Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1911 — NEW LAWS OF INDIANA [ARTICLE]

NEW LAWS OF INDIANA

Enacted By the Sixty-Seventh General Assembly. PRESENTED IN A NUTSHELL Here Are Set Out in Brief Though Comprehensive Form the Measure* Enacted b; the Late Legislature Foci the Further Government of the People of Indiana Concise Summary For the Busy Reader. With the close of the Sixty-seventh General Assembly of the state of Indiana, the following bills have received the governor’s signature and will become laws upon their formal promulgation; f SENATE BILLS.

18. Green wall. The cold storage bill. This is.said to be the first bill of Its kind passed in any state of the Union, and the food and drug authorities of the srate expect it to become a model for ether states. It limits to rine months the time that food products may be kept in cold storage, and provides for the labeling of cold storage products when offered for sale, at either wholesale or retail. 264. Harlan. Providing for acceptance of gift of Dr. Robert W. Long and wife for hospital purposes at Indianapolis, and providing a fund of $25,000 annually for maintenance of hospital in connection with Indiana university School of medicine. A joint resolution was adopted 1 voting thanks and appreciation to Dr. and Mrs. Long for this gift.

225. Stotsenburg. Providing for the commemoration of the 190th anniversary of the admission of Indiana to the Union by the building of a public library in Indianapolis, and creating a commission of four to make necessary arrangements.

301. Parks. Providing that school bonds Issued for the construction of new schoolhous.es in all towns of from 500 to 2,000 population may run for twenty years instead of ten years, as the present law provides. 233. Beal. Giving railroad commission power to regulate the size of cabooses and regulate their construction, providing that caboose cars shall be not less than twenty-four feet in length. 16. Grube. Providing that when a

candidate for county superintendent j has received one-half the number Of votes of trustees, the county auditor j thenceforth is entitled to vote. 113. Stotsenburg. Providing for the appointment of a locomotive Inspector by the railroad commission of Indiana i and regulating conditions of safety , and sanitation in locomotives.

21.” Hauek. Regulating the incorporation of b3nks, and providing that all bonds of state banks shall be filed with the auditor of state instead of with the secretary of state. 432. Yariing. Providing that the Judge of the Marion superior court. Room 5, shall hold court in Shelbyville, Shelby county, four terms of five weeks each. 212. Stotsenburg. Amending teachers’ salary law to give teachers exempt from license equality with those holding license for three years or more. 62. Neftenrille. > Anti-garnishee law, making it unlawful for persons to buy or sell claims against which judgments may be entered in another state.

28. McCarty. Providing for the sanitary construction of school buijd,'ngs and providing for the free medical examination of school children. 37. , Stotsenbrug. Providing for prisoners serving life sentences in Jeff rsdnville reformatory being taken to the state prison at Michigan city. 23 Kistler. Providing for the apn'dnlment of additional bank exaini. wrs and permitting the removal of examiners by the state auditor. 183. Parks. Providing that cities may issue bonds to take up floating indebtedness caused by court judgments against the city.

38. StotFeriburg. Providing for the filling of vacancies in town offices by election of town boards instead of by general elections. 209. Wood. Authorizing railroad companies to take stock in interurban companies to facilitate the building of union terminals. 1

76. Harlan. Authorizing the Indianapolis school city to take over and maintain the Winona Technical Institute.

2. Beal. Permitting change of venue from superior courts to circuit courtto ooviate the need of special judges. 1. Akin. Creating a separate circuit court for Sullivan county, now Included with Greene. In one circuit. > 251. Yarling. Providing that interurbans shall provide waiting rooms in cities of 4,§00 or more. 82. Proctor. Amending county option law by substituting city and township for County as units of option. 134. Roys*. Amending the law governing the organization and perpetuity of voluntary school associations. 12. Fleming. Providing that traction and railway companies may make ten-year Barrett law payments. 348. Grube. Providing that boards of trustees of state institutions, in paying contractors for the construe- * • *

tlon of buddings, shall withhold snfßcfe r t money, to pay subcontractor* btfe-<? the general contractor is paid; , pro- id;’ - g also for making provision in all public contracts for the payment of labor performed while buildings are under construction. 138. Stotsenburg. Providing that political parties may adopt or reject any proposed amendment to the constitution and that such question 'may be placed on the ballot to show whether nny political party is favorable or is opposed to such an amendment. 327. Proctor. Amending the township and city unit local option law passed early in the session to clear, up a doubtful point in regard to elections In townships outside of cities, where city and rural precincts meet.

350. Sullivan. Authorizing mining and manufacturing companies to state in their articles of incorporation whether preferred stockholders shall be entitled to a Vote in the affairs of the company. 1 • ■ . 275. Grube. Requiring- examination of employes of railroads working on section gafigs and providing that at least two then in each gang shall understand the flagging system of the railroad.

435. Clark. Authorizing the township advisory board of Center township, Marlon county, to make appropriations for office rent, attorney and clerical help for the township trustee. 156. Strange. Amending road law with a provision for building bridges on highways forming boundary line between counties where streams cross such highways on the boundaries. 66. Sullivan. Providing for the appointment of guardians on application to probate court without the necessity of showing that persons for whom application is made ar insane. 163. Crumpacker. Providing that in cities of the fifth class where a grade has once been established no changes can be ordered until all damages are settled. 195. Netterville. Specifying a clearance of twenty-one feet for wires and obstructions crossing railway trucks and regulating fastening of such obstructions. .

238% Moore. Providing for clearing present municipal corporation statjtes of ambiguity and defining the powers of municipal corporations to incur debts.

279. McCarty. Requiring county treasurer to deduct the amount of delinquent taxes from any money owing from the county to the delinquent, 378. Greenwell. Giving cities of the second class same rights in establishing park systems as are accorded to citie# of the first class.

88 Wood. Providing for monthly report to city controller by treasurer in cities in which city and county treasurer are the same.

290. Gavit. Empowering county commissioners to build tunnels under navigable waterways and public highways in lieu of bridges. 214. H&uek. Regulating the transfer of children from school corporations in Indiana to similar corporations outside the state.

388. Stotsenburg. Defining dangor- ! ous employments and defining duties | of owners and managers of buddings ■ being built or rebuilt. ! 229. Xetterville. Regulating the construction of telephone and telegraph wires across railroad and interurban tracks. 90. Fleming. Increasing the salary of county commissioners in Allen. Marion, Vigo, Lake and SL Joseph coun- • ties. 340. Harlan. Reducing the limit of j the Indianapolis general tax levy from 1 90 cents, the present limit, to 75 cents. 1 288. Higgins. Legalizing the formation of corporations to periietuite the memory of soldiers and sail ms. i 55. GavlL Providing mortgages and deeds shall be recorded within three days instead of forty-five days.

207. Proctor. Prescribing the kind of danger signal posts to be placed at railway and interurban crossings. ! 147. Kane. Allowing issuance of 1 partial payment monthly to contrae 1 tors for work done on sewers, j 213. Hanna. Giving the railroad commission of Indiana additional powers in examining witnesses. | 260. Kistler. Providing for the re- ! pair of free gravel roads by boards of • county commissioners, i 20. jfiarian. Against threatening or j punishing prisoners to extort confessions. “Third degree" bill. 208. Proctor. Requiring railroads to report fatal accidents by telegraph to the railroad commission. 154. Stotsenburg. Legalizing the incorporation of the town of Silver Grove. Floyd county. 137. Stotsenburg. Legalizing the Incorporation of the town of Greenville, Floyd county.

155. Stotsenburg. Legalizing the incorporation of the town of Georgetown, Floyd county. 217. Proctor. Requiring that railroads equip locomotives with automatic bell ringers. 87. Wood. Raising the pay of police officers in cities of 10.000 to 35,000 population. 27. McCrtv. Providing for the medical Inspection of all school children in the state. 30. Powers; For the protection of certain fur-bearing animals. “Skunk” bill. 29. Moore. Legalizing debts made by trustees In building schoolhouses. 78. Hanna. Legalizing the incorporation of the town of Clayton. 328. Proctor. Providing for storm windows for locomotives. \ 94. Curtis. Providing a fefe of $2 a day for struck jurors. 'l* , > 70. Clark. Requiring a full crew on switching engines. 454- Greenwell. Protecting county auditors against any civil or criminal

liability by reason of any warrants issued by them in good faith upon the authority of boards of commissioners or judgments of courts.

“ 407. Stot3enburg. The governor’s bill amending the state constitution and providing methods to place the provisions of it before the people for ratification or rejection at the general election in 1912.

128. Parks. To provide for the reimbursements of county treasurers out of general county funds when money has been spent for traveling expenses in collecting taxes outside of county seats.

124. Jacksbn. Amending section of an act concerning proceedings in civil eases which provide no distinction in pleading and practice between actions at law and suits in equity. 420. StotseDburg. Providing for a re-extension of time in which to file a bill of exceptions when court reporters are not able to furnish transcripts in time first set. 349. Grube. Providing that teach ers having been engaged in teaching school for six years need not take an examination at specified times as now required by law. 313. Commons. Authorizing churches having burial grounds to abandon said grounds and cause removal of bodies when the cemetery is located within a city or town.

196. Netterville. Specifying a clearance of twenty-one feet for wires and obstructions crossing railway tracks and regulating fastenings of such obstructions.

210. Wood. Permitting townships to refund their indebtedness upon the same basis as present law allows cities and towns to accomplish such purposes... ■

185. Kistler. Providing for payment by county commissioners for certain expenses incident to the construction of free gravel and turnpike roads.

400. Tilden. Replacing senate bill 318. Regarding the selection of uniform system of determining real estate valuation by the various counties. 329. Kistler. Providing for the adoption of a dependent child through application to circuit or superior court instead of only through probate court. 43, Traylor. The corrupt practices act, limiting the amount of campaign contributions and prohibiting corporations from making such contributions. 109. Yarling. Amending public accounting law to provide that prosecutions may he instituted bv local prosecutors instead of attorney general. 33. Royse. Providing for the inspection of building and loan associations by the state auditor and codification of building and loan laws. 175. Stotsenburg. Providing that the physician at the Indiana state prison shall be also the physician at the state hospital for the insane.

161. Durre. Amending present laws by giving county commissioners right to relocate any telephone or telegraph pole on public highways. 438. Stotsenburg. Extending the time of probate, juvenile and superior court judges in Marion county to make elections come in “off” years.

122. Hauek. Defining the duties of county commissioners in issuing bonds and levying taxes in cases where public highways concerned. 73. Farrelr. Providing for a stay of execution of bail on appeal to the supreme court when persons have been found guilty of crime. 356. Greenwell. Putting county superintendents on a straight salary basis and allowing them SIOO annually for traveling expenses. 272. Traylor. Providing that conditional sale of railway rolling stock may be extended to fifteen years instead of ten years.

365. Proctor. Conferring additional right of eminent domain on ralli roads for the purpose of improving right of way. 153. Royse. Amending laws relating to sewer payments so that abutting property owners stand the expense. 399. Sullivan. Increasing the salary of assessor Center township, Indiaanpolis, from $2,500 to $3,500 a year. 44. Wood. Requiring railroad companies to pay damages caused by sparks from engines along right of way. 165. Gavit. Providing for an increase in salaries of clerks and sher- | iffs in Lake, Vigo and Madison counties. 245. Harlan. .Raising tax in the • city of Indianapolis from 4 cents to 6 : cents for track elevation purposes. 246>. Stotsenburg. Providing that in petitions for roads there shall be three reviewers, instead of two. 179. Traylor. Legalizing warrants issued by township trustees on authority of township advisory boards. 424. Hibberd. Readjusting the salaries of clerk, auditor and treasurer of St. Joseph county. 202. Clark. Increasing the salary of the clerk of Marion county from $19,500 to $31,000. 385. Royse. Compelling railroad companies to erect suitable stations in certain cities. < 60. Kistler. Protecting hotel keepers and persons in similar occupations from deadbeats, 152. Parke. Authorizing trustees to use /sefccolhouses which have been donated 1 ~ IS7. Eta!. Providing for popular election cf school trustees in Terre Haute. 144. Gr ecwell. Fixing the salary of the and.‘or of Allen county at $lO,000. 39. Strange. Eminent dogiain for historic purposes. 192, Beal-ShiVeiy employers’ liability act. ■ i. : . 266 Royse. Providing for an i»Continued on Page Eight.