Act amended. Section added. Branch laboratories. Proviso. [No. 182.] AN ACT to amend act number one hundred forty-six of the public acts of nineteen hundred nineteen, entitled "An act to protect the public health; to provide for the appointment of a state health commissioner, deputy state health commissioner and state advisory council of health; to prescribe the compensation, powers and duties thereof, the powers and duties of township, village and city health officers and health boards; and to abolish the state board of health," by adding thereto a new section to stand as section thirteen of said act. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Act number one hundred forty-six of the public acts of nineteen hundred nineteen, entitled "An act to protect the public health; to provide for the appointment of a state health commissioner, deputy state health commissioner and state advisory council of health; to prescribe the compensation, powers and duties thereof, the powers and duties of township, village and city health officers and health boards; and to abolish the state board of health," is hereby amended by adding thereto a new section to stand as section thirteen of said act, said added section to read as follows: SEC. 13. Subject to the approval of the state administrative board the state health commissioner is authorized and empowered to establish, equip and maintain such number of branch bacteriological laboratories at suitable places within the state as may be found necessary for the proper protection of the public health and the furnishing of adequate laboratory service to those entitled thereto: Provided, however, That such number of branch laboratories, including the laboratory now maintained in the upper peninsula, shall not exceed three. Approved May 5, 1925. [No. 183.] AN ACT to authorize the conversion of the industrial home for girls at Adrian into the girls' training school, continuing said school under the control of the state corrections commission; prescribing who may be admitted thereto, the powers and duties of the officers immediately in charge of said school, the character and extent of discipline and training to be enforced and provided therein, the compensation of the officers, teachers and other assistants appointed or hired in said institution, and penalties for violations of certain provisions of this act. The People of the State of Michigan enact: ing school SECTION 1. There is hereby authorized and established at Girls' trainthe city of Adrian, an institution to be known and designated established. as the girls' training school for purposes and to be governed as herein prescribed and provided. The lands, buildings, equipment and appurtenances of the industrial home for girls at Adrian, are hereby set aside, conveyed and converted to the use of said girls' training school, and the name and designation of the industrial home for girls is hereby abolished and discontinued; and wherever the name industrial home for girls appears in any statute of this state, it shall be taken and deemed to mean girls' training school. SEC. 2. Who may be admitted. All girls now attending or who held in said industrial home for girls or paroled or apprenticed admitted. therefrom or belonging thereto, shall continue under the authority of the girls' training school according to the orders of the several courts which sent them there in the first instance; and all girls hereafter sent to said girls' training school under the provisions of act number six of the public acts of nineteen hundred seven, extra session, shall be admitted thereto according to the terms of said act, and in that respect the said girls' training school shall be deemed to be the successor to the said industrial home for girls. SEC. 3. The said girls' training school shall be under the Control of. general control and management of the state corrections commission to the same extent as provided in act number one hundred sixty-three of the public acts of nineteen hundred twenty-one for the industrial home for girls, and as further expressly provided for in this act. The said state corrections commission shall appoint the superintendent and all other officers, teachers, attendants and assistants, subject to the approval of the governor, and shall fix their salaries, compensation and authorize the payment of their necessary expenses, subject to the approval of the state administrative board and in accordance with the accounting and budget laws, rules and regulations of the state. Officers. Relationship of state. Rules, etc., scribe. SEC. 4. The officers in immediate charge of said girls' training school shall consist of a superintendent, who shall be responsible for the conduct, discipline, educational and business affairs of said school; an assistant superintendent, who shall act for and in the absence or disability of said superintendent and who shall perform such other duties as may be assigned him by said superintendent or the state corrections commission; and such teachers, attendants, instructors, medical officers and helpers as may be necessary as the said state corrections commission may determine from time to time subject to the provisions of section three of this act. SEC. 5. The state shall at all times stand in the place and relationship of parent and legal guardian to each girl sent to said girls' training school during her residence therein or while under the control thereof; and the superintendent shall represent the state in such relationships. Each girl sent to such school shall be subject to the training, education and discipline herein prescribed and to the rules and regulations of said school, and shall remain therein until graduation or discharge therefrom as herein provided. No girl attending such school shall absent herself therefrom or from any school class, task or duty prescribed for her without leave or permission from said superintendent. Whenever any girl absents herself without leave beyond the limits of said school she may be retaken thereto by any police or other public officer or agent without warrant, and it shall be the duty of every person having knowledge of the whereabouts of such girl to immediately notify the superintendent of said school of such fact, and also the nearest public official and to hold said girl in detention until she can be delivered up for return to said school. SEC. 6. The state corrections commission shall prescribe who to pre- rules and regulations for the discipline of said school to carry out the purposes thereof, which shall be subject to the advice and approval of the governor. Said commission shall also prescribe a complete and graduated course of study for the girls within such school, equal and as near as may be similar to the grades up to the twelfth grade in the public schools of this state. Said commission shall also provide the means and equipment, and competent instructors for the teaching of useful arts and occupations, including domestic science, to the pupils therein. Certificates of proficiency in each year's work and of promotion from grade to grade shall be given each pupil, and upon full graduation from said school each pupil shall be entitled to and given an eligibility certificate showing her scholastic and technical class standing, which certificate shall be signed and authorized by the superintendent of public instruction of the state and shall bear no other signature. Clothing, etc., furnished. SEC. 7. The girls attending said girls' training school shall be furnished clothing and athletic equipment, and given instruction in gymnastics and athletics. It shall be the duty of the officers connected with said school to stimulate esprit in said school, and inculcate the principles of good citizenship in the minds of said pupils. SEC. 8. Under rules and regulations to be prescribed by Vacation the state corrections commission and approved by the gover- periods. nor, any pupil in said school may be granted temporary leaves of absence for vacation periods or may be temporarily placed in the care of any resident of this state who is the head of a family and of good moral character, and who will undertake to receive such pupil in his home, provide for her temporarily and return her to such school upon demand of the superintendent thereof. Any such pupil may be given over for legal Adoption. adoption to any such resident of the state upon the same terms and conditions and by the same legal process as are prescribed by law in other cases, the state acting in such proceedings in loco parentis. In all such cases the probate court of Ingham county, or of the county from which such pupil came to said school, shall have jurisdiction to order and confirm such adoption. SEC. 9. Every such pupil shall remain in said school until Period of her graduation therefrom or for the period expressed in the detention. order of the juvenile division of the probate court which sent her there; but no such pupil shall be held in said school beyond the age of twenty-one years. Upon her graduation or discharge she shall be returned to the county from which she came to her natural parents, if living and able to take charge of her, or placed temporarily in the care of the county agent of the juvenile court, or, where such arrangements have been made, shall be placed in the care of any resident of this state of good moral character who is willing to furnish her a home or employment as provided in section eight hereof. SEC. 10. The rules and regulations of said school shall pro- Medical, etc., vide for initial, periodical and final medical and physical inspections. inspections of each pupil, for her treatment for any disease or physical ailment, for decent and appropriate burial in case of death; for her classification as to age, mental condition, adaptability as to occupation, conduct and deportment, and as to such other grounds as may be prescribed therein. The Discipline. discipline prescribed shall be fairly and humanely carried on, and shall not ordinarily include any form of punishment not permitted to parents in their usual relationships. Any such pupil who proves to be wholly incorrigible may be returned to the public authorities of the county from which she came. SEC. 11. Records shall be kept pertaining to each indi- Individual vidual pupil during her residence or connection with said records kept. school, containing such information and notations as may be prescribed by the state corrections commission in regulations. Reports shall be furnished the governor upon such matters pertaining to said school as he may require. Upon graduation from said school, all records pertaining to any pupil shall be filed as confidential upon the order of the probate court of the county having original jurisdiction of such pupil. Civilian clothing provided. Misdemeanor, what deemed. Penalty. Act repealed. SEC. 12. Every pupil upon graduation or honorable discharge from said school, shall be given suitable civilian clothing, transportation to her destination, and such sum of money, not exceeding fifty dollars, as may be deemed necessary for her sustenance for a period of thirty days thereafter, which clothing and money shall be provided out of any funds in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, upon the requisition of the superintendent of said school and the warrant of the auditor general. SEC. 13. All acts and parts of acts, inconsistent herewith, are hereby repealed. Any person not being a pupil therein who aids or induces any pupil in said school to disobey its rules or regulations, or to escape therefrom, or who fails to notify the public authorities as required in section 5, or who otherwise violates any of the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment in any of the state prisons for not more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. SEC. 14. Act number six of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-three, and so much of act number one hundred thirty-three of the public acts of eighteen hundred seventynine as is inconsistent herewith, are hereby repealed. Approved May 5, 1925. Sewage dis when may construct. [No. 184.] AN ACT to provide for the issuance, sale and payment of bonds to provide funds for the establishment of a sewage disposal system, including plant and necessary sewers, when ordered by any competent court with jurisdiction in the state or by the state board of health. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Whenever a court of competent jurisdiction in posal system, the state of Michigan, or the state board of health, shall have ordered the installation of a sewage disposal system in any city or village, and the plans therefor shall have been prepared and shall have been approved by the state board of health, the legislative body of such city or village shall have authority to issue and sell the necessary bonds for the construction and installation thereof, including a disposal plant and the necessary sewers, both storm water and sanitary, that may be required to permit the effective operation of such disposal system; such bonds to draw interest at the rate of not to exceed six per cent per annum, payable semi-annu · |