amending Section 690, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to exemptions from execution (introduced
by title only).
A. B. 1428. Brown, H. W. Amending Section 690, Code of
Civil Procedure, relating to property exempt from execution.
Adds a new subdivision (11), defining the term "common
necessaries of life" as "such food, clothing, shelter, and pro-
vision for the common and ordinary contingencies of life, such
as medical attendance in sickness and other services, as are
necessary for the support of life and to make necessary pro-
vision for the aforesaid contingencies during the life of the
judgment debtor, his wife or other person for whose support
he Is legally liable".
52 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
S. B. 664. Beban. Amending Section 700a, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating- to sales of property under judgments and
powers of sale provided in mortgages, deeds of trust and
other instruments in writing and providing for the redemption
of property from such sales and declaring void any provision
waiving such right of redemption.
A. B. 1390. Manning. Adding Section 705% to the Code of
Civil Procedure, relating to assignments, transfers and mort-
gages of interests in estates of deceased persons.
Declares every transfer of undistributed interest, or any part
thereof, in estate of a deceased person, pending' and undis-
tributed in probate court, to be deemed a mortgage. Maker
of any such instrument in pending probate proceeding is al-
lowed three calendar months from entry of decree of settle-
ment of final account and distribution except for legal ser-
vices; where any interest has been conveyed or hypothecated
for any consideration other than legal services court shall
not make any partial or final distribution of such heir or his
assignee or transferee, except upon written consent of such
heir, until three months after entry of order settling final
account and distribution to heirs who have not conveyed or
hypothecated their interests. Assignor or transferor of his
interest is allowed until three months after entry of order
settling final account to repay consideration with interest.
If at end of that period consideration with interest has not
been repaid, court shall distribute interest of said heir to his
assignee, provided amount of indebtedness is fixed and deter-
mined. Should dispute arise between assignor and assignee
as to amount of indebtedness court may continue final dis-
tribution until amount is fixed and determined by some court
of competent jurisdiction.
A. B. 392. Brown, H. W. Amending Section 731, Code of
Civil Procedure, and adding Section 731a (new) thereto, relat-
ing to the abatement of public nuisances and by whom actions
may be instituted for such purpose.
Incorporates (Sec. 731) the provisions of Red Light Abate-
ment Act with reference to bringing actions to abate
nuisances; and in Section 731a the provisions of that Act with
regard to dismissals.
A. B. 106. Brown, H. W. Adding Section 731a (new) . to
the Code of Civil Procedure, relating to the abatement of
nuisances.
Provides that where consequences of nuisance about to be
erected or commenced will be irreparable in damages, and
such consequences are not merely possible, but to a reason-
able degree certain, court of equity may interfere to arrest
nuisance before it is completed.
S. B. 596. Ballard (by request). Amending Section ; 738,
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Code of Civil Procedure, relating to actions to quiet title,
wills in evidence and right to jury trial.
Provides that any person having or claiming to have any
estate or interest of any kind or character in real property,
whether legal or equitable or otherwise, may maintain an
action to quiet title thereto and to determine any adverse
estate or interest therein.
A. B. 999. Bartlett. Identical with S. B. 596. Ballard.
S. B. 644. Thompson. Adding Section 749 (new) to the Code
of Civil Procedure, relating to the recording of certified copies
of judgments.
Provides that in actions affecting legal title to real property,
judgment shall have effect of vesting in party in whose favor
rendered such title and interest as therein specified, without
further act of any person, upon recording certified copy of
judgment with County Recorder.
A. B. 119. Gebhart. Amending Section 759, Code of Civil
Procedure ^Political Code is intended), relating to the ap-
pointment and employment of a phonographic reporter by
each of the District Courts of Appeal and prescribing his
duties and compensation.
Increases compensation to $3000 per annum.
A. B. 879. Pettis. Amending Section 832, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to the place where civil actions in justices'
courts must be commenced and tried.
Provides (Subd. 7) that either the township or city in which
obligation is incurred or where business of creditor or obligee
is located may be deemed township or city in which it is to be
performed, unless there is special contract in writing to con-
trary.
S. B. 222. Scott (by request). Amending Section 848, Code
of Civil Procedure, relating to service of summons in the jus-
tices' court.
Adds to Subdivision 2, "and in all cases where an action is
brought under provisions of Subdivision 7 of Section 832, Code
of Civil Procedure".
A. B. 230. Prendergast. Identical with S. B. 222. Scott.
A. B. 568. Satterwhite. Amending Section 848, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to service of summons.
Omits from Subdivision 2 the words "in writing".
A. B. 60. Hawson. Amending Section 850, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to the fixing of the time of hearing or
trial on demurrer or answer, and of notice thereof.
Provides that if a party demurs to or answers any pleading
court must fix time for hearing or trial, and party so demur-
ring or answering must take notice thereof. If adverse party
does not appear at time fixed and court believes that he has
no knowledge of time fixed for hearing court must postpone
54 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
hearing or trial not to exceed 10 days and cause notice to
be given to adverse party or his attorney. Court may from
time to time make like postponement until notice be given.
A. B. 369. Bartlett. Amending Section 850, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to notices of hearing in the Justice Courts.
Omits the provision that parties shall have one hour in which
to appear after ->the time fixed in the notice.
A. B. 151. Rigdon. Amending Section 853, Code of Civil
Procedure, defining the complaint in Justice's courts as "a
concise statement in writing, stating facts constituting the
plaintiff's cause of action."
A. B. 823. Chamberlin. Adding Section 853a to the Code
of Civil Procedure, relating to the appointment of counsel
in suits filed in justice's court.
Provides that if, upon filing suit, plaintiff or defendant files
affidavit alleging inability, through lack of funds, to prosecute
or defend action, court shall assign counsel whose fee shall
be fixed by court and paid out of any judgment recovered.
A. B. 87. Bartlett. Amending Section 855, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to answer of defendant in jusitce court.
Adds "or cross-complaint".
A. B. 85. Bartlett. Amending Section 856, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to counter-claim of defendant in justice's
court.
Adds "or cross-complaint".
A. B. 208. Hawson. Amending Section 859, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to the amendment of pleadings and open-
ing of default judgments.
Strikes out the words "by default" in the sentence permitting
the court to relieve a party from a judgment taken against
him by his mistake, inadvertence, surprise, or excusable
neglect.
A. B. 1144. Chamberlin. Amending Section 861, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to order of arrest and arrest of defendant.
S. B. 716. Stuckenbruck. Amending Section 868, Code of
Civil Procedure, relating to writs of attachment.
A. B. 35. Hawson. Adding Section 869a (new) to the Code
of Civil Procedure, relating to the publication of summons.
Provides that Sections 412 and 413, Code of Civil Procedure,
are applicable to actions in justice's court, except that pub-
lication of summons in justice's court actions shall be for
such length of time as may be deemed reasonable, at least
once a week, but not for less than 20 days, and no further
action shall be taken until expiration of 20 days from and
after date of first publication unless defendant appears.
A. B. 84. Bartlett. Amending Section 873, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to the time when trial must be com-
menced.
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Adds provision "or unless the court, for good cause, other-
wipe direct", the trial must commence at time specified in
notice.
S. B. 1195. Benedict. Adding Section 873^ (new) to the
Code of Civil Procedure, relating to the disqualification of
Justices of the Peace.
Provides that where Justice of the Peace is disqualified case
shall be transferred to such other Justice of the county as
parties may agree upon either by stipulation in writing or
made in open court and entered in minutes, and in event of no
agreement then to some other Justice designated by the
Justice disqualified.
S. B. 440. Campbell. Amending Section 890, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to judgment of dismissal entered without
prejudice.
Strikes out reference to "cross-complainf in Subdivision 1.
A. B. 391. Brown, W. H. Amending Section 893, Code of
Civil Procedure, relating to form of judgments and notice
thereof to be given to litigants.
Adds provision that notice of rendition must be given to
parties personally, or by mail in writing by justice, or to
attorney. If notice served by mail must be placed in postoffice
not later than five days after rendition of judgment; when
served personally, within five days after rendition of judg-
ment. Time for appeal begins to run in case of personal
service from date of service, and in case of mail service from
date of deposit in postoffice. Entry of date of mailing must
be made by justice in his docket.
A. B. 1139. Chamberlin. Amending Section 900, Code of
Civil Procedure, relating to judgments.
S. B. 225. Scott (by request). Adding Section 905a (new),
to the Code of Civil Procedure, relating to the enforcement
or carrying into execution of judgments rendered by the jus-
tice's court after the lapse of five years from the date of
entry, by leave of court upon motion or by judgment, founded
upon supplemental pleadings. Does not revive judgments
barred by statute of limitations at time of passage.
A. B. 231. Prendergast. Identical with S. B. 225. Scott.
S. B. 559. Benedict. Amending Section 939, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to the time within which an appeal may
be taken.
Provides that an appeal may be taken from any appealable
judgment or order of a Superior Court within 60 days after
entry thereof; no appeal shall be dismissed on ground that
it was taken after rendition and before formal entry; if motion
for new trial be made time for appeal shall not expire until
30 days after entry of order determining such motion.
A. B. 811. McKnifcht. Identical with S. B. 559. Benedict.
56 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
S. B. 706. Thompson. Amending Sections 939, 940 and 948,
Code of Civil Procedure, relating to the time for and manner
of taking of appeals, and the justification of sureties on under-
taking on appeal, and repealing Sections 941a, 941b and 941c,
relating to an alternative method of appeal.
Provides (Sec. 939) that an appeal must be taken within
60 days after notice of entry of judgment has been served on
attorneys of record, provided if no notice be given within 6
months thereafter; and adds subdivision 4, from an order,
decree or judgment in probate proceedings mentioned in Title
XI of Part III, Code of Civil Procedure, at any time after such
order, decree or judgment is made, but not later than 60 days
after entry; any person (Sec. 940) having right of appeal may
do so by riling notice that he appeals with clerk of court in
which judgment, order or decree is rendered; notice need not
be served, but appeal is ineffectual unless within 5 days after
filing of notice of appeal, undertaking be filed or deposit of
money be made with clerk, or undertaking waived by adverse
party; in event of death of any person having right of appeal
attorney of record representing him in court when judgment
was rendered may appeal at any time prior to appointment
of executor or administrator of his estate; requiring (Sec. 948)
notice of filing undertaking to be served on attorneys of rec-
ord of adverse party, and unless sureties justify within 10
days, execution is no longer stayed and appeal must be re-
garded as if no such undertaking had been given.
S. B. 487. Kehoe. Amending Section 941b, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to a new or alternative method by which
appeals may be taken from judgments, orders or decrees of
the Superior Court of the State of California to the Supreme
Court or District Courts of Appeal thereof.
S. B. 560. Benedict. Amending Sections 950, 951 and 953,
Code of Civil Procedure, and to repeal Section 952 of said code,
all relating to appeals.
Strikes out (Sec. 950) last paragraph, with reference to
statements on motion for new trial; strikes out (Sec. 951)
"except an order granting or refusing a new trial"; and
(Sec. 953) changes the section to read "provided for in Sec-
tions 950 and 951" instead of "provided for in the last three
sections" as at present.
A. B. 810. McKnight. Identical with S. B. 560. Benedict.
S. B. 486. Kehoe. Amending Sections 953a and 953b, Code
of Civil Procedure, relating to a new and alternative method
for the preparation of records to be used on appeal from
judgments, orders or decree from the Superior Court to the
Supreme Court or District Courts of Appeal.
Adds to the first paragraph of the present section a pro-
vision that if a motion for new trial be pending, the notice
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must be filed within 10 days after notice of decision denying
said motion or of other termination thereof; and requires
(par. 2) the shorthand reporter to prepare an original and
two carbon copies of the record, the original to be filed with
the clerk, and one of the copies furnished to appellant and
the other to respondent, such copies to be furnished without
extra charge. Upon the record being filed the clerk shall
notify the attorneys thereof, and that within five days after
receipt of said notice the record will be presented to the
judge for approval.
S. B. 561. Benedict. Amending Section 956, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to what may be reviewed on appeal from
judgment.
Adds the provision: "All matters heretofore reviewable on
appeal from an order denying a motion for new trial shall
be reviewable on appeal from the judgment."
A. B. 813. McKnight. Identical with S. B. 561. Benedict.
A. B. 86. Bartlett. Amending Section 959, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to appeals to Superior Courts.
Adds the provision: "That when an appeal from a justice
court to the Superior Court has been dismissed by the Su-
perior Court, the justice court from which the appeal was
made shall have jurisdiction to enforce the judgment or order
appealed from.
S. B. 563. Benedict. Amending Section 963, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to cases in which an appeal may be taken,
so as to include among appealable matters orders dissolving
an injunction, and interlocutory decrees of divorce, and doing
away with appeals from an order refusing a new trial.
A. B. 814. McKnight. Identical with S. B. 563. Benedict.
A. B. 1196. Scott, F. C. (by request). Amending Section
976 of the Code of Civil Procedure, relating to appeals to
Superior Courts on questions of fact or of law and fact.
A. B. 1087. Ellis. Amending Section 976, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to appeal on questions of fact, or law
and fact.
Provides that a statement must be prepared substantially
as in appeals from the Superior Court, which shall contain so
much of the evidence as may be necessary for purposes of
appeal.
S. B. 998. Scott. Identical with A. B. 1087. Ellis.
A. B. 714. Brown, H. W. Amending Section 978a, Code of
Civil Procedure, relating to the filing of undertakings on ap-
peal, and exception to and justification of sureties.
Failure to give notice upon filing of undertaking renders
appeal ineffectual for any purpose.
A. B. 167. Lyon. Adding Section 981 (new) to the Code of
Civil Procedure, providing for the payment by parties appeal-
58 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
ing from judgments in justices' courts of filing fees and cal-
endar fees in the Superior Court.
Provides that no appeal from judgment of police or justices'
courts shall be effectual unless appellant shall at time of filing
notice of appeal pay in addition to fee payable to justice of
the peace on appeal, fees provided by law to be paid county
clerk for filing appeal and placing action on calendar in
Superior Court. Justice or judge transmitting papers on appeal
shall transmit to county clerk fees so deposited. No notice
of appeal shall be filed unless fees provided are paid.
S. B. 229. Anderson. Adding Section 1020 (new) to the Code
of Civil Procedure, relating to the service of summons in ac-
tions for divorce or annulment of marriage.
S. B. 1030. Carr. Adding Section 1021a (new) to the Code
of Civil Procedure, relating to costs in civil actions and pro-
ceedings.
Provides that where court determines action or proceeding
was instituted or prosecuted frivolously or without reasonable
cause or belief in merits thereof, or that a defense was inter-
posed frivolously, etc., court may allow prevailing party such
sum taxed as costs as is a reasonable attorney's fee for prose-
cuting or defending such action, any sum so allowed to be
in addition to costs and disbursements now provided for.
Order may be made by court on own motion or on motion
of counsel before entry of costs in judgment; and order may
be set aside or amount allowed increased or decreased on
motion to tax costs.
A. B. 63. Manning. Adding Section 1048% to the Code of
Civil Procedure, relating to the consolidation of actions.
Provides that causes of like nature relative to same question
may be consolidated when it appears reasonable to do so.
S. B. 491. Jones. Amending Section 1054, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to the extension of time in which an
act is to be done.
Omits "preparation of statements," limits extensions of
time by the court to 30 days except upon consent of the
adverse party; and strikes out the proviso added by extra
session of 1906 [Stats. 1906, 9] (S. B. 612. Kehoe. Pending
Legislation 1913, p. 104).
A. B. 681. Fish. Identical with S. B. 491. Jones.
S. B. 981. Rush. Adding Section 1060 (new) to the Code
of Civil Procdure, providing for the deposit and payment of
jury fees.
Provides that jury fees shall be deposited in court by party
demanding a jury, and compensation of jurors to be paid
therefrom; fees so paid may be recovered as costs by party
depositing, if he recovers judgment for costs.
A. B. 1323. Satterwhite. Adding Section 1128 (new) to the
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Code of Civil Procedure, relating to salary of officers in case
of delay in issuance of commission.
If delay is through no fault of officer- elect, he shall be en-
titled to salary from date upon which he should have been
seated.
S. B. 1161. Thompson. Repealing Section 1154, Code of
Civil Procedure, relating to plaintiff advancing funds for
support of prisoner.
A. B. 761. Schmitt. Amending Section 1167, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to service of summons in unlawful detainer.
Provides that if it appears to court that defendant is con-
cealing himself to avoid service and cannot be found at his
place of residence or business, or if such cannot be ascertained,
summons may be served by affixing a copy in a conspicuous
place on the premises in suit and by delivering a copy to a
person there residing and by sending a copy through mail to
defendant.
S. B. 749. Maddux (by request). Identical with A. B. 761.
Schmitt.
S. B. 748. Benson. Adding Section 1193a to the Code of
Civil Procedure, relating to the procedure of liens of mechanics
and others upon real property.
An action to foreclose a lien under this chapter shall be com-
menced by filing in proper court certified copy of claim of lien
theretofore filed in Recorder's office; summons shall be issued
and served as in other actions; within time specified in sum-
mons any person interested may contest same, setting forth
objections in writing verified as pleadings in other actions; no
other pleadings permitted, and at expiration of time allowed
for filing objections court shall set case for trial within 10
days; should judge not be able to hear case on day set, he
must call in another judge to hold extra session of court and
try case or refer it to commissioner, and within 10 days after
filing of report of commissioner, court shall render judgment.
A. B. 242. Scott, P. C. Adding Section 1195a (new) to the
Code of Civil Procedure, providing for the allowance of attor-
neys' fees in any action to establish liens in the Superior or
Appellate courts, if, in the opinion of the court, the cause of
action or defense is frivolous or vexatious.
S. B. 69. Scott. Adding Section 1195a (new) to the Code
of Civil Procedure, permitting the court, in any action to
establish a lien, to allow the prevailing party a reasonable
attorney's fee, in the Superior or Appellate Courts, if in his
opinion the cause of action or defense is frivolous or vexa-
tious.
A. B. 1146. Gebhart. Amending Section 1206, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to the payment of wage claims from prop-
erty held under execution or attachment.
60 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
Provides that a wage claimant must, among other things,
file an affidavit showing the service of a copy of the statement
of claim on each of the parties to the action in which execu-
tion or attachment issues, and such claim, not exceeding $100,
if not disputed, must be paid by the officer within 15 days
from date of filing.
S. B. 803. Luce. Adding Section 1218a (new) to the Code
of Civil Procedure, providing for a jury trial in certain cases
of contempt.
A. B. 928. Brown, H. W. Adding Section 1218a (new) to
the Code of Civil Procedure, providing for a jury trial in certain
cases of contempt out of the presence of the court.
S. B. 43. Birdsall. Amending Section 1238, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to the public uses on behalf of which the
right of eminent domain may be exercised. Adds Subdivision
18 (new) including as property subject to condemnation stand-
ing trees and ground necessary for their support and mainte-
nance along any State highway within 300 feet of the center
thereof, and ground for the culture and growth of such trees.
A. B. 31. Kerr. Identical with S. B. 43. Birdsall.
A. B. 517. Dennett. Amending Section 1240, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to private property which may be taken
for public use.
Provides for the taking (Subd. 5, new) of property appro-
priated to public use by any county, city and county, incor-
porated city or town, irrigation or municipal water district, by
another county, city and county, incorporated city or town,
irrigation or municipal water district, for another public use
and purpose consistent with the use to which it is then being
put, provided that the right to such limited use in common
shall include the right to enlarge, change or improve the
property taken, so long as the original use is not interfered
with.
S. B. 653. Thompson. Amending Section 1240, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to the private property which may be taken
under Title VII of Part III of the Code of Civil Procedure.
Adds a new subdivision (8) authorizing proceedings to con-
demn lands belonging to the State, to be maintained as other
condemnation proceedings and requiring summons and com-
plaint to be served on Governor, Attorney-General and Sur-
veyor-General.
A. B. 1021. Salisbury (by request). Amending Section 1246,
Code of Civil Procedure of California, relating to eminent
domain.
S. B. 413. Slater. Amending Section 1247, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to the jurisdiction of a court to regulate
the mode of making crossings.
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Adds Subdivision 4 "To regulate and determine the place
and manner of making farm or private crossings."
S. B. 719. Slater. Amending Section 1248, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to what must be ascertained or assessed
by the court, jury or referee at the trial of proceedings under
Title VII, Part III, of the Code of Civil Procedure.
S. B. 414. Slater. Amending Section 1251, Code of Civil Pro-
cedure, relating to when a plaintiff in eminent domain pro-
ceedings must pay the sum of money assessed.
Includes "farm or private crossings."
S. B. 1125. Kehoe. Amending Section 1269, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to escheated property and the procedure in
relation thereto.
Provides that property of every person dying and leaving no
kindred resident of this State or citizen of the United States,
not disposed of by will, shall escheat to the State for support
of schools; if proceedings for settlement of estate are instituted
and no relative appears within one year, court shall, after
payment of debts and expenses of administration, distribute
money and property remaining to State. Where proceedings
not commenced within six months from death of such decedent,
Attorney-General may direct Public Administrator to commence
same; at any time after one year Attorney-General shall com-
mence action in Superior Court of Sacramento county as at
present provided.
A. B. 1327. Widenmann. Identical with S. B. 1125. Kehoe.
S. B. 1124. Kehoe. Adding Section 1269a (new) to the Code
of Civil Procedure, relating to escheated property and the pro-
cedure in relation thereto.
Provides that whenever the Attorney-General is informed
that any estate or property involved in any action or special
proceeding has or is about to escheat to the State, he may
bring an action on behalf of the State to determine its rights
thereto or may intervene in any action affecting it.
A. B. 1329. Widenmann. Identical with S. B. 1124. Kehoe.
S. B. 1123. Kehoe. Amending Section 1272, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to escheated property and the procedure
in relation thereto.
Reduces the time within which petition may be filed from
twenty to two years.
A. B. 1328. Widenmann. Identical with S. B. 1123. Kehoe.
S. B. 671. Hans. Adding Section 1273 (new) to the Code
of Civil Procedure, relating to escheated property.
Provides for escheat of deposits to State after 20 years' in-
activity. Requires Attorney-General, when notified, to com-
mence actions in Superior Court, Sacramento, joining the banks
and depositors as parties. Summons shall be personally served
upon president, cashier or managing officer of each bank, and
62 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
by publication for four weeks in newspaper of general cir-
culation. Upon trial court must hear all parties and if de-
termines moneys deposited are unclaimed, shall give judgment
in favor of State, and banks shall forthwith deliver money
to State Treasurer, to be invested, accounted for and paid
out as provided in case of other escheated property.
S. B. 672. Hans. Amending Section 1278, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to hearing application for change of name,
and remonstrance, and requiring production of the certificate
of the Superintendent of Banks, by banking corporations, that
name desired does not resemble so closely as to be likely to
cause confusion, the name of any other bank previously formed
under the laws of this State.
A. B. 234. Pettis. Adding Section 1296 (new) to the Code
of Civil Procedure, relating to jurisdiction of court over pro-
ceedings to convey, sell, lease, and mortgage property of an
estate in process of administration.
Provides that when court obtains jurisdiction over estate
and issues letters thereon, it thereafter has full jurisdiction
for all purposes of administration; errors or irregularities in
petitions or proceedings for conveyances, sales, leases, or mort-
gages may give ground for attack on appeal, or on motion to
set aside; but each order of court directing or confirming such
conveyances, sale, lease or mortgage shall be deemed valid
against collateral attack.
S. B. 232. Irwin. Adding Section 1296 to the Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to jurisdiction of courts over proceedings
to convey, sell, lease and mortgage property of an estate in
process of administration.
A. B. 790. McDonald, W. A. Amending Section 1304, Code
of Civil Procedure, relating to notice of time appointed for
probate of will to be sent to heirs, legatees and named
executors'.
S. B'. 130. Thompson. Amending Section 1365, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to the order of persons entitled to admin-
ister upon estates.
Adds in each of the first seven instances "or some competent
person whom they or either of them may request to have
appointed."
A. B. 123. Bruck. Amending section 1377, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to the granting of letters of administra-
tion so as to provide for the fixing of the value of the prop-
erty of the estate for the purpose of ascertaining the time
within which the notice to creditors shall fix a time, within
which to present claims against the estate.
S. B. 1011. Luce. Amending Section 1444, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to appraisers of estates of deceased persons.
Provides that one of the appraisers must be one of the
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inheritance tax appraisers, and that where but two ap-
praisers act, one must be an inheritance tax appraiser, and
permitting the court to appoint an inheritance tax appraiser
as sole appraiser.
A. B. 509. Satterwhite. Amending Section 1447, Code of
Civil Procedure, relating to the effect of naming a debtor
executor.
Adds "unless he proves that he had not, either at that time
or at any time thereafter, any means wherewith to pay
such debt or demand, or such part thereof as may remain un-
paid, and that such inability did not arise from any fraud
committed by him".
S. B. 7. Crowley. Amending Section 1454, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to the collection by surviving heirs of
money in banks.
Increases the amount that may be collected by surviving
heirs to $1000.00.
A. B. 82. Collins. Identical with S. B. 7. Crowley.
S. B. 445. Tyrrell. Amending Section 1465a, Code of Civil
Procedure, relative to notices of petitions to set aside exempt
property for use of family.
Requires notice to be served upon attorney of any person
who has appeared or given notice of appearance (by attorney)
in the estate as heir, legatee, devisee, next of kin, or creditor,
or as otherwise interested.
S. B. 1067. Thompson. Amending Section 1489, Political
Code, relating to State normal schools.
S. B. 278. Thompson. Amending Sections 1490, 1493, 1494,
1495, 1496, 1497, 1498, 1499, 1500, 1502, 1503, 1505, 1507, 1510,
1512, 1513 and 1514, Code of Civil Procedure, relating to claims
against estates of deceased persons.
Requires (Sec. 1490) all claims to be filed in the office of the
clerk of the court from which letters were issued; also (Sec.
1493) requires such claims to state the address of the claim-
ant or his attorney, but provides that failure to state address
of claimant or his attorney shall not invalidate any claim.
The clerk is required to enter in the register a brief descrip-
tion of every claim, showing name of claimant, amount and
character of claim, rate of interest, if any, and date of filing.
Balance of amendments are merely verbal changes so as to
provide for filing instead of presentation of claims.
A. B. 1124. Rutherford. Identical with S. B. 278. Thompson.
S. B. 507. Campbell. Amending Section 1491, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to the time to be given by notice to
creditors.
Makes the time four months in all estates.
S. B. 1163. Thompson. Amending Section 1491, Code of Civil
Procedure, relative to time of notice to creditors of an estate.
64 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
Provides that after September 1, 1915, time expressed in
notice must be six months when estate exceeds $10,000 and
four months when it does not.
A. B. 1355. Brown, H. W. Amending Section 1491a, Code
of Civil Procedure, relating to filing statement as to publica-
tion of notice to creditors.
Provides that in case statement be not filed in time notice
shall be ineffective and a new notice to creditors may be pub-
lished and a new statement filed within thirty days.
S. B. 1141. Flint. Identical with A. B. 1355. Brown.
A. B. 277. Brown, H. W. Amending Section 1494, Code of
Civil Procedure, relating to claims against the estates of dece-
dents, and interest thereon.
The words "if the estate be insolvent" are omitted from the
beginning of the last sentence.
A. B. 1463. Godsil. Amending Section 1531, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to orders to show cause on sale of real
estate.
Provides that where estate does not exceed $500, publication
may be dispensed with and posting ordered.
A. B. 1460. Manning. Amending Section 1539, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to the service of orders to show cause.
Adds a provision that when it appears from the inventory
and appraisement that the value of the whole estate to be
sold does not exceed $500, the court may in lieu of publica-
tion order that notice be given by posting in at least three
public places in the county.
A. B. 1461. Manning. Amending Section 1547, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to notices of £<ale at public auction.
Provides that where estate does not exceed $500 court may
dispense with publication and order notices to be posted.
A. B. 1462. Manning. Amending Section 1549, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to notices of sale at public sale.
Provides that where estate does not exceed $500 court may
dispense with publication and order notices posted.
S. B. 78. King. Amending Section 1618, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to the compensation of executors and
administrators. Provides that commissions shall be allowed
"in such sums as may be fixed by the court, but not ex-
ceeding" the rates fixed by the statute; with a further pro-
vision that where the property of the estate is distributed
in kind and involves no labor beyond custody and distribu-
tion, commissions shall be computed on all the estate above
$20,000 at one-half the rates fixed in the section, subject
to the courts fixing such commission not exceeding said
rates.
A. B. 607. Brown, H. W. Amending Section 1643, Code of
Civil Procedure, prescribing the order in which debts must
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be paid, and fixing the rate of interest to be paid on demands
against estates of decedents.
A. B. 1381. Dennett. Amending Section 1658, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to partial distribution.
Extends the provisions of the section to "annuitants".
S. B. 1010. Luce. Amending Section 1669, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to payment of taxes and decree of dis-
tribution of estates.
Adds provision that no decree of distribution shall be valid
unless there shall first have been filed in said proceeding a
certificate or report of an inheritance tax appraiser showing
the amount of inheritance tax due from said estate.
A. B. 105. Brown, H. W. Adding Section 1690 to the Code
of Civil Procedure, providing for the granting of letters of
administration upon the estates of persons presumed to be
dead, by reason of absence from the State for seven years;
and for the administration of the estates of such absent per-
sons.
Provides that seven years' absence shall be taken as pre-
sumption of death, and petition for letters of administration,
stating facts, may be filed in Superior Court where property
is situated by any person entitled to administer in case of
death; court shall prescribe notice, to be published in news-
paper in county where property is situated, once a week for
eight weeks. If upon hearing absentee fails to appear and
court is satisfied from evidence that presumption of death is
sustained, decree for letters shall issue and estate shall be
administered according to laws governing estates of dece-
dents, until revoked and all acts done thereunder shall be as
valid as if absentee were really dead. Provided that if at any
time during administration evidence that absentee is still
living is presented, court shall suspend further proceedings
until satisfied that such evidence is unfounded, or if satis-
fied that absentee is still living, shall suspend all further
proceedings in administration of the estate.
S. B. 913. Flint. Identical with A. B. 105. Brown.
S. B. 1065. Thompson. Amending Section 1696, Political
Code, relating to teachers.
A. B. 218. Manning. Amending Section 1723, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to the disposition of life estates or home-
steads or community property on owner's death in certain
cases.
Changes the clause as to a married woman to read "who at
the time of her death held the record title to real property,
which was community property."
S. B. 1009. Luce. Amending Section 1723, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to disposition of life estates or homesteads,
on owner's death, in certain cases.
66 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
Requires a copy of the notice to be served on the State
Controller by mail at least five days before the time set for
the hearing.
S. B. 107. Benedict. Amending Section 1726a, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to the payment of funeral expenses of
deceased persons by Public Administrator.
The amount of the estate is increased to $150, and the Public
Administrator is permitted to expend not to exceed $100 for
burial expense, the balance of the estate to be applied on ex-
penses of last illness.
A. B. 375. Chamberlin. Identical with S. B. 107. Benedict.
S. B. 1066. Thompson. Amending Section 1858, Political
Code, relating to the apportionment of school money.
S. B. 13. Jones. Adding Section 1871 (new) to the Code of
Civil Procedure, relating to experts, their appointment by the
court, or a judge thereof, and providing for their compensa-
tion and manner of examination as witnesses. Providing that
in all proceedings, civil and criminal, where expert testimony
is necessary, the judge may appoint experts to investigate
and testify; the court to fix the compensation, which, in
criminal cases, shall be a charge upon the county, and in
civil cases shall be taxed as costs; that the experts so called
may be examined and cross-examined by the several parties;
and that the parties may call other experts if they so desire,
the court to have power to limit the number of experts to
be called by any party.
A. B. 763. Chamberlin. Adding Section 1871 (new) to the
Code of Civil Procedure, relating to experts, their appointment
by the court, or a judge thereof, and providing for their com-
pensation and manner of examination as witnesses.
Similar to S. B. 13. Jones.
S. B. 199. Ballard. Amending Section 1881, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to confidential communications.
Adds provision that the bringing of an action for damages
for personal injuries, or for the death of a person, by his
executor, etc., shall be deemed a consent by the plaintiff that
any physician who has prescribed for or treated such person
and whose testimony is material, shall testify.
A. B. 196. Bartlett. Identical with A. B. 199. Ballard.
S. B. 1201. Thompson (by request). Amending Section 1989,
Code of Civil Procedure, relating to the attendance of a wit-
ness before a court, judge, justice or other officer, out of the
county in which the witness resides.
Requires witness to attend out of county if distance is less
than 50 miles; present limit is 30 miles.
A. B. 1468. Fish. Identical with S. B. 1201. Thompson.
A. B. 609. Manning. Amending Section 2021, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to the taking of depositions.
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S. B. 613. Carr. Adding Article VII to Chapter III of Title
V, Part IV, Code of Civil Procedure, relating to interrogatories
to parties to actions and special proceedings, and admitting
execution and genuineness of documents, letters or writings.
Provides (Section 2055) that in all civil actions and special
proceedings either party to an action may serve upon adverse
party or his attorney, and file, written interrogatories for the
discovery of facts, documents or exhibits material to the
support or defense of any issue raised by the pleadings.
Interrogatories (Sec. 2056) must be answered within 10 days
and answers filed within 5 days thereafter. Court may extend
time for cause.
Answers (Sec. 2057) to same must be on oath, and direct
and specific, and true copies of documents and exhibits must
be attached thereto, cost of making to be borne by party
demanding them. Corporations (Sec. 2058) must answer in-
terrogatories unless they can show that no stockholder, officer,
or employee can give the desired information. By so filing
interrogatories (Sec 2059), a party is not precluded from
examining adverse party as witness at trial, nor from taking
his deposition, nor shall he be concluded by the answers, and
he may introduce in evidence such interrogatories and answers
as may be pertinent. This article (Sec. 2060) shall apply to
all civil actions and special proceedings. If a party refuse
to answer (Sec. 2060a) it shall be conclusively presumed that
answer would be adverse to party so refusing; he may be
compelled to answer or to make his answers more definite,
specific or certain, and may be punished for contempt of court,
but no person may be compelled to answer any interrogatory
where such answer might tend to subject him to criminal
prosecution; refusal to answer on this ground must be spe-
cifically stated. Any person (Sec. 2060b) may not less than
10 days before trial demand in writing admission in writing of
execution or genuineness of any documents, letters or writings
named, copies of which shall be attached, and shall name
some disinterested bank, trust or bonding corporation at
whose office papers mentioned will be deposited for five days
from date of service for his inspection; if such admission not
made within 5 days, cost of proving documents, letters or
writings shall be taxed as costs against party refusing or
neglecting to make admission, unless at trial court finds such
refusal or neglect was for justifiable reasons.
A. B. 1093. McKnight. Identical with S. B. 613. Carr.
A. B. 674. Chenoweth. Amending Section 2093, Code of
Civil Procedure, prescribing the officers who may administer
oaths or affirmations.
Adds "every city clerk and the secretary of the governing
body of any municipal government."
68 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
S. B. 663. Beban. Adding Section 2953 (new) to the Code
of Civil Procedure, providing for the redemption of real estate
when the same is conveyed to secure the payment of money
or the performance of an obligation and providing for the
notice to be given for the sale of real estate under such con-
veyance and providing that contracts waiving such right of
redemption or dispensing with such notice shall be void.
S. B. 712. Stuckenbruck. Adding new article to Chapter
IV under Title XI, Part II, Code of Civil Procedure, to be
numbered "Article IV", relating to garnishment.
S. B: 713. Stuckenbruck. Adding new chapter under Title
VII, Part II, of the Code of Civil Procedure, to be numbered
"Chapter VII", relating to garnishment.
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PENAL CODE.
S. B. 1171. Butler. Amending Section 54, Penal Code, relat-
ing to furnishing money for elections except for specific pur-
poses.
Adds to Subdivision 3 provision that the giving or acceptance
of any employment for conveyance of voters who are sick or
infirm must be by written agreement, setting forth names
and residences of employer and employee thereunder and
names and residences of voters who are sick or infirm who
are to be conveyed thereunder.
S. B. 481. Duncan. Repealing Section 55a, Penal Code,
relating to soliciting, demanding or pledging votes for or
against any particular bill or measure.
S. B. 727. Chandler. Adding Section 64b (new) to the Penal
Code, prohibiting misrepresentation or fraud in relation to
certain initiative, referendum or recall petitions, and prescrib-
ing a penalty therefor.
A. B. 499. Encell. Amending Section 67, Penal Code, relat-
ing to giving or offering bribes.
Extends provisions of section to include "any officer or em-
ployee of this State".
A. B. 274. Browne. Amending Section 68, Penal Code, re-
lating to the definition and punishment of the crime of seduc-
tion.
Omits fine and fixes punishment at not less than five nor
more than fifteen years.
A. B. 495. Encell. Amending Section 68, Penal Code, relating
to asking or receiving bribes.
Extends the provisions of the section to every officer or em-
ployee or person employed by the State, and includes "any
matter . . . associated or connected with his employment
by the State".
S. B. 122. Scott. Amending Section 95. Penal Code, relating
to improper attempts to influence judges, justices, jurors,
referees, etc.
Includes justices and justices of the peace, and declares
such act a felony punishable by imprisonment in the state
prison not less than one year or more than 20 years.
A. B. 182. McDonald, J. J. Identical with S. B. 122. Scott.
S. B. 25. Thompson. Adding Section 54c (new) to the Penal
Code prohibiting contributions by corporations for political pur-
poses, and the soliciting or receiving thereof, and makes vio-
lation a misdemeanor, punishable by fine not to exceed $10,000;
corporation officers consenting to violation of act and persons
soliciting such contributions are guilty of misdemeanor, pun-
ishable by fine of not more than $5000 or imprisonment in
county jail not more than one year or both.
70 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
A. B. 16. Pettis. Adding Section 54c (new) to the Penal
Code, forbidding the circulation of initiative, referendum, re-
call and like petitions, for hire, except under prescribed con-
ditions.
Prohibits giving or receiving money or compensation for
circulating or procuring signatures to petitions requring an
election, violation punishable by imprisonment in state prison
or county jail not more than three months nor more than
three years; persons or voluntary associations desiring to
have petition circulated may make special deposit of money
with county treasurer, with written statement showing con-
tributions and persons to whom payments may be made for
services in procuring signatures, such claims duly verified and
accompanied with affidavit that no signature has been secured
by false representations, to be allowed by Board of Supervis-
ors out of such special fund, actual expenses, together with
compensation at not to exceed $3.00 a day may be allowed, but
no payment shall be made on basis of number of signatures
secured. Any surplus remaining to be returned to depositor;
if not sufficient money in fund, then claims to be reduced
pro rata.
S. B. 92. Stuckenbruck. Adding Section 159c (new) to the
Penal Code, making it a misdemeanor to send by mail, or
otherwise, threats or statements that judgments rendered
against any person will be printed or published.
S. B. 645. Thompson. Amending Section 161a, Penal Code,
relating to the practice of law.
Makes it a misdemeanor for any person, other than a regu-
larly licensed attorney, to advertise or hold himself out as such.
A. B. 72. Satterwhite. Amending Section 169, Penal Code,
relating to disclosing evidence adduced before the Grand Jury
or manner grand juror voted.
Includes within the prohibition of the section "every witness
testifying before any Grand Jury, and any other person present
at a session thereof".
A. B. 562. Bruck. Amending Section 172, Penal Code,
relating to selling, giving away, or exposing for sale, intoxi-
cating, vinous or alcoholic liquors within or contiguous to
certain State buildings and grounds.
Fixes the penalty at fine of not less than $100 or imprison-
ment not less than 50 days, or both, and declares possession
by a person within the prescribed limits of a United States
Government liquor license shall be deemed prima facie evi-
dence of violation.
S. B. 343. Butler. To safeguard the youth of the State, in
attendance at universities and normal schools, by adding a
new section to the Penal Code of California, to be numbered
Section 172b, making unlawful the soliciting or receiving of
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orders for, also the sale, service or giving away of, spirituous,
vinous, malt or other alcoholic liquors on or within one mile
of any university or State normal school, with certain ex-
ceptions.
A. B. 1407. Ryan (by request). Adding Section 183 (new)
to the Penal Code, to regulate the charging or receiving of com-
pensation for treatment of diseases.
Provides that the treatment of disease or ailments for com-
pensation by any unlicensed person is a felony, and repeals
all conflicting Acts and parts of Acts.
A. B. 144. Harris. Amending Section 190, Penal Code, re-
lating to capital punishment.
Abolishes death penalty for murder in first degree, except
in case of an assault with a deadly weapon or by means of
force likely to produce great bodily harm, by a person under-
going a life sentence in a state prison.
A. B. 592. Gebhart. Amending Section 192, Penal Code,
defining manslaughter.
Adds "or in the violation of a municipal ordinance or
statute."
S. B. 1128. Kehoe. Identical with A. B. 592. Gebhart.
S. B. 703. King. Repealing Section 258, Penal Code, relating
to the publication of caricatures and cartoons.
S. B. 704. King. Repealing Section 259, Penal Code, requir-
ing certain newspaper articles to be signed.
A. B. 7. Ferguson. Adding Secton 260 (new) to the Penal
Code, relating to publishing indebtedness as part of scheme
to collect.
Declares it unlawful to publish or threaten to publish in any
newspaper, hand bill, poster or serial publication or supple-
ment thereto, without written consent of debtor, the fact that
one is indebted to another on an account, chose in action, or
judgment; where such publication is for purpose of impeach-
ing the honesty, integrity or reputation of the debtor or would
tend to do so, and is for the purpose of enforcing payment;
violation declared a misdemeanor punishable by fine of not
less than $50 nor more than $500, or by imprisonment not less
than one nor more than six months, or both. No defense to
prosecution under section that debt is just, due and unpaid.
A. B. 288. Browne. Amending Section 261, Penal Code,
defining the crime of rape.
Increases the age of the female to twenty years.
A. B. 287. Browne. Amending Section 264, Penal Code, by
fixing the punishment of the crime of rape at not less than
twenty nor more than fifty years.
S. B. 583. Kehoe. Amending Section 264, Penal Code, relat-
ing to the punishment for the crime of rape.
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Permits the court, upon a plea of guilty, to determine the
place and time of punishment.
A. B. 702. Quinn. Identical with S. B. 583. Kehoe.
A. B. 78. Hawson. Amending Sections 269a and 269b, Penal
Code, relating to adultery and fornication.
Provides (Sec. 269a) that if two unmarried persons live
and cohabit together open and notoriously each is guilty of
fornication; if one unmarried and one married person so live
and cohabit together each is guilty of fornication and adul-
tery. Fornication and adultery and fornication are declared
misdemeanors, punishable by fine not exceeding $1000 or by
imprisonment not exceeding one year or both. The fact that
no one but themselves knew that they were living together
without marriage shall be no defense to a prosecution for
either offense.
Also (Sec. 269b) provides that the living together shall be
"open and notorious", and adds provision that persons so
living together are guilty of adultery and punishable by im-
prisonment in state prison not exceeding, five years, even
though no one knew they were so living together without
marriage.
A. B. 1. Arnerich (by request). Adding Section 269c (new)
to the Penal Code, relating to fornication and cohabitation
between either Chinese or Japanese males and white females.
Prohibits such acts, makes them misdemeanors and declares
every white woman party thereto guilty of a misdemeanor.
S. B. 518. Butler. Amending Section 270, Penal Code, re-
lating to non-support of child.
Includes illegitimate children, and provides that the non-
support must be "without lawful excuse".
A. B. 561. Ryan. Identical with S. B. 518. Butler.
S. B. 141. S'tuckenbruck. Amending Sections 270, 270d, 270e
and 273h, Penal Code, relating to the abandonment and neglect
of minor children, and non-support of wife, and the evidence
required to prove the punishment of such offenses.
Substitutes "minor" child or "minor" children for child or
children in all four sections.
A. B. 497. Encell. Amending Section 274, Penal Code,
relating to administering drugs, etc., with intent to produce
miscarriage.
Includes any person who offers or agrees to provide, supply
or administer, or advises the use of, any medicine, drug or
substance, or agrees or offers to use or employ, any instru-
ment, to procure a miscarriage.
A. B. 494. Encell. Amending Section 275, Penal Code, relat-
ing to submitting to an attempt to produce miscarriage.
A. B. 219. Gebhart. Adding Section 288a (new) to the Penal
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Code, relating to sex perversions and defining the same to be
felonies.
Declares "fellatio" and "cumulingus" felonies, punishable
by not less than 20 years' imprisonment.
A. B. 1471. Browne. Amending Section 320, Penal Code,
relating to the punishment for drawing lottery.
Increases degree from misdemeanor to felony, punishable
by imprisonment for not less than one year.
A. B. 178. Hawson. Amending Section 321, Penal Code,
relating to the punishment for selling lottery tickets.
S. B. 504. Lyon. Amending Section 321, Penal Code, relat-
ing to punishment for selling lottery tickets.
A. B. 1472. Browne. Amending Section 321, Penal Code,
relating to the punishment for selling lottery tickets.
Increases degree from misdemeanor to felony, punishable
by imprisonment for not less- than one year.
A. B. 1470. Browne. Amending Section 322, Penal Code,
relating to aiding lotteries.
Increases degree from misdemeanor to felony, punishable by
imprisonment for not less' than one year.
A. B. 179. Hawson. Adding Section 327 (new) to the Penal
Code, relating to the punishment for selling or offering for
sale, lottery tickets.
Provides that in case of conviction and fine for selling lottery
tickets half the fine shall be paid to the informer, provided
that no peace officer shall be entitled to receive it.
A. B. 1473. Browne. Adding Section 327 (new) to the Penal
Code, relating to possession of lottery tickets.
Declares such possession a misdemeanor.
A. B. 236. Phelps. Adding Section 330b to the Penal Code,
relating to gambling by the use of cards, dice, billiard balls,
pool balls, cues or other devices.
Declared unlawful for any person to maintain any place
where any game not mentioned in Sections 330 and 330a, Penal
Code, is played with cards, dice, billiard balls, pool balls, cues,
or other devices, for money, checks, chips, credit, or any other
representative of value, or for merchandise or otner thing of
value; or to knowingly permit any house, room, apartment or
place owned by him or under his charge to be used for such
purpose; and declaring it unlawful to play or bet at such
game. Violation a misdemeanor; penalty, fine of not less than
$100 nor more than $500, or imprisonment not exceeding six
months, or both.
A. B. 686. Benton. Adding Section 330b (new) to the
Penal Code, prohibiting the shaking of dice by women and
minors, and declares every person who permits it to be guilty
of a misdemeanor.
A. B. 590. Phillips. Amending Section 340, Penal Code,
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relating to the rate of interest that may be charged by
pawnbrokers.
S. B. 859. Lyon. Amending Section 340, Penal Code, relat-
ing to the rate of interest that may be charged by pawn-
brokers.
Reduces interest rate to one per cent per month.
A. B. 633. Chamberlin. Adding Section 349b (new) to the
Penal Code, to fix the punishment for fraudulent advertising
and denning the same.
Declares such acts a misdemeanor.
A. B. 362. Spengler. Adding Sections 349b and 349c (new)
to the Penal Code, relating to labor unions.
Provides (Sec. 349b) that any trades union, labor associa-
tion or organization adopting and registering a trademark,
pursuant to Section 3200, Political Code, shall have exclusive
right to ownership, use and control thereof, prohibits the un-
authorized use .thereof, and declares violation a misdemeanor,
punishable by fine of not less than $100 or more than $500,
or by imprisonment for not less than 20 or more than 90 days,
or both.
Also prohibits (Sec. 349c) any person from misrepresenting
or falsely stating that members of trade unions and labor
associations or organizations are employed in the manufacture
or sale of any article where persons not members of such
organizations were either exclusively or partly employed in
their manufacture; declares violation a misdemeanor, punish-
able as in Section 349b.
A. B. 850. Harris. Adding Sections 349b and 349c (new)
to the Penal Code, relating to labor unions.
Similar to A. B. 362. Spengler.
A. B. 90. Johnson. Repealing Section 373, Penal Code,
relating to the maintenance of pest houses within the limits
of cities, towns or villages.
S. B. 656. Beban. Repealing Section 373, Penal Code, relat-
ing to the maintenance of pest houses within the limits of
cities, towns or villages.
A. B. 639. Brown. Adding Sections 373b, 373c and 373d
(new) to the Penal Code, relating to public nuisances, and
their abatement, and conferring certain powers upon the State
Board of Health.
Provides (Sec. 373b) that where no board of health exists
in any county, city or unincorporated town or village, or none
has been appointed where law provides for such board; or in
case sanitary laws or regulations where boards of health or
health officers are established are inoperative or unenforced,
State Board of Health shall make such regulations respecting
nuisances, sources of filth and causes of sickness as may be
necessary.
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Also (Sec. 373c), under similar circumstances, State Board
of Health empowered to make such rules and regulations in
regard to care and cleansing of privies, pig pens, slaughter
houses and other noxious places, as they deem desirable for
protection of health, and may declare any of such places
nuisances and compel their immediate removal, discontinu-
ance and abatement.
And also (Sec. 373d) declares violation of any rule or regula-
tion of the State Board of Health hereunder a misdemeanor.
S. B. 915. Flint. Identical with A. B. 639. Brown.
A. B. 794. Godsil (by request). Adding Section 383b to
the Penal Code, relating to adulteration, misbranding, mis-
labeling and sale of white lead, pigments, house, shingle or
wood stains of all kinds, kalsomines for walls and ceilings,
house paints, etc.
A. B. 795. Godsil (by request). Adding Section 383c (new)
to the Penal Code, relating to the adulteration, misbranding,
mislabeling and sale of white lead, pigments, house, shingle,
or wood stains of all kinds, kalsomines, for walls, ceilings,
house paints, etc.
S. B. 858. Lyon. Adding Sections 384b and 384c (new) to
the Penal Code, relating to keeping perishable foods in cold
storage, marking the date thereof, and providing a penalty
therefor.
Provides (Sec. 384b) any person keeping in cold storage food
for human consumption of perishable nature more than ninety
days is guilty of misdemeanor; and (Sec. 384c) making it a
misdemeanor to receive food for human consumption in cold
storage without marking thereon the date received.
A. B. 224. Rodgers. Amending Section 397, Penal Code,
. relating to the sale or disposal of intoxicating liquors between
certain hours.
Permits the sale of liquor all night until January 1, 1916.
A. B. 1184. Phelps. Amending Section 397, Penal Code, re-
lating to the sale of intoxicating liquors to habitual drunkards
or Indians.
Includes also persons who live with or associate with In-
dians.
A. B. 530. Pettis (by request). Adding Section 397d to
the Penal Code, providing penalties for unlawful sale or gifts
of intoxicating liquor, and to express intent and purpose of
the Act.
Declares such acts misdemeanors, punishable by fine of not
less than $600, or imprisonment not exceeding seven months,
or both.
A. B. 210. Gelder. Adding Section 402f (new) to the Penal
Code, requiring any physician, nurse or other person, having
charge of or in attendance upon, any person or persons having
76 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
or being afflicted with any contagious, infectious or communi-
cable disease, to thoroughly disinfect himself or herself or
cause such disinfection to be done, and in addition thereto to
put on an entire new change of outer garments or clothing
which have not been exposed, and especially to remove any
and all clothing or garments or parts thereof that have been
exposed, and every physician, nurse or other person who shall
not wrap up such clothing in some airtight device, and cause
same to be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor.
S. B. 726. Chandler. Adding Section 472a (new) to the
Penal Code, to be numbered 472a, relating to signing to any
initiative, referendum or recall petition a fictitious name or
the name of another.
A. B. 329. Hawson. Amending Section 476a, Penal Code,
relating to the issuance of bank checks with the intent to
defraud.
Changes punishment to imprisonment "for not more than
fourteen years".
A. B. 699. Wishard. Amending Section 484, Penal Code,
defining larceny.
A. B. 654. Encell. Amending Section 487, Penal Code, de-
fining grand larceny. Includes automobiles.
S. B. 198. Ballard. Amending Section 499a, Penal Code,
relating to the stealing of electric current and the injuring
of electric wires or appliances, and providing a punishment
therefor.
Declares every person who "willfully and knowingly", with
intent to injure or defraud, "makes or causes to be made any
connection in any manner whatsoever with any electric wire
or electric appliance", or uses any such connection in such a
manner as to supply electric current for heat, light or power,
so that same is consumed without passing through any meter,
or who tampers with any electric meter, is guilty of a mis-
demeanor.
A. B. 254. Bartlett. Identical with S. B. 198. Ballard.
A. B. 373. Chamberlin. Adding Section 504a (new) to the
Penal Code, relating to embezzlement, removal and disposal of
leased property.
Declares that any person who shall embezzle, fraudulently
remove, conceal or dispose of any personal property leased or
let to him by instrument in, writing, or any personal property
of another in his possession under contract of purchase not yet
fulfilled, with intent to defraud the lessor or owner, is guilty
of embezzlement.
A. B. 539. Prendergast. Adding Section 506a (new) to the
Penal Code, relating to crime of embezzlement.
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S. B. 1197. Benedict. Adding Section 508a (new) to the
Penal Code, relating to insurance premiums.
Declares the conversion or appropriation of money received
by any insurance agent, solicitor or broker, as premium or
return premium, contrary to instructions or without consent
of insurance company, embezzlement, irrespective of such
broker, solicitor or agent having any interest therein.
A. B. 1367. Meek. Adding Section 532b (new) to the Penal
Code, relating to the concealment or misrepresentation of
identity for the purpose of obtaining property or credit and
prescribing the punishment therefor.
Makes such action a misdemeanor, punishable by fine of
not more than $500, or by imprisonment not more than six
months, or both. "Person" defined to include natural persons,
firms and corporations.
A. B. 1258. Hawson. Repealing Section 537, Penal Code,
relating to defrauding proprietors of hotels, inns, etc.
A. B. 1257. Hawson. Repealing Section 537b, Penal Code,
relating to defrauding owners of livery stables.
S. B. 58. Finn. Adding Section 537d (new) to the Penal
Code making it a misdemeanor to defraud a garage keeper.
A. B. 378. Chamberlin. Identical with S. B. 58. Finn.
A. B. 1163. Lyon. Adding Section 555a (new) to the Penal
Code.
A. B. 1192. Scott, F. C. Amending Section 588 of the Penal
Code, relating to malicious injuries to any State or other
public highway or bridge or any private way laid out by au-
thority of law, or bridge upon any such highway or private
way.
S. B. 1073. Birdsall. Amending Section 588, Penal Code, re-
lating to malicious injuries to any State or other public highway
or bridge or any private way laid out by authority of law, or
bridge upon any such highway or private way.
Makes such acts, where damage amounts to $500 or more,
punishable by imprisonment in State prison not exceeding five
years, or in county jail not exceeding one year; if damage less
than $500, action is misdemeanor.
A. B. 841. Wishard. Amending Section 588a, Penal Code,
making it a misdemeanor to throw glass or rubbish on a
public highway.
Includes newspaper, wrapping paper or other rubbish in
prohibition of section.
S. B. 551. Birdsall. Adding Section 588b (new) to the
Penal Code, concerning the breaking down, removal, injury
or destruction of barriers or obstructions, the tearing down,
removal or destruction of notices, or the extinguishment, re-
moval, injury or destruction of warning lights or lanterns on
78 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
a State road or highway, and prescribing a penalty for the
violation of such section.
A. B. 747. Scott, F. C. Identical with S. B. 551. Birdsall.
S. B. 550. Birdsall. Adding .Section 588c (new) to the
Penal Code, concerning the injury, defacement or removal of
monuments or stakes placed, erected or used by the State
Department of Engineering, its officers or employees on or
along any State road or highway or in connection with State
road or highway work, and prescribing penalty for the viola-
tion of such section.
A. B. 748. Scott, F. C. Identical with S. B. 550. Birdsall.
A. B. 171. Dennett. Amending Section 592, Penal Code,
relating to water, ditches, etc., and the penalty for trespass
or interference therewith.
Makes violation of by-laws, rules and regulations established
by board of directors of an irrigation district for distribution
and use of water among owners of lands a misdemeanor.
A. B. 61. Hawson. Amending Section 597b (1), Penal Code,
relating to cruelty to animals.
Provides that any person who for amusement or gain causes
any animal or bird to fight, or causes any animal or bird to
be worried or injured or subjected to fear, or who aids or
abets the doing of such acts or is present as a spectator
thereat, or who permits such acts to be done on premises
under his charge and control, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
S. B. 823. Stuckenbruck. Amending Section 602, Penal
Code, relating to trespass.
S. B. 49. Birdsall. Amending Section 626, Penal Code, re-
lating to the protection of fish and game.
A. B. 206. Bruck. Amending Section 626, Penal Code, re-
lating to the protection of fish and game.
S. B. 240. Rush. Amending Section 626, Penal Code, relating
to the protection of fish and game.
S. B. 757. Flint. Amending Section 626, Penal Code, relat-
ing to the protection of fish and game.
A. B. 950. Ream. Amending Section 626, Penal Code, re-
lating to the protection of fish and game.
A. B. 984. Shartel. Amending Section 626 of the Penal Code,
relating to game birds.
A. B. 1052. Judson. Amending Section 626, Penal Code,
relating to the protection of fish and game.
S. B. 1096. Luce. Amending Section 626, Penal Code, relat-
ing to the protection of cotton-tail rabbit, bush rabbit, ducks,
snipe, quail and other animals.
S. B. 15. King. Amending Sections 626, 626f, and 626g of
the Penal Code of the State of California, relating to the
protection of fish and game.
S. B. 593. Irwin. Amending Sections 626a, 626f and 626j,
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and repealing Section 626i of the Penal Code, relating to fish
and game.
S. B. 50. Birdsall. Amending Section 626a, Penal Code, re-
lating to the protection of doves.
S. B. 226. Lyon. Adding Section 626a (new), to the Penal
Code, relating to the hunting or shooting of game or game
birds with automatic shotguns or pump guns.
S. B. 769. Scott. Amending Section 626a, Penal Code, re-
lating to the protection of fish and game.
A. B. 965. Ream. Amending Section 626a, Penal Code, re-
lating to the protection of fish and game.
A. B. 964. Ream. Amending Section 626d, Penal Code, re-
lating to the protection of fish and game.
S. B. 971. Flint. Amending Section 626d, Penal Code, relat-
ing to the protection of fish and game.
S. B. 825. Campbell. Amending Section 626e, Penal Code,
relating to the protection of game.
A. B. 952. Ream. Amending Section 626e, Penal Code, re-
lating to the protection of game.
A. B. 1123. McCray. Amending Section 626e, Penal Code,
relating to protection of female deer.
S. B. 831. Flint. Amending Section 626f, Penal Code, re-
lating to the protection of fish and game.
A. B. 955. Ream. Amending Section 626f, Penal Code, re-
lating to the protection of fish and game.
A. B. 987. Shartel. Amending Section 626f, Political Code,
relating to deer.
S. B. 833. Butler. Amending Section 626g, Penal Code,
relating to the protection of game.
A. B. 957. Ream. Amending Section 626g, Penal Code, re-
lating to the protection of game.
S. B. 743. Gerdes. Amending Section 626j, Penal Code,
relating to the protection of game.
A. B. 953. Ream. Amending Section 626j, Penal Code, re-
lating to the protection of game.
A. B. 1442. Judson. Amending Section 626k, Penal Code,
relating to the sale and shipment of wild game and the dead
bodies or other parts thereof.
S. B. 756. Flint. Amending Section 626m, Penal Code,
relating to hunting between one-half hour after sunset and
one-half hour before sunrise.
A. B. 951. Ream. Amending Section 626m, Penal Code, re'
lating to the protection of fish and game.
S. B. 742. Gerdes. Amending Section 626n, Penal Code,
relating to the protection of fish and game.
A. B. 954. Ream. Amending Section 626n, Penal Code, re-
lating to the protection of fish and game.
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S. B. 851. Breed. Adding Section 626r (new) to the Penal
Code relating to the protection of fish and game.
A. B. 961. Ream. Identical with S. B. 851. Breed.
S. B. 853. Breed. Adding Section 626s to the Penal Code
relating to the protection of game.
A. B. 972. Ream. Identical with S. B. 853. Breed.
A. B. 1179. Judson. Adding Section 627c (new) to the Penal
Code, relating to the shipment and transportation of wild
ducks, or the dead bodies thereof.
S. B. 484. Kehoe. Amending Section 628, Penal Code, re-
lating to the protection and preservation of fish.
S. B. 768. Scott. Amending Section 628, Penal Code, relating
to the protection of fish.
A. B. 956. Ream. Amending Section 628, Penal Code, re-
lating to the protection of fish.
S. B. 1095. Luce. Amending Section 628, Penal Code, relat-
ing to the protection of shrimp, lobster, catfish, sturgeon, crab,
abalone, and prohibiting the use of certain apparatus.
S. B. 911. Beban. Amending Sections 628, 63i% and 636,
Penal Code, all relating to the protection and preservation of
fish.
A. B. 1202. Prendergast (by request). Identical with S. B.
911. Beban.
S. B. 741. Gerdes. Adding Section 628a to the Penal Code,
relating to the protection of fish.
A. B. 962. Ream. Amending Section 628a, Penal Code, re-
lating to the protection of fish.
S. B. 975. Flint. Amending Section 628a, Penal Code, relat-
ing to the protection of fish.
S. B. 688. Mott. To amend Section 628b, Penal Code, relating
to the protection of fish.
A. B. 949. Ream. Amending Section 628b, Penal Code, re-
lating to the protection of fish.
A. B. 1270. Rigdon. Amending Section 628b, Penal Code,
relating to the protection of fish.
A. B. 1001. Lyon. Amending Section 628e, Penal Code, re-
lating to the protection of surf fish.
S. B. 485. Kehoe. Amending Section 628f, Penal Code,
relating to protection of clams.
S. B. 826. Campbell. Amending Section 628f, Penal Code,
relating to the protection of shell fish.
S. B. 919. Campbell. Amending Section 628f, Penal Code,
relating to the protection of clams.
A. B. 963. Ream. Amending Section 628f, Penal Code, re-
lating to the protection of shell fish.
A. B. 1078. Rigdon. Amending Section 628f, Penal Code,
relating to protection of clams.
A. B. 948. Ream. Adding Section 628h (new) to the Penal
Code, relating to the protection of fish.
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S. B. 836. Beban. Adding Section 628i (new) to the Penal
Code relating to the protection of fish.
Prohibits use of "Chinese shrimp or bagnet" except in waters
of District No. 13.
A. B. 970. Ream. Identical with S. B. 836. Beban.
S. B. 155. Kehoe. Amending Section 629, Penal Code, rela-
tive to the placing and maintaining of screens over the inlets
of pipes, flumes, ditches, canals, and mill races, taking water
from any river, creek, stream or lake in which fish have been
placed or may exist.
S. B. 852. Breed. Amending Section 630a, Penal Code,
relating to the regulation of the business of wholesale dealers
in fish and game and providing for a record of the transac-
tions therein.
A. B. 968. Ream. Identical with S. B. 852. Breed.
A. B. 973. Ream. Amending Sections 1 and 2 of Section
631d, Penal Code, relating to the domestication of wild game.
S. B. 974. Flint. Amending Sections 1 and 2 of Section
631d, Penal Code, relating to the domestication of wild game.
S. B. 28. King. Amending Section 632, Penal Code, relating
to the protection and preservation of fish.
S. B. 699. Brown. Amending Section 632, Penal Code, relat-
ing to the protection of fish.
A. B. 960. Ream. Amending Section 632, Penal Code, re-
lating to the protection of fish.
A. B. 986. Shartel. Amending Section 632, Penal Code, re-
lating to fish and game.
A. B. 1160. Cary. Amending Sections 632 and 632a, Penal
Code, relating to the preservation of fish and adding a new
section thereto, to be numbered Section 632c, relating to the
importation into the State of California of domestically reared
trout.
S. B. 14. Kehoe. Amending Section 632^ of the Penal
Code of the State of California, relating to the protection of
steelhead trout.
S. B. 830. Flint. Amending Section 633, Penal Code, relat-
ing to the protection of fish.
A. B. 971. Ream. Amending Section 633, Political Code, re-
lating to the protection of fish.
A. B. 532. Sharkey. Amending Section 634, Penal Code,
relating to the protection of salmon.
S. B. 530. Kehoe. Amending Section 634, Penal Code, relat-
ing to the protection of salmon.
S. B. 705. King. Amending Section 634, Penal Code, relat-
ing to the protection of fish.
S. B. 210. Benedict. Adding Section 634% to the Penal
Code, relating to fishing.
S. B. 755. Flint. Amending Section 635, Penal Code, relat-
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ing to the killing or taking of fish by means of explosives
or the pollution of waters.
Includes "or who has in his possession any fish that have
been taken by means of explosives".
A. B. 959. Ream. Identical with S. B. 755. Flint.
A. B. 966. Ream. Amending Section 636, Penal Code, re-
lating to the protection of fish.
S. B. 973. Flint. Amending Section 636, Penal Code, relat-
ing to the protection of fish.
S. B. 1094. Luce. Amending Section 636, Penal Code, relat-
ing to the use of net for the catching of fish, shellfish, shrimp
or crabs in the waters of the State.
A. B. 969. Ream. Amending Section 636^, Penal Code, re-
lating to the protection of fish.
S. B. 972. Flint. Amending Section 636M$, Penal Code, re-
lating to the protection of fish.
S. B. 156. Kehoe. Amending Section 637, Penal Code, rela-
tive to the examination by the State Board of Fish Commis-
sioners of dams and artificial obstructions in rivers and
streams, and ordering of construction and maintaining fish-
ways around or over dams and artificial obstructions in rivers
and streams.
A. B. 958. Ream. Amending Section 637, Penal Code, re-
lating to the protection of fish.
A. B. 1408. Canepa (by request). Amending Section 637a,
637f, 637d and 637e, Penal Code, all relating to protection of
wild birds other than game birds, and their nests and eggs.
A. B. 1413. Long. Amending Section 637a, Penal Code, and
adding thereto three new sections to be numbered 637f, 637d
and 637e, all relating to protection of wild birds other than
game birds, and their nests and eggs.
S. B. 832. Flint. Adding Section 637b (new) to the Penal
Code, relating to the protection of game.
A. B. 967. Ream. Identical with S. B. 832. Flint.
S. B. 311. Scott (by request). Amending Section 640, Penal
Code, relating to telegraph and telephone lines and messages.
Declares it unlawful to tap or make any unauthorized con-
nection with any telegraph or telephone wire, line, cable or
instrument, under the control of any telephone or telegraph
company, or to read or attempt to read or learn the contents
or meaning of any message, report or communication while
same is in transit or passing over such wires, or to use or
attempt to use or communicate in any way information so
obtained, or to aid therein; penalty same as prescribed in
Section 639, Penal Code.
A. B. 292. Ryan. Identical with S. B. 311. Scott.
A. B. 321. Hawson. Amending Section 647, Penal Code,
relating to vagrancy.
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Provides (Subd. 2), "Every healthy beggar who solicits alms
as a business, and any person who solicits or attempts to
solicit .or procure money or other thing of value by falsely
pretending or representing himself to be blind, deaf, dumb,
crippled, or otherwise physically deficient or suffering from
any physical defect or infirmity", is a vagrant.
A. B. 1189. Johnson. Adding Section 653e (new) to the
Penal Code, providing that contractors on public work shall
pay laborers, workmen and mechanics employed by them
weekly all wages earned to within six days of date of pay-
ment; employees leaving shall be paid in full on next pay day
and employees discharged shall be paid in full on day of
discharge. All contracts awarded by the State or political
subdivisions shall contain a stipulation that contractor will
forfeit $10 for each day during which wages are not paid as
herein provided; violation declared a misdemeanor, punishable
by fine not exceeding $500, or by imprisonment not exceeding
6 months, or both.
S. B. 404. Brown. Amending Section 654a, Penal Code, de-
claring false representations as to property advertised to be
sold and service advertised to be performed a misdemeanor.
S. B. 818. Gerdes. Adding Section 654b (new) to the Penal
Code, relating to the protection of the purchasers of real
estate against fraud and deception.
Declares it a misdemeanor to misrepresent the extent, loca-
tion, ownership, title or other characteristic, quality, or
attribute of any real estate in this State, or the motive or
purpose of the sale of such real estate to an intending or
prospective purchaser.
A. B. 817. Ferguson. Identical with S. B. 818. Gerdes.
A. B. 275. Brown, H. W. Adding Section 680 to the Penal
Code, prohibiting the appointment to office of relatives by
state officers and judges; declaring violation a misdemeanor,
and fixing the penalty for making such appointments at a
fine of not less than $100 nor more than $1000 and forfeiture
of office.
A. B. 525. Godsil. Adding Section 680a (new) to the Penal
Code, relating to compulsion of employees.
Declares any employer, or officer or agent of an employer,
who shall control or interfere with, or attempt to do so, the
social and business dealings of his employees outside of the
scope of their employment, to be guilty of a misdemeanor.
S. B. 512. Beban. Identical with A. B. 525. Godsil.
S. B. 783. Finn. Amending Section 681, Penal Code, relat-
ing to punishment and treatment of prisoners, inmates of
reformatory institutions, and persons accused or suspected of
having committed crime.
No person can be punished for public offense, except upon
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legal conviction in court having jurisdiction thereof; no per-
son accused or suspected of crime shall be subjected to any
punishment or method of examination inflicting physical pain,
or which impairs mental or bodily faculties, or deprived of
regular sleep, food and drink, or confined in unsanitary place;
nor shall any person restrained of his liberty be subjected to
any cruel and unusual punishments; various forms of pun-
ishment enumerated are prohibited. Violation is declared a
misdemeanor, and in addition to penalty imposed by court
iMisiii) convicted shall be dismissed from his office or em-
ployment and shall thereafter be ineligible to similar em-
ployment.
A. B. 877. Hayes. Identical with S. B. 783. Finn.
A. B. 572. Anderson. Amending an Act, approved June 16,
1913, to add a new section to the Penal Code of the State of
California under Title XVI thereof, to be numbered 681, pro-
hibiting the use of cruel and unusual punishments in state
prisons and reformatory institutions, by amending the subject-
matter thereof and amending the title of said Act to read
"Section 681a of the Penal Code".
Forbids any punishments which will impair the mental or
physical efficiency of any prisoner, and prohibits in addition
to other punishments specified, the water cure, heating, with-
holding of proper clothing, food, educatonal or correspondence
privileges; and declares it unlawful for anyone having authority
over prisoners to use vile, indecent or profane language in
their presence or toward them, to use violence, or to be under
the influence of liquor.
No rule shall be made without their being posted where all
prisoners may read them, nor shall any rule be made im-
posing as a penalty prevention of release or parole unless
such violation is a violation of some penal law of the State.
Any board or persons in authority over prisons violating pro-
visions of this section shall be immediately dismissed upon
proof thereof before any Superior Court judge in county where
institution is located.
A. B. 359. Harris. Amending Section 770, Penal Code, relat-
ing to appeal from a judgment of removal from office.
Provides for appeal to the District Court of Appeal instead
of the Supreme Court, and for the issuance of a certificate of
probable cause by a justice of the District Court of Appeal,
and strikes out the words "or within 20 days after such judg-
ment is entered" from the sentence relating to the bill of
exceptions.
A. B. 1331. Dennett (by request). Amending Section 772,
Penal Code, relating to the removal of public officers by sum-
mary proceedings before the Superior Court.
A. B. 1132. Scott, C. E. Adding Section 804 (new) to the
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Penal Code, relating to proof of residence as affirmative defense.
A. B. 498. Encell. Amending Section 817, Penal Code,
relating to who are peace officers.
Includes officers of the Board of Medical Examiners.
S. B. 850. Strobridge. Amending Section 868, Penal Code,
relating to who may be present at an examination before a
magistrate.
Adds a provision that when prosecuting witness is a female
she shall be entitled at all times to the attendance of a
person of her own sex.
A. B. 103. Rigdon. Amending Section 925, Penal Code, rela-
tive to proceedings before the Grand Jury, the persons who
may be present at the session of such jury, and the records
of testimony taken at such session.
Amendment is only a change in verbiage and does not change
the effect of the section.
A. B. 1178. Beck (by request). Amending Section 925 of
the Penal Code, relating to grand juries.
Provides that the District Attorney shall advise the grand
jury "when requested by them".
A. B. 73. Satterwhite. Amening Section 926, Penal Code,
relating to keeping secret testimony before Grand Jury or
manner in which grand juror voted on any matter.
Includes "every witness testifying before such Grand Jury
and every other person present at a session thereof".
S. B. 574. Benedict. Amending Section 928, Penal Code,
relating to grand juries, permitting the use of the accounting
department of the State Board of Control by the grand juries
of the several counties of the State instead of employing
"experts".
S. B. 1147. Campbell (by request). Amending Section 928,
Penal Code, relating to powers and duties of Grand Juries.
Adds at end that comments as to any person or official not
indicted shall not be deemed to be privileged "except insofar
as they may be statements of fact."
S. B. 1160. Hans. Amending Section 928, Penal Code, relat-
ing to Grand Jury examination of books of officers of a
county.
Provides that compensation of expert shall be paid ".as
other county charges" without approval of court; and strikes
out provision that Grand Jury first impaneled in odd-num-
bered years shall investigate and report upon needs of county
officers, including increases or decreases of salaries, etc., and
report same to members of Legislature representing county.
A. B. 74. Satterwhite. Adding Section 930 (new) to the
Penal Code, relating to a foreman pro tern, for the Grand Jury.
Provides that in the absence of the foreman or his dis-
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qualification to act, the Grand Jury may select a member to
act as foreman pro tern.
A. B. 518. Dennett. Adding Section 946 (new) to the Penal
Code, relating to the powers of Grand Juries, and providing
for the appointment of a special attorney by Grand Juries.
Permits Grand Juries, by two-thirds vote, to appoint an
attorney at law to act as its attorney and legal adviser, who
shall be vested with all the authority of the District Attorney,
and shall fix his salary, which shall not exceed that of the
District Attorney for the time such special attorney is actually
employed.
S. B. 378. Purkitt. Amending Section 954, Penal Code,
relating to charging two or more different offenses in indict-
ments and informations.
Provides that two or more different offenses connected to-
gether in their commission, or two or more different offenses
of the same class may be charged, and if two or more in-
dictments or informations are filed in such cases the court
may order them to be consolidated. The prosecution is not
required to elect, and the defendant may be convicted of any
number of the offenses charged, and each offense upon which
defendant is convicted must be stated in the verdict.
A. B. 826. Chamberlin. Amending Section 987, Penal Code,
relating to the appointment and compensation of counsel as-
signed by the court to defend persons unable to employ counsel.
Provides that compensation of counsel so assigned shall
be fixed by court and be a charge upon the county.
A. B. 1134. Scott, C. E. Amending Section 990, Penal Code,
relating to how defendant may answer on arraignment.
A. B. 11. Hawson. Amending Section 1042, Penal Code,
relating to trials below grade of felony.
Provides that in cases of vagrancy, disturbing the peace and
:all minor offenses the court may deny trial by jury, and if
defendant be convicted he shall be punished by fine not ex-
ceeding $50 or imprisoned in county jail not exceeding 30 days,
or both.
S. B. 599. Butler. Amending Section 1046, Penal Code,
relating to the formation of the trial jury in criminal actions.
Provides that jurors of both sexes shall serve on juries in
criminal cases.
A. B. 1135. Scott, C. E. Amending Section 1049, Penal Code,
relating to time to prepare for trial.
A. B. 107. Marron. Amending Section 1072, Penal Code,
relating to general causes of challenge.
Adds as a fourth ground of challenge "Having served as a
juror within one year in any criminal action."
S. B. 779. Scott. Identical with A. B. 107.
S. B. 139. Luce. Adding Section 1074a (new) to the Penal
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Code, relating to examining, challenging and excusing jurors.
Provides' that court, without aid of counsel, shall ascertain
whether any general or particular cause of challenge prescribed
by Sections 1072, 1073 and 1074. Penal Code exists against
any juror, and if such exist, juror must be excused. During
examination of jurors by court, counsel may interpose chal-
lenges and may examine juror within reasonable limits fixed
by court. After twelve jurors have been called against whom
no general or particular cause of challenge hast been allowed,
counsel shall have right of examination for purpose of deter-
mining exercise of peremptory challenges, within such rea-
sonable limits as court in its discretion, shall determine. No
reversal on appeal shall be predicated on any ruling under
this section except for gross abuse of discretion.
A. B. 618. Edwards. Amending Section 1093, Penal Code,
relating to the order of trial.
S. B. 154. Kehoe. Adding Section 1098a (new) to the Penal
Code, relating to providing places where county jail prisoners
may exercise.
Each county jail shall have a yard or uncovered corridor,
surrounded by an enclosure, in which prisoners may exercise.
A. B. 1159. Gebhart (by request). Amending Section 1109,
Penal Code, relating to evidence required in certain cases.
A. B. 250. Ferguson. Amending Section 1203, Penal Code,
relating to the probation of persons arrested for a crime after
a plea or verdict of guilty and the suspending of the imposition
or execution of sentence during the term of probation, and the
dispositon of such accusation after full compliance with the
terms of probation.
S. B. 477. Luce. Amending Section 1111, Penal Code, relat-
ing to corroboration of accomplices and definition thereof.
Defines "accomplice" as one who is liable to prosecution for
identical offense charged against aefendant on trial in cause
in which testimony of accomplice is given.
A. B. 293. Chenoweth. Amending Section 1228, Penal Code,
relative to capital punishment, by substituting electrocution
for hanging.
S. B. 526. Shearer (by request). Identical with A. B. 293.
Chenoweth.
S. B. 785. Finn. Amending Sections 1246, 1247, 1247a and
1247e, Penal Code, relating to the duty of the clerk upon
appeal, and to the preparation of records to be used on appeal
from judgments, orders or proceedings of the Superior Courts
to the Supreme Court or the District Court of Appeal in
criminal cases.
Provides (Sec. 1246) for a typewritten or printed transcript,
allows 40 days to send it up; provides that defendant or his
attorney shall be served with a copy of the transcript; ap-
pellant or his attorney may designate whether transcript shall
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be typewritten or printed; omits (Sec. 1247) provision that
record shall be typewritten. Reduces (Sec. 1247a) the time
to five days; preparation of any record on appeal (Sec. 1247e)
in a criminal case shall be under direction and control of
clerk of court from which appeal is taken, and shall be charge
on and paid by county.
A. B. 891. Byrnes. Identical with S. B. 785. Finn.
A. B. 1417. Scott, F. C. Amending Section 1305, Penal Code,
relating to the forfeiture of bail and the discharge of bail
forfeiture, by adding thereto a provision that such bail may
be refunded by the Board of Supervisors, if such bail be the
sole cause of the appearance and return to custody of defend-
ant, upon the conviction of defendant.
A. B. 771. Edwards. Amending Section 1333, Penal Code,
relating to the manner of producing before a Superior Court,
grand jury or magistrate a witness who is a prisoner in a
State prison or county jail.
Made applicable to witnesses for both prosecution and
defense, and provides that in case prison or jail is out of the
county, order shall be made only on affidavit of District At-
torney or prosecutor, or of defendant or his counsel, that
testimony is material and necessary.
S. B. 1003. Jones. Amending Sections 1349, 1350, 1352, 1353
and 1355, Penal Code, relating to the examination of witnesses
on commission.
Extends to the people the right to have a witness residing
out of the State examined on commission.
A. B. 1217. Fish. Identical with S. B. 1003. Jones.
A. B. 1133. Scott, C. E. Amending Section 1382, Penal Code,
relating to time when action may be dismissed.
A. B. 1136. Scott, C. E. Amending Section 1385, Penal Code,
relating to dismissal of action.
Provides that upon motion of the District Attorney, a magis-
trate, justice of the Peace or other court shall order any pend-
ing prosecution dismissed.
A. B. 934. Rutherford. Amending Section 1431, Penal Code,
relating to the transfer of actions.
Provides that section not to be construed as prohibiting
transfer from justices' court to police court and vice versa,
but any fine recovered upon judgment shall accrue to juris-
diction of original venue.
A. B. 1012. Hawson. Amending Section 1434, Penal Code,
relating to the presence of the defendant at the time of trial
in justices' court.
Provides that defendant must be present and be arraigned.
A. B. 1013. Hawson. Amending Section 1438, Penal Code,
relating to conduct of trial in justices' court.
A. B. 1011. Hawson. Amending Section 1439, Penal Code,
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relating- to the duty of the court in charging- the jury in crim-
inal trials, in justices' courts.
A. B. 121. Bartlett. Amending Section 1449, Penal Code,
relating to the time for rendering judgment in justices' and
police courts.
Adds provision that court may extend time not more than
10 days to hear or determine motion for new trial or in
arrest of judgment, and may extend time not more than 15
days where question of suspended sentence or probation is
considered in accordance with Section 1203, Penal Code, pro-
vided that upon request of defendant time may be further
extended not more than 30 days additional.
A. B. 536. Gebhart. Adding Section 1506 (new) to the
Penal Code, providing for appeals in proceedings in habeas
corpus.
Permits an appeal from an order refusing a writ of habeas
corpus, or from a final order upon return of writ discharging
or remanding a prisoner or dismissing the proceedings. Where
order is made to discharge a prisoner, an appeal may be
taken by the people, but the discharge of the prisoner on
bail shall not be stayed thereby.
S. B. 527. iTyrrell. Identical with A. B. 536. Gebhart.
A. B. 290. Collins. Amending Section 1576, Penal Code,
relating to the powers and duties of the State Board of Prison
Directors.
Adds a provision that no guard shall be required or permitted
to work more than eight hours in any twenty-four.
A. B. 331. Chenoweth. Amending Section 1576, Penal Code,
relating to the powers and duties of the State Board of Prison
Directors.
S. B. 733. Flaherty. Amending Section 1587, Penal Code,
relating to the treatment of prisoners in State prisons.
S. B. 478. Beban. Amending Section 1613, Penal Code, re-
lating to labor of prisoners.
Provides that prisoners shall be required to work only within
the limits of the county jail and makes it a misdemeanor for
any public officer or other person resnonsible to direct or per-
mit them to do so.
A. B. 521. McDonald, W. A. Identical with S. B. 478. Beban.
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POLITICAL CODE.
S. B. 86. Slater. Amending Section 10, Political Code,
relating to holidays. Declares February 12, "Lincoln Day,"
a legal holiday.
S, B. 855. Thompson. Amending Section 55, Political Code,
relating to the State Board of Control.
S. B. 71. Duncan. Repealing Section 55a, Political Code,
relating to soliciting, demanding, or pledging votes for or
against any particular bill or measure.
A. B. 217. Wills. Amending Section 162, Political Code, es-
tablishing the legal distance from the county seat of Imperial
County to Sacramento at 661 miles.
S. B. 623. Slater. Amending Section 205, Political Code,
relating to the officers of the Senate.
Provides that officers of Senate shall be a president, a presi-
dent pro tern., a secretary, and assistant at the desk, a ser-
geant-at-arms, a minute clerk, a journal clerk, a history clerk,
a chaplain, and a postmaster.
S. B. 629. Hans. Adding Section 232a (new) to the Political
Code, providing for the compensation of grand jurors and trial
jurors in the Superior Court in counties of the third class.
S. B. 621. Slater. Adding Section 245a (new) to the Politi-
cal Code, relating to the employees of the Senate.
Provides that the employees of the Senate shall consist of
three assistant secretaries, one assistant sergeant-at-arms,
one assistant sergeant-at-arms for the finance committee, one
assistant sergeant-at-arms for the judiciary committee, one
assistant sergeant-at-arms to be assigned by the sergeant-at-
arms to any committee requiring the same, one bookkeeper for
the sergeant-at-arms, three assistant minute clerks, two as-
sistant journal clerks, one engrossing and enrolling clerk, five
assistant engrossing and enrolling clerks, one assistant history
clerk, two mail carriers (who shall be mailing and folding
clerks), five pages, one clerk-room clerk, one stenographer for
the finance committee, one stenographer for the judiciary com-
mittee, thirty-four stenographers who shall also serve as com-
mittee clerks, two press mailing clerks, all of whom shall be
under the direction and supervision of the secretary, and such
other employees as the Senate, by a three-fifths vote of all
members, shall deem necessary.
S. B. 625. Slater. Amending Section 246, Political Code,
relating to the officers of the Assembly.
Provides that officers of Assembly shall be a Speaker,
Speaker pro tern., chief clerk, sergeant-at-arms, minute clerk,
history clerk, journal clerk, engrossing and enrolling clerk, a
chaplain, and a postmaster.
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S. B. 624. Slater. Amending Section 247, Political Code,
relating to the election of officers of the Legislature.
Provides that all officers, except president of Senate, must
be elected by the house to which such officers are attached.
S. B. 620. Slater. Adding Section 247a (new) - to the
Political Code, relating to the appointment of the employees
of the Legislature.
Provides that employees of the Legislature shall be selected
and appointed by the State Civil Service Commission.
S. B. 622. Slater. Adding Section 247a (new) to the Politi-
cal Code, relating to the employees of the Assembly.
Provides that the employees of the Assembly shall consist
of four assistant clerks, one assistant sergeant-at-arms, one
bookkeeper to the sergeant-at-arms, two assistant minute
clerks, one assistant journal clerk, four assistant engrossing
and enrolling clerks, one mail carrier (who shall be mailing
and folding clerk), seven pages, forty committee clerks, twenty
of whom shall be stenographers, one sergeant-at-arms for the
ways and means committee, one sergeant-at-arms for the
judiciary committee, all of whom shall be under the direction
and supervision of the chief clerk, and such other employees as
the assembly, by a three-fifths vote of all members, shall deem
necessary.
A. B. 255. Kennedy. Amending Section 266, Political Code,
relating to the compensation of members of the legislature.
Provides that mileage shall be computed according to the
most direct route.
A. B. 246. Chamberlin. Amending Section 266, Political
Code, relating to per diem and mileage of members of the
legislature.
S. B. 1140. Breed. Amending Section 268, Political Code,
relating to the compensation of other officers and employees,
salaries of officers and attaches of the Senate and Assembly.
S. B. 431. Thompson. Amending Section 368, Political Code,
and repealing Section 369 thereof, relating to executive officers,
their appointment and terms.
S. B. 430. Thompson. Amending Section 386, Political Code,
relating to the salary of the executive secretary of the Gov-
ernor by increasing compensation to $3600.
S. B. 640. Thompson. Amending Section 408, Political Code,
relating to the duties of Secretary of State.
S. B. 797. Gerdes. Amending Section 410, Political Code,
relating to the distribution of the laws, resolutions and journals
of legislature; of reports of Supreme Court.
A. B. 885. McDonald, W. A. Identical with S. B. 797. Gerdes.
S. B. 1200. Mott. Amending Sections 412 and 413, Political
Code, relating to the duties and salaries of the Secretary of
State and his appointees and their duties and salaries.
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A. B. 1380. Bartlett. Identical with S. B. 1200. Molt.
A. B. 17. Rutherford. Amending Section 443 of the Political
Code of the State of California, relating to the State school
fund.
A. B. 139. Manning. Amending Section 443, Political Code,
relating to the controller's estimate of school tax.
S. B. 689. Butler. Amending Section 443, Political Code,
in regard to the State School Fund.
A. B. 1249. McKnight (by request). Amending Section 443,
Political Code, in regard to the State School Fund.
S. B. 108. Benedict. Amending Section 445, Political Code,
authorizing the Controller of State to maintain an inheritance
tax department and in connection therewith to appoint an
inheritance tax attorney and assistants thereto, and repealing
Section 445, Political Code, as amended June 16, 1913.
S. B. 1053. Breed. Amending Section 456, Political Code,
relating to employees in the office of the State Treasurer.
S. B. 1054. Breed. Repealing Section 460, Political Code,
relating to porter for State Treasurer.
S. B. 724. Chandler. Amending Section 470, Political Code,
relating to the duties of the Attorney-General.
A. B. 856. Prendergast. Adding S'ection 470a (new) to the
Political Code, relating to the legal assistance of the Attorney-
General in actions involving the validity of patents covering
processes, devices or materials used in highway construction.
S. B. 557. Scott (by request). Amending Section 472,
Political Code, relating to the appointees of the Attorney-
General and his duties.
A. B. 1469. Brown, H. W. Amending Section 472, Political
Code, relating to the appointees of the Attorney-General and
his duties.
S. B. 654. Thompson. Amending Section 475, Political Code,
providing for the appointment by the Attorney-General of
clerks, phonographic reporter, service agent and stenographers,
and fixing their salaries.
A. B. 710. Meek. Identical with S. B. 654. Thompson.
S. B. 641. Thompson. Amending Section 526, Political Code,
relating to the general duties of the Superintendent of State
Printing.
S. B. 966. Finn. Amending Section 531, Political Code, re-
lating to duties of the Superintendent of State Printing.
A. B. 1187. Harris. Identical with S. B. 966. Finn.
S. B. 1076. Beban. Amending Section 535, Political Code,
authorizing State printer, on approval by Board of Control,
to purchase equipment for State printing plant.
A. B. 104. Brown, H. W. Adding Sections 548, 549, 550, 551,
552, 553, 554, and 555 (new) to the Political Code, under a new
article to be numbered thirteen (13), to be added to Chapter
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III, Title I, Part III thereof, relating to the employment of
legislative counsel and agents, prescribing and authorizing
certain regulations governing said employment, and requiring
statements of expenses incurred in connection with said em-
ployment to be filed with the Secretary of State.
A. B. 858. Prendergast. Amending Section 591, Political
Code, relating to the expenses and funds of the Insurance
Commissioner.
S. B. 901. Benedict. Identical with A. B. 858. Prendergast.
S. B. 650. Thompson. Amending Section 594, Political Code,
relating to the classification of insurance business and to the
capital stock of insurance companies.
A. B. 862. Prendergast. Adding Section 594b (new) to the
Political Code, imposing a penalty upon insurance companies
soliciting or writing insurance in states where not regu-
larly licensed.
S. B. 1055. Breed. Adding Section 594b (new) to the Polit-
ical Code, relating to the soliciting and writing of insurance.
Similar to A. B. 862, Prendergast, with the additional pro-
vision that on and after April 1, 1917, no company from any
other State shall be licensed in this State whose home State
does not prohibit or prevent the soliciting and writing of in-
surance by all companies of that State in States or territories
in which they are not licensed in accordance with laws there-
of; certificate from insurance commissioner or supervising
officer of any other State to that effect shall be sufficient
compliance with this Act.
A. B. 859. Prendergast. Amending Section 596, Political
Code, relating to insurance business by authorized and un-
authorized companies and prescribing penalties for violation
thereof and declaring certain policies of insurance void.
S. B. 900. Benedict. Identical with A. B. 859. Prendergast.
A. B. 1481. Kennedy. Adding Section 597a (new) to the
Political Code, relating to the examination of insurance com-
panies by the insurance commissioner.
S. B. 420. Benedict. Adding Section 602b (new) to the
Political Code, to provide a uniform system of classification of
risks, premium rates and schedule ratings (on merit ratings
so-called) for the State Compensation Insurance Fund and all
other insurance carriers in this State insuring employers or
employees under the Workmen's Compensation, Insurance and
Safety Act, Chapter 176, Laws 1913; to establish adequate rates
for such insurance; to permit the limited issuance of compensa-
tion participating policies; requiring the Industrial Accident
Commission to furnish certain information for the use of the
State Insurance Commissioner; requiring every insurance car-
rier writing such insurance to file an annual report of its loss
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experience, and empowering the State Insurance Commissioner
to supervise, control and enforce the provisions of this Act.
Places the State Insurance Fund under the supervision of
the State Insurance Commissioner.
S. B. 891. Breed. Amending Section 605, Political Code, re-
lating to fees for the filing of insurance documents.
A. B. 861. Prendergast. Amending Section 589, Political
Code, relating to the annual salary of the Insurance Commis-
sioner and Deputy Insurance Commissioner.
S. B. 902. Benedict. Identical with A. B. 861. Prendergast.
A. B. 977. Prendergast. Identical with S. B. 891. Breed.
A. B. 1204. Prendergast (by request). Amending Section
605, Political Code, relating to the fees of the Insurance De-
partment. ,
S. B. 1034. Kehoe. Amending Section 605, Political Code,
relating to the fees of the insurance department.
A. B. 863. Prendergast. Amending Section 611, Political
Code, relating to filing of statements.
S. B. 1027. Benedict. Amending Section 611, Political Code,
relating to the filing of statements with the Insurance Com-
missioner.
S. B. 158. Beban. Adding Section 620b (new) to the Politi-
cal Code, relating to the withdrawal of deposit of securities
by insurance companies.
Provides that securities deposited by an insurance company
created under the laws of this State to enable it to do busi-
ness in another state may be withdrawn whenever such com-
pany ceases to do business in such other state and conclusive
evidence is filed that all policies written in such other state
have expired or been paid, cancelled or re-insured.
A. B. 1203. Prendergast (by request). Amending Section
623, Political Code, relating to the bonds of insurance com-
panies.
S. B. 1037. Kehoe. Amending Section 623, Political Code,
relating to the bonds of insurance companies.
A. B. 857. Prendergast. Amending Section 629, Political
Code, relatiing to the method to be used in the valuation of
life insurance reserves.
S. B. 1056. Breed. Amending Section 629, Political Code,
relating to the method to be used in the valuation of life
insurance reserves.
S. B. 572. Benedict. Amending Section 633, Political Code,
relating to the licensing of insurance agents.
A. B. 1176. Anderson. Identical with S. B. 572. Benedict.
A. B. 864. Prendergast. Amending Section 633, Political
Code, so as to concern only the licensing of insurance and
surety agents; providing for the revoking of such licenses and
providing a penalty for a violation thereof.
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S. B. 573. Benedict. Adding Section 633a (new) to the
Political Code, relating to the licensing of fire insurance
brokers.
Provides for the issuance, for a fee of $10, of a license to
fire insurance brokers.
A. B. 1174. Anderson. Identical with S. B. 573. Benedict.
A. B. 866. Prendergast. Adding Section 633a (new) to the
Political Code, concerning the licensing of insurance brokers,
and providing for the issuance and revoking of licenses by
the Insurance Commissioner.
A. B. 538. Prendergast. Amending Section 634, Political
Code, relating to registration of policies of life insurance com-
panies.
S. B. 501. Benedict. Amending Section 634, Political Code,
relating to registration of policies of life insurance companies.
A.' B. 1205. Prendergast (by request). Identical with S". B.
501. Benedict.
S. B. 1035. Kehoe. Amending Section 634, Political Code,
relating to the registration of policies of life insurance com-
panies.
A. B. 554. Schmitt. Adding Section 635 (new) to the
Political Code, relating to a standard form of life insurance
policy.
Requires a standard form of policy for life and endowment
insurance, to contain provisions: that insured is entitled to a
grace of either 30 days or one month to pay premium with
interest, at company's option, not to exceed 6 per cent; that
policy shall be incontestable after two years except for non-
payment of premiums or violations of conditions concerning
military or naval service in time of war; that the policy shall
constitute the entire contract between the parties, except that
the company may make the application a part of the contract,
in which event it shall be attached to the policy; that if the
age of the insured has been misstated, the amount payable
shall be such as the premium would have purchased at the
correct age; that the policy shall participate in the surplus
of the company annually; specifying the options to which the
policyholder is entitled in event of default in premium pay-
ment after three full annual premiums have been paid; that
after three full years' premiums have been paid the company
will advance on security of the policy at a specified rate of
interest a sum equal to the reserve at the end of the current
policy year on the policy and any dividend additions thereto,
less 2y2 per cent, and will deduct from such loan value any
existing indebtedness on the policy and any unpaid balance
of premiums for current policy year, and it may collect in-
terest in advance on loan to end of current policy year; a
company may in lieu of the foregoing insert a provision that
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one-fifth of the entire reserve may be deducted in case of a
loan under the policy, or may provide that the deduction may
be the 2^ per cent or one-fifth of the entire reserve at option
of company; a table showing in figures the loan values and
options available each year upon default in premium pay-
ments; if proceeds of policy are payable in installments or as
an annuity, a table showing the amounts of the payments;
that the holder shall be entitled to have the policy reinstated
at any time within 3 years from date of default unless cash
value has been paid, or extension period expired, on produc-
tion of satisfactory evidence of insurability and payment of
all overdue premiums with interest at not to exceed 6 per
cent; any of foregoing provisions not applicable to single
premium or non-participation or term policies shall not be
incorporated therein, and any such policy may be issued or
delivered in this State, that in opinion of Superintendent of
Insurance contains provisions more favorable to insured than
herein required; section shall not apply to policies of rein-
surance.
A. B. 1360. Schmitt. Adding Section 635a (new) to the
Political Code, relating to a standard form for accident and
health policies.
S. B. 1075. Birdsall. Amending Section 643, Political Code,
providing for the compensation of Fish and Game Commis-
sioners.
S. B. 907. Benedict. Adding Section 664a (new) to the
Political Code, relating to the powers and duties of the State
Board of Control as regards claims against the State.
A. B. 427.- Dennett. Amending Section 677, Political Code,
relating to investment of money in the estates of deceased per-
sons' fund.
A. B. 629. Dennett. Adding Section 677a (new) to the
Political Code, relating to the purchase of bonds of irrigation
districts by the Board of Control.
Provides that when Board of Control has funds for invest-
ment in bonds or securities it shall be duty of board to invest
at least 20 per cent thereof in bonds of irrigation districts, at
par or less.
A. B. 425. Dennett. Repealing Section 680, Political Code,
relative to the investment of school funds.
A. B. 777. Ashley. Amending Section 696, Political Code,
relating to teachers in public schools.
S. B. 1132. Duncan. Amending Section 714, Code of Civil
Procedure, relating to examination of judgment debtors on
proceedings supplementary to execution.
Provides that judgment debtor must not be required to
attend before judge or referee out of county in which judg-
ment was rendered.
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B. B. 1083. Cohn. Amending Section 718, Political Code,
relating to employees of the superintendent of the Capitol
building and grounds, prescribing their duties and fixing their
salaries and appropriating money for the purpose of carrying
out the provisions hereof not otherwise provided for by law.
S. B. 718. Slater. Amending Section 737, Political Code,
relating to the salary of Superior Judges.
S. B. 186. Benson. Amending Section 7511/2, Political Code,
relating to appointment and salary of stenographer of the
clerk of the Supreme Court.
Increases salary from $1000 to $1500 per annum.
S. B. 132. Gerdes. Amending Section 756, Political Code,
relating to the salaries of deputy clerks of the Supreme Court.
Increases salary of chief deputy to $2700, and of other
deputies to $2100.
A. B. 626. Mouser. Adding Section 762 (new) to the Po-
litical Code relating to the libraries, furniture and library
funds of the District Courts of Appeal and incidental expenses
of such courts.
Authorizes judges to sell books, furniture or furnishings to
the court when in their discreation it seems advisable, or to
exchange books for other books deemed more suitable for use
of court. Proceeds of sales to be paid into State Treasury to
credit of library fund of court; incidental expenses not other-
wise provided for may be paid from library fund.
A. B. 778. Ashley. Amending Section 768, Political Code,
relating to the composition, qualifications, term of office and
organization of members of county boards of education.
S. B. 219. Scott. Amending Section 791, Political Code,
relating to notaries public.
Increases the number of notaries in San Francisco from 110
to 120.
A. B. 223. Prendergast. Identical with S. B. 219. Scott.
A. B. 997. Chamberlin. Amending Section 791, Political Code,
relating to notaries public.
Provides for appointment by Governor of such number of
notaries in several counties and cities and counties of State as
he shall deem necessary for public convenience; provided, that
there shall be not more than one notary appointed for every
500 inhabitants of such counties and cities and counties.
A. B. 55. Ferguson. Amending Section 792, Political Code.
ating to qualification and application to become notaries.
Requires application for appointment to state that applicant
is citizen and twenty-one years of age; has resided in county
at least one year prior to date of application; application
must be signed by at least five residents of county, and where
applicant is not an attorney, admitted to practice in this
State, by a judge of the Superor Court of the county and
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accompanied by a certificate from said judge that he has
examined applicant touching qualifications and is satisfied that
he has sufficient educational qualifications to act as notary.
A. B. 914. Canepa. Amending Section 798, Political Code,
relating to notaries public, and fixing a scale of fees.
Adds "For every demand for payment of a promissory note,
or for payment or acceptance of a bill of exchange, draft or
check, where same is paid or accepted upon such dmand, $2.
S. B. 304. Beban. Amending Section 799, Political Code,
relating to official bonds of persons authorized to administer
oaths.
Requires notaries and all other persons before whom proof
or acknowledgment of an instrument may be made, except
an executive officer, or judge or clerk of any court, to execute
a bond in $5000.
A. B. 56. Ferguson. Adding Section 802 (new) to the
Political Code, relating to official misconduct of notaries.
Declares it to be official misconduct for a notary public
to charge fees in excess or less than the amount specified
in Section 798, Political Code.
A. B. 668. Browne. Amending Section 843, Political Code,
prohibiting a county officer acting as a deputy of another
county officer of the same county, except where the salary is
less than $150 a month.
S. B. 095. King. Identical with A. B. 668. Browne.
S. B. 541. Cogswell. Repealing Section 924, Political Code,
relating to duties of auditing officers.
A. B. 704. Gebhart. Amending Section 1032, Political Code,
relating to records open for inspection.
Declares "all records, books, pleadings, judgments or decrees
in the office of any State, county, city and county, city or
township officer" except papers on attachment, shall "at all
times" be open to inspection.
A. B'. 580. McPherson. Amending Section 1055, Political
Code, relating te> publication of election proclamations.
S. B. 847. Slater. Amending Section 1055, Political Code,
relating to publication of election proclamations.
A. B. 28. Mouser. Amending Section 1072, Political Code,
relating to compensation for members of boards of election
and clerks thereof.
Changes basis of compensation to $3 for each eight hours
board shall be in session, with provision that compensation
shall in no case be less than $8 nor more than $16; com-
pensation to be as nearly as possible in proportion to number
of votes cast.
A. B. 1005. Wright, T. M. Amending Sections 1073, 1079,
1083a, 1094, 1096, 1113, 1115, 1120, 1121, 1127, 1128, 1129, 1130,
1133, 1192, 1285, 1286, 1287, 1288, 1290, 1294 and 4025, Political
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Code, repealing Sections 1334, 1335, 1344, 1345, 1359, 1361a and
1366a thereof, and adding thereto Section 1083b (new), all re-
lating to furnishing printed blanks, poll lists, tally lists, etc.,
for election purposes.
S. B. 1112. Flint. Identical with A. B. 1005. Wright.
S. B. 355. Jones. Amending Section 1083, Political Code,
relating to the right to vote and the registration of voters.
A. B. 1284. Encell. Amending Section 1083, Political Code,
relating to the right to vote and the registration of voters.
A. B. 1090. Ellis. Amending Section 1083a, Political Code,
relating to qualifications of signing petitions.
A. B. 1195. Scott, F. C. Amending Section 1083a, Political
Code, relating to qualification of signers of initiative, refer-
endum, recall or nominating petitions.
A. B. 1288. Sisson. Amending Section 1083a, political Code,
relating to the signing by qualified electors of petitions and
papers, and to the duties of county clerks and registrars of
voters respecting same.
A. B. 1198. Scott, F. C. Amending Section 1094, Political
Code, relating to the registration of voters.
A. B. 1421. Harris. Amending Section 1094, Political Code,
relating to registration of voters.
A. B. 1425. Sisson. Amending Section 1096, Political Code,
relating to affidavits of registration.
A. B. 1197. Scott, F. C. Amending Sections 1096, 1097 and
1097a, Political Code, relating to affidavits of registration.
A. B. 1424. Kramer. Amending Section 1097, Political Code,
relating to registration of electors.
A. B. 1287. Satterwhite. Repealing Sections 1102, 1143,
1185, 1286, 1287, 1359, 1361a, 1366a and 4026, Political Code, all
relating to elections.
A. B. 1423. Scott, F. C. Amending Section 1103, Political
Code, relating to the preservation and distribution by the
County Clerk of affidavits of registration.
A. B. 1285. Gelder. Amending Section 1104, Political Code,
relating to the registration of voters.
A. B. 1286. Scott, F. C. Amending Section 1105, Political
Code, relating to the cancellation of registrations.
A. B. 1290. Conard. Amending Section 1113, Political Code,
relating to the binding of affidavits of registration.
A. B. 1294. Wright, T. M. Amending Section 1115, Political
Code, relating to affidavits of registration.
A. B. 1295. Edwards, L. Amending Sections 1120 and 1121,
Political Code, both relating to qualifications of voters and the
registers to be used at certain elections.
A. B. 553. McDonald, W. A. Amending Section 1127, Political
Code, relating to the establishment of election precincts by
the Board of Supervisors.
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Av B. 661. Spengler. Amending Section 1130, Political. Code,
relating- to limitation upon the powers of Supervisors in estab- -
lishing election precincts.
Adds provision that if any precinct contains insufficient
number of qualified electors to make up precinct board, such
precinct may be consolidated with an adjoining election pre-
cinct.
A. B. 801. Encell. Amending Section 1132, Political Code,
relating to the place for holding an election.
A. B. 511. McKnight. Amending Section 1142, Political Code,
relating to boards of election, their appointment, duties, etc.
A. B. 804. Encell. Amending Section 1142, Political Code,
relating to the appointment of election boards.
S. B. 1126. Kehoe. • Amending Section 1142, Political Code,
requiring boards of supervisors to appoint election officers from
an eligible list of persons who have previously passed an ex-
amination as to their fitness and competency.
A. B. 1416. Scott, F. C. Identical with S. B. 1126. Kehoe.
A. B. 1296. Ryan. Amending Section 1149, Political . Code,
relating to posting and polling places of copies of index to
affidavits of registration.
A. B. 802. Encell. Amending Section 1151, Political Code,
relating to board of elections for special election precincts —
poll lists, etc.
A. B. 1292. Widenmann. Amending Section 1151, Political
Code, relating to boards of elections for certain elections.
A. B. 1291. Kerr. Amending Sections 1188 and 1192, Political
Code, relating to the nomination of candidates otherwise than
by primary election, and to the filing of nomination papers.
A. B. 1293. Kramer. Adding Section 1193 (new) to the
Political Code, and repealing Section 1191 thereof, both relat-
ing to the preservation and subsequent destruction of nomina-
tion papers.
S. B. 1089. Chandler. Adding Section 1194 (new), to the
Political Code, relating to the preservation and subsequent
destruction by the Secretary of State of initiative, referendum
and recall petitions.
S. B. 73. Duncan. Amending Section 1195, Political Code,
relating to proposed constitutional amendments, initiative
and referendum measures, and providing for the mailing
and distribution of the same, together with arguments for
and against adoption.
S, B. 728. Chandler. Amending Section 1195, Political Code,
relating to the preparation, printing and distribution of state-
ments concerning proposed constitutional amendments, and to
the printing and distribution of such constitutional amend-
ments.
A. B. 1467. Fi&'h. Amending Section 1195, Political Code,-
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relating to the preparation of arguments concerning proposed'
constitutional amendments and propositions to be submitted
to the vote of the elector.
A. B. 1422. Wright, T. M. Amending Sections 1195 and
2195a of the Political Code and adding, a new section thereto
to be designated Section 1195b, relating to the preparation,
printing and distribution of statements concerning proposed
constitutional amendments, and to the printing and distribu-
tion of such constitutional amendments and propositions,
measures and questions to be submitted to the vote of the
electors.
A. B. 1298. Mouser. Amending Section 1196, Political Code,
relating to providing and printing ballots for elections.
A. B. 1456. Young. Amending Section 1197, Political Code,
relating to form of ballot?-1.
S. B. 22. Slater. Amending Sections 1197, 1205 and 1211,
Political Code, relating to election ballots, manner of voting
and the conduct of elections.
S. B. 725. Chandler. Adding Section 1197a (new), to the
Political Code, relating to titles and summaries for initiative
and referendum measures.
Requires proponents of initiative measures to submit draft
of their petition to Attorney-General with request that he pre-
pare title and summary of chief purposes and points of pro-
posed measure, such title and summary not to exceed 100
words in all; this title and summary shall appear on each
petition; and across the top of each petition shall be printed
in 12-point black-face type the words "referendum measure
against an Act passed by the Legislature". And across each
page after the first of every initiative, referendum or recall
petition shall be printed in 18-point gothic type a short title
not to exceed twenty words showing nature and subject of
petition; petitions not so printed shall be null and void.
A. B. 1426. Sisson. Adding Section 1203 (new) to the Po-
litical Code, relating to supplies for election booths and the
duties of election officers with respect thereto.
A. B. 783. Phelps. Amending Section 1210, Political Code,
relating to sample ballots.
A. B. 1297. Johnson. Amending Section 1211, Political Code,
relating to the marking of election ballots.
A. B. 1420. Ryan. Amending- Section 1211, Political Code,
relating to the marking of election ballots.
A. B. 663. Godsil. Amending Section 1212, Political Code,
relating to the right of employees to vote at any general or
special election in this State.
Requires application for leave of absence to be made prior
to day of election, and permits employer to specify hours dur-
ing which employee may be absent; refusal of privilege or
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deduction of wages, declared a misdemeanor punishable by
fine of not less than $10 or more than $50.
S. B. 739. Gerdes. Amending Section 1212, Political Code,
relating to the right of employees to vote at any general or
special election in this State.
S. B. 930. Carr. Amending Section 1216, Political Code, re-
lating to the duties of Registrar of Voters.
S. B. 137. Luce. Amending Section 1239, Political Code, re-
lating to rules for determining questions of residence.
Adds Subdivision 10 (new), providing that person whose
name appears on great register and who changes his residence
from one precinct to another in a city, county or city and
county within 30 days prior to date of election shall not be
deemed to have lost his residence for purpose of voting in
precinct from which he removed.
S. B. 354. Jones. Amending Section 1239, Political Code,
relating to rules for determining place of residence of electors.
A. B. 1289. Harris. Amending Section 1244, Political Code,
relating to certificates of election.
A. B. 1007. Wright. T. M. Amending Section 1282, Political
Code, by adding thereto a new paragraph to be numbered 6,
relating to the disregarding of votes, etc.
S. B. 1115. Flint. Amending Section 1282, Political Code,
relating to the statement and record of votes cast at elections.
S. B. 346. Thompson. Amending Section 1431 of the Political
Code, to provide for payment of the traveling expenses of the
regents of the University of California.
A. B. 365. McPherson. Amending Section 1431, Political
Code, to provide for payment of the traveling expenses of the
regents of the University of California.
S. B. 448. Chandler. Amending Section 1489, Political Code,
relating to the powers and duties of normal school boards.
S. B. 449. Chandler. Amending Section 1494, Political Code,
relating to qualifications for admission to normal schools.
S. B. 447. "Chandler. Amending Sections 1518 and 1519,
Political Code, adding a new section thereto to be numbered
]518a, all relating to the State Board of Education, and pre-
scribing its powers and duties; and repealing Section 1492 of
the Political Code.
S. B. 885. Breed. Amending Sections 1518 and 1519 of the
Political Code, relating to the organization of the State Board
of Education and to the powers and duties of the State Board
of Education.
S. B. 767. Scott. Amending Section 1519, Political Code,
relating to certification of teachers in special subjects.
A B. 848. Scott, P. C. Identical with S. B. 767. Scott.
S. B. 1130. Anderson. Adding Section 1519a (new) to the
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Political Code, relating to the furnishing of free text books to
State institutions.
A. B. 1395. Wills. Adding Section 1519a (new) to the Politi-
cal Code, relating to the furnishing of free text-books to State
institutions.
A. B. 1319. Shartel. Amending Section 1532, Political Code,
relating to general duties of Superintendent of Public In-
struction.
S. B. 424. Anderson. Amending Section 1543, Political Code,
relating to the duties of Superintendent of Schools.
A. B. 731. Wright. Amending Section 1543, Political Code,
relating to the duties of the Superintendent of Schools.
A. B. 1318. Shartel. Amending Section 1543, Political Code,
relating to duties of County Superintendent.
A. B. 132. Manning. Adding Section 1543b (new) to the
Political Code, relating to superintendents of schools passing
and auditing claims of any school district in excess of the
funds to its credit.
S. B. 422. Anderson. Amending Section 1544, Political Code,
relating to the annual report of the Superintendent of Schools.
Provides that the Auditor instead of the Board of Super-
visors shall deduct the $100 forfeiture from salary of Superin-
tendent of Schools for failure to make annual report.
A. B. 134. Manning. Amending Section 1576a, Political
Code, relating to the appointment of clerk of school districts,
prescribing his term of office and affixing his compensation.
A. B. 1317. Shartel. Amending Section 1577, Political Code,
relating to formation of new school districts.
A. B. 212. Avey. Amending Section 1581, Political Code,
relating to the opening of school in new school districts.
A. B. 664. Bruck. Amending Section 1584, Political Code,
relating to the control and government of school districts, a
portion of which is embraced within the limits of an incor-
porated city or town governed by a charter proposed and
adopted as provided by Section 8 of Article XI of the Con-
stitution of the State of California, by providing for the elec-
tion under said charters of the trustees of such school dis-
tricts without further control and government.
A. B. 665. Bruck. Amending Section 1593, Political Code,
providing for the time and place of electing school trustees,
the number and qualification thereof, the filling of vacancies
therein, and to provide for such election under charters of
cities or towns having a charter proposed and adopted as
provided by Section 8 of Article XI of the Constitution of the
State of California.
S. B. 696. Benedict. Amending Section 1593, Political Code,
relating to the election of school trustees.
104 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
A. B. 1227. Fish. Amending Section 1593, Political Code,
relating to the election of school trustees.
A. B. 775. Ashley. Amending Section 1595, Political Code,
relating to the calling of an election of trustees.
A. B. 1002. Lyon. Amending Section 1599, Political Code,
relating to the election of school trustees, and defining the
duties of the County Clerk in relation to such election.
A. B. 657. Downing. Amending Section 1615, Political Code,
relating to formation of new districts and joint districts.
A. B. 658. Downing. Amending Section 1616, Political Code,
relating to time term of hoards of education begins.
S. B. 103. Strobridge. Amending Section 1617, Political
Code, relating to the powers and duties of city boards of edu-
cation and boards of school trustees.
S. B. 1016. Cogswell. Amending Section 1617, Political Code,
relating Lo the powers and duties of City hoards of education
and boards of school trustees.
S. B. 1199. Benedict. Amending Section 1617, Political Code,
relating to the powers and duties of boards of school trustees
and city boards of education.
A. B. 140. Manning. Adding Subdivision 6a (new) to Sec-
tion 1617, Political Code, relating to the uniting of one or
more school districts, for the purpose of employing a super-
vising principal, or local or city superintendent and to pro-
vide for his compensation.
A. B. 13$. Manning. Amending Subdivision 7 of Section
1617. Political Code, relating to the powers and duties of
trustees of common school districts and hoards of education
in city school districts, to employ a principal, a supervising
principal or city superintendent of schools, and to fix their
compensation and prescribe their term of office.
A. B. 135. Manning. Amending Subdivision 22 of Section
1617, Political Code, relating to transportation of children
by school districts.
A. B. 385. Manning. Amending Section 1617, Political Code,
relating to the powers and duties of boards of school trustees
and city boards of education.
S. B. 462. Benedict. Amending Section 1617, Political Code,
relating to the powers and duties of trustees of common school
districts and of boards of education in city school districts.
A. B. 730. Wright. Amending Section 1617, Political Code,
relating to the purchase of staple apparatus and supplies by
trustees of common school districts.
A. B. 756. Sisson. Amending Section 1617, Political Code,
defining the powers and duties of boards of school trustees and
city boards of education.
A. B. 776. Ashley. Amending Section 1617, Political Code,
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relating to the powers and duties of trustees in common school
districts, and of boards of education in city school districts.
S. B. 809. Thompson. Amending Section 1617, Political Code,
relating to kindergartens.
S. B. 427. Thompson. Adding Section 1617b (new) to the
Political Code, relating to the employment of home teachers.
A. B. 1228. Fish. Amending Section 1617c, Political Code,
relating to kindergartens.
S. B. 691. Butler. Adding Section 1618a (new) to the Politi-
cal Code, providing for the establishment of separate schools
for the instruction of the feeble-minded.
A. B. 1235. Wishard (by request). Adding Section 1618a
(new) to the Political Code, providing for the establishment
of separate schools for the instruction of the feeble-minded.
S. B. 736. Strobridge. Amending Section 1619, Political Code,
relating to rights and privileges in school districts.
S. B. 933. Carr (by request). Amending Section 1619 of the
Political Code, relating to the maintenance of public schools
with equal rights and privileges.
A. B. 1237. Wishard (by request). Amending Section 1619,
Political Code, relating to the maintenance of public schools
with equal rights and privileges.
S. B. 215. Slater. Amending Section 1620, Political Code,
relating to school supplies and libraries.
S. B. 216. Slater. Adding Section 1620a (new) to the Politi-
cal Code, relating to county library compensation.
A. B. 133. Manning. Amending Section 1622, Political Code,
relating to how the county school money may be used.
S. B. 630. Hans. Amending Section 1622a, Political Code,
relating to teachers' salaries and fixing a minimum amount to
be paid.
S, B. 849. Strobridge. Amending Section 1645, Political
Code, relating to the subjects in which instruction shall be
provided in the elementary schools of the State.
S. B. 841. Anderson. Amending Section 1649, Political
Code, relating to the election of clerks of school districts, and
providing for the salaries thereof.
A. B. 1316. Shartel. Amending Section 1663, Political Code,
relating to classification of schools and teachers.
S. B. 392. Cogswell. Amending Section 1667, Political Code,
relating to instruction in manners and morals.
Requires same tests upon nature of alcohol and other nar-
cotics and their effects upon human system for promotion and
graduation as in other subjects; and provides for instruction
in normal schools in teaching this subject and requires that
it be included in all examinations for teachers' certificates.
S. Eta -39. Beban. . Amending Section 1668; Political Cod-e,
106 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
so as to require physical culture and health and development
supervision in the public schools.
A. B. 430. Rominger. Amending Section 1672, Political Code,
relating to school studies.
S. B. 844. Anderson. Amending Section 1673, Political
Code, relating to school hours of elementary and secondary
schools of the State of California.
A. B. 214. Avey. Amending Section 1674, Political Code,
relating to union school districts.
S. B. 694. Benedict. Amending Section 1674, Political Code,
relating to the formation of union school districts.
A. B. 1239. Wishard (by request). Amending Section 1674,
Political Code, relating to the formation of union school dis-
tricts.
S. B. 822. S'tuckenbruck. Amending the Political Code by
adding thereto a new article, to be designated and numbered
Article Xa, of Chapter III, of Title III of Part III of said
Code, relating to elementary and secondary schools.
S. B. 842. Anderson. Amending Section 1685, Political
Code, relating to causes for the suspension or expulsion of
school children.
A. B. 991. Burke. Amending Section 1685, Political Code,
relating to causes for suspension or expulsion of school
children.
S. B. 352. Maddux. Amending Section 1687, Political Code,
relating to qualifications of teachers for beginners.
A. B. 510. McKnight. Amending Section 1687, Political
Code, relating to teachers in elementary schools.
S. B. 763. Brown. Amending Section 1687, Political Code,
in relation to teachers in elementary schools.
S. B. 695. Benedict. Amending Section 1696, Political Code,
relating to the duties of teachers in public schools.
A. B. 1251. McKnight (by request). Amending Section 1696,
Political Code, relating to the duties of teachers in public
schools.
A. B. 1312. Shartel. Amending Section 1704, Political Code,
relating to eligibility to teach.
S. B. 217. Slater. Repealing Sections 1712, 1713 and 1714,
Political Code, relating to school library funds, libraries and
use of such libraries.
A. B. 560. Prendergast. Amending Section 1714, Political
Code, relating to the library fund in cities, or cities and coun-
ties, not divided into school districts.
S. B. 766. Scott. Identical with A. B. 560. Prendergast.
A. B. 1233.' Fish. Amending Section 1715, Political Code,
relating to the control and location of libraries.
S. B. 1129. Brown. Identical with A. B. 1233. Fish.
A. B. 1206. Scott, L. D. (by request). Adding Section 1727a
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(new) to the Political Code, relating to the formation and
reorganization of County High School Districts.
S. B. 587. Campbell. Amending Section 1729, Political Code,
relating to the establishment of post-graduate elementary school
courses.
A. B. 1213. Avey. Amending Section 1729, Political Code,
relating to the manner in which high school districts may
unite.
S. B. 423. Anderson. Amending Section 1730, Political Code,
relating to boards of trustees in high school districts.
S. B. 764. Brown. Amending Section 1730, Political Code,
fixing the date when the term of office of members of high
school boards shall expire.
A. B. 1238. Wishard (by request). Amending Section 1730,
Political Code, fixing the date when the term of office of mem-
bers of high school boards shall expire.
S. B. 710. Cogswell. Amending Section 1731, Political Code,
relating to the election or appointment of high school boards.
A. B. 1236. Wishard (by request). Amending Section 1731,
Political Code, relating to the election or appointment of mem-
bers of high school boards.
A. B. 345. Wills. Adding Section 1739a (new) to the Polit-
ical Code, relating to the reorganization of county high school
districts.
S. B. 811. Rush. Amending Section 1741, Political Code,
relating to the powers and duties of high school boards.
A. B. 1234. Widenmann. Amending Section 1741, Political
Code, relating to the powers and duties of high school boards.
S. B. 820. Anderson. Adding Section 1743a (new) to the
Political Code, relating to reports of high school principals.
S'.B. 531. Anderson. Amending Section 1750, Political Code,
relating to adoption of course of study and textbooks by high
school boards.
S. B. 439. Benedict. Adding Sections 1750a and 1617d (new)
to the Political Code, relating to the establishment of inter-
mediate school courses by high school boards, and authorizing
boards of school trustees and boards of education in common
school districts to permit pupils of certain grades to attend
such intermediate school courses.
A. B. 1352. Brown, H. W. Amending Section 1751, Political
Code, relating to admission of pupils to the high schools of
the State of California.
A. B. 444. Arnerich. Adding Section 1752 (new) to the
Political Code, relating to conventions of high school principals.
S. B. 943. Cogswell. Amending Section 1756, Political Code,
relating to the estimate of tax for maintenance of high school.
S. B. 819. .Thompson. Adding Section 1764 (new) to the
108 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1315.
Political Code, relating to the County High School fund, and
repealing Sections 1758 and 1759 thereof.
S. B. 452. Anderson. Amending Sections 1768 and 1770,
Political Code, relating to the nomination, appointment and
organization of county boards of education.
A. B. 1036. Scott, P. C. "identical with S.B. 452. Anderson.
A. B. 1315. Shartel. Amending Section 1771, Political Code,
relating to kinds of certificates.
A. B. 936. Rominger. Amending Sections 1771, 1772 and
1775, Political Code, relating to the powers and duties of the
county board of education.
A. B. 1314. Shartel. Amending Section 1772, 'Political 'Code,
relating to grammar school certificates.
A. B. 332. Rigdon. Amending Section 1779, Political Code,
relating to the establishment of post-graduate elementary
school courses.
S". B. 934. Carr (by request). Amending: Section 1779, Polit-
ical Code, relating' to grammar -grade post graduate courses
of study. .
"** A. B. 1240. Wishard (by request). Amending Section 1779,
Political Code, relating to grammar^ grade post grade courses
of study.
A. B. 937. Rominger. Amending Section 17.91, Political/Code,
relating to the powers and duties of city, or city and GOUhty,
boards of examination.
A. B. 136. Manning. Amending Subdivision 2 . of . section
4817, Political Code, relating to the duty of the county super-
intendent of schools in estimating the minimum amount ;: per
teacher and the amount to be received for each pupil in
average daily attendance in the- county, or city and county.
. A. B. 384. Manning. Amending Section i817,."Politicar Code,
relating --to the estimates of school funds . t>y . county •super-
intendents.
A. B. 1311. .Shartel. Amending Section 1817,' Political Code,
relating to estimate of county" school fund.
. S. B. 700. "Brown. Amending" Sections 1817 and 1818, Political
: Code, relative to the levying of taxes for school purposes.
S. B. 1137. Anderson. Amending Sections 1817 and' 1818,
Political Code/relating to the" county school tax.
. A. B. 1252. McKnight (by request). Amending' Sections 1817
and 1818," Political Code, relative to the' "levying of taxes for
school purposes.
A. B. 1394. Wills. Amending Sections 1817 and 1818," Politi-
cal Code, relating to the cOurtty school tax.
S. B. 529. "Thompson. Amending"" Section 1818," Political* Code,
relating to the levy of county or city and county school tax.
■ ' S.* "B." 709. Cogswell. -Amending Section l#37r Poll tlcar Code,
relating to the "fixing of "tax "rates for School districts.
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A. B. 124S. McKnight (by request). Amending Section 1837,
Political Code, relating to the fixing of tax rates for school
- districts.
S. B. 810. Thompson (by request). Adding Section 1838
(new), to the Political Code, relating to the powers and duties
of the governing boards of school districts in levying taxes
for building purposes.
A. B. 1250. McKnight (by request). Adding Section 183S
(new) to the Political Code, relating to the powers and duties
of the governing boards of school districts in levying taxes
for building purposes.
A. B..137. Manning. Amending Section 1839, Poltical Code,
relating. to the maximum rate. of taxes to be levied for .build-
ing and other school purposes.
Fixes maximum rate for building purposes at not to. exceed
10 cents on each $100, arid for other purposes at 50 cents.
S. B. 1021. Anderson. Identical with A. B. 137. Burke.
S. B. 690. Butler. Amending Section 1839, Political Code,
relating to district tax rates.
A. B. 1242. Wishard (by request). Amending Section 1839,
Political Code, relating to district tax rates.
A. B. 68. Gelder. Repealing Section 1840, Politcal Code, re-
lating to the support of schools, estimates of moneys needed,
levy of tax and funds, and for what purpose available.
A. B. 659. Downing. Amending Section 1840, Political .Code,
relating to estimate of amount of money in excess of sum
derived from State and county funds required for maintenance
of schools.
S. B. 1156. Benedict. Adding Section 1840a (new) to the
Political Code, relating to the levy and collection of taxes to
"constitute a building and equipment fund in school districts
having" a population of more than two hundred thousand.
A. B. 1476. McKnight. Identical with S. B. 1156. Benedict.
A. B. 779. Ashley. Amending Section 1858, Political Code,
relating to apportionment of school funds by county or city
and county school superintendents.
■~S. "B. 698. Brown. Amending Section 1858, Political Code,
relative to the apportionment of school money by the county
superintendent of schools'.
S. B. "770. Scott. Amending Section 1858, Political Code,
• relating to the attendance of children in the public schools
of the State.
A. B. 845. Scott, F. C. Identical with S\ B. 770. .Scott.
A. B. 1253. MCKnight (by request). Amending Section' 1858,
Political Code, ■ relative to the apportionment Of school money
by the Count)- Superintendent of Schools.
A. "~B. 1310. Shartel. Amending Section 1S58, "Political
'Code, relating to duties of County Superintendent.
110 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
A. B. 1313. Shartel. Adding Section 1858a (new) to the
Political Code, relating to apprentice teachers.
S. B. 101. Carr. Amending Section 1885, Political Code,
relating to the form of bonds of school districts.
A. B. 1008. Wright, T M. Amending Section 1897, Political
Code, relating to county clerks and assessors, Section 1898, Po-
litical Code, relating to liability of county clerks and assessors;
Section 1900, Political Code, relating to delivery of military roll
to Adjutant General; Section 1901, Political Code, relating to
compensation for computing military roll.
S. B. 1113. Flint. Identical with A. B. 1008. Wright.
S. B. 772. Scott. Amending Sections 1925, 1927, 1928, 1928a,
1928b, 1928d, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1934, 1951, 1954, 1957, 1963, 1985,
2006, 2081, 1982, 2079, 2086, 2107, 1962, 1967, 1981, 1984, 20.80,
2111, 2112, of the Political Code of the State of California, and
adding one new section to said code, to be known as Section
1963a, all relating to the organization, equipment, maintenance
and government of the National Guard of the State of Cali-
fornia.
A. B. 832. Edwards. Identical with S. B. 772. Scott.
S. B. 503. Lyon. Amending Section 1963, Political Code,
relating to the National Guard.
S. B. 305. Beban. Amending Section 2141, Political Code,
relating to the Powers of the Lunacy Commission.
A. B. 830. Edwards. Amending Section 2141, Political Code,
relating to the power of the State Commission in Lunacy.
S. B. 1041. Rush. Amending Section 2141, Political Code,
relating to the power of the State Commission in Lunacy,
and the salaries and wages of officers and employees of State
hospitals.
A. B. 671. Kramer. Amending Sections 2152, 2154 and
2156, Political Code, and to add a new section thereto, desig-
nated Section 2153b, all relating to the government and man-
agement of State hospitals for the insane, feebleminded and
other incompetent persons, and to the care, training and edu-
cation of insane, feebleminded and other incompetent persons.
S. B. 1081. Tyrrell. Amending Sections 2152, 2153, 2154 and
2156, Political Code, and adding a new section thereto, to be
numbered Section 2153b, all relating to the government and
management of State Hospitals for the Insane, Feeble-minded,
and other incompetent persons, and to the care, training and
education of insane, feeble-minded, and other incompetent
persons.
A. B. 882. Salisbury. Amending Section 2153, Political Code,
relating to superintendents of State hospitals.
A. B. 177. Widenmann. Amending Sections 2153a and 2161,
Political Code, relating to the government and management
of State hospitals for the insane and other incompetent persons.
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915. Ill
A. B. 1£62. Satterwhite. Amending Section 2185c, Political
Code, relating to the commitment of inebriates, drug habitues
and sex perverts to State hospitals.
A. B. 176. Widenmann. Amending Section 2187, Political
Code, relating to the government and management of State
hospitals for the insane and other incompetent persons.
S. B. 1020. Tyrrell. Amending Section 2187, Political Code,
relating to transfers in State hospitals, and adding a new
section thereto, to be known and designated as Section 2181b,
relating to the disposition of moneys belonging to insane
persons.
S. B. 340. Tyrrell. Amending Section 2175, Political Code,
relating to the expenses incurred in determining the insanity
of a person and securing his admission into a State hospital.
Adds a provision that where it appears to the satisfaction
of the judge that the person under examination is only tempo-
rarily a resident of the county or city and county from whence
he is committed, and that his actual residence is elsewhere,
the court may order the expense charged upon the county of
which such person is an actual and bona fide resident.
S. B. 314. Tyrrell. Amending Section 2189, Political Code,
relating to the discharge of patients from State hospitals.
S. B. 315. Tyrrell. Amending Section 2192, Political Code,
relating to the commitment of incompetents other than insane
persons.
A. B. 335. Young. Amending the Political Code by chang-
ing the headings of the title to Chapter II of Title V of Part
III of said Political Code; also by changing the headings of
the title to Article I of Chapter II of Title V of Part III of
said Political Code; and to repeal Section 2236 of said Political
Code; and to amend Sections 2238, 2239 and 2240 of said Politi-
cal Code; and to repeal Sections 2241 and 2242 of said Political
Code; and to amend Section 2243 of said Political Code; and
to amend said Political Code by changing the headings of the
title to Article II of Chapter II of Title V of Part III of said
Political Code; and to amend Sections 2254 and 2255 of said
Political Code; and to repeal Section 2256 of said Political
Code; and amend said Political Code by changing the headings
of Article III of Chapter II of Title V of Part III of said
Political Code; and to amend Sections 2267 and 2268 of said
Political Code; and to repeal Section 2269 of said Political
Code; and to amend said Political Code by changing the head-
ings of Article IV of Chapter II of Title V of Part III of said
Political Code; and to amend Section 2280 of said Political
Code; and to repeal Section 2281 of said Political Code; all
relating to the California School for the Deaf and Blind.
S. B. 497. Breed. To amend the Political Code by chang-
ing the headings of the title to Chapter II of Title V of Part
112 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
Ill of said Political Code; also by changing the headings of
the title to Article I of Chapter II of Title V of Part III of
said Political Code; and to repeal Section 2236 of
said Political Code; and to Amend Sections 2238, 2239 and 2240
of said Political Code; and to repeal Sections 2241 and 2242
of said Political Code; and to amend Section 2243 of said
Political Code; and to amend said Political Code by
changing the headings, of the title to Article II of
Chapter II of Title V of Part III of said Political Code;
and to amend Sections 2254 and 2255 of said Political Code;
and to repeal Section 2256 of said Political Code; and to
amend said Political Code by changing the headings of Article
III of Chapter II of Title V of Part III of said Political Code;
and to amend Sections 2267 and 2268 of said Political Code;
and to repeal Section 2269 of said Political Code; and to
amend said Political Code by changing the headings of Article
IV of Chapter II of Title V of Part III of said Political Code;
and to amend Section 2280 of said Political Code; and to
repeal Section 2281 of said Political Code; all relating to the
California School for the Deaf and the Blind.
A. B. 788. McDonald, W. A. Amending Section 2289,
Political Code, relating to the support and maintenance of
orphans, half orphans and abandoned children.
A. B. 881. Salisbury. Amending Section 2289, Political Code,
relating to institutions caring for minor orphans, half orphans
and abandoned children, and providing for placing departments
therein.
S. B. 1080. Tyrrell. Amending Section 2289, Political Code,
relating to the support and maintenance of orphans, half or-
phans and abandoned children.
S. B. 794. Benedict. Amending Section 2302, Political Code,
relating to the salary of the State Librarian, increasing it to
$5000 per year.
A. B. 897. Gebhart. Identical with S. B. 794. Benedict.
S. B. 816. Cogswell. Amending Section 2319, Political Code,
relating to the State Commissioner of Horticulture, and pre-
.scribing the powers, duties and compensation of said State
Commissioner of Horticulture and the officers and employees
appointed by said Commissioner, and providing for the appoint-
ment of additional officers, fixing their compensation and pre-
scribing their duties.
A. B. 1211. Avey. Amending Section 2319c, Political Code,
relating to the establishment of quarantine against infectious
plant diseases.
A. B. 1042. Widenmann. Amending Sections 2322,- 2322b,
2322c, 2322d and 2322e, Political Code, said sections relating to
orchards, trees, vines or plants of any variety infested with
diseases or scale insects of any kind injurious to fruit, fruit
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915. 113
trees, vines or other plants or vegetables, or noxious weeds
and to the eradication of insect pests and diseases, and to
the appointment and removal of a County Horticultural Com-
missioner in the several counties of the State, prescribing his
duties and powers and fixing his compensation and term of
office, also providing for a State Board of Horticultural Ex-
aminers, prescribing the duties of said board and providing
for examinations to be taken by persons desiring to qualify
for position as County Horticultural Commissioners; providing
for the dividing of the several counties of the State into dis-
tricts by the respective County Horticultural Commissioners
and providing for the appointment of deputy commissioners,
local inspectors and quarantine guardians, prescribing their
duties and powers and fixing their compensation.
S. B. 584. Flint. Amending Section 2466, Political Code, and
adding Section 2466a (new), relating to rates of pilotage at San
Francisco.
A. B. 938. Pettis (by request). Revising and amending
Sections 2520, 2521, 2522, 2523, 2524. 2526, 2527, 2529, 2530, 2531,
2532, 2533, 2535, 2536, 2539, 2540, 2542, 2545, 2547, 2552, Political
Code, repealing Section 2537, Political Code, and adding four
new sections to said code to be known as Sections 2534, 2554,
2555 and 2556 thereof respectively, all relating to the creation
of a board of State harbor commissioners for the harbor of
San Francisco, etc.
S. B. 68. Scott. Amending Section 2522, Political Code,
relating to employees and their duties of the State Harbor
Commission of San Francisco Harbor.
A. B. 679. Pettis. Adding Section 2522a (new) to the
Political Code, relating to the manner in which the Secretary
of the Board of Harbor Commissioners shall keep the accounts,
and authorizing the employment of a certified public account-
ant to certify to statements of accounts and authorizing the
compensation to be paid such certified public accountant.
S. B. 11. Hans. Amending Section 2552, Political Code,
relating to the salaries and compensation of the officers of
the Board of State Harbor Commissioners of San Francisco,
and the employees of the State of California employed by.
and under said Board of State Harbor Commissioners of San
FranGisco.
S. B. 67. Scott. Amending Section 2552, Political Code,'
increasing the salaries of officers and employees of the State
Harbor Commissioners of San Francisco Harbor.
S. B. 94. Beban. Amending Section 2552, Political Cade,
relating to the salaries of the Board of State Harbor Commis-
sioners and assistants, said amendment relating to the salary
of the president of the board and his duties, and the fund out
114 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
of which the said salaries and the compensation of the em-
ployees of the board shall be payable.
A. B. 406. Ryan. Amending Section 2552, Political Code, re-
lating to the salaries of the Board of State Harbor Commis-
sioners and assistants, said amendment relating to the salary of
the president of the board and his duties, and the fund out of
which said salaries and the compensation of employees of the
board shall be payable.
S. B. 521. Luce. Amending Sections 2605 and 2607, Political
Code, relating to State Board of Harbor Commissioners for the
bay of San Diego.
S. B. 540. Cogswell. Amending Section 2643, Political Code,
relating to the powers of boards of supervisors relating to
roads.
A. B. 774. Gebhart. Amending Section 2643, Political Code,
relating to the powers of boards of supervisors respecting roads.
S. B. 591. Shearer. Amending Section 2643, Political Code,
relating to the powers of boards of supervisors, relating to
roads, and repealing Section 2641, Political Code.
A. B. 796. Godsil. Amending Section 2643, Political Code,
relating to the powers and duties of highway officers, boards
of supervisors, county surveyors and the State Department of
Engineering, respecting roads and highways.
A. B. 1335. Long. Amending Section 2643, Political Code,
relating to the powers of boards of supervisors, relating to
roads, and repealing Section 2641, Political Code.
A. B. 869. Sharkey. Amending Sections 2651, 2654 and 2655,
Political Code, relating to highway taxes.
A. B. 1018. Hawson. Amending Section 2684, Political Code,
relating to the viewing of road changes.
A. B. 531. Pettis. Amending Section 2691, Political Code,
relating to roads and highways.
S. B. 498. Breed. Adding Sections 2697 and 2698 (new) to
the Political Code, relating to the abandonment of highways.
A. B. 1414. Long. Adding Sections 2750a and 2750b (new)
to the Political Code, relating to the creation of road com-
missioners in permanent road divisions; and repealing Sections
2751, 2752, 2768 and 2769, Political Code, relating to permanent
road divisions.
S. B. 558. Brown. Amending Section 2978, Political Code,
relating to the constitution of the State Board of Health and
the terms of the members of said board.
S. B. 95. Beban. Amending Section 2982, Political Code,
relating to the secretary and assistant to the secretary of the
State Board of Health.
A. B. 440. Conrad. Amending Section 2982, Political Code,
relating to the Secretary and Assistant Secretary of the State
Board of Health.
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S. B. 585. Flint. Amending Section 3075, Political Code,
relating to the office of State Registrar of the Bureau of Vital
Statistics and the State Board of Health, and providing for
deputies, clerks and assistants and their compensation.
A. B. 757. Shartel. Amending Section 3075, Political Code,
relating to the office of the State Registrar of the Bureau of
Vital Statistics and the State Board of Health, and providing
for deputies, clerks and assistants and their compensation.
A. B. 1353. Brown, H. W. Amending Section 3084, Political
Code, relating to the issuance of burial permits.
A. B. 405. Prendergast. Amending Sections 3209, 3215, 3216
and 3222, Political Code, all relating to weights and measures
and the standards thereof.
A. B. 99. Schmitt. Amending Section 3247a, Political Code,
relating to the purchase of supplies for the State by boards,
committees and other persons.
Provides that "every board, committee, official, officer and
every other person" authorized to purchase supplies for the
State of California or any of its institutions or offices, "shall
always purchase only such" supplies, etc., as have been grown,
manufactured, prepared or produced in California. In adver-
tising for bids for any special mark or brand of article the
advertisement shall contain, following the name of the article,
the words, "or a similar article of equal value, utility and
merit".
A. B. 48. Brown. Amending Section 3306, Political Code,
relating to cemeteries, and providing that six or more human
bodies buried at one place constitutes the place a public ceme-
tery or graveyard for the use of a city, town or village.
S. B. 1098. Scott. Amending Section 3366, Political Code,
relative to the powers of boards of supervisors, city councils
and town trustees, in their respective counties, cities, and
towns, to impose a license tax.
A. B. 1017. Hawson. Amending Sections 3456, 3457, 3462,
3465 and 3466, Political Code, relating to reclamation and
swampland districts.
S. B. 12. Irwin. Amending Sections 3457 and 3466, Political
Code, relating to reclamation and swampland districts.
A. B. 1154. Gebhart. Amending Section 3457, Political Code,
relative to the payment of warrants drawn on reclamation
districts and prescribing the method of payment thereof.
A. B. 129. Tabler. Amend Section 3460, Political Code,
relating to assessments and reassessments in reclamation dis-,
tricts.
S. B. 953. Irwin. Amending Section 3462, Political Code,
relating to assessments of reclamation districts.
A. B. 1014. Hawson. Adding Section 3462^ (new) to the
Political Code, relating to reclamation and swampland districts.
116 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
A. B. 1015. Hawson. Adding Section 3463^ to the Political
Code, relating to reclamation and swampland districts.
A. B. 1153. Gebhart. Amending Section 3465, Political Code,
relative to the payment of assessment warrants drawn in
reclamation districts.
A. R lolG. Hawson. Adding Section 3466% (new) to the
Political Code, relating to reclamation and swampland dis-
tricts.
S. B. 786. Purkitt. Amending Section 3466^, Political Code,
relating to invalid assessments in reclamation districts, and
providing for the reassessments of said lands.
A. B. 908. Sisson. Identical with S. B. 786. Purkitt.
S. B. 31. Irwin. Adding Section 3476ya (new) . to . the.rPolitieal
Code, relating to reclamation and swampland districts. Pro-
vides that when any tract of land in a . district shall have
been subdivided by sale or otherwise after an assessment
shall have been made thereon, the trustees must apportion
the total amount assessed against the tract so subdivided
in a just and equitable manner. If any owner within 30 days
files . objection then commissioners who levied assessment or
some other person shall be appointed to determine and settle
the apportionment.
S. B. 151. Irwin. Amending Section 3491, Political Code,
relating to reclamation and swamp land districts.
A. B. 484. Johnson. Amending Section 3494, Political Code,
relating to the sale of school lands and appropriating $10,000
for the examination and classification of -said lands.
S. B. 876. Luce. Identical with A. B. 484. Johnson.
A.m 483. Johnson. Amending Section 3498, "Political Code,
relating to applications for the purchase of school lands.
S. "B. -875. "Luce. Amending -Section - 3498, ^-Political Code,
relating to applications for the purchase of -school 4ahds.
S. B. 1012. Thompson. Amending Section 3555, Political
Code, relating to the judgment and costs of foreclosing the
interests of purchasers of State lands.
S. B. 808. Thompson. Amending Sections 3607, 3608, 3617,
3627, 3628, 3629, 3641, 3643, 3650, 3663, 3678, 3679, 3701, 3728,
3734 and 3753, Political Code, and repealing Sections 3609, 3610,
3719, 3757 and 3769a thereof, and adding thereto Section 3714a
(new), all relating to revenue and taxation.
A. B. 904. Meek. Identical with S. B. 808. Thompson.
A. B. 91. Lostutter. Adding Section 3612 (new) to the
Political Code, relating to the exemption of certain property
from taxation.
Provides that all buildings and real property on "which sit-
uated, used solely and exclusively for military purposes by
National Guard, shall be exempt. Section to apply only to
property owned by corporations formed under 'Title "■'XXII,
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Part TV, Division I, Civil Code, membership of which is com-
posed entirely of members of organizations using property for
military purposes. Provides, also, manner in which return
shall be made on property so claimed to be exempt.
S. B. 126. Thompson. An Act to carry into effect the pro-
visions of Section l1^ of Article XIII of the Constitution of
California, exempting property from taxation in certain in-
stances, and to that end adding Section 3612 (new) to the
Political Code by providing the manner in which exemption
may be secured,. the duty, of the Assessor with regard .thereto,
and the wars recognized as within the intent and ..meaning
of the section of the Constitution.
A. B. 303. Meek. Identical with -S. B. . 126. Thompson.
A. -B. 5S6. Bartlett. Amending -Section 3617, PoHticalCode,
. defining terms.
Adds to the definition "real estate", "including -estates for
years in real property, the fee of which is vested in any
municipal corporation, State of California, or any subdivision
thereof".
A. B. 588. Spengler. Adding Section 3629 V2 (new) to the
Political Code, relating to taxation.
Requires the cash value of real estate and improvements
to be stated separately; failure, refusal or neglect to - state
values authorizes Assessor to attach such valuation to state-
ment; valuation so stated shall be option price at-whieh State
. or . county may . purchase such property, option to continue
until next assessment. Either State or county may exercise
such option, but if. both elect to exercise option on same day,
; State shall have precedence.
. S.:B. 637. Thompson. Amending.. Section .3650,? Political. Code,
relating to the assessment of property for. taxation.
A. B. 1200. Kramer. Adding Section 36.51a (new) to the
Political 'Code, relating to the publishing and mailing of the
assessment rolls.
S. B. 994. King. Adding Section 3652a (new) to the-Politicai
Code, relating to the duties of assessors in counties below the
• third class. ""Provides for the mailing, on or before the third
Monday of June, to each person to whom real estate is- as-
sessed, a statement of the gross amount of such assessment.
S. B. 806. Thompson. "Repealing Sections 3664, 3665, 3666,
3667, 3668, 3669, 3670 and 3371, Penal ~Code, relating to revenue
and taxation.
A. B. 902. Meek. Repealing Sections 3664, 3665, 3667, 3668,
3667," 36B8, 3669, 3P670 -and 3B7lrPolitical "Code,- relating- to reve-
nue and i^txation.
B. 889. ~ Meek. Repealing Sections 3664, 3665, 3666, 3667,
3669, 3670 and 3671, Political Code, as they now exist,
and- to re*enact- said sections,- -and adding twenty-nine new
A.
3668
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sections to said code, to be numbered Sections 3664a, 3664b,
3664c, 3664d, 3665a, 3665b, 3665c, 3666a, 3666b, 3666c, 3667a, 3667b,
3667c, 3668a, 3668b, 3668c, 3669a, 3669b, 3669c, 3669d, 3669e, 3670a,
3670b, 3670c, 3671a, 3671b, 3671c, 3671d, 3671e, all relating to
taxation of public service and other corporations, banks and
insurance companies for the benefit of the State.
S. B. 1164. Thompson. Identical with A. B. 889. Meek.
A. B. 843. Judson. Amending Sections 3672 and 3682, Po-
litical Code, relating to the equalization of taxes.
S. B. 799. Gerdes. Adding Section 3673a (new) to the
Political Code, relating to powers of county boards of equali-
zation.
A. B. 894. Byrnes. Identical with S. B. 799. Gerdes.
Requires Board of Supervisors, sitting as Board of Equaliza-
tion, before increasing rate upon any class of property, to
publish notice of intention to do so for five days in a daily
newspaper or one time in a weekly newspaper published in
the county, fixing therein a time not less than ten days from
the first day of publication when any person interested may
appear and be heard.
S. B. 638. Thompson. Amending Sections 3692, 3696, 3714,
3732, 3737, 3746, 3756, Political Code, relating to the assess-
ment, equalization and collection of taxes.
A. B. 1338. Sisson. Identical with S. B. 638. Thompson.
A. B. 150. Rigdon. Amending Section 3732, Political Code,
relating to the delivery of duplioate assessment books to the
tax collector by the county auditor.
' S. B. 692. Wolfe. Adding Section 3749a (new) to the Political
Code, relating to notice to non-resident owners of real property
by tax collectors as to amount of taxes or assessment due and
time and place for payment.
A. B. 581. McPherson. Amending Section 3766, Political
Code, relating to the manner of publication of the delinquent
tax list-
's. B. 633. Benson. Amending Section 3766, Political Code,
relating to the manner of publication of the delinquent tax list.
S. B. 321.. Thompson. Amending Section 3773, Political Code,
relating to revenue and taxation.
A. B. 697. Schmitt. Amending Section 3804, Political Code,
relating to taxes erroneously collected.
S. B. 674. Gerdes. Amending Section 3804, Political Code,
relative to taxes erroneously collected.
A. B, 906, Schmitt. Adding Section 3804a (new) to the
Political Code, relating to the approval or rejection of claims
for refund of taxes, penalties and costs by boards of super-
visors.
S. B. 815. Cogswell; Adding Section 3804b (new) to the
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Political Code, relating to the cancellation of erroneous assess-
ments.
A. B. 1046. Meek. Identical with S. B. 815. Cogswell.
S. B. 252. Stuckenbruck. Amending Section 3819, Political
Code, relating to payment of taxes under protest.
Eliminates the provision added in 1913, requiring such ac-
tions to be brought by the owner or his guardian, or in case
of death by his executor or administrator, and prohibiting re-
covery if action brought by an assignee.
A. B. 695. Schmitt. Amending Section 3819, Political Code,
relating to payment of taxes under protest.
S. B. 673. Gerdes. Amending Section 3819, Political Code,
relating to payment of taxes under protest.
S. B. 127. Thompson. Amending Section 3823, Political Code,
relating to the collection of taxes by the assessor.
Provides that for the assessment year 1915 no collection of
taxes shall be made by the assessor in aid of the Panama -
Pacific International Exposition.
A. B. 304. Meek. Identical with S. B. 127. Thompson.
A. B. 635. Chamberlin. Amending Section 3823, Political
Code, relating to the duties of assessors.
A. B. 767. Sisson. Amending Sections 3824, 3825 and 3828,
Political Code, all relating to the collection of taxes on per-
sonal property, when such taxes are not a lien upon real prop-
erty sufficient to secure the payment thereof.
A. B. 738. Meek. Amending Section 3866, Political Code,
relating to settlements of county treasurers with the State.
S. B. 707. Benedict. Amending Section 3866, Political Code,
relating to settlements of county treasurers with the State.
A. B. 546. Sisson. Amending Section 3876, Political Code,
relating to allowance of mileage to county treasurers in set-
tlements with the State, and appropriating $7500 therefor.
S. B. 528. Thompson. Amending Section 3897, Political
Code, relating to the sale of property for delinquent taxes.
A. B. 1339. Sisson. Identical with S. B. 528. Thompson.
A. B. 669. Kramer. Amending Section 4014, Political Code,
relating to township officers.
Provides for four justices of the peace and four constables
in townships of more than 100,000 and less than 300,000.
S. B. 595. Irwin. Amending Section 4014, Political Code,
relating to township officers.
A. B. 1427. Brown, H. W. Amending Section 4014, Political
Code, relating to township officers.
A. B. 617. Scott, C. E. Amending Section 4023, Political
Code, relating to the qualification of county officers.
S. B. 931. Carr. Identical with A. B. 617. Scott.
A. B. 355. Sharkey. Amending Section 4028, Political Code,
relating to qualifications and election of supervisors.
120 PENDING LEGISLATION,. 1915.
Provides for election of supervisors at large and not by
districts.
S. B. 920. Brown. Amending Section 4028, Political Code,
rpJating to qualifications and election of supervisors.
A. B. 533. Sharkey. Amending Section 4029, Political Code,
relating to changes in supervisorial districts.
S. B. 332. Birdsall. Amending Section 4041, Political Code,
relating to the general powers of boards of supervisors.
Provides (Sec. 5a new) for the employment by three-fifths
vote of a road engineer.
S. B. 537. Cogswell. Amending Section 4041, Political Code,
relating to the general powers of boards of supervisors.
S. B. 845. . Breed. Amending Section 4041, Political Code,
relating to the general powers of boards of supervisors.
A. B. 926. Encell. Amending Section 4041, Political Code,
relating to the general powers of boards of supervisors.
A. B. 1006. Wright, T. M. Amending Paragraphs 2 and 3 of
Section 4041, Political Code, relating to the powers and duties
of county boards of supervisors.
A3 B. 1105. Wills. Amending Section 4041, Political Code,
relating to the general powers of Boards of Supervisors.
A. B. 139S. Shartel. Amending Section 4041, Political Code,
relating to the general powers of boards of supervisors.
S B. 1114. Flint. Amending Section 4041, Political Code, re-
lating to the powers and duties of county boards of supervisors.
A. B. 357. Harris. Adding Section 4041b (new) to the Polit-
ical Code, relating to the manner of doing construction work
in counties, exceeding in cost the sum of $500.
Provides that no contract where the cost exceeds $500 shall
be let, if with 10 days after first publication or first day of
posting of notice for bids, an initiative petition be filed with the
county clerk with the requisite number of signatures, asking
that the work be done by day labor. If the petition conform
to Section 4058, Political Code, a special election shall be
called at which the matter shall be voted on and if a majority
of electors favor doing the work by day labor, it shall be so
done; if a majority be opposed, then a contract shall be let for
the work. Any contract let before determination of such
question by electors shall be void.
S, B. 1102, King. Amending Section 4048, Political Code,
regarding the purchase of supplies and advertising by coun-
ties, defining the duties and powers of officers relating thereto,
and establishing a legal square and a legal rate.
A. B. 1264. McPherson. Identical with S. B. 1102. King.
A. B. 1263. McPherson. Ameifcding Section 4049, Political
Code, regarding the publication of proceedings of boards of
supervisors.
Provides for. publication, within three- days after each ses-
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sion, in at least two newspapers in the county, of a statement
of all proceedings of the board with list of all claims allowed.
S. B. 542. Cogswell. Amending Sections 4075 and 4076, Polit-
ical Code, relating to payment and form of claims against the
county.
A. B. 348. Ream. Amending Section 4085%, Political Code,
relating to authorizing the board of supervisors of the several
counties of this State to declare innavigable streams highways
for the purpose of fishing, and providing for the use of the
same.
A. B. 335. Satterwhite. Adding Sec^-on 4091 to the Political
Code, relative to the payment of salaries of all regular em-
ployees of counties, cities and counties, cities and towns, and
providing a sinking fund therefor.
A. B. 1026. Tabler. Amending Section 4099a, Political Code,
by fixing a definite amount as compensation for services
rendered.
S. B. 143. Tyrrell. Amending Section 4112, Political Code,
relating to county treasurers' reports.
A. B. 146. Encell. Amending Section 4131, Political Code,
relating to the duties of county recorders.
S. B. 1004. Jones. Amending Section 4131, Political Code,
relating to the recording of certain instruments.
A. B. 1454. McKnight. Amending Section 4131, Political
Code, relating to the duties of county recorders.
S. B. 1028. Benedict. Amending Section 4131, Political Code,
relating to the duties of County Recorder.
S. B. 320. Thompson. Amending Section 4132, Political Code,
prescribing what indexes shall be kept by county recorders.
A. B. 366. Mouser. Amending Section 4132, Political Code,
prescribing what indexes shall be kept by county recorders.
Strikes out of Subdivision 24 the words "approved March
17, 1897."
A. B. 1333. Chenoweth (by request). Amending Section 4142,
Political Code, relating to the time when contracts, plans and
specifications may be returned or destroyed by Recorders.
A. B. 145. Encell. Amending Section 4145, Political Code,
relating to the duties of coroners.
S. B. 863. Crowley. Amending Section 4146. Political OM«,
relating to the duties of the Coronor.
A. B. 978. Prendergast. Amending Section 414(5, Political
Code, relating to the duties of coroner.
A. B. 1177. Beck (by request). Amending Section 4153 of
the Political Code, relating to the duties of District Attorneys.
Omits all but the first two subdivisions, and strikes out
from subdivision 2 provision that District Attorney shall at-
tend upon and advise the grand jury.
S. B. 231. Anderson. Adding Section 4153a (new) to the
122 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
Political Code, providing for the powers and duties of district
attorneys in actions for divorce or annulment of marriage,
and to authorize the appointment of additional deputies by
district attorneys in counties of the first, second, third, fourth,
fifth, sixth, seventh, eight, ninth and tenth classes, and pro-
viding for their compensation.
A. B. 1127. Harris (by request). Adding Section 4154a
(new) to the Political Code, relating to the duties of District
Attorneys.
S. B. 204. Kehoe. Repealing Section 4156b, Political Code,
prohibiting the defense by district attorneys of persons charged
with crime, and adding Section 4156c (new) thereto, prohibiting
the defense by district attorneys of persons charged with crime.
Prohibits district attorneys, during their incumbency, from
defending, assisting in the defense of, or acting as counsel
for any person charged with crime; penalty, forfeiture of office.
S. B. 446. King. Adding Section 4190a (new) to the Political
Code, relating to the law library fund and repealing Section
4221a.
Authorizing boards of supervisors to set apart each month
from fees collected by county clerks in addition to funds now
provided for by law a sum not exceeding $100 in any one
month to be paid by County Clerk into "Law Library Fund",
designated in Section 4190.
S. B. 752. Maddux. Amending Section 4218, Political Code,
relating to the duties of county surveyors and the furnishing
of assessors' maps and block books.
A. B. 393. Johnson. Amending Section 4221a, Political Code,
relating to the amount of money that the boards of super-
visors of the several counties may set apart and pay into the
"Law Library Fund."
Increases amount to $100.
S. B. 118. Tyrrell. Amending Section 4232, Political Code,
relating to the salaries, fees, and expenses of officers in
counties of the third class. (Alameda County.)
A. B. 508. Satterwhite. Adding Section 4232a to the Political
Code, providing for the compensation of grand jurors and
trial jurors in the Superior Court in counties of the third class.
Fixes fees at $3 per day and necessary railway fare.
S. B. 720. Jones. Amending Section 4233, Political Code,
relating to officers and salaries in counties of the fourth class
(Santa Clara County).
A. B. 755. Wright, T. M. Identical with S. B. 720. Jones
A. B. 1256. Hawson. Amending Section 4234, Political Code,
relating to salaries and fees of officers in counties of the fifth
class (Fresno County).
A. B. 263. Gebhart. Amending Section 4235, Political Code,
relating to the compensation and fees of officers of counties
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of the sixth class and their assistants, deputies and clerks
(Sacramento county).
S. B. 260. Luce. Amending Section 4236, Political Code,
relating to the salaries, fees and expenses of officers in coun-
ties of the seventh class (San Diego county).
S. B. 839. Stuckenbruck. Amending Section 4238, Political
Code, relating to the compensation of county and township
officers of counties of the ninth class, and to number, appoint-
ment and salaries of their assistants and deputies (San Joa-
quin County).
A. B. 1107. Salisbury. Amending Section 4239, Political
Code, relating to the compensation of county and township
officers of counties of the tenth class, and to the number,
appointment and salaries of their assistants and deputies.
A. B. 623. Harris. Amending Section 4240, Political Code,
relating to the compensation of county and township officers
of counties of the eleventh class (Kern County).
A. B. 844. Scott, F. C. Amending Section 4241, Political
Code, relating to the salaries and compensations of officers of
counties of the twelfth class (Tulare County).
A B. 555. Avey. Amending Section 4242, Political Code,
relating to salaries and fees of officers of counties of the
thirteenth class (Riverside County).
S. B. 730. Anderson. Amending Section 4243, Political Code,
relating to the compensation of officers of counties of the four-
teenth class (Orange County).
A. B. 994. Burke. Identical with S. B. 730. Anderson.
S. B. 152. Kehoe. Amending Section 4244, Political Code,
relating to salaries and fees of officers in counties of the
fifteenth class (Humboldt county).
A. B. 698. Quinn. Identical with S. B. 152. Kehoe.
S. B. 19. Owens. Amending Section 4245, Political Code,
relating to the salaries, fees, and expenses of officers in
counties of the sixteenth class.
A. B. 673. Sharkey. Indentical with S. B. 19. Owens.
A. B. 728. Kramer. Amending Section 4246, Political Code,
relating to salaries and fees of officers in counties of the
seventeenth class (Santa Barbara County).
S. B. 762. Mott. Identical with S. B. 728. Kramer.
A. B. 872. Widenmann. Amending Section 4247, Political
Code, relative to salaries and fees of officers in counties of
the eighteenth class (Solano County).
S. B. 666. Duncan. Amending Section 4248, Political Code,
relating to the salaries, fees and expenses of officers in counties
of the nineteenth class (Butte County).
A. B. 931. Brown, H. W. Amending Section 4249, Political
Code, relating to county officers and their salaries and depu-
ties; to township officers and their compensation; and to the
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compensation of jurors . and grand jurors in counties of the
twentieth class (San Mateo County).
82 B. 912. Flint. Identical With A., B. 931. Brown.
A. B. 500. McPherson. Amending Section 4250, Political
Code, relating to the salaries and fees of the officers of the
counties of the twenty-first class (Santa Cruz County).
A. B. 13. Manning. Amending Section 4251 of the Political
Code of the State of California, relating to the salaries, fees
and expenses of officers in counties of the twenty-second class
(Marin County).
S. B. 177. Owens. Amending Section 4251, Political Code,
relating to the salaries, fees, and expenses of officers in
counties of the twenty-second class (Marin county).
A. B. 1091. Manning. Amending Section 4251, Political
Code, relating to the salaries and fees of officers of the
counties of the twenty-second class (Marin County).
A. B. 1411. Boyce. Amending Section 4252, Political Code,
relating to salaries and compensation of the county and town-
ship officers of counties of the twenty-third class (Monterey
County).
S. B. 787. Purkitt. Amending Section 4253, Political Code,
State of California, relating to the compensation of officers in
counties of the twenty-fourth class (Mendocino County).
A. B. 876. Pettis. Identical with S. B. 787. Purkitt.
S. B. 211. Maddux. Amending Section 4254, Political Code,
relating to compensation of officers in counties of the twenty-
fifth class (Stanislaus county).
A. B. 840. Rigdon. Amending Section 4256, Political Code,
relating to compensation of officers and jurors of counties of
the twenty-seventh class, their clerks, deputies, stenograph-
ers and assistants (San Luis Obispo County).
A. B. 624. McCray. Amending Section 4257, Political Code,
relating to the compensation of county and township officers
of counties of the twenty-eighth class, and to number, ap-
pointment and salaries of their assistants and deputies,
(Shasta. County), by title only,
A. B. 273. Ream. Amending Section 4258. Political Code,
relating to the salaries and fees of officers of counties of the
twenty-ninth class (Siskiyou County).
S. B. 524. Shearer. Amending Section 4258, Political Code,
relating to salaries and fees of officers of counties of the
twenty-ninth class (Siskiyou County).
S. B. 684. Mott. Amending Section 4259, Political Code,
relating to the salaries and fees of officers in counties of the .
thirtieth class (Ventura County).
A. B. 737. Edwards. Identical with S. B. 684, Mott.
S. B. a35. Birdsall. Amending Section 4260, Political Code;
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relating to the compensation of officers of counties of the
thirty-first class. (Placer County.)
S. B. 594. Irwin. Amending Section 4261, Political Code,
relating to compensation of officers in counties of the thirty-
second class (Kings County).
A. B. 1334. Long. Amending Section 4261, Political Code,
relating to the salaries and fees of officers in counties of the
thirty- second class (Kings County).
A. B. 141. Rutherford. Amending Sections 4263 and 4263a,
Political Code, relating to the salaries of officers and fees of
jurors in. counties of the thirty-fourth class.
S. B. 454. Birdsall. Amending Sections 4263 and 4263a,
Political Code, relating to the salaries of officers and fees of
jurors in counties of the thirty-fourth class (Nevada County).
S. B. 970. Birdsall. Adding Section 4263a (new) to the
Political Code, relating to and fixing the compensation of
grand and trial jurors in the Superior Courts in counties
of. the thirty-fourth class (Nevada County) at $3 per day and
mileage at 35 cents a mile, except that no one mileage shall
exceed $11.00, and providing for the payment thereof.
A. B. 616. Tabler. Amending Section 4264, Political Code,
relating to the salaries and fees of officers in counties of the
thirty-fifth class. (Yolo County.)
A. B. 873. Tabler. Amending Section 4264, Political Code,
relating to the salaries and fees of officers in counties of the
thirty-fifth class (Yolo County).
A. B. 1029. Tabler. Amending Section 4264, Political Code,
relating to the salaries and fees of officers in counties of the
thirty- fifth class (Yolo County).
A. B, 216. Wills. Amending Section 4265, Political Code,
relating to the compensation of officers of counties of the
thirty-sixth class (Imperial County).
A. B. 625. Sisson. Amending Section 4266, Political Code,
relating to salaries and fees of officers and fees and mileage
of jurors in counties of the thirty-seventh class (Tehama
County).
A. B. 912. Tabler. Amending Section 4267, Political Code,
relating to the salaries, fees and expenses of officers in coun-
ties of the thirty-eighth class (Yuba County).
A. B. 667. Browne. Amending Section 4268, Political Code,
relating to counties of the thirty-ninth class. (Tuolumne
County.)
S. B. 408. Maddux. Amending Section 4269 of the Political
Code, relating to compensation of officers in counties of the
fortieth class. (Calaveras County.)
A. B. 743. Kerr. Amending Section 4270, Political Code,
relating to salaries and fees of officers in counties of the
forty-first class (Amador County).
126 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
A. B. 1412. Boyce. Amending Section 4272, Political Code,
relating to the salaries and fees of officers of counties of +he
forty- third class (San Benito County).
S. B. 789. Purkitt. Amending Section 4275, Political Code,
relative to the salary of officers in counties of the forty-sixth
class (Glenn County).
A. B. 911. Sisson. Identical with S. B. 789. Purkitt.
A. B. 131. Tabler. Amending Section 4277, Political Code,
relating to salaries, fees and compensation of officers of
counties of the forty- eighth class (Modoc county).
S. B. 665. Duncan. Amending Section 4277, Political Code,
relating to the salaries, fees and expenses of officers in counties
of the forty-eighth class (Sutter County).
A. B. 1307. Shartel. Amending Section 4278, Political Code,
relating to the compensation of officers of counties of the
forty- ninth class (Modoc County).
A. B. 102. Bruck. Amending Section 4279, Political Code,
relating to salaries of officers of counties of the 50th class
(Plumas county).
S. B. 848. Purkitt. Amending Section 4279, Political Code,
relating to salaries of county officers for counties of the
fiftieth class (Lake County).
S. B. 336. Birdsall. Amending Section 4280, Political Code,
relating to the compensation of officers of counties of the
fifty-first class. (Plumas County.)
A. B. 1308. Shartel. Amending Section 4281, Political Code,
relating to the compensation of officers of counties of the
fifty-second class (Lassen County).
S. B. 337. Birdsall. Amending Section 4282, Political Code,
relating to the compensation of officers in counties of the
fifty- third class. (Sierra County.)
S. B. 261. Maddux. Amending Section 4283, Political Code,
relating to compensation of officers in counties of the fifty-
fourth class (Mariposa county).
A. B'. 666. Browne. Identical with S. B. 261. Maddux.
A. B. 839. McCray. Amending Section 4284, Political Code,
relating to salaries and fees of officers of counties of the
fifty-fifth class (Trinity County).
S. B. 419. Kehoe. Amending Section 4285, Political Code,
relating to the salaries of officers in counties of the fifty-sixth
class. (Del Norte County.)
A. B. 566. Ream. Amending Section 4285, Political Code,
relating to the salaries and fees of officers of counties of the
fifty-sixth class (Alpine' County).
S. B. 750. Maddux. Amending Section 4286, Political Code,
relating to counties of the fifty-seventh class, and salaries of
officers thereof (Mono County).
S. B. 538. Cogswell. Amending Section 4288, Political Code,
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by adding a new section thereto permitting- boards of super-
visors in counties of the first class or counties operating under
a charter to fix dates on which salaried employees may be paid.
A. B. 1350. Brown, H. W. Adding Section 4292a (new) to
the Political Code, relating to the compensation of justices of
the peace.
S. B. 112. Luce. Adding Section 4293 (new) to the Political
Code, relating to the qualifications of coroners and deputy
coroners and prohibiting certain agreements on the part of
such coroners and deputy coroners.
Declares ineligible to the office of coroner or deputy coroner
any person engaged or interested in the business of under-
taking, embalming, or of directing funerals, or who is em-
ployed in such business, and prohibiting any coroner or deputy
coroner from entering into any agreement with any under-
takers to favor them in the handling of cases within the
jurisdiction of the coroner. Violation works forfeiture of
office.
S. B. 164. Benson. Amending Section 4295, Political Code,
relating to official services and fees.
A. B. 30. McCray. Amending Section 4300, Political Code,
relative to fees and mileage of witnesses.
Witness fees fixed at $2 per day and 10 cents a mile, going
only, for travel by rail or water, 20 cents per mile by wagon
road, and 25 cents per mile by trail.
S. B. 162. Benson. Amending Section 4300a, Political Code,
relating to the fees of county clerks.
Fixes a new schedule of fees.
A. B. 1057. Canepa (by request). Amending Section 4300a,
Political Code, relating to County Clerk's fees.
S. B. 353. Jones. Amending Section 4300c, Political Code,
relating to the fees to be charged by recorders.
A. B. 1056. Canepa (by request). Amending Section 4300e,
Political Code, relating to Justices of the Peace fees.
A. B. 822. Rominger. Amending Section 4300f, Political
Code, relating to jurors' fees.
A. B. 1050. Harris. Amending Section 4300f, Political Code,
relating to jurors' fees.
A. B. 700. Quinn. Amending Section 4300g, Political Code,
relating to witness fees.
S. B. 968. Benson. Amending Section 4300k, Political Code,
by providing that township officers must demand the pay-
ment of all fees in civil cases in advance, except that such
advance payment may be waived by Justices of the Peace in
rtain cases.
. B. 1209. Wright, T. M. Identical with S. B. 968. Benson.
A. B. 982. Ryan. Amending Section 4307, Political Code,
relating to county charges.
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128 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
S. B. 274. Jones. Amending Section 4316, Political Code,
relating to officers prohibited from practicing law.
Includes district attorneys who are allowed deputies by law,
among the officers prohibited from practicing law; and pro-
vides as a penalty for violation forfeiture of office.
A. 15. 1897. Wright, T. M. Identical with S. B. 274. Jones.
A. B. 548. Ellis (by request). Amending Section 4316,
Political Code, prohibiting certain county officers from prac-
ticing law.
Includes "assessors" in the prohibition of the statute; and
prohibits Sheriffs, Clerks. Assessors and Constables from act-
ing as collectors or for any collection agency.
A. B. l)2f>. Manning. Amending Section 4408, Political Code,
relating to additional powers of common council.
S. B. 929. Carr. Identical with A. B. 925. Manning.
A. P. 40 1. Heck (by request). To amend the Political Code,
relative to the manner of collecting property taxes. (Intro-
duced by title only.)
A. B. 865. Prendergast. Adding a new section to the Polit-
ical Code, concerning insurance and surety companies, cor-
porations, associations, societies, firms, agents, brokers, em-
ployees and other persons; prohibiting rebating or accepting
rebates on insurance bonds, and providing for the revoking
or the suspension of licenses by and prescribing the powers
and duties of the Insurance Commissioner.
S. B. 1024. Benedict. Amending Title V of Part III of the
Political Code by adding and enacting new chapters to be desig-
nated Chapters 1, la, lb, lc, Id and le, relating to and creating
a State Board of Administration; providing for the organization
of such board; defining its powers and duties; prescribing the
number and fixing the salaries of the members and employees
thereof; providing for the government and management by
said Board of Administration of the State hospitals for the
insane and other incompetent persons, the State schools and
institutions for reformation, the Veterans' Home of California,
the Woman's Relief Corps Home, the Industrial Home for the
Adult Blind; for the appointment, salaries, powers and duties
of the executive and other officers and employees Of said in-
stitutions and for the commitment or admission and care,
custody and maintenance of the inmates and members of such
institutions; and to amend said Title V of Part III of the
Political Code by renumbering Chapter lc thereof, relating to
the Woman's Relief Corps Home of California and designating
said chapter as Chapter If, and to repeal Chapter 1 of Title
V of Part III of the Political Code, relating to the State
Commission in Lunacy, State hospitals and care, custody,
apprehension and commitment of insane and other incompetent
persons, and Chapter lb of Title V of Part III of the Political
Code, relating to the Industrial Home for the Adult Blind;
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915. 129
and to repeal an Act entitled 'An Act to create a State Board
of Charities and Corrections, prescribing its duties and powers,
and appropriating money therefor", approved March 25, 1903,
and all Acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto, and
to repeal an Act entitled 'An Act providing for the super-
vision and control by the State Board of Charities and Cor-
rections of the placing of dependent children into homes and
for the supervision of all societies or organizations engaged in
such work and known as children's home finding societies",
approved April 24, 1911; and to repeal an Act entitled 'An
Act to establish a school of industry and providing for the
maintenance and management of the same and to make an
appropriation therefor", approved March 11, 1889, and all Acts
amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto; and to repeal
an Act entitled "An Act to establish a State reform school
for juvenile offenders and to make an appropriation therefor",
approved March 11, 1SS9, and all Acts amendatory thereof or
supplemental thereto; and to repeal an Act entitled "An Act
to accept from the Veterans' Home Association the conveyance
of, and to vest title In the State of California to, the tract
of land in Napa county known as the Veterans' Home, with the
improvements and furnishings thereon, to make the same a
State home for United States soldiers, sailors and marines,
and to provide for the government thereof by the State", ap-
proved March 11, 1897, and all Acts amendatory thereof or
supplemental thereto; and to repeal an Act entitled "An Act
to establish a State training school for girls; to provide for
the maintenance and management of the same, and to make
an appropriation therefor", approved June 14, 1913; and to
repeal all Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with this Act.
A. B. 1301. Manning. Adding a new chapter to Title V of
Part III, Political Code, to be known as Chapter IVc, relating
to the establishment of a county mosquito extermination com-
mission, and to define their powers and duties.
130 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
APPROPRIATIONS.
AGRICULTURAL PARK.
S. B. 6. Cohn. Appropriating $10,000 to provide for the
improvement and maintenance of grounds at the State Agri-
cultural Park in the City of Sacramento, California.
A. B. 77. Chenoweth. Identical with S. B. 6. Cohn.
S\ B. 18. Mott. Authorizing the directors of the State
Agricultural Society to erect a new building and to furnish
and equip the same, at Agricultural Park in the City of
Sacramento, State of California, to be known as the Woman's
Building and appropriating $50,000 therefor.
A. B. 8. Gebhart. Identical with S. B. 18. Mott.
S. B. 35. Cohn. Appropriating $10,000 to make general
plans for the improvement of the State Fair grounds at Agri-
cultural Park in the City of Sacramento and to make draw-
ings, specifications and estimates therefor under the direction
of the State Department of Engineering.
A. B. 37. Gebhart. Identical with S. B. 35. Cohn.
S. B. 65. Cohn. Appropriating $50,000 for the purchase of
additional land for the State Fair Grounds in the City of
Sacramento.
A. B. 5. Chenoweth. Identical with S. B. 65. Cohn.
S. B. 66. Cohn. Appropriating $500.00 for the reconstruc-
tion of windows in the agricultural pavilion at the State
Fair Grounds in Agricultural Park in the City of Sacramento.
A. B. 39. Chenoweth. Identical with S. B. 66. Cohn.
S. B. 297. Cohn. Providing for the construction and repair-
ing of livestock barns and sheds on the State Fair Grounds
at Agricultural Park in the City of Sacramento, and appro-
priating $10,000 therefor.
A. B. 294. Chenowetn. Identical with S. B. 297. Cohn.
S. B. 909. Cohn. Appropriating money for the purchase of
additional land adjoining the State Fair Grounds in the City
of Sacramento, for the use of said State Fair Grounds.
A. B. 990. Gebhart. Indentical with S. B. 909. Cohn.
S. B. 946. Rush. Appropriating $50,000 for furnishing, equip-
ping and maintaining the buildings and grounds at Sacramento,
California, known as the State Fair Grounds, and for estab-
lishing a permanent- exhibit therein of the products and
resources of the different counties of the State of California,
ARMORIES.
S. B. 598. Butler. Appropriating $100,000 to complete the
buildings, equipping and furnishing of an armory to be used
for the National Guard and National Guard purposes in the
city of Los Angeles.
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915. 131
A. B. 1244. McKnight. Identical with S. B. 598. Butler.
A. B. , 278. Bruck. Appropriating $15,000 for the building
and construction of an armory for the National Guard at Napa
City, Napa County, California.
S. B. 453. Rush. Identical with A, B. 278. Bruck.
S. B. 1142. Hans. Appropriating $100,000 for the erection,
construction, equipment and furnishing of an armory for1 the
National Guard in the City of Oakland.
A. B. 450. McCray. Appropriating $10,000 for the building
and construction of an armory for the National Guard at
Redding, Shasta County, California.
A. B. 785. Johnson. Providing for the building of an armory
for the National Guard of the State of California at San Ber-
nardino, and appropriating $12,500 therefor.
S. B. 233. Scott. Providing for the completion of the armory
for the National Guard at San Francisco, and appropriating
$100,000 therefor.
S. B. 778. Scott. Appropriating $2000 to provide a cash
revolving fund for the use of the State Armory Board for
operating the State Armory at San Francisco.
A. B. 439. Edwards. To provide for marking off and setting
apart a portion of the Stockton State Hospital grounds for a
site upon which to construct an armory; to provide for the
conveyance and transfer of the lands comprising said proposed
site by said corporation through its proper officers, board of
managers or their successors as trustees of such property, to
the State of California; to provide for the control and manage-
ment thereof; to provide for the construction and erection of
an armory and drill hall thereon, and appropriating money
therefor.
CLAIMS, COUNTY.
A. B. 100. Shartel. Appropriating $4439.30 to pay the claim
of Lassen county against the State of California for refund
of taxes under Section 3804, Political Code.
A. B. 598. Wright. Appropriating $91.03 to pay the claim
of Los Angeles County against the State of California for the
support of orphans, half-orphans and abandoned children in
the sixty- second fiscal year.
S. B. 334. Birdsall. Reimbursing the County of Plumas in
sum of $7500 annua'ly for net loss of revenue sustained by the
withdrawal of railroad property from county taxation under
the provisions of Section 14 of Article XIII of the Constitution
of this State.
A. B. 1386. Phelps. To reimburse the county of San Ber-
nardino for net loss of revenue sustained by the withdrawal
of railroad property from county taxation under the provisions
of Section 14 of Article XIII of the Constitution of this State.
132 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
CLAIMS, PRIVATE.
A. B. 1364. Quinn. Appropriating $1200 to pay the claim
of Thomas Bair against the State of California.
A. B. 578. Phelps. Appropriating $39.85 to pay the claim
of C. S. Baldwin against the State of California for cost in
foreclosing swamp lands.
S. B. 784. Finn. Appropriating $100 to pay the claim of
Mrs. Richard D. Barton against the State of California.
A. B. 892. McDonald, J. J. Identical with S. B. 784. Finn.
S. B. 835. Shearer. To authorize the repayment to Mary
Ann Bath, Carrie F. Stone, Alice B. Walker and John Thad-
deus Bath, as heirs at law of John F. Bath, deceased, of
moneys paid by said deceased in his lifetime to the State of
California, for the purchase of certain indemnity or lieu
land certificates, and which indemnity or lieu land certificates
have been surrendered to the State, said moneys amounting to
the sum of $640, and for such purpose authorizing the State
Register to issue a certificate to said heirs of John F. Bath,
deceased, for the amount so paid for said indemnity certifi-
cates, and authorizing the State Controller to draw his war-
rant on the State Treasurer for said sum, and authorizing
the State Treasurer to pay the same, said sum having here-
tofore been paid into the State School Land Fund.
A. B. 1309. Shartel. Identical with S. B. 835. Shearer.
A. B. 711. Meek. Appropriating $2519.88 to pay the claim
of Mrs. S. L. Bee against the State of California for interest
on Indian war bonds.
A. B. 946. Pettis. Identical with A. B. 711. Meek.
A. B. 1110. Wright, T. M. An Act for the relief of M. B.
Bell.
A. B. 211. Meek. Appropriating * $309.50 to pay claim of
Bryant & May, Limited, against the State of California.
A. B. 130. Tabler. Appropriating $1500.00 to pay the claim
of W. H. Carlin against the State of California.
A. B. 577. Phelps. Appropriating $1011.25 to pay the claim
of the Clark & Henry Construction Company against the State
of California for street work fronting the State Armory in
the City of Sacramento.
A. B. 1065. Canepa (by request). Appropriating $77.00 to
pay the claim of the Coast Counties Gas and Electric Com-
pany against the State of California.
S. B. 923. Finn. Appropriating $1250 to pay the claim of
Pr. W. B. Coffey against the State of California.
A. B. 1103. Ryan. Identical with S. B. 923. Finn.
A. B. 205. Johnson. Appropriating $5000 to pay the claim
of Firth Crossland against the State of California for injuries
received while in the employ of the State.
A. B. 649. Wright. Appropriating $540.00 to pay the claim
PENDING LEGITIMATION, 1915. 133
of the Des Moines Bridge and Iron Company against the State
of California.
A. B. 1071. Canepa (by request). Appropriating money to
pay the claim of Edward A. Dobson against the State of
California.
A. B. 773. Gebhart. Appropriating $3217.50 to pay the claim
of Daisy M. Drewry against the State of California.
A. B. 1064. Canepa (by request). Appropriating $37.00 to
pay the claim of the Economic Gas Company against the State
of California.
A. B. 1068. Canepa (by request). Appropriating $25,000.00
to pay the claim of Ed Fletcher.
A. B. 712. Meek. Appropriating $860.83 to pay the claim
of Fred H. Figel against the State of California.
IS. B. 1087. Jones. Identical with* A. B. 712. Meek.
A. B. 559. Avey. Appropriating $600 to pay the claim of
Frankfort General Insurance Company against the State of
California.
S. B. 8P6. Birdsall. Appropriating $1800 to pay the claim
of W. E. Gerber against the State of California.
A. B. 551. Kramer. Appropriating $840 to pay the claim
of the Globe Express Company against the State of California.
A. B. 1062. Canepa (by request). Appropriating money to
pay the claim of the Great Western Power Company against
the State of California.
S. B. 128. Thompson. Appropriating $245 to pay the claim
of Grocer's Building Company against the State of California.
A. B. 550. Kramer. Appropriating $28,705 to pay the claim
of the Hartford Fire Insurance Company against the State
of California.
A. B. 1362. S'chmitt. Appropriating $520 to pay the claim
of A. B. Hooke against the State of California.
A. B. 595. Wright. Appropriating $674.97 to pay the claim
of the E. Clemens Horst Company against the State of
California.
A. B. 732. Quinn. Appropriating $10,000 to pay the claim of
the Humboldt and Trinity Toll Road Company against the
State of California.
S. B. 804. Scott. To reimburse Russell T. Joy for money
paid by him to the State of California in the purchase of
certain certificates of indemnity or scrip, on account of his
becoming subsequently disqualified to purchase State lands
by reason of removal from the State of California, and ap-
propriating $872 therefor.
A. B. 1101. McDonald, J. J. Identical with S. B. 804. Scott.
S. B. 947. Rush. Appropriating $300 to pay the claim of
J. W. Kavanagh against the State of California.
134 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
S. B. 514. Scott. Appropriating money to pay the claim of
William LaHaye against the State of California.
A. B. 514. Phillips. Appropriating $4133.55. to pay the claim
of the Lake. Tahoe Railway and Transportation Company
against the State of California.
S. B. 546. Cogswell. Identical with A. B. 514. Phillips.
A. B. 1060. Canepa (by request). Appropriating $3261.34 to
pay the claim of Lake Tahoe Railway and Navigation Com-
pany upon a judgment rendered against the State of Cali-
fornia.
A. B. 1482. Chenoweth. Appropriating $39,500 to pay the
claim of Lauritzen Company against the State of California.
A. B. 6t)0. Wright. Appropriating $468.50 to pay the claim
of John Loftus against the State of California, for personal
injury sustained.
A. B. 1340. Canepa (by request). Appropriating $30 to
pay the claim of the Long Beach Consolidated Gas Company-
against the State of California.
A. B. 1070. Canepa (by request). Appropriating money to
pay the claim of the Los Angeles Packing Company against
the State of California.
A. B. 1072. Canepa (by request). Appropriating $5.00 to
pay the claim of the Frank Lyman Company against the
State of California.
S. B. 513. Scott. Appropriating $5000 to pay the claim of
Peter P. Macdonald against the State of California.
A. B. 204. Johnson. Appropriating $10,000 to pay the claim
of R. T. Macklin against the State of California for injuries
received while in the service of the State.
S. B. 432. Tyrrell. Appropriating money to pay the claim of
C. S. MacMullan.
A. B. 1366. Quinn. Appropriating $500 to pay the claim of
James E. Mathews against the State of California.
A. B. 576. Phelps. Appropriating $2871.24 to pay the claim
of the Matson Navigation Company upon a judgment rendered
against the State of California.
A. B. 46. Schmitt. Appropriating $7000 to pay the claim
of Johan Alfred Matsson against the State of California.
A. B. 1215. Ream. Appropriating $3600 to pay the claim
of Mrs. May Arminnie McCrea against the State of California.
A. B. 672. Schmitt. Appropriating $2500 to pay the claim
of Arthur G. Meehan. •
A. B. 549. Kramer. Appropriating $1075 to pay the claim
of the Metropolitan Casualty Insurance Company of New York
against the State of California.
A. B. 109. Arnerich. Appropriating $3307.06 to pay the
claim of Miller & Lux Incorporated against the State of Cali-
fornia.
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915. 135
S. B. 281. Thompson. Identical with A. B. 109. Arnerich.
A. B. 110. Arnerich. Appropriating $10,306.47 to pay the
claim of Miller & Lux Incorporated against the State of Cali-
fornia.
S. B. 282. Thompson. Identical with A B. 110. Arnerich.
A. B. 111. Arnerich. Appropriating $10,337.06 to pay the
claim of Miller & Lux Incorporated against the State of Cali-
fornia.
S. B. 283. Thompson. Identical with A. B. 111. Arnerich.
A. B. 112. Arnerich. Appropriating $3061.47 to pay the
claim of Miller & Lux Incorporated against the State of Cali-
fornia.
S. B. 284. Thompson. Identical with A. B. 112. Arnerich.
A. B. 557. Avey. Appropriating $1850 to pay the claim of
the New Brunswick Fire Insurance Company against the State
of California.
A. B. 713. Meek. Appropriating $1077.50 to pay the funeral
expenses of the late Controller, Alfred B. Nye.
S. B. 828. Campbell. Appropriating $6730.10 to pay the
claim of James C. Owens against the State of California, un-
der the provisions of Section 1 of Article XXIII of the Consti-
tution of the State of California.
A. B. 558. Avey. Appropriating $7770 to pay the claim of
the Pacific Gas and Electric Company against the State of
California.
A. B. 1061. Canepa (by request). Appropriating $901.25 to
pay the claim of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Com-
pany against the State of California.
S. B. 997. Crowley. Identical with A. B. 1061. Canepa.
A. B. 1214. Avey (by request). Appropriating $2020 to
pay the claim of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Com-
pany against the State of California.
A. B. 225. Canepa (by request). Appropriating $5,314.10 to
pay the claim of Chas. A. Palm against the State of California.
A. B. 650. Wright. Appropriating $2316.40 to pay the claim
of the Palm Iron and Bridge Works against the State of Cali-
fornia.
S. B. 451. Slater. Appropriating $12,422.25, to pay the claim
of the Petaluma & Santa Rosa Railway Co. upon judgment
rendered against the State of California.
A. B. 1168. Edwards, L. (by request). Appropriating $1000
to pay the claim of Clarence H. Peterson against the State of
California.
A. B. 1389. Manning. Appropriating $4162.63 to pay the claim
of A. J. Raisch against the State of California.
A. B. 1170. McCray. Appropriating $131.84 to pay the claim
of John S. Reid against the State of California.
A. B. 1059. Canepa (by request). Appropriating $45.00 to
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pay the claim of Ralph S. Roberts against the State of Cali-
fornia.
S. B. 924. Finn. Appropriating $480 to pay the claim of
Saint Francis Hospital, a Corporation, against the State of
California.
A. B. 1102. Ryan. Identical with S. B. 924. Finn.
A. B. 1066. Canepa (by request). Appropriating $30.00 to
pay the claim of the San Diego Home Telephone Company
againpt the State of California.
A. B. 1067. Canepa (by request). Appropriating $117.50 to
pay the claim of the San Francisco-Oakland Terminal Rail-
ways against the State of California.
A. B. 725. Cary. Appropriating $1301.43 to pay the claim
of the fc'an Joaquin Light & Power Corporation against the
State of California.
A. B. 1343. Canepa (by request). Appropriating $35 to
pay the claim of the Santa Barbara Gas and Electric Company
against the State of California.
A. B, 92, McDonald, J. J. Appropriating $160 to pay the
claim of R. A. Sarle against the State of California.
S. B. 1167. Scott. Identical with A. B. 92. McDonald.
A. B. 382. Gebhart. Appropriating $699.80 to pay the claim
of Frank D. Scott against the State of California.
A. B. 199. Kerr. Appropriating $1037 to pay the claim of
Mrs. J. W. Sibole against the State of California.
A. B. 1341. Canepa (by request). Appropriating $905 to
pay the claim of the Southern California Edison Company
against the State of California.
S. B. 925. Finn. Appropriating $407.50 to pay the claim of
the Southern Pacific Company, a Corporation, against the
State of California.
A. B. 1104 Ryan. Identical with S. B. 925. Finn.
S. B. 547. Cogswell. Appropriating $28.50 to pay the claim
of W. H. Taylor against the State of California.
S. B. 678. Flaherty. Appropriating $2000 to pay the claim
of Martha O. Ullner against the State of California.
A. B. 782. Canepa. Appropriating $50,000 to pay the claim
of Martha O. Ullner against the State of California.
A. B. 1063. Canepa (by request). Appropriating $75.00 to
pay the claim of the Union Home Telephone and Telegraph
Corporation against the State of California.
A. B. 829. Edwards. Appropriating $500.00 to pay the claim
of Benjamin Walters against the State of California.
S. B. 1149. Mott. Appropriating money to pay the claim of
Harve Oliver Waterman against the State of California.
A. B. 1069. Canepa (by request). Appropriating money to
pay the claim of Harvey Oliver Waterman against the State
of California.
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915. 137
A. B. 556. Avey. Appropriating $3164.83 to pay the claim
of the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company
upon a judgment rendered against the State of California.
S. B. 254. Benedict. Appropriating $600 to pay the claim
of Charles W. Williams against the State of California.
A. B. 475. Fish (by request). Identical with S. B. 251.
Benedict.
EXPOSITIONS.
S. B. 345. Thompson. Appropriating $60,000 for furnishing,
equipping and maintaining the exposition building at Los An-
geles, California, and for establishing and maintaining a per-
manent exhibit therein of the products and resources of the
different counties of the State of California.
A. B. 644. Conrad. Appropriating $5000.00 for the main-
tenance of the California State Building at the Panama-Cali-
fornia Exposition.
A. B. 645. Conrad. Appropriating $28,750.00 to reimburse
the Panama-California Exposition for money furnished by it to
the Panama-California Exposition Commissioners to complete
the California State Building at said Exposition.
S. B. 1061. Chandler. Appropriating $15,000 for the com-
pletion of the petroleum experimental station at the Panama-
Pacific International Exposition.
EDUCATIONAL.
California Polytechnic School.
A. B. 152. Rigdon. Appropriating $33,000.00 to provide a
permanent water supply for the California Polytechnic School.
S. B. 168. Campbell. Identical with A. B. 152. Rigdon.
A. B. 153. Rigdon. Appropriating $5000.00 for the purchase
of live stock and poultry at the California Polytechnic School.
S. B. 169. Campbell. Identical with A. B. 153. Rigdon.
A. B. 154. Rigdon. Appropriating $45,000.00 for building a
horse barn, a hay barn, hog barn, dairy barn, green-houses,
and poultry houses, and other farm buildings at the Califor-
nia Polytechnic School.
S. B. 175. Campbell. Identical with A. B. 154. Rigdon.
A. B. 155. Rigdon. Appropriating $6000.00 for the purchase
of_ farm machinery and implements at the California Poly-
technic School.
S. B. 171. Campbell. Identical with A. B. 155. Rigdon.
A. B. 156. Rigdon. Appropriating $8000.00 for the estab-
lishment and maintenance of a normal and a business course
at the California Polytechnic School.
S. B. 172. Campbell. Identical with A. B. 156. Rigdon.
A. B. 157. Rigdon. Appropriating $15,000.00 for the pur-
138 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
chase of equipment for shops, power plant, and laboratories
at the California Polytechnic School.
S. B. 166. Campbell. Identical with A. B. 157. Rigdon.
A. B. 158. Rigdon. Appropriating $15,000.00 for repairs
and improvements to buildings and equipment at the Cali-
fornia Polytechnic School.
S. B. 167. Campbell. Identical with A. B. 158. Rigdon.
A. B. 159. Rigdon. Appropriating $10,000.00 for the build-
ing and equipment of a carpenter shop at the California
Polytechnic School.
■S. B. 170. Campbell. Identical with A. B. 159. Rigdon.
A. B. 160. Rigdon. Appropriating $15,000.00 for the build-
ing and equipping of an armory, gymnasium, assembly hall
and ball ground at the California Polytechnic School.
S. B. 173. Campbell. Identical with A. B. 160. Rigdon.
State Normal Schools.
Chico.
S. B. 358. Duncan. Appropriating $5600 for repairs and im-
provements to the Chico State Normal School.
A. B. 93. Canepa. Appropriating $25,000 for constructing a
hospital building on site near the ferry building in the City
and County of San Francisco; arranging for its upkeep by said
city and county.
A. B. 94. Canepa. Appropriating $30,000 for building and
furnishing an observatory in the City and County of San
Francisco; arranging for its upkeep by said city and county.
Fresno.
S. B. 135. Chandler. Appropriating $20,000 to pay the ex-
penses of furnishing and equipping a new normal school build-
ing at the Fresno State Normal School.
S. B. 136. Chandler. Appropriating $15,000 for improving the
grounds at the Fresno State Normal School.
Humboldt (Eureka).
S. B. 113. Kehoe. Appropriating $112,000 for the construc-
tion and equipment of buildings on the property of Humboldt
State Normal School.
A. B. 1276. Quinn. Identical with S. B. 113. Kehoe.
S. B. 114. Kehoe. Appropriating $10,000 for the equipment
and furnishing of buildings at Humboldt State Normal School.
A. B. 1273. Quinn. Identical with S, B. 114. Kehoe.
S. B. 115. Kehoe. Appropriating $4720 for the construction
of temporary buildings at Humboldt State Normal School.
A. B. 1275. Quinn. Identical with S. B. 115. Kehoe.
S. B. 116. Kehoe. Appropriating $1500 for moving tempo-
rary buildings at Humboldt State Normal School.
Lending legislation, 1915. 139
A. B. 1277. Quinn. Identical with S. B. 116. Kehoe.
S. B. 117. Kehoe. Appropriating $2000 for clearing the site
for erecting buildings on the property of Humboldt State
Normal School.
A. B. 1274. Quinn. Identical with S. B. 117. Kehoe.
Los Angeles.
S. B. 369. Benedict. Appropriating $9600 to pay additional
salaries at the Los Angeles State Normal School for the sixty-
sixth fiscal year. . - - -
A. B. 473. Wright. . Identical with S. B. 369. Benedict.
..S. B. 370. Benedict. Appropriating $8000 for additional slip*
port at the Los Angeles State Normal School for the sixty-
sixth fiscal year.
A. B. 472. Wright,/ Identical with S. B. 370. Benedict.
S. B. 371. Benedict. Appropriating $8500 to complete and
furnish the Los Angeles Normal School buildings.
S. B. 372. Benedict. Appropriating $5500 to purchase addi-
tional equipment for the industrial training departments of the
Los Angeles State Normal School.
S. B. 373. Benedict. Appropriating $2500 to construct an
: addition to the manual training building of the Los Angeles
State Normal School.
S. B. 374. Benedict. Appropriating $18,000 to pay the ex-
penses of street improvements and" sewer assessments fronting
the property of the Los Angeles State Normal School in the
(City of Los Angeles.
S. B. 375. Benedict. Appropriating $6000 for improvement to
:grounds at the Los Angeles State Normal School.
A. B. 1430. Fish. Appropriating $1000 to pay the claim of
rthe Consolidated Construction Company against the State of
'California for sewer assessment against the property of the
State Normal School at Los Angeles.
San Diego.
A. B. 443. Conrad. Appropriating $14,000 for repairs and
improvements at the San Diego State Normal School.
S. B. 389. Luce. Appropriating $1000 for furniture and
equipment at the San Diego Normal School.
A, B. 442. Conrad. Appropriating money for furniture and
equipment at the San Diego State Normal School.
S. B. 390. Luce. Appropriating $7000 for improvement of
grounds at the San Diego State Normal School.
A. B. 441. Conrad. Appropriating money for improvement
of grounds at the San Diego State Normal- School.
S. B. 880. Luce. Appropriating $20,000 for the purchase of
land adjoining the grounds of the San Diego State Normal
School.
140 PENDING IuEGISLATIQN, 1915.
S. B. 388. Luce. Appropriating- $14,000 for repairs and im-
provements at the San Diego State Normal School.
A. B. 1097. Conrad. Appropriating money to purchase land
for the use of the San Diego State Normal School in the city
of San Diego.
A. B. 1098. Conrad. Appropriating $20,000.00 to pay the
expenses of street •improvements fronting the property of the
San Diego State Normal School in the city of San Diego.
San Francisco.
S. B. 359. Gerdes. Appropriating $7500 for remodeling the
training school building at the San Francisco State Normal
School.
S. B. 360. Gerdes. Appropriating $1000 for repairs and fur-
nishings at the San Francisco State Normal School.
San Jose.
S. B. 292. Benson. Appropriating $25,000 to main-
tain a continuous course of instruction at the San Jose State
Normal "School.
A. B. 296. Wright, T. M. Identical with S. B. 292. Benson.
S. B. 293. Benson. Appropriating $20,000 to construct out-
door Class rooms for the training school at the San Jose Nor-
mal School.
S. B. 444. Benson. Appropriating $20,000 to pay the ex-
penses of street improvements fronting the property of the
San Jose State Normal School in the city of San Jose.
A. B. 504. Wright, T. M. Identical with S. B. 444. Benson.
S. 3. 938. Benson. Appropriating money to construct an
assembly hall at the San Jose State Normal School.
A. B. 1009. Wright, T. M. Identical with S. B. 938. Benson.
Santa Barbara (Manual Arts).
S. B. 184. Mott. Appropriating $5000 for repairs and altera-
tions to main buildings, Santa Barbara State Normal School
of Manual Arts and Home Economics.
A. B. 173. Kramer. Identical with S. B. 184. Mott.
S. B. 185. Mott. Appropriating $6500 to pay the expense of
improving the grounds of the Santa Barbara State Normal
School of Manual Arts and Home Economics, including grad-
ing, installation of sewer, gas and water mains and conduits.
A. B. 174. Kramer. Identical with S. B. 185. Mott.
S. B. 214. "Mott. Appropriating $15,000 for the improvement
and equipment of the Santa Barbara State Normal School of
Manual Arts and Home Economics.
A. B. 215. Kramer. Identical with S. B. 214. Mott.
S. B. 213. Mott. Appropriating $10,000 for the construction
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915. 141
of a machinery building at the Santa Barbara State Normal
School of Manual Arts and Home Economics.
A. B. 213. Kramer. Identical with S. B. 213. Mott.
University of California.
S. B. 299. Breed. Appropriating $62,000 for the use and
benefit of the University . of California, and specifying the
duties of the Controller and Treasurer of the State in relation
thereto.
A. B. 337. Young. Identical with S. B. 299. Breed.
S. B. 275. Anderson. Appropriating $4,000 for the construc-
tion of buildings on the lands of the agricultural experiment
station of the University of California in the County of Im-
perial.
A. B. 268. Wills. Identical with S. B. 275. Anderson.
S. B. 288. Duncan. Appropriating $25,000 for the
construction of a building to be known as the "Farm Ma-
chinery Building" at the Farm and Agricultural School of the
University of California at Davis.
A. B. 353. Tabler. Identical with S. B. 288. Duncan.
S. B. 289. Duncan. Appropriating $40,000 for the construc-
tion and equipment of buildings at the Farm and Agricultural
School of the University of California at Davis.
A. B. 352. Tabler. Identical with S. B. 289. Duncan.
S. B. 290. Duncan. Appropriating $100,000 for the construc-
tion and equipment of creamery and abbatoir buildings at the
Farm and Agricultural School of the University of California
at Davis.
A. B. 396. Tabler. Identical with S. B. 290. Duncan.
S. B. 291. Duncan. Appropriating $5000 for the construc-
tion of a building to be known as the "Live Stock Judging
Room" at the Farm and Agricultural School of the University
of California at Davis.
A. B. 397. Tabler. Identical with S. B. 291. Duncan.
S. B. 272. Jones. Appropriating $35,000 for the construction
of buildings and the purchase and installation of machinery
and equipment for use by the Lick Observatory of the Uni-
versity of California.
A. B. 295. Wright. Identical with S. B. 272. Jones.
S. B. 265. King. Appropriating $40,000 for the support and
maintenance of university extension work by the University
of California.
A. B. 320. McKnight. Identical with S. B. 265. King.
S. B. 754. Flint. Appropriating $65,000 for University Ex-
tension work for the University of California.
A. B. 573. Shartel. Appropriating money for University Ex-
tension work for the University of California.
A. B. 319. McKnight. Appropriating $25,000 for additions
142 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
and improvements to the buildings of the Medical School of
the University Of California at Los Angeles and the equip-
ment thereof.
S. B. 327. Benedict. Identical with A. B. 319. McKnight.
S. B. 326. Benedict. Appropriating $13,500 for the equip-
ment of the buildings of the Medical School of the University
of California at Los Angeles, California.
S. B. 307. Finn. Appropriating $200,000 for the support
and maintenance of the Medical Department of the University
of California in the City and County of San Francisco.
A. B. 372. Prendergast. Indentical with S. B. 307. Finn.
A. B. 1099. Conrad. Appropriating money for the Univer-
sity of California for the purpose of investigating the treat-
ment of nickel ores.
S, B. 1060. Chandler. Appropriating $5000 for the transfer
to the University of California of the petroleum experimental
station at the Panama -Pacific International Exposition.
S. B. 300. Breed. Amending Section 3 of an Act, adopted
as an initiative measure by vote of the people November 3,
1914, authorizing the construction of the unfinished portion
of the library building of the University of California, and
the construction of a building for general use as a recitation
building, of a building for the use of the College of Agricul-
ture, and of a building for the use of the College of Natural
Sciences as a chemistry building, upon the grounds of said
University of California at Berkeley; providing for the issu-
ance and sale of State bonds to meet the cost of the fore-
going purposes; and providing the necessary moneys for the
payment of the principal and interest to become due on said
bonds.
A. B. 326. Satterwhite. Identical with S. B. 300. Breed.
S. B. 298. Breed. Amending Sections 1 and 4 of an Act,
approved April 25, 1911, to carry into effect the provisions of
Subdivision (e) of Section 14 of Article XIII of the Constitu-
tion of the State of California as the said article was amended
on the eighth day of 'November in the year one thousand nine
hundred and ten, in so far as the same relates to the State
University; and also to provide for the permanent support
and improvement of the University of California; and to that
end making a continuing appropriation and creating an annual
fund therefor; and repealing an Act, approved March 20, 1909,
to provide for the permanent support and improvement of
the L^niversity of California by the levy of a rate of taxation
and the creation of a fund therefor, and to repeal an Act
approved February 14, 1887, to provide for the permanent
support and improvement of the University of California by
the levy of a rate of taxation and the creation of a fund
therefor, and also to repeal an Act approved February 27,
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1897, to provide additional support and maintenance, and for
the acquisition of necessary property and improvements of
the University of California by the levy of a rate of taxation,
and the creation of a fund therefor.
A. B. 336. Young. Identical with S. B. 298. Breed.
FREE TEXT BOOKS.
S. B. 426. Thompson. Appropriating $500,000 to pay the
cost of printing, publishing and distributing State text books
free to the school children of the State in accordance with the
provisions of the Constitution.
A. B. 407. Avey. Identical with S. B. 426. Thompson.
HIGHWAYS.
S. B. 23. Stuckenbruck. Appropriating $15,000 for the loca-
tion, survey, and construction of a proposed State road from
the junction of the counties of San Joaquin, Calaveras, and
Amador to Jackson, Amador County.
A. B. 97. Kerr„ Identical with S. B. 23. Stuckenbruck.
A. B. 198. Kerr. Establishing a state highway to run
through portions of the counties of Amador and Calaveras,
to define its course, to provide for its supervision, construction,
repair and maintenance and appropriating $20,000 therefor.
A. B. 25. Rutherford. Approprating $75,000 for the location,
survey and construction of a highway to connect the State of
California with the State of Nevada.
A. B. 163. Brown, H. W. Providing for locating, surveying
and maintaining a highway from Pescadero in the county of
San Mateo to the California Redwood Park in Santa Cruz
County, and appropriating $30,000.00 therefor.
S. B. 1111. Flint. Identical with A. B. 163. Brown.
S. B. 150. Jones. Providing for a sprinkling system for the
State highway extending from Saratoga Gap into and through
California Redwood Park, and appropriating $15,000 therefor.
A. B. 247. McPherson. Identical with S. B. 150. Jones.
A. B. 260. Hayes. Identical with S. B. 150. Jones.
S. B. 161. King. Providing for the building of a bridge
across the Colorado river at Needles, California, and making
an appropriation therefor.
A. B. 170. Phelps. Identical with S. B. 161. King.
S. B. 351. Luce. Appropriating $200,000 to construct a high-
way between El Centro, California, and a point on the Cali-
fornia State line directly opposite Yuma, Arizona.
A. B. 344. Wills. Identical with S. B. 351. Luce.
S. B. 617. King. Providing for the location and construc-
tion of a State highway in Imperial county, and making ap-
propriation therefor.
A. B. 676. Avey. Indentical with S. B. 617. King.
144 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
S. B. 687. Mott. To provide for the survey, location and
estimate of cost of a State highway from a point on the pres-
ent located California State highway in Kern county, Cali-
fornia, south of Bakersfield, southerly to the town of Nord-
hoff, Ventura county, and appropriating $8000 therefor.
A. B. 736. Edwards. To provide for the survey, location
and estimate of cost of a State highway from a point on the
present located California State highway in Kern County,
California, south of Bakersfield, southerly to the town of
Nordhoff, Ventura County, and appropriating $8000 therefor.
A. B. 1272. Rigdon. Appropriating $6800 for the survey and
location of a highway between McKittrick in Kern County and
Santa Margarita in the County of San Luis Obispo, State of
California.
A. B. 40. Cary. Appropriating $25,000 for work on the
State Highway known as Kings River Canyon Road, to au-
thorize changes in the location of said road, and to repeal
all Acts and parts of Acts in conflict herewith.
S. B. 548. Cogswell. To provide for th*e location, survey
and construction of a proposed highway to connect the road
system of Los Angeles county in the vicinity of Azusa with
the road system of Antelope Valley in the vicinity of Palm-
dale, and appropriating $50,000 therefor.
A. B. 690. Lostutter. Identical with S. B. 548. Cogswell.
A. B. 634. Chamberlin. Appropriating $100,000 in aid of the
location, survey and construction of a proposed highway to
connect the road system of Los Angeles County within the
vicinity of the city of Los Angeles with the road system within
Antelope Valley, through Mint Canyon, Arroyo Seco Canyon,
or San Gabriel Canyon in the Angeles National Forest, and
terminating at or near Palmdale.
A. B. 781. Wishard. Appropriating $50,000 for the survey
and construction of a proposed highway connecting Lancaster
in Los Angeles county and Mojave in Kern county along the
county road of the respective counties.
A. B. 1399. Shartel. Providing for an appropriation of $20,000
for the location, survey and construction of a highway to lead
from Surprise Valley, in Modoc county, to the Nevada State
line.
A. B. 1022. Browne. To provide for the survey and con-
struction of a State highway from Bridgeport, county seat of
Mono County, to Independence, county seat of Inyo County,
and making an appropriation therefor.
S. B. 1033. Carr. Appropriating $7500 for the location and
survey of a State highway, to be known as the Pasadena
State Highway.
A. B. 1113. Fish. Appropriating money for the location and
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915. 145
survey of a State highway, to be known as the Pasadena State
Highway.
A. B. 528. Browne. Appropriating money for the mainte-
nance of the Sonora and Mono State highway.
S. B. 937. Carr. Appropriating money for the construction
of a trail in the Sierra Nevada Mountains to be known as the
"John Muir Trail."
A. B. 1035. Scott, F. C. Identical with S. B. 937. Carr.
S. B. 894. Birdsall. Appropriating $10,000 for the continu-
ation of the location, survey and construction of a State high-
way from Goodyear Bar, Sierra County, California, in a west-
erly direction to Indian Valley, California.
S. B. 592. Shearer. Appropriating $7500 for the purpose
of making a survey for a State highway from the intersec-
tion of the State highway and the Klamath River road in
Siskiyou county to the terminus of the Humboldt county road
at Orleans at the mouth of the Redwood river.
A. B. 302. Ellis. Appropriating $20,000 for the purchase of
the Great Sierra Wagon Road.
S. B. 331. Birdsall. Appropriating $5000 for the location,
survey and construction of a State highway from Tahoe City,
Placer County, along the northern boundary of Lake Tahoe to
western boundary of the State of Nevada at Crystal Bay in
Placer County.
S. B. 44. Birdsall. Appropriating $14,000 for the purpose of
purchasing additional rights of way, land and trees on ana
along the course of the Lake Tahoe wagon roaa.
A. B. 66. Kerr. Identical with S. B. 44. Birdsall.
A. B. 1038. Scott, F. C. Providing for the location, survey
and construction of a proposed highway to connect the San
Joaquin Valley State Highway trunk line in Tulare County
with the Coast State Highway trunk line in Monterey County
through Coalinga Pass, and appropriating $200,000 therefor.
S. B. 952. Irwin. Identical with A. B. 1038. Scott.
A. B. 527. Browne. Declaring the public highway extending
from Long Barn in Tuolumne County to the eastern boundary
of the City of Sonora to be a State highway, and appropriating
$15,000 for the improvement thereof.
A. B. 1365. Quinn. Appropriating $20,000 for the construc-
tion of the western extension of the Trinity-Humboldt State
road.
S. B. 286. Kehoe. Appropriating $100,000 for the construc-
tion and completion of a State highway connecting the coun-
ties of Trinity, Shasta and Humboldt with the road system
of Tehama county.
A. B. 309. Sisson. Identical with S. B. 286. Kehoe.
S. B. 46. Birdsall. Providing for the survey, location and
construction of a State bridle trail from Meyers Station In
146 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
El D.orado County, thence to or near the Hetch Hetchy Val-
ley, thence to Yosemite Valley, and appropriating $3000 there-
for.
S. B. 47. Birdsall. Declaring the county road extending
from Auburn, State of California, in an easterly direction to
a point near Emigrant Gap, a State highway, and appropriat-
ing $20,000 for the improvement thereof.
S. B. 48. Birdsall. Declaring the wagon road from Mc-
Kinney's to the west end of Donner Lake a State highway.
S. B. 96. Purkitt. Establishing the Yolo and Lake High-
way; to define its course; to provide for its survey and con-
struction; and appropriating $50,000 therefor.
A. B. 80. Tabler. Identical with S. B. 96. Purkitt.
S. B. 144. Benson. Providing for the survey and construc-
tion of a State highway through the Pacheco Pass connecting
the State highway in Santa Clara County at Gilroy with the
State highway in Madera County at or near Califa, and appro-
priating $150,000 therefor.
A. B. 116. McPherson. Identical with S. B. 144. Benson.
S. B. 1019. Cogswell. Identical with A. B. 1019. Mouser.
A. B. 1271. Rigdon. Providing for the location, survey and
construction of a proposed highway from Bakersfield in Kern
County by the most direct and feasible route by the Lost
Hills through the Cholame Pass to a point on the State high-
way in the County of S?an Luis Obispo, and also for the loca-
tion, survey and construction of a lateral State highway start-
ing from Hanford in Kings County and running by the most
direct and feasible route to connect with the highway above
described at a convenient point near the easterly entrance to
the Cholame Pass, and appropriating $200,000 therefor.
HISTORIC LANDMARKS.
S. B. 88. Slater. Appropriating $2000 for the restoration
and rebuilding of the old Greek Chapel at Fort Ross,
Sonoma County, California.
A. B. 89. Boyce. Appropriating $5000 for repairing and im-
proving custom house at Monterey.
S. B. 165. Campbell. Identical with A. B. 89. Boyce.
S. B. 545. Cogswell. To provide for the appointment of a
board of Pio Pico mansion trustees and for the acquisition
of the Pio Pico mansion property; and making an appropria-
tion for the preservation and protection of said property.
A. B. 1431. Boyce. Appropriating $2000 for repairing and
improving old theatre property at Monterey.
MONUMENTS.
S. B. 63. Finn. Provides for the erection of a memorial
monument to Abraham Lincoln, appointing a commission
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therefor and appropriating $10,000 to carry this Act into
effect.
A. B. 95. Godsil. Providing for the erection of a memorial
monument to George Washington; appointing a commission
therefor and appropriating $20,000 to carry this Act into effect.
A. B. 519. Rominger. To provide for the erection of a
memorial monument at Long Beach to deceased members of
the G. A. R.; appointing a commission therefor; and appro-
priating $1000 to carry this Act into effect.
. A. B. 1054. Canepa. To provide for the erection of a mem-
orial monument to Christopher Columbus and George Wash-
ington, appointing a commission therefor, and appropriating
money to carry this Act into effect.
MISCELLANEOUS.
S. B. 64. Finn. Providing that one-half of' the cost and
expense of maintenance of the salaries of the officers, fire-
men and crew of the fire boats "David Scannell" and "Dennis
Sullivan" shall be borne and paid by the State of California
out of the general fund.
A. B. 122. Hayes. Identical with S. B. 64. Finn.
A. B. 113. Avey. Providing for the reforestation, the cut-
ting of fire lanes and fire trails on the Angeles National
Forest, and appropriating $5000.00 therefor.
A. B. 469. Wright, H. W. Appropriating money to supple-
ment the appropriation for the emergency fund for the sixty-
sixth fiscal year.
A. B. 477. Meek. Appropriating $25,000 to aid the State
Board of Equalization in the appraisement of property and the
collection of data relating to assessments of property and taxes
due thereon.
A. B. 454. Rodgers. Appropriating $272,760 to pay for the
services rendered the State of California by members of the
boards of election of each of the election precincts of the State
at the general State election held on November 3, 1914.
S. B. 525. Shearer. Appropriating $10,000 for the investiga-
tion of agricultural problems and conditions in Siskiyou County,
contingent upon the appropriation by the United States of
America of the like, or greater sum for the same purpose.
A. B. 615. Godsil. Appropriating $11,433.82 out of the San
Francisco Harbor Improvement. Fund in the State Treasury to
pay the assessment levied for said amount on property belong-
ing to the State of California by the City and County of* San
Francisco for a local improvement.
S. B. 615. Gerdes. Identical with A. B. 615. Godsil.
A. B. 585. Lostutter. To provide for the fighting of forest
firee in the San Antonio Canyon in the San Gabriel Mountains,
California, and appropriating $2500 therefor.
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A. B. 60$, Wright, H. W. Appropriating- money to meet
additional expense for the support of orphans, half-orphans
and abandoned children for the sixty-fifth and sixty-sixth
fiscal years.
S. B. 702. King. Appropriating $10,000 for the conducting of
experiments in the manufacture of by-products from citrus
fruits at Citrus Experiment Station at Riverside, California.
A. B. 680. Pettis (by request). Providing for the creation
and management of the Branscomb Redwood Park, appro-
priating $75,000 therefor, and creating a board of five com-
missioners with the power to make purchases and manage
said Branscomb Redwood Park.
A. B. 734. Lost utter. Appropriating money for the flood
control and conservation of the waters of the San Antonio
wash, along the boundary line between Los Angeles and San
Bernardino counties.
S. B. 1040. Cogswell. Appropriating $10,000 to pay the pre-
mium or charge on official bonds of State officers as provided
for in an Act, approved March 25, 1903, to provide for the
payment by the State or counties, or cities, or cities and
counties, of the premium or charge on official bonds wheni
given by surety companies.
S. B. 1079. Wolfe. Appropriating $30,0U0 for building and
furnishing an observatory in the City and County of San Fran-
cisco; arranging for its upkeep by said City and county.
A. B. 1265. Encell. Identical with S. B. 1090. Anderson.
S. B. 1086. Jones. Appropriating money to pay the expenses
of the Recreational Inquiry Committee in the preparation and
distribution of the report of said committee.
S. B. 1090. Anderson. Appropriating $40,000 to defray the
expenses during the sixty-seventh and sixty-eighth fiscal years
of the Commission of Immigration and Housing of California
in conducting inspections of housing conditions and enforcng
the State housing laws.
S. B. 1151. Luce. Appropriating $25,000 to repay subscribers
to the fund for constructing the bridge across the Colorado
River at Yuma, Arizona.
S. B. 1189. Cogswell. To provide for the purchase of a
portrait of former Lieutenant Governor A. J. Wallace, and
appropriating $500 therefor.
A. B. 1259. Chenoweth. Appropriating $2500 for the com-
pletion of the conservatory and propagating plant on the State
Capitol grounds at Sacramento.
A. B. 1400. Avey. Appropriating $15,000 for the purpose
of transporting water from the Highgrove well to the property
of the Citrus Experimental Station at Riverside.
A. B. 1401. Avey. Appropriating $5000 for the construction
of buildings for the Citrus Experimental Station at Riverside. ;
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A. B. 1402. Avey. Appropriating $20,000 for the planting
and transplanting of nursery stock and fruit trees on the prop-
erty of the Citrus Experimental Station at Riverside.
A. B. 1403. Avey. Appropriating $5000 to construct roads
on State property of the Citrus Experimental Station at River-
side.
A. B. 1404. Avey. Appropriating $5000 for the construction
of reservoirs on the property of the Citrus Experimental Sta-
tion at Riverside.
A. B. 1444. Scott, F. C For the establishment of a Mb
hatchery at Three Rivers, Tulare County, and appropriating
$10,000 therefor.
S. B. 149. Jones. Providing for the construction or a build-
ing to be used as a barn and garage in California Redwood
Park, and appropriating $5000 therefor.
A. B. 248. McPherson. Identical with S. B. 149. Jones.
A. B. 261. Hayes. Identical with S. B. 149. Jones.
A. B. 93. Canepa. Appropriating $25,000 for constructing
a hospital building on site near the ferry building, in the City
and County of San Francisco, and arranging for its upkeep
by said city and county.
S. B. 675. Crowley. Identical with A. B. 93. Canepa.
NATIONAL GUARD.
A. B. 596. Wright, H. W. Appropriating $10,000 to defray
the expenses, during the sixty-seventh and sixty-eighth fiscal
years, of organizing, controlling, equipping, instructing and
maintaining high school cadet companies in the State of Cali-
fornia, and for promoting rifle practice in said companies and
to further carry out the purposes of an Act approved April
5, 1911, to provide for the organization, control and equipment
of high school cadet companies, and for the promotion of rifle
practice therein, and appropriating the sum of $5000 therefor.
S. B. 773. Scott. Making available and reappropriating
certain moneys for the expenses of the National Guard in
case of insurrection, invasion, tumult, riot or imminent dan-
ger thereof.
A. B. 833. Edwards. Identical with g. B. 773. Scott.
S. B. 777. Scott. Appropriating $50,000 for the subsistence,
supplies, transportation and other expenses incidental to the
encampment of the troops of the National Guard of California,
upon the occasion of the Panama-Pacific International Ex-
position.
A. B. 837. Edwards. Identical with S. B. 111. Scott.
S. B. 776. Scott. Appropriating $3000 for the attendance
of certain members of the High School Cadets organizations
of the State of California at the student camp under the
supervision of the Secretary of War of the United States, to
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be held in the State of California, during the summer of 1915.
A. B. 834. Edwards. Identical with S. B. 776. Scott.
S. B. 775. Scott. Appropriating $10,000 for the entertainment
©f the delegates to the convention of the National Guard Asso-
ciation of the United States, at its meeting in the city of San
Francisco, California, during the year 1915.
A. B. 835. Edwards. Identical with S. B. 775. Scott.
S. B. 774. Scott. Appropriating $5000 to pay the expenses
of an encampment of California High School Cadets in the
vicinity of San Francisco during the Panama-Pacific Inter-
national Exposition.
A. B. 836. Edwards. Identical with S. B. 774. Scott.
S. B. 771. Scott. Appropriating $12,000 for the purchase of
lands in Sacramento county, State of California, for the use
of the National Guard of California, for target and range
, purposes.
A. B. 838. Edwards. Identical with S. B. 771. Scott.
S. B. 883. Luce. Appropriating $2500 for the erection of
additional buildings for the use of the Naval Reserves of
San Diego, California.
A. B. 1032. Conrad. Identical with S. B. 883. Luce.
RIVER AND HARBOR IMPROVEMENTS.
A. B. 88. Boyce. Provides for the accomplishment of the
work of constructing a breakwater in ' Monterey Bay, Cali-
fornia, as recommended in the report of the chief of Engineers,
United States army, and printed in a document of the United
States House of Representatives, No. 1084, 61st Congress, 3d
session, calling for an expenditure of $600,000 and appropriat-
ing $200,000 for such work.
S. B. 174. Campbell. Identical with A. B. 88. Boyce.
A. B. 101. Shartel. Providing for removing obstruction in
Pitt river above the mouth of Hat creek so as to enable salmon
to reach the spawning grounds of the upper waters of said
river and its tributaries, and appropriating $1000 therefor.
, A. B. 565. Manning. Appropriating money to meet part of
the expenses in maintaining the navigability of the San Rafael
-deep water channel.
A. B. 1156. Gebhart. Appropriating money to be expended
by and under the direction of the Department of Engineering
for the purpose of rectifying and improving the channels of
the "Sacramento, San Joaquin and Feather rivers and such
other waters of the State as the Department of Engineering
may-determine ] etc.
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STATE INSTITUTIONS.
Agnews State Hospital.
S. B. 269. Jones. Appropriating $45,000 for the construction
and furnishing of a cottage for male patients at the Agnews
State Hospital.
A. B. 258. Hayes. Identical with S. B. 269. Jones.
S. B. 270. Jones. Appropriating $10,000 for the purchase of
a dairy herd for the Agnews State Hospital.
A. B. £62. Hayes. Identical with S. B. 270. Jones.
S. B. £71. Jones. Appropriating $20,000 for the construction
of dairy buildings and equipment at the Agnews State Hospital.
A. B. 259. Hayes. Identical with S. B. 271. Jones.
S. B. 1000. Jones. Appropriating money for the construc-
tion of- a building for women patients at the Agnews State
Hospital.
S. B. 1001. Jones. Appropriating money for the construc-
tion and furnishing of a building for tubercular patients at
the Agnews State Hospital.
S. B. 1002. Jones. Appropriating money for the purchase
of land for the Agnews State Hospital.
Adult Blind, Industrial Home for.
S. B. 464. Breed. Appropriating $3000 for repairs and im-
provements at 'the Industrial Home for the- Adult Blind.
S. B. 465. Breed. Appropriating $4000 for furniture for the
new dormitory building at the Industrial Home for the Adult
Blind.
California School for Deaf and Blind.
S. B. 466. Breed. Appropriating $S550 for repairs and im-
provements at the California School for the Deaf and the Blind.
S. B. 467. Breed. Appropriating $12,500 to install new electric
wiring in the institution of the California School for the Deaf
and the Blind.
S. B. 468. Breed. Appropriating $1500 to provide the manual
arts building of the California School for the Deaf and the
Blind with fire escape equipment.
S. B. 469. Breed. Appropriating $4000 to develop and equip
artesian wells and to connect the same with the water system
of the California School for the Deaf and the Blind at the
California School for the Deaf and the Blind.
S. B. 496. Breed. Appropriating $4500 for repairs and im-
provements at the California School for the Deaf and the
Blind.
S. B. 759. Breed. Appropriating $50,000 for the construc-
tion of a dormitory building at the California School for the
Deaf and the Blind.
Folsom State Hospital.
S. B. 253. Crowley. Appropriating $30,300 to complete,
equip and furnish the Folsom State Hospital.
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A. B. 235. Pettis. Appropriating $30,000 to complete, equip
and furnish the Folsom State Hospital.
Folsom State Prison.
S. B. 373. Cohn. Appropriating $12,000 for the construction
of a horse barn at the State prison at Folsom.
A. B. 414. Chenoweth. Identical with S. B. 379. Cohn.
S. B. 380. Cohn. Appropriating $4000 for furnishing and
decorating the warden's residence at the State prison at
Folsom.
A. B. 415. Chenoweth. Identical with S. B. 380. Cohn.
S. B. 381. Cohn. Appropriating $2000 for the expense of
changing from coal to oil burners at the State prison at
Folsom.
A. B. 418. Chenoweth. Identical with S. B. 381. Cohn.
S. B. 382. Cohn. Appropriating $4500 for the purchase of
live stock for the State prison at Folsom.
A. B. 419. Chenoweth. Identical with S. B. 382. Cohn.
S. B. 383. Cohn. Appropriating $31,000 for reconstruction of
electrical equipment connected with the power house at the
State prison at Folsom.
A. B. 416. Chenoweth. Identical with S. B. 383. Cohn.
S. B. 384. Cohn. Appropriating $20,000 for repairs and im-
provements at the State prison at Folsom.
A. B. 417. Chenoweth. Identical with S. B. 384. Cohn.
S. B. 385. Cohn. Appropriating $6000 for the purchase and
installation of refrigerating plant at the State prison at
Folsom.
A. B. 412. Chenoweth. Identical with S. B. 385. Cohn.
S. B. 386. Cohn. Appropriating $1500 for the construction of
farm buildings at the State prison at Folsom.
A. B. 411. Chenoweth. Identical with S. B. 386. Cohn.
S. B. 387. Cohn. Appropriating $5000 for the expense of pur-
chasing and installing new bake oven at the State prison at
Folsom.
A. B. 413. Chenoweth. Identical with S. B. 387. Cohn.
A. B. 852. Chenoweth. Appropriating $15,000.00 for the pur-
chase of additional land for the Folsom State Prison.
Norwalk State Hospital.
S. B. 394. Cogswell. Appropriating $100,000 for the support
and maintenance and erection of additional buildings at the
State Hospital at Norwalk, Los Angeles County, California.
Mendocino State Hospital.
S. B. 187. Purkitt. Appropriating $100,000 for building, fur-
nishing and equipping a receiving building at Mendocino State
Hospital.
A. B. 165. Pettis. Identical with • S. B. 187. Purkitt.
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A. B. 280. Pettis. Appropriating $25,000 for the replace-
ment of the main pipe line and connections thereto at the
Mendocino State Hospital.
S. B. 295. Purkitt. Identical with A. B. 280. Pettis.
A. B. 281. Pettis. Appropriating $5000 for plumbing repairs
at the Mendocino State Hospital.
S. B. 296. Purkitt. Identical with A. B. 281. Pettis.
A. B. 282. Pettis. Appropriating $7500 for the purchase and
installation of three electric elevators at the Mendocino State
Hospital.
S. B. 294. Purkitt. Identical with A. B. 282. Pettis.
Napa State Hospital.
S. B. 246. Rush. Appropriating $15,000 for the construction
and furnishing of a cottage for men patients at the Napa State
Hospital.
A. B. 479. Widenmann. Identical with S. B. 246. Rush.
S. B. 247. Rush. Appropriating $15,000 for the construction
and furnishing of a cottage for women patients at the Napa
State Hospital.
A. B. 478. Widenmann. Identical with S. B. 247. Rush.
S. B. 248. Rush. Appropriating $15,000 for the construction
and equipment of a building or buildings as a home for work-
ingmen on what is known as the Smith-Brown ranch belonging
to the Napa State Hospital.
A. B. 480. Widenmann. Identical with S. B. 248. Rush.
S. B. 249. Rush. Appropriating $15,000 for remodeling
South P Cottage at the Napa State Hospital.
A. B. 482. Widenmann. Identical with S. B. 249. Rush.
S. B. 250. Rush. Appropriating $7500 for the purchase of
additional land at the Napa State Hospital.
A. B. 481. Widenmann. Identical with S. B. 250. Rush.
A. B. 1041. Widenmann. Appropriating money for power
house repairs and equipment at the Napa State Hospital.
California School for Girls.
S. B. 416. Mott. Appropriating $7000 for the construction of
a commissary building and equipment at the California School
for Girls located near Ventura.
S. B. 417. Mott. Appropriating $21,000 for the construction
of farm buildings and improvements at the California School
for Girls located near Ventura.
S. B. 418. Mott. Appropriating money for the construction
and furnishing of a cottage for males at the California School
for Girls located near Ventura.
A. B. 435. Edwards, R. G. Appropriating money for the
construction and furnishing of six typical cottages at the
California School for Girls located near Ventura.
A. B. 436. Edwards, R. G. Appropriating $2500 for the con-
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struction of garage and tool house at the California School
for Girls located near Ventura.
A. B. 437. Edwards, R. G. Appropriating money for the
construction of fences on the property of the California School
for Girls located near Ventura.
. A. B. 438. Edwards, R. G. Appropriating money for the
improvement of grounds and purchase of necessary equipment
therefor at the California School for Girls near Ventura.
A. B. 1164. Edwards, R. G. Appropriating $7500 for the
construction of surface drains and to in other ways care for
storm water at the California Schools for Girls located near
Ventura.
Preston School of Industry.
S. B. 1038. Mott. Identical with A. B. 1164. Edwards.
S. B. 191. Stuckenbruck. Appropriating $30,000 for repairs
and improvements and erection of small buildings at the Pres-
ton School of Industry.
A. B. 249. Kerr. Identical with S. B. 191. Stuckenbruck.
San Quentln State Prison.
A. B. 470. Wright. Appropriating $232,000 for the support
and maintenance of the State prison at San Quentin for the
sixty- sixth fiscal year.
S. B. 356. Strobridge. Appropriating $232,000 for the support
and maintenance of the State prison at San Quentin for the
sixty-sixth fiscal year.
S. B. 362. Finn. Appropriating $15,000 for the purchase of
machinery and equipment for the manufacturing departments
at the State prison at San Quentin.
A. B. 464. Manning. Identical with S. B. 362. Finn.
S. B. 363. Finn. Appropriating $25,000 for repairs and im-
provements at the State prison at San Quentin.
A. B. 466. Manning. Identical with S. B. 363. Finn.
S. B. 364. Finn. Appropriating $10,000 for the construction
and equipment of dairy and farm buildings at the State prison
at San Quentin.
A. B. 462. Manning. Identical with S. B. 364. Finn.
S. B. 365. Finn. Appropriating $5000 for the construction
and equipment of a concrete bath house at the State prison
at San Quentin.
A. B. 463. Manning. Identical with S. B. 365. Finn.
S. B. 366. Finn. Appropriating $5000 for the extension of
the walls at the State prison at San Quentin.
A. B. 460. Manning. Identical with S. B. 366. Finn.
S. B. 367. Finn. Appropriating $5000 for the development of
the water supply and pumping plant at the State prison at
San Quentin.
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A. B. 461. Manning. Identical with S. B. 367. Finn.
S. B. 368. Finn. Appropriating $5000 for the purchase of live
stock at the State prison at San Quentin.
A. B. 465. Manning. Identical with S. B. 368. Finn.
A. B. 601. Wright. To create a revolving fund for the
manufacturing departments at the State prison at San Quen-
tin and to appropriate $50,000 therefor.
Sonoma State Home.
S. B. 182. Slater. Appropriating $25,000 for the construction
and furnishing of a building for male epileptics at the Sonoma
State Home.
S. B. 183. Slater. Appropriating $5000 for the improvement
of grounds and roads at the- Sonoma State Home.
A. B. 187. Salisbury. Appropriating $25,000 for the con-
struction and furnishing of a girls' nursery building at the:
Sonoma State Home.
A. B. 188. Salisbury. Appropriating $16,750 for water and!
steam piping and plumbing repairs at the Sonoma State Home.
S. B. 977. Slater. Appropriating money for the erection
of a laundry building at Sonoma State Home.
S. B. 978. Slater. Appropriating $3000.00 for the purpose of
remodeling the present laundry building at the Sonoma State
Home into a commissary.
Southern California State Hospital.
S. B. 262. King. Appropriating $25,000 for the construction
and furnishing of two patient cottages at the Southern Cali-
fornia State Hospital.
A. B. 311. Phelps. Identical with S. B. 262. King.
S. B. 263. King. Appropriating $10,000 for the development
of water, including the installation of pumping station and
mains at the Southern California State Hospital.
A. B. 312. Phelps. Identical with S. B. 263. King.
S. B. 264. King. Appropriating $5000 for the construction
of fences and the purchase of wire and other material for
enclosures at the Southern California State Hospital.
B. 313. Phelps. Identical with S. B. 264. King.
Stockton State Hospital.
S. B. 190. Stuckenbruck. Appropriating $12,000 for the pur-
chase of additions to the dairy herd at the Stockton State
Hospital.
S. B. 192. Stuckenbruck. Appropriating $30,000 for the con-
struction and furnishing of a convalescent building for females
at the Stockton State Hospital.
S. B. 193. Stuckenbruck. Appropriating $3000 for the con-
struction and furnishing of an isolation hospital at the Stock-
ton State Hospital.
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S. B. 194. Stuckenbruck. Appropriating $7000 for the pur-
chase and expense of installation of a boiler at the Stockton
State Hospital.
A. B. 244. Ashley. Appropriating $7000 for the construction
of farm buildings at the Stockton State Hospital.
A. B. 322. Edwards, L. Appropriating $14,500 for wiring for
electricity at the Stockton State Hospital.
A. B. 323. Edwards, L. Appropriating money for the con-
struction and furnishing of a cottage for males at the Stock-
ton State Hospital.
A. B. 324. Edwards, L. Appropriating $6000 for the con-
struction and furnishing of a tubercular hospital at the Stock-
ton State Hospital.
A. B. 828. Edwards, L. Appropriating $8000 to construct
and furnish two cottages for physicians at the Stockton State
Hospital.
Veterans' Home.
S. B. 241. Rush. Appropriating $150,000 for the construc-
tion and equipping of a new hospital building for the Veterans'
Home of California.
S. B. 242. Rush. Appropriating $15,000 for repairs and im-
provements to the buildings at the Veterans' Home of Cali-
fornia.
S. B. 243. Rush. Appropriating $15,000 for the construction
and equipment of bath rooms in the barracks at the Veterans'
Home.
S. B. 244. Rush. Appropriating $10,000 for plumbing and
repairs to plumbing at the Veterans' Home of California.
S. B. 245. Rush. Appropriating $3500 for wiring for electric-
ity at the Veterans' Home of California.
Women's Relief Corps Home.
A. B. 161. Wright, T. M. Providing for improvements, re-
pairs and furnishings for the buildings and grounds of the
Woman's Relief Corps Home located at Evergreen, Santa
Clara County, and appropriating $2,500.00 therefor.
A. B. 162. Wright, T. M. Providing for nurses and medi-
cal attendants for the inmates of the Woman's Relief Corps
Home located at Evergreen, Santa Clara County, and ap-
propriating money therefor.
S. B. 412. Benson. Appropriating $2500 for repairs and im-
provements at the Women's Relief Corps Home at Evergreen.
Whittier State School.
S. B. 395. Cogswell. Appropriating $6000 for the erection
of a superintendent's residence at the Whittier State School.
A. B. 421. Lostutter. Identical with S. B. 395. Cogswell.
S. B. 396. Cogswell. Appropriating $25,000 for repairs, im-
provements and equipment at the Whittier State School.
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A. B. 422. Lostutter. Identical with S. B. 396. Cogswell.
S. B. 397. Cogswell. Appropriating $10,000 for the erection
of school quarters and library building at the Whittier State
School.
A. B. 420. Lostutter. Identical with S. B. 397. Cogswell.
S. B. 39S. Cogswell. Appropriating $50,000 for the erection
and furnishing of cottages at the Whittier State School.
A. B. 423. Lostutter. Identical with S. B. 398. Cogswell.
S. B. 399. Cogswell. Appropriating $15,000 for building,
equipping and furnishing quarters for officers at Whittier State
School.
S. B. 400. Cogswell. Appropriating $35,000 for building,
equipping and furnishing an administration building at Whit-
tier State School.
S. B. 544. Cogswell. Appropriating money to supplement
the support appropriation of the Whittier State School for the
sixty-sixth fiscal year.
STATE OFFICES AND DEPARTMENTS.
A. B. 1092. Wright, H. W. Appropriating money for the
support of the Government of the State of California for the
sixty-seventh and sixty-eighth fiscal years (introduced by title
and preamble only).
A. B. 594. Wright. H. W. Appropriating money for the
payment of compensation benefits accruing by reason of per-
sonal injury resulting from accident to State officers and em-
ployees while performing services accruing out of and inci-
dental to their employment.
A. B. 467. Wright. H. W. Appropriating money to pay the
cost of rental, porter service, cost of moving, and other ex-
pense necessary to the location and maintenance of State
offices in Sacramento outside the Capitol Building for the
sixty-sixth fiscal year.
A. B. 613. Gebhart. Appropriating $1650 to pay for auto
truck and equipment therefor for the State Printing Office,
A. B. 614. Gebhart. Appropriating $2500 for the purpose
of insuring the State Printing Plant.
A. B. 579. Phelps. Appropriating $145.85 to pay the de-
ficiency in the appropriation for traveling expense for the
State Board of Agriculture in the sixty-second fiscal year.
S. B. 636. Thompson. Appropriating $72,500 to defray the
expense of legislative printing, and mailing handled by the
Superintendent of State Printing, for the forty-first session
of the Legislature of the State of California.
A. B. 709. Meek. Appropriating $30,000 to meet the ex-
penses of compiling, printing and distributing constitutional
amendments.
S. B. 376. Benedict. Appropriating $2000 to pay the expense
158 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.;
of compiling and publishing the revenue laws of the State of
California.
A. B. 468. Wright, H. W. Appropriating money to pay the
expenses incurred In the publication of bond acts presented
to the people at the election of November 3, 1914.
A. B. 471. Wright, H. W. Appropriating money to pay the
deficiency in the appropriation for printing and distributing
constitutional amendments for the sixty-fifth and sixty-sixth
fiscal years.
S. B. 463. Strobridge. Appropriating $6649.19 to pay the
deficiency in the appropriation for printing and distributing
constitutional amendments for the 65th and 66th fiscal years.
A. B. 693. Gebhart. Appropriating $25,000 for the purchase
of machinery and equipment for the State Printing Plant.
S. B. 856. Thompson. Appropriating $200,000.00 for the use
of the Railroad Commission of the State of California in the
control of public utilities within incorporated municipalities.
S. B. 829. Campbell. Appropriating $3500.00 for office equip-
ment for Secretary of State.
A. B. 998. Bartlett. Identical with S. B. 829. Campbell.
S. B. 897. Birdsall. Appropriating $5000 for furnishing,
repairing, renovating and improving the Governor's residence.
S. B. 980. Rush. Appropriating $2658.00 for the purchase of
an automobile for the use of the Governor of the State of
California.
A. B. 1148. Gebhart. Appropriating money to supplement
and be added to the cash revolving fund provided for the use
of the State Engineeer by Chapter 108 of the Statutes of 1913,
approved May 8, 1913.
A. B. 1157. Gebhart. Appropriating money to be expended
on the paths, walks and drives in the grounds of the State
Capitol in the City of Sacramento.
S. B. 1052. Breed. Appropriating $2000 for equipment foi
the State Treasurer's office.
A. B. 1346. Gebhart. Appropriating $25,000 for equipping
and furnishing the State printing plant.
A. B. 1347. Gebhart. Appropriating $5000 for the furnish-
ing and equipping of the gardener's lodge to be erected on the
State Capitol grounds.
A. B. 1348. Gebhart. Appropriating $100,000 for the con-
struction of a building to accommodate the State printing
plant.
A. B. 1349. Gebhart. Appropriating $25,000 for the purchase
of suitable lands in the City of Sacramento upon which to
build a State Printing Office, and creating a commission to
select and purchase such lands.
A. B. 1363. Gebhart. Appropriating $20,000 for the con-
struction of a gardener's lodge on the State Capitol grounds.
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915. 159
GENERAL LAWS
ADVERTISING.
S. B. 220. Scott (by request). Providing against the pub-
lishing or circulating of an advertisement, in any form, con-
taining any assertion, representation or statement of fact
which is untrue, deceptive or misleading, and declaring vio-
lation of statute a misdemeanor.
A. B. 222. McDonald, J. J. Identical with S. B. 220. Scott.
A. B. 496. Encell. Prohibiting the advertisement or publica-
tion of any advertisement that any person will cure or treat
or attempt to cure or treat any venereal disease or diseases
of the sexual organs, or the advertisement of any medicine,
medical preparation, remedy or prescription for such diseases
or ailments, and providing a penalty therefor.
A. B. 1432. Fish. Relating to exterior advertising as< in this
Act denned, declaring the prohibition of the use of property
for such purpose a public use, providing for the acquisition of
such use, and prohibiting exterior advertising on property as
to which such use has been acquired. (Introduced by title
only.) A. B. 1954. Fish. "Pending Legislation, 1913," p. 270.
AGRICULTURE.
S. B. 188. Cogswell. Creating a Department of Agriculture
and creating the office of Secretary of Agriculture, to be
appointed by the Governor, for a term of four years; denning
his powers and duties and fixing his salary at $7500 per annum;
providing for the reorganization and consolidation of various
departments — the State Agricultural Society, State Commis-
sioner of Horticulture, State Board of Horticultural Examin-
ers, State Dairy Bureau, Board of Examiners of Veterinary
Medicine, State Veterinarian, State Board of Sheep Commis-
sioners, Stallion Registration Board, Viticultural Commission-
ers, and State Superintendent of Weights and Measures — and
the administration of said departments under one head, to be
known as the Department of Agriculture, with three bureaus,
the bureau of animal industry, in two divisions; live stock,
including bees, and dairying; the bureau of horticulture, and
the bureau of economics, in three divisions, land settlement,
fairs and exhibits, and markets and statistics, and denning
the powers and duties of its officers.
A. B. 164. Avey. Creating a department of agriculture and
creating the office of secretary of agriculture; denning his
powers and duties and fixing his salary; providing for the
reorganization and consolidation of various departments and
the administration of said departments under one head to be
16Q PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
known as the Department of Agriculture, and defining the
powers and duties of its officers.
S. B. 508. Brown. Creating a special trust fund in aid of
agriculture within the State of California, to be known as
the State Rural Credit Fund, appropriating $200,000 therefor,
and providing for its administration.
Creates a board of trustees, consisting of the Secretary of
Agriculture, the Superintendent of Banks, who shall act ex-
officio, and one other person to be appointed by the Governor,
who shall be chairman of the commission and receive a salary
of $5000 a year, to administer the State Rural Credit Fund,
and make loans payable in fixed annual sums of both prin-
cipal and interest secured by first mortgages on agricultural
property within the State to approved borrowers for periods
not to exceed 35 years and at not less than 4 per cent per
annum.
The trustees are authorized to issue and sell tax exempt
mortgage collateral bonds, which shall be a legal investment
for trust and savings funds, but at no time shall the amount
of such bonds exceed twenty times the amount of paid up
capital of the fund; to purchase mortgage loans on agri-
cultural property within the State from private banking and
credit corporations, and may reduce interest thereon to not
less than 4 per cent and introduce a plan of gradual amortiz-
ation of both principal and interest; to frame regulations for
the organization of rural credit associations, and upon suf-
ficient security make loans to the members, secured by first
mortgages, and may accept deposits or reserve funds thereof
and pay interest thereon and act as agent and trustee
therefor.
Reports on lands on which developments are contemplated
through loans from this fund shall be made by the Depart-
ment of Agriculture free of charge to the fund, but other
agents may be engaged to determine the value of the prop-
erty on which loans are sought.
S. B. 509. Brown. Authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture
to purchase, improve, subdivide and sell agricultural lands in
California, and providing the conditions under which such
lands shall be purchased, improved, subdivided and sold;
authorizing the issuance and sale of land settlement bonds
and the creation of a land settlement fund for the purchase
of agricultural lands in California; together with any water
rights and rights of way necessary or desirable therefor, and
all expenses and costs of surveying, improving, subdividing
and selling such lands, including costs of assessments and
taxes, and the payment of interest on outstanding land set-
tlement bonds to case there is insufficient money for that
purpose in the land settlement sinking fund, and all costs of
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engineering, superintendence and administration, including
the cost of operating any works built; providing for the ad-
ministration of said land settlement fund; providing for the
creation of a sinking fund for the payment of said bonds;
authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to make necessary
rules and regulations for the disposal of lands purchased under
the provisions of this Act; authorizing the Secretary of Agri-
culture to investigate land settlement conditions and to sub-
mit recommendations for legislation in regard thereto; au-
thorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to condemn water
rights and rights of way for necessary roads, canals, ditches,
dams and reservoirs; and making an appropriation to enable
the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out the provisions of
this Act.
A. B. 34. Judson. To form agricultural districts, pro-
viding for boards of directors for the government thereof, and
for the management and control of the same by the State,
and making an appropriation therefor, and repealing all Acts
and portions of Acts in conflict with this Act.
A. B. 651. Judson. To form agricultural districts, providing
for boards of directors for the government thereof, and for
the management and control of the same by the S'tate, and
appropriating $42,000 therefor, and repealing all Acts and por-
tions of Acts in conflict with this Act.
Divides the State into eight districts, and provides for a
board of directors in each district to hold fairs, expositions
and exhibitions.
A. B. 297. Avey. Assenting to the provisions and require-
ments of the Act of Congress of the United States entitled
"An Act to provide for co-operative agricultural extension
work between the agricultural colleges in the several states
receiving the benefits of the Act of Congress approved July
2, 1862, and of Acts supplementary thereto, and the United
States Department of Agriculture", approved by the President
of the United States May 8, 1914, and authorizing and em-
powering the regents of the University of California to receive
the grants of money appropriated under said Act, and to
organize and conduct agricultural extension work in accord-
ance with the terms and conditions expressed in said Act,
Id making an appropriation for the purposes thereof.
5. B. 450. Chandler. Indentical with A. B. 297. Avey.
\. B. 306. Judson. Empowering county boards of super-
iors to appropriate and use county funds for the support
d maintenance of extension work in agriculture and home
economics in co-operation with the United States Department
of Agriculture and the University of California.
S. B. 436. Flint. Identical with A. B. 306. Judson.
162 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
S. B. 945. Rush. Amending Section 1 of an Act approved
April 15, 1880, as amended June 11, 1913, to provide for the
management and control of the State Agricultural Society by
the State.
A. B. 1433. Meek. Providing for the establishment and
maintenance of a branch agricultural experiment station and
making an appropriation therefor.
A. B. 1171. Rigdon. To encourage the teaching of agriculture
In the public schools of the State and providing an appropria-
tion therefor.
A. B. 1393. Boude. To provide for the holding of an annual
State Poultry Show and appropriating $3000 therefor.
S. B. 301. Breed. Amending Section 9 of an Act, approved
March 20, 1903, to regulate the sale of commercial fertilizers
or materials used for manorial purposes, and to provide pen-
alties for the infraction thereof, and means for the enforce-
ment of the Act, by providing that all registry, analytical or
special license fees shall be paid to the secretary of the Board
of Regents, etc.
A. B. 308. Edwards. Identical with S. B. 301. Breed.
ANIMALS, DISEASES OF.
See Cattle, Horses and Livestock.)
ANIMALS, TRESPASSING OF.
A. B. 529. Ream. To prohibit the bringing of actions
against owners of livestock trespassing upon unfenced private
lands within the boundaries of any national forest in the
State of California.
A. B. 197. Conard, by request. Regulating the keeping or
pasturing of goats.
More than three goats cannot be maintained on grazing
land unless enclosed with goat-tight fence, except by per-
mission of board of supervisors, and no such permit shall be
granted until there shall be first filed with the county clerk
the written consent of all land owners within three miles
of the boundary of the land to be used as a goat pasture.
Violation a misdemeanor.
A. B. 1116. Fish. An Act supplemental to an Act approved
March 7, 1878, concerning trespassing animals upon private
lands in certain counties of the State of California, and to
extend the provisions of said Act to Kern County.
ANTI-ALIEN LAND LAWS.
A. B. 612. Shartel. Amending Sections 2 and 3 of an Act
approved May 19, 1913, relating to the rights, powers and
disabilities of aliens and of certain companies, associations
and corporations with respect to property in this State, pro-
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viding for escheats in certain cases, prescribing the pro-
cedure therein, and repealing all Acts or parts of Acts incon-
sistent or in conflict herewith; providing for the repeal of
certain provisions in relation to the right to lease lands for
agricultural purposes.
ARCHITECTURE.
S. B. 1031. Carr. Amending Section 5 of an Act, approved
March 23, 1901, to regulate the practice of architecture.
ASEXUALIZATION.
S. B. 1018. Cogswell. Amending Section 1 of an Act, ap-
proved April 26, 1909, to permit asexualization of inmates of
the State hospitals and the California Home for the Care and
Training of Febble-Minded Children, and of convicts in the
State prisons.
ASSESSMENT.
(See also Taxation.)
S. B. 280. Thompson. Confirming, validating and legalizing
assessments of property and taxes due thereunder entered and
contained in assessment books or rolls from which assessment
books or rolls the clerk of the board of supervisors and auditor
omitted to attach and enter the affidavit or certificate, or
both such certificate and affidavit, required by the provisions
of Sections 3682 and 3732 of the Political Code, and to confirm,
validate and legalize all certificates of sale, tax deeds, or other
tax conveyances issued under and based upon any such assess-
ments and taxes.
BANKING.
(See also Public Moneys.)
S. B. 668. Hans. Amending Sections 1, 3, 11, 15, 20, 25, 28,
32, 36, 43, 46, 47, 48, 49, 56, 61, 65, 67, 68, 80, 83, 96, 101, 127, 144 and
145 of an Act to define and regulate the business of banking,
approved March 1, 1909, designated the "Bank Act", and by
adding a new section thereto to be numbered Section 57, all
relating to the definition and regulation of the business of
banking.
S. B. 586. Flint. Amending an Act, approved March 1, 1909,
to define and regulate the business of banking known as the
Bank Act, by amending Section 53 thereof added thereto by
an Act entitled an Act to amend that certain Act of the
Legislature of the State of California entitled "An Act to
define and regulate the business of banking", approved
March 1, 1909, by amending Sections 11, 20, 23, 33, 35, 39, 43,
49, 60, 62, 80, 82, 83, 96, 123, 133, 124 and 121 thereof, and by
adding new Sections 12a, 52, 53 and 84 thereto, approved April
21, 1911, relating to the capital stock of banks.
1&4 PENDING LEGISLATION; 1915.
A. B'. 655. Encell. Adding Section 67a (new) to an Act
to define and regulate the business of banking, approved
March 1, 1901, designated the "Banking Act" as amended
February 6, 1911, April 21, 1911, December 18, 1911, December
24, 1911, May 6, 1913, and May 31, 1913, providing that no loan
shall ' be made by a savings bank on security of real estate
unless title is shown to be in borrower by policy of title
insurance or guaranteed certificate of title, or by abstract
of title examined by and approved in writing by attorney of
bank making loan.
S. B. 652. Thompson. Amending Section 96 of the Act
known as the "Bank Act", approved March 1, 1909, as amended
February 6, 1911; April 21, 1911; December 18, 1911; December
24, 1911, and May 6, 1913.
S. B. 81. Jones. Adding section 146 to an Act "approved
March 1, 1909, to define and regulate the business of banking,
designated the "Bank Aet," relating to trusts and dispensing
with the deposit of securities by corporations acting as trus-
tees under deeds of trust or similar instruments securing
the performance of obligations in certain instances.
S. B. 957. Shearer. Amending Section 10 of an Act, ap-
proved March 1, 1909, as amended February 6, 1911, April 21,
1911, December 18, 1911, December 24, 1911 and May 6, 1913,
to define and regulate the business of banking, designated the
"Bank Act".
BARBERS.
A. B. 1357. Downing (by request). Authorizing and direct-
ing the State Board of Health to establish the State barber
registration and sanitation bureau for the purpose of regulat-
ing barbers and their occupation and the sanitation of barber
shops, etc. . .
"BLUE SKY" LAW.
(See Investment Companies, Regulation of.)
BOARD OF HEALTH, STATE.
(See Public Health and Sanitation; Barbers; Embalmers;
Tuberculosis.)
S. B. 407. Scott. Creating the position of stenographer of
the State Board of Health and fixing the compensation thereof.
A. B. 652. McPherson. Identical with S. B. 407, Scott.
S. B. 798. Gerdes. Providing for the organization of the
State Board of Health, prescribing its duties and powers and
providing for the protection and preservation of the public
health.
A. B. 923. Manning. Identical with S. B. 798. Gerdes.
S. B. 838. Jones. To provide for the establishment and
maintenance of a department of sanitary engineering under
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the direction of the State Board of Health and appropriating
$30,000.00 therefor.
BONDS.
(See Irrigation; Street Improvement; Municipal Corporations;
Official Bonds.)
S. B. 614. Carr (by request). To confirm and validate bonds
issued and to be issued by the State of California under the
provisions of the "State Highways Act", and "San Francisco
Harbor Improvement Act of 1909".
A. B. 342. Wills. To legalize bonds issued and to be issued
and sold by Imperial Irrigation District.
A. B. 341. Wills. To legalize bonds issued and to be issued
and sold by irrigation districts.
S. B. 98. Carr. Validating municipal bonds, and to pro-
vide for the levy and collection of taxes to pay the principal
and interest on such bonds.
A. B. 909. Sisson. Identical with S. B. 98. Carr.
S. B. 99. Carr. Validating bonds of school districts and
high school districts, and to provide for the levy and collec-
tion of taxes to pay the principal and interest on such bonds.
A. B. 455. Manning (by request). To provide for the issu-
ance of street improvement bonds to represent and be secured
by certain assessments made for the cost of certain work and
improvements made in and upon streets, avenues, lanes, alleys,
courts, places and sidewalks within municipalities and upon
property and rights of way owned by municipalities, to pro-
vide for the collection of such assessments, the sale of the
property secured thereby and for the payment of the bonds
so issued.
A. B, 819. Lostutter (by request). To validate street im-
provement bonds.
BONDS, OFFICIAL, PREMIUM ON.
■ A. B. 1193. Scott, F. C. To provide for the filing of bonds
by certain employees of the Department of Engineering ami
for the payment by the said department of the premiums or
charges on bonds of its employees when given by surety
companies.
S. B. 1074. Birdsall. Identical with A. B. 1193. Scott.
BROKERS.
A. B. 513. Phillips. Relating to the regulation and licensing
of pawnbrokers; investing the Commissioner of the Bureau of
Labor Statistics with the administration of the Act; and pre-
scribing penalties for violation of the provisions hereof.
A. B. 1112. Marron. Providing for the regulation and licen-
sing of the business of making small loans, designated as the.
166 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
business of personal loan broker; requiring the commissioner
of the Bureau of Labor Statistics to enforce and administer
the Act; and prescribing penalties for violation of the provis-
ions hereof.
A. B. 1429. Brown, H. W. Defining and relating to wage-
brokers; regulating assignments of wages and salaries as se-
curities for loans; and fixing a maximum rate of interest for
loans upon wages and salaries, and providing penalties for the
violation thereof.
Requires a license and execution of bond to conduct busi-
ness as wage-broker; boards of supervisors empowered to
regulate business; no assignment of salary or wages by any
employee or wage-earner to a wage-broker or other person
shall be valid or enforceable, unless it be for fixed and definite
part of salary or wages earned or to be earned during period
not exceeding 30 days immediately following assignment. Post
dated or wrongly dated assignments shall be void; no wage-
broker shall ask or receive any compensation or interest in
excess of 1 per cent a month, computed on the amount actu-
ally advanced; no assignment of wages or salary by a married
man shall be valid or enforceable without consent of wife
evidenced by her signature to assignment executed and ac-
knowledged before notary, and no wage-broker or person con-
nected directly or indirectly with him shall be authorized to
take acknowledgments; no wage-broker shall make any loan
to a minor, nor shall any assignment of wages or salary by
minor be valid or enforceable; no assignment of wages or
salary shall be valid or enforceable unless notice in writing
with copy be given employer of debtor within 10 days after
date of execution; every purchase by wage-broker of an assign-
ment of wages or salary shall be held to be a loan, in sum
actually paid to person making assignment, and subject to all
provisions of this act; violation declared a misdemeanor, pun-
ishable by fine of not less than $25 or more than $500 for each
offense, or by imprisonment not to exceed 90 "days , or both;
any note or indebtedness and any assignment of wages given
to or received by any wage-broker in violation of this Act
shall be null and void, and upon conviction any and all moneys
advanced or loaned in violation hereof shall be forfeited.
A. B. 374. Chamberlain. Relating to real estate brokers,
agents, salesmen and dealers in the State of California.
Provides that no person shall act as broker, agent, salesman
or dealer in soliciting or receiving applications or contracts
for the rental, sale, purchase or exchange of real estate with-
out a certificate of authority from the Secretary of State;
defines "real estate broker;" provides that every person de-
siring to engage in real estate business shall apply to Secre-
tary of State for certificate of registration, which application
shall be accompanied by certificate from county clerk of county
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where applicant resides, reciting that he is a resident of that
county, giving his specific business address, and that he has
a good reputation therein for truth, honesty and integrity;
together with fee of $10; whereupon Secretary of State shall
issue a non-transferable certificate, entitling applicant to
engage in real estate business. Every person to whom such
certificate is issued must conspicuously display in his place of
business a sign bearing words "Registered Real Estate Broker."
Such certificates to be renewed annually on July 1st upon
payment of fee of $5. Out of each dollar collected Secretary
of State shall pay ten cents into general fund of State and 90
cents into State advertising fund.
Persons so registered are prohibited from paying any com-
mission, brokerage, or other valuable consideration on account
of any real estate transaction in this State to any person in
this State not so registered.
Certificate may be revoked upon conviction of violation of
Act or of fraud against principal in a sale, tried upon a veri-
fied accusation in writing in the Superior Court, and court
shall determine period of revocation, which shall be not less
than one year nor more than five years.
Any person engaging in real estate business without certifi-
cate of registration after passage of this Act, or who continues
business after revocation of certificate, shall be guilty of mis-
demeanor, punishable by fine of not less than $25 nor more
than $500, or imprisonment not less than one or more than
30 days, or both.
BUILDING AND LOAN LAW.
(See also Civil Code.)
S. B. 97. Benson. Amending Sections 2, 3 and 6 of an Act
approved April 5, 1911, known as "The Building and Loan
Commission Act," and amended by an Act approved Decem-
ber 18, 1911, relating to the powers and duties of the Build-
ing and Loan Commissioner.
Provides (Sec. 2.) secretary shall be deputy Commissioner;
increases the salary (Sec. 3) of Commissioner and secretary
to $3600 and $2400, respectively, with $1600 per year for ex-
penses; and provides that where an extended audit is neces-
sary a competent auditor may be appointed at expense of
concern examined at not to exceed $15.00 per day; and grants
power to make examinations of books and affairs of any for-
eign association applying for license in this State expense
of which shall be paid by concern examined, except that
Commissioner may accept result of similar examination made
and certified by duly constituted authorities of any State
having similar laws of supervision.
168 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
A. B. 53. Wright. Identical with S. B. 97. Benson.
S. B. 38. Benson. Adding a new section to be numbered
9a to an Act approved April 5, 1911, to amend an Act known
as "The Building and Loan Commission Act," and amended
by an Act approved December 18, 1911, relating to the powers
and duties of the Building and Loan Commissioner; makes
it a misdemeanor punishable by fine of not more than $500
or by imprisonment not less than 10 nor more than 90 days
or both, for any officer or director of a building and loan
association to refuse to comply with the demand of the Com-
missioner for possession of the property and assets, and em-
powering the Commissioner to call a peace officer to enforce
his demands.
A. B. 51. Wrtght Identical with S. B. 38. Benson.
CAPITAL AND LABOR.
S. B. 483. Crowley. Providing for the enforcement of
labor laws of the State of California by the Commissioner of
the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Confers authority upon the Commissioner of the Bureau of
Labor Statistics to enforce any and all labor laws, the en-
forcement of which is not specifically vested in any other
officer, board or commission, and clothing the deputies and
agents of such commissioner with the power and authority
of sheriffs and other peace officers to make arrests, etc.
A. B. 505. Wright. Identical with S'. B. 483. Crowley.
A. B. 842. Gelder. To make lawful certain agreements
between employees and laborers, and to limit the issuing of
injunctions in certain cases.
Provides that it shall not be unlawful for persons employed
or seeking employment to enter into any arrangements or
agreements with a view of lessening the hours of labor or
of increasing their wages, and no restraining order or injunc-
tion shall be granted by any court in any case between an
employer or employees growing out of a dispute concerning
terms or conditions of employment, unless such order or
injunction be necessary to prevent irreparable injury to prop-
erty or property rights of the party making the application.
If it cannot be shown that irreparable damage to property is
imminent, no injunction shall be granted. No persons who
are employed or seeking employment shall be indicted or
prosecuted in any court for any act done to bring about an
increase in pay or better hours, unless that act is in itself
unlawful.
S. B. 857. Lyon. Identical with A. B. 842. Gelder.
i A. B. 64. Ryan. Providing that any person, firm, associa-
tion or corporation or agent, superintendent or manager
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thereof, employing special agents, detectives, or so-called
spotters shall, before disciplining or discharging any employee
upon a report by such special agent, detective, or so-called
spotters, give notice and accord a hearing to such employee
upon his request therefor, and providing that said accused
employee shall have the opportunity to be confronted with
the person making such report, and shall have the right to
furnish testimony in his own defense; violations made a mis-
demeanor, punishable by fine of not less than $100 or more
than $1000, or imprisonment in county jail for not more than
one year or both. In case of an association or corporation
the imprisonment to be imposed on officers or agents com-
mitting the offense.
S. B. 402. Flaherty. To prohibit discrimination against em-
ployees who belong to or join any labor organization, and de-
claring it a misdemeanor so to do, punishable by fine of not
less than $100 or more than $500, or imprisonment not less than
30 days or more than one year, or both.
A. B. 474. Godsil. Identical with S. B. 402. Flaherty.
8. B. 438. Finn. To prohibit any employer from discriminat-
ing against any of his employees on account of engaging in
politics or running for public office, and declaring it a mis-
demeanor to do so, punishable by fine of not less than $100 or
more than $500 for each offense, recoverable by suit in the
name of the State, but no prosecution shall be commenced
later than one year after commission of offense. Employee
not precluded from recovering damages from employer.
A. B. 448. Spengler. To promote the safety of employees of
electric light, power, telephone and telegraph plants and electric
street railways, and providing a penalty for the violation
thereof.
A. B. 656. Downing. Prohibiting foremen, superintendents,
managers or other agents having authority to employ labor,
from charging fees for giving employment to any person, and
declaring violation of this Act a misdemeanor, punishable by
fine of not less than $25 or more than $500, or by imprison-
ment not less than 15 days or more than six months, or both.
A. B. 684. Lyon. To forbid managers, superintendents,
•foremen and other persons having authority from their re-
spective employers to hire, employ, or direct the services of
other persons in such employments, to demand or receive
any fee, gift or other remuneration in consideration of any
such hiring, employment or permission to continue to perform
work or services in such employment; and to provide for the
enforcement of this Act by the Commissioner of the Bureau
of Labor Statistics.
S. B. 765. Lyon. Identical with A. B. 6S4. Lyon.
A. B. -563. Harris. Prescribing certain requirements with
170 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
respect to the qualifications and employment of workmen and
employees engaged in certain extra hazardous occupations,
providing penalties for violations thereof, and providing for
the enforcement of this Act.
Makes it unlawful to employ or permit any deaf and dumb
person, or any person who cannot speak and understand Eng-
lish sufficiently well to comprehend any rules or regulations
governing the occupation or industry in which they may
be engaged, or to understand necessary orders, and com-
municate them orally in English to others, to work in under-
ground mines, tunnels and excavations; in connection with
machinery and in the operation of underground mines, tunnels
and excavations; in connection with the operation of steam,
. electric and other trains, and locomotives, engines, motors,
cars or other vehicles propelled by steam, electricity or other
motive power;
Any person, firm, association or corporation employing a
person, or any person accepting employment, contrary to this
act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by fine of
not less than $10 nor more than $300, or imprisonment not
more (less?) than 10 days or more than six months, or both;
Any officer, board or commission charged with the inspection
or supervision of hazardous or dangerous occupations is
charged with enforcing this law.
S. B. 955. Lyon, Amending Section 1 of an Act, approved
March 20, 1903, to prevent misrepresentations of conditions
of employment, making it a misdemeanor to misrepresent the
same and providing penalties therefor.
S. B. 505. Lyon. Amending Section 9 of an Act approved
March 3, 1883, as amended, to establish and support a bureau
of labor statistics, relating to deputies of Labor Commissioner.
S. B. 984. Lyon. Amending Sections 9 and 10 of an Act,
approved March 3, 1883, to establish and support a Bureau
of Labor Statistics, relating to deputies and offices of commis-
sioner, and salaries of commissioner, deputies and employees.
CATTLE, HORSES AND LIVESTOCK.
S. B. 682. Flint. To provide for the branding, marking,
buying, selling, handling, breeding, importing, inspection, arid
general care of all kinds of cattle, horses, mules, hogs, sheep,
and all other kinds of live stock now in or that may hereafter
be brought into the State Of California; to prevent the im-
portation into the State of California of all or any of the
aforesaid until the same have been inspected for diseases; to
provide for certificates of inspection to be attached to waybills
when such live stock are transported by train or other com-
mon carrier into this State, and for certificates of inspection.
to be given t6 arid retained by ariy person drivirig or iri any
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915. 171
way transporting such live stock into this State other than
by common carrier, and for such certificates of inspection to
be given to and retained by any person driving or in any way
transporting such live stock along or upon the public high-
ways of this State; to provide for the payment of all fees
of inspection and other acts to be performed under the terms
of this Act; to provide for the various fines and punishments
for the violation of any or all of the provisions of this Act;
and, repealing all Acts or parts of Acts in any way in con-
flict herewith, which said Acts and part$ of Acts are in this
Act specifically mentioned.
A. B. 1115. Fish. Identical with S. B. 682, Flint.
S. B. 737. Colin. Amending Sections 3, 4, 7 and 9 of an Act,
approved May 1, 1911, to regulate the public service of stallions
and jacks in the State of California, and by adding a new
section there to be known and numbered Section 11^, all
relating to the licensing of stallions and jacks, and providing
for jthe reporting of the collection of fees to the State Controller
and the creation of a fund to be known as the stallion registra-
tion board contingent fund.
A. B. 895. Gebhart. Identical with S. B. 737. Conn.
S. B. 434. Crowley. To revise the law in relation to the sup-
pression and prevention of the spread of contagious and in-
fectious diseases among domestic animals; and providing for
the inspection of meat and meat food products offered for sale
within the State of California; and making an appropriation
for the purposes of this Act.
Creates board of live stock commissioners, to be composed
of one practical live stock man, one doctor of medicine, and one
practical butcher, to be appointed by the Governor; also pro-
vides for ihe appointment by the Governor of a competent
veterinary surgeon as State veterinarian; a practical butcher,
as State market inspector, to carry out provisions of Act.
A. B. 523. Canepa. Identical with S. B. 434. Crowley.
S. B. 744. Benson (by request). To provide for the protection
of breeders and growers of live stock from theft, for registra-
tion of brands, butchers and slaughter houses, and the in-
spection of live stock and the hides thereof.
S. -B. 435. Crowley. To define the duties of railroad, steam-
boat, transportation and stock yards companies under procla-
mation of the Governor, scheduling territory on account of
splenic or Texas fever among cattle.
Requires all railroad, steamboat and transportation com-
panies transporting cattle from scheduled territory into or
through this -State to state in bill of lading point whence
cattle were originally shipped or derived; requires cars or
quarters of such cattle to be disinfected immediately following
unloading; such cattle to be unloaded in separate pens, and all
172 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
stock yards shall set apart certain parts of their yards for
such cattle; violation punishable by fine not exceeding $1000.
A. B. 522. Canepa. Identical with S, B. 435. Crowley.
S. B. 555. Scott. Identical with A. B. 220. Tabler.
S. B. 5'36. Conn. To prevent the importation into the State
'of California of horses, mules, dairy cattle and breeding bulls
which are affected with communicable diseases, providing for
the inspection or certificaton of such animals before being
brought into the State of California, exempting certain ani-
mals from such inspection, or certification, providing penalties
Yor violating any of the provisions of this Act, and repealing
an Act approved June 4, 1913, to prevent the importation
into the State of California of horses, mules, asses, or cattle
which are affected with any infection or contagious disease;
to provide for the inspection of such animals before they are
brought into the State; to repeal an Act, approved March
7, 1911, to prevent the importation of neat cattle for dairy
Or breeding purposes affected with tuberculosis into the State
of California, and to repeal an Act, approved March 7, 1911,
to -prevent the importation of horses, mules and asses affected
with glanders into the State of California.
A, B. 603. Gebhart.- Identical with S. B. 536. Conn.
S. B. 535. Conn. Amending Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, ll/2 and 8
of an Act to protect domestic live stock from contagious and
infectious diseases, to provide for the appointment and duties
of officials to carry into effect the provisions of this Act, and
to provide an appropriation therefor, which became a law
March 18, 1899, and as amended March 20, 1905, and March 23,
1907, and as further amended March 19, 1909, and adding a
new section thereto to be numbered Section Ql/2, and repealing
Section 7 thereof, all relating to the powers and duties of the
State veterinarian, assistant State veterinarian and deputy
State veterinarians, and fixing salaries, and prescribing pen-
alties for violation of this Act.
A. B. 604. Gebhardt. Identical with S. B. 535. Conn.
S. B. 1006. Purkitt. Prohibiting the preparation, sale, bar-
ter, shipment or exchange of any worthless, contaminated,
dangerous or harmful hog cholera serum or virus; requiring
every establishment for the preparation of hog cholera serum
or virus to be inspected and licensed by the director of the
Agricultural Experiment Station of the University of Cali-
fornia; and providing penalties for violation of any of the
provisions hereof.
S. B. 1008. Purkitt. Amending Sections 2, 3 and 7 of an
Act, approved April 21, 1911, to provide for the preparation
and distribution of serums or vaccines for the prevention of
the disease: known as cholera in hogs in the State of Cali-
fornia,; marking an appropriation therefor and prescribing the
duties of the Controller and Treasurer in relation thereto.
PEiNDING LEGIS'LATION, 19.15. 178
CEMETERIES.
- (See also Civil Code.)
S. B. 51. Finn. Regulating the opening, widening and clos-
ing of roads and paths and the disinterment of bodies in
cemeteries which have been transferred to cities or cities and
Counties and which are held by them in trust for the purpose
of maintaining said cemeteries forever as public parks.
Places in hands of board or officer having charge of ceme-
tery so dedicated the opening of new roads or widening of
old ones, bodies disinterred for the purpose to be reinterred;
plot holders may compel the officer to show necessity for open-
ing of road. Lot owners may remove remains upon payment
of fee, shall remove all monuments, etc.; Act does not confer
right upon board or officer to remove any bodies from ceme-
tery or park.
;A. B. 124. McDonald, W-. A. Identical with S. B. 51. Finn.
• S. '*B. ' 5"2. Finn. Authorizing a cemetery corporation or
association to transfer its land and certain funds to the city,
or city and county within which cemetery land is located
whenever further burials in such land shall be prohibited;
and to authorize said city or city and county to accept and
execute a trust in relation to such property for the purpose
of maintaining said land forever as a public park, to provide
for the carrying into effect of the purposes in this Act.
A. B. 127. McDonald, W. A. Identical with S. B. 52. Finn.
S. B. 53. Finn. Providing compensation to lot owners who
have removed bodies, monuments and mortuary emblems from
their lots in any cemetery the title of which shall have been
transferred to the city or city and county in which it is
located in trust for the purpose of ' maintaining such ceme-
tery forever as a public park; to authorize such city or city
and county to pay such compensation; and to provide the
means and the procedure to carry out the purposes of this
Act.; ; J; .
A. B. 125, McDonald, W. A. Identical with S. B. 53. Finn.
g, B. 54. Finn. Repealing an Act approved April 24, 1911,
providing for the removal of human remains from cemeteries
in any city, or city and county in this State, and repealing
all Acts in .conflict therewith.
A. B. 126, McDonald, W. A. Identical with S. B. 54. Finn.
A. B. 646. Conrad. To provide for the conservation and
protection of trust funds held by cemetery corporations for
perpetual care of cemetery lots and grounds. •
Provides that whenever any part of prices of cemetery lots
shall, be by terms of contract of sale or provisions of by-laws
or rules of . any cemetery corporation, set. apart for perpetual
care-, improvement, embellishment, or .preservation ; of such
174 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
cemetery or burial lots and grounds where located, principal
is declared a perpetual trust fund, to be invested at interest
in securities and preserved intact perpetually; interest and
income to be devoted to such perpetual care, etc; Superintend-
ent of State Banking Department to require from each ceme-
tery corporation on or before October 1st of each year reports
of condition and investments of such trust funds, which re-
ports shall be verified by oath of president, secretary and
treasurer of corporation making same; wilful and fraudulent
mistatements declared a misdemeanor; fee for filing such
report $10; Superintendent of Banks to have power of visita-
tion over any cemetery corporation, to examine condition and
investment of such trust funds; if upon any report or exam-
ination it be found that any part of principal of such trust
funds has been lost or impaired or invested contrary to law,
such corporation shall be directed to make good any such loss,
impairment or unlawful investment, and it shall be unlawful
for such corporation to pay any portion of proceeds of sales
Of any burial lots or any dividends or profits to any member
or stockholder so long as order remain uncomplied with; every
violation of this prohibition declared a misdemeanor; also
declared a misdemeanor for any director or other officer to
use or borrow any portion of such trust fund, punishable by
fine not to exceed $500 or by imprisonment not to exceed 1
year, or both, and any director or officer who by violation
hereof causes loss to trust fund becomes civilly liable for
amount of such loss,, together with reasonable attorney fees,
to be recovered as provided in Section 613, Civil Code.
S. B. 866. Scott. Providing for the abandonment and dis-
posal of portions of cemeteries and cemetery lands, by ceme-
tery corporations or other owners, the removal of human re-
mains therefrom and repealing all Acts in conflict therewith.
Provides that cemetery corporation or person owning, in
possession or in charge of cemeteries shall have power to re-
move human remains and have them interred or deposited
elsewhere, and to abandon such cemetery or part thereof, and
to cause the real property to be improved, sold or otherwise
disposed of in compliance with this Act.
Subsequent to the requirement for and prior to actual re-
moval of human remains from the cemetery, any cemetery
corporation by resolution of its board of directors, or the
owner of any land used as a cemetery by declaration of in-
tention so to do, determine to voluntarily abandon such ceme-
tery which resolution or declaration of intention shall specify
the date on or after which the remains will be removed; notice
of the proposed removal shall be given publication in a news-
paper; the notice shall contain a copy of the resolution or
declaration of intention, and shall specify that any relative
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915. 175
or friend of any person buried in such cemetery may remove
the remains at any time prior to the removal thereof by the
corporation or owner, upon delivery to the corporation of an
affidavit stating the name of the person whose remains are
to be removed, the date of burial, and the names of the
heirs at law, the written consent of a majority of whom shall
be required in case the person desiring to remove the remains
is not an neir at law.
Within 30 days after the first publication, a copy of the
notice shall be posted in a conspicuous place in the ceme-
tery, and a copy mailed to very lot owner or holder whose
name appears upon the records of the cemetery, and to
every person who prior to the date of the resolution or
declaration shall have recorded in the office of the recorder
of the county or city and county the verified statement pro-
vided in an Act approved April 24, 1911, providing for the re-
moval of human remains from cemeteries.
Upon compliance with these requirements the cemetery cor-
poration or owner shall at or after the date fixed in the reso-
lution or declaration of intention have power to cause the
removal of all human remains interred in such cemetery and
to cause their re-interment without further notice to any
person. Upon request of any relative or friend desiring to be
present at the disinterment the cemetery corporation or owner
shall give written notice at least 10 days prior thereto of the
date when the remains will be disinterred.
The owner of any burial lot may cause the removal of all
the remains interred therein without filing any affidavit or
consent. In the event of the death of the grantee of any
cemetery lot, the affidavit of any heir at law to whom title
to the lot may have passed shall be accepted as sufficient
evidence of the transfer of such title.
Remains disinterred by the cemetery corporation shall be
re-interred in a separate grave or may be deposited in a
mausoleum or columbarium in a separate compartment, marked
with the name of the person whose remains are therein in-
terred or deposited. When remains are removed by relatives
or friends, the persons causing the removal shall have power
to remove any monument, headstone, coping or other improve-
ment, but any monument, etc., remaining on any lot for more
than ninety days after removal of remains shall become the
property of the cemetery corporation or owner.
The cemetery corporation shall have power to use any money
in its treasury to defray the expenses of abandonment and
removal, including the acquisition of a new place of burial or
deposit, the expense of disinterment, transportation and re-
interment, and removal and disposal of monuments, etc., and
the expense of opening, grading arid sewering streets, placing
176' PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
gas, water and other pipes and conduits or poles therein, and
otherwise improving the property. The cemetery corporation
may subdivide any new place of burial, mausoleum or colum-
barium acquired by it, and dispose of lots or burial places to
purchasers, and may accept in payment full or partial releases
from members in or to the whole or any part of the assets of
the corporation except the lot or niche conveyed to them.
Any land from which all human remains have been removed
may be improved and sold, after first obtaining from the
Superior Court an order of sale as provided in Section 15 of
the Civil Code.
Such corporation if it have funds in its treasury not required
for other purposes may set aside a sufficient sum for the
perpetual or other care or improvement of lands, etc., where
remains may be reinterred, or may transfer funds to some
other corporation for that purpose after first obtaining per-
mission from the Superior Court after publication of notice.
In case of cemeteries owned or controlled by religious or-
ganizations no remains may be removed except in accordance
with the rules, regulations and discipline of such religious
organization.
All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict herewith and particu-
larly Sections 2, 3, 4 and 6 of an Act approved April 24, 1911,
providing for the removal of human remains from cemeteries,
are hereby repealed. (S. B. 323. Boynton. Pending Legisla-
tion, 1913, p. 293.)
A. B. 1278. McDonald, J. J. (by request). Identical with
S. B. 866. Scott.
S. B. 867. Scott. Relating to the borrowing of money by
cemetery corporations and the giving of security therefor by
mortgage or conveyance in trust of real estate.
Cemetery corporations may borrow money and execute deeds
of trust or mortgages of lands held by them upon order from
the Superior Court, after proper publication of notice, and it
appearing to the court that the lands are not needed for burial
purposes, and that it is for the best interests of the corpora-
tion that the money be borrowed and secured by mortgage or
deed of trust; any member of the corporation may oppose the
granting of the order by affidavit or otherwise. (S. B. 324.
Boynton. Pending Legislation, 1913, p. 295.)
A. B. 1279. McDonald, J. J. (by request). Identical with
S. B. 867. Scott.
A. B. 1121. Brown, H. W. Amending Section 13 of an Act
to amend an Act to authorize the incorporation of Rural
Cemetery Associations, approved April 28, 1859, and to author-
ize the owners of lots in such cemeteries to transfer them by
deed, approved March 81,-1891, and giving to lot owners
authority to sell -and . convey title to lots in such cemeteries;
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915. 177
CHARITIES AND CORRECTION.
A. B. 232. Hawson. Amending Section 2 of an Act approved
March 25, 1903, and amended May 1, 1911, to create a State
Board of Charities and Corrections, prescribing its duties and
powers and appropriating money therefor, relating to compen-
sation of members of board.
S. B. 888. Breed. To provide county boards of charities
and corrections and to define the powers and duties thereof.
Upon petition of 100 electors of county judge or judges of
Superior Court shall appoint seven persons, not more than
four of whom shall be of the same sex, as a county board of
charities and corrections, to serve without compensation, for
term of four years; no person connectetd officially with any
charitable or correctional institution in the county supported
at public expense. Board shall meet quarterly, and as much
oftener as necessary; at least once each quarter and as much
oftener as may be necessary they shall inspect the county
hospital, the county infirmary or relief home for aged, the
county jail, each jail or lock-up in the county, and any other
charitable or correctional institution receiving support from
county funds; they shall ascertain condition of each depart-
ment as to effective and economical administration, cleanli-
ness, discipline and comfort of inmates, etc.; they shall study
rules of board of supervisors for government of institutions
and ascertain whether same are being complied with, and
shall make such suggestions as to improved administration as
they think proper to persons in charge of such institutions and
may report to board of supervisors any facts that ought to be
known to them, and if they find conditions in such institutions
injurious to county or to the inmates or contrary to good
order or public policy, they shall so notify the board of super-
visors or other officials having jurisdiction. A report in writ-
ing shall be made quarterly to the grand jury, and if none to
the district attorney for presentation to grand jury as soon
as sworn; and a report shall be made annually to judges of
Superior Court which shall be filed as public document with
county clerk; and copies of all reports to board of supervisors
or judges of Superior Court shall be transmitted to State
Board of Charities and Corrections. Board of supervisors
shall appropriate not to exceed $50 annually for expenses for
said board.
A. B. 1081. Gelder. Identical with S. B. 888. Breed.
CHILD LABOR.
A. B. 388. McDonald. Amending an Act approved February
20, 1905; approved April 14, 1911; approved June 2, 1913, regu-
lating the employment and hours of labor of children; pro-
hibiting the' employment of minors' under certain ages; pro-
178 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
habiting- the employment of certain illiterate minors; providing
for the enforcement hereof by the Commissioner of the Bureau
of Labor Statistics and providing penalties for the violation
thereof; providing for physical examination of minors, pro-
hibiting sweat shop work, prohibiting the employment of
minors under certain age in dangerous occupations, regulating
street trades and repealing all Acts and parts of Acts incon-
sistent herewith.
S. B. 257. Lyon. Amending an Act, approved February
20th, 1905; approved April 14th, 1911; approved June 2nd, 1913,
as amended, regulating the employment and hours of labor
of children; prohibiting the employment of minors under cer-
tain ages; prohibiting the employment of certain illiterate
minors; providing for the enforcement hereof by the Commis-
sioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics and providing penal-
ties for the violation thereof; and providing for physical ex-
amination of minors, prohibiting sweat shop work, prohibiting
the employment of minors under certain age in dangerous oc-
cupations, regulating street trades and repealing all Acts and
parts of Acts inconsistent herewith.
CHILDREN.
(See Juvenile Court; Orphans and Indigent Persons.)
A. B. 239. Gebhart. Amending Section 1 of an Act, ap-
proved March 24, 1903, amended March 20, 1905, amended
April 21, 1911, to enforce the educational rights of children
and providing penalties for violation of the Act, relating to
the age of school children.
S. B. 735. Strobridge. Amending Sections 1, 4, 5 and 6 of
an Act, approved March 24, 1903; amended March 20, 1905;
amended March 4, 1907; amended April 21, 1911, to enforce the
educational rights of children and providing penalties for viola-
tion of the Act.
S. B. 1162. Thompson. Establishing a bureau of child and
animal protection, appropriating $7500 therefor, and defining
the duties thereof.
Provides that the State Humane Association of California
shall compose the bureau, with the Governor, Superintendent
of Public Instruction and Attorney-General as ex-officio mem-
bers.
CIVIL SERVICE.
S. B. 1166. Gerdes. Amending an Act approved June 16,
1913, to provide for a general system, based upon investigation
as to merit, efficiency and fitness, for appointment to and
holding during good behavior of office and employment under
State authority and, in that behalf, to create a State civil
service commission, to prescribe its powers and duties, to
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915. 179 .
make the wilful violation of the provisions of this Act a mis-
demeanor, to repeal all Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent
herewith in so far as they may be inconsistent with the pro-
visions of this Act, and to make an appropriation therefor.
S. B. 864. Scott. Amending Sections 2, 14 and 18 of an Act
approved June 16, 1913, to provide for a general system, based
upon investigation as to merit, efficiency and fitness for ap-
pointment to and holding during good behavior of office and
employment under State authority and, in that behalf, to
create a State civil service commission, to prescribe its powers
and duties, to make the wilful violation of the provisions of
this Act a misdemeanor, to repeal all Acts and parts of Acts
inconsistent herewith insofar as they may be inconsistent
with the provisions of this Act, and to make an appropria-
tion therefor.
S. B. 207. Benedict. Amending Sections 5, 7 and 9 of an
Act, approved June 16, 1913, providing for a general system,
based upon investigation as to merit, efficiency and fitness,
for appointment to and holding during good behavior of office
and employment under State authority and, in that behalf,
to create a State Civil Service Commission, to prescribe its
powers and duties, to make the wilful violation of the pro-
visions of this Act a misdemeanor, to repeal all Acts and
parts of Acts inconsistent herewith in so far as they be in-
consistent with the provisions of this Act, and to make an ap-
propriation therefor.
S. B. 740. Gerdes. Amending Sections 9 and 14 of an Act, ap-
proved June 16, 1913, to provide for a general system, based
upon investigation as to merit, efficiency and fitness, for
appointment to and holding during good behavior of office and
employment under State authority and, in that behalf, to
create a State. Qivi.l Service Commission, to prescribe its
powers and duties, to make the wilful violation of the pro-
visions of this Act a misdemeanor, to repeal all Acts and
parts of Acts inconsistent herewith in so far as they may
be inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, and to make
an appropriation therefor.
COAL.
A. B. 265. Satterwhite. Regulating the sale of coal.
Makes it a misdemeanor to sell the output of one mine as
the product of another.
S. B. 473. Breed. Identical with A. B. 265. Satterwhite.
A. B. 569. Satterwhite. To regulate the carriage of coal,
and to provide for destination weights on the shipments of
coal, providing a penalty for violation thereof.
True weight of coal shipped over any common carrier must
be stated in bill of lading; when coal arrives at destination
carrier shall cause same to be weighed at nearest track scales
180 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
and shall be responsible to consignee for all deficiencies in
weight, less natural shrinkage; failure or" refusal of carrier
to weigh coal at destination renders it liable in damages;
any agent, servant or employee of a carrier failing or refusing
to weigh coal, or who makes false weights thereof, shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by fine of not less than
$50 nor more than $100, or imprisonment not less than 30 nor
more than 60 days, or both; coal brought into State shall be
weighed at nearest track scales, within State, to State line;
in case of contention between consignee and carrier regarding
shortage of coal on any car, car shall be weighed first while
leaded and then empty and actual gross and net weight as-
certained, stencil weight of any car marked thereon shall not
be taken in any case as true weight of car.
COLLECTION AGENCIES.
S. B. 62. Finn. Relating to the bonding, of collection agen-
cies, fixing amount and time of bond. and. qualifications, .and
number of sureties thereon, terms and conditions thereof and
prescribing the penalties for the violation of any of the pro-
visions thereof. - - - •'-'- ...;.. ... ..
Provides that no person, partnership, association or cor-
poration, other than an attorney-at-law, bank -or trust- com-*
pany, shall collect or receive payment for others of an in-
debtedness, or engage in this State in soliciting the right to
collect such, unless he shall have on file with the Secretary
of State a bond in the sum of $5000,- good for one year, with
two sureties who shall be residents and owners of real estate
in this State. (S. B. 154. Finn. "Pending Legislation 1913","
p. -304.)
S. B. 1143. Hans. Relating to collection agencies; placing
them under the supervision of the Bank Commissioner; pro-
viding for registration and licensing the same; requiring a
bond to be filed; fixing the period of time within which settle-
ments are to be made; providing a penalty for violation of this
Act. .:.....
Collection agencies are placed under supervision of Bank
Commissioner and are required, before beginning business to
file with him an application for registration, with which shall
be deposited the annual license fee, together with a bond, in
$5000; if upon examination it is found that said agency or
any of its officers or stockholders has not at any time de-
faulted in payment of collections license shall issue, which
shall be "renewed annually, . application for renewal to state
among other things amount of collections made for year end-
ing December 31 previous, and statement of total amount of
collections made which at date of application had been re-
tained for more than 45 days and had not at that time been
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paid over to assignor, accompanied by bond equal to one-
fourth of total amount of collections for the year, and the
annual license fee; if agency is found to have complied with
provisions of Act license shall issue; if not, no license shall
issue, and Commissioner shall proceed to cause sureties to
pay defaulted collections.
Every collection agency shall within 45 days after making
collection notify assignor, and pay over to him sum collected,
less charges; when proof submitted to Commissioner that
collection agency has defaulted in payment of collections after
written demand, he shall serve written notice on such agency
that it shall within five days thereafter pay to assignor moneys
collected, or appear and show cause why bond should not be
forfeited and assignor paid from proceeds; if agency there-
after neglects or refuses to pay or fails to show good cause
as to non-payment, Commissioner shall declare license re-
voked and bond forfeited, and serve notice in writing on sure-
ties on bond, stating facts and calling on them to 'pay amounts
defaulted; if within 10 days - sureties -make no payment of
amount demanded Commissioner .shall take proceedings to
collect on bond, and all moneys derived from forfeiture of
bonds shall be paid into State Treasury to credit of "Collection
Agency Fund;" and from that fund Commissioner shall issue
order to assignor on State Controller for amount due and
Controller shall draw warrant therefor and Treasurer shall
pay same; any collection agency violating any provisions of
this Act is guilty of a misdemeanor.
COMMISSION MERCHANTS.
. (See Produce Exchange Commission.)
S. B. 4S0. Duncan. Defining commission merchants and
consignors; providing for filing of bond and certificates show-
ing names of persons doing business or advertising as com-
mission merchants, requiring records of all consignments
received or sold be kept and furnished, and providing penalties
for the violation of the requirements herein contained.
Defines "commission merchant" as any person, firm, cor-
poration, partnership, association or copartnership carrying
on or advertising as carrying on the business of commission
merchant, or as selling or receiving for purposes of sale, pro-
duce, goods or other personal property on commission. "Con-
signor" is defined as including any person, firm, partnership,
corporation, or association, shipping or forwarding produce,
goods, or other property to a commission merchant to be
sold on commission.
Commission merchants are prohibited from engaging in that
business without, first filing with the Secretary of State a
statement " 5n "detail showing whether said commission mer-
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chant is a private individual, incorporation, partnership or
association, the interest of all persons interested in the busi-
ness, with the name and address of each person in full; a
bond in $5000 shall be filed with such statement, to guarantee
proper conduct of the business.
A record in detail shall be kept of all produce received,
with the name of consignor, date sold, price received, and
place of residence or business address of the purchaser,
which record shall be open to inspection of any consignor;
and requiring return to be made to consignor on all sales
within five days, with statement Jn detail showing all facts
to be kept of record.
Violation punishable by fine of not less than $50 nor more
than $300, or by imprisonment for not exceeding six months,
or both. Nothing in Act shall be deemed to prevent prosecu-
tion of commission merchant or other person for embezzle-
ment or other felony or misdemeanor.
COMMON CARRIERS.
(See Railroads.)
S. F. 206. Benedict. Declaring certain persons or corpora-
tions engaged in the transportation of passengers for hire to
•be common carriers and subject to the provisions of an Act
known as the "Public Utilities Act of the State of California",
approved December 23, 1911, as amended June 14, 1913.
Declares every person or corporation operating a motor
vehicle or automobile on highways for transportation of per-
sons for hire a common carrier, subject to provisions of
"Public Utilities Act".
A. B. 394. Gelder. Making it the duty of every common car-
rier and operator of a motor or other vehicle, upon the hap-
pening of any accident, and any person injured as a result of
any accident, to file a list of the names and addresses of all
witnesses to any such accident with the county clerk of the
county in which such accident occurred; providing that no per-
son, whose name is not contained in such list, shall be per-
mitted to testify in any action at law arising out of such ac-
cident, except under certain circumstances.
A. B. .13.51. Brown, H. W. Regulating the transportation of
passengers by common carriers, and railway companies, and
io compel such common carriers and railway companies to
provide seats for all passengers carried, and fixing a penalty
tor failure to so provide seats.
CONSERVATION COMMISSION.
(See also Forests and Forestry; Water and Water Rights;
Civil Code.)
A. B. 367. Dennett. In relation to Act of Congress known as
the Carey Act, and all Acts amendatory thereof and supple-
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mental thereto, and governing the State Conservation Commis-
sion in the control of the selection, management and disposal
of all lands granted the State under the provisions thereof.
S. B. 441. Luce. Identical with A. B. 367. Dennett.
A. B. 1191. Johnson. Authorizing the Conservation Commis-
sion of the State of California to examine, classify and ap-
praise the unsold school lands of the State of California and
appropriating $10,000 therefor.
S. B. 1014. Luce. To authorize the conservation commis-
sion of the State of California to examine, classify and ap-
praise the unsold school lands of the State of California, and
appropriating $10,000 therefor.
CONTAINERS.
A. B. 240. Scott, F. C. Revising and amending Sections 3,
5, 6 and 12, of the Act of the Legisltaure of the State of Cali-
fornia entitled, "The Net Container Act", approved May 24th,
1 r»l 4 .
S. B. 218. Scott. Identical with A. B. 240, Scott.
A. B.' 1100. Rodgers. To regulate the sale of packages,
cartons, cans, boxes, commodities and containers of all kinds,
with the name and address of the original manufacturer
thereof, providing for the enforcement of, and providing for
penalties for the violation of the provisions of this Act.
CONTRACTS, STATE.
S. B. 877. Luce. Amending Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 and 9
of an Act approved March 22, 1909, to regulate contracts on
behalf of the State in relation to the erection, construction,
alteration, repair or improvement of any State structure,
building, road, or other State improvement of any kind, and
to repeal an Act approved March 28, 1876, to regulate contracts
On behalf of the State in relation to erections and buildings.
A. B. 1194. Scott, F. C. Identical with S. B. 877, Luce.
S. B. 147. Scott. Adding Section 4 (new) to an Act approved
March 28, 1876, approved March 22, 1909, to regulate contracts
on behalf of the State in relation to the erection, construction,
alteration, repair or improvement of any kind and to repeal
an Act entitled "An Act to regulate contracts on behalf of the
State in relation to erection of buildings."
Provides that all work done for State of California under
provisions of Act wherein brick, stone, terra cotta or concrete
is used shall not be accepted until inspected by duly appointed
State masonry inspectors.
A. B. 300. ScOtt, F. C. Identical with S. B. 147. Scott.
CORPORATION LICENSE TAX.
A. B. 402. Br6wne. Relating to revenue and taxation pro-
184 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
viding for a license tax upon corporations, and appropriating
$27,000 for the purpose of carrying out the objects of this Act.
Restores the corporation license tax with the following
schedule of fees: When the authorized capital stock of the
corporation does not exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000) the
tax shall be ten dollars ($10); when the authorized capital
stock exceeds ten thousand dollars ($10,000) but does not ex-
ceed twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) the tax shall be
fifteen dollars ($15); when the authorized capital stock exceeds
twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) but does not exceed fifty
thousand dollars ($50,000) the tax shall be twenty dollars ($20);
when the authorized capital stock exceeds fifty thousand dol-
lars ($50,000) but does not exceed one hundred thousand dol-
lars ($100,000) the tax shall be twenty-five dollars ($25); when
the authorized capital stock exceeds one hundred thousand
dollars ($100,000) but does not exceed two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars ($250,000) the tax shall be fifty dollars ($50);
when the authorized capital stock exceeds two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars ($250,000) but does not exceed five hun-
dred thousand dollars ($500,000) the tax shall be seventy-five
dollars ($75); when the authorized capital stock exceeds five
hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) but does not exceed two
million dollars ($2,000,000) the tax shall be one hundred dol-
lars ($100); when the authorized capital stock exceeds two
million dollars ($2,000,000) but does not exceed five million
dollars ($5,000,000) the tax shall be two hundred dollars ($200);
when the authorized capital stock exceeds five million dollars
($5,000,000) the tax shall be two hundred and fifty dollars
($250).
COUNTY OFFICES AND OFFICERS,
A. B. 1224. Fish. Authorizing the transfer of certain powers,
duties and functions of certain cities and officers thereof to
the officers of counties in which any such city is located.
DAY OF REST.
S. B. 91. Lyon. Providing for a day of rest from labor.
S. B. 163. Benson. Providing for one day of rest in seven,
and repealing an Act, approved February 27, 1893, to provide
for a day of rest from labor.
Defines "day" as twenty-four consecutive hours, which may
include two calendar days; "necessary work" as work that
could " not have been done on preceding day and could not be
postponed until next day; "urgent emergency" as immediate
danger to life, property, public safety or public health only.
Makes it unlawful to require any employee, apprentice, ser-
vant or other person to work in any trade/ business, profes-
sion,- or occupation for more than six days m any calendar
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week of seven days; provided, above provisions do not apply
to necessary work of domestic servants, of caring for live
animals, and sick or suffering persons, of making yeast or
setting sponge in bakeshops, of cases of urgent emergency,
or to any work that the Railroad Commission deems necessary
to permit, nor shall act apply to railroad employees governed
by Act of Congress approved March 4, 1907, limiting hours of
service of employees of railroads. Violation declared a mis-
demeanor punishable by fine of not less than $10 or more than
$300, or imprisonment in county jail not to exceed 30 days
for first offense; both line and imprisonment to be imposed
for subsequent offenses; Commissioner of Bureau of Labor Sta-
tistics and his deputies charged with enforcement.
A. B. 507. Ferguson. Identical with S. B. 163. Benson.
S. B. 520. Flaherty. Identical with S'. B. 163. Benson.
A. B. 506. Ferguson. To provide for one day of rest in
seven for public employees.
Makes it a misdemeanor, punishable by fine of not less than
$25 nor more than $300 to hire, employ or permit any person
to work more than six days in any calendar week of seven
days, except in case of emergency in which there is immediate
danger to life, property, public safety or public health.
S. B. 519. Flaherty. Identical with A. B. 506. Ferguson.
S. B. 1050. Rush. Amending Section 1 of an Act approved
February 27, 1893, to provide for a day of rest from labor,
providing for a day of rest for employees in State institutions.
A. B. 1358. Spengler (by request). To provide for one day
in seven as a day of rest.
DAIRIES AND DAIRY PRODUCTS.
S. B. 582. Kehoe. To promote the public health; to prevent
fraud or deception in the sale of butter, or in the sale of
milk or cream intended for butter making, when any of such
products are sold on the basis of quality or grade; to fix
and define standards and grades for milk and cream intended
for butter making; to fix and define standards and grades for
butter; to regulate the buying and selling of butter when any
such buying or selling is on the basis of quality or grade; to
regulate the buying and selling of milk and cream intended
for butter making when any such buying or selling is on
the basis of quality or grade; and to provide for the enforce-
ment of its provisions, and for the punishment of violations
thereof.
A. B. 696. Quinn. Identical with S. B. 582. Kehoe.
A. B. 271. Wills. Amending Section 7 of an Act, approved
March 10, 1905, to prevent the sale of dairy products from
unhealthy animals and produced under unsanitary conditions;
to provide, for the inspection of dairy stock, dairies, factories
186 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
for the production of dairy products and places where dairy-
products are handled and sold; to improve the quality of dairy
products of the State; to prevent deception in the sale of
dairy products and to appropriate money for enforcing" its
provisions, relating to the duties of the State Dairy Bureau.
S. B. 61. Finn. Amending Section 5 of an Act approved
April 21, 1911, to prevent the manufacture or sale of dairy
products from unhealthy animals, or that are produced under
unsanitary conditions; to prevent deception or fraud in the
production and sale of dairy products, and in the manufac-
ture and sale of renovated butter and oleomargarine; to
license the manufacture of renovated butter, and oleomar-
garine; to regulate the business of producing, buying and
selling dairy products, oleomargarine, renovated or imitation
butter and cheese; to provide for the enforcement of its pro-
visions and for the punishment of violations thereof, and
appropriating money therefor and to repeal Section 17 of
an Act approved March 4, 1897, entitled "An Act to prevent
deception in the manufacture and sale of butter and cheese,
to secure its enforcement, and to appropriate money therefor,"
and to repeal all Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent with
this Act.
S. B. 960. Finn. Amending Sections 5 and 29 of an Act,
approved April 21, 1911, to prevent the manufacture or sale
of dairy products from unhealthy animals, or that are pro-
duced under unsanitary conditions; to prevent deception or
fraud in the production and sale of dairy products, and in the
manufacture and sale of renovated butter and oleomargarine;
to license the manufacture and sale of renovated butter and
oleomargarine; to regulate the business of producing, buying
and selling dairy products, oleomargarine, renovated or imi-
tation butter and cheese; to provide for the enforcement of
its provisions and for the punishment of violations thereof,
and appropriating money therefor and to repeal Section 17
of an Act approved March 4, 1897, to prevent deception in the
manufacture and sale of butter and cheese, to secure its
enforcement, and to appropriate money therefor, and to repeal
all Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent with this Act.
A. B. 1047. Quinn. Amending Section 7 of an Act approved
April 21, 1911, to prevent the manufacture or sale of dairy
products from unhealthy animals, or that are produced under
unsanitary conditions; to prevent deception or fraud in the
production and sale of dairy products, and in the manufacture
and sale of renovated butter and oleomargarine, etc.
A. B. 1045. Rigdon. Amending Sections 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14,
15, 19, 20 and 24 of an Act approved April 21, 1911, to prevent
the manufacture or sale of dairy products from unhealthy ani-
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mals, etc.; regulating the manufacture and sale of oleomar-
garine.
S. B. 1165. Rush. Amending Subdivisions 1 and 6 of
Section 29 and Section 30 of an Act approved April 21, 1911,
to prevent the manufacture or sale of dairy products from
unhealthy animals, or that are produced under unsanitary
conditions; to prevent deception and fraud in the production
and sale of dairy products, and in the manufacture and sale
of renovated butter and oleomargarine; to license the manu-
facture and sale of renovated butter, and oleomargarine; to
regulate the business of producing, buying and selling dairy
products, oleomargarine, renovated or imitation butter and
cheese; to provide "for the enforcement of its provisions and
for the punishment of violations thereof, and appropriating
money therefor, and to repeal Section 17 of an Act approved
March 4, 1897, to prevent deception in the manufacture and
sale of butter and cheese, to secure its enforcement, and to
appropriate money therefor, and to repeal all Acts and parts
of Acts inconsistent with this Act, and adding thereto two
new sections to be known as Section 30*4 and Section 30^, and
to improve the quality of dairy products, to prevent fraud and
deception in the marketing thereof, and to establish uniform
standards therefor.
A. B. 701. Boude. Amending an Act approved April 21,
1911, to prevent the manufacture or sale of dairy products
from unhealthy animals, or that are produced under un-
sanitary conditions; to prevent deception or fraud in the
production and sale of renovated butter and oleomargarine;
to license the manufacture and sale of renovated butter, and
oleomargarine; to regulate the business of producing, buying
and selling dairy products, oleomargarine, renovated or imi-
tation butter and cheese; to provide for the enforcement of
its provisions and for the punishment of violations thereof,
and appropriating money therefor and to repeal Section 17
of an Act approved March 4, 1897, entitled "An Act to pre-
vent deception in the manufacture and sale of butter and
cheese, to secure its enforcement, and to appropriate money
therefor," and to repeal all Acts and parts of Acts incon-
sistent with this Act, by amending Section 29 in Subdivisions
1 and 6, and Section 30, and by adding thereto two new sec-
tions to be numbered 30a and 30b, relating to the enforce-,
ment of uniform standards and rules to be observed by all
persons, firms, or corporations dealing with, handling or
transporting milk or cream in bottles, cans or other contain-
ers, and by amending the title of this Act; to repeal all Acts
or parts of Acts inconsistent with this Act.
S. B. 1174. Kehoe (by request). To regulate the sale of
food ingredients which are in part composed of butter shipped
188 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
or imported into the State of California from any point or
place outside of the United States, requiring the marking of
all bills of fare or menu cards placed on tables or counters in
establishments, preparing, serving or offering for sale any such
food, and fixing penalties for the violation of the same or any
of the provisions thereof.
S. B. 1175. Kehoe (by request). To regulate the sale of
butter that has been shipped or imported into the State of
California from any point or place outside of the United
States, requiring the marking thereof by all persons selling
or offering same for sale, and fixing penalties for the violation
of the same or any of the provisions thereof.
S. B. 993. Shearer. To regulate the sale' of impure and un-
wholesome milk.
A. B. 238. Marron. Regulating the preparation and sale of
pasteurized milk.
Requires the cap or cover of container of pasteurized milk
to be marked with the hour and date of pasteurization; re-
quires all such milk to be offered for sale or sold to be cooled
immediately after pasteurization and sealed in sterilized con-
tainers; requires such milk to be delivered within 24 hours
after pasteurization; forbids pasteurization a second time;
failure to comply with law misdemeanor, penalty, fine of not
less than $100 nor more than $300, or imprisonment in county
jail not less than three months nor more than one year, or both.
A. B. 703. Boude. To improve the milk and cream supply
of incorporated cities and of the cities and counties; to pro-
mote sanitary methods in the production and marketing there-
of; to establish uniform standards therefor; to prevent fraud
and deception in the production and sale thereof; and to estab-
lish municipal milk commissions to supervise the production
and marketing of milk and cream in said cities, and cities and
counties.
S. B. 1177. Rush. Identical with A. B. 703. Boude.
A. B. 1475. Hawson. Amending an Act approved April 24*
1911, to establish a standard for evaporated milk and con-
densed milk.
DEAF AND BLIND.
(See Appropriations.)
S. B. 157. Beban. Establishing the California State Com-
•mission for the Blind, of five persons, to be appointed by the
Governor; providing for the maintenance of a register of the
blind and a bureau of information and industrial aid, and
providing for home teachers along industrial lines; also to co-
operate with the State Board of Health for the prevention of
blindness; and appropriating $12,000 to carry out the provisions
of this Act.
A. B: 1034. Hayes. Identical" with S. B. 157. Beban.
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A. B. 395. Gebhart. To create the California State commis-
sion for the blind; defining the duties thereof; and making an
appropriation to carry out the provisions of this Act.
Provides for appointment by Governor within 100 days after
adjournment of Legislature of a commission for the blind, of
five persons. The commission shall keep a register of all blind
persons in the State, with a description of cause and extent
of blindness and condition of such persons, strive to prevent
blindness and co-operate with State Board of Health to that
end; promote a comprehensive education and special training
for the blind, including compulsory education; maintain a
bureau of information of employment for the blind and aid in
marketing their products; prepare and file an annual report;
and appropriating $6000 to carry out the provisions of Act.
A. B. 315. Encell. Authorizing the directors of the Cali-
fornia School for the Deaf and the Blind to organize separate
departments for the deaf and the blind.
S. B. 471. Breed. Identical with A. B. 315. Encell.
A. B. 316. Encell. Providing readers for blind students in
the University of California, and to assist deaf students at-
tending the National College for the Deaf at Washington, D. C.
S. B. 472. Breed. Identical with A. B. 316. Encell.
S. B. 948. Tyrrell. To provide for the prevention of blind-
ness in the newly born by fixing the duty of the State Board
of Health in regard thereto, and compelling doctors, nurses
and midwives to treat the eyes of infants in a certain manner,
and to provide a penalty for failure so to do.
A. B. 718. Prendergast. To prevent blindness from ophthal-
mia neonatorum; to vest vertain power and duties in the State
Board of Health and health officers; to impose certain duties
upon physicians, midwives, nurses, and other persons; and
to provide for the enforcement of this Act, and the repeal of
Chapter XIV, Statutes of 1897, entitled "An Act to regulate
medical practice, to prevent blindness in infants," and other
Acts in conflict herewith.
S. B. 758. Jones. Identical with A. B. 718. Prendergast.
DEFENDER, PUBLIC.
(See also Legal Aid.)
S. B. 142. Lyon. Creating the office of public defender in
the counties of California, from the first to the tenth classes,
inclusive, to provide for the appointment and election of such
officers, and prescribing their duties and compensation.
Creates for counties of the first to the tenth classes the
office of public defender, who when elected or appointed shall
have been a practicing attorney in all courts of State for at
least three years. Within 30 days after Act goes into effect,
Governor shall appoint in counties from first to tenth classes,
190 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
inclusive, some suitable person as public defender, who shall
hold office until first Monday after first day of January, 1919;
his successor to be elected at general election in 1918. Act
not to apply to counties that have or may adopt a special
county charter providing for public defender. Compensation
in counties of first, second and third classes, in which public
defender to devote all his time to duties of office, to be $3600
per annum; in fourth to tenth classes, inclusive, $2400. If any
county in which office of public defender is created shall here-
after be classified differently than at present, office shall not
be abolished thereby.
Upon request by defendant, or order of court, public de-
fender shall defend without expense to them, all persons
charged in Superior Court with any contempt, misdemeanor,
felony, or other offense, who are not financially able to em-
ploy counsel, and give advice, and prosecute appeals. He shall
also upon request prosecute actions for collection of wages and
other demands of persons unable to employ counsel, in cases
where sum involved does not exceed $100, and in which in his
judgment claims are valid and enforceable; he shall also upon
request defend such persons in all civil litigation, in which, in
his judgment they are being persecuted or unjustly harassed.
Suitable quarters and such deputies, clerks and employees
as are necessary to properly conduct office, shall be provided
for by Board of Supervisors, which shall fix their salaries.
All deputies, clerks and employees shall be appointed by the
public defender, and all such appointments may be revoked
by him.
A. B. 620. Harris. To authorize the creation of the office
of public defender in the respective counties, cities and
counties, and municipalities of the State of California, to
provide for the appointment or election of such officers, and
prescribing their duties and compensation.
Authorizes counties, cities and counties and municipalities
to create office of public defender and requires person elected
or appointed to have been practicing attorney in all courts of
this State for at least three years next preceding election or
appointment; jurisdiction shall extend to all courts of county,
except those of municipalities having public defenders; pro-
vides for fixing of compensation of public defender and the
appointment and compensation of deputies and assistants; Act
does not affect appointment or election of any public de-
fender heretofore elected or appointed in any county, city
and county or municipality that has adopted or may here-
after adopt a charter, but such officer shall perform duties
under provisions of this Act and shall have same powers and
duties as public defenders hereunder; additional duties not in
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915. 191
conflict with this Act may be prescribed by the political sub-
division establishing the office; terms fixed at four years.
Upon request of defendant, or order of court, public de-
fender shall defend, without expense to them, any persons
charged in Superior Court with contempt, misdemeanor, fel-
ony or other offense, not financially able to employ counsel,
and give counsel and advice, and shall prosecute all appeals
in their behalf where in his opinion appeal may reasonably
be expected to result in reversal or modification of judgment.
He shall also upon request prosecute actions for collection of
wages and other demands of persons not able to employ
counsel in cases involving less than $100, where in his judg-
ment claims are valid and enforceable, and shall defend such
persons in all civil litigation in which, in his judgment, they
are being persecuted or unjustly harassed.
Suitable offices shall be provided for public defender by
Board of Supervisors, which shall also provide sufficient num-
ber of clerks and employees to properly conduct business of
office and fix their compensation.
S. B. 780. Crowley. Identical with A. B. 620. Harris.
DENTISTS.
S. B. 109. Brown. To insure the better education of prac-
titioners of dental surgery and to regulate the practice of
dentistry in the State of California, providing penalties for
the violation hereof, and to repeal an Act now in force relat-
ing to the same and known as: 'An Act to insure the better
education of practitioners of dental surgery, and to regulate
the practice of dentistry in the State of California, providing
penalties for the violation hereof, and to repeal an Act now
in force relating to the same, and known as An Act to insure
the better education of practitioners of dental surgery, and
to regulate the practice of dentistry in the State of California,
approved March 12, 1885, approved March, 1901."
Makes it unlawful for any person to practice dentistry in
California without a license; creates a Board of Dental Ex-
aminers of seven reputable practicing dentists, to be ap-
pointed by the Governor; provides for the organization of the
board, the election of officers, times and places of meetings,
compensation of members at $10 a day for time actually
spent in attending to duties of office; declares books and
examination papers public records and open to public inspec-
tion, a certified copy of all or part to be primary evidence in
every court in the State. Secretary custodian of the books
and shall furnish copies of any part thereof upon applicant
aying 25 cents per 100 words, fee to belong to secretary.
Board shall examine all applicants who furnish satisfactory
evidence of good moral character, upon payment of fee of
192 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
$25; prescribes subjects in which applicants shall be examined,
and provides that any applicant passing examination with
general average of not less than 75 per cent shall be regis-
tered as a licensed dentist; applicants failing to pass to be
re-examined in the subjects in which they failed; diplomas
from any reputable dental college recognized by the National
Association of Dental Faculties, and certificates of registra-
tion in dentistry from any other State shall entitle appli-
cants to license without examination upon payment of requi-
site fee.
Lost or destroyed licenses may be reissued on payment
of fee of $5.00.
Secretary before 10th of each month shall report to State
Controller all fees, fines, licenses and other collections and
pay entire amount of receipts into State treasury, where it
shall be credited to State Board of Dental Examiners' con-
tingent fund, out of which all salaries and expenses incurred
by the Board shall be paid. Every licensed dentist must
register with County Clerk of county wherein his place of
business is located within 60 days after Act takes effect; and
provides for County Clerk keeping proper record.
It is declared a misdemeanor to sell or offer to sell any
dental degree, or any certificate or transcript made pursuant
to laws regulating license and registration of dentists; or
to purchase any such diploma, certificate or transcript with
intent to use it as evidence of qualification to practice; or to
alter with fraudulent intent in a material regard any such
diploma, certificate or transcript, or use or attempt to use
any diploma, certificate or transcript purchased, fraudulently
issued, counterfeited or materially altered as a license to
practice or in order to procure registration; or practice den-
tistry under a false or assumed name; or assume a dental
degree not duly conferred on him or her; wilfully make a
false statement in a material regard in an affidavit required
of an applicant for examination, license or registration, or to
practice dentistry without a license, punishable by fine of not
less than $50 or more than $500, or by imprisonment not less
than ten days or more than six months, for a first offense;
and for a subsequent offense by a fine of not less than $100
or more than $1000, or by imprisonment not less than 30 days
nor more than one year, or both.
Every practitioner must conspicuously display his name, and
if there be more than one chair, the name of the practitioner
must be displayed on or by said chair in plain sight of
patients, with the same penalties as above.
Licenses may be revoked for conviction of felony or mis-
demeanor involving moral turpitude, unprofessional conduct;
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gross ignorance or inefficiency; and the method of procedure
for revocation is provided.
The Board shall make an annual report to the Governor,
and four members shall constitute a quorum.
S. B. 339. Benson. To insure the better education of
dental surgeons and to regulate the practice of dentistry in
the State of California, providing penalties for the violation
hereof.
Prohibits the practice of dentistry without a license; creates
a board of dental examiners of seven, to be appointed by the
Governor, who shall have been legally practicing in California
for at least five years, and none of whom shall be members
of the faculty of any dental or medical college in this State
or have any interest therein, for a term of four years. Pro-
vides for a secretary whose compensation shall be fixed by the
board. Meetings shall be held regularly at least twice a year
at time and place to be designated; all books to be public
records; members of board to receive $10 per day for actual
time spent in attendance at meetings of board and of com-
mittees thereof, and necessary expenses.
Any person over 21 years of age shall be eligible to examina-
tion upon application, payment of fee of $25, furnishing satis-
factory testimonials of good moral character, and furnishing
satisfactory evidence of graduation from a reputable dental
college approved by board of dental examiners, and after
August 1, 1918, shall also file diploma or certificate of gradua-
tion with recommendations from high school accredited to
University of California or other university of equal standing,
or certificate by a State superintendent of public instruction
or similar officer; or in lieu thereof a certificate from the
board of dental examiners of any other State showing that
he has been a duly licensed practitioner of dentistry in such
State for at least five years.
Provides what examination shall consist of, including dem-
onstration of applicant's skill in operative and prosthetic
dentistry; those passing successfully to be registered as
licensed dentists and granted a license to practice; all receiv-
ing 85 per cent or over in any subject to be exempt from re-
examination.
Requires all licensed dentists to register with county clerk
in county where they practice, for which a fee of $1 must be
paid.
Provides for an annual license tax of $2, failure to pay
which shall work forfeiture of license.
Declares who shall be understood to be practicing dentistry.
Sale, purchase or alteration of a diploma or certificate, or
use thereof with fraudulent intent, or refusal to furnish name
and address of any person practicing or assisting in practice
194 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
of dentistry without a license, or assuming degree or append-
ing letters indicating degree not duly . conferred by some
recognized dental college or school, or making a false statement
in affidavit accompanying application, or practicing dentistry
without conspicuously displaying the names of every person
employed, or who shall practice dentistry without a license,
or while license is suspended or has been revoked, or who
under name other than that under which he is licensed, prac-
tice, advertise or otherwise declares that he is practicing den-
tistry, is declared a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment
not less than 10 days or more than one year, or by fine of not
less than $100 or more than $1500, or both.
License may be revoked for conviction of felony involving
moral turpitude, rendition of final judgment upon cause of
action alleging grossly unskillful or negligent dental practice,
or unprofessional conduct or gross ignorance or inefficiency
in his profession, and provides procedure for such revocation.
A. B. 1010. Wright, T. M. Identical with S. B. 339. Benson.
A. B. 1119. Sharkey (by request). To provide for the estab-
lishment and maintenance of a Bureau of Dental Sanitation
under the direction of the State Board of Health, defining the
powers and duties of said bureau; and prescribing penalties
for violations of the provisions hereof.
A. B. 190. Gelder. Prohibiting the use of arsenic, any alka-
loid, cocaine or its salts, alpha or beta eucaine or their salts,
in the practice of dentistry; providing a penalty therefor; re-
pealing all Acts or parts of Acts in conflict herewith.
A. B. 762. Chenoweth. Declaring unlawful the employment
of any person as an operator in dental work Who is not a
duly licensed practitioner in dentistry, and making violation a
misdemeanor.
S. B. 482. Crowley. Amending Section 1 of an Act ap-
proved April 16, 1906, to create the office of State dental
surgeon, prescribing his duties, fixing his manner of appoint-
ment, salary and term of office, and to make an appropriation
for the expenses of his office.
A. B. 611. Prendergast. Identical with S. B, 482, Crowley.
A. B. 209. Gelder. Amending Sections 1, 6 and 14 of an
Act approved March 12, 1885, approved March 23, 1901, ap-
proved March 20, 1903, approved March 20, 1905, approved
March 2, 1907, approved April 6, 1909, approved June 11, 1913,
to insure the better education of practitioners of dental surgery
and to regulate the practice of dentistry in the State of Cali-
fornia, providing penalties for the violation thereof, and to
repeal an Act now in force relating to the same, and known
as "An Act to insure the better education of practitioners of
dental surgery and to regulate the practice of dentistry in the
State of California; said amendments relating to the registra-
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915. 195
tion, practice, and examination of applicants to practice den-
tistry, and also relating to the books and public records of
the Board of Public Examiners, and also relating to the fees
relating to such examination and practice.
A. B. 195. Gelder. Amending Section 2 of an Act, ap-
proved March 12, 1885; approved March 23, 1901; approved
March 20, 1905; approved March 2, 1907; approved April 6,
1909; approved June 11, 1913; to insure the better education
of practitioners of dental surgery and to regulate the practice
of dentistry in the State of California, providing penalties
for the violation hereof, and to repeal an Act now in force
relating to the same, and known as an Act to insure the
better education of practitioners of dental surgery and to
regulate the practice of dentistry in the State of California;
said amendment relating to the Board of Dental Examiners.
A. B. 194. Gelder. Amending Section 8 of an Act, ap-
proved March 12, 1885; approved March 23, 1901; approved
March 20, 1903; approved March 20, 1905; approved March
2, 1907; approved April 6, 1909; approved June 11, 1913; to
insure better education of practitioners of dental surgery and
to regulate the practice of dentistry in the State of California,
providing penalties for the violation hereof, and to repeal an
Act now in force relating to the same, and known as an
Act to insure the better education of practitioners of dental
surgery and to regulate the practice of dentistry in the State
of California; said amendment relating to persons entitled to
an examination for the practice of dentistry.
A. B. 1324. Kennedy. Amending Section 8 of an Act to
insure better education of practitioners of dental surgery and
to regulate the practice of dentistry in the State of California,
relating to persons entitled to an examination for the prac-
tice of dentistry.
A. B. 192. Gelder. Adding Section 8% (new) to an Act,
approved March 12, 1885; approved March 23, 1901; approved
March 20, 1903; approved March 20, 1905; approved March 2,
1907; approved April 6, 1909; approved June 11, 1913; to insure
the better education of practitioners of dental surgery and
to regulate the practice of dentistry in the State of California,
providing penalties for the violation thereof, and to repeal
an Act now in force relating to the same and known as
an Act to insure the better education of practitioners of
dental surgery and to regulate the practice of dentistry in
the State of California, relating to persons entitled to prac-
tice dentistry in this State.
Provides that any person holding diploma from school or
college of dentistry recognized as reputable and in good stand-
ing by National Association of Dental Faculties, in full force
and effect for five years prior to application to practice den-
tistry in this State, shall be entitled to register without ex-
196 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
aminatidn to practice dentistry in this State, and board must
issue him a license therefor; applicant must present certificate
signed by two citizens that he is of good moral character,
that he is not under any charges involving moral turpitude,
and has not had his license revoked.
A. B. 193. Gelder. Amending Section 10 of an Act, ap-
proved March 12, 1885; approved March 23, 1901; approved
March 20, 1903, approved March 20, 1905; approved March 2,
1907; approved April 6, 1909; approved June 11, 1913; to insure
the better education of practitioners of dental surgery and to
regulate the practice of dentistry in the State of California,
providing penalties for the violation thereof and to repeal
an Act to insure the better education of practitioners of dental
surgery and" to regulate the practice of dentistry in the State
of California; said amendments relating to the register of
license of persons entitled to practice dentistry.
A. B. 1325. Kennedy. Amending Section 12 of an Act to
insure better education of practitioners of dental surgery and
to regulate the practice of dentistry in the State of California,
etc., relating to persons entitled to an examination for the
practice of dentistry.
A. B. 191. Gelder. Amending Section 19 of an Act, ap-
proved March 12, 1885; approved March 23, 1901; approved
March 20, 1903; approved March 20, 1905; approved March 2,
1907; approved April 6, 1909; approved June 11, 1913; to insure
the better education of practitioners of dental surgery and to
regulate the practice of dentistry in the State of California,
providing penalties for the violation hereof, and to repeal
an Act now in force relating to the same, and known as
an Act to insure the better education of practitioners of
dental surgery and to regulate the practice of dentistry in
the State of California; said amendment relating to the prac-
tice of dentistry and providing- a penalty thereforr and adding
Subdivision 11 (new) thereto, forbidding the performance of
dental operations upon females without the presence at all
times of a competent female assistant or nurse.
DETECTIVES.
S. B. 20. Purkitt. To license and regulate the business of
private detectives and detective agencies.
Requires every person, firm, association, copartnership or
corporation engaging in the business of private detective for
hire or reward to procure a license from the Secretary of
State, and must give bond in $2000; a license fee for indi-
viduals is to be $100, and for copartnerships $150, and co-
partnership bond is fixed at $3000; violation declared a mis-
demeanor.
S. B. 437. Finn. To regulate private detective agencies and
PEtNDING LEGISLATION, 1915. 197
detectives; prescribing certain qualifications of all persons
operating as private detectives; providing for the licensing
and bonding of such agencies and detectives, under the super-
vision of the Secretary of State, and defining their liabilities
for misconduct to persons injured thereby.
Requires every person, firm, association or corporation con- .
ducting a secret service agency to secure annually a license
from the Secretary of State, for which they shall pay $1000;
individuals employed as secret service operatives or detectives
or operating independently as such shall pay a license fee of-
$100 annually; failure to pay tax forfeits right to engage in
such business; operating without a license is declared a mis-
demeanor, punishable in the case of an agency, by fine of
$3000, and of an individual of $300. Every agency shall give a
surety bond of $25,000 and each independent operative a bond
of $3000, to indemnify the public for any misconduct.
A. B. 541. Kennedy. Identical with S. B. 437. Finn.
A. B. 1478. Avey. To license and regulate the busine&s of
private detectives and private detective agencies.
Vests jurisdiction over private detectives and private de-
tective agencies in the State Board of Prison Directors.
EDUCATIONAL.
S. B. 236. Strobridge. Providing for the establishment and
maintenance of vocational courses and schools by local boards
of education for the purpose of encouraging agricultural, in-
dustrial, trade, commercial and all other practical subjects,
and providing State aid therefor.
S. B. 237. Strobridge. Providing for the establishment and
maintenance of classes for the training of vocational teachers
and providing State aid therefor.
S. B. 1191. Butler. To provide for the establishment of a
system of vocational education, for the qualification of in-
structors in vocations, and for the supervision of each in-
structor and for State aid therefor. . .
A. B. 940. Fish. Creating a bureau of visual instruction
under the University Extension Division of the University of
California and appropriating $25,000 for the purpose of carry-
ing out the provisions of this Act.
S. B. 935. Carr. Identical with A. B. 940. Fish.
S. B. 760. Breed. To establish a State training high school,
to prescribe the functions thereof, to provide for its organiza-
tion and management, to authorize the high school district
where the same is located to appropriate moneys for the
partial payment of its expenses and to provide for its housing,
and appropriating $75,000 therefor.
A. B. 299. Scott, F. C. Establishing the Allensworth : Poly-
IDS PEiN PING. LEGISLATION, 1915.
technic Institute in the county of Tulare, and appropriating
$50,000 therefor.
S. B. 411. Irwin. Identical with A. B. 299, Scott.
A. B. 716. Rigdon. Establishing one State scholarship for
the benefit of each county at the State Polytechnic School, and
appropriating $8000 annually for their maintenance.
A. B. 1435. Cary. To regulate the issuance of charters to
persons intending to found an institution for the teaching of
the healing art or any of its branches in the States of Cali-
fornia.
ELECTRICITY.
S. B. 201. Ballard. Regulating the placing, erection, use
and maintenance of electric poles, wires, cables and appliances,
and providing the punishment for the violation thereof, and
the repeal of certain other Acts.
A. B. 267. Bartlett. Identical with S. B. 201. Ballard.
S. B. 677. Amending Section 1 of an Act, approved April
22, 1911, regulating the placing, erection, use and maintenance
of electric poles, wires, cables and appliances, and providing
the punishment for the violation thereof.
ELECTIONS.
(See Political Code; Voters and Voting.)
A. B. 237. Marron. Providing changes in the method of
vote canvassing at general and municipal elections, and adding
election booth equipment, by amending Sections 1142, 1203, 1252,
1255 and 1257, Political Code, relating to the same subject,
and providing for the addition of a new section to the Political
Code, to be numbered 1257a, also relating to the same subject;
repealing Section 1253 of the same code, relating to the manner
of commencing a vote canvass, and repealing all sections or
parts of sections in conflict herewith.
A. B. 285. Cary. Providing changes in the method of vote
canvassing at general and municipal elections, and adding
election booth equipment, by amending Sections 1072, relating
to compensation of election officers; 1127, relating to election
precincts; 1142, 1203, 1252, 1253, 1255 and 1257 of the Political
Code, relating to the same subject, and adding Section 1257a
(new) to the Political Code, also relating to the same subject;
repealing Section 1129 of the same code, relating to election
precincts; and repealing all Acts or parts of Acts in conflict
herewith.
S. B. 494. Birdsall. To provide for the issuance of identi-
fication certificates and official ballots to duly registered
voters, to enable voters to whom such certificates and ballots
have been issued to cast their votes wherever they may be
within the State of California, on the day of any general or
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915. 193 .
primary election, and to provide the manner in which such
votes shall be cast and counted.
A. B. 567. Ream. Identical with S. B. 494. Birdsall.
A. B. 715. Young. To provide for and regulate primary
elections and providing for the election of party committees,
and to repeal the Act providing for the regulating primary
elections known as the Direct Primary Law and approved
June 16, 1913, and also to repeal all other Acts or parts of
Acts inconsistent with or in conflict with the provisions of
this Act.
Speaker Young thus explains this measure:
The form of the Direct Primary Bill is almost entirely
changed. It attempts a more orderly presentation of the
various questions involved and is an entire recasting of the
old law.
Registration of party affiliation prior to the primary gives
way to declaration of party affiliation at the primary election.
Instead of six ballots as at the last primary election, one
for each of the five parties and one non-partisan ballot there
is only one ballot provided for in the present law.
Candidates for congressional offices are placed on this bal-
lot in their various party headings and the election officer is
instructed to cancel all lists of party candidates in the ballot
given to each voter, except those of the party with which he
declares himself affiliated.
The party convention is no longer made up of party nomi-
nees for office since these are now confined to congressional
offices, but are composed of one party committeeman elected
from each Assembly District or appointed by the congression-
al officers in case any Assembly District fails to elect such
committeeman. Congressional officers are made ex-offlcio
members of such convention and the platform to be promul-
gated is confined to national issues such as will be dealt with
by congressional candidates in their campaign and in the
presidential campaign.
S. B. 495. Ballard. Amending Section 5 of an Act ap-
proved June 6, 1913, to provide for and regulate primary
elections, and providing a method for choosing the delegates
for political parties to state conventions and for nominating
electors of President and Vice-President of the United States,
and providing for the election of party county central com-
mittees, and to repeal the Act approved April 7, 1911, known
as the Direct Primary Law, and also to repeal the Act ap-
proved December 24, 1911, amending Sections 1, 3, 5, 7, 10,
12, 13, 22, 23 and 24 of the said Direct Primary Law, and also
to repeal all other Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with or
in conflict with the provisions of this Act.
A. B. 520. Bartlett. Amending Section 5 of an Act, ap-
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proved June 6, 1913, to provide for and regulate primary elec-
tions, and providing- a method for choosing the delegates for
political parties to State conventions and for nominating elec-
tors of President and Vice-President of the United States,
and providing for the election of party county central com-
mittees, and to repeal the Act approved April 7, 1911, known
as the Direct Primary Daw, and also to repeal the Act ap-
proved December 24, 1911, amending Sections 1, 3, 5, 7, 10, 12,
13, 22, 23 and 24 of the said Direct Primary Law, and also
to repeal all other Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with or
in conflict with the provisions of this Act.
A. B. 784. Amending Section 13 of an Act, approved June
16, 1913, to provide for and regulate primary elections, and
providing a method for choosing the delegates for political
parties to State conventions and for nominating electors of
President and Vice-President of the United States, and pro-
viding for the election of party county central committees,
and to repeal the Act approved April 7, 1911, known as the
Direct Primary Law, and also to repeal the Act approved
December 24, 1911, amending Sections 1, 3, 5, 7, 10, 12, 13, 22,
23 and 24 of the said Direct Primary Law, and also to repeal
all other Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with or in conflict
with the provisions of this Act.
A. B. 1180. Sisson. Amending Section 29 of an Act, ap-
proved June 16, 1913, to provide for and regulate primary
elections, and providing a method for choosing the delegates
for political parties to State conventions, and for nominating
electors of President and Vice-President of the United States
and providing for the election of party county central com-
mittees, and to repeal the Act approved April 7, 1911, known,
as the Direct Primary Law, and also to repeal the Act ap-
proved December 24, 1911, etc.
A. B. 1223. Fish. Amending Section 4 of an Act, approved
June 11, 1913, to permit the consolidation of elections and to
provide a procedure therefor.
S. B. 1173. Butler. Amending Section 4 of an Act approved
June 11, 1913, to permit the consolidation of elections and to
provide a procedure therefor, relating to election precincts.
S. B. 1135. Duncan. Amending Section 3 of an Act ap-
proved March 19, 1907, to regulate the conduct of election
campaigns, and repealing an Act approved February 23, 1893,
to promote the purity of elections by regulating the conduct
thereof, and to support the privilege of free suffrage by pro-
hibiting certain acts and practices in relation thereto, and
providing for the punishment thereof, relating to campaign
contributions.
A. B. 1811. Sisson. Amending Sections 3 and 9 of an Act ap-
proved March 19, 1907, to regulate the conduct of election
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915. 201
campaign, and repealing- an Act approved February 23, 1893,
to promote the purity of elections by regulating the conduct
thereof, and to support the privilege of free suffrage by pro-
hibiting certain acts and practices in relation thereto, and
providing for the punishment thereof.
ELEVATORS.
A. B. 201. Kennedy. Regulating the construction, operation
and maintenance of elevators in all buildings, and to repeal
an Act entitled "An Act to regulate the construction, opera-
tion, and maintenance of elevators in buildings during course
of construction; providing for inspection of the same by the
Bureau of Labor Statistics; and providing a penalty for vio-
lation thereof", approved June 7, 1913.
A. B. 233. Schmitt. To promote the safety of passengers
in elevators.
Requires persons, firms or corporations operating and main-
taining elevators for passenger service to conspicuously display
therein a sign setting forth the number of passengers that can
safely be carried on one trip, violation a misdemeanor, which
extends also to any person operating such elevator permitting
more than the maximum number of persons indicated on the
notice to ride at any one time on said elevator.
A. B. 346. Schmitt. Prohibiting the use of mirrors and other
glass in elevators, and declaring violation a misdemeanor.
EMBALMERS.
S. B. 34 2. Crowley. Establishing a state board of embalm-
ers, defining the duties thereof, providing for the better pro-
tection of life and health, preventing the spread of contagious
disease, regulating the practice of embalming in connection
with the care and disposition of the dead and providing
penalties for the violation thereof.
Provides for a State board of embalmers appointed by the
Governor consisting of five members, four of whom shall be
practical embalmers and one of whom shall be a member of
the State Board of Health, to serve without pay. It shall be
the duty of said board to examine applicants for license as
embalmers, to issue and revoke such licenses to applicants
meeting the requirements specified. It shall be deemed a mis-
demeanor for any person to embalm a dead body without such
license. (A. B. 1228. Smith. Pending Legislation, 1913, p.
321.)
A. B. 403. Godsil. To establish a State board of embalmers,
defining the duties thereof, providing for the better protection
of life and health, preventing the spread of contagious dfsease,
regulating the- practice of embalming in connection "with" the
202 PENDING LEGISLATION*, 1915.
care and disposition of the dead and providing penalties for the
violation thereof.
EMPLOYMENT BUREAU, STATE.
A. B. 19. Spengler. Creating for the State of California a
free employment bureau in connection with the State Bureau
of Labor Statistics, under the management of a director at
$2000 per year, to be appointed by the Commissioner of the
S'tate Bureau of Labor Statistics; public employment offices
to be established at San Francisco, Los Angeles, Oakland and.
Sacramento, and such other places as may be necessary; pro-
viding for the appointment, terms of office, compensation and
duties of officers and employees of said employment bureau;
making certain rules and regulations in relation to same;
making it a misdemeanor for private employment agencies to
charge fees in any city where a free employment bureau has
been established hereunder, and appropriating $250,000 for the
purposes of this Act.
A. B. 251. Ferguson. Establishing in the cities of San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Sacramento, Stockton, Oakland, Fres-
no, Bakersfield and San Diego employment offices under the
control and management of the commissioner of the Bureau
of Labor Statistics; defining the duties and powers of said
commissioner in relation to such offices and the manner of
conducting same; providing for suitable rooms or offices, to be
located in different cities and providing for the equipment and
maintenance thereof. Providing for necessary employees' fees
and compensation and defining their powers and duties. Pre-
scribing the fees to be paid by persons furnished positions and
appropriating $35,000 to carry out the purpose of this Act.
S. B. 325. Lyon. Establishing free employment bureaus
under the control and management of the Commissioner of
the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and appropriating $50,000
therefor.
A. B. 333. McDonald. Identical with A. B. 333, McDonald.
S. B. 349. Kehoe. Relating to labor exchanges and employ-
ment agencies, creating a bureau of labor exchanges under
the Commission of Immigration and Housing of California,
providing for the employment by said commission of a director,
superintendents and other employees, authorizing said com-
mission to fix their compensation, prescribing the duties of
said bureau, providing for the free service of said bureau in
securing employment for applicants, prescribing certain rules
and regulations for the conduct of private employment
agencies, authorizing the said bureau to license private em-*
ployment agencies and enforce all laws pertaining to the regu-
lation of private employment agencies, and making an appro-
priation for the purpose of carrying out the provisions hereof.
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915. .203
A. B. 356. Harris. Relating- to labor exchanges and employ-
ment agencies, creating a bureau of labor exchanges under
the Commission of Immigration and Housing of California,
and the establishment of State labor exchanges at such centers
of population as may after investigation be selected; pro-
viding for the employment of said commission of a director,
superintendents and other employees, authorizing said com-
mission to fix their compensation, prescribing the duties of
said bureau, providing for the free service of said bureau in
securing employment for applicants, prescribing certain rules
and regulations for the conduct of private employment
agencies, authorizing the said bureau to license private em-
ployment agencies and enforce all laws pertaining to the regu-
lation of private employment agencies, and appropriating $150,-
000 for the purpose of carrying out the provisions hereof.
S. B. 1068. Duncan. Providing that all justices of the peace
in townships having a population of less than 15,000 shall act
as labor and employment agents.
EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES.
A. B. 515. Edwards. Amending an Act, approved June 3,
1913, regulating private employment agencies, providing for
.a license for the operation thereof and a fee therefor, pro-
viding forms or receipts and registers to be used and kept,
prohibiting any charge for registering or filing application for
help or employment, prohibiting the dividing of fees, providing
for the refunding of fees and expenses in the event of failure
to procure employment, and granting the Commissioner of the
Bureau of Labor Statistics the power to prescribe rules and
regulations to carry out the purpose and intent of this Act,
by adding two new sections thereto, to be numbered 12a and
12b, relating to the making of application to any private
employment agency for help.
Provides (Sec. 12a) that no person shall apply to an em-
ployment agency for help unless he has a position to be filled;
and (Sec. 12b) renders such person so appplying and having
no place to be filled, or having such position refusing, without
valid reason, to employ the person furnished by the employ-
ment agency, liable in an action at law for any and all losses
sustained by the agency.
A. B. 516. Edwards. Amending Section 12 of an Act, ap-
proved June 3, 1913, regulating private employment agencies,
providing for a license for the operation thereof and a fee
therefor^ providing forms of receipts and registers to be used
and kept, prohibiting any charge for registering or filing ap-
plication for help or employment, prohibiting the dividing of
fees, providing for the refunding of fees and expeness in the
event of failure to procure employment, and granting the
204 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics the power
to prescribe rules and regulations to carry out the purposes
and intent of this Act.
Provides for the return of the difference between five per
cent of the amount earned by the applicant and the fee paid,
in case he worked less than seven days by reason of discharge.
S. B. 983. Lyon. Amending Sections 4, 7, 12 and 14 of an
Act, approved June 3, 1913, regulating private employment
agencies, providing for a license for the operation thereof and
a fee therefor, providing forms of receipts and registers to be
• used and kept, prohibiting any charge for registering or filing
application for help or employment, prohibiting the dividing
of fees, providing for the refunding of fees and expenses in
the event of failure to procure employment, and granting the
Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics the power to
prescribe rules and regulations to carry out the purpose and
intent of this Act.
S;- B. 986. Lyon. Adding- Section 12a (new) to an Act, ap-
proved June 3, 1913, regulating private employment agencies,
providing for a license for the operation thereof and a fee
therefor, providing forms of receipts and registers to be used
and kept, prohibiting any charge for registering or filing ap-
plication for help or employment, prohibiting the dividing of
fees, providing for the refunding of fees and expenses in the
event of failure to procure employment, and granting the Com-
missioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics the power to pre-
scribe rules and regulations to carry out the purpose and intent
of this Act.
ENGINEERING, DEPARTMENT OF.
"S. B, 90. Finn. Amending Sections 5 and 12 of an Act
entitled "An Act to create for the State of California a de-
partment of engineering, to provide for the appointment of
the officers and employees thereof, defining its powers and
prescribing the duties of said department, its officers and
employees; to provide the compensation of such officers and
employees, to make an appropriation for the salaries and
other expenses for the remainder of the fifty-eighth fiscal
year and making certain acts a felony, and repealing an Act
entitled 'An Act creating a commissioner of public works,
defining his duties and powers, and fixing his compensation,'
approved February 9, 1900, and all Acts or parts of Acts
amendatory thereof; also repealing an Act entitled 'An Act
:tp: create.- a department of highways for the State of Califor-
nia, to define its duties and powers, to provide for the appoint-
ment of officers and employees thereof, and to provide for the
compensation of said officers and employes, and for the
additional expenses- of .said department, and to make an ap-
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915. 205
propriation therefor for the remainder of the forty- eighth
fiscal year,' approved April 1, 1897; also repealing an Act
entitled 'An Act providing for the appointment of an auditing
board to the Commissioner of Public Works, authorizing him
and them to perform certain duties relating to drainage, to
purchase machinery, tools, dredgers and appliances therefor,
to improve and rectify water channels, to erect works neces-
sary and incident to said drainage, to condemn land and prop-
erty for the purposes aforesaid, making certain acts a felony,
and making an appropriation of money for the purposes of
this Act.' approved March 17, 1897, and all Acts or parts of
Acts amendatory thereof; also repealing an Act entitled 'An
Act to provide for the appointment, duties and compensation
of a debris commissioner, and to make an appropriation to
be expended under his direction in the discharge of his duties
as such commissioner,' approved March 24, 1893, and all Acts
or parts of Acts amendatory thereof; also repealing an Act
entitled 'An Act to create the office of Lake Tahoe Wagon
Road Commissioner, providing the term of office and compen-
sation of such commissioner, defining his duties, and making
an appropriation for the salary and expenditures provided for
and authorized by this Act,' approved April 1, 1897, and all
Acts or parts of Acts amendatory thereof," approved March
11, 1907, and all Acts or parts of Acts amendatory thereof
relating to the officers and employes of the department of
engineering, their powers, duties and salaries and particu-
larly to the engineer appointed for service in the harbor of
San Francisco under the State Board of Harbor Commis-
sioners.
S. B. 21. Scott. Amending Sections 6a and 17 of an Act to
amend an Act entitled "An Act to create for the State of
California a department of engineering, to provide for the
appointment of the officers and employees thereof, defining
its powers and prescribing the duties of said department, its
officers and employees, to provide the compensation of such
officers and employees, to make an appropriation for the
salaries and other expenses for the remainder of the fifty-
eighth fiscal year making certain acts a felony, and repealing
an Act entitled 'An Act creating a commissioner of public
works, defining his duties and powers, and fixing his compen-
sation,' approved February ninth, nineteen hundred, and all
Acts or parts of Acts amendatory thereof; also repealing an
Act entitled 'An Act to create a department of highways' for
the State of California, to define its duties and powers, to
provide for the appointment of officers and employees thereof,
and to provide for the compensation of said officers and em-
ployees, and for the additional expenses of said department,
206 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
and to make an appropriation therefor for the remainder of
the forty- eighth fiscal year,' approved April first, eighteen
hundred ninety-seven; also repealing an Act entitled 'An Act
providing for the appointment of an auditing board to the
commissioner of public works, authorizing him and them to
perform certain duties relating to drainage, to purchase ma-
chinery, tools, dredges, and appliances therefor, to improve
and rectify water channels, to erect works necessary and
incident to said drainage, to condemn land and property for
the purposes aforesaid, making certain acts a felony, and
making an appropriation of money for the purposes of this
Act,' approved March seventeenth, eighteen hundred ninety-
seven and all Acts or parts of Acts amendatory thereof; also
repealing an Act entitled 'An Act to provide for the appoint-
ment, duties and compensation of a debris commissioner, and
to make an appropriation to be expended under his direction
in the discharge of his duties as such commissioner,' approved
March twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred ninety-three, and all
Acts or parts of Acts amendatory thereof; also repealing an
Act entitled 'An Act to create the office of Lake Tahoe
wagon road commissioner, providing the term of office and
compensation of such commissioner, defining his duties, and
making an appropriation for the salary and expenditures
provided for and authorized by this Act,' approved April
first, eighteen hundred ninety-seven, and all Acts or parts
of Acts amendatory thereof," approved March eleventh, nine-
teen hundred and seven, a#d aft Acts or parts of Acts amend-
atory thereof, relating to the officers and employees of the
department of engineering, their powers, duties and salaries.
A. B. 1152. Gebhart. Amending Sections 6, 8, 11 and 17,
to create for the State of California a Department of Engi-
neering, to provide for the appointment of the officers and
employees thereof, defining its powers and prescribing the
duties of said department.
A. B. 24. Ryan. Identical with S. B. 21. Scott.
A. B. 241. Scott. Identical with S. B. 21. Scott.
A. B. £71. Shartel. To create the office of County Engineer
in and for each county, providing for the term of office, quali-
fication, appointment, and compensation of such officer, de-
fining his duties, and authorizing the Board of Supervisors to
provide said County Engineer with office and necessary office
and field fixtures.
S. B. 42. Birdsall. To provide that the Department of
Engineering of the State of California may acquire for and
in the name of the people of the State of California, by pur-
chase, donation, dedication or by proceedings in eminent do-
main, additional rights of way, land and trees on and along
the course of any State highway.
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915. 207
A. B. 12. Kerr. Identical with S. B. 42. Birdsall.
A. B. 279. Scott, F. C. Authorizing the establishment of a
cash revolving fund for the department of engineering, and
defining its use.
S. B. 330. Birdsall. Identical with A. B. 279. Scott.
ESTRAYS.
S. B. 180. Shearer. Amending an Act, approved March 23,
1901, relating to estrays, providing for taking them up and
giving a lien on them for all damages, costs, and expenses
incurred by reason of taking them up, and repealing all other
Acts and parts of Acts now in force relating to estrays.
A. B. 169. McCray and Ream. Identical with S\ B. 180.
Shearer.
FIREARMS.
S. B. 9. Finn. Relating to the sale and carrying of danger^
ous weapons. Prohibits the carrying in any city, village or
town any loaded pistol, revolver or other firearm concealed on
his person or of a size to be concealed without a license issued
by a police magistrate or justice of the peace; makes it a mis-
demeanor to carry, own, manufacture or sell any instrument
or weapon such as a blackjack, slungshot, billy, sandclub,
sandbag or metal knuckles or to carry or own a dirk, dagger
or knife with a blade longer than three and one-half inches.
Every person, whether retail dealer, pawnbroker or otherwise,
selling, leasing or otherwise transferring a pistol, revolver or
other firearm of a size to be concealed shall keep a register in
which all such sales shall be entered, and shall require the
purchaser to produce a permit for possession or carrying
thereof; and every person lawfully coming into possession of
such weapon transferring it without notifying the police au-
thorities shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Violation of the
prohibition as to owning, carrying, manufacturing and selling
is made a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment of not
less than thirty days or more than one year; any person
violating the act who has previously been convicted of vio-
lation thereof is guilty of a felony punishable by imprison-
ment in a state prison not exceeding three years. The Act
carries this drastic provision applicable to all misdemeanors:
"Sec. 7. Except in cases where a different punishment is
prescribed by this Act, every offense declared to be a mis-
demeanor is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail
not exceeding six months, or by a fine not exceeding $500
or by both."
A. B. 79. Lyon. Identical with S. B. 9. Finn.
A. B. 128, Gebhart. Relating to the sale and carrying of
dangerous weapons. •• .
208 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
Of the same general purport as S. B. 9. Finn.
A. B. 168. Mouser. An Act limiting and denning the right
of civilians to carry or obtain firearms, and all other dangerous
weapons.
To the same effect as S. B. 9 (Finn) and A. B. 128 (Gebhart).
S. B. 632. Benson. Relating to and regulating the carrying
and possession of firearms that may be concealed upon the
person within cities, towns and other municipal corporations
of this State, and providing for the issuance of licenses there-
for and regulating the sale thereof; and prohibiting the sale
and disposition of firearms and ammunition therefor to minors
within the State; and prohibiting the possession, carrying,
manufacturing and sale of other dangerous instruments and
weapons and the giving, transferring and disposition thereof
to other persons within this State; and relating to the carrying
and possession of dangerous and deadly instruments and
weapons by any person who intends or attempts to use the
same unlawfully against another.
A. B. 1084. Sisson. Identical with S\ B. 632. Benson.
FOOD PRODUCTS.
S. B. 940. Flaherty. Amending an Act approved June 5,
1913, prohibiting the destruction of foodstuffs, food products
or food articles, by adding thereto two new sections to be
numbered Sections 3 and 4, providing for the forfeiture and
disposition of foodstuffs, food products or food articles about
to be destroyed in restraint of trade, and providing for the
enforcement of this Act by the Fish and Game Commission
and by the Commission of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
A. B. 975. McDonald, J. J. Amending an Act approved
June 5, 1913, prohibiting the destruction of foodstuffs, food
products or food articles, by adding thereto two new sections
be to numbered Sections 3 and 4, providing for the forfeiture
and disposition of foodstuffs, food products or food articles
about to be destroyed in restraint of trade, and providing for
the enforcement of this Act by the Fish and Game Commis-
sion and by the Commission of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
A. B. 1053. McDonald, W. A. Amending Section 1 of an
Act approved June 5, 1913, prohibiting the destruction of food-
stuffs, food products or food articles.
FISH AND GAME.
S. B. 1158. Finn. To empower the Fish and Game Commis-
sion of California to control the business of catching and sell-
ing fish, and to buy fish, in order to distribute the same to the
people, and to fix prices to producer and consumer; makes it
unlawful to destroy fish for purpose of keeping up prices with-
out first offering same to Fish and Game Commission.'
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915. 209
A. B. 1453. Ryan. Identical with S. B. 1158. Finn.
S. B. 181. Shearer. To protect bear, and forbidding the use
of steel traps, etc., in their pursuit.
A. B. 172. Ream. Identical with S. B. 181. Shearer.
A. B. 283. Canepa. Regulating the sale of crabs that have
been shipped or imported into the State of California from
any point or place outside of the State of California and
requiring the branding thereof by all persons selling or offer-
ing the same for sale.
A. B. 347. Canepa (by request). To provide for branding on
the back of all crabs brought into the State of California
name of the place where they were caught, and providing
penalty for the violation thereof.
S. B. 655. Wolfe. Identical with A. B. 347. Canepa.
A. B. 166. Lyon. Prohibiting fishing within three miles of
the shore line of the county of Los Angeles, State of California.
Declares violation misdemeanor, punishable by fine of not less
than $20 nor more than $500, or imprisonment in county jail
not less than 10 nor more than 150 days.
A. B. 399. Pettis. To restrict fishing in the rivers and
streams of the County of Mendocino, State of California.
Declares such fishing a misdemeanor, punishable by fine of
not less than. $20 or more than $500, or imprisonment not less
than 10 nor more than 150 days.
S. B. 721. Benedict. Identical with A. B. 399. Pettis.
A. B. 545. Boyce. To prohibit the use of nets for taking
fish from the Salinas River and Elk Horn Sloughs.
S. B. 681. Flint. To divide the State of California into
twenty-seven fish and game districts and to repeal an Act,
approved March 21, 1911, to divide the State of California into
six fish and game districts.
A. B. 947. Ream. Identical with S. B. 681. Flint.
A. B. 772. Edwards. To prohibit the use of nets, seines,
traps, or weirs for the catching of fish in the waters of
Mokelumne river and its tributaries-, White Slough and its
tributaries, Mud Slough and its tributaries, Potato Slough and
its tributaries, Little Connection Slough and its tributaries,
Disappointment Slough and its tributaries including the arti-
ficial canals connecting White Slough and Disappointment
Slough and Fourteen Mile Slough and its tributaries, and the
artificial canals connecting Fourteen Mile Slough, and Dis-
appointment Slough, the Calaveras River and North Street
Canal, Whiskey Slough and its tributaries and Walthall Slough,
all in the county of San Joaquin, State of California, and to
provide for the punishment of the violation thereof.
A. B. 606. Brown, H. W. Relating to hunting licenses
granting permission to kill wild game for sale, providing
what such licenses shall state, by whom to be issued and dis-
2.10 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
position to be made of fees, and imposing fine for violation
of Act.
S. B. 1107. Flint. To regulate the issuance of licenses for
resale to hunters and anglers.
A. B. 1443. Judson. Providing for the exhibition of licenses
authorizing the taking of fish or game, and for the display of
fish and game upon the demand of officers authorized to en-
force the laws for the protection of same.
A. B. 726. Kramer. Amending Section 4 of an Act ap-
proved June 16, 1913, to regulate and license the taking and
catching of game fishes and to define game fish and to pro-
vide revenue therefrom, for fish preservation and restoration.
A. B. 727. Kramer. Amending Section 4 of an Act to regu-
late and license the hunting of wild birds and animals, etc.
A. B. 985. Shartel. Amending an Act approved March 22,
1909, to regulate and license the hunting of wild birds and ani-
mals, and to provide revenue therefrom, for game and fish
preservation and restoration.
A. B. 1169. McCray. To regulate and license the hunting
of game birds and animals and the taking and catching of
game fish; to provide revenue from licenses for game and fish
preservation and restoration; to repeal an Act entitled an Act,
approved March 22, 1909, to regulate and license the hunting
of wild birds and animals and to provide revenue therefrom
for game and fish preservation and restoration, and to repeal
an Act, approved June 16, 1913, to regulate and license the
taking, and catching of game fish and to define game fish,
and to provide revenue therefrom for fish preservation and
restoration.
A. B. 1445. Scott, P. C. (by request). Amending an Act
approved March 22, 1909, to regulate and license the hunting
of wild birds and animals, and to provide revenue therefrom
for game fish preservation and restoration.
A. B. 1446. Scott, F. C. (by request). Amending an Act
approved June 16, 1913, to regulate and license the taking and
catching of game fish and to define game fish and to provide
revenue therefrom, for fish preservation and restoration.
S\ B. 1106. Flint. Providing for the disposition of fine*
and forfeitures collected in all prosecutions for violations of
the laws of the State referring to wild birds, wild animals*
and fishes.
A. B. 691. Lostutter. To further divide the State into fish
and game districts by establishing a district specially suited
for propagation of game, and to provide for the management
and protection thereof.
A. B. 1020. Kramer. Dividing the State of California into
seven fish and game districts and repealing an Act approved
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915. -211
March 21, 1911. to divide the State of California into six fish
and game districts.
S. B. 40. Anderson. To prevent the killing and destruction
of wild game within certain territory lying within the boun-
daries of the Cleveland National Forest, in the State of Cali-
fornia, and providing a penalty therefor.
A. B. Hi. Burke. Identical with S. B. 40— Anderson.
A. B. 636. Burke (by request). To prevent the killing and
destruction of wild game within certain territory lying within
the boundaries of the Los Angeles National Forest, in the
State of California, and providing- a penalty therefor.
S. B. 939. Anderson. To prevent the killing and destruc-
tion of wild game within certain territory lying within the
boundaries of the Angeles National Forest, in the State of
California, and providing a penalty therefor.
A. B. 1114. Fish. Identical with S. B. 939. Anderson.
S. B. 1032. Carr. To prevent the destruction of wild game
within certain territory lying within the boundaries of the
Angeles National Forest, and providing a penalty therefor.
Creates a game refuge to be known as the "Sierra Madre
Game Preserve".
FLOOD CONTROL DISTRICTS.
(See also Reclamation and Drainage.)
S. B. 459. Benedict and Carr. To provide for the formation,
organization, government and dissolution of flood control dis-
tricts, in the State of California, the boundaries of which dis-
tricts shall be coterminous with the boundaries of the counties
in which formed, to be known as county flood control districts,
for the purpose of protecting the land therein from damage
from storm waters and from the waters of innavigable streams,
water courses, canyons or washes, and for the purpose of sav-
ing and conserving storm, flood or snow water for beneficial
and useful purposes; for the construction of the necessary
works of protection and conservation and distribution of such
storm or flood waters by said flood control districts; for bond-
ing and assessing such flood control districts, for the cost of
constructing and maintaining such improvements, and for
levying taxes and assessments to pay the costs of repairing
and maintaining such improvements when constructed and for
the dissolution of any such districts.
A. B. 79 7. Edwards. To validate the organization of levee
districts.
FORESTS AND FORESTRY.
S. B. 348. Kehoe. Creating the office of State forester and
.providing for the appointment and revocation of appointment
of a proper person thereto; prescribing the powers and duties
212 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
of the State forester and fixing his salary; providing for the
appointment and revocation of appointment of "assistant for-
esters and fixing their duties and salaries; providing for the
appointment of and revocation of appointment of fire wardens
and prescribing their duties and mode of compensation; pro-
viding for co-operative agreements between the State Con-
servation Commission and persons, firms, associations, or cor-
porations, or any combinations or groups of such persons,
fiims, associations or corporations and for agreements between
the State Conservation Commission and the Federal Govern-
ment; declaring certain fires to be public nuisances, and re-
quiring those owning or controlling lands upon which said
nuisances exist to abate them; declaring certain inflammable
debris to be public nuisances, providing for their inspection
and abatement; authorizing and providing for the summary
abatement of all nuisances declared by this Act; making the
cost of the abatement of certain nuisances a lien upon the
land upon which said nuisances are situated; providing for
the filing and the satisfying of claims for such liens and the
recovery of costs accruing for said filing and satisfaction;
providing for the satisfaction of such liens by district attor-
neys and the compensation of district attorneys therefor; de-
claring the duties of those owning or controlling lands on
which fires may burn; providing for the payment in the
county treasuries of moneys collected under the penal section
of this Act; providing penalties for violating the provisions
of this Act; defining the word "Forest;" repealing Chapter
264 of the Laws of 1905 as amended by the Act of -April -7,
1911, and all Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with the pro-
visions of this Act; providing for the designation of this Act.
A. B. 491. Encell. Identical with S. B. 348. Kehoe.
S.'B." 357. Mott. Providing for the acquisition by purchase
or gift, of lands for reforestation and agricultural purposes;
for the management and control of same; for the distribution
of seeds and seedlings; and appropriating money to carry out
the provisions of this Act.
A. B. 351. Pettis, identical with S.'B'. 357. Mott.
S. B. 460. Benedict, Providing for the protection of public
and private forest lands by regulation and prevention of fires;
creating the office of state forester, and fixing his powers and
duties; prescribing penalties for violation of the provisions
hereof; repealing an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the
regulation of fires on, and the protection and management of,
public and private forest lands within the State of California,
creating a State -hoard-: of forestry, and certain officers sub-
ordinate to said board, prescribing the duties of such officers,
creating a forestry fund, and -appropriating the moneys in
said; fund, and defining and providing .for the punishment of
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915. 213
certain offenses for violations of the provisions of this Act,
and making an appropriation therefor/' approved March 18,
1905, and all Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent herewith.
A. B. 605. Fish. Identical with S. B. 460. Benedict.
A. B. 575. Shartel. Relating to the conservation of forests;
prohibiting the cutting of small trees, and providing penalties
for violations hereof.
FRANCHISES.
A. B. 1003. Avey (by request). Amending Section 6 of an
Act approved March 22, 1905, as amended March 3, 1909, to
provide for the sale of street railroad and other franchises in
counties and municipalities, and providing conditions for the
granting of such franchises by legislative or other governing
bodies, and repealing conflicting Acts.
S. B. 996. King. Relating to franchises heretofore or here-
after granted under • existing laws and the exercise of fran-
chise rights thereunder by ^public utilities and the supervisory
or regulating power of the Rialroad Commission, under the
provisions of the "Public Utilities Act".
A. B. 1451. Johnson. Identical with S. B. 996. King,
FRATERNAL BENEFIT SOCIETIES.
... - (See also Civil Code.) -
S. B. 580. Kehoe. Amending Section 1 of an Act approved
May 1st, 1911, for the regulation and control of fraternal benefit
societies.
A. B. 142. Ellis. Amending Section 3 of an Act approved
May 1, 1911, for the regulation and control of fraternal bene-
fit societies.
GAMBLING.
(See also Penal Code.)
A. B. 175. Browne. Prohibiting the playing of games with
cards, dice or any device for money and making violation a
misdemeanor punishable by fine not to exceed $500 or im-
prisonment not less than 30 or more than 90 days; declaring
all buildings and places nuisances wherein or upon which any
such games are opened or played, and providing that district
attorney or any citizen may maintain an action to abate such
nuisance. If nuisance be established order of abatement shall
be entered and plaintiff's costs shall be a lien on such building,
enforcible and collectible by execution. Violation of any in-
junction or order shall be punished as contempt of court by
fine of not less than $200 or. more than $1000 or by imprison-
ment not less than one or more than six months, or both, such
fine for contempt to be a_ lien; oh building to extent of owner
214 PENDING • LEGISLATION, 1915.
therein. "Person" defined to mean and include individuals,
corporations, associations, partnerships, trustees, lessees, agents
and assignees.
HARBOR COMMISSIONERS OF SAN FRANCISCO.
S. B. 89. Finn. Amending Section 2 of an Act to amend
an Act approved March 25, 1901, empowering and authoriz-
ing the Board of State Harbor Commissioners to insure
against loss or damage by fire the property of the State
of California located on ..the water front of San Francisco,
California, and all Acts or parts of Acts amendatory thereof,
relating to the aggregate amount of insurance and the cost
thereof. Fixes the amount of insurance at $1,200,000, the
post not to exceed $24,000 in premiums for 3 year policies.
A. B. 32. Kennedy. Identical with S. B. 89. Finn.
HARBOR DISTRICTS.
A. B. 1137. Burke. Providing .for the organization, incor-
poration and government of harbor districts, authorizing the
acquirement, construction, maintenance, operation^ develop-
ment and regulation .of a system of harbor improvements.
HIGHWAYS.
(See also Engineering, Department of; Penal Code; Appro-
priations.)
S. B. 313. Mott. Creating for the State of California a
division of county highways of the State Department of Engi-
neering; to provide for the appointment of an assistant State
Engineer to take charge of the division of county highways,
and prescribing- his duties; to provide for the appointment of
county highway engineers for the several counties of the State
and prescribing their duties; fixing and providing for the
salaries and expenses of the engineers whose appointment is
herein provided for and the necessary expenses of the division
of county highways.
A. B. 289. Scott and Ream. Identical with S. B. 313. Mott.
A. B. 868. Sharkey. To create a county highway depart-
ment for each county of the State of California; to provide
for the appointment of a county highway engineer for each
department; to provide for the compensation of such officer
and to define his duties; to provide for the appointment of
his assistants; to authorize the purchase and acquisition of
ail necessary equipment and instrumentalities to carry out
the objects of this Act; to etc.
A. B. 1043. Widenmann. Creating a division of County
Highways of the State Department of Engineering; to provide
for the appointment of an Assistant State Engineer to take
charge of the Division of County Highways, and prescribing
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915. 215
his duties; to provide for the appointment of County Highway
Engineers for the several counties of the State and prescribing
their duties; fixing and providing for the salaries and expenses
of the engineers whose appointment is herein provided for and
the necessary expenses of the Division of County Highways.
Creates the Division of County Highways of the State De-
partment of Engineering under the supervision of the State
Engineer, but directly under the charge of a competent civil
engineer of at least seven years' actual experience in road
construction, who shall be appointed by the State Engineer,
with the approval of the advisory board of the department of
engineering and as an assistant to the State Engineer.
It shall be the duty of the Assistant State Engineer in
charge of the division to visit each county in the State at
least once each year, make a thorough examination of the
roads, bridges and other public works and consult and advise
with the Board of Supervisors and county highway engineer.
The Assistant State Engineer in charge of the division of
county highways shall be paid an annual salary of $4500.
A competent civil engineer who has had at least five years
of practical experience in actual road construction shall be
appointed as county highway engineer for each of the several
counties of the State in the same manner and by the same
authority as the Assistant State Engineer in charge of the
division of county highways. He shall receive a compensation
of not less than $2000 per year nor more than $4000.
For the small counties of the State, the State Engineer
may assign one county highway engineer to two counties.
A. B. 49. Meek. Creating the office of County Highway En-
gineer in and for each county; providing the term of office and
compensation of such officer; defining his duties; providing
for the appointment of his assistants, and authorizing the
Board of Supervisors of each county to purchase and obtain
all necessary equipment and instrumentalities to carry out
the objects of this Act.
S. B. 532. Owens (by request). Authorizing the use of
convict labor on State highways; regulating the handling of
such labor; authorizing extra good time allowance; and pro-
viding penalties for interference.
A. B. 547. Meek. Identical with S. B. 532. Owens.
S. B. 1122. Kehoe. Amending Section 8 of an Act approved
March 22, 1909, authorizing the construction, acquisition,
maintenance and control of a system of State highways in the
State of California; specifying the work, fixing the payments
to be made by counties for moneys expended therein; pro-
viding for the issuance and sale of State bonds to create a
fund for the construction and acquisition of such system;
creating a sinking fund for the payment of said bonds; and
216 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
providing for the submission of this Act to a vote of the peo-
ple, approved, ratified and adopted by the people of the State
of California at the general election held in the month of
November, 1910, A. D., relative to the reimbursement to the
State by the several counties thereof of sums equal to the
interest upon certain outstanding bonds, and the proceeds of
sale thereof, sold and applied as in said Act provided, and pro-
viding for the submission of this Act to a vote of the people.
A. B. 1373. Tabler. Identical with S. B. 1122. Kehoe.
S. B. 549. Birdsall. Regulating the making of openings or
the placing of structures or the change or renewal of any
structure and the planting or removal of trees or shrubs or
the placing of obstructions in or on State roads and highways;
providing for the issuance of permits by the State Depart-
ment of Engineering relative thereto, and for the laying or
placing pipes, conduits, sewers, poles, wires, railways, ob-
structions and other objects, and for the planting, trimming
or removal of trees or shrubs in or on State roads and high-
ways; providing for the requirement of bonds from applicants
before the issuance of such permits; and prescribing the
penalty for violations of the provisions of this Act.
A. B. 745. Scott, F. C. Identical with S. B. 549. Birdsall.
S. B. 552. Birdsall. To provide for the care, management
and protection of State highways and providing penalties for
violations of the provisions of the Act.
A. B. 749. Scott, F. C. Identical with S. B. 552. Birdsall.
S. B. 553. Birdsall. To provide for the abandonment of
State roads and highways by the State Department of Engi-
neering.
A. B. 746. Scott, F. C. Identical with S. B. 553. Birdsall.
S. B. 602. Carr. To provide for the laying out, opening,
extending, widening, or straightening, in whole or in part of
public highways, squares, lands, alleys, parks, storm water
drains, settling basins, courts, and places, within counties,
for the condemnation of property necessary or convenient for
such purposes, and for the establishment of assessment dis-
tricts and the assessment of property therein to pay the
expense of such improvement.
A. B. 621. Harris. Declaring section lines running through
all agricultural lands in this State and the lands on each side
thereof, for a distance of twenty feet, public highways, and
providing for the condemnation of such lands and for the
opening of such highways.
S. B. 45. Birdsall. Declaring the wagon road extending
from the western end of the Lake Tahoe state wagon road to
the eastern limits of the City of Placerville to be a State high-
way.
S. B. 892-. Birdsall. Providing for the construction, acquisi-
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tion and maintenance of a system of State lateral highways
connecting each county seat with the nearest State main line
highway; providing for the issuance and sale of State bonds
to create a fund for the payment of said bonds; and providing
for the submission of this Act to a vote of the people.
A. B. 1019. Kramer. Declaring and establishing a State
highway from the intersection of the Foxen Canyon road and
Tepusquet Canyon road in the County of Santa Barbara to
the boundary line between the counties of San Luis Obispo
and Kern, and to be known as the Tepusquet-Cuyama State
Highway.
A. B. 992. Burke. Amending Section 12 of an Act to provide
for the formation and establishment of boulevard districts; the
construction, acquisition, maintenance, control and use of
boulevards; defining the term boulevard; providing for the
voting, issuing and selling of bonds, and the levying of taxes
to pay for the acquisition, construction, maintenance and re-
pair of such boulevards, etc.
S. B. 958. Ballard (by request). Identical with A. B. 992.
Burke.
A. B. 678. Avey. Amending Section 20 of an Act approved
May 1, 1911, to provide for the formation and establishment
of boulevard districts, etc., relating to the amount to be
raised by the issuance of bonds.
HORTICULTURE.
S. B. 861. Chandler. Creating the office of State commis-
sioner of horticulture, denning his powers and duties; pre-
scribing for the appointment of inspectors, and defining their
powers and duties; providing for the inspection of nursery
stock, fruit, fruit trees, ornamental trees, shrubbery, plants,
cuttings, grafts, buds, scions, seeds, pits, vines, vegetables
and all horticultural and agricultural plants and plant products
thereof; requiring shippers of nursery stock to have same
inspected by an inspector; prescribing quarantine and the
method employed thereunder; providing for the disinfection
of fruit, fruit trees, ornamental trees and shrubbery, and all
horticultural and agricultural plants and plant products there-
of; denning the qualifications of inspectors and commissioners;
providing for the destruction of infested and infected fruit,
fruit trees, ornamental trees, shrubbery and all horticultural
and agricultural plants and plant products thereof, including
a lien against the property whereon the same is standing or
growing, and providing for a right of action for all expenses
incident thereto; authorizing the destruction of fruit, fruit
trees, shrubbery, nursery stock and all horticultural and agri-
cultural plants and plant products thereof infested or infected
with pest or disease, and prescribing a salary for those en-
21&- PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
joined to enforce the provisions of this Act, and for their re-
moval from office; to provide for the appropriation of money to
pay the necessary expenses of the conduct of the office of State
Commissioner of Horticulture, and repealing- certain sections.
S. B. 862. Chandler. Identical with A. B. 851. Ashley.
S. B. 1. Anderson. Regulating the distribution of date
palms and date palm offshoots and to hold the same in quar-
antine under the supervision of the State Commissioner of
Horticulture until they are free from Marlatt Scale (Phoeni-
cococcus Marlatti) and Blanchard Scale (Parlatori Blanch -
ardii) when introduced from or grown in, any infected local-
ity within the State or from other states, or if of foreign
introduction, after they have been released by the Federal
Horticultural Board, and fixing a penalty for violation of
this Act.
Makes it unlawful to plant scale infested date palms or date
palm offshoots except under the supervision and direction of
the State quarantine guardian of the county; also makes it
unlawful to move such scale infested date palms or offshoots
without permission of the State quarantine guardian or until
inspection has shown that the palms are entirely free from
scale. Violation declared a misdemeanor.
A. B. 20. Wills. Identical with S. B. 1. Anderson.
A. B. 1212. Avey. Amending Sections 1, 2, 3 and 6 of an
Act to provide for the protection of horticulture and to pre-
vent the introduction into this State of insects or diseases, etc.
S. B. 476. Jones. To establish a horticultural experiment
station to be known as the "California Deciduous Fruit Ex-
periment Station," to provide for the maintenance and man-
agement thereof, and appropriating $50,000 therefor.
A. B. 851. Ashley. To establish a standard for the State
of California for packing of fresh fruits for sale or for trans-
portation for sale, for interstate and foreign shipment, and
to prevent deception in the packing of fresh fruits for such
purposes.
A. B. 243. McPherson. Establishing a standard for the
packing and marketing of apples, fixing penalties for the viola-
tion of its provisions, and providing for its enforcement.
S. B. 657. King. Regulating the sale or transportation of
immature oranges; preventing deception in the packing of
oranges; and prescribing penalties for the violation of the
provisions hereof.
A. B. 754. Avey. Identical with S. B. 657. King.
S. B. 658. King. Regulating the sale and shipment of citrus
fruits damaged by frost, and prescribing penalties for the
violation of the provisions thereof.
A. B. 753. Avey. Identical with S. B. 658. King.
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.. 219
HOSPITALS AND NURSES.
A. B. 1337. Sisson. To provide for the formation, govern-
ment, operation and dissolution of hospital districts in any
part of the State, for the construction and maintenance of
hospitals, the acquisition of property thereby; the calling and
conducting of elections in such districts; the assessment, levy,
collection, custody, and disbursement of taxes therein; the
issuance and disposal of the bonds thereof, and the determina-
tion of their validity and making provisions for the payment
of such bonds, and the disposal of their proceeds.
S. B. 967. Benson. To establish a State Hospital for the
care, custody and maintenance of inebriates and drug habitues
within the State of California, to be known as the California
State Hospital, and to provide for the government and man-
agement thereof, and making an appropriation therefor.
A. B. 1321. Hayes. To establish a State hospital for the
care, custody and maintenance of inebriates and drug habitues
within the State of California, to be known as the California
State Hospital and to provide for the government and man-
agement thereof, and appropriating $25,000 therefor.
A. B. 807. Fish. To establish a home for the care and
training of feeble-minded and defective persons in Southern
California and to provide for the maintenance of the same,
and appropriating $60,000 therefor.
HOTELS AND LODGING HOUSES.
A. B. 36. Gelder. Relating to hotels, defining the same,
providing regulations in connection therewith, providing for
the sanitation of the rooms of such hotels, providing for the
sanitary method and manner of keeping, handling and using
bed clothes or bed covering in such hotels, repealing all Acts
or parts of Acts in conflict with this Act, providing for its
enforcement by the State Board of Health, and providing a
penalty for the violation of any of its provisions.
S. B. 442. Flaherty. Amending an Act, approved June 16,
1913, to regulate the building and occupancy of hotels and
lodging houses in incorporated towns, incorporated cities, and
cities and counties, and to provide penalties for the violation
thereof.
A. B. 1129. Salisbury. Identical with S. B. 442. Flaherty.
S. B. 1097. Flaherty. Amending an Act, approved June 16,
1913, to regulate the building and occupancy of hotels and
lodging houses in incorporated towns, incorporated cities, and
cities and counties, and to provide penalties for the violation
thereof.
A. B. 1326. Kennedy. Identical with S. B. 1097. Flaherty.
S. B. 1179. Brown. Amending Section 6 of an Act approved
June 16, 1913, to regulate the building and occupancy of
220 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
hotels and lodging houses in incorporated towns, incorporated
cities and counties, and to provide penalties for the violation
thereof.
S. B. 732. Flaherty. Amending Sections 7 and 8 of an Act,
approved June 16, 1913, to regulate the building and occupancy
of hotels and lodging-houses in incorporated towns, incorporated
cities, and cities and counties, and to provide penalties for the
violation thereof.
A. B. 760. Schmitt. Identical with S. B. 732. Flaherty.
A. B. 884. Collins (by request). To compel owners, lessees,
proprietors or managers of certain factories, hotels, and lodg-
ing-houses to provide a means of escape from such factories,
hotels and lodging-houses in case of fire.
IMMIGRATION AND HOUSING.
A. B. 574. Shartel. Amending Section 10 of an Act, ap-
proved June 12, 1913, S'tats. 1913, p. 608, relating to immigrants
and immigration, creating a Commission of Immigration and
Housing, providing for the employment by said commission
of a secretary, agents and other employees, authorizing said
commission to fix their compensaton, prescribing the duties
of said commission, providing for the investigation by said
commission of all things affecting immigrants, and for the
care, protecton and welfare of immigrants, and making an ap-
propriation for the purpose of carrying out the provisions
hereof.
S. B. 601. Carr. Identical with A. B. 574. Shartel.
S. B. 824. Beban. Adding Section 10a (new) to an Act
approved June 12, 1913, relating to immigrants and immigra-
tion, creating a commission of immigration and housing, pro-
viding for the employment by said commission of a secre-
tary, agents and other employees, authorizing said commis-
sion to fix their compensation, prescribing the duties of said
commission, providing for the investigation by said commis-
sion of all things affecting immigrants, and for their care,
protection and welfare of immigrants, and making an appro-
priation for the purpose of carrying out the provisions hereof,
relating to the translation of contracts and other documents.
A. B. 883. Collins. Identical with S. B. 824. Beban.
S. B. 679. Flaherty. Adding Sections 15, 16 and 17 (new) to
an Act, approved June 12, 1913, relating to immigrants and
immigration, creating a commission of immigration and hous-
ing, providing for the employment by said commission of a
secretary, agents and other employees, authorizing said com-
mission to fix their compensation, prescribing the duties of
said commission, providing for the investigation by said com-
mission of all things affecting immigrants, and for the care
protection arid welfare of immigrants, and making an appro-
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915. 221
propriation for the purpose of carrying out the provisions
hereof, relating to investigating housing of working people
and city planning; receipt of reports annually of all local
housing and city planning commissions in the State; and mak-
ing an annual report on housing and city planning to the
Governor.
A. B. 719. Ryan. Identical with S. B. 679. Flaherty.
S. B. 801. Flaherty. Providing for the establishment by
the Commission of Immigration and Housing of California of
zones or areas on docks where immigrants are landed; pre-
scribing the powers and duties of the said commission with
regard thereto; and providing a penalty for violation of the
provisions hereof.
A. B. 827. Edwards. Identical with S. B'. 801. Flaherty.
INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION AND INVESTIGATION.
. S. B. 256. Lyon. Establishing an industrial commission, to
define its powers and duties, to provide for a review of its
orders, decisions, and awards, and making an appropriation
therefor.
A. B. 447. Downing. To create for the State of California a
bureau of industrial investigation and to provide for the ap-
pointment of the officers and employees thereof, defining its
powers and prescribing the duties of said bureau, its officers
and employees, to make appropriation for the salaries and other
expenses of said bureau.
Charged with the duty of investigating the quantity of hydro-
electric power available in this State, with reference to cost;
the cost of appropriating such power by the State for all State,
municipal and commercial purposes; to investigate the average
cost per mile of constructing and equipping electric railroad
systems; to extend from Red Bluff to San Diego, with lateral
lines to industrial and commercial centers; the cost of con-
structing and establishing cold storage plants, ocean steamship
freight and passenger line between Pacific and Atlantic ports,
hydro-electric plants, such other plants as may be necessary.
INFERIOR COURTS.
A. B. 1086. Ellis. Creating an Inferior Court in each county
in this State to supersede Justice's Courts and have jurisdic-
tion over all matters now heard by Justices of the Peace; pro-
viding for judges to preside over said Inferior Court; fixing a
time for the election of said judges, the length of their term
of office and their compensation, and defining their qualifica-
tions and duties; providing for the transfer of all Justice
Court records to said Inferior Court and for the determination
of all matters pending at the time of such transfer
222 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
INHERITANCE TAX.
A. B. 806. Downing. Amending Section 6 of an Act entitled
"An Act to establish a tax on gifts, legacies, inheritances,
bequests, devises, successions and transfers, etc.", relating to
rates of tax.
S. B. 1012. Luce. Amending Sections 6 and 9 of an Act,
approved June 16, 1913, known as the "Inheritance Tax Act",
relating to rate of tax, and to appraisements.
INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM.
(See also Constitutional Amendments.)
S. B. 277. Thompson. Amending Section 1 of an Act ap-
proved January 2, 1912, to provide for direct legislation by
cities and towns, including initiative and referendum.
S. B. 871. Scott. To facilitate the operation and to carry
into effect the initiative and referendum powers reserved by
the people in Section 1 of Article IV of the Constitution of the
State of California; to regulate the circulating, signing, filing
and certifying of petitions thereunder; to regulate elections
thereunder; to punish violations of this Act and provisions
of said Section 1 of Article IV of the Constitution of the State
of California.
S. B. 872. Scott. To facilitate the operation and to carry
into effect the recall power reserved by the people in Article
XXIII of the Constitution of the State of California; to regu-
late the circulating, signing, filing and certifying of petitions
thereunder; to regulate elections thereunder; to punish viola-
tions of said Article XXIII of the Constitution of the State of
California.
S. B. 10S8. Chandler (by request). To regulate the signing
and circulation of initiative, referendum and recall petitions
required by law to be filed with the Secretary of State.
INTEREST RATE.
(See Civil Code; see Usury.)
A. B. 542. Benton (by request). Fixing the maximum rate
of interest which may be charged for a loan or forbearance
of money, goods or things in action; and prescribing penalties
and forfeitures for violations of the provisions hereof.
A. B. 812. McKnight. To establish a lawful rate of interest
and to regulate the making of certain loans limiting the charges
therefor; to require and regulate the licensing of lenders, fixing
the fee therefor, and to prescribe penalties for violation of this
Act.
Provides that any rate of interest not exceeding 12 per cent
per annum shall be legal, and forbids charging of any greater
sum; permits persons, etc., complying with this Act to loan
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915. 223
money at interest and charge therefor brokerage fees and
charges, in addition to 12 per cent. Such persons, etc., shall
make application in writing to clerk of the Superior Court for
a license, which application shall be published, and heard by
a judge of said court, and if court deem proper, a license to
loan money shall be issued to applicant for one year, upon
applicant giving $5000 bond and paying license fee of $100.
License shall entitle holder to do business at only one location
in county, and shall not give holder right to loan money,
conduct or solicit business, except by advertising in the news-
papers, either by agents, solicitors or mailed matter or other-
wise, outside of the county; a separate license must be secured
in order to do business in any other location in the county,
for each place, and the fee of $100 paid therefor; license shall
not issue to one not a citizen of the United States or to person
convicted of forgery, etc. Brokerage fee shall not be more
than one-tenth of amount loaned, and not to exceed $3 for fees
or charges on all loans not exceeding $50; same fees may be
charged for renewals; any person who may be charged more
than provided herein may recover it back with interest at 12
per cent by action at law. Card shall be given borrower at
time of loan setting forth this fact; receipts shall be given
for all payments; loans on security of money to be paid to
borrower by some third person shall not be made, unless
assignment is dated same day as loan was made, and filed
with such third person. Licensee shall not ask or accept from
any actual or intending borrower any power of attorney to
sign, make or execute any note, etc., to pay any money, and
any note so made shall be void. Violation declared a mis-
demeanor, punishable by fine of not more than $500 for first
offense and for each subsequent offense, a like fine, and im-
prisonment not to exceed six months and revocation of license;
Act shall not apply to banks, trust companies, building asso-
ciations or pawnbrokers.
INSURANCE.
(See also Civil Code; Political Code.)
S. B. 569. Benedict. To incorporate standard provisions in
policies of accident and health insurance, to prevent discrimi-
nations in connection therewith and to prescribe penalties for
violations of the provisions hereof.
Requires form of all policies of insurance against loss or
damage from sickness, bodily injury or death of insured by
accident to be approved by Insurance Commissioner; forms
not so approved shall not be used; action of Commissioner
refusing right to use policy form may be reviewed by courts.
No such policies shall be issued unless they set forth (1)
entire money and other considerations therefor, (2) the time
224 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
at which insurance takes effect and terminates, (3) if it
purports to insure more than one person; (4) unless every
printed portion and all endorsements and attached papers shall
be plainly printed in type not smaller than 10-point; (5)
unless a brief description thereof be printed on first page and
on filing back in type not smaller than 14-point; (6) unless
exceptions of policy be printed as prominently as benefits;
portion of policy reducing indemnity by reason of circum-
stances under which loss incurred shall be printed in bold-face
type and with greater prominence than any other part of
policy.
Two forms of policy provided: one (A) that does not provide
for reduction of indemnity for change of occupation, and the
other (B) which does; if form B used and policy provides
indemnity against loss from sickness, words "or contracts
sickness" shall be inserted. Policies shall contain standard
provisions relative to changes in contract, to reinstatement
of policy after lapse; to time of notice of claim; to sufficiency
of notice of claim; to furnishing forms for convenience of
insured in submitting proof of loss; to filing proof of loss;
to examination of person of insured and to autopsy; to time
within which payments other than those for loss of time on
account of disability shall be made; to periodical payments
of indemnity for loss of time on account of disability, to
indemnity payments; for cancellation of policy at instance of
insured; to rights of beneficiary under policy; limiting time
within which suit may be brought on policy; relative to time
limitations of policy. Policies shall contain optional standard
provisions, relative to cancellation at instance of insurer; to
reduction of amount of indemnity; to deduction of premium
upon settlement of claim; to other insurance by same insurer;
to age limits of policy.
No policy shall be issued if it contains any provision con-
tradictory of any of the "standard provisions" or "optional
standard ' provisions"; or any provision purporting to mak&
any portion of charter, constitution or by-law of insurer part
thereof unless such provisions are set forth in full in policy;
this prohibition not to apply to any statement of rates or
classification of risks filed with superintendent of insurance.
Falsity of statement in application for policy shall not bar
right of recovery, unless such false statement was made with
intent to deceive; acknowledgment by insurer of receipt of
notice, furnishing of forms for filing proofs of loss, or accept-
ance of such proofs, or investigation of any claim shall not
operate as waiver of rights of insurer in defense of such
claim.
No alteration of any written application for insurance shall
be made without consent of applicant, and making such altera-
tion declared misdemeanor.
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915. 225
Policy issued in violation of this section shall be held valid,
but shall be construed as herein provided, and when any pro-
vision therein is in conflict with this section rights of parties
shall be governed hereby.
Policies against accidental bodily injury or sickness issued
by insurer not organized under laws of this State may con-
tain, when issued in this State, any provision which law of
State of organization prescribes for insertion therein; and
policies issued in another State by companies organized under
laws of this State, shall contain any provision laws of State
in which issued.
This section shall not apply to or affect any policy of lia-
bility or workman's compensation insurance or any general
blanket policy of insurance issued to any municipal corpora-
tion or to any corporation, copartnership, association or in-
dividual employer, police or fire department, underwriters'
corps, salvage bureau, or like associations, where officers,
members or employees or classes or departments thereof are
insured for individual benefit against specified accidental bod-
ily injuries or sickness while exposed to hazards of occupation
or otherwise, in consideration of premium; nor shall it apply
to contracts supplemental to contracts of life or endowment
to contracts of life or endowment insurance containing no1
provisions except such as operate to safeguard such insurance
against lapse or to provide a special surrender value in event
insured shall be totally and permanently disabled by reason
of accidental bodily injury or sickness; no such supplemental
contract shall be issued to any person in this State unless the
•form has been approved by Superintendent of Insurance.
Fraternal benefit societies not affected, clause 5, subdivision
d and clauses 2, 3, 8 and 12, subdivision c may be omitted
from railroad ticket policies.
Violation punishable by fine of not more than $500 for each
offense, and Insurance Commissioner may revoke license.
A. B. 1230. Fish. Identical with S. B. 569. Benedict.
S. B. 570. Benedict. Prohibiting insurance companies and
their agents from giving, and insured persons from receiving,
a rebate of any portion of an insurance premium, and pro-
viding a penalty for violations of the provisions hereof.
A. B. 1173. Anderson. Identical with S. B. 570. Benedict.
A. B. 867. Prendergast. Providing for standard policy con-
ditions for accident and health insurance; requiring the Insur-
ance Commissioner to approve all forms of policy contracts
and applications.
S. B. 29. Kehoe. Relating to fire insurance business, pro-
viding for the filing of rating schedules, the establishment of
public rating bureaus, defining their powers and method of
conductng their business, providing for the supervision of the
226 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
Insurance Commissioner over such rating bureaus and rating
schedules, prohibiting deviation from such rating schedules
and providing a penalty therefor.
Provides that fire insurance companies shall, before De-
cember 31, 1915, file with Insurance Commissioner a copy of
its rating schedule; and all new companies shall do the same
before receiving a license. Further requirements of such
schedules are specified. An amended schedule may be filed
at any time, but it cannot take effect until 30 days after
being filed. Any company adopting "the advisory rates" need
not file such schedule, but must file a statement to that effect.
Provides for rating bureaus, and for securing uniformity
in rating schedules. Insurance Commissioner may refuse a
rating schedule. Any rate is subject to review before the
Insurance Commissioner. Any violating of this Act is a mis-
demeanor, and may cause the loss of license for a year.
(S. B. 896. Kehoe. "Pending Legislation," 1913, p. 366.)
S. B. 761. Breed. To provide for the establishment and
maintenance by fire insurance companies of guaranty surplus
funds and special reserve funds and thereby limiting liability.
A. B. 979. Prendergast (by request). Relating to fire in-
surance business, prohibiting compacts or combinations for the
purpose of discriminating against any fire insurance company
or its representatives by reason of its or their affiliation or
non-affiliation with any board or association of fire insurance
companies or for any purpose detrimental to the public good,
and providing for a penalty for any violation of this Act.
A. B. 786. Rigdon. Amending Section 1 of an Act ap-
proved March 18, 1909, to establish a standard form of fire
insurance policy and to prevent variations therefrom, except-
ing under certain stated conditions and restrictions.
A. B. 537. Prendergast. Concerning life insurance com-
panies, associations and societies and their agents and other
persons, firms and corporations, prohibiting rebating, mis-
representation and twisting, and providing a penalty for a
violation thereof.
S. B. 571. Benedict. To prohibit insurance companies, asso-
ciations, or societies and their agents from misrepresenting
the terms of any policy of insurance.
Violation declared a misdemeanor punishable by fine of not
more than $100 or imprisonment not more than 6 months; and
the Insurance Commissioner is also empowered to revoke or
suspend the license of the offending party.
A. B. 1175. Anderson. Identical with S. B. 571. Benedict.
A. B. 1303. Hawson (by request). Amending Sections 1, 2,
3, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 10 of an Act approved April 15, 1909, to pro-
vide for the organization and management of county fire in-
surance companies.
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915. 227
A. B. 1361. Schmitt. To provide for the organization ana
management of mutual casualty insurance corporations.
S. B. 1157. Benedict. Amending Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 of an Act approved May 1, 1911,
providing for the organization and management of mutual
fire insurance corporations and associations and defining the
same, and regulating the transaction of the business of mutual
fire insurance in the State of California, and repealing an Act
approved March 19, 1907, providing for the organization and
management of mutual fire insurance companies.
A. B. 976. Prendergast. Amending an Act approved May 1,
1911, providing for the organization and management of mutual
fire insurance corporations and associations and defining the
same, and regulating the transaction of the business of mutual
fire insurance in the State of California.
A. B. 1024. Godsil. Repealing Section 7 of an Act approved
May 26, 1913, providing for the organization and management
of mutual workmen's compensation insurance companies and
defining the same and regulating the transaction of the busi-
ness of mutual workmen's compensation insurance in the
State of California.
INVESTMENT COMPANIES, REGULATION OF.
S. B. 669. Hans. Amending Section 3 of an Act approved
May 28, 1913, to define investment companies, investment brok-
ers and agents; to provide for the regulation, supervision and
licensing thereof; to provide penalties for the violation thereof;
to create the office of Commissioner of Corporations, and mak-
ing an appropriation therefor.
A. B. 1245. McKnight (by request). Providing for the pro-
tection of stockholders, investors and creditors by requiring
certain copartnerships, joint stock companies and corporations
to cause to be issued certified balance sheets and statements
of income, profit and loss, and providing for adequate penalties
for the violation of the provisions hereof.
"Financial Certificate" Act. Requires every copartnership,
joint stock company, or corporation doing business in this
State, not under the supervision and jurisdiction of the Super-
intendent of Banks, Railroad Commission, Insurance Commis-
sioner, and Building and Loan Commissioner, having a sub-
scribed capital stock or investment of $30,000 and more than
fifteen stockholders, members or copartners, except concerns
subject to this law holding the entire capital stock, except
directors qualifying shares, of any copartnership, joint stock
company or corporation, shall furnish at least annually a bal-
ance sheet, duly certified by some auditor or firm of auditors,
showing the financial condition of the enterprise as at the
close of either the fiscal or the calendar year, together with
228 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
a detailed profit and loss statement for the year. Copies of
this statement shall be mailed by the auditor within sixty-five
days to each shareholder, at his last known address.
Every copartnership, joint stock company or corporation offer-
ing or causing to be offered for sale in this State its stocks,
bonds or other evidence of proprietorship or debt, or the stock,
bonds or other evidence of proprietorship or debt of any similar
concern, shall have every financial statement issued in con-
nection therewith certified by an auditor or firm of auditors.
Every such concern having an indebtedness of more than
lj&£ per cent of its subscribed capital stock or investment,
shall, at the joint written request of the creditors of any single
creditor to the extent of more than 12^ per cent of its stock
or investment, issue to them a certified balance sheet.
Failure to make or to have such certification made is de-
clared a misdemeanor punishable by fine of not more than
$1000 nor less than $500, and any auditor certifying to an
incorrect or misleading statement, unlesss deprived of neces-
sary information, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable
by fine not exceeding $5000 nor less than $500, and every
auditor or firm of auditors selected for the preparation of
such statement must have his responsibility secured by a bond
of 5 per cent of the subscribed capital stock or investment,
but in no event shall the bond exceed $100,000. No auditor or
firm of auditors that is an employee, stockholder, member or"
copartner of the enterprise shall be eligible to prepare such a
statement. (A. B. 275. Farwell. "Pending Legislation 1913",
p. 280.)
S. B. 1190. Butler. Identical with A. B. 1245. McKnight.
S. B. 843. Anderson. To require corporations doing busi-
ness in the State of California to pay dividends, and author^
izing any stockholder to institute proceedings in a competent
court against corporations for failure to pay dividends, and
empowering said court to issue orders for the dissolution of
corporations.
Requires all corporations to pay dividend during the third
year of existence and thereafter at least one dividend an-
nually of not less than 6 per cent of the actual cost of the
stock owned by the stockholders, unless those holding at
least 75 per cent of the stock vote a dividend be not paid.
One or more stockholders may bring an action in the Superior
Court setting forth failure to pay dividends, that 75 per cent
of the stockholders have not voted to pass the dividend and
praying for the dissolution of the corporation; a citation
shall thereupon issue if court is satisfied facts alleged are
true to the directors to show cause why corporation should
not be dissolved, and if it appears that corporation has
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neither paid a dividend nor been excused from so doing it
shall be dissolved.
A. B. 944. Harris. Prohibiting corporations engaged in
certain kinds of business from engaging in certain other kinds
of business and prohibiting certain investments in other cor-
porations and prohibiting directors of certain corporations
from being directors of or interested in certain other corpo-
rations, and providing penalty for violation thereof.
IRRIGATION.
A. B. 75. Wills. Providing for the government of irrigation
districts having an area of more than 500,000 acres and to
enable such irrigation districts to construct levees and to
protect the lands within such districts from damage resulting
from floods and the overflow of rivers and for that purpose
to provide additional powers for boards of directors within
such irrigation districts.
This measure affects Imperial county particularly, and is to
provide protection from inundation of that section from the
Colorado river, there being no other public body authorized
to make the necessary expenditures.
S. B. 176. Benedict. Amending the title of an Act, approved
June 13, 1913, to provide for the formation, management and
dissolution of county irrigation districts; for supplying the in-
habitants thereof with water; for levying and collecting taxes
on property in such districts; and for the issuance of county
irrigation district bonds and the payment thereof; and by
amending Sections 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. 13 and 14
thereof, and by adding a new section thereto, to be known as
Section 17, relating to change of name of said districts, and
to bond issues thereof.
A. B. 1138. Dennett. To provide for the consolidation of
irrigation districts organized and existing under the provisions
of an Act, approved March 31, 1897, to provide for the organi-
zation and government of irrigation districts, and to provide
for the acquisition or construction thereby of works for the
irrigation of the lands embraced within such districts, and,
also, to provide for the distribution of water for irrigation pur-
poses, and to provide for the government of such consolidated
districts,
S. B. 1168. Irwin. To provide for the consolidation of irri-
gation, reclamation, drainage, protective and flood water dis-
tricts and to provide for the acquisition or construction by
such consolidated district of works for the conservation of
water and the drainage of the lands thereof; and to provide
for the government of such districts.
A. B. 1188. Ellis. Creating a bureau of irrigation districts
in the State Water Commission to supervise, regulate and
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control the affairs of irrigation districts which have been or
may hereafter be organized under the laws of this State;
providing for the appointment of a director for said bureau
of irrigation districts, defining his duties and fixing his salary;
and, also, for the general government of said bureau of irri-
gation districts.
A. B. 1383. Dennett. To provide for the collection and
enforcement of the payment of assessments including delin-
quent assessments in irrigation districts, by county officers
and for the sale and redemption from sale of property sold
for the non-payment of. such assessments and for the per-
formance by county officers of the duties of officers of such
irrigation districts respecting such matters, and to provide for
the compensation to be paid to counties by such irrigation
districts for the services performed by such county officers for
such irrigation districts under the provisions of this Act.
A. B. 1031. Sisson. To create a commission ( to be known
as ) to co-operate with the Federal government and
other interests in building and operating storage reservoirs
and irrigation projects; to provide for the appointment of the
officers and employes thereof, defining its powers and pre-
scribing the duties of said commission, its officers and em-
ployes, and to provide the compensation of such officers and
employes. (Introduced by title only.)
A. B. 368. Amending Sections 1, 28, 57 and 61 of an Act to
provide for the organization and government of irrigation dis-
tricts, and to provide for the acquisition or construction there-
by of works for the irrigation of lands embraced within such
districts, and also, to provide for the distribution of water for
irrigation purposes, and adding new sections to be known as
Sections 41a and 61a thereto.
S. B. 79. King. Amending Section 39 of an Act ap-
proved March 31, 1897, to provide for the organization and
government of irrigation districts, and to provide for the
acquisition or construction thereby of works for the irriga-
tion of lands embraced within such districts, and, also, to
provide for the distribution of water for irrigation pur-
poses, relating to the levying and collection of assessments.
A. B 1004. Avey. Identical with S. B. 79. King.
A. B. 1382. Dennett. Adding Section 41a (new) to an Act
to provide for the organization and government of irrigation
districts, and to provide for the acquisition or construction
thereby of works for the irrigation of the lands embraced
within such irrigation district, and also to provide for the
distribution of the water for irrigation purposes; authorizing
boards of drectors to provide for the collection of assessments
by the proper county officers.
A. B. 1089. Ellis. Adding Section 50y2 (new) to an Act
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approved March 31, 1897, to provide for the organization and
government of irrigation districts, and to provide for the
acquisition or construction thereby of works for the irri-
gation of the lands embraced within such districts; and
also to provide for the distribution of water for irriga-
tion purposes, providing for the acquisition by the State of
property sold for delinquent assessments in an irrigation dis-
trict; and providing for the payment of assessments thereon;
and providing for the management and disposition of such
property.
A. B. 340. Wills. Adding Sections 61a and 61b (new) to an
Act approved March 31, 1897, to provide for the organization
and government of irrigation districts and to provide for the
acquisition or construction thereby of works for the irrigation
of the lands embraced within such districts, and also to pro-
vide for the distribution of water for irrigation purposes, re-
lating to the acquiring of irrigation systems and works by the
exchange of bonds therefor and the validation of such bonds.
A. B. 424. Dennett. Repealing Section 64 of an Act approved
March 31, 1897, to provide for the organization and government
of irrigation districts, and to provide for the acquisition or
construction thereby of works for the irrigation of the lands
embraced within such districts, and, also, to provide for the
distribution of water for irrigation purposes.
A. B. 307. Dennett. Amending Section 78 of an Act to
provide for the organization and government of irrigation dis-
tricts, and to provide for the acquisition or construction thereby
of works for the irrigation of the lands embraced within such
districts, and, also, to provide for the distribution of water for
irrigation purposes.
A. B. 343. Wills. Authorizing the Imperial Irrigation Dis-
trict to acquire the irrigation system and works of the Cali-
fornia Development Company and its subsidiary company and
successors in California and Mexico by condemnation or pur-
chase, and, in case of purchase, to exchange bonds of said
district for such irrigation system and works or for property
interests therein.
A. B. 266. Dennett. Amending Section 4 of an Act relating
to bonds of irrigation districts, providing under what circum-
stances such bonds shall be legal investments for funds of
banks, insurance companies and trust companies, trust funds,
State school funds and any money or funds which may be now
or hereafter invested in bonds of cities, cities and counties,
counties, school districts or municipalities, and providing under
what circumstances the use of bonds of irrigation districts as
security for the performance of any Act may be authorized.
S. B. 303. Shearer. Recognizing and declaring valid all pro-
ceedings in Anderson-Cottonwood Irrigation District.
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A. B. 338. McCray. Identical with S. B. 303. Shearer.
S. B. 309. Luce. Recognizing and declaring valid all pro-
ceedings in La Mesa, Lemon Grove and Spring Valley Irriga-
tion District.
A. B. 305. Judson. Identical with S. B. 309. Luce.
S. B. 461. Benedict. To validate the formation of certain
districts formed under the provisions of an Act approved June
13, 1913, to provide for the formation, management and disso-
lution of county irrigation districts; for supplying the inhabi-
tants thereof with water; for levying and collecting taxes on
property in such districts; and for the issuance of county
irrigation district bonds and the payment thereof, and to vali-
date the issuance and sale of certain bonds therefor. '
S. B. 575. Benedict. To validate the formation of certain
districts formed under the provisions of an Act, approved June
13, 1913, to provide for the formation, management and dis-
solution of county irrigation districts; for supplying the in-
habitants thereof with water; for levying and collecting taxes
on property in such districts; and for the issuance of county
irrigation district bonds and the payment thereof, and to
validate the issuance and sale of certain bonds thereof.
S. B. 753. Maddux. To recognize and declare valid all pro-
ceedings in Oakdale Irrigation District.
A. B. 1225. Fish. An Act to validate the formation of cer-
tain districts formed under the provisions of an Act entitled
"An Act to provide for the formation, management and dis-
solution of county irrigation districts; for supplying the in-
habitants thereof with water; etc.
S. B. 1063. Chandler. Relating to bonds of drainage dis-
tricts, providing under what circumstances such bonds shall be*
legal investments for funds of banks, insurance companies and
trust companies, trust funds, State school funds and any money
or" funds which may now or hereafter be invested in bonds
of cities, cities and counties, counties, school districts or
municipalities, and providing under what circumstances the
use of bonds of irrigation districts as security for the per-
formance of any Act may be authorized.
JUVENILE COURT LAW.
S. B. 347. Thompson. An Act to be known as the Juvenile
Court Law, and concerning persons under the age of twenty-
one years; and in certain cases providing for their care,
custody and maintenance; providing for the probationary treat-
ment of such persons, and for the commitment of such per-
sons to the Whittier State School and the Preston School of
Industry, California School for Girls, and other institutions;
establishing probation officers and a probation committee to
deal with such persons and fixing the salary thereof; provid-
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ing for the establishment of detention homes for such persons;
fixing the method of procedure and treatment or commitment
where crimes have been committed by such persons; provid-
ing for the punishment of those guilty of offenses with refer-
ence to such persons, and defining such crime; and repealing
the Juvenile Court Law approved March 8, 1909, as amended
by an Act approved April 5, 1911, and as amended by an Act
approved June 16, 1913, and all amendments thereof and all
Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent herewith are hereby re-
pealed.
A. B. 875. McDonald, J. J. Identical with S. B. 347. Thomp-
son.
A. B. 117. Hawson. Adding Section 5% (new) to an Act
concerning dependent and delinquent minor children, provid-
ing for their care, custody and maintenance until twenty-one
years of age; providing for their commitment to the Whittier
State School and the Preston State School of Industry, and
the manner of such commitment and release therefrom, estab-
lishing a probation committee and probation officer to deal
with such children, and fixing the salaries of probation offi-
cers; providing for detention homes for said children; provid-
ing for the punishment of persons responsible for or con-
tributing to the dependency or delinquency of children and
giving to the Superior Court jurisdiction of such offenses, and
repealing inconsistent Acts.
Provides that whenever any minor child under 14 years of
age shall be found by court to be dependent or delinquent,
such child shall be subject to adoption by any adult person.
No consent of parent or guardian of child shall be necessary.
If court is satisfied interests of child will be promoted by
adoption it shall make necessary order. From date of adop-
tion natural parents shall be relieved of all parental duties
toward child and forfeit all parental rights over it.
A. B. 1305. Shartel. To amend Section 14 of an Act, ap-
proved March 8, 1909, and amended April 5, 1911, concerning
neglected, dependent and delinquent persons, providing for
their care, custody and maintenance until twenty-one years of
age; providing for their commitment to the Whittier State
School and the Preston School of Industry, etc., relating to
probation officers.
S. B. 104. Duncan. Amending Sections 14h and 14n of an
Act approved June 16, 1913, in effect August 10, 1913, to amend
the title of an Act entitled "An Act concerning dependent
and delinquent minor children, providing for their care, cus-
tody and maintenance until twenty-one years of age; provide
ing for their commitment to the Whittier State School anrt
the Preston State School of Industry, and the manner of such
commitment and release therefrom, establishing a probation
234 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
committee and probation officers to deal with such children,
and fixing the salaries of probation officers; providing for
detenton homes for said children; providing for the punish-
ment of persons responsible for, or contributing to, the de-
pendency or delinquency of children; and giving to the Su-
perior Court jurisdiction of such offenses, and repealing in-
consistent Acts," approved March 8, 1909, and as amended by
an Act approved April 5, 1911, relative to the salaries of pro-
bation officers in counties of the nineteenth class.
A. B. 386. Manning. Amending Sections 14k and 14n of an
Act entitled "An Act to amend the title and an Act entitled
'An Act concerning dependent and delinquent minor children,
providing for their care, custody and maintenance until 21 years
of age; providing for their commitment to the Whittier State
School and the Preston State School of Industry, and the
manner of such commitment and release therefrom, establish-
ing a probation committee and probation officers to deal with
such children, and fixing the salaries of probation officers; pro-
viding for detention homes for said children; providing for the
punishment of persons responsible for, or contributing to, the
dependency or delinquency of children; and giving to the
Superior Court jurisdiction of such offenses, and repealing in-
consistent Acts,' approved March 8, 1909, amended April 5,
1911," amended June 16, 1913, with reference to number and
compensation of probation officers in certain counties.
S. B. 153. Kehoe. Amending Section 14m of an Act, ap-
proved March 8, 1909, as amended April 5, 11, as amended
June 16, 1913, concerning neglected, dependent and delinquent
persons, providing for their care, custody and maintenance
until twenty-one years of age; providing for their commitment
to the Whittier State School and the Preston School of In-
dustry, and the manner of such commitment and release there-
from; establishing a probation committee and probation officers
to deal with such persons; fixing the salaries of probation
officers; providing for detention homes for said persons; pro-
viding for the punishment, of those responsible for, or con-
tributing to, the neglect, dependency or delinquency of said
persons; and giving to the superior court jurisdiction of such
offenses and repealing inconsistent acts.
Provides one probation officer at $100 a month.
A. B. 1048. Quinn. Identical with S. B. 153. Kehoe.
A. B. 264. Bruck. Amending Sections 14t and 14u of the
"Juvenile Court Law", approved June 16, 1913, relating to
probation officers in counties of the 44th, 48th, 50th, 52nd and
55th classes and their salaries.
S. B. 949. Purkitt. Identical with A. B. 264. Bruck.
A. B. 898. Rutherford. Amending Section 14p of ah Act,
approved March 8, 1909, as amended April 5, 1911, as amended
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June 16, 1013, entitled "An Act concerning neglected, dependent
and delinquent persons, providing for their care, custody and
maintenance until twenty-one years of age; providing for their
commitment to the Whittier State School and the Preston
School of Industry, and the manner of such commitment and
release therefrom; establishing a probation committee and pro-
bation officers to deal with such persons; fixing the salaries
of probation officers; providing for detention homes for said
persons; providing for the punishment of those responsible
for, or contributing to, the neglect, dependency, or delinquency
of said person and giving to the Superior Court jurisdiction
of such offenses, and repealing inconsistent Acts", relating to
salary of probation officers in counties of the thirty-fourth
class.
S. B. 590. Campbell. Fixing the number of probation officers
and assistant probation officers in all the. counties of the
State of California, fixing the salaries of such officers and
providing for the payment thereof, authorizing the. payment
of incidental expenses incurred by probation officers, assistant
probation officers, deputy probation officers and members of
the probation committee in the discharge of their duties.
A B. 687. Bartlett. Identical with S. B. 590. Campbell.
S. B. 1070. Campbell. Concerning neglected, dependent and
delinquent persons, providing for their care, custody and
maintenance until 21 years of age; providing for their com-
mitment to the Whittier State School, the Preston School of
Industry and the California School for Girls, and the manner
of such commitment; establishing a probation committee and
probation officers to deal with such persons; providing for
detention homes for such persons; providing for the punish-
ment of persons responsible for, or contributing to, the de-
pendency or delinquency of such persons and giving the Supe-
rior Court jurisdiction of such offenses, and providing for ap-
peal from any order or judgment of such Superior Court and
repealing inconsistent Acts.
A. B. 1322. Bartlett. Identical with S. B. 1070. Campbell.
LABOR.
(See Capital and Labor; Wages and Hours; Mines and Mining;
Employment Bureau, State; Employment Agencies; Work-
men's Compensation Act.)
LEGAL AID.
(See Public Defender.)
S. B. 17. Lyon. Creating small debtors' courts in counties
of the first, second and third classes, and denning their
powers, jurisdiction and procedure.
Provides for appointment by the Governor of one judge in
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each county designated, and for the appointment by the court
of a Public Defender to hold office for four years, who shall
prosecute actions for collection of wages or other demands
of persons not able to employ counsel, where sum involved,
exclusive of interest, does not exceed $100 and where claim
is legally valid and enforceable; he shall also defend such
persons in civil litigation in which they are being persecuted
or harassed. The County Clerk and Sheriff are declared
ex-officio officers of the court with power to appoint deputies
to keep docket and serve process. Salaries are fixed at:
judge, $3600; public defender, $2400, deputy clerk, $1500; deputy
sheriff, $1200 per annum. The Board of Supervisors shall
provide suitable quarters.
Jurisdiction of court extends to limits of county, but mesne
and final process may be issued to and served in any part
" of the State; court shall have civil jurisdiction in all cases
hot cognizable by courts of record, in which sum involved
does hot exceed $100; no fees are* to be charged except upon
appeal; court to be governed by provisions of law regulating
"Justices' Court, and shall have power to make rules; if
plaintiff is able to engage own attorney his case not cogniz-
able by poor debtors' court.
A. B. 685. Lyon. Identical with S. B. 17. Lyon.
A. B. 21. Wishard. Providing a method of procedure
whereby a poor person, having a good cause of action or a
good defense, may have an attorney assigned to prosecute his
action or to conduct his defense and relieving him from the
payment of fees and costs; if such person guilty of improper
conduct in prosecution or defense court may annul order;
order does not authorize petitioner to take or maintain an
appeal; but where appeal is taken by adverse party, order is
applicable in favor of petitioner as respondent in the appeal;
costs, where awarded to person prosecuting as poor person,
must be paid to his attorney when collected from adverse party
and distributed among counsel assigned to him as court directs.
A. B. 349. Ream. To permit a poor person having a good
cause of action to sue without payment of costs and have an
attorney assigned to him.
Provides that where court is satisfied plaintiff is poor per-
son and unable to prosecute action and pay costs and ex-
penses thereof, court may permit commencement and prose-
cution thereof as poor person, and have all necessary process
and proceedings without fee, tax or charge, and court may
assign counsel to perform services without fee or reward; but
if judgment is entered for plaintiff, costs shall be recovered
for use of officers of court; if person files with any clerk in
vacation affidavit that he has just cause of action on which he
proposes to sue and is unable to pay costs, clerk shall issue
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summons without fee; but court may refuse to permit further
prosecution of suit without payment of costs.
A. B. 721. Marron. Creating a small debts' court in each
county of the State and defining the powers, jurisdiction and
procedure thereof.
Similar to S. B. 17, Lyon, except that it applies to all
counties and omits reference to a Public Defender. The
amount involved shall not exceed $25 in any case.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL BUREAU.
S. B. 723. Chandler. Amending Section 2 of an Act, ap-
proved May 26, 1913, establishing a legislative counsel bureau
and making an appropriation therefor.
Adds provision that it shall also be duty of chief of legis-
lative counsel bureau to co-operate with the proponents of any
initiative measure in the preparation of such law.
A. B. 1359. Downing. Amending Sections 2 and 3 of an
Act approved May 26, 1913, to establish a legislative counsel
bureau and making an appropriation therefor.
LIBRARIES.
S. B. 20S. Benedict. Amending Section 6 of an Act approved
February 25, 1911, entitled, An Act to provide for the estab-
lishment and maintenance of county free libraries in the State
of California, and repealing "An Act entitled 'An Act to
provide county library systems', approved April 12, 1909, and
all Acts and parts' of Acts in conflict with this Act", relating
to qualification of county librarian.
S. B. 209. Benedict. Amending Section 9 of an Act, ap-
proved February 25, 1911, providing for the establishment and
maintenance of county free libraries in the State of California,
and repealing an Act entitled "An Act to provide county
library system", approved April 12, 1909, and all Acts and parts
of Acts in conflict with this Act, relating to county librarians.
LIENS OF MATERIAL MEN, MECHANICS, ETC.
A. B. 354. Sharkey. Amending Section 1 of an Act approved
March 27, 1907, approved May 1, 1911, to amend an Act to
secure the payment of the claims of material men, mechanics,
or laborers, employed by contractors upon State, municipal or
other public work.
Adds a provision that no money shall be paid on any con-
tract until a certified copy of the bond has been filed with the
county treasurer of the county in which the work Is to be per-
formed; and the commissioners, managers, trustees, common
council or other body by whom such contract was awarded
shall be personally responsible for all debts arising thereunder
in event that the bond is not obtained and filed.
238 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
A. B. 1058. Canepa (by request). Amending- Sections 1
and 2 of an Act approved March 27, 1897, to secure the pay-
ment of the claims of materialmen, mechanics or laborers
employed by contractors upon State, municipal or other public
work, and by adding new Sections 3 and 4 thereto.
S. B. 963. Beban. Amending Sections 1, 2 and 3 of an Act,
approved March 27, 1897, as amended May 1, 1911, to secure
the payment of the claims of materialmen, mechanics, or
laborers, employed by contractors upon State, municipal or
other public work, and to add a new section thereto to be
numbered Section 4.
LIGHTING DISTRICTS.
S. B. 648. Thompson. Validating and confirming the organi-
zation of lighting districts.
LIQUORS, SALE OF.
A B. 874. Bruck. For the suppression of intemperance and
the regulation of the liquor traffic to be known as the Liquor
Code of California.
This measure transfers jurisdiction over saloons from cities
and counties to a State Excise Commission. It was intro-
duced at the instance of the California Grape Growers' Asso-
ciation.
The bill creates a State Excise Commission of three mem-
bers, who shall receive salaries of $4000 each. Eight district
commissions of three members each are provided for.
The power to grant and revoke liquor licenses is placed ex-
clusively in the hands of the commission. City and county
authorities will have no right to revoke any permit. The
commission may grant no more than one saloon license to
every 500 population. It cannot take away a license until
after a saloon man has been convicted in the Superior Court
of improper conduct of his business.
A license will cost $1000 a year. Ten per cent of the amount
collected will go to defray the expenses of the commission.
Every saloon man who obtains a license will be required to
contribute $1000 to a fund, out of which the commission will
compensate saloon men who do not get permits. The prop-
erty of persons refused licenses will be sold at auction after
appraisal by the commission, and the owners will be paid out
of the compensation fund the difference between the proceeds
of the sale and the appraised value of the property disposed of.
Barkeepers will be required to wear badges issued by the
commission and carrying an annual tax of $3. The badges
are revocable at any time.
A. B. 22. Wright. Declaring all buildings and places nuis-
ances, wherein or upon which any spirituous, vinous, malt or
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915. 239
other alcoholic liquor is unlawfully sold, served or given away,
or which are used for the purpose of unlawfully selling, serv-
ing or giving away such liquors; and providing for the abate-
ment of such nuisances.
S. B. 588. Campbell. Amending an Act, approved March
19, 1889, to prevent the sale of intoxicating liquors to persons
addicted to the inordinate use of intoxicating liquors.
A. B. 675. Wright. Prohibiting the sale, gift or delivery
of intoxicating liquor at public school houses, and prescribing
penalties for the violation of any provision hereof.
S. B. 1069. Duncan. An Act to regulate the number of
licenses which may be issued to retail liquor establishments
in proportion to the population of any county, city and county,
city, town or supervisor district in which the sale of intoxicat-
ing liquors is permitted; defining certain terms; providing
penalties for the issuance of any licenses in excess of the
number herein provided for.
Limits number of licenses to one for each 1000 population.
LOCAL OPTION.
S. B. 401. Duncan. Amending Sections 1, 2, 8 and 11 of an
Act approved April 4, 1911, to provide for the regulation of the
traffic in alcoholic liquors by establishing local option; author-
izing the filing of petitions praying for elections to vote upon
the question whether the sale of alcoholic liquors shall be
licensed within the territory described in such petitions; pro-
viding for the calling and holding of such elections; making it
the duty of the proper governing body to declare such territory
to be no-license territory unless a majority of votes is cast in
favor of license; providing that no licenses, permits or other
authority to sell or distribute alcoholic liquors in no-license
territory shall be granted; forfeiting and declaring void all
such licenses or permits theretofore issued and in force; mak-
ing it a penal offense to sell, give away or distribute alcoholic
liquors within such territon% with certain exceptions; and pro-
viding penalties for such offenses, relative to territory in-
cluded within petition; form of petition; form of ballot.
S. B. 8. Duncan. Amending Sections 1, 2 and 11 of an Act,
approved April 4, 1911, to provide for the regulation of the
traffic in alcoholic liquors by establishing local option; author-
izing the filing of petitions praying for elections to vote upon
the question whether the sale of alcoholic liquors shall be
licensed within the territory described in such petitions; pro-
viding for the calling and holding of such elections; making
it the duty of the proper governing body to declare such terri-
tory to be no-license territory unless a majority of votes is
cast in favor of license; providing that no licenses, permits
or other authority to sell or distribute alcoholic liquors in
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no-license territory shall be granted; forfeiting and declaring
void all such licenses or permits theretofore issued and in
force; making it a penal offense to sell, give away or dis-
tribute alcoholic liquors within such territory, with certain
exceptions; and providing penalties for such offenses.
A. B. 1336. Long. Amending Section 6 of an Act, approved
April 4, 1911, to provide for the regulation of the traffic in
alcoholic liquors by establishing local option; authorizing the
filing of petitions praying for elections to vote upon the ques-
tion whether the sale of alcoholic liquors shall be licensed
within the territory described in such petitions; providing for
the calling and holding of such elections; making it the duty
of the proper governing body to declare such territory to be
no-license territory unless a majority of votes is cast in favor
of license; providing that no licenses, permits or other author-
ity to sell or distribute alcoholic liquors in no-license territory
shall be granted, etc.
A. B. 1185. Phelps. Amending Sections 13 and 14 of "An
Act to provide for the regulation of the traffic in alcoholic
liquors by establishing local option," etc.
Adds (Sec. 13) transportation companies to those forbidden
to sell or distribute liquor in no license territory, and (Sec. 14)
provides that in prosecutions for violation, common repute of
character of places (blind pigs) may be received as compe-
tent evidence.
A. B. 1039. Scott, F. C. (by request). Amending the seventh
subdivision of Section 16 of an Act to provide for the regulation
of the traffic in alcoholic liquors by establishing local option;
authorizing the filing of petitions praying for elections to
vote upon the question whether the sale of alcoholic liquors
shall be licensed within the territory described in such pe-
titions, etc.
LOS ANGELES STATE BUILDING.
S. B. 160. Brown. Providing for the selection, location,
purchase or acquisition of a site for a state building in the
city of Los Angeles; to provide for the construction, equip-
ment and furnishing of a state building thereon, and for the
improvement of said site; to prescribe the use or occupancy
of said building; creating a commission to locate and acquire
said site and to construct said building, with power to deter-
mine the respective amounts to be paid for said site, for the
improvement thereof, for the construction of said building and
for furnishing or equipping the same; providing for the issu-
ance and sale of state bonds to be known as "Los Angeles
state building bonds", to provide a fund therefor; establishing
said fund, appropriating the proceeds thereof for said purpose
and directing the manner in which the same shall be : ex-
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915. 241
pended; creating a sinking fund for the payment of said bonds
and interest thereon; making an appropriation therefor, defin-
ing the duties of state officers in relation thereto, and providing
for the collection of revenue for said purpose; appropriating
two thousand five hundred dollars for the expense of prepara-
tion of said bonds and providing for the submission of this
Act to a vote of the people.
MAPS, RECORDING OF.
A. B. 457. Manning (by request). Amending Sections 1 and
4 of an Act approved March 15, 1907, requiring the recording of
maps of subdivisions of land into lots for the purpose of sale,
and prescribing the conditions on which such maps may be
recorded and prohibiting the selling or offering for sale of land
by reference to said maps unless the same are recorded.
S. B. 611. Carr. Identical with A. B. 457. Manning.
A. B. 81. Bruck. Amending Section 4 of an Act, approved
March 15, 1907, amended June 11, 1913, requiring the recording
of maps of subdivisions oc^Iand into lots for the purpose of
sale, and prescribing the conditions on which such maps may
be recorded and prohibiting the selling or offering for sale of
land by reference to said maps unless the same are recorded,
relating to approval of such maps.
Provides that governing body may refuse to approve map
or plat unless it is established to its satisfaction that proposal
to subdivide property shown thereon is made in good faith.
Upon such showing being made, governing body shall, within
30 days after same is submitted, approve or disapprove such
map or plat.
MARKETS AND MARKETING.
(See Commission Merchants; Produce Exchange Commission.)
S. B. 93. Stuckenbruck. Providing for the establishment
of county free markets and for the conducting and main-
tenance of the same.
S. B. 341. Brown. Providing for the organization of the
State marketing commission, to define its powers and duties
and the rights and privileges of producers of agricultural,
horticultural, dairy and farm products, and products manu-
factured or processed therefrom, which shall be grown, raised,
produced, processed, or manufactured within the State of
California, and to provide a penalty for the offense of using
or imitating the State brand or label adopted by such commis-
sion, and appropriating money for establishing and carrying
out the provisions of this Act, creating the "State Marketing
Commission Fund," and providing for the manner in which
money shall be placed therein and paid therefrom, and ap-
propriating the moneys therein to carry out the provisions of
242 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
this Act, and to repeal all Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent
with the provisions of this Act.
A. B. 318. McPherson. Providing for the creation of the
State Commission Market, and the organization thereof, to
carry on the business of receiving from the producers the
agricultural, fishery, dairy and farm products of the State of
California and selling and disposing of such products on com-
mission, creating the "State Commission Market Fund" and
appropriating money therefor.
MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE.
S. B. 361. Gerdes. Directing the State Bureau of Vital Sta-
tistics to collect, compile and present certain statistics relat-
ing to marriage and divorce and making it the duty of certain
officers to furnish such statistics in compliance with the pro-
visions of this Act, and making an appropriation therefor.
(S. B. 1170. Gerdes. Pending Legislation, 1913, p. 512.)
A. B. 1162. Phillips. Identical with S. B. 361. Gerdes.
McENERNEY ACT.
A. B. 735. Beck. Amending an Act to provide for the
establishment and quieting of title to real property in case
of the loss or destruction of public records, by making said
Act also applicable to real property whose records have been
destroyed among the records of another county of which it
was formerly a part.
S. B. 1134. Duncan. Identical with A. B. 735. Beck.
MEDICAL PRACTICE ACT.
(See Dentists; Pharmacy; Vaccination.)
S. B. 500. Benedict. Amending Sections 1, 8, 9, 10, 11, 14
and 17 of an Act approved June 2, 1913, to regulate the exami-
nation of applicants for license, and the practice of those
licensed to treat disease, injuries, deformities, or other physi-
cal or mental conditions of human beings, to establish a
board of medical examiners, to provide for their appointment
and prescribe their powers and duties, and to repeal an Act
entitled an Act for the regulation of the practice of medicine
and surgery, osteopathy and other systems or modes of
treating the sick or afflicted, in the State of California, and
for the appointment of a board of medical examiners in the
matter of said regulation, approved March 14, 1907, and Acts
amendatory thereof, and also to repeal all other Acts and
parts of Acts in conflict with this Act, said amendments re-
lating to the board of examiners, and to the requirements of
applicants for examination, and to the requirements of
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915. 243
schools, and to the revocation of licenses and to the regula-
tion of practice.
A. B. 593. Wright. Identical with S. B. 500. Benedict.
S. B. 443. Benson. Amending Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, JO,
11, 12, 13, 14, 17 and 18 of an Act approved June 2, 1913,
to regulate the examination of applicants for license, and
the practice of those licensed, to treat diseases, injuries,
deformities, or other physical or mental conditions of human
beings; to establish a board of medical examiners, to provide
for their appointment and prescribe their powers and duties,
and to repeal an Act entitled "An Act for the regulation of
the practice of medicine and surgery, osteopathy, and other
systems and modes of treating the sick or afflicted, in the
State of California, and for the appointment of a board of
medical examiners in the matter of said regulation", approved
March 14, 1907, and Acts amendatory thereof, and also to
repeal all other Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with this
Act, and adding a new section thereto to be numbered 12V2,
relating to the practice of chiropody.
A. B. 544. Ryan. Identical with S. B. 443. Benson.
A. B. 640. Gelder. Amending Section 5 of an Act approved
June 2, 1913, to regulate the examination of applicants for
license, and the practice of those licensed, to treat diseases,
injuries, deformities, or other physical or mental conditions of
human beings; to establish a board of medical examiners, to
provide for their appointment and prescribe their powers and
duties, and to repeal an Act entitled "An Act for the regula-
tion of the practice of medicine and surgery, osteopathy, and
other systems or modes of treating the sick or afflicted, in
the State of California, and for the appointment of a board
of medical examiners in the matter of said regulation," ap-
proved March 14, 1907, and Acts amendatory thereof, and also
to repeal all other Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with this
Act.
A. B. 1085. Gelder. Amending Section 13 of an Act ap-
proved June 2, 1913, to regulate the examination of appli-
cants for license, and the practice of those licensed, to treat
diseases, injuries, deformities, or other physical or mental
conditions of human beings; to establish a Board of Medi-
cal Examiners, to provide for their appointment and prescribe
their powers and duties, and to repeal an Act entitled "An
Act for the regulation of the practice of medicine and surgery,
osteopathy, and other systems or modes of treating the sick
or afflicted, in the State of California, and for the appoint-
ment of a Board of Medical Examiners in the matter of said
regulation," approved March 14, 1907, and Acts amendatory
thereof, and also to repeal all other acts and parts of acts
244 PENDING DEGIS.LATION, 1915.
in conflict with this Act, relating to the issuance of "reci-
procity certificates."
S. B. 1077. Flaherty (by request). Amending Section 13 of
an Act, approved June 2, 1913, to regulate the examination
of applicants for license, and the practice of those licensed,
to treat diseases, injuries, deformities, or other physical or
mental conditions of human beings; to establish a Board of
Medical Examiners, to provide for their appointment and
prescribe their powers and duties, and to repeal an Act en-
titled "An Act for the regulation of the practice of medicine
ml surgery, osteopathy, and other systems or modes of treat-
ing the sick or afflicted, in the State of California, and for the
appointment of a Board of Medical- Examiners in the matter
of said regulation", approved March 14, 1907, and Acts amenda-
tory thereof, and also to repeal all other Acts and parts of
Acts in conflict with this Act, relating to the issuance of
certificates without examination to holders of certificates from
other States requiring similar qualifications.
A. B. 642. Gelder; Amending Section 14 of an Act ap-
proved June 2, 1913, to regulate the examination of appli-
cants for license, and the practice of those licensed, to treat
diseases, injuries, deformities, or. other physical or mental
conditions of human beings; to establish a board of medical
examiners, to provide for their appointment and prescribe
their powers and duties, and to repeal an Act entitled "An
Act for the regulation of the practice of medicine and surgery,
osteopathy, and other systems or modes of treating the sick or
afflicted, in the State of California, and for the appointment
of a board of medical examiners in the matter of said regula-
tion," approved March 14, 1907, and Acts amendatory thereof,
and also to repeal all other Acts and parts of Acts in conflict
with this Act. Relating to advertising.
Omits entirely Subdivision 10, Section 14, providing as a
ground for refusal of certificate advertising, announcing or
stating in any manner that the holder of such certificate or
any other person, company or association by which he is em-
ployed, will cure or attempt to cure, or will treat, any venereal
disease, or will cure or attempt to cure or treat persons for
any sexual disease, for lost manhood, sexual weakness or
sexual disorder; or being employed by or being in the service
of any person, firm, association, or corporation so advertising,
announcing, or stating.
A. B. 641. Gelder. .Amending Section 18 of an Act ap-
proved June 2, 1913, to regulate the examination of applicants
for license, and the practice of those licensed, to treat dis-
eases, injuries, deformities, or other physical or mental con-
ditions of human beings; to establish a board of medical
examiners, to provide for their appointment and prescribe
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915. 245
their powers and duties, and to repeal an Act entitled "An
Act for the regulation of the practice of medicine and surgery,
osteopathy, and other systems or modes of treating the sick
or afflicted, in the State of California, and for the appoint-
ment of a board of medical examiners in the matter of said
regulation," approved March 14, 1907, and Acts amendatory
thereof, and also to repeal all other Acts and parts of Acts
in conflict with this Act; said amendment relating to fines and
penalties.
S. B. 276. Irwin. Providing for the granting of certificates
to practice medicine and surgery by the board of medical
examiners of the State of California, to graduates from legally
chartered or reputable medical schools in the State of Cali-
fornia, upon payment of fee of $25.00.
A. B. 272. Pettis. Identical with S. B. 276. Irwin.
S. B. 1078. Thompson (by request). Authorizing and regu-
lating the practice of chiropractic in the State of California;
creating a State Board of Chiropractic Examiners; providing
for the appointment of the same; defining its powers, duties
and emoluments; to provide a standard of education for chiro-
practors; to provide penalties for the violation of this Act;
to provide for the examination and licensing of chiropractors
in the State of California, and to repeal any or all parts of
any Act or Acts in conflict with this Act.
A. B. 256. Bartlett (by request). Authorizing and regulating
the practice of chiropractic in the State of California; creating
a state board of chiropractic examiners; providing for the
appointment of the same; defining its powers, duties, and
emoluments; to provide a standard of education for chiroprac-
tors; to provide penalties for the violation of this Act; to
provide for the examination and licensing of chiropractors in
the State of California, and to repeal any or all parts of any
Act or Acts in conflict with this Act.
A. B. 428. Phillips. Authorizing and regulating the practice
of cosmetic surgery and facial dermatology in the State of
California; creating a State board of cosmetic surgery and
facial dermatologlcal examiners; providing for the appointment
of the same; defining its powers, duties and emolument's; to
provide for the examination and licensing of cosmetic surgeons
and facial dermatologists in the State of California, and to re-
peal all Acts or parts of Acts in conflict herewith.
A. B. 1208. Wright, T. M. To regulate the practice ol
optometry; to provide for the appointment -of a board of
optometry, define its duties and powers and prescribing a
penalty for the violation of this Act.
S. B. 1039. Mott. Identical with A. B. 1208. Wright.
A. B. 252. Lyon (by request). Regulating the practice of
drugless system or method of treating sick or afflicted human
246 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
beings; regulating the examination of applicants for license;
regulating registration of applicants; allowing those licensed
to treat diseases, injuries, deformities, or other physical or
psychopathic conditions of human beings by drugless methods;
to establish a board of examiners for drugless physicians; to
provide for their appointment and formation and prescribe
their powers and duties; making violations of the provisions
of this Act a misdemeanor; and repealing all parts of an Act,
approved March 14, 1907, to regulate the examination of ap-
plicants for license and the practice of those licensed, to treat
diseases, injuries, deformities, or other physical or mental
conditions of human beings; to establish a board of medical
-examiners, to provide for their appointment and prescribe
their powers and duties, and to repeal all parts of an Act
entitled "An Act for the regulation of the practice of medi-
cine and surgery, osteopathy, and other systems or modes
of treating the sick or afflicted, in the State of California, and
for the appointment of a board of medical examiners in the
matter of said regulation, and Acts amendatory thereof, and
also repealing all other Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with
this Act, approved June 2, 1913, in conflict with this Act,
or pertaining in any way to the examination and licensing of
. applicants to practice drugless systems or the practice of
drugless systems, and repealing all Acts or parts of Acts in
conflict with this Act.
This is the same measure that was submitted to the people
by initiative at the last general election and defeated. It
creates a state board of drugless physicians, with office in
Oakland, creating fund from fees for members and employee's
compensation, salaries and expenses, regulates examinations
and issuance of certificates. Authorizes holders thereof to
treat all physical or mental ailments of human beings without
drugs or medicines, use "Doctor", "Dr.", or "D. P." in con-
nection with "Drugless Physician' and sign birth and death
certificates. Exempts from examination any person practicing
any drugless system for six months prior to effective date
.of Act, but requires all who come subsequent thereto to pass
a stiff examination. Prescribes penalties for violations and
repeals all inconsistent and conflicting provisions of law gov-
erning the practice of medicine and healing.
S. B. 310. Scott. Identical with A. B. 252. Lyon.
MEETINGS, UNINCORPORATED SOCIETIES, CALLING OF.
(See Civil Code.)
A. B. 65. Ryan. Providing for the manner Of calling meet-
ings of an unincorporated society, organization or association,
when the manner of calling the same is unprovided for in
the constitution or by-laws of such unincorporated society,
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915. 247
organization or association, or the officer whose duty it is
to call such meeting fails or refuses so to do.
Provides that meeting may be called by twelve members,
call to state time and place of meeting, and by giving two
weeks' notice by publication in newspaper in county, or city
and county, where last precedng meeting was held.
S. B. 119. Tyrrell. Identical with A. B. 65. Ryan.
MINES AND MINING.
(See also Capital and Labor.)
S. B. 916. Maddux (by request). Establishing and creating
a department of the State Mining Bureau for the protection
of the natural resources of petroleum and gas from waste and
destruction through improper operations in production; pro-
viding for the appointment of a State oil and gas supervisor;
prescribing his duties and powers; fixing his compensation;
providing for the appointment of deputies and employees;
providing for their duties and compensation; providing for
the inspection of petroleum and gas wells; requiring all per-
sons operating petroleum and gas wells to make certain re-
ports; providing procedure for arbitration of departmental
rulings; creating a fund for the purposes of the Act; fixing a
fee to be paid by operators and providing for the collection
thereof; and making an appropriation for the purpose of this
Act.
A. B. 35S. Harris. To protect the health of underground
workers in mines and tunnels and regulating the use of drills
driven by mechanical power and the forcing out of under-
ground mines and tunnels smoke and gases generated by
blasting powder and other explosives, and the ventilating of
said mines and tunnels, and prescribing penalties for the in-
fraction of such regulations, and declaring that such infraction
constitutes gross negligence in case of actions for damage to
health of employees.
A. B. 974. Ream. An Act to regulate mines and under-
ground workings for the protection and safety of workmen;
providing for the inspection of mines and underground work-
ings by the Industrial Accident Commission; authorizing and
directing said commission to appoint two inspectors of mines;
prescribing their powers, duties, compensation, and author-
izing certain expenditures for the purposes of this Act; re-
quiring employers and employes to comply with the provis-
ions of this Act, and fixing penalties for the violation thereof.
Provides for appointment of chief inspector of mines at
$3000 per year and an assistant at $1800 per year. Duty of
inspector to at least once a year visit each mining county of
State and examine such mines as in his judgment require
examination for purpose of determining their condition as to
248 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
safety, and for that purpose shall have full power at all hours
to enter and examine any and all mines in this State and all
workings and equipment, and to require, in case of dangerous
conditions, that all necessary changes be made without delays;
neglect or refusal by mine owners or operators to comply
with his orders shall be prima facie evidence of culpable neg-
ligence in case of accident.
All mine owners or operators shall furnish to the commis-
sion not later than June 30 of each year a detailed report
showing character of mine, number of men then employed
and maximum number of men to be employed during ensuing
year, method of working and general condition of mine.
Upon receipt of formal complaint in writing signed by one
or more persons, stating that a mine is unsafe, and specifi-
cally stating in what particulars it is dangerous and other
details, commission shall cause such mine to be examined,
and if complaint justified owner or operator shall be required
to remedy condition complained of on penalty of having
dangerous workings closed until defects are remedied.
District Attorney is charged with prosecuting all mine own-
ers or operators neglecting or refusing to comply with com-
mission's orders.
Upon occurrence of a serious or fatal accident owners or
operators of mine shall notify commission, who shall cause
inspector to make full investigation.
Chief inspector of mines shall on first Monday of December
of each year make report which shall be printed with report
of commission.
No blasting powder or high explosives, except such as are
necessary for temporary requirements, shall be stored in any
mine, and use of gasoline underground is prohibited. Wooden
tamping bars shall be furnished, and the use of steel or
metal tamping bars by any person is declared a misdemeanor,
punishable by fine of not less than $5 nor more than $50; all
timber removed shall be taken from mines; all hoisting ma-
chinery shall be equipped with an indicator in plain view of
engineer; all persons are prohibited from riding on cage, skip
or bucket when loaded with tools, timber, powder or other
material so loaded as to render riding unsafe; all shafts shall
be equipped with ladders, and shafts more than 200 feet deep
inclined more than 45 degrees from horizontal, equipped with
hoisting machinery, shall be divided into at least two compart-
ments. All mines over 300 feet deep having a single shaft as
only means of egress, covered by non-fireproof building, shall
have bulkhead or trap-door closing from point outside build-
ing, constructed at least 25 feet below collar of shaft, and
below a drift driven to surface or point beyond walls raise
and ladder - way for exit in case of fire; signboards plainly
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915. 249
marking direction must be installed where exit or outlet is
not in direct or continuous line; employes engaged in sinking
shafts or inclines shall at all times be provided with ladders
for exit; guard rails or hand holds must be maintained at all
shaft stations, and all winzes and mill holes or chutes shall be
protected; cars and cages in shafts over 350 feet deep must
be enclosed and fitted with doors and overhead bars; a pillar
of ground shall be left on each side of shaft of sufficient di-
mensions to protect it, and no stoping shall be permitted
within such close proximity to shaft as to render same in-
secure.
No structure shall be erected over any mine except head
frames necessary for hoisting, and hatch necessary for closing
shaft, except that house of non-inflammable or fire-proof ma-
terial may be erected; in case of existing houses, all inflam-
mable material stored therein shall be immediately removed,
and storage of such material within 30 feet from exterior walls
of such housing is prohibited.
Every tunnel or adit level, mouth of which is covered by
house, shall be provided with door near mouth, closing from
outside building with pull wire in event of fire; inside of door
raise shall be run to surface for exit.
No rope or cable for hoisting, except an iron or steel wire
cable, shall be used, nor shall any cable be continued in use
either when the number of breaks in any running foot exceeds
ten per cent of total number of wires therein, or when wires
on crown of strands are worn down to less that one-half
original diameter, or when it shows marked signs of corrosion.
All steam boilers shall be kept in good order, and examined
and inspected once in twelve months or oftener if inspector of
mines deems necessary.
Good and sufficient ventilation shall be maintained at all
times.
Men shall not be permitted to work in stopes so far apart
that cries of one for help in case of need cannot be heard;
an engineer shall be on duty at all times to answer signals
connected with shaft hoists; and it shall be unlawful for any
person to ride on bale or cable of hoisting bucket, cage or
skip unless safe to do so; notice of maximum number of men
permitted to ride on or in cage, skip or bucket at one time
shall be posted at collar of shaft and on each level, and it is
made a misdemeanor for any person to ride upon or in an
overloaded cage, ship or bucket, punishable by fine of not less
than $5 or more than $50.
At least two smoke or respirator helmets shall be kept at
every mine employing 40 or more men underground, with an
additional smoke helmet for each additional fifty men employed.
Any owner, agent, manager or lessee operating a mine failing
250 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
to comply with provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty
of misdemeanor, punishable by fine of not less than $100 and
not more than $500, or by imprisonment for not less than 30
days or more than 6 months, or both.
Act not to apply to any mine worked by owners, or where
no men are employed working therein for wages; and nothing
herein is to be construed as repealing or modifying any existing
law, except so far as such provisions relate to mines and are
inconsistent herewith.
$16,600 appropriated to carry out provisions of Act
A. B. 622. Harris. Regulating the hours of employment in
underground mines or any underground workings, whether
for the purpose of tunneling, making excavation or to accom-
plish any other purpose or design, or in smelting and reduc-
tion works.
Provides for an eight-hour day, hours of employment to be
consecutive, and for underground workers to begin and end
at entrance to shaft or tunnel, excluding time for meals;
except that in case of emergency, where life or property is in
danger, period may be longer; violation a misdemeanor, pun-
ishable by fine of not less than $50 or more than $300 or im-
prisonment not more than three months, or both.
A. B. 1269. Encell. To regulate the hours of employment in
underground mines and in smelting and reduction works and
to repeal the Act approved March 10, 1909, regulating the
hours of employment in underground mines and in smelting
and reduction works; and to repeal the Act approved May 30,
1913, regulating the hours of employment in underground
mines, underground workings, whether for the purpose of
tunneling, making excavations or to accomplish any other
purpose or design, or in smelting and reduction works, and
also to repeal all other Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with
or in conflict with the provisions of this Act.
A. B. 1055. Canepa (by request). To regulate and control
the dredging for gold or other minerals or metals on culti-
vated or arable land, and giving the State Railroad Commis-
sion power to control and regulate the same.
Requires dredging companies to conduct their work so that
the land will be left in an arable condition. Dredging is to be
under the control of the Railroad Commission and makes a
permit from the Commission necessary to be obtained before
dredging can be done. Violation of the Act is declared a mis-
demeanor.
MISCELLANEOUS.
S. B. 102. Brown. Creating and establishing a commission
for the investigating and gathering of data and statistics con-
cerning the use of live animals for experimental purposes;
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providing for the appointment of said commission, to be
known as the "commission for the preservation of statistics
of animal life," and prescribing the powers and duties of
said commission and its members.
S. B. 317. Jones. Providing for the care and confinement
of certain delinquents in correctional institutions, to establish
two correctional institutions, to provide for the government
thereof, and making an appropriation therefor.
S. B. 318. Jones. Providing for the regulation of county
jails, county hospitals and almshouses, county orphanages, de-
tention homes and city or town jails under the supervision
of the State Board of Charities and Corrections.
S. B. 323. Thompson. Amending Section 3 of an Act, ap-
proved April 21, 1911, requiring the compilation and publication
of reports of the financial transactions of the several counties
and municipalities of the State and making an appropriation
therefor.
S. B. 338. Benson. Prohibiting the making or soliciting of
contracts wherein one party thereto obligates himself to make
to the other party periodical payments which may be applied
to the operating expenses of the obligee, or which may be
forfeited, and wherein an agreement by the obligee to lend
money to the obligor is made to depend upon the date of con-
tract and the number of periodical payments; and declares
violation a misdemeanor punishable by fine of not less than
$100 or more than $1000, or by imprisonment not less than 30
days or more than one year, or both.
A. B. 381. Wright. Identical with S. B. 338. Benson.
S. B. 393. Cogswell. Creating a department of natural re-
sources and creating the office of secretary of said depart-
ment; defining his powers and duties and fixing his salary;
providing for the consolidation of certain commissions, boards
and offices; providing for the organization and administration
of said department, and defining the powers and duties of its
officers.
A. B. 490. Encell. Identical with S. B. 393. Cogswell.
S. B. 406. Scott. To select, designate and adopt a song en-
titled "I Love You California" as State song to be known as
"California's State Song."
A. B. 350. Bruck. Providing for the printing and binding of
the several Codes of the State of California after each regular
session of the Legislature thereof with the amendments there-
to, by the State Printer, and for the sale and distribution
thereof.
A. B. 387. Godsil. Amending Section 1 of an Act approved
March 23, 1901, to secure to native born and naturalized
citizens of the United States the exclusive right to be em-
ployed in any department of the State, county, city and
252 FENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
county, or incorporated city or town government in this State,
relating to the employment of citizens of the United States.
A. B. 401. Bruek. Providing for the transfer and conveyance
to the regents of the University of California the title to a
certain lot, piece or parcel of land situate, lying and being in
the County of Napa, State of California, and heretofore pur-
chased for said State under and by virtue of an Act approved
April 24, 1911, to establish the California State Reformatory;
and the construction of buildings and other improvements in
connection therewith; to provide for the commitment and
transfer of prisoners thereto and therefrom; to provide for the
equipment, conduct and management thereof; and to make an
appropriation therefor, and providing for the use, management
and control thereof by the regents of the University of Cali-
fornia.
S. B. 455. Birdsall (by request). Creating a State Art Com-
mission, to be composed of the Governor (ex-officio), one archi-
tect, one artist painter, one sculptor, and two persons known
for their interest in the development of art, to be appointed
by the Governor; the painter, sculptor and architect from
nominations made by the Southern California Chapter and the
Northern California Chapter of the American Institute of
Architects and the San Francisco Society of Architects; pre-
scribing the qualifications and duties of its members and pro-
hibiting the purchase, gift or acceptance of any work of art
by the State until the State Art Commission has approved the
design for the same, and appropriating $12,000 therefor.
A. B. 489. Conard. Amending Section 14 of an Act, ap-
proved March 2, 1911, creating a Board of Pilot Commissioners
for the harbor of San Diego, defining their duties and fixing
their compensation.
S. B. 523. Luce. Amending Section 14 of an Act creating a
board of pilot commissioners for the harbor of S'an Diego, de-
fining their duties and fixing their compensation.
A. B. 543. Prendergast. To promote a better condition of
music teaching and the better protection of the public against
misrepresentation on the part of those engaged in the music
teaching profession in the State of California, to provide for
and regulate the registration of music teachers, and to provide
for the issuance of certificates of registration to applicants
presenting a sworn statement of their preparation and quali-
fication to the Secretary of State.
A. B. 571. Canepa. To provide for the appropriation of
certain submerged lands lying along the water front of the
City and County of San Francisco for aquatic sports.
A. B. 587. Downing. Requiring all public work to be done
under the supervision of a superintendent; prohibiting con-
tract work; and naming a penalty for a violation of this Act,
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S. B, 628. Luce. Declaring kelp beds to be the property
of the State of California and providing for the control and
leasing of said beds.
S. B. 738. Duncan (by request). Amending Section 38 of
Subdivision 25 of Act 837 of the General Laws of the State
of California, relating to a uniform system of county and town-
ship government.
A. B. 707. Gebhart. Recognizing and establishing that the
unpaid expenses of the convention which framed the Consti-
tution of the State of California, including the unpaid per
diem of the delegates to such convention for the full term
thereof, are obligations against the State, providing that
suits may be brought against the State to determine by
judgment the amount and ownership of claims for such un-
paid expenses and per diem.
A. B. 722. Canepa. To provide for the establishment of pas-
senger service upon the State railroad located on The Em-
barcadero, in the City and County of San Francisco.
A. B. 740. Kerr. Relating to the powers' and privileges of
officers and employees of State reformatories in arresting
pupils who have escaped or been rescued therefrom.
S. B. 846. Finn. Amending Section 1 of an Act approved
March 15, 1909, providing for vacations for certain employees
of the State.
S. B. 854. Stuckenbruck. Authorizing the sale of certain
property belonging to the Stockton State Hospital.
A. B. 799. Benton. Declaring hedges to be a private
nuisance in certain instances and providing for the abatement
thereof.
A. B. 890. Schmitt. Amending an Act, approved March 13,
1909, to prevent the formation and prohibit the existence of
secret oath-bound fraternities in the public schools, by pro-
hibiting the existence of secret oath-bound fraternities in the
public schools and in all educational institutions supported
in whole or in part by the State of California or which are
exempt from taxation within this State.
A. B. 896. Gebhart. To prevent the discrimination in
prices and to provide for publicity of prices to dealers and to
the public.
S. B. 873. Scott. Relating to the relief of soldiers, sailors
and marines.
S. B. 879. Luce (by request). To provide for the formation
and management of transportation districts; for acquiring
rights of way and transportation facilities; for levying and
collecting taxes on property in such districts; and for the
issuance of transportation district bonds and the payment
thereof.
S. B. 890. Breed. To provide for the alteration of county
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boundary lines of old counties and for the formation of new
counties, organizations and classifications thereof, for locat-
ing county seats, for the election and appointment of officers
and for the adjustment and the fulfillment of the rights and
obligations arising between such new counties, created out of
other counties.
A. B. 1095. Anderson. Identical with Ss B. 890. Breed.
S. B. 927. Crowley. Relating to the deposit of moneys and
assets held by bonded fiduciaries; providing for agreements
between surety and fiduciary as to place of deposit of such
funds and assets.
A. B. 989. Gebhart. To create a State purchasing depart-
ment, to define the authority, powers and duties thereof; to
provide for the appointment of and to define the authority,
powers and duties and to fix the salaries and wages of the
officers and employees thereof, to provide funds for the sup-
port and expenditures thereof; to provide for the manner of
payment of obligations incurred thereby; to create a revolving
fund therefor; to provide for the appointment of, to define the
authority, powers and duties of, and to fix the salaries of a
State purchasing agent, an assistant State purchasing agent,
and a State testing engineer; and to repeal all Acts of parts
of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act.
Provides for the appointment by the Governor of a purchas-
ing agent, who shall be required to buy all materials and sup-
plies for State departments. The salary of the proposed official
is fixed at $4000. There would be, besides the agent, an assist-
ant at $2400, three clerks at $1800, two stenographers at $1200
and a testing engineer at $2400.
A. B. 1023. Godsil. Amending an Act approved December
24, 1911, defining certain classes of contracts for the exchange
of indemnity, prescribing regulations therefor and fixing a
license fee, by adding thereto a new section to be numbered
Section 10, relating to the contingent liability of parties to
such contracts.
A. B. 1033. Phillips. Prohibiting the sale or giving away of
cigarettes or cigarette papers, and declaring such act a mis-
demeanor, punishable by fine of not less than $25 nor more
than $100.
A. B. 1051. Judson. Requiring the owner of trees to prevent
injury to the property of an adjoining land owner and granting
relief to the latter in case such injury occurs.
A. B. 1077. Downing. Requiring every packing house, mer-
cantile or manufacturing establishment, work shop, or other
establishment where labor is employed, to be heated so as to
be comfortable, and providing penalties for the violation of
this Act.
S. B. 992. Owens (by request). Amending Section 15 of an
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Act, approved April 1, 1897, to establish a uniform system of
county and township government.
A. B. 1128. Salisbury. Regarding the publication of proceed-
ings of boards of supervisors.
A. B. 1201. Collins (by request). Relating to the deposit
of moneys and assets held by bonded fiduciaries providing for
agreements between surety and fiduciary as to place of deposit
of such funds and assets.
S. B. 1015. Cogswell. Authorizing and empowering the
board of trustees of the Whittier State School to transfer,
exchange and convey any and all water rights now owned
and held by said board for stock in a corporation.
S. B. 1036. Kehoe. To provide for the regulation of the
sale of shingles by makers, manufacturers and dealers thereof.
Shingles shall be sold by numerical count; four bundles
of random width shingles packed in regulation frames, 20
inches in width, twenty-five courses at each end, shall con-
stitute a thousand; openings in bundles shall not average more
than iy2 inches to the course, and a variation of 1 inch in
length shall be allowed in 10 per cent of shingles in a bundle.
S. B. 1084. Colin. To provide for the appointment of a State
Capitol Planning Commission to formulate plans for the Capitol
City of the State and to confer with the City Planning Com-
mission of the State Capitol City.
Commission to consist of the Governor, State Librarian and
three other persons to be named by the Governor, at least
one of whom shall be a recognized expert in the planning of
cities and towns, the appointive members to serve without pay.
A. B. 1255. Chenoweth. Identical with S. B. 1084. Cohn.
S. B. 1093. King. Relating to the conducting of a company
store by any person, firm or corporation engaged in doing
public work.
Prohibits the conducting of such store if, at the time, there
be any store selling supplies within two miles of the place
where such contract is being executed; makes violation a
misdemeanor, punishable by fine not to exceed $500 or by
imprisonment not to exceed six months, or both.
A. B. 930. Brown, H. W. Amending Section 1 of an Act,
approved May 28, 1913, in relation to fences, and other struc-
tures erected to annoy, and for the abatement of nuisances.
S. B. 1110. Flint. Amending Section 1 of an Act approved
May 28, 1913, in relation to fences, and other structures erected
to annoy, and for the abatement of nuisances,
making an appropriation for such purpose.
S. B. 1131. Anderson. Providing for the establishment and
conduct of a State Land Information Bureau as a department
of the College of Agriculture of the University of California;
prescribing the powers and duties of said bureau, and appro-
priating $25,000 therefor.
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A. B. 1266. Encell. Identical with S. B. 1131. Anderson.
S. B. 1116. Breed. To provide for the return to the owners
thereof of any funds paid into the State Treasury by any re-
ceiver in conformity with the provisions of Section 570 of the
Code of Civil Procedure; prescribing the procedure relative
thereto; and making an appropriation therefor.
A. B. 1376. Wright, H. W. Identical with S. B. 1116. Breed
S. B. 1133. Duncan. To permit three or more counties
adjoining each other to appropriate from the general fund
of the county a sum not exceeding $1000, by each county, to
be used in connection with an. equal sum from each of the
other two counties in causing a survey to be made of a pro-
posed highway in or through one or more of said counties.
S. B. 1139. Breed. To provide for the payment of awards
of court, or judgments, rendered in conformity with the
provisions of Section 1272 of the Code of Civil Procedure, and
appropriating $15,000 therefor.
A. B. 1375. Wright, T. M. Identical with S. B. 1139. Breed.
S. B. 1115. Beban. To create a commission for the pur-
pose of making a survey of local historical material in the
State of California; defining the powers and duties of said
commission; and appropriating $10,000 therefor.
Creates a commission of three persons for purpose, to be
appointed by Governor, to serve without compensation, one
member to be nominated by regents of University of Cali-
fornia, and one by board of officers N. S. G. W.
A. B. 1372. Bruck. Identical with S. B. 1145. Beban.
A. B. 1268. Encell. Prohibiting the exposure or exhibition
of deformed or diseased human beings or parts thereof, or the
exposure or exhibition of facsimile or purporting to be fac-
simile thereof, by picture, model, cast, mold, chart, pamphlet,
card or any form or representation of sucn diseased human
bodies or parts thereof, which would be indecent in the case
of a living person, without a permit from the State Board of
Health, save and except for scientific and educational purposes
before members of the medical profession or practitioners of
any system or mode of treating the sick or afflicted or before
students in the actual prosecution of their studies in schools,
hospitals or colleges.
A. B. 1345. Ryan. Providing for the acceptance of the U.
S. Ship Portsmouth by the State of California from the gov-
ernment of the United States and providing for repairs for
said ship and for the care and preservation of the same, and
appropriating $50,000 therefor.
S. B. 1159. Finn. Identical with A. B. 1345. Ryan.
A. B. 1371. Gelder. Prohibiting the use of dining cars as
sleeping quarters.
A. B. 1448. S'pengler. To prevent any peace officer against
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whom there is an unpaid judgment rendered in a suit for false
imprisonment from holding any position as peace officer.
A. B. 1450. Downing. To make compensation to persons
arrested but not convicted, at the rate of $2 a day for each
day held in confinement, to be paid out of the general fund
of the county.
A. B. 1466. Wishard (by request). Concerning actions for
libel and slander, and repealing an Act approved March 23,
1892.
Provides that if plaintiff prevails he shall be allowed as costs
$100 counsel fees in addition to other costs: if action dismissed
or defendant prevails, he shall be allowed $100 counsel fees
in addition to other costs.
S. B. 1013. Luce. Transferring $5837.69 from the disputed
title to lands on San Diego Bay fund to the general fund of
the State of California.
MOTOR VEHICLES.
A. B. 284. Mouser. Regulating the use and operation of
vehicles upon the public highways and elsewhere to provide
for the registration and identification of vehicles and for the
payment of registration fees therefor; to provide for the
licensing of persons operating motor vehicles; to prohibit
certain persons from operating certain vehicles upon the public
highways, and to prohibit other persons from causing or
knowingly permitting such operation; to prohibit the possession
or use of a vehicle without the consent of the owner thereof,
and to prohibit the offer to or acceptance by certain persons
of any bonus or discount or other consideration for the pur-
chase of supplies or parts for vehicles, or for work or repair
done thereon; to provide penalties for violations of provisions
of this Act and to provide for the disposition of fines and
forfeitures imposed thereon; to limit the power of local author-
ities to enact or maintain ordinances, rules or regulations in
regard to matters embraced within the provisionss of this
act; to provide for the disposition of registration and license
fees, fines and forfeitures collected hereunder; to provide for
carrying out the objects of this Act and to make an appro-
priation, and to create a revolving fund therefor; and to repeal
all Acts or parts of Acts either in conformity or in conflict
with this Act.
This measure reduces the fees for autoists and provides
for the registration of all vehicles and the payment of a
license fee of $2 for a one-horse vehicle and $5 for one of
two or more horses.
A. B. 798. Mouser. To regulate the use and operation of
vehicles upon the public highways and elsewhere; to provide
for the registration and identification of motor vehicles and
258 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
for the payment of registration fees therefor; to provide for
the licensing of persons operating motor vehicles; to prohibit
certain persons from operating vehicles upon the public high-
ways; to prohibit the possession or use of a motor vehicle
without the consent of the owner thereof, and to prohibit the
offer to or acceptance by certain persons of any bonus or
discount or other consideration for the purchase of supplies
or parts for motor vehicles, or for work or repair done there-
on; to provide penalties for violations of provisions of this
Act, and to provide for the disposition of fines and forfeit-
ures imposed thereon; to provide for the disposition of regis-
tration and license fees, fines and forfeitures collected here-
under; to provide for carrying out the objects of this Act
and to make an appropriation and to create a revolving-
fund therefor; and to repeal all Acts or parts of Acts either
in conformity or in conflict with this Act.
Representatives of foreign powers, officers of the United
States, Sheriffs and police officers are exempt from paying
tin- State license fees.
The horsepower is computed by the California method, and
the license is figured ftt a flat rate of 35 cents per horsepower,
but in no case shall the minimum be counted at less than 20
horsepower.
Reductions from $50 to $25 and from $10 to $2 are given
dealers for five number plates and those in excess of five.
Lights must be carried by all vehicles except those pro-
pelled by a pedestrian.
The bill also contains the provision to allow offenders to
go free on promise, and makes a violation of the promise a
misdemeanor. An appeal to the Superior Court is provided
against the suspension of an auto license. In case of arrest
two times within sixty days in any calendar year for viola-
tions by driving an auto while intoxicated, and racing on the
public- highways without permission, the motorist shall have
his license revoked and he shall remain suspended from re-
ceiving another license for six months.
Counties shall receive half of the net proceeds from the
licenses and the money is to be used as at present. Cities
shall have the right to keep the moneys secured on fines for
violations.
S. B. 814. Cogswell. To provide for the licensing of motor
vehicles engaged in the carrying of passengers for hire upon
the public highways in the State of California.
Introduced in blank; license fees not specified.
S. B. 893. Breed. To prescribe a formula by which alone
the horsepower of any automobile or motor vehicle must be
determined for purposes of registration.
Provides that horsepower may be determined by formula
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adopted by associations of licensed automobile manufacturers.
S. B. 2. Beban. Amending Section 1, Subdivision 1, and
Section 5, Subdivisions 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of an act to regulate
the operation of motor vehicles on public highways, etc., ap-
proved March 22, 1905, amended March 23, 1907, and adding a
new subdivision thereto to be numbered Subdivision 6.
Relates to examination of chauffeurs by a board of exam-
iners; no chauffeur shall be under 20 years old, and every
applicant must send his photograph to the Secretary of State.
Chauffeurs' licenses are raised to $5 from $2.
S. B. 792. Beban. Amending Sections 1 and 24 of an Act,
approved May 31, 1913, to regulate the use and operation of
vehicles upon the public highways and elsewhere; to provide
for the registration and identification of motor vehicles and
for the payment of registration fees therefor; to provide for
the licensing of persons operating motor vehicles; to prohibit
certain persons from operating vehicles upon the public high-
ways; to prohibit the possession or use of a motor vehicle
without the consent of the owner thereof, and to prohibit the
offer to or acceptance by certain persons of any bonus or
discount or other consideration for the purchase of supplies
or parts, for motor vehicles, or for work or repair done
thereon; to provide penalties for violations of provisions of
this Act, and to provide for the disposition of fines and for-
feitures imposed thereon; to provide for the disposition or
registration and license fees, fines and forfeitures collected
hereunder; to provide for carrying out the objects of this Act
and to make an appropriation and to create a revolving fund
therefor; and to repeal all Acts or parts of Acts either in
conformity or in conflict with this Act.
S. B. 41. Birdsall. Amending Sections 3, 7, 8, 9, 10, 13, 22,
and 35 of the Motor Vehicle Act, approved May 31, 1913, re-
lating to the use and operation of motor vehicles on the
public highways and elsewhere.
A. B. 409/ Collins. Amending Section 5 of an Act to regu-
late the use and operation of vehicles upon the public highways
and elsewhere; to provide for the registration and identifica-
tion of motor vehicles and for the payment of registration fees
therefor; to provide for the licensing of persons operating
motor vehicles; to prohibit certain persons from operating
vehicles upon the public highways; to prohibit the possession
or use of a motor vehicle without the consent of the owner
thereof, and to prohibit the offer to or acceptance by certain
persons of any bonus or discount or other consideration for the
purchase of supplies or parts of motor vehicles, or for work
or repair done thereon; to provide penalties for violations of
provisions of this Act, and to provide for the disposition of
fines and forfeitures imposed thereon; to provide for the dis-
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position of registration and license fees, fines and forfeitures
collected hereunder; to provide for carrying out the objects
of this Act and to make an appropriation and to create a
revolving fund therefor; and to repeal all Acts or parts of Acts
either in conformity or in conflict with this Act, relating to the
issuance of seals and number plates, and providing that same
shall be made in California.
A, B. 23. Schmitt. Amending Section 7 of an Act approved
May 31, 1913, to regulate the use and operation of vehicles
upon the public highways and elsewhere; to provide for the
registration and identification of motor vehicles and for the
payment of registration fees therefor; to provide for the
licensing of persons operating motor vehicles; to prohibit
certain persons from operating vehicles upon the public high-
ways; to prohibit the possession or use of a motor vehicle
without the consent of the owner thereof, and to prohibit the
offer to or acceptance by certain persons of any bonus or
discount or other consideration for the purchase of supplies
or parts for motor vehicles, or for work or repair done thereon;
to provide penalties for violations of provisions of this Act,
and to provide for the disposition of fines and forfeitures im-
posed thereon; to provide for the disposition of "registration
and license fees, fines and forfeitures collected hereunder; to
provide for carrying out the objects of this Act and to make
an appropriation and to create a revolving fund therefor; and
to repeal air Acts or parts of Acts either in conformity or in
conflict with this Act, fixing a new schedule of fees for motor
vehicles.
A. B. 584. Arnerich. Amending Sections 7 and 8 of the
Act, approved May 31, 1913, "Motor Vehicle Act".
Bases the tax on weight instead of horsepower, an the fol-
lowing basis: Up to 2,500 the tax is $5; 2,500 to 3,500, $10;
3,500 to 4,500, $15; 4,500 to 5,500, $20, all others $25.
A. B, 2. Ashley. Amending Sections 7, 13, 23 and 35 of an
Act approved May 31, 1913, to regulate the use and operation
of vehicles upon the public highways and elsewhere; to pro-
vide for the registration and identification of motor vehicles
and for. the payment of registration fees therefor; to provide
for the licensing of persons operating motor vehicles; to pro-
hibit certain persons from operating vehicles upon the public
highways.
Provides (Sec. 7) a new schedule of fees; requires (Sec. 13,
Subd. C [new]) the display of visible lights on all vehicles
other than automobiles and motorcycles, while in use upon
any public highway, from a half hour after sunset to a half
hour before sunrise, and (Subd. D [new]) the display of visible
lights during the same period on all vehicles in or upon any
public highway, but not in use; requiring (Sec. 20, Subd. K)
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that in passing any railroad, interurban or street car, vehicles
shall pass to the right, that due care must be exercised for
the safety of persons alighting therefrom, to the extent of
stopping such vehicle, if necessary, or if required to do so by
ordinance or by any traffic officer; and providing (Sec. 35) for
the return of all net receipts to those counties in which im-
proved highways have been constructed under county bond
issues and in which less than one-half (or in which none) of
the State highways contemplated by the State Highway Act
have been constructed.
S. B. 492. Birdsall. Adding Section 7a (new) to an Ad
a.pproved May 31, 1913, to regulate the use and operation of
vehicles upon the public highways and elsewhere; to provide
for the registration and identification of motor vehicles and
for the payment of registration fees therefor; to provide for
the licensing of persons operating motor vehicles; to prohibit
certain persons from operating vehicles upon the public high-
ways; to prohibit the possession or use of a motor vehicle
without the consent of the owner thereof, and to prohibit the
offer to and acceptance by certain persons of any bonus
or discount or other consideration for the purchase of supplies
or parts lor motor vehicles, or for work or repair done
thereon; to provide penalties for violations of provisions of
this Act, and to provide for the disposition of fines and for-
feitures imposed thereon; to provide for the disposition of
registration and license fees, fines and forfeitures collected
hereunder; to provide for carrying out the objects of this
Act and to make an appropriation and to create a revolving
fund therefor; and to repeal all Acts or parts of Acts either
in conformity or in conflict with this Act, relating to the fees
to be collected for the registration of motor vehicles.
Applies particularly to motor trucks and provides for reg-
istration of every motor vehicle, equipped with solid tires
other than traction engines, weighing under 4,000 pounds, $5,
in addition to the fees provided for the horsepower rating;
for every vehicle weighing over 4,000 pounds* and less than
6,000 pounds, $10, in addition to the fees provided for horse-
power rating; for every vehicle weighing over 6,000 pounds,
$15, in addition to the fees for horsepower rating.
A. B. 800. Anderson. Amending Section 8 of the "Motor
Vehicle Act", approved May 31, 1913, relating to transfer of
ownership.
A. B. 410. Chenoweth. Requiring horsedrawn vehicles, and
all other vehicles propelled by muscular power to be equipped
with suitable lights to be shown between sunset and sunrise,
and to provide penalties for the violation of the provisions of
this Act.
S. B. 714. Stuckenbruck. Regulating the use, speed, moving
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or operating of vehicles and other subjects and contrivances
over and upon the highways and bridges of the State and fixing
the responsibility for injury to highways and bridges thereby,
prescribing the procedure for the issuance of permits relating
thereto by the appropriate public officers, and fixing the penalty
for the violations of the provisions of this Act.
A. B. 744. Scott, F. C. (by request). Identical with S, B. 714.
Stuckenbrucfk.
S. B. 878. Luce. Regulating the use, speed, moving or oper-
ating of vehicles and other objects and contrivances over and
upon the highways and bridges of the State and fixing the
responsibility for injury to highways and bridges thereby, pre-
scribing the procedure for the issuance of permits relating
thereto by the appropriate public officers, and fixing the
penalty for the violation of the provisions of this Act.
A. B. 534. Sharkey. Amending Section 13 of an Acf, ap-
proved May 31, 1913, to regulate the use and operation of
vehicles upon the public highways and elsewhere; to provide
for the registration and identification of motor vehicles and
for the payment of registration fees therefor; to provide for
the licensing of persons operating motor vehicles; to prohibit
certain persons from operating vehicles upon public highways;
to prohibit the possession or use of a motor vehicle without
the consent of the owner thereof, and to prohibit the offer
or acceptance by certain persons of any bonus or discount
or other consideration for the purchase of supplies or parts
for motor vehicles, or for work or repair done thereon; to
provide penalties for violations of provisions of this Act, and
to provide for the disposition of fines and forfeitures imposed
thereon; to provide for the disposition of registration and
license fees, fines and forfeitures collected hereunder; to
provide for carrying out the objects of this Act and to make
an appropriation and to create a revolving fund therefor; and
to repeal all Acts or parts of Acts either in conformity or in
conflict with this Act.
S. B. 502. Benedict. Amending Section 35 of an Act ap-
proved May 31, 1913, to regulate the use and operation of
vehicles upon the public highways and elsewhere; to provide
for the registration and identification of motor vehicles and
for the payment of registration fees therefor; to provide for
the licensing of persons operating motor vehicles; to prohibit
certain persons from operating vehicles upon the public high-
ways; to prohibit the possession or use of a motor vehicle
without the consent of the owner thereof, and to prohibit the
offer to or acceptance by certain persons of any bonus or dis-*
count or other consideration for the purchase of supplies or
parts for motor vehicles, or for work or repair done thereon;
to provide penalties for violations of provisions of this* Act,
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and to provide for the disposition of fines and forfeitures im-
posed thereon; to provide for the disposition of registration
and license fees, fines and forfeitures collected hereunder;
to provide for carrying out the objects of this Act and to
make an appropriation and to create a revolving fund there-
for; and to repeal all Acts or parts of Acts either in con-
formity or in conflict with this Act.
S. B. 285. Carr. Amending Section 36 of an Act approved
May 31, 1913, to regulate the use and operation of vehicles
upon the public highways and elsewhere; to provide for the
registration and identification of motor vehicles and for the
payment of registration fees therefor; to provide for the licens-
ing of persons operating motor vehicles; to prohibit certain
persons from operating vehicles upon the public highways; to
prohibit the possession or use of a motor vehicle without the
consent of the owner thereof, and to prohibit the offer to or
acceptance by certain persons of any bonus or discount or
other consideration for the purchase of supplies or parts for
motor vehicles, or for work or repair done thereon; to provide
penalties for violations of provisions of this Act, and to provide
for the disposition of fines and forfeitures imposed thereon;
to provide for the disposition of registration and license fees,
fines and forfeitures collected hereunder; to provide for carry-
ing out the objects of this Act and to make an appropriation
and to create a revolving fund therefor; and to repeal all Acts
or parts of Acts either in conformity or in conflict with this
Act, relating to disposition of fines.
A. B. 1155. Gebhart. Amending Section 36 of an Act,
approved May 31, 1913, to regulate the use and operation of
vehicles upon the public highways, relating to disposition of
fines.
S. B. 1118. Breed. To provide for the repayment to such
persons as are or may become entitled thereto of moneys by
them, or their assignors, paid to the State of California in con-
sequence of illegally imposed charges for the registration of
motor vehicles, or paid to the State by mistake or inadver-
tence in connection with the registration of such motor ve-
hicles, and thereafter deposited in the State Treasury to the
credit of the motor vehicle fund pursuant to the provisions of
Chapter 326 of California Statutes of 1913, approved May 31,
1913, and known as the "Motor Vehicle Act;" making an ap-
propriation for such purpose; prescribing certain duties with
respect thereto; and providing for the retention by the State
of proportionate deductions from the moneys which would
otherwise be apportioned to the several counties under the
provisions of said Motor Vehicle Act.
A. B. 1374. Mouser. Identical with S. B. 1118. Breed.
26.4. PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS.
(See Street Improvements; Public Improvements; Constitu-
tional Amendments; Public Improvements; Parks and Park-
ways.)
A. B. 41. Brown, H. W. Validating the organization and
incorporation of municipal corporations.
S. B. 228. Anderson. Identical with A. B. 41. Brown.
S. B. 1109. Flint. To validate the organization and incor-
poration of municipal corporations.
S. B. 203. Kehoe. Authorizing the incurring of indebtedness
by counties, cities and counties and incorporated cities and
towns for public improvements and the acquisition of public
utilities and regulating the procedure of acquiring the same.
A. B. 276. Brown, II. W. Authorizing any municipal cor-
poration, using the word "city"' in its corporate name, to
change such word to "town" and providing the procedure
therefor.
S, B. 110S. Flint. Identical with A. B. 276. Brown.
A. B. 400. Salisbury. Relating to municipal charters and
providing for cities having freeholder charters or charters
under the general laws of the State of California, to make and
enforce any and all general laws or regulations in respect to
municipal affairs, and to elect to proceed under such general
laws in lieu of the charter provisions.
S. B. 195. Stuckenbruck. Authorizing municipal corpora-
tions to permit other municipal corporations and counties to
construct and maintain sewers, water mains and other con-
duits, and pole lines for the transmission of electricity and
electric energy in, through, over, along and across its streets
and public places, and to construct and maintain sewers,
water mains and other conduits and pole lines for the trans-
mission of electricity and electric energy for their joint benefit
and at their joint expense, through, over, along and across
such streets and public places, and to make and enter into
contracts for such purposes, prescribing a method for com-
pelling such use of such streets and public places, and repeal-
ing an Act, approved March 22, 1909, authorizing municipal
corporations to permit other municipal corporations to con-
struct and maintain sewers, water mains, and other conduits
therein, also to construct and maintain sewers, water mains,
and other conduits for their joint benefit, and at their joint
expense, and to make and enter into contracts for said pur-
poses.
S. B. 123. Carr. Amending Section 4 of an Act approved
March 22, 1909, authorizing municipal corporations to permit
other municipal corporations to construct and maintain sewers,
water mains, and other conduits therein; also to construct
and maintain sewers, water mains, and other conduits for
PENDING LEGISLATION. 1915. '265
their joint benefit, and at their joint expense, and to make
and enter into contracts for said purposes, as amended, so as
to authorize the use of highways for the construction and
maintenance of sewers.
S. B. 517. Crowley. Granting municipal corporations of the
State of California the right to construct, operate and maintain
water and gas pipes, mains or conduits, electric light and
electric power lines, and telephone and telegraph lines, along
or upon any road, street, alley, avenue or highway, or across
any railway, canal, ditch or flume, and repealing an Act ap-
proved April 10, 1911. for the same purpose.
A. B. 662. Ryan. Identical with S. B. 517. Crowley.
S. B. 564. Benedict. Authorizing any municipality to incur
indebtedness by the issuance and sale of bonds for the pur-
pose of investing the proceeds arising from the sale thereof
in other bonds, evidences of debt or liens issued for public
improvements in said municipality.
A. B. 1.20. Fish. Identical with S. B. 564. Benedict.
S. B. 565. Benedict. Empowering municipal corporations to
secure and enforce payment of rates and charges for water,
gas or electricity furnished by them.
A. B. 915. Benton. To regulate the making of monthly
reports of itemized receipts and expenditures of public moneys
of incorporated cities in the State of California and to provide
for their publication.
A. B. 924. Manning. Authorizing any municipality in this
State to designate residence districts in such municipality
wheren only buildings for residences may be erected and
maintained, and to prohibit the creation and maintenance of
hotels, stores, factories, warehouses, undertaking or embalm-
ing establishments, dry-cleaning plants, public garages, stables,
tenement houses or apartment houses in such designated resi-
dence districts.
S. B. 928. Carr. Identical with A. B. 924. Manning.
A. B. 1125. Wills. To authorize municipal corporations of
the sixth class to abandon parks and sell and convey the land
embraced therein, and reinvest the proceeds from the sale
thereof.
A. B. 637. Burke. Amending Section 2 of an Act authoriz-
ing the incurring of indebtedness by cities, towns, and mu-
nicipal corporations for municipal improvements, and regulat-
ing the acquisition, construction or completion thereof, which
became a law under constitutional provision without Gov-
ernor's approval February 25th, 1909, as amended.
A. B. 189. Manning. Amending Section 2 of an Act author-
izing the incurring of indebtedness by cities, towns, and mu-
nicipal corporations for municipal improvements, and regulat-
ing the acquisition,- construction or completion- thereof, "which
266 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
became a law under the constitutional provisions without the
Governor's approval February 25, 1901, as subsequently
amended, relating to the proceedings for the calling of an
election therefor.
A. B. 1219. Fish. Amending Sections 2 and 3 of an Act
authorizing the incurring of indebtedness by cities, towns and
municipal corporations for municipal improvements, and regu-
lating the acquisition, construction or completion thereof;
which became a law under the constitutional provision without
the Governor's approval, February 25, 1901, as subsequently
amended, relating to the proceedings for the calling of an
election therefor and by adding a new section thereto to be
numbered Section 12%, relating to the consolidation of elections.
S. B. 1026. Benedict. Amending Sections 5. 7, 10, 11 and
14 of an Act, approved June 11, 1913, to provide for the con-
solidation of municipal corporations, and by adding a new
section thereto, to be numbered Section 13%, relating to cer-
tain non-contiguous municipal corporations.
A. B. 1247. McKnight. Identical with S. B. 1026. Benedict.
8. B. 1057. Breed. Amending Section 4 of an Act authoriz-
ing the incurring of indebtedness by cities, towns and munlc
ipal corporations for municipal improvements and regulating
the acquisition, construction or completion thereof, which
became a law under constitutional provision without the Gov-
ernor's approval February 15, 1901.
Excludes from 15 per cent debt limit indebtedness incurred
in purchase or original construction of public works for sup-
plying inhabitants with light, water, power, heat, transporta-
tion, telephone service or other means of communication.
S. B. 1058. Breed. Amending Section 5 of an Act approved
March 19, 1889, authorizing the incurring of indebtedness by
cities, towns and municipal corporations, incorporated under
the laws of this State, for the construction of waterworks,
sewers, and all necessary public improvements, or for any pur*
pose whatever, and to repeal the Act approved March 9, 1885,
entitled "An Act to authorize municipal corporations of the
fifth class, containing more than 3000 and less than 10,000 in-
habitants, to obtain waterworks," also to repeal an Act ap-
proved March 15, 1887, entitled "An Act authorizing the in-
curring of indebtedness by cities, towns and municipal cor-
porations, incorporated under the laws of this State."
Excludes from 15 per cent debt limit indebtedness incurred
in purchase or original construction of public works for sup-
plying inhabitants with light, water, power, heat, transporta-
tion, telephone service or other means of communication.
S. B. 1170. Butler. Amending Sections 2 and 3 of an Act
authorizing the incurring of indebtedness by cities, towns and
municipal corporations for municipal improvements, and regu-
P£NDIN£ .J^iSI&LAlTlQN, 0.915. 267
la ting the acquisition, construction &r completion thereof;
which became a law under the constitutional provision with-
out the Governor's approval, February 25, 1901, as subse-
quently amended, relating to the proceedings for the calling
of an election therefor and by adding a new section thereto
to be numbered Section 12%, relating to the consolidation of
elections.
B. B. 1150. Jones. Amending Section 3 of an Act approved
March 26, 1895, to provide for the disincorporation of munic-
ipal corporations of the sixth class, by providing for the taking
over and administering by counties of certain functions, powers
and property previously administered by municipalities that
have disincorporated.
S. B. irjS. Benedict. Authorizing municipal corporations
operating woiks for distributing and supplying water, gas or
electricity to their inhabitants to provide for levying a-rrd col-
lecting an annual assessment against property abutting on
such works and -which is or may be served therefrom, for the
purpose of operating, maintaining and improving such works.
A. B. 1283. McDonald, J. J. (by request). Authorizing mu-
nicipalities to declare noxious or dangerous weeds growing
upon the streets or sidewalks, or upon private property within
municipalities, to be a public nuisance, creating a lien upon
the property fronting upon such streets or sidewalks or upon
which such nuisance exists for the cost of abating the same.
S. B. 1188. Thompson. Identical with A. B. 1283. McDonald.
S. B. 908. Benedict. Authorizing any city, city and county,
county, town, municipality or other political subdivision to
acquire certain liens on property offered for sale for the non-
payment of certain assessments.
A. B. 1455. McKnight and Spengler. Authorizing any city,
city and county, county, town, municipality or other political
subdivision to acquire certain liens or property offered for
sale for the non-payment of certain assessments.
A. B. 445. Anderson. Amending Section 1 of an Act ap-
proved February 23, 1907, relating to senior rights of members
of paid police departments of counties, cities and counties,
cities or towns.
A. B. 825. '• Chamberlin. To regulate the salaries of certain
officers in the police departments within municipalities of the
first and second class in the State of California.
Fixes salary of captains of police at $2400 per annum each;
lieutenants, $1920; sergeants, $1680; patrolmen, $1464; patrol-
men assigned to detective service, $1740.
A/^B. 458. Manning (by request). To provide for the estab-
lishment, government, and maintenance of city planning com-
missions within municipalities, and prescribing their powers
and duties.
268 PENDING. LEGISLATION, 1915.
When one-fourth of the electors request by petition the
creation of a city planning commission, the legislative body
of any incorporated city or town must create one, consisting
of five members, to be appointed by the Mayor, one of whom
shall be a member of the legislative body, the City Attorney
and City Engineer to be members ex-officio; non-residents
shall be eligible to appointment. City planning commissions
shall have. -power to provide for regulating the future growth,
development and beautification of the municipality, and to
provide plans and make recommendations therefor, and to
approve or disapprove of maps, plats or subdivisions of lands
laid out in building lots.
S. B. 610. Carr. Identical with A. B. 458. Manning.
, , S. B. 813. Finn. To carry into effect the provisions of sub-
divisions 6 and 7 of. Section Sy2 of Article XI of the Constitution
of the State of California as the said section of said article
was amended on the third day of November in the year one
thousand nine hundred and fourteen; and also to provide for
the alteration of the boundaries of and for the annexation of
territory to consolidated cities and counties, for the incor-
poration of. such annexed territory in and as a part thereof,
and.for the government of such annexed territory as an integ-
ral part of such cities and counties.
A. B. 920. Ryan. Identical with S. B. 813. Finn.
S. B. 1169. Butler. Enabling any city or town maintaining
a free public swimming bath to take water therefor from a
public utility water ditch, and after such use to return the
. water to the ditch, provided the latter is not used for do-
mestic or municipal purposes.
A. B. 1388. Chenoweth (by request). Identical with S. B.
1169. Butler.
A. B. 1267. Encell. To regulate the building and occupancy
of dwelling houses in incorporated and unincorporated towns,
cities, cities and counties, and to provide penalties for the
.violation thereof.
S-.: B. 1138; Anderson. Identical with A. B. 1267. Encell.
S, B. 1025. Benedict. Amending Sections 1, 5, 6, 7 and. 11,
approved June 11, 1913, to provide for the alteration of the
boundaries of and for the annexation of territory to municipal
corporations, for the incorporation of such annexed territory
in and as a part thereof, and for the districting, government
and municipal control of such annexed territory.
A.:B. 1246. McKnight. Identical with S. B. 1015. Benedict,
A. B. 803. Encell. Adding Section iy2 (new) to an Act
entitled "An Act to provide for the alteration of the boundar-
ies of, and for the annexation of, territory to incorporated
towns and cities, -and for the incorporation of such annexed
territory in and as a part of such municipality, and- for the
PENDING LEGISLATION, . 1915. .269
districting, government and municipal control of annexed ter-
ritory", etc., relating to the levying of taxes for other than
school purposes.
S. B. 607. Carr. Adding Section 10% (new) to an Act
authorizing the incurring of indebtedness by cities, towns,
and municipal corporations for municipal improvements, and
regulating the acquisition, construction, or completion thereof,
which became a law under constitutional provision without
Governor's approval, February 25, 1901, relating to establishing
the validity of municipal bonds.
S. B. 618. Anderson. Amending Section 2 of an Act author-
izing the incurring of indebtedness by cities, towns and mu-
nicipal corporations for municipal improvements, and regulat-
ing the acquisition, construction or completion thereof, which
became a law under constitutional provision without Gover-
nor's approval February 25, 1909, as amended:
. S. B. 391. ; Lyon. . Providing. for a two-platoon system in the
fire .departments of cities having paid fire departments.-
A. B. 816. Phillips. Identical with S. B. 391. Lyon.
A. B. 981. Marron. Providing for a two-platoon system in
the fire departments of cities having paid fire departments.;
A. B. .1108. Marron. Relating to the qualifications of mem-
bers of paid fire departments of cities or cities and counties.
Provides that every regular or permanent member of a regu-
larly organized paid fire department shall be not less than 5
feet 6 inches in height and weigh not less than 135 pounds.
S. B. 635. Purkitt. Amending Section 3 of an Act, approved
March 4, 1881, as amended March 6, 1889, and April 21, 1909,
to allow unincorporated towns and villages to equip and main-
tain a fire department, and to assess and collect taxes from
time to time for such purpose, and to create a board of fire
commissioners.
A. B. 552. Scott. L. D. Amending an act, approved March
4, 1881; amended March 6, 1889, to amend an Act to allow
unincorporated towns and villages to equip and maintain a
fire department, and to assess and' collect taxes from time to
time for such purpose, and to create a board of fire com-
missioners.
MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS ACT.
• A. B. 913. Canepa. Adding Section 56a (new) to an Act,
approved March 13, 1883, to provide for the organization, in-
corporation and. government of municipal corporations, relating
to : night schools for aliens.
A. Br 1369. Meek. Amending Sections 7.51 and 752b of .an
Act, approved March 13, ;1883, as amended February 28yrl901,
and April lOj 1911, to provide for the organization, incorpora-
tion, and government of municipal corporations.
270 PENDINO LEGISLATION, 1915.
B. B. 1023. Anderson, Amending- Section 752 of an Act,
approved March 13, 1S83, to provide for the organization, in-
corporation and government of municipal corporations, re-
lating to the election and term of office of officers of cities
of the fifth class.
A. B. 390. Godsil. Amending Sections 752 and 852, and re-
pealing Sections 752b and 852b of an Act approved March 13,
1883, to provide for the organization, incorporation and gov-
ernment of municipal corporations.
S. B. 6Q6. Cair. Identical with A. B. 390. Godsil.
8. B. 1136. Anderson. Amending Section 764 of an Act ap-
proved March 13, 1883, and as amended March 23, 1901, and
March 3, 1905, to provide for the organization, incorporation
and government of municipal corporations, relating to the
powers of boards of trustees of cities of the fifth class.
A. B. 582. McPherson. Amending Section 765 of an Act,
approved March 13, 1883, to provide for the organization, in-
corporation and government of municipal corporations, relating
to the enacting clause of ordinances.
S. B. 685. Mott. Identical with A. B. 582. McPherson.
A. B. 1145. Edwards, R. G. Amending Section 777 of the
Municipal Corporations Act, relating to contracting for public
work in cities of the fifth class.
S. B. 1148. Mott. Amending Section 777 of an Act approved
March 13, 1883, to provide for the organization, incorporation
and government of municipal corporations, relating to con-
tracting for public work in cities of the fifth class.
S. B. 979. Duncan. Amending Section 789 of an Act ap-
proved March 13, 1883, to provide for the organization, incor-
poration and government of municipal corporations, relative to
the duties of city attorney in cities of the fifth class.
A. B. 1260. Rutherford. Amending Sections 806, 807 and 808
of an Act, approved March 13, 1883, to provide for the organi-
zation, incorporation and government of municipal corporations,
relating to recorders' courts in cities of the fifth class.
S. B. 77. King. Amending Sections 851 and 852 of the
Municipal Corporations Act, relating to officers of a munic-
ipality.
A. B. 1186. Phelps. Amending Section 852 of an Act ap-
proved March 13, 1883, providing for organization, incorpora-
tion and government of municipal corporations,
S. B. 110. Luce. Amending Subdivision 9 of Section 862 of
an Act approved March 13, 1883, to provide for the organiza-
tion, incorporation and government of municipal corporations,
relative to collection of property tax.
- S. B. 619. Anderson. Amending Section 862 of an Act, ap-
proved March 18, 1883, as amended, to provide for the organ!-
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915. 271
zation, incorporation and government of municipal corpora-
tions, relating to power and duties of boards of trustees.
A. B. 638. Burke. Amending Section 862 of an Act ap-
proved March 13, 1883, as amended, to provide for the organ-
ization, incorporation and government of municipal corpora-
tions.
S. B. 956. Benedict. Identical with A. B. 638. Burke.
A. B. 1207. Wright, T. M. Amending Section 862 of an
Act approved March 13, 1883, to provide for the organization,
incorporation and government of municipal corporations, and
all amendments thereto.
A. B. 583. McPherson. Amending Section 863 of an Act
to provide for the organization, incorporation and government
of municipal corporations.
S. B. 686. Mott. Identical with A. B. 583. McPherson.
A. B. 459. Manning (by request). Amending Section 875 of
an Act approved March 13, 1883, to provide for the organiza-
tion, incorporation, and government of municipal corporations,
as subsequently amended relating to the powers of the presi-
dent and presidents pro tern, of the boards of trustees of
cities of the sixth class.
S. B. 606. Carr. Identical with A. B. 459. Manning.
A. B. 389. Godsil. Amending Section 882 of an Act approved
March 13, 1S83, to provide for the organization, incorporation
and government of municipal corporations.
A. B. 1344. Rutherford. Amending Sections 882, 883 and
884 of an Act, approved March 13, 1883, to provide for the
organization, incorporation and government of municipal cor-
porations, relating to recorders' courts.
A. B. 1474. Rutherford. Amending Sections 882, 883 and
884 of an Act approved March 13, 1883. to provide for the
organization, incorporation and government of municipal cor-
porations, relating to recorder's courts.
NATIONAL GUARD.
(See also Political Code; Appropriations.)
S. B. 267. Scott. Amending an Act approved March 9, 1911,
authorizing the Governor of the State of California to issue
licenses to bodies of men to organize, drill, and bear arms as
military companies or organizations, and providing for their
control, by adding thereto two new sections to be numbered
Sections 2 and 3, providing for an allowance of $50 per month
for armory rent and proper and necessary incidental expenses,
and providing for such companies' means of target practice.
S. B. 865. Scott. Amending Sections 2, 3, 4, 5. 6, 7, 8, 9,
10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16 of an Act approved April 5, 1911,
to provide for the organization, control and equipment of
high school cadet companies, and for the promotion of rifle
272 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
practice therein, and appropriating the sum of $5000 therefor.
A. B. 1030. Edwards. Identical with S. B. 865. Scott.
NURSES AND NURSING.
S. B. 202. Benson. Authorizing county boards of super-
visors to employ visiting nurses.
A. B. 408. Avey. Identical with S. B. 202. Benson.
S. B. 821. Benedict. Amending Sections 2 and 3 of an Act
approved June 12, 1913, to promote the better education of
nurses and the better care of the sick in the State of Califor-
nia, to provide for and regulate the examination and regis-
tration of graduate nurses, and to provide for the issuance of
certificates of registration as registered nurses to qualified
applicants by the State Board of Health, and to repeal an Act
approved March 20, 1905, to promote the better education of
the practice 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 of the Board of
Regents of the University of California, and to provide pen-
alties for violation thereof, relating to examinations.
A. B. 932. Mouser. Identical with S. B. 821. Benedict.
S. B. 895. Birdsall. Amending an Act approved June 12, 1913,
to promote The better education of nurses and the better care of
the sick in the State of California, to provide for and regulate
the examination and registration of graduate nurses, and to
provide for the issuance of certificates of registration as
registered nurses to qualified applicants by the State Board of
Health, and to repeal an Act approved March 20, 1905, to
promote the better education of the practice 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 of the Board of Regents of the University of Cali-
fornia, and to provide penalties for violation thereof, by add-
ing a new section to be known as Section 12, limiting the
hours of employment Of female pupil or student nurses in
hospitals, prescribing penalties for the violation thereof, and
providing for the enforcement of the restrictions imposed.
Provides that in last year of course female student nurses,
when assigned as special nurses for cure of sick, may work
for periods not aggregating more than three months free from
restrictions.
A. B. 1111. Manning. Identical with S. B. 895. Birdsall.
OFFICERS, PUBLIC.
A. B. 383. Widenmann (by request). Providing an alterna-
tive system for the nomination and election of officers of cities
of the- fifth and sixth class and: providing for - the ' preferential
system -of voting at such elections. "•'-•. - .' * " ' -""•= "-'
PENDING DEGISLAITION, 1915. 273
OIL AND GAS.
S. B. 1103. Chandler. To prevent injury to oil, gas or
petroleum bearing strata or formations by the penetration or
infiltration of water therein, providing penalties for the vio-
lation thereof, and repealing an Act approved March 20, 1909,
to prevent injury to oil, gas or petroleum bearing strata or
formations by the penetration or infiltration of water therein.
S. B. 1104. Chandler. An Act to provide for the organiza-
tion and government of districts for the protection of lands
within this State producing or containing oil or gas from in-
jury or damage from the infiltration or intrusion of water
into the oil or gas-bearing strata in said lands.
S. B. 1146. Chandler. Requiring retail dealers in oils and
in gasoline and other inflammable fluids to display conspicu-
ously placards showing the quality and price thereof; provid-
ing for tests of such fluids, and prescribing penalties for
violation of the provisions hereof.
ORPHANS AND INDIGENT PERSONS.
(See also Children.)
A. B. 379. Kennedy. Concerning the custody, maintenance
and support of indigent, dependent and poor persons, orphans,
and half-orphans, and for the education of such persons and
other worthy persons, under twenty-one years of age; au-
thorizing and empowering the maintenance of funds therefor
in the county and State treasuries, to be derived from taxation
and private benefaction to be known as a "Children's Relief
Fund" and as a "Scholarship Fund," making appropriations
for a campaign to secure private benefactions, and for the
disposition of "transfer and collateral inheritence taxes" there-
for, authorizing gifts, bequests and devises therefor without
limitation, in trust or otherwise, and defining the powers and
duties of the Superior Court and board of supervisors in re-
lation to such persons and such funds.
A. B. 815. Wishard. Concerning the custody, maintenance
And support of indigent, dependent and poor persons, orphans
and half orphans, and for the education of such persons and
other worthy persons, under twenty-one years of age; fixing
the responsibility of parents and relatives, stepfathers and
fathers of illegitimate persons therefor, etc.
A. B. 787. Brown, H. W. Requiring relatives to support
dependent poor persons who are unable to earn a livelihood
in consequence of any bodily or mental infirmity, or other
unavoidable cause.
Boards of Supervisors are empowered to order the support
of such persons by relatives, it is provided that children
shall first be called upon to support 'their parents if the latter
are in need. If ' the person or persons requiring' aid have no
274 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
children who are capable of assisting them, then the parents
of such persons shall be required to give the necessary sup-
port. If this is impossible, the brothers or sisters of the
object of charity are made liable, and as a last resort the
grandchildren of the persons in question must take care of
them. In the event that a person is a pauper as a result of
intemperance or criminal tendencies, the act provides that
only the parents or the children of such a person will be
required to support them.
PARKS AND PARKWAYS,
A. B. 694. Quinn. Authorizing counties to acquire, estab-
lish and maintain public parks, and to incur indebtedness for
such purposes or improvements.
B, B. 205. Kehoe. Providing for the establishment of State
parks in the counties of California, providing for the issuance
of county and of State bonds in aid of the establishment of
such parks, and submission of such bond issues to a vote,
providing a method of acquiring such parks with or without
condemnation proceedings, and providing for the government
of such parks.
S. B. 125. Thompson. Providing for the planting, improv-
ing, care and maintenance of parkings and parkways in the
public streets, boulevards and highways of incorporated cities.
A. B. 143. Wright. Identical with S. B. 125. Thompson.
A. B. 1073. Encell. To provide for the acquisition by
municipalities of land for public park, public play ground or
public library purposes by condemnation, and for the estab-
lishment of assessment districts and the assessment of prop-
erty therein to pay the expenses of acquiring such land .
PAROLE AND PARDON.
S. B. 55. Finn. Providing for the discharge and restora-
tion of citizenship of paroled prisoners from State prisons.
S. B. 961. Thompson. Creating an Advisory Pardon Board;
defining and prescribing the powers and duties thereof; and
making an appropriation therefor.
Provides that all applications for pardons shall be submitted
to the Advisory Pardon Board, to consist of the Lieutenant-
Governor, Attorney- General and the wardens of the two State
Prisons. This board shall meet at the State Capitol at least
once every two months and at such other times as may be
necessary. Upon request of the Governor the board shall in-
vestigate and report on all applications for reprieves, pardons
and commutations and shall -make such recommendations to
the Governor as may seem advisable, and to that end may
examine all evidence and records and call and examine wit-
nesses. An appropriation of $5000 is provided.
PENDINa LEGISLATION, 1315. 275
A. B. 121§. Fish. Amending an Act, approved June 16, 1913,
to establish a Board of Parole Commissioners for the parole
of and government of paroled prisoners, and repealing an Act
to amend an Act, approved March 23, 1893, to establish a
Board of Parole Commissioners for the parole of and govern-
ment of paroled prisoners, by adding thereto Section IV2. relat-
ing to the granting of paroles and the forfeiture of credits
for the violation thereof or of a law of the State or any rule
or regulation of the prison, of the Board of Prison Directors
or Of the Board of Parole Commissioners.
S. B. 1059. Gerdes. identical with A. B. 1218. Pish.
PAWNBROKERS.
(See Brokers.)
PENSIONS.
A. B. 96. Bruck. Creating a board of retirement to keep,
invest, maintain, and control a certain fund for the payment
of benefits and annuities to the officers and employees of the
Napa State Hospital, Stockton State Hospital, Agnews State
Hospital, Mendocino State Hospital, Southern California State
Hospital, and the Sonoma State Home; providing for the
creation of said fund, investments thereof, the payments to be
made therefrom, and for the general government of said board
of retirement.
S. B. 239. Rush. Identical with A. B. 96. Bruck.
A. B. 1166. Edwards, L. Similar to A. B. 96, Bruck, and
S. B. 239, Rush.
S. B. 212. Maddux. Amending Section 13 of an Act, ap-
proved June 16, 1913, providing for the payment of retirement
salaries to public school teachers of this State; creating a
public school teachers' retirement salary fund, and also a public
school teachers' permanent fund, providing for the administra-
tion Of such funds, and making an appropriation for the uses
of said funds, prescribing what teachers are entitled to retire-
ment salaries.
S. B. 4?0. Breed. Amending Section 15 of an Act approved
June 16, 1913, to provide for the payment of retirement salaries
to the public school teachers of this State; creating a public
school teachers' retirement salary fund, and also a public
school teachers' permanent fund, providing for the administra-
tion of such funds, and making an appropriation for the uses
of said funds.
Makes service as teacher, with or Without certificate in State
Normal School or California School for Deaf and Blind equiva-
lent to service under legal certificate in a day or evening
school and time of such Service shall be reckoned in deter-
mining right to retirement salaries under provisions of Sections
13 and 14 of this Act.
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A. B. 421). Rominger. Identical with S. B, 470. Breed.
A. B. 364. Sisson. Amending Section 16 of an Act approved
June 16, 1913, to provide for the payment of retirement salaries
to public school teachers of this State; creating a public
school teachers' retirement salary fund, and also a public
school teachers' permanent fund, providing for the administra-
tion of such funds, and making an appropriation for the uses
of said funds.
Adds provision that time of service for purpose of this Act
if a teacher has taught some part of each of thirty school
years and the aggregate number of months taught, number 30
years, is equivalent to an average of the number of months
fixed as minimum for full years teaching by board, such
teacher shall be adjudged to have taught required time within
meaning of Act.
A. B. 472. Wright. Identical with iS. B. 470. Breed.
A. B. 739. Kerr. Amending Section 17 and 18 of an Act ap-
proved June 13, 1913, to provide for the payment of retire-
ment salaries to public school teachers of this State; creating
a public school teachers' retirement salary fund, and also a
public school teachers' permanent fund, providing for the
administration of such funds, and making an appropriation
for the uses of said funds, by including all teachers employed
in the Preston School of Industry, the Whittier State School
and the California School for Girls, who on or before Janu-
ary 1, 1916, sign the notification provided for.
A. B. 627. Rlgdon. Adding Section 21a (new) to an Act
approved June 16, 1913, to provide for the payment of ^retire-
ment salaries to public school teachers of this State, creating
a public school teachers' retirement salary fund, and also a
public school teachers', permanent fund, providing for the- ad-
ministration'of such' funds, and "making an appropriation for
the use of said fund, making said Act applicable to teachers
of the California Polytechnic School.
A. B. 805. Encell. Providing for resignation and retirement
with half pay, after thirty years of service, of justices of the
Supreme Court, and District Court of Appeal, and judges of
the Superior Court.
A. B. 1483. Byrnes. Creating a fund for the payment of dis-
ability benefits and annuities for disabled professional ball
players, and establishing a board of retirement for the admin-
istration of said fund.
Provides for the appointment by the Governor of a board of
three members, to serve without pay, and to be known as the
"State Retirement Board". Any professional baseball player
who has played for fifteen years or more in the Coast League
and for. at least ten consecutive years with one club-, of the
league, and who has been disabled in the practice of his pro-
PENDING LEGISLATION,- 1915. . 277
fessipn shall, so long as such disability lasts,, be paid monthly
from the fund of the retirement board a sum amounting to
. 50 per cent of his salary, but not to exceed $100 a month.
This pension is to be paid from a "disability benefit and an-
nuity fund" to be created by gifts and bequests.
PHARMACY.
S. B. 827. Campbell. Amending Section 13 of an Act ap-
proved March 20, 1905, to regulate the practice of pharmacy
in the State of California, and to provide a penalty for the
violation thereof; and for the appointment of a board to be
known as the California State Board of Pharmacy.
S. B. 708. Shearer (by request). Amending Section 16 of an
Act, approved March 20, 1905, and amended March 21, 1907,
and April 21, 1909, to regulate the practice of pharmacy' in the
State of California, and to provide a penalty for the violation
thereof; and for the appointment of a board to be known as
tire California State Board of Pharmacy.
A. B. 632." Chamberlin. Amending Section 16 of an Act
approved' March ' 20, 1905, and amended March 21, 1907,
and April 21, 1909, to 'regulate the practice of phar-
macy in the State of California, and to provide a penalty for
the violation thereof; and for the appointment of a board to
be known as the California State Board of Pharmacy, relat-
ing to drugs, chemicals, medicines and remedies that may be
sold by grocers and dealers generally without restrictions, and
without fee, permit or license.
S. B. 834. Conn. Identical with A. B. 632. Chamberlin.
A. B. 770. Encell. Amending Section 16 of an A.ct, ap-
proved March 20, 1905, and amended March 21, 1907, and April
21, 1909, to regulate the practice of pharmacy in the Statte
of California, and to provide a penalty for the violation thereof;
and for the appointment of a board to be known as the
California State Board of Pharmacy.:
POISONS.
S. B. 145. Scott. Amending Section 7 of an Act to regulate
the sale and use of poisons in the State of California, and pro-
viding a penalty for the violation thereof, approved March 6,
1907, as the title of said Act and said Act were amended
March 19, 1909, and as said Act was amended April 25, 1911,
and as said Act was amended June 11, 1913, relating to pen-
alties.
>A. B. 589. Lyon. Amending Section 7 of an Act , -approved
March 6, 1907, amended March 19, 1909, amended April 25,
1911, amended June 11, 1913, to regulate the sale and use of
poisons in the State of California, and providing a penalty
for the violation thereof, relating to penalties.
278 .FSXDIN& I.&&mLATI0N, 1915.
S. B. "112u. Crowley. Amending Sections 7, -8, 8a, Sb, 8d
and 9 of an Act approved March 6, 1907; approved March 19,
1909; approved April 25, 1911; approved June 11, 1913, to regu-
late the sale and use of poisons in the State of California and
providing- a penalty for the violation thereof.
A. B. 899. Gebhart. Amending Sections 8 and 8a of an Act,
approved March 6, 1907, as the title of said Act and said Act
was amended April 25, 1911, as amended June 11, 1913, to
regulate the sale and use of poisons in the State of California,
and providing a penalty for the violation thereof.
PRISON-S AND PRISONERS.
(See alsu Parole and Pardon.)
S. B. <oSu. Finn. Authorizing the State Board of Prison Direc-
tors to fix the price, terms and conditions of sale at "Which jute
bags should be sold for the State, providing for the prosecu-
tion and punishment for offenses under the same, and repeal-
ing an Act, approved June 16, 1913, fixing the price, terms
and conditions of sale at ^which jute goods shall be sold by the
State, and providing for prosecution and punishment for of-
fenses under the same, and all Acts or parts of Acts in conflict
herewith.
A. B. 723. Chenoweth. Identical with S. B. 680, Finn.
S. B. 860. Brown. Authorizing the State Board of Prison
Directors to make and enforce rules and regulations to estab-
lish and maintain an earning system to apply to the inmates
of State prisons engaged in productive activity, and making
an appropriation to carry out the provisions of this Act.
A. B. 599. Wright. Appropriating money to continue in
effect an Act approved June 14, 1913, to authorize the State
Board Of Prison Directors to provide for assisting paroled and
discharged prisoners and to secure employment for the same
and "making an appropriation for that purpose.
A. B. 1342. Canepa. Prohibiting the photographing or mak-
ing of likenesses of any person arrested for the commission
of a crime until such person has been convicted of crime
-charged, and declaring violation a misdemeanor.
PROTECTION DISTRICTS.
• S. B. 499. Benedict. To provid-e for the formation, organ-
ization and government of protection districts in the various
counties of this State, for the improvement and rectification
of the channels of innavigable streams and water courses,
canyons, washes and swales, for the purpose of saving and
conserving any storm water, flood water or snow "water "for
beneficial and useful purposes, for the prevention of the over-
flow thereof by widening, deeping and straightening and
otherwise improving the said channels, and by constructing
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915. 279
new channels, for the condemnation of property therefor, and
for the construction of the necessary works for the protection
against, and conservation of said storm, flood or snow waters
by said district, and for the issuance of bonds representing
the costs and expenses thereof, and for levying assessments
to pay the interest and principal of such bonds, and for
levying an assessment to extend, repair or maintain such
work.
Bi B. 251. Stuckenbruck. Providing the manner in which
protection districts may be dissolved.
.Majority of holders of title to real property in district may
join in petition for dissolution; board of supervisors to fix
time for hearing, not less than ten nor more than thirty days
after receipt of petition, and shall publish notice by one pub-
lication in newspaper at least five days before date of hearing.
At time appointed supervisors shall hear and grant such peti-
tion if signed by majority in number of holders of title to
property, and shall by ordinance or resolution order such dis-
trict dissolved. If there be any bonded or other indebtedness
outstanding at time of dissolution taxes for payment thereof
shall be levied and collected as though district not dissolved.
S. B. 729. Chandler. Providing for the formation and con-
duct of oil protection districts, qualification of voters, election
of trustees, their powers and duties, establishment of office,
levying tax, disposition of funds, and specifying duties of land
or well owners and further providing for dissolution of districts.
PRODUCE EXCHANGE COMMISSION.
S. B. 989. Maddux. To provide for the organization of the
State Produce Exchange Commission, to define its powers and
duties and the rights and privileges of producers of agricul-
tural, horticultural, dairy and farm products, and products
manufactured or processed therefrom, which shall be grown,
raised, produced, processed, or manufactured within the State
of California, and to provide a penalty for the offense of using
or imitating the State brand or label adopted by such commis-
sion, and appropriating money for establishing and carrying
out the provisions of this Act, creating the "State Produce
Exchange Fund", and providing for the manner in which
money shall be placed therein and paid therefrom, and appro-
priating the moneys therein to carry out the provisions of this
Act, and to provide that subsequent legislation by the Legis-
lature may be enacted to facilitate the operation of this Act,
but without limiting or restricting its provisions, and to repeal
all Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions of
this Act.
Provides for handling of horticultural, dairy and farm pro-
ducts and manufactures by the State. Offices are to be estab-
280 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
lished in San Francisco and Los Angeles and distributing
stations throughout the State. Five commissioners are to
govern the exchange, at salaries of $6000 a year, with an
attorney at $4000 and a secretary at $3600. It is planned to
make the exchange self-supporting.
A. B. 818. Spengler. To provide for the organization of the
State Produce Exchange Commission, to define its powers and
duties and the rights and privileges of producers of agri-
cultural, horticultural, dairy and farm products, and products
manufactured or processed therefrom, which shall be grown,
raised, produced, processed, or manufactured; and to pro-
vide a penalty for the offense of using or imitating the State
brand or label adopted by such commission, and appropriating
money for establishing and carrying out the provisions of
this Act, creating the "State Produce Exchange Fund", and
providing for the manner in which money shall be placed
therein and paid therefrom, and appropriating the moneys
therein to carry out the provisions of this Act, and to repeal
all Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions of
this Act.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
S. B. 234. Jones. Repealing an Act, approved April 1, 1872,
relating to the erection of public buildings* and structures.
S. B. 711. Cogswell. Repealing an Act, approved April 1,
1872, to regulate the erection of public buildings and structures.
A. B. 1226. Fish. Repealing an Act, approved April 1, 1872,
to regulate the erection of public buildings and structures.
PUBLIC DEFENDER.
(See Defender, Public; Legal Aid.)
PUBLIC HEALTH AND SANITATION.
(See also Hospitals and Nurses; Cattle and Livestock.)
S. B. 10. Flaherty. To protect the health of persons em-
ployed in handling Portland cement, by requiring such cement
to be packed in paper sacks or other dust-proof containers,
and empowering the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor
Statistics to prevent the loading or unloading of same from
vessels or cars; makes it a misdemeanor to violate this act
or the order of the Commissioner, the punishment being a
fine of not less than $50 nor more than $200 or by imprison-
ment not more than 60 days or both; in the case of corpora-
tions, imprisonment shall be inflicted upon the officers order-
ing or permitting the violation.
A. B. 14. McDonald. Identical with S. B. 10. Flaherty.
" ' A. B. "4. Canepa." Relative to 'the furnishing of drinking
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915. 281,
water and individual drinking cups on passenger trains of
railroad corporations, and providing penalties therefor.
Requires furnishing of drinking water and individual cups
free to passengers on cars or trains running 20 miles or more.
Violation punishable by fine of not less than $25 for each trip
made by car transporting passengers and not provided with
water and cups. (A. B. 418. Canepa. "Pending Legislation,
1913," p. 446.)
S. B. 409. Gerdes. To regulate bakeries; to provide for in-
spection, regulation and control thereof by the Commissioner
of the Bureau of Labor Statistics; and prohibiting the opera-
tion of bakeries without sanitary certificates as herein pro-
vided.
A. B. 535. Collins. Identical with S. B. 409. Gerdes.
S. B. 410. Crowley. Defining mattresses; regulating the
making, remaking, and sale thereof; prohibiting the use of
unsanitary and unhealthy materials therein; requiring that
materials used shall be accurately described, and the percent-
age of materials used in each mattress stated, and prescribing
the manner in which mattresses shall be labelled; and making
the violation of any of the provisions of thi«« Act a misdemeanor,
and repealing legislation inconsistent with this Act.
A. B. 526. Godsil. Identical with S. B. 410. Crowley.
S. B. 403. Beban. Requiring employers of labor to furnish,
without charge, pure drinking water to their employees during
working hours, to which access shall be permitted at reason-
able and convenient times and places; violation a misdemeanor,
punishable by fine of not less than $25 or more than $100, or by
imprisonment not more than 30 days, or both.
A. B. 524. McDonald, J. J. Identical with S. B. 403. Beban.
A. B. 47. Schmitt. Amending Sections 3 and 5 of an
Act, approved March 6, 1909, providing for the sanitation of
food-producing establishments, places where food is stored,
prepared, kept or manufactured and in which food is dis-
tributed; regulating the health of persons by whom the
material from which food is prepared or the finished product
is handled ; providing for the inspection of such places, per-
sons and things.
A. B. 431. Chamberlin. Repealing an Act approved April
25, 1913, regulating the cleaning, laundering, sale, offering for
sale, and furnishing for use to employees, of wiping rags;
authorizing counties, cities and counties, cities and towns, to
enact ordinances prohibiting the cleaning, laundering, steriliz-
ing and sale of wiping rags without a permit, and to issue and
revoke permits to clean, launder, and sell wiping rags within
their respective jurisdictions; authorizing peace and health
officers to make inspections of wiping rags, and making viola-
tions of this Act a misdemeanor.
282 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
A. B. 540. Prendergast. Providing a minimum standard
of sanitation for all labor camps, making an appropriation
to carry out the provisions hereof, and repealing Acts incon-
sistent herewith.
S. B. 903. Benedict. Identical with A. B. 540. Prendergast.
A. B. 564. Godsil (by request). Relating to public health
and safety and providing for the regulation and inspection of
hotels and public lodging houses, empowering the State Board
of Health to make rules and regulations in relation thereto and
providing penalties for the violation thereof.
Defines "hotel" as any building or structure kept, used,
maintained or advertised as a place where sleeping accommo-
dations are furnished for pay to transient guests whether
with or without meals; requires every hotel more than two
stories high to have a hall on each floor extending from outer
wall to outer wall with an opening at each end connecting
with an iron fire escape on the outside of the building, marked
with a red light to be kept burning all night; and an auto-
matic gong located near the center of the building on each
floor, operated from the office or ground floor. In all hotels
of fifty or more rooms a watchman shall be employed from
9 p. m. to 6 a. m., who shall patrol the building every hour;
specifies the method of erecting fire escapes; there shall be
at least one efficient chemical fire extinguisher on each floor
for 1500 square feet, or less, of floor area; in lieu thereof
hotels in cities shall be equipped with a not less than two-
inch stand pipe with two-inch hose connection on each floor
writh sufficient two-inch hose to throw water into every room;
requires all elevator shafts to be enclosed sheathing, with
tight, automatic doors at each floor. Proper sanitary plumbing
shall be installed; guests shall be supplied with clean sheets
of sufficient width and length to reach the entire width and
length of the bed, writh the uppor sheet to be not less than
90 inches long; clean pillow slips and clean individual towels
shall also be supplied; all parts of hotels shall be kept clean
and all sleeping places shall be disinfected once every three
months; a public wash room shall be maintained with suf-
ficient clean towels in sight at all times for use of guests;
all places where food is prepared, kept or served shall be
kept clean and in a sanitary condition.
State Board of Health authorized to make rules and regu-
lations necessary to make Act effective; chief food and drug
inspector and his assistants, the county health officer, the city
health officer and the fire marshal of each city constituted
hotel inspectors; any person in charge of a hotel who violates
this Act and any person hindering, inspectors in discharge
of their duties shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable
by fine of not less than $10 nor more than $100.
PENDING; LEGISLATION, 1915. - 285
A. R 597. Wright. To prevent the introduction, and pro-
vide for the investigation and suppression of contagious or
infectious diseases, and appropriating $50,000 to be used for
such purposes.
S. B. 796. Campbell. Amending Sections 1 and 2 of an Act,
approved June 13, 1913, relating to cold storage, the regulation
of refrigerating warehouses^ the disposition or sale of food
kept or preserved therein, and defining the duties of the State
Board of Health in relation thereto, both relating to cold
storage.
A. B. 846. Scott, F. C. Identical with S. B. 796. Campbell.
A. B. 988. Gebhart. To provide for th_e establishment and
maintenance of a department of sanitary engineering under
the directions of the State Board of Health and appropriating
$30,000 therefor.
S. B. 999. Scott. To regulate the retinting and repapering
of any house or building, or portion thereof, which is occupied
by human beings, or intended or designed for human habita-
tion; allowing health and peace officers to make inspection of
such buildings, and making violations of this Act a mis-
demeanor.
Requires all old tint or paper to be removed from walls.
S. B. 616. Gerties. Amending Sections 3 and 5 of an Act,
approved March 6, 1909, providing for the sanitation of food-
producing establishments, places where food is stored, prepared,
kept or manufactured and in which food is distributed; regu-
lating the health of persons by whom the materials from
which food is prepared or the finished product is handled; pro-
viding for the inspection of such places, persons and things;
declaring places and things in violation of this Act to be a
nuisance, dangerous to health and providing for the abatement
of the same; making violations of this Act misdemeanors; and
providing for the punishment of the same.
A. B. 136S. Meek. To provide for the formation of dis-
tricts to facilitate the extermination of mosquitos and flies.
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS.
S. B. 793. Benedict. To provide for the formation of dis-
tricts within municipalities for the acquisition or construction
of public improvements, works and public utilities therein;
for the issuance, sale and payment of bonds of such districts
to meet the cost of such improvements; and for the acquisition
or construction of such improvements.
S. B. 1172. Butler. Authorizing any county and cities with-
in such county to join in the acquisition, construction or
maintenance of bridges or viaducts.
A. B. 1232. Fish. Authorizing any county and cities within
284 FENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
such county to join in the acquisition, construction or main-
tenance of bridges or viaducts.
A. B. 449. Ashley. Relating- to the time for performance oi
improvement work under a contract of sale, lease or transfer
of real estate.
PUBLIC LANDS.
A. B. 71. Conrad. Provides for leasing public lands to set-
tlers and prescribing the terms and conditions of leases so
made, empowerng boards of supervisors to make improve-
ments and to purchase land when necessary to supply the
demand for such leases, and directing that all receipts be
paid into a "Land for Settlement Fund" in the office a? the
County Treasurer.
S. B. 255. Benedict. Repealing an Act, approved March
20, 1909, to authorize the State of California to release and
convey to the United States such portions of the sixteenth
and thirty-sixth sections of land contained in the Cleveland
National Forest, formerly San Jacinto forest reserve (and
referred to in that certain Act entitled "An Act to authorize
the settlement of an existing controversy between the United
States of America and the State of California, and making
an appropriation to carry out the provisions of said Act",
approved March 21, 1907), as may remain after the settlement
referred to in said Act has been consummated, for the pur-
pose of reimbursing the United States for lands surrendered
to it by the State and which said lands so surrendered were
thereafter sold and patented by said State.
A. B. 476. Fish. Identical with S. B. £55. Benedict.
A. B. 286. Browne. Authorizing the issuance of letters pat-
ent to P. W. Fahey for certain swamp and overflowed land in
Tuolumne county, California.
A. B. 769. Dennett (by request). Authorizing the Surveyor-
General of the State of California to consent to the provisions
of the Act of Congress approved July 17, 1914, entitled "An Act
to provide for agricultural entry of lands withdrawn, classified,
or reported as containing phosphate, nitrate, potash, oil, gas
or asphaltic minerals".
A. B. 903. Gebhart. Providing for the preferential rights of
certain persons to purchase public lands of the State.
S. B. 905. Benedict. To authorize the Surveyor-General of
the State of California to relinquish certain lieu lands to the
United States.
A. B. 1222. Fish. Identical with S. B. 905. Benedict.
S. B. 906. Benedict. Providing for the sale of certain State
lands.
A. B. 1221. Fish. Identical with S. B. 906. Benedict.
S. B. 1105. Slater. Authorizing the sale of certain property
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915. 285
belonging to the State of California, and located in what is
known, as Reclamation District 1600 in Yolo County.
S. B." 1117. Breed. An Act for making restitution to the per-
sons who are or may become entitled thereto in accordance
with the provisions of Sections 3408d, 3571 and 3572 of the
Political Code of the principal sums by them, or by their re-
spective predecessors in interest, paid to the State of Cali-
fornia and thereafter deposited in the State Treasury to the
credit of the State School Land Fund pursuant to law, prescrib-
ing certain duties of the Register of the State Land Office,
the State Controller and the State Treasurer with respect
thereto", and making an appropriation for such purpose.
'■ A! B. 1377. Wright, H. W. Identical with S. B. 1117. Breed.
S\ B. 1119. Breed. To provide ^or making restitution to the
persons who are or may become entitled thereto, in accord-
ance with the provisions of Sections 3571 and 3572 of the Polit-
ical Code, of the sums by them, or by their respective prede-
cessors in interest, paid to the State of California as interest
upOn the unpaid balance of the purchase price of lands wrong-
fully sold, or to which the State is unable to pass title, and
thereafter deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of
the State school fund pursuant to law; prescribing certain
duties of the Register of the State Land Office, the State Con-
troller and the State Treasurer with respect thereto; and
making an appropriation for such purpose.
A. B. 1378. Wright, H. W. Identical with S. B. 1119. Breed.
PUBLIC MONEY.
(See Banking.)
A. B. 1106. Shartel. Amending Section 1 of an Act ap-
proved March 23, 1907, to provide for and regulate the de-
posit of county and municipal moneys in banks and banking
corporations, limiting the amount of public moneys that may
be deposited therein, and providing a penalty for the illegal
deposit and use thereof.
Requires the payment of at least two per cent per annum
interest.
A. B. 1465. Lostutter. Amending Section 1 of an Act ap-
proved March 23, 1907, to provide for and regulate the deposit
of county and municipal moneys in banks and banking cor-
porations, limiting the amount of public moneys that may be
deposited therein, and providing a penalty for the illegal de-
posit and use thereof
S. B. 566. Benedict. Amending Sections 2 and 7 of an Act,
approved March 23, 1907, to provide for and regulate the
deposit of county and municipal moneys in banks and bank-
ing corporations, limiting the amount of public moneys that
286 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
may be deposited therein, and providing a penalty for the
illegal deposit and use thereof.
A. B. 1241. Wishard (by request). Identical with S. B. 566.
Benedict.
S. B. 1099. Duncan. Amending Section 2 of an Act, ap-
proved March 23, 1907, to provide for and regulate the deposit
of county and municipal moneys in banks and banking cor-
porations, limiting the amount of public moneys that may be
deposited therein, and providing a penalty for the illegal deposit
and use thereof, relating to rate of interest.
A. B. 907. Sisson. To provide for the deposit of the funds
in the county treasury, for the presentation to, and approval
by the Board of Supervisors, registration, interest upon, time
of payment and receipt in payment of assessment of war-
rants, etc.
A. B. 628. Dennett. Amending Section 1 of an Act pro-
viding for the designation of money in the State Treasury as
surplus money, authorizing the investment and reinvestment
of such money in certain classes of bonds, directing the dis-
posal of interest or premium received therefrom and permit-
ting the subsequent sale or exchange of the bonds so pur-
chased, so as to authorize the investment thereof in bonds of
irrigation districts.
A. B. 63.0. Dennett. Amending Section 1 of an Act author-
izing the investment and reinvestment and disposition of any
surplus moneys in the territory of any county, city and
county or incorporated city or town.
Authorizes investment of surplus moneys in bonds of school
or irrigation districts.
A. B. 1109. Shartel. Authorizing the loaning and deposition
of surplus moneys in the treasury of any county, city and
county, or incorporated city or town.
Provides for loan of surplus moneys to any person or per-
sons upon being secured therefor by first mortgages on real
estate. Sum so loaned not to exceed 20 per cent of the value
of said real estate which must be situated within limits of
such county, city and county, or incorporated city or town.
PUBLIC OFFICERS
S. B. 1121. Luce. Amending Section 1 of an Act approved
April 26, 1911, relating to the liability of public officers for
damages resulting from defects and dangers in streets, high-
ways, public buildings, public work or property.
A. B. 1415. Scott, F. C. Identical with S. B. 1121. Luce.
S. B. 1152. Benedict. Authorizing the transfer of certain
powers, duties and functions of certain cities and officers
thereof to the officers of counties in which any such city is
located.
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PUBLIC UTILITIES, ACQUISITION OF.
A. B. 1254. Manning. To facilitate the purchase by munici-
palities of existing public utility plants at valuation fixed by
agreement of by the Railroad Commission of the State of Cali-
fornia.
S. B. 600. Carr. To provide for submitting to the qualified
electors of every city and county, or incorporated city or town,
in this State, the question whether such city and county, or
incorporated city or town, shall retain powers of control
vested therein respecting all or any public utilities, and to
provide for elections thereafter to surrender such powers of
control in case the qualified electors of any such city and
county, or incorporated city or town, shall have voted to
retain such powers of control.
A. B. 677. Avey. Identical with S. B. 600. Carr.
A. B. 943. Harris. Declaring corporations, individuals and
associations of individuals engaged in developing or produc-
ing, refining, buying and selling or transporting crude petrol-
eum or any of its products, a public utility, and providing for
the regulation thereof.
PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICTS.
S. B. 884. Breed. An Act providing for the incorporation
of public utility- districts by municipalities and unincorporated
territory, authorizing such districts to incur bonded indebted-
ness for the purpose of the constructon of works and the
acquisition of property, and to levy and collect taxes to pay
the principal and interest on bonds and for carrying on their
operations, and providing for the powers, management and
government of such districts.
A. B. 1261. Satterwhite. To provide for the incorporation
and organization of public utility districts, authorizing such
districts to incur bonded indebtedness for the purpose of the
construction of works and the acquisition of property, and to
levy and collect taxes to pay the principal and interest on
bonds and for carrying- on their operations, and providing for
the powers, management and government of such districts and
to amend an Act entitled as above, approved June 5, 1913.
PURE FOOD AND DRUG ACTS.
A. B. 792. Schmitt. Amending Sections 9 and 22 of an Act
approved March 11, 1907, for preventing the manufacture, sale
or transportation of adulterated, mislabeled or misbranded
foods and liquors and regulating the traffic therein, provid-
ing penalties, establishing a State laboratory for foods, etc.,
relating to the State laboratory for the analysis and examina-
tion of foods and drugs.
28.8 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
B. B. 817. Cogswell. Identical with A. B. 792. Schmitt.
S. B. 812. Rush. Amending- Section 21 of an Act, approved
March 11, 1907, for the prevention of the manufacture, sale
or transportation of adulterated, mislabeled or misbranded
drugs, regulating the traffic in drugs and providing penalties
for violation thereof, relating to the establishment of a guar-
anty by the dealer from the wholesaler.
A. B. 847. Scott, F. C. Identical with S. B. 812. Rush.
A. B. 1040. Scott, F. C. Identical with S. B. 812. Rush.
S. B. 1048. Thompson. Amending Section 21 of an Act ap-
proved March 11, 1907, for the prevention of manufacture, sale
or transportation of adulterated, mislabeled or misbranded
drugs, regulating the traffic in drugs and providing penalties
for violation thereof, relating to guarantee by wholesaler,
jobber or manufacturer, etc.
S. B. in 16. Thompson. Amending Section 22 of an Act for
preventing the manufacture, sale or transportation of adulter-
ated, mislabeled, or misbranded foods and liquors and regulat-
ing the traffic therein, providing penalties, establishing a State
laboratory for foods, liquors and drugs and making an appro-
priation therefor, approved March 11, 1907, as amended by an
Act entitled "An Act to amend Sections 20 and 22 of an Act
entitled 'An Act for preventing the manufacture, sale or trans-
portation of adulterated, mislabeled or misbranded foods and
liquors and regulating the traffic therein, providing penalties,
establishing a State laboratory for foods, liquors and drugs
and making an appropriation therefor,' approved March 11,
1907," which amendatory Act was approved April 26, 1911,
relating to guarantees by wholesalers, Jobbers or manu-
facturers.
A. B. 1037. Scott. Amending Section 22 of an Act for pre-
venting the manufacture, sale or transportation of adulter-
ated, mislabeled or misbranded foods and liquors and regu-
alting the traffic therein, etc.
A. B. 1147. Gebhart. Amending an Act for preventing the
manufacture, sale or transportation of adulterated, mislabeled
or misbranded foods and liquors, and regulating the traffic
therein, providing penalty, establishing a State laboratory for
foods, liquors and drugs, and making an appropriation there-
for, by adding a new paragraph to be numbered 10, to Section
4 thereof, providing "If meat or meat products contain or are
colored with analine colors".
PURE PRODUCTS,
A. B. 184. Boude. Regulating the sale of eggs that have
been shipped or imported into the State of California from
any point or place outside of the State of California, requiring
the marking thereof by all persons selling or offering the same
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for sale, and fixing penalties fur the violation of the same or
of any of the provisions thereof.
A. B. 185. Boude. Regulating the sale or food and drink,
the ingredients of which are in part composed of eggs shipped
or imported into the State of California, from any point or
place outside of the State of California, requiring the marking
of all bills of fare or menu cards placed on tables or counters
in establishments preparing, serving or offering for sale any
such food or drink, and fixing penalties for the violation of the
same or of any of the provisions thereof.
A. B. 186. Boude. Requiring the placing of cards in all
packages or wrappers enclosing manufacturers' food products,
before being sold or offered for sale, which are composed in
part of eggs shipped or imported into the State of California,
from any point or place outside of the State of California,
declaring that the eggs used are imported, and fixing penalties
for the violation of the same or any of the provisions thereof.
S. B. 926. Shearer (by request). To regulate the sale and
labeling of paints; prescribing what the label shall set forth;
and prescribing penalties for the violation thereof.
S. B. 1176. Kehoe (by request). To regulate the placing of
cards in all packages or wrappers inclosing manufactured food
products before being sold or offered for sale which are com-
posed in part of butter shipped or imported into the State
of California from any point or place outside of the United
States and fixing penalties for the violation of the same or
of any of the provisions thereof.
A. B. 1304. Hawson. To prevent deception in the manufac-
ture, packing and sale of raisins and providing a penalty for
the violation thereof.
RACING.
A. B. 720. Marron. Relating to horse racing; creating a
State racing commission for the regulating, licensing and
supervision of such races; and prescribing penalties for the
violation of the 'provisions hereof.
Provides for one or more running race meetings in each
year, but no more than one race meeting shall be held in
any county in any one year, nor shall any meeting be for
longer than 30 days; purses, prizes, premiums or stakes may
be offered, but no persons other than owners of horses con-
testing shall have any interest in such purse. A State racing
commission of three reputable citizens is created, to be ap-
pointed by the Governor, and to hold office for four years; it
shall prescribe rules, regulations and conditions under which
races shall be conducted. Five per cent of total gate receipts
of every race meeting shall be paid into State treasury.
Corporation or association desiring to conduct racing may ap-
290 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
ply annually to State racing commission for license, and if
commission deems proper same may be granted for one year,
and race meetings conducted thereunder, subject to the rules,
regulations and conditions of the commission. Refusal or
revocation of license shall be made publicly and reasons given
in writing, such action by commission being reviewable by
the courts.
Unauthorized racing is declared a public nuisance, and
every person acting or aiding therein shall be guilty of mis-
demeanor, punishable by fine of not less than $500 or more
than $1000 for each day of such racing, and action may be
maintained by commission to enjoin such race meeting.
A. B. 1405. Matron. Relating to horse racing; creating a
State Racing Commission for the regulating, licensing and
supervision of such races, and prescribing penalties for the
violation of the provisions hereof, and repealing all Acts or
parts of Acts in conflict herewith.
Similar to A. B. 720, Marron, except that this bill provides
that "there shall be no wagering on the result of any race
held under the provisions of this Act except the Pari-mutuels
and auction pool systems". The provision in the original bill
(A. B. 720) permitting the offering of purses, prizes, premiums
or stakes, but providing that no person or persons other than
owners of horses contesting shall have any pecuniary interest
in such purses, or be entitled to or receive any portion thereof
after such race, and that purses shall be allotted in accordance
with terms and conditions of such race, is stricken out; and
a provision repealing all conflicting Acts or parts of Acts is
added.
S. B. 1202. Beban. To provide for the regulation and super-
vision of racing meetings; establishing a State racing com-
mission for the purpose of administering the provisions hereof,
and denning its powers and duties; prohibiting book-making;
and prescribing penalties for violation of the provisions of the
Act.
Provides that racing may be held by any association which
receives a permit from a commission of five members to be
appointed by the Governor, this commission to be composed
of men who are horse breeders and who have not had any
financial interest in any race track for five years. The measure
does not permit any form of betting on the races or the pres-
ence of any bookmakers.
RAILROAD COMMISSION.
S. B. 457. Carr. To provide for the organization of the
Railroad Commission, to define its powers and duties and the
rights, remedies, powers and duties of public utilities and
their officers, and the rights and remedies of patrons of
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public utilities, and to provide penalties for offenses by public
utilities, their officers, agents and employees and by other
persons and corporations, creating the "Railroad Commission
fund" and . appropriating moneys therein to carry out the
provisions of this Act, and repealing all Acts and parts of Acts
inconsistent with the provisions of this Act.
A. B. 503. Avey. Identical with S. B. 457. Carr.
S. B. 533. Scott. Placing under the jurisdiction of the Rail-
road Commission every employer who provides hospital service
for his employees and makes a charge therefor; requiring every
such charge to be just and reasonable and to be devoted to
no other purpose than such hospital service; and prescribing
penalties for violations of the provisions hereof.
A. B. 942. Harris. Amending Section 2 and Section 50 of
an Act to amend an Act to provide for the organization of
the Railroad Commission, to define its powers and duties and
the rights, remedies, powers and duties of public utilities,
their officers, define its powers and duties and the rights,
remedies, of patrons of public utilities, and to provide penalties
for offenses by public utilities, their officers, agents and
employees and by other persons and corporations, creating
the "railroad commission fund" and appropriating the moneys
therein to carry out the provisions of this Act, and repealing
the Railroad Commission Act, approved February 10, 1911,
and also repealing an Act entitled "An Act to amend the
railroad commission Act by amending Section 15 thereof re-
lating to powers and duties of the Railroad Commission of
the State of California, and to amend Section 37 thereof re-
lating to free and reduced rate transportation for freight and
passengers," approved April 6, 1911, and all Acts and parts of
Acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, approved
December 23, 1911, and known as the "Public Utilities Act,"
relating to the creation of new public utilities and providing
for regulation thereof.
A. B. 1300. Manning. Amending Section 17 of an Act ap-
proved December 23, 1911, to provide for the organization of
the Railroad Commission, to define its powers and duties and
the rights, remedies, powers, duties of public utilities, their
officers, define its powers and duties and the rights, remedies
of patrons, etc.
S. B. 795. Campbell (by request). To provide in what man-
ner any private corporation or individual, or association of
individuals, owning or controlling real property, or any right
appertaining thereto, which by reason of its location is suit-
able, convenient and useful for the use of one or more private
or public corporations serving the public, may subject itself
to the control and regulation by the Railroad Commission of
the State of California.
292 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
RAILROADS.
(See Common Carriers.)
A. B. 493. Encell. To regulate the use of derailing switches
or other derailing devices, in the operation of railroads in
the State of California; providing for the use of signboards
in connection with such derailing switches or devices for the
purpose of designating the location of the same to approaching
trains, their enginemen and crews; providing penalties for the
violation of its provisions and providing for the enforcement
of this Act by the Railroad Commission.
A. B. 619. Harris. Prescribing a certain kind of water-
glass for use on steam locomotives; providing a penalty for
neglect to use such glass, and prescribing a rule of evidence
in civil suits for damages occasioned by such negligence.
S. B. 837. Jones. To promote the safety of employees and
the traveling public upon railroads by prohibiting certain per-
sons, firms and corporations operating railroads in this State
from requiring or permitting any engineer, fireman, conductor,
brakeman or trainman to receive, deliver or transmit over
telegraph or telephone lines any orders for the movement of
trains, except in case of urgency, and declaring violation
hereof a misdemeanor, punishable by fine not exceeding $500.00
or by imprisonment not exceeding 6 months, or both.
S. B. 1064. Thompson. Authorizing the placing of notice of
warning upon the roadway of railroads, and providing that the
disregarding of said notice of warning shall be presumptive
evidence of negligence upon the part of a person injured or
killed in disregard of said notice of warning.
A. B. 1447. Arnerich. To regulate the height of all passenger
car steps of all street railways in municipalities of the Stat©
of California.
Provides that lowest step shall be not more than nine in-
ches above the roadbed, and declares violation a misdemeanor.
A. B. 927. Gelder. Amending Sections 1, 2 and 3 of an
Act, approved February 20, 1911, and amended May 24, 1913,
to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon rail-
roads by compelling common carriers by railroad to properly
man their trains, and repealing Section 7 thereof.
S. B. 781. Tyrrell. Amending Act, approved February 20,
1911, amended May 24, 1913, to promote the safety of em-
ployees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common
carriers by railroad to properly man their trains, by amending
Sections 1, 2 and 3 and repealing Section 7.
REAL ESTATE BROKERS, REGULATION OF,
(See Brokers.)
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915. 293
RECLAMATION AND DRAINAGE.
A. B. 62. Tabler. Creating a reclamation district to be
called and known as "Big Valley Reclamation District".
S. B. 554. Scott. Identical with A. B. 62. Tabler.
A. B. 220. Tabler. Creating a reclamation district to be
called and known as "Upper Lake Reclamation District;" pro-
viding for the management and control thereof and dissolving
all reclamation districts lying wholly within the boundaries of
said Uppe Lake Reclamation District, and excluding from any
reclamation district any land lying within the boundaries of
said Upper Lake Reclamation District.
A. B. 221. Tabler. Creating a reclamation district to be
called and known as "Tule Lake Reclamation District;" pro-
viding for the management and control thereof and dissolving
all reclamation districts lying wholly within the boundaries of
said Tule Lake Reclamation District, and providing for the
liquidation and winding up of said dissolved districts, and ex-
cluding from any reclamation district any land lying within
the boundaries of said Tule Lake Reclamation District.
S. B. 556. Scott. Identical with A. B. 221. Tabler.
S. B. 631, Benson. To create a river control and drainage
district, to be called Sutter Basin River Control and Drain-
age District; to provide for the control and improvement of
the Sacramento river, and to promote drainage in said dis-
trict by the construction of by-passes, and of levees, ditches,
dams, dikes, canals and other works for the control and im-
provement of the Sacramento river, and the control of the
flood waters thereof, and the drainage of lands in said dis-
trict; to provide for the appointment of officers of said dis-
tricts; defining the powers, duties and compensation of such
officers; and providing for levying and collecting assessments
upon the lands within said district; the. issuance of bonds by
said district, and testing the validity of the levy of such as-
sessments and the issuance of such bonds.
A. B. 759. Ream (by request). Identical with S. B. 631.
Benson.
S. B. 634. Benson. Amending an Act creating a reclamation
district to be called and known as "Reclamation District No.
1500"; providing for the management and control thereof and
dissolving all levee districts, swamp land districts, and recla-
mation districts, lying wholly within the boundaries of said
Reclamation District No. 1500, providing for the liquidation
and winding up of said dissolved districts, and excluding from
any levee district, swamp land district and reclamation district
any land lying within the boundaries of said Reclamation
District No. 1500.
A. B. 831. Browne (by request). Identical with S. B. 634
Benson.
294 PENDING ' LEGISLATION,- 1915;
S. B. 722. Benson. Amending Sections 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11,
12, 13, 14, 15, 16V2, 17 and 18 of an Act, approved December
24th, 1911, amended May 26th, 1913, approving the report of
the California Debris Commission transmitted to the Speaker
of the House of Representatives by the Secretary of
War on June 27th, 1911, directing the approval of
plans of reclamation 1 along the Sacramento river pr
its tributaries or upon the swamp lands adjacent to
said river, directing the State Engineer to procure data and
make surveys and examinations for the purpose of perfecting
the plans contained in said report of the California Debris Com-
mission and to make report thereof, making an- appropriation
to pay the expenses of such examinations and .surveys,^ and
creating a reclamation board and defining its powers; and add-
ing thirteen new sections to said Act to be numbered 20, 21, 22,
23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 and 32, relating to the organi-
zation,, powers and duties of said reclamation board, and create
ing a. revolving fund and appropriating money therefor.
A. B. 793. Wright. Identical with 9. B. 722, Benson.
S. B. 745. Benson. Amending Section 4 -of an Act, approved
December 24, 1911; amended May 26,. 1^13, approving the report
of the California. Debris Commission transmitted to the Speaker
of the" House of . Representatives by the Secretary of War on
June 27thr 1911, directing the approval of plans of reclamation
along" the Sacramento river or its tributaries or upon the
swamp lands adjacent to said river, directing the State Engi-
neer to procure data and make surveys and examinations for
the purpose of perfecting the plans contained in said report
of the California Debris- Commission and to make report
thereof, making an appropriation to pay the expenses of such
examinations and surveys and creating a reclamation board
and defining its< powers, altering and extending the boundaries
of the Sacramento and San Joaauin Drainage District.
A. B. 886. Wright, T. M. Identical with S. B. 745. Benson.
S. B. 747. Benson. Amending an Act, approved December
24, 1911, amended May 26, 1913, approving the report of the
California Debris Commission transmitted to the Speaker of
the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on
June 27th, 1911, directing the approval of plans of reclamation
along the Sacramento river or its tributaries upon the swamp
lands adjacent to said river, directing the State Engineer to
procure data and make surveys and examinations for the pur-
pose of perfecting the plans contained in said report of the
California Debris Commission and to make report thereof,
making an appropriation to pay the expenses of said examina-
tions and surveys, and creating a reclamation board and de--
fining its powers, by adding Section 33 thereto, relating to
and providing for the issuance and disposal of bonds of the"
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915. 295
Sacramento and San Joaquin Drainage District and testing the
validity of such bonds.
A. B. 888. Wright, T. M. Identical with S. B. 747. Benson.
S. B. 788. Purkitt. To provide for the deposit of the funds
in the county treasury, for the presentation to, and approval
by the Board of Supervisors, registration, interest upon, time
of payment and receipt in payment of assessment of warrants,
of Reclamation District No. 108, created by that certain Act
of the Legislature of the State of California, approved April
23, 1913, legalizing the consolidation and reorganization of
Reclamation District No. 729 with Reclamation District No.
108, in the counties of Yolo and Colusa; fixing, defining and
establishing the boundaries of the consolidated district; pro-
viding for its management and control, subject to the provi-
sions of the Political Code of California, and to other laws
of said State relative to reclamation districts; and repealing
all Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent therewith, and situated
in Colusa and Yolo counties, and providing that the Board of
Supervisors of the county of Colusa shall have jurisdiction of
all matters concerning said district and all funds of said dis-
trict shall be deposited with the county treasurer of the county
of Colusa.
S. B. 910. Conn. To create a reclamation district to be called
"Reclamation District No. 1660," and providing for the control
and management thereof.
A. B. 1151. Gebhart. Identical with S. B. 910. Cohn.
S. B. 932. Carr. To validate the organization and forma-
of levee districts.
A. B. 1080. Sisson. Amending an Act, approved April 30,
1913, entitled, "An Act to create a drainage district to be
called Knight's Landing Ridge Drainage District, to promote
drainage therein by the making of a cut through Knight's
Landing Ridge and the construction of a canal leading there-
from; to provide for the election and appointment of officers of
said drainage district; defining the powers, duties and compen-
sation of such officers; and providing for levying and cellecting
assessments upon the lands within said drainage district; the
issuance of bonds by said drainage district and testing the
' validity of the levy of such assessments and the issuance of
such bonds," by amending Section 1 thereof and making the
description more certain, amending Section 6 in reference to
the certifying and depositing of a certified copy of assessment,
amending Section 7 in reference to the Hen of said assess-
ment, and also in regard to the collection of the assessments,
issuance of warrants and the payment of all moneys that
may be collected into the county treasury of Yolo County.
S. B. 950. Purkitt. Identical with A. B. 1080. Sisson.
. A. B. 1082. Sisson. Approving, confirming and declaring
296 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
valid the creation, formation and organization of Reclama-
tion District No. 108, created by an Act approved April 23,
1913, legalizing the consolidation and reorganization of Recla-
mation District No. 729 with Reclamation District No. 108, in
the counties of Yolo and Colusa, etc.
S. B. 951. Purkitt. Identical with A. B. 1082. Sisson.
A. B. 1149. Gebhart. Relating to the assessments levied
under and by virtue of an Act to create a drainage district
to be called "Sacramento Drainage District", to promote drain-
age therein, to provide for the election and appointment of
officers of said drainage district, etc.
A. B. 1150. Gebhart. Relating to the transfer of money
m>w held in a special fund created under and by virtue of an
Act entitled an Act to create a drainage district to be called
"Sacramento Drainage District", to promote drainage therein,
to the general fund of the counties in which such money is held.
A. B. 1161. Edwards, L. Establishing a State Reclamation
District for the conservation of water for the safe develop-
ment of the State; creating a State Reclamation Board for
the administration of the provisions hereof; defining its powers
and duties; making an appropriation therefor; and repealing
all Acts in conflict herewith.
S. B. 1062. Chandler. Amending Sections 28, 35 and 36
of an Act approved March 20, 1903, to provide for the organiza-
tion and government of drainage districts, for the drainage of
agricultural lands other than swamp and overflowed lands,
and to provide for the acquisition or construction thereby of
works for the drainage of the lands embraced within such
districts.
RECREATION.
S. B. 30. Jones. Creating a state recreation commission
of five persons, to be appointed by the Governor for term of
four years, without compensation; providing for the employ-
ment by said commission of a secretary and other employees
and authorizing said commission to fix their compensation,
prescribing the powers and duties of said commission, and
appropriating $20,000 for the purpose of carrying out the#
provisions hereof.
RIVER IMPROVEMENT.
A. B. 692. Gebhart. To provide for the accomplishment of
the work of the direct improvement of the navigation of the
Sacramento, San Joaquin and Feather Rivers of the State of
California, as recommended in the special report of the Cali-
fornia Debris Commission, dated June 30, 1907, and made
jointly by Brigadier General A. Mackenzie, Chief of Engi-
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915. 297
neers, C. H. McKinstry, Mayor, Corps of Engineers, and
Thomas H. Jackson, Captain, Corps of Engineers, of the
United States Army, and printed with the annual report of
the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army, for the
fiscal year "ending June 30, 1907, and making an appropriation
for such work.
S. B. 746. Benson. To authorize the immediate use and
expenditure, in such manner and to such extent as the Gov-
ernor may direct, of the sum of $200,000 appropriated by that
certain Act, approved June 7, 1913, to provide for the accom-
plishment of the work of the direct improvement of the navi-
gation of the Sacramento, San Joaquin and Feather rivers of
the State of California, as recommended in the special report
of thft California Debris Commission, dated June 30, 1907, and
made jointly by Brigadier General A. Mackenzie, chief of engi-
neers; C. H. McKinstry, major, corps of engineers, and Thomas
H. Jackson, captain, corps of engineers, of the United States
army, and printed with the annual report of the chief of engi-
neers of the United States army, for the fiscal year ending
June 30, 1907, and making an appropriation for such work.
A. B. 887. Wright, T. M. Identical with S. B. 746. Benson.
RURAL CREDITS.
S. B." 159. Brown. Providing for the formation of land
banks and prescribing regulations for the conduct of their
affairs.
S. B. 37. To provide for the incorporation, management
and dissolution of rural credit unions.
Defines "rural credit union" as co-operative association
formed to promote thrift among members and to enable them
to obtain for productive purposes moderate loans of money
for short periods at reasonable rates of interest. Ten or more
citizens may organize, with capital stock at $25 per share;
may receive savings of members in payment for shares, lend
money to members at not to exceed 6 per cent interest, and
invest funds; to be under jurisdiction of Superintendent of
Banks. The rules for organization, operation and dissolution
are fully set forth.
S. B. 329. Birdsall. Providing for the incorporation and
management of land loan associations, for a commission to
supervise such associations, and making an appropriation
therefor.
Creates "California State Commission of Land Loans,"
composed of Attorney-General, State Treasurer and State
Controller, who shall within 90 days after passage of Act ap-
point a land loan commissioner and such other officers and
assistants as shall be necessary, and fix their compensation.
298 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
Land loan commissioner given power to examine all land
loan associations the creation of which is authorized.
State commissioner of land loans shall have power to or-
ganize and charter land loan associations, review and alter
rate of interest to be charged, to grant or refuse associations
authority to issue land loan bonds and to fix rate of interest
thereon, to recommend to State Treasurer purchase of land
loan bonds; to require reports and statements and to make
examinations of land loan associations; to appraise lands
through land loan commissioner.
Not less than ten persons may organize land loan associa-
tions with capital stock of not less than $10,000, divided into
shares of $25 each; to loan money to stockholders only on
land within a certain "land loan district" to be designated
by the land loan commissioner, who if he grant application to
organize, shall issue a certificate therefor. The Act provides
that the certificate shall state the name of the association,
the district within which it may operate, the amount of
capital stock and number of shares, the names and residences
and number of shares of the stockholders, and that the cer-
tificate is issued under the Act; individuals may subscribe for
stock on partial payment plan, but no certificate to be issued
until fully paid up; fifty per cent of capital stock must be paid
in cash before association is authorized to do business,, and at
least ten per cent of capital stock at time of organization
shall be invested in United States bonds, remainder of stock
may be paid in first mortgages on lands of stockholders.
Provision shall be made by each land loan association for
increase of its capital stock from time to time for purpose of
acquiring additional cash funds or for issue of shares to bor-
rowers; capital stock may also be reduced to any sum not
below amount required for organization, except that capital
may not be reduced below one-twentieth of amount unpaid
on outstanding mortgages, nor shall reduction be made until
amount has been reported to and approved by land loan
commissioner.
A board of directors of not less than five shall be elected,
which shall appoint two of its members as an "appraisal
committee," with one person named by land loan commis-
sioner, who shall not be a stockholder of any land loan asso-
ciation, to appraise all land upon which loans are asked.
Land loan associations shall have power to loan current
funds on first mortgages on lands of members within its loan
district, to buy other land loan association endorsed first mort-
gages; to buy and sell land loan bonds; to buy and sell United
States bonds; to acquire a suitable house for the transaction
of its business; to buy and sell land acquired in satisfaction of
mortgages, but only in accordance with provisions of this Act.
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Applications for loans shall be made only on prescribed
forms, and .loans shall be made " only when ~ secured by first
mortgages" 'to" run for not less than five nOr more than thirty
years, bearing interest at legal rate, on lands in loan district,
containing agreement for reduction of loan through semi-
annual amortization payments, and providing for extinguish-
ment at option of borrower after five years from date made.
Loans to be made only: to liquidate indebtedness of owner of
land mortgaged existing at time of organization of land loan
association; for improvement of lands, to provide for purchase
of equipment and live stock necessary for proper operation
of farm; to provide for purchase of home.
No loan shall exceed 50 per cent of value, of land and 25
per cent of value of buildings to be ascertained by appraisal;
ncr shall any loan be made to any person not at the time a
bona '-fide resident on land mortgaged or in case of a farm
primarily engaged in cultivation thereof; nor shall any loan
exceed $4000 to-any one borrower or 20 per cent of capital and
surplus of association making it.
Every borrower shatl agree to pay all taxes when due and
■ to keep property insured,, loss payable to mortgagee; and that
■in" -'-case any portion of loan shall be expended for purposes
other than those specified in original application,- or if he
default in "respect to. any condition of mortgage loan shall
immediately become due and payable.
When associations' organized to:make loans on unencum-
bered" lands in this "State are certified by land loan commis-
sioner to afford holders of first mortgages protection and
assurance of safety equal to that provided under- this Act,
State land loan commission may authorize State Treasurer to
purchase first mortgage bonds- thereof -with their endorsement
and that of such bank or banks- in land loan district as may
be designated by commission; banks to be compensated for
endorsement at .rate of .one per cent per year on face value of
hon&s, this per. cent to be added to annual rate to be paid
by borrower; land loan commission shall make rules and regu-
lations for such associations.
.Appraisers shall . be appointed by . land, loan commissioner,
one or more .of whpm shall at stated periods visit every land
loan, district and. make report; on values of lands therein, and
. a schedule stating, maximum .acre or town lot valuation for
each loan district shall be prepared, .which schedule shall not
be exceeded in making loans.
Applications for -loans shall be made on prescribed forms
and presented to land loan association, which, after appraising
^ 4andr, shall.. take note, and mortgage, thereon, endorse note and
present it with mortgage., to local, bank, . which shall in turn
endorse note and present it with mortgage to commissioner,
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who, after approving it, shall deliver it to State Treasurer to
be held in trust by him, and bonds in like amount to be
issued against it.
Land loan bonds shall be issued in amounts of $100, $500
and $1000, to run for specified maximum periods, in series of
not less than $1000, bearing interest at not to exceed 5 per-
cent, payable out of funds deposited by mortgagees for that
purpose.
First mortgages presented as collateral for issue of bonds
shall be accompanied by schedule showing face of mortgages,
dates due, and gross amount of amortization installments,
payable monthly in cash. Land loan associations shall deposit
monthly with designated local bank for deposit with State
Treasurer in an amount equal to gross amortization install-
ments and interest as shown by schedule, either land loan
bonds issued by itself, first mortgages of same kinds as those
originally deposited, or cash or current funds.
Every land loan association shall carry out of earnings, to^a
reserve account, a sum not less than 2 per cent of its capital
or one-fourth of its earnings until reserve account equals 20
per cent of outstanding capital stock, against which shall be
debited all losses due to return or redemption of mortgages.
Whenever net earnings, after crediting one-fourth to reserve
account, shall amount to 2 per cent on face value of capital
stock association may declare a dividend, which may be in-
creased as earnings permit to six per cent; any earnings
above cumulative six per cent dividend shall be carried to
reserve fund.
State Treasurer may upon application of one or more desig-
nated local banks and upon recommendation of commission
purchase from local banks land bonds not previously issued or
sold, not to exceed in amount $5,000,000.
Local land association examiners shall be appointed by com-
missioner to examine condition of associations, physical con-
dition of properties and check up books and records and re-
port to commissioner at least once a year; no examiner shall
perform any other service for compensation by any land loan
association, or any officer, director, or employee thereof, nor
shall he disclose the names of borrowers without permission.
False statements in applications for loan, over-valuation
by appraiser, or acceptance by any examiner of a loan or
gratuity from any land loan association examined by him or
from any officer, director or employee thereof, the acceptance
by an officer, director or employee of a land loan association
of any fee, commission, gift or other consideration for or in
connection with any transaction or business of such associa-
tion, and the disclosure by an examiner without permission
in writing from the commissioner, or by order of court, of the
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name of any borrower, are declared misdemeanors, punishable
by imprisonment not to exceed one year, or fine of not more
than $5000, or both; and in case of examiner receiving loan or
gratuity a further fine not to exceed the amount thereof and
perpetual disqualification to hold office as examiner.
If any land loan association refuses to substitute mortgages
for others formerly sold to a local bank or to State Treasurer
on which default had occurred, or fails to meet its outstanding
obligations when due, or is in default, the land commissioner
may appoint a receiver to take charge and dispose of the
property of such association, turning the proceeds into the
State Treasury subject to order of commissioner; upon default
of any obligation local bank making land loan endorsement
may be declared insolvent and placed in hands of a receiver.
$50,000 is appropriated to carry out provisions of Act.
SALT MARSH-TIDE LANDS, CESSION AND RECESSION.
A. B. 18. Schmitt. Granting to the City and County of San
Francisco certain tide lands, marsh lands and submerged lands
of the State of California, within the boundaries of said City
and County, including the right to wharf out therefrom;
regulating the management, use and control thereof, and pro-
viding for the deposit w-ith the State of Californa of certain
bonds to protect the State of California from any loss which
might accrue to said State by reason of outstanding bonds
for the use and purpose of the harbor front of San Francisco.
A. B. 317. McPherson. Granting to the City of Santa Cruz
the salt marsh, tide and submerged lands of the State of Cali-
fornia, including- the right to wharf out therefrom to the City
of Santa Cruz, and regulating the management, use and con-
trol thereof.
A. B. 334. Brown, H. W. Granting to the town of Red-
wood City the salt marsh, tide and submerged lands of the
State of California, including the right to wharf out therefrom,
and regulating the management, use and control thereof.
A. B. 485. Brown, H. W. Granting to the City of Bur-
lingame the salt marsh, tide and submerged lands of the State
of California, including the right to wharf out therefrom, and
regulating the management, use and control thereof.
A. B. 486. Brown, H. W. Granting to the City of San Mateo
the salt marsh, tide and submerged lands of the State of
California, including the right to wharf therefrom, and regu-
lating the management, use and control thereof.
A. B. 370. Rominger. Amending Sections 5, 6 and 7 of an
Act approved March 21, 1903, to promote the drainage of wet,
swamp and overflowed lands, and to promote the public health
in the communities in which they lie.
A. B. 1096. Conrad. Amending Section 5 of . an Act ap-
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proved May 1, 1911, conveying certain tide lands and lands
lying under inland navigable waters in the bay of San Diego,
to the city of San Diego, in furtherance of navigation and
commerce and the fisheries, and providing for the government
management and control thereof, relating to the granting of
franchises on the lands conveyed by said Act and the leas-
ing of the same by the city of San Diego.
A. B. 57. Gelder. Amending an Act, approved June 11,
1913, entitled "An Act granting to the city of Berkeley the
salt marsh, tide and submerged lands of the State of Cali-
fornia, including the right to wharf out therefrom to the city
of Berkeley, and regulating the management, use and con-
trol thereof.
S. B. 991. Owens. Confirming, ratifying and adopting a
certain agreement by the city of Richmond concerning its
harbor, harbor lines and certain tide and submerged lands,
and- granting it certain, submerged land and authorizing
it to convey certain small parcels of such land not needed
for commerce and navigation.
SANITARY DISTRICTS.
A. B. 758. Manning. To validate the organization of sanitary
districts and their proceedings whereby the boundaries thereof
were altered, and outlying contiguous territory in the same
county as such sanitary district annexed thereto.
A. B. 1391. Manning. To provide for the formation, gov-
ernment, operation, alteration of boundaries of districts al-
ready formed, reorganization and dissolution of sanitary dis-
tricts in any part of the State, for the construction of sewers,
septic tanks, and other sanitary disposal of sewerage matter;
the acquisition of property thereby, the calling and conducting
of elections in such districts; the assessment, levying, collec-
tion, custody, and disbursement of taxes therein, the issuance,
disposal and retirement of the bonds thereof, and the deter-
mination of their validity and making provision for the pay-
ment of such bonds, and the disposal of their proceeds.
SCHOOLS.
<See Pensions; Teachers; Political Code.)
S. B. 100. Carr. Confirming and validating the organiza-
tion of school districts.
. A. B. 147. Schmitt. Establishing a nautical school and
for the appointment of a board of commissioners who shall
manage the same.
Creates a state nautical school commission of three per-
sons to be appointed by the Governor for term of four years,
and to serve without compensation; they shall establish and
.maintain a nautical school for instruction and training In
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science and practice of navigation; provide accommodations
for school on board proper vessel; provide books, stationery,
apparatus and supplies, appoint and remove instructors and
other necessary employees, determine their number and com-
pensation, fix terms and conditions on which pupils will be
received and instructed, establish all necessary rules, provida
for cruises in or from the harbor of San Francisco, receive
from United States Government such vessels as may be de-
tailed for use of the schools; and expend such sums as may
be appropriated under this act or by the United States Gov-
ernment pursuant to "An Act for the establishment of Marine
Schools and for other purposes," H. R. 24145, approved March
4, 1911. Appropriates $20,000 to carry out provisions.
A. B. 451. Sisson. Establishing a State vocational school
in the City of Red Bluff, State of California, or in the imme-
diate vicinity of said city, to be known as the "Northern Cali-
fornia Vocational School," and making an appropriation
therefor.
A. B. 742. Kerr. To authorize the boards of trustees of
the Preston School of Industry and the Whittier State School
to provide for the disposition of the products of the skill and
labor of the pupils confined therein.
S. B. 791. Beban. To require physical culture and health
development supervision in the public schools and to repeal
Section 1668, Political Code, and all Acts or parts of Acts in
conflict with this Act.
A. B. 939. Fish. To provide for visual instruction in the
public schools of the State under the supervision of the State
Board of Education and appropriating $12,500 therefor.
S. B. 936. Carr. Identical with A. B. 939. Fish.
S. B. 887. Breed. Relating to the joint board of normal
school trustees.
S. B. 944. Cogswell. Authorizing the Board of Trustees of
Whittier State School to maintain a department for the care
and training of male defectives at the Whittier State School
and to provide for the commitment of defectives thereto.
S. B. 1017. Cogswell. To create a State Board of School
Appeals and defining its duties and powers and providing for
the enforcement of its decisions.
S. B. 479, Gerdes. Amending Section 3 of an Act approved
June 14, 1913, to establish a State training school for girls;
to provide for the maintenance and management of the same;
and to make an appropriation therefor, relating to election
of officers of board of trustees and appointment of superin-
tendent, providing that none but a member of the board
shall be elected president or vice-president thereof.
A. B. 741. Kerr. Amending Section 10 of an Act approved
March. 11, 1899, amended February 27, 1893, to establish a school
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of industry, to provide for the maintenance and management of
the same, and to make an appropriation therefor, relating to
compensation of board and salaries and wages of officers and
employees.
A. B. 1356. Downing (by request). To establish a model
teachers' training school at Berkeley, California, providing th&
rules and regulations therefor, and revenue for the support
of same.
SEWER DISTRICTS.
(See Municipal Corporations.)
S. B. USD. Benedict. Amending an Act to amend Sections
1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of an Act approved April 14, 1911, to provide
for the division of municipalities into sewer districts and for
the construction of, or acquisition and maintenance of sewers
therein; providing a system of district sewer bonds to pay the
cost of such construction of, or acquisition, and also for the
payment of such bonds. (Introduced by title only.)
SHIP SUBSIDY.
A. B. 291. Schmitt (by request). Providing for the encour-
agement of ship building within the State of California; for
the appointment of a board of five commissioners, to be ap-
pointed by the Governor, at a salary of $5000 each per
year, for a term of four years, and who shall give a bond
of $20,000 for the faithful performance of their duties, and
appropriating $500,000 therefor.
The commission shall appoint a secretary at $250 per month
and maintain an office in San Francisco; they shall immediate-
ly upon written application of owners of ships built in Cali-
fornia and to be used in freight or passenger service, examine
such vessel and thereafter pay to the owners out of the ship-
building fund 5 per cent per annum upon one-half of the cost
of building such vessel, but no payment to be made until after
the vessel shall have been actually engaged in foreign trade
for at least six months; and shall also pay to the owners the
difference in operating cost between American and foreign
standards.
STEAM BOILERS AND ENGINEERING.
S. B. 328. Flaherty. Regulating the practice or occupation
of steam engineering in the State of California; providing for
the registration and licensing of persons to carry on such
practice or occupation; providing for a board of examiners
and a clerk thereof, to be under the supervision and manage-
ment of the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics;
fixing the terms, compensation, powers and duties of the clerk
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and the members of said board of examiners; fixing the fees
to be paid by persons authorized to practice under the pro-
visions of this Act; and creating a fund to be kept by the
State Treasurer for the purposes of this Act.
Requires every person following occupation of steam engi-
neer in this State, except steam engineers on locomotives,
automobiles or other steam propelled vehicles, or persons
operating boilers under jurisdiction of United States Govern-
ment, or boilers less than four horsepower, boilers used in
logging camps, or in dairies or agricultural pursuits, or in
pumping or boring wells for Oil or water, where in charge of
a skilled foreman, within 90 days after Act takes effect, to file
with clerk of board of examiners application for certificate
of registration, accompanied with fee of $5, and requires is-
suance of such certificate without examination; creates board
of three examiners to be appointed by Commissioner of Bureau
of Labor Statistics, from practical steam engineers of at least
ten years' experience; chief examiner to receive not less than
$^400 per annum, and two assistant examiners not less than
$2000 per year each; examiners to file bonds of $2000 each;
examiners to hold examinations in various parts of State from
time to time of all applicants for certificates; each examiner
to have power to grant licenses to persons duly qualified, and
to have power to visit all engine and boiler rooms in remote
sections of State; owners or operators of steam plants per-
mitted to operate for 30 days without licensed engineer upon
notifying examiner or clerk of board in writing; certificates
may be suspended for wilful neglect of duty, incompetency,
or drunkenness while on duty; fee for examination $5, to be
deposited with application; if applicant fails he may take
another examination within 3 months without payment of addi-
tional fee; certificates to be prominently displayed in place
where holder is employed and to be renewed annually upon
payment of $2; declares it a misdemeanor to operate as steam
engineer without proper license.
A. B. 512— Rodgers. Identical with S. B. 32S. Flaherty.
A. B. 452. Kennedy. Identical with S. B." 328. Flaherty.
STREET IMPROVEMENT.
S. B. 731. Shearer. Creating and establishing a commission
to codify, revise and perfect the law of the State concerning
roads, streets, highways and bridges; prescribing the powers
and duties of said commission; providing for the expense of
said commission and appropriating money therefor.
S. B. 609. Carr. To provide for the issuance Of street im-
provement bonds to represent and be secured by certain as-
sessments made for the cost of certain work and improve-
ments made in and upon streets, avenues, lanes, alleys, courts,
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places and sidewalks within municipalities and upon property
and rights of way owned by municipalities, to provide for the
collection of such assessments, the sale of the property se-
cured thereby and for the payment of the bonds so issued.
A. B. 1083. Sisson. To provide for reassessments by
municipal corporations on property benefited by street work
done under authority of the governing bodies thereof; pro-
viding for the method of making and collecting such assess-
ments and for the payment of contractors and others per-
forming labor or supplying materials for the work done out of
funds so raised or bonds issued by municipal corporations.
S. B. 1007. Purkitt. Identical with A. B. 1083. Sisson.
S. B. 1085. Jones. Making each city, county, or city and
county, liable in an action for damages for injury sustained
in consequence of the dangerous or defective condition of any
street, highway, public building, public work or property there-
in; and limiting the liability to public officers in respect thereto.
S. B. 1155. Benedict. To provide for the improvement by
any city of streets, lanes, alleys, courts and rights of way in
such city by the assessment of the cost of any such improve-
ment upon the property located within a district determined
to be benefited thereby, and for the collection of such assess-
ments and for the issuance of bonds to represent such assess-
ments.
A. B. 1231. Fish. To provide for the improvement by any city
of streets, lanes, alleys, courts, places and rights of way in
such city by the assessment of the cost of any such improve-
ment upon the property, etc.
A. B. 1477. Manning. To provide for work in and upon high-
ways, streets, avenues, lanes, alleys, courts, places and side-
walks in counties, and upon property and rights of way owned
by counties, and for establishing and changing the grade of
the same, etc.
S. B. 1183. Benedict. Amending Sections 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5
of an Act approved March 18, 1885, to provide for work upon
streets, lanes, alleys, courts, places and sidewalks, and for
the construction of sewers within municipalities. (Introduced
by title only.)
S. B. 612. Carr. Amending Section 2 of an Act, approved
March 18, 1885, to provide for work upon streets, lanes, alleys,
courts, places and sidewalks, and for the construction of sewers
within municipalities.
S. B. 27. Lyon. Adding a new section to be numbered 6a
to an Act approved March 18, 1885, to provide for work upon
streets, lanes, alleys, courts, places and sidewalks, and for
the construction of sewers within municipalities, relating to
doing of public work by municipalities. Provides that mu-
nicipalities may do their own street work, the actual cost
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only to be charged to .benefited property. In such work no
patented process shall be used.
S. B. 941. Flaherty. Amending an Act approved March 18,
1885, to provide for work upon streets, lanes, -alleys, courts,
places and sidewalks, and for the construction of sewers with-
in municipalities, also known as the "Vrooman Act," and all
Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, by adding
one new section thereto, to be numbered Section 63, provid-
ing that all work or labor done or performed thereunder shall
be limited to eight hours within each period of twenty-four
hours.
S. B. 1186. Benedict. Amending Sections 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5
of an Act approved March 6, 1889, to provide for laying out,
opening, extending, widening, straightening or closing up, in
. whole or in part, any street, square, lane, alley, court or
place within municipalities, and to condemn and acquire any
and all land and property necessary or convenient for that
purpose. (Introduced by title only.)
A. B. 780. Burke. Amending Section 18 of an Act, approved
March 6r 1889, to provide for laying out, opening, extending,
• widening, straightening, or closing up in whole or- in part any
street, square, lane, alley, court, or- place within municipalities,
and to condemn and acquire any and all land and property
necessary or convenient for that purpose.
S. B. 1022; Anderson. Identical with A. B. 780. Burke.
S. B. 1182. Benedict. Amending Sections 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5
of an. Act approved March 23, 1893, to provide for laying but,
opening, extending, widening, straightening, diverting, curving,
contracting, or closing up, in whole or in part, any street,
square, lane, alley, court, or place within municipalities or
cities, and cities and counties of 40,000 inhabitants or over,
and to condemn and acquire any and all land and property
necessary or convenient for that purpose. (Introduced by title
only.)
•-S, B. 1184. Benedict. Amending Sections 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5
of an Act approved February 26, 1901, to provide .for local
improvements upon streets, lanes,, alleys, courts, places and
. sidewalks* and for the construction of . sewers within "munic-
ipalities, such Act to be known as "The Local; Improvement
Act of 1901." (Introduced by title only.)
S. B. 942. Cogswell. Amending an Act approved February
26, 1901, to provide for local improvement upon streets, lanes,
alleys, courts, places and sidewalks, arid for the construction -of
* sewers within municipalities, such Act to be known as "T-he
Local Improvement Act of 1901," by adding a new ^section
thereto to be known as Section 21a, providing for the altera-
tion "of plans, profiles, cross-sections and specifications" and
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providing for a pro rata distribution of funds raised by assess-
ment in case the improvement is abandoned.
A. B. 995. Rominger. Amending an Act approved February
26, 1901, to provide for local improvement upon streets, lanes,
alleys, courts, places and sidewalks, and for the construction
of sewers within municipalities, such Act to be known as "The
Local Improvement Act of 1901," by adding a new section
thereto to be known as Section 21a, providing for the altera-
tion of plans, profiles, cross-sections and specifications and
providing for a pro rata distribution of funds raised by assess-
ment in case the improvement is abandoned.
S. B. 1185. Benedict. Amending Sections 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5
of an Act approved March 24, 1903, to provide for the laying
out, opening, extending, widening or straightening, in whole
or in part, of public streets, squares, lanes, alleys, courts and
places, within municipalities, for the condemnation of prop-
erty necessary or convenient for such purposes, and for the
establishment of assessment districts and the assessment of
property therein to pay the expense of such improvement.
(Introduced by title only.)
8. B. 604. Carr. Amending Sections 2, 8, 11 and 13 of an
Act, approved March 21, 1907, as subsequently amended, to
provide for work upon public roads, streets, avenues, boule-
vards, lanes and alleys not within the territory of incor-
porated cities or towns; for the incidental establishment of
grades thereof; for the construction therein or thereon of
sidewalks, sewers, manholes, bridges, cesspools, gutters, tun-
nels, curbing, and crosswalks; for the issue of bonds represent-
ing the costs and expenses thereof; for a special fund derived in
part from the county road fund and in part by special assess-
ment upon a district, and for the establishment of such dis-
tricts.
S. B. 11S1. Benedict. Amending Sections 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5
of an Act approved April 21, 1909, to provide for the improve-
ment of public streets, lanes, alleys, courts and places in
municipalities, in cases where any damage to private property
would result from such improvement, and for the assessment
of the costs, damages and expenses thereof upon the property
benefited thereby. (Introduced by title only.)
S. B. 603. Carr. Amending Section 3 of an Act, approved
March 20, 1909; amended March 23, 1911, to allow unincor-
porated towns and villages to establish, equip and maintain
systems of street lights on public highways; to provide, for
the formation, government and operation of highway lighting
districts; the calling and holding of elections in such districts;
the assessment, collection, custody and disbursement of taxes
therein; and creation of ex-officio boards of supervisors.
A. B. 456. Manning (by request). Amending Sections. 3, 5,
6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 18, 21, 23, 25, 27., 43, 59, 61, 62, 63 and 65 of an
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Act approved April 7, 1911, to provide for work in and upon
streets, avenues, lanes, alleys, courts, places and sidewalks,
within municipalities, and upon property and rights of way
owned by municipalities, and for establishing and changing the
grades of any such streets, avenues, lanes, alleys, courts,
places and s?dewalks, and providing for the issuance and pay-
ment of street improvement bonds to represent certain assess-
ments for the cost thereof and providing a method for the pay-
ment of such bonds, and repealing Sections 84, 85, 86, 87, 88
and 89 thereof, relating to work in unincorporated territory.
S. B. 608. Carr. Identical with A. B. 456. Manning.
S. B. 1164. Benedict. Amending Section 6 of an Act ap-
proved April 7, 1911, to provide for work in and upon streets,
avenues, lanes, alleys, courts, places and sidewalks within
municipalities, and upon property and rights of way owned by
municipalities, and for establishing and changing the grades
of any such streets, avenues, lanes, alleys, courts, places and
sidewalks, and providing for the issuance and payment of
street improvement bonds to represent certain assessments
for the cost thereof and providing a method for the payment
of such bonds, relating to protests.
S. B. 111. Luce. Amending Section 9 of an Act approved
April 7, 1911, to provide for work in and upon streets, ave*
nues, lanes, alleys, courts, places and sidewalks within munic-
ipalities and upon property and rights of way owned by
municipalities, and for establishing and changing grades of
any such streets, avenues, lanes, alleys, courts, places and
sidewalks, and providing for the issuance and payment of
street improvement bonds to represent certain assessments
for the cost thereof, and providing a method for the payment
of such bonds, relative to notices of intention, etc.
A. B. 1126. Gebhart. Repealing Section 36 of an Act ap-
proved April 7, 1911, to provide for work in and upon streets,
avenues, lanes, alleys, courts, places and sidewalks within
municipalities, etc?.
S. B. 701. Breed. Amending Sections 60 and 63 of the
"Improvement Act of 1911", approved April 7, 1911, relating
to bonds.
S. B. 1187. Benedict. Amending Sections 3, 4, 8, 24 and 25
of an Act approved June 16, 1913, to provide for the establish-
ment and change of grade of public streets, lands, alleys,
courts, places and rights of ways in municipalities, and pro-
viding for the improvement thereof, in cases where any dam-
age to private property would result from such improvement,
and for the assessment of the costs, damages and expenses
thereof upon the property benefited thereby, and to provide
a system of local improvement bonds to represent the assess-
,^10 PENDING _. I^EQISI^TLON,. 1915.
m.ent for the. costs, damages and expenses of such, improve-
ment, and for the payment and effect of such bonds.
A. B. 1484. McKnight. Amending Section 8 of an Act ap-
proved June 16, 1913, to provide for the establishment and
change of grade of public streets, lands, alleys, courts, places
and rights of ways in municipalities, and providing for the im-
provement thereof, in cases where any damage to private prop-
erty would result from such improvement, and for the assess-
ment of the costs, damages and expenses thereof upon the
property benefited thereby, and to provide a system of local
improvements bonds to represent the assessments for the costs,
damages and expenses of such improvement, and for the pay-
ment and effect of such bonds, relating to hearings of petitions
for damages.
SUITS AGAINST STATE.
S. B. 106. Scott. Authorizing suits against the State to
quiet title against it to real property purchased under the
.provisions of an Act entitled "An Act to survey and .dispose
of certain marsh and tidelands belonging to the State of Cali-
fornia," approved . March 30, 1868, or any or the : Acts supple-
mentary thereto and amendatory thereof,, and regulating the
procedure therein. -
.Providing that where full payment has been made and no
deed or patent- has been issued by the State, or the. deed or
patent has been lost or destroyed and never -recorded, . the
person or persons claiming or deraigning title from -the State
are authorized to bring suit against the State to quiet ...title
within one year after this Act takes effect; all provisions and
rules of law relating to suits to quiet title and appeals shall
apply to such suits as may be brought under this Act; if
judgment be given against the State no costs shall be allowed;
summons shall be served on the Surveyor General and the
Attorney General.
A. B. 76. Scott, F. C. Identical with S. B. 106. Scott.
A. B. 733. Quihn. Granting the Humboldt and, Trinity Toll
Road Company the right to bring suit against the State of
California for compensation -'for -the use and destruction of
portions of road bed belonging to the said Humboldt and
Trinity Road Company and used and destroyed by the- State
• of California in the construction and completion of the State
highway connecting the counties^ of v Trinity, Tehama and
Shasta with the road system of Humboldt County.
- S. B. 918,' -Cam.pt>ell. Authorizing certain suits against the
State, and regulating the procedure therein.
' A. "B. 1479. -GebhaTt : Authorizing any owner of swamp and
overflow: land fn- this State to bring: action -against the State
of : California to "correct any errors: in description that •; .may
• i exist in the- patent: to s^d- lands.. ;: :;:;;. ;.:' :. - ■_;-.
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SUPERIOR COURTS.
S. B. 16. Luce. Increasing the number of judges of the
Superior Court of the County of San Diego, State of Cali-
fornia, from four to five, and for the appointment of such
additional judge.
A. B. 9. Gelder. Increasing the number of judges of the
Superior Court of the County of Alameda, State of California,
from five to seven, and for the appointment of such additional
judges.
S. B. 782. Tyrrell. Identical with A. B. 9. Gelder.
A. B. 363. McCray. Diminishing the number of judges of
the Superior Court of the County of Shasta, State of California,
from two to one.
A. B. 398. Pettis (by request). To increase the number of
judges in the Superior Court Of the State of California, in and
for the County of Mendocino, to provide for the appointment
of an additional judge and for his compensation.
S. B. 456. Purkitt. Identical with A. B. 398. Pettis.
A. B. 708. Wills. To increase the number of judges of the
Superior Court of the County of Imperial and to provide for
the appointment of an additional judge.
TAXATION.
(See also Assessments; Constitutional Amendments; Political
Code.)
S. B. 962. Thompson. Authorizing and providing for an
investigation and report upon the matter of revenue and taxa-
tion, and appropriating $75,000 therefor.
Authorizes the Governor to direct any State officer or ap-
point any expert or other assistants as may be necessary to
investigate the systems of revenue and taxation in force in
this and other states and to present recommendations for nec-
essary changes in the taxation system of this State to the
Legislature in January, 1917.
S. B. 493. Birdsall. Providing for the reimbursement of
counties sustaining net loss of revenue on account of with-
drawal from county taxation of property hereafter becom-
ing operative property under the provisions of Section 14 of
Article XIII of the Constitution.
Defines "operative property" as operative property of a cor-
poration subject to franchise tax; provides that the amount of
county taxes assessed against each piece of such property
during the last year it was subject to county taxation shall
be deemed to be the annual net loss of revenue sustained
by the county on account of the withdrawal of such property
from county taxation; that reimbursement shall be made each
year that such property remains operative property, and
312 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
withdrawn from county taxation; and creates a "county re-
imbursement fund" from which the State Treasurer shall in
October and March of each year settle with the treasurer of
each county for moneys due from the State.
S. B. 539. Cogswell. To limit the times when district lines
in districts, where tax rates for same are to be fixed by the
board of supervisors of any county, may be changed or new
district formed. »
Such changes are prohibited between the first Monday in
August and the third Monday in October of each year.
S. B. 805. Thompson. Authorizing the State Board of Equal-
ization to destroy by fire certain reports and other documents.
A. B. 901. Meek. Identical with S. B. 805. Thompson.
S. B. 1005. Jones. To carry into effect the provisions of
Section la of Article XIII of trie Constitution of California,
exempting property from taxation in certain instances; de-
fining certain terms; providing certain regulations with refer-
ence to said exemption, and to that end adding a new section
to the Political Code of the State of California to be numbered
3613.
A. B. 1183. Johnson and Phelps. Providing for the reim-
bursement of counties in this State which sustained a net
loss of revenues during the years 1911, 1912, 1913 and 1914, by
the withdrawal of railroad property from county taxation, etc.
S. B. 1092. King. Identical with A. B. 1183. Johnson and
Phelps.
A. B. 1452. Quinn. To provide for the levy and collection
of taxes for the support of the State Government for the sixty-
seventh and sixty-eighth fiscal years.
A. B. 1459. Ashley. To provide for the making and publi-
cation by boards of supervisors of annual estimates of the
amount of money proposed to be raised by taxation for the
ensuing year in counties, and cities and counties, of the State
of California.
S. B. 581. Kehoe. Amending Section 14 of an Act, ap-
proved April 1, 1911, to carry into effect the provisions of
Section 14 of Article 13 of the Constitution of the State of
California as said Constitution was amended November 8,
1910, providing for the separation of State from local taxation,
and providing for the taxation of public service and other
corporations, banks and insurance companies for the benefit
of the State, all relating to revenue and taxation, and every
Act amendatory of said Section 14, by providing the procedure
for asscertaining and determining the actual cash value of
every franchise subject to taxation, other than the actual
exercise of the right to be a corporation and to do business
as a corporation under the laws of this State, and providing
a procedure for ascertaining and determining the actual cash
value of the actual exercise of the right to be a corporation
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915. 313
and to do business as a corporation under the laws of this
State.
S. B. 3_2. Thompson. Amending Section 21 of an Act, ap-
proved April 1, 1911 (statute 1911, page 530), as amended June
12, 1913 (statutes 1913, page 615), to carry into effect the
provisions of Section 14 of Article XIII of the Constitution
of the State of California as said Constitution was amended
November 8, 1910, providing for the separation of state from
local taxation, and providing for the taxation of public service
and other corporations, banks and insurance companies for
the benefit of the State, all relating to revenue and "taxation.
A. B. 1182. Johnson and Phelps. Amending Section 30 of
an Act approved April 1, 1911, to carry into effect the provi-
sions of Section 14 of Article XIII of the Constitution of the
State of California, etc.
S. B. 1091. King. Identical with A. B. 1182. Johnson and
Phelps.
S. B. 24. Thompson. Amending Sections 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6 of
an act approved February 3, 1913, to amend an act entitled
'An Act to amend an Act entitled An Act to carry into effect
the provisions of Section 14 of Article XIII of the Constitution
of the State of California as said Constitution was amended
November 3, 1910, providing for the separation of State from
local taxation, and providing for the taxation of public service
and other corporations, banks and insurance companies for
the benefit of the State, all relating to revenue and taxation,*
approved April 1, 1911, by amending Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 24
and 35," approved February 3, 1913.
A. B. 1441. Encell. Amending Section 2 of an Act approved
June 10, 1913, to repeal an Act approved March 20, 1905, relat-
ing to revenue and taxation, providing for a license tax upon
corporations and making an appropriation for the purpose of
carrying out the object of this Act, and all Acts amendatory
thereof or supplemental thereto, and to provide upon what con-
ditions any corporation which has failed to pay any license
tax imposed by the provisions of any of the Acts hereby re-
pealed may pay the same and be restored to its former cor-
porate status and rights, and also to provide for settling the
affairs of any corporation which by reason of failure to pay
any tax imposed by any of said Acts, has forfeited either its
charter or right to do business! in this State.
TEACHERS.
(See Pensions.)
S. B. 886. Breed. Relating to the employment of teachers
who have no legal certificate.
314 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1515.
TENEMENT HOUSES.
S. B. 76. Flaherty. Amending- an Act approved April 10,
1911, Stats. 1911, p. 860, to regulate the building and occu-
pancy of tenement houses in incorporated towns, incor-
porated cities, and cities and counties, and to provide
penalties for the violation thereof and repealing an Act
entitled "An Act to regulate the building and occupancy of
tenement houses in incorporated towns, incorporated cities,
and cities and counties, and to provide penalties for the
violation thereof," approved April 16, 1909, Stats. 1909,
p. 948.
A. B. 453. Kennedy. Identical with S. B. 76. Flaherty.
S. B. 9SS. Butler. Amending an Act, approved April 16, 1909,
amended April 10, 1911, amended June 13, 1913, to regulate
the building and occupancy of tenement houses in incorporated
towns, incorporated cities, and cities and counties, and to
provide penalties for the violation thereof and repealing an
Act entitled "An Act to regulate the building and occupancy
of tenement houses in incorporated towns, incorporated cities,
and cities and counties, and to provied penalties for the viola-
tion thereof".
A. B. 1299. Godsil. Identical with S. B. 988. Butler.
THEATER TICKETS, TO PREVENT FRAUD IN SALE OF.
A. B. 360. Rodgers. Prohibiting the sale or purchase of
theater or vaudeville tickets, other than exhibitions for charity,
on the streets, in saloons, cigar stands, hotels or other stores,
and declaring violation a misdemeanor.
TRADE MARKS.
A. B. 1199. Scott, F. C. To perpetuate marks, brands and
counterbrands established in the several counties of the State
under Sections 3168 and 3169 of the Political Code, to provide
methods of perpetuation and declaring all marks, brands and
counterbrands not so perpetuated to be inoperative and void.
Requires each County Recorder in whose office more than
100 marks, brands and counterbrands are recorded under
Section 3168, Political Code, to, within 30 days after this law
goes into effect, publish a notice in a newspaper in the county,
notifying all persons owning a mark, brand or counterbrand
so recorded, to, within three months after final publication of
notice, to notify county recorder in Writing of his desire to
continue and perpetuate same; and all marks, brands and
counterbrands not so perpetuated shall be destroyed and ex-
punged from records, and deemed to have been abandoned.
County recorders shall send a list of such marks, etc., to
county recorders of adjoining counties, who shall likewise
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destroy all evidence in relation thereto. This procedure shall
be followed at intervals of five years.
TUBERCULOSIS.
S. B. 34. Crowley. To provide for the establishment,
maintenance and control of sanatoria, farm colonies and other -
institutions for the treatment of tuberculosis and appropriat-
ing $150,000 therefor, and authorizing counties and cities and
counties within the State to send patients to said institutions
and to pay the running expenses and maintenance of the
same and of patients therein, and to levy taxes therefor, and
providing for other sources of revenue.
A. B. 10. Godsil. Identical with S. B. 34. Crowley.
A. B. 33. Kennedy. Providing for the establishment, main-
tenance and control of a sanatorium for the treatment of
tuberculosis and" appropriating $150,000 therefor.
S. B.. 148. Jones. Providing for the establishment and main-
tenance of a bureau of tuberculosis under the direction of the
State Board of Health; defining its powers and duties; pro-
viding for the granting of State aid to cities, counties, cities
and counties and groups of counties for the support and care
of persons -afflicted with tuberculosis; making an appropria-
tion therefor, and repealing certain Acts of the Legislature
of the State of California.
^A. B. 446. Fish. Identical with S. B. 148. Jones.
USURY.
(See Interest Rate.)
S. B. 189. Brown. Establishing a "usury law", relating
to the rate of interest which may be charged for the loan or
forebearance of money, goods or things in action, or on ac-
counts after demand, or on judgments, providing penalties for
the violation of the provisions hereof, and repealing Sections
1917, 1918, 1919, and 1920, Civil Code, and all Acts or parts
of Acts in conflict with this Act.
Fixes the legal rate of interest at 6 per cent, but providing
that by contract in writing parties may provide for a rate
of interest not exceeding 10 per cent; forbids the taking
directly or indirectly of a greater interest rate than 10 per
cent; declares all contracts in violation of statute void, and
"no action at law to recover either principal or interest shall
be maintained". Any person who shall have paid more than
10 per cent interest may recover treble the amount so paid
if action commenced within one year after payment; any per-
son, etc., who demands or receives for any loan of money
secured, by mortgage, deed of trust, bill of sale, assignment,
pledge, receipt, or other evidence of debt, real or personal,
316 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
for examinations, views, fees, appraisals, commissions, re-
newals and charges of any kind, more than one-twentieth of
the amount loaned, if less than $1000, or more than one-
thirtieth if in excess of $1000, shall be guilty of misdemeanor,
punishable for first offense by fine of not less than $25 nor
more than $300, or by imprisonment not more than six months,
or both, and for each subsequent offense by fine of not less
than $100 nor more than $500, and imprisonment not less than
six months nor more than one year.
UNEMPLOYMENT.
A. B. 501. Downing. For the relief of unemployed citizens
of this State, and appropriating $1,000,000, to be disbursed
by the Board of Control in such sums and at such time as it
may deem expedient by giving employment to unemployed
citizens on such work as building and improving roads, public
buildings, etc.; no person shall be employed under provisions
of act who shall not have been a resident of this State for at
least one year next before such employment.
A. B. 502. Spengler. To ameliorate unemployment by au-
thorizing boards and officials of State or political subdivisions,
having charge of employing labor or help, to so arrange work
to be done as to employ the maximum number of persons
during seasons of greatest unemployment.
A. B. 670. Kramer (by request). To establish the Cali-
fornia State Farm for the unemployed; to provide for the
purchase of land therefor; to provide buildings and other im-
provements in connection therewith; to provide for the em-
ployment of labor thereon; to provide for the equipment, man-
agement and conduct thereof; and appropriating $500,000
therefor.
S. B. 87 4. Scott. To set aside certain lands now owned by
the State of California for the purpose of establishing, main-
taining and conducting a State farm, and appropriating $50,000
therefor.
VACCINATION
A. B. 67. Gelder. To protect any child or person enrolled or
in attendance upon any public or private school, or other
educational institution, within the State of California, from
compulsory vaccination; and to prevent vaccination being
made a condition precedent or a prerequisite to admission to
or attendance upon any of the public or private schools or
other educational institutions within the State of California;
making violations thereof a misdemeanor; providing penalties;
making exceptions as to private educational institutions; and
repealing an Act approved March 7, 1911, to encourage and
provide for a general vaccination for all public and private
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schools of California, specifying the duties of certain officers
and persons with relation thereto, making violations of its
provisions a misdemeanor, providing penalties, and repealing
an Act approved February 20, 1889, entitled "An Act to en-
courage and provide for a general vaccination in the State of
California.''
VETERANS, WAR.
S. B. 266. Scott. Providing for memorial halls and meeting
places for army and navy veterans of the Civil War, the Span-
ish-American War, and the Philippine Insurrection, to be
furnished by the board of supervisors or city council in some
public building, upon request; if there is no space available
in any public building then to provide quarters elsewhere at
a rental not to exceed $25 per month.
VITAL STATISTICS.
(See Marriage and Divorce.)
S. B. 511. Strobridge. To provide for the registration of all
births and deaths, the establishment of registration districts in
cities, incorporated towns and townships, under the superin-
tendence of the State Bureau of Vital Statistics; the issuance
and registration of burial and disinterment permits and cer-
tificates of births and deaths; the appointment of a State and
a local registrar of vital statistics; and prescribing the powers
and duties of registrars, coroners, physicians, undertakers,
sextons and other persons in relation to such registration and
fixing penalties for violation of this Act; creating the office of
State and local registrars of vital statistics and providing for
the salary and fees of same.
VOTERS AND VOTING.
(See Elections; Political Code.)
A B. 631. Chamberlin. Requring all qualified electors in
the State of California to register and to vote at general
elections and prescribing a poll tax upon all electors who fail
or neglect so to register or to vote, and prescribing punish-
ment for those persons who swear falsely in such matters and
prescribing certain duties for county clerks, tax collectors and
boards of elections.
Every qualified elector failing or neglecting to register and
vote at any general election shall be subject to a tax of $2.00;
persons unavoidably prevented from registering or voting by
reason of accident, violence, sickness, absence from precinct
on public business or from county on private business at least
one day previous and including election day filing a written
sworn statement with County Clerk verified by at least two
318 PENDING LEGISLATION,: 1915.
reputable witnesses, giving full details, and reasons for sUGh •
failure or neglect, shall be exempt from such poll tax.- - -
Electors failing to vote and to. file statement of reasons .
shall have names stricken from register and shall not again
be allowed to register or vote until poll tax is paid. County
Clerk shall transmit to Tax Collector before 3d day of March
following general election certified copy of poll lists. Boards
of election shall post copy of names of all persons voting as
soon as polls are closed, signed by all members of board.
Every person who swears falsely to a state'ment of reasons
for not voting or who swears falsely to statements contained
in affidavit of any other person, shall be guilty of misde-
meanor, punishable by fine of not less than $10 or more than
$500 and imprisonment not less than 10 days nor more than
6 months. All money collected under this Act to be paid to
school fund.
A. B. 1457. Young. -To provide for the indication by the
registered qualified electors of the several political parties of
their choice for nomination by their party for President of
the United States through the election of the delegates of
said political parties to their respective national conventions,
and to repeal an Act approved December 24, 1911, known as
the Presidential Primary Act, and also to repeal all other Acts
or parts of Acts inconsistent with or in conflict with the pro-
visions of this Act.
WAGES AND HOURS.
A. B. 6. Collins. Providing for weekly payment of wages
by employers of labor.
Provides that all employers of labor (except agricultural
labor) shall pay each employee weekly, payment to include
all wages earned and unpaid up to 6th day preceding payment,
and no deduction shall be made- therefor. Act noes not apply
to employee of co-operative corporation or association who is
stockholder, unless he requests weekly payment; violation sub-
ject to fine of not less than $10 nor more than $50.
A. B. 15. Mouser. Providing for semi-monthly paydays in
certain public and private employments; to regulate the man-
ner of payment of wages or compensaton of employees in such
employments; and providing penalties for the violation of
this Act.
Provides for semi-monthly paydays in all departments and
institutions of the public service, state, county and municipal,
and in all private employments where ten or more persons are
employed; requires notices of the regular paydays to be con-
spicuously posted; violation punishable by fine of not less than
$25 nor more than $500, except that in case of state, cOunty
or municipality, the fine shall be assessed against the officer
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915. 319
whose refusal, failure or neglect causes violation; Act not
applicable to temporary employees or teachers in public
schools, and not to be construed as prohibiting more frequent
paydays.
A. B. 980. Marron. To provide semi-monthly pay days for
State employes.
S. B. 433. Flaherty. To provide for semi-monthly pay days
in certain public employments; and to regulate the manner of
payment of wages or compensation of employees in such em-
ployments.
A. B. 488. Mouser. Identical with S. B. 433. Flaherty.
S. B. 405. Scott. To regulate the payment of wages or com-
pensation of employees in private employments; to provide for
regular pay days in such employment; creating a liability on
the part of the employers to pay damages in certain cases;
and authorizing the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor
Statistics to enforce the provisions of this Act.
Provides that where 10 or more persons are employed by the
same employer their wages shall be due and payable semi-
monthly; where less than 10 are so employed, wages shall be
due and payable weekly; regular pay days shall be maintained,
and a notice stating such pay days shall be posted conspicu-
ously; wages shall be paid in lawful money of the United
States or by good and valid negotiable check or draft, payable
on presentation at some bank, without discount; if an employee
shall be absent on pay day he shall be paid within three days
after making demand therefor; for violation employer shall be
subject to fine of not less than $25 nor more than $500 for each
offense.
If an employee shall be discharged or quit wages earned
and unpaid at time of leaving shall be due and payable within
five days thereafter, and if not so paid employer shall be
liable to such employee as damages in addition to wages owing
a sum equivalent to wages that would have been earned if he
had continued to work until paid in full, but not to exceed
three times the wages actually due.
Act does not apply to seasonal employments in which wages
are otherwise regulated by law. Commissioner of Bureau of
Labor Statistics shall enforce provisions of Act.
A. B. 487. Mouser. Identical with S. B. 405. Scott.
S. B. 987. Lyon. Amending an Act, approved March 1, 1911,
prohibiting the issuance as payment for wages of any evidence
of indebtedness unless the same is negotiable and payable with-
out discount, and providing that the same must be payable
upon demand, by prohibiting the issuance of any scrip, coupons,
cards, or other thing redeemable in merchandise or purporting
to be payable or redeemable otherwise than in money.
A. B. 1190. Johnson. Amending Sections 2, 3 and 4 of an
320 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
Act approved May 1, 1911, providing for the time of payment
of wages, and adding Sections 5 and 6 thereto.
S. B. 982. Lyon. Amending Section 3 of an Act, approved
May 1, 1911, providing for the time of payment of wages,
providing penalties for the violation of said Act.
A. B. 1392. Ream. Relating to the payment of wages.
Provides that all wages earned shall be paid in cash; failure
to do so is made a misdemeanor.
A. B. 148. Rodgers. Providing compensation for State
employees on certain legal holidays.
Provides that all State employees on per diem basis shall
be paid for legal holidays, except Sundays, as on other days,
but shall not be required to labor thereon except in cases of
extreme emergency.
S. B. 515. S'eott. Identical wtth A. B. 148. Rodgers.
A. B. 108. Rodgers. Prescribing the minimum wage to be
paid for labor upon all work performed for and in the interest
of the State of California by contract, at $3.00 per day, and
requiring a stipulation to that effect in all contracts; penalty,
misdemeanor, punishable by fine not to exceed $500 or im-
prisonment not to exceed seven months.
A. B. 98. Spengler. Regulating the hours of persons em-
ployed in any manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile estab-
lishment, laundry, hotel, public lodging house, apartment
house, hospital, place of amusement or restaurant, or telegraph
or telephone establishment or office; also providing a penalty
for the violation of this Act.
Limits hours to eight per day and 48 per week; not to apply
to or affect harvesting, curing, canning or drying of any variety
of perishable fruit or vegetables or to graduate nurses in hos-
pitals. Bureau of Labor Statistics charged with enforcement;
violation punishable by fine of not less than $25 nor more than
$50 for first offense; and for second offense by fine of not less
than $100 nor more than $250, or imprisonment not more than
60 days, or both.
A. B. 750. Browne. Regulating the hours of employment in
the manufacture of lumber.
Limits hours to ten in each twenty-four; except in case
of emergency; violation declared a misdemeanor, punishable
by fine of not less than $50 nor more than $300, or by imprison-
ment not more than three months, or both.
WATER DISTRICTS.
S. B. 105. Strobridge. Amending Sections S, 19, 21 and 26
of an Act to amend an Act to provide for the incorporation
and organization and management of county water districts,
and to provide for the acquisition of water rights or construc-
tion thereby of waterworks and for the acquisition of all
PENDING LEGISLATION. 1915. 321
property necessary therefor, and also to provide for the dis-
tribution and sale of water by said districts.
A. B. 310. Beck. Amneding Sections 3, 19, 21 and 26 of
an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the incorporation and
organization and management of county water districts and
to provide for the acquisition of water rights or construction
thereby of water works and for the acquisition of all property
necessary therefor, and also to provide for the distribution
and sale of water by said districts".
A. B. 339. Gelder. Amending Sections 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 13, 14
and 25 of an Act approved December 24, 1911, to provide for
the incorporation and organization and management of munic-
ipal water districts, and to provide for the acquisition or con-
struction by said districts of waterworks, and for the acquisi-
tion of all property necessary therefor, and also to provide tot
the distribution and sale of water by said districts, and add'
ing a new section to be designated Section 14*£ thereto, relat-
ing to the Auditor.
S. B. 350. Luce. Adding Section 27a (new) to an Act to
provide for the incorporation and organization and manage-
ment of municipal water districts; providing for the disincor-
poration of said districts.
S. B. 567. Benedict. Relating to bonds of county water
works districts, providing under what circumstances such
bonds shall be legal investments for funds of banks, insur-
ance companies and trust companies, trust funds, State school
funds and any money or funds which may now or hereafter
be invested in bonds of cities, cities and counties, counties,
school districts or municipalities, and providing under what
circumstances the use of bonds of county water works dis-
tricts as security for the performance of any act may be
authorized.
S. B. 319. Strobridge. Validating the formation and organi-
zation, and determining the boundaries of Alameda County
Water District in the county of Alameda, State of California.
S. B. 534. Strobridge. Validating the formation and organi-
zation, and determining the boundaries of the Pleasanton
township county water district in the county of Alameda, State
of California.
A. B. 643. Beck. Validating the formation and organiza-
tion, and determining the boundaries of the Pleasanton Town-
ship County Water District in the County of Alameda, State
of California.
S. B. 790. Owens. Legalizing and validating the formation
and organization of Marin municipal water district in the
County of Marin, State of California; declaring the same
created; fixing, defining and establishing the boundaries there-
of; providing for its management and control subject to the
322 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
provisions of the laws of the State of California relative to
municipal water districts; and repealing all acts and parts of
acts inconsistent therewith.
A. B. 854. Manning. Identical with S. B. 790. Owens.
WATER AND WATER RIGHTS.
S. B. 33. Flaherty. To compel every person, company,
association or corporation carrying on or conducting the busi-
ness of supplying water in any city, city and county, or town,
to supply all the inhabitants thereof upon demand. Failure
to furnish water on the ground that the persons demanding
it must pay for necessary extensions of pipe, the city shall
install the necessary pipe and charge the cost to the person
or corporation furnishing the water. Failure or refusal to
furnish water on demand for three consecutive times shall
forfeit its franchise and waterworks to the city, city and
county, or town, where same is situated, for the public use.
A. B. 301. Ellis. Requiring a riparian proprietor to apply
any riparian waters claimed by him to a beneficial use, and
providing for the abandonment of the right.
A. B. 983. Shartel. To conserve the water supply of streams
used for mining, irrigation or municipal purposes, by regulat-
ing the cutting of timber on the watersheds thereof; and pre-
scribing penalties for violation of the provisions of this Act.
A. B. 1216. Fish. Relating to the establishment and crea-
tion of commercial waterway districts, and the construction
and maintenance of a system of commercial waterways, in-
cluding the straightening, deepening and widening of rivers,
water courses and streams and the protecting of the banks
thereof, and to provide for the means of payment thereof.
S. B. 1049. Thompson. Identical with A. B. 1216. Fish.
S. B. 1029. Irwin (by request). An Act to prohibit the
contamination of streams, creeks, irrigation ditches, lakes and
other sources of surface water supply by the discharge and
flow of petroleum or petroleum emulsion resulting from the
operations of any person, firm, corporation or association in
drilling, pumping or maintaining an oil or petroleum produc-
ing well; providing for the stoppage of such discharge or flow
and providing penalties for the violating of the provisions of
this Act.
S. B. 1051. Benedict. To provide for the accomplishment of
the work in the confining and diversion of the Los Angeles,
Rio Honda and San Gabriel Rivers in the County of Los An-
geles, providing for co-operation between the State and United
States Government in such work, and appropriating $200,000
therefor.
S. B. 1144. Maddux. Relating to the use of the public
waters of the State of California.
PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915. 323
Prohibits use of water flowing in any river, stream, canyon,
ravine or other natural channel, on lands not riparian thereto
without permission of State Water Commission; diversion or
use of water contrary hereto is declared a trespass, subject
to legal action for its abatement.
A. B. 1464. Dennett. Identical with S. B. 1144. Maddux.
A. B. 1302. Browne (by request). Amending Sections 1
and 2 of an Act to preserve and maintain lakes, ponds, brooks,
creeks, rivers and streams of this State, and to prevent the
waters thereof from being carried by pipe, conduits, ditches,
tunnels or canals into other states, for use therein.
S. B. 1101. Jones. Amending Section 2 of an Act, approved
June 13, 1913, to prevent the supply of water dangerous to
health for domestic purposes, and to provide for the installation
of sanitary water system.
A. B. 1396. Wright, T. M. Amending Section 2 of an Act,
approved June 13, 1913, to prevent the supply of water dan-
gerous to health for domestic purposes and to provide for the
installation of sanitary water systems.
WEEDS, NOXIOUS PROPAGATION OF.
S. B. 333. Birdsall. To prevent the propagation, by the pro-
duction of seed, of those certain plants known as sorghum
halepense, cnicus arvensis, salsoli kali, onoprodon acanthium,
cnicus lanceolatus and convolvulus arvensis; and repealing
all Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent herewith.
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
A. B. 257. Widenmann. Relating to persons engaged in the
business of public weighing for hire and prescribing for such
a bond and fixing the amount thereof; regulating fees to be
collected for such service; a certificate and the form thereof;
defining the duties of public weighmasters and providing pen-
alties for violations of the provisions of this Act.
Declares all persons engaged in the business of public weigh-
ing for hire and issuing weight certificates, public weigh
masters, and requires them to file a bond of $5000 with the
State Superintendent of Weights and Measures, and to obtain
from him a seal for the stamping of weight certificates, the
form of which shall be prescribed by the State Superintendent
of Weights and Measures; requires public weigh masters to
keep and preserve accurate records of public weighing, which
shall be noted on the certificates; violations are declared a mis-
demeanor. In cases of difference over correctness of net or
gross weight, for which a certificate has been issued, the
person questioning the weight may have the articles reweighed
by the State Superintendent of Weights and Measures or a
public weigh master designated by him upon deposit of a sum
324 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
sufficient to defray the actual cost of the reweighing. All lots,
shipments or consignments, after having been weighed, shall
be piled or stored separately in order that they may be read-
ily distinguished from others of the same kind.
S. B. 227. Tyrrell. Relating to persons engaged in the busi-
ness of public weighing for hire, and prescribing for such a
bond and fixing the amount thereof; regulating fees to be
collected for such service; a certificate and the form thereof;
defining the duties of public weightmasters and providing pen-
alties for violations of the provisions of this Act.
S. B. 667. Tyrrell. Amending Sections 2, 3, 12, 16 and 17
of an Act, approved June 16, 1913, known as the "Weights
and Measures Act".
WOMEN AND CHILDREN.
A. B. 729. Wright. To establish a detention home for
women, to provide for the maintenance and management
thereof, and appropriating money therefor.
Provides for the purchase of a site and the erection of
necessary buildings, the appointment by the Governor of a
board of three trustees to govern the proposed institution and
the employment of a matron and other attaches. The salary
of the matron is not fixed, but the compensation of the secre-
tary is fixed at $1500 a year.
The amount of money to be appropriated to carry out the
provisions of the Act is to be determined by the ways and
means committee.
It is made incumbent upon magistrates to sentence women
who are guilty of violating the redlight abatement law to the
home for terms not to exceed ten years. During the time the
women are confined they will be clothed and fed by the State.
S. B. 954. Amending Sections 8, 11 and 12 of an Act, ap-
proved May 26, 1913, regulating the employment of women
and minors and establishing an Industrial Welfare Commis-
sion to investigate and deal with such employment, including
a minimum wage; providing for an appropriation therefor and
fixing a penalty for violations of this Act.
Provides (Sec. 8) for a special license for an apprentice
or learner at a wage less than the legal minimum wage, to
be fixed by the commission; also (Sec. 11) adds a penalty for
violation, refusal or neglect to comply with provisions of Act
or any orders or rulings of commission, by making it a mis-
demeanor so to do, punishable by fine of not less than $50 or
by imprisonment not less than 30 days, or both; also (Sec. 12)
includes with the maximum wage, "the maximum hours of
Work and the standard conditions of labor fixed by the Com-
mission" to be taken prima facie to be reasonable, in prosecu-
tions under this Act.
FENDING LEGISLATION, 1915. 325
WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION ACT.
A. B. 1025. Godsil. Amending Section 2 of an Act approved
May 26, 1913, to promote the general welfare of the people of
this State as affected by accident causing the injury or death
of employes in the course of their employment, by creating a
liability on the part of employers to compensate such employes
and their dependents for such accidental injury or death ir-
respective of the fault of either party, etc., relating to defini-
nitions of certain terms.
S. B. 510. Benson. Amending Sections 2, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17,
19, 20, 22, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 36, 37, 46, 47, 57, 71,
72, 75, 76, 77 and 81 of an Act approved May 26, 1913, to pro-
mote the general welfare of the people of this State as affected
by accident causing the injury or death of employees in the
course of their employment, by creating a liability on the part
of employers to compensate such employees and their depend-
ents for such accidental injury or death irrespective of the
fault of either party, and providing the means and methods
of enforcing such liability; and creating a "State compensation
insurance fund" to insure employers against such liability and
providing for its administration and regulating such insurance
by other insurance carriers; and requiring safety in all em-
ployments and places of employment in this State and pro-
viding the means and methods of enforcing such safety; and
requiring reports of industrial accidents; and providing penal-
ties for offenses by employers, their officers, agents, and by
employees and other persons and corporations; and creating an
industrial accident commission, providing for its organization,
defining its powers and duties and providing for a review of
its orders, decisions and awards; and appropriating moneys to
carry out the provisions of this Act; and repealing all Acts
and parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act,
and adding thereto a new section to be numbered 75a, con-
ferring jurisdiction on the commission over all controversies
arising out of injuries suffered without the State in cases
where injured employee is resident of this State at time of
injury and contract of hire was made in this State.
S. B. 800. Flaherty. Amending Sections 12, 14, 15, 49 and
50 of the Act, approved May 26, 1913, and designated as the
"Workmen's Compensation, Insurance and Safety Act".
A. B. 849. Harris. Identical with S. B. 800. Flaherty.
A. B. 791. Rutherford. Amending Section 15 of an Act
approved May 21, 1913, to promote the general welfare of the
people of this State as affected by accident causing the injury
or death of employees in the course of their employment by
creating a liability on the part of' employers to compensate
such employees, etc., relating to what compensation shall be
furnished or paid by the employer.
326 PENDING LEGISLATION, 1915.
S. B. 898. Birdsall. Identical with A. B. 791. Rutherford.
S. B. 807. Thompson. Amending Section 40 of an Act, ap-
proved May 26, 1913, to promote the general welfare of the
people of this State as affected by accident causing the injury
or death of employees in the course of their employment, by
creating a liability on the part of .employers to compensate
such employees and their dependents for such accidental in-
jury or death irrespective of the fault of either party, and
providing the means and methods of enforcing such liability;
and creating a "State compensation insurance fund" to insure
employers against such liability and providing for its admin-
istration and regulating such insurance by other insurance car-
riers; and requiring safety in all employments and places of
employment in this State and providing the means and methods
of enforcing such safety; and requiring reports of industrial
accidents; and providing penalties for offenses by employers,
their officers, agents, and by employees and other persons and
corporations; and creating an industrial accident commission,
providing for its organization, denning its powers and duties
and providing for a review of its orders, decisions and awards;
and appropriating moneys to carry out the provisions of this
Act; and repealing all Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent
with the provisions of this Act.
A. B. 900. Meek. Identical with S. B. 807. Thompson.
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