[No. 198.] AN ACT to amend section one of act number three hundred fifty of the public acts of nineteen hundred thirteen, entitled "An act to enable counties to establish and maintain public hospitals, levy a tax and issue bonds therefor, elect hospital trustees, maintain training schools for nurses, provide suitable means for the care of tuberculous persons, and to make possible the ultimate establishment of an adequate supply of hospitals," being section ten thousand eight hundred fifty-eight of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. That section one of act number three hundred Section fifty of the public acts of nineteen hundred thirteen, entitled amended. "An act to enable counties to establish and maintain public hospitals, levy a tax and issue bonds therefor, elect hospital trustees, maintain training schools for nurses, provide suitable means for the care of tuberculous persons, and to make possible the ultimate establishment of an adequate supply of hospitals," being section ten thousand eight hundred fiftyeight of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, be amended to read as follows: how estab SEC. 1. Any county may establish and maintain a public Public hospital in the following manner: A petition shall first be hospital, presented to the board of supervisors signed by five per cent lished. of the qualified electors of the county, asking that bonds be issued and an annual tax levied for the purpose of raising money to be used to establish and maintain a public hospital what to in the county. Such petition shall state the place where it is Petition, proposed to locate such hospital and the maximum amount state. of money proposed to be expended to purchase, lease or build the same. Upon receipt of such petition, the board of supervisors shall order, submitted to the qualified electors of the county, the question of issuing bonds in the amount of ....dollars and levying a tax of.... mitted, notice, mills on the assessable property of the county, to pay said bonds. The money so raised to be used to purchase real estate for a hospital site and to construct and maintain buildings thereon, or to lease the same for hospital purposes. Such proposition shall be submitted to the qualified when propoelectors at the next regular election thereafter or at a special sition subelection to be called for that purpose. In either case, a notice etc. shall be given ninety days prior to the election, setting forth the text of the petition, the amount of bonds proposed to be issued and the amount of the mill tax proposed to be levied. Such notice shall be published in one or more newspapers published and circulated in the county, if any are published therein and if none are published therein, then the notice shall be published in some newspaper of general circulation therein. One or more written or printed copies of the notice shall also be posted in each voting precinct in the county. Approved May 15, 1923. Vacancy in state office, how filled. State senator, etc. U. S. senator. Election. Judge of court of record. County offices. [No. 199.] AN ACT to provide for the filling of vacancies in appointive and elective public offices. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Whenever a vacancy shall occur in any elective or appointive state office, other than the office of senator or representative in the state legislature or representative or senator in congress or a judge of a court of record, the governor shall fill such vacancy by appointment for the remainder of the unexpired term of such office. SEC. 2. A vacancy in the office of senator or representative in the state legislature or representative in congress shall be filled only by election. SEC. 3. Whenever a vacancy shall occur in the office of United States senator, the governor shall appoint, to fill the vacancy temporarily, some suitable person having the necessary qualifications for senator. The person so appointed shall hold office from the time of his appointment and quali fication until the first day of December following the next general November election which occurs more than one hundred twenty days after such vacancy happens. At such general November election, a United States senator to fill such vacancy shall be elected and the person so elected shall hold office from the first day of December following such election for the balance of the unexpired term of the senator whose vacancy is filled. SEC. 4. Whenever a vacancy shall occur in the office of a judge of a court of record, the governor shall fill such vacancy by appointment and the person appointed shall hold such office until his successor is elected and qualified. At the next general November election or biennial spring election held at least thirty days after such vacancy shall occur, a person shall be elected to fill such office and the person elected shall hold such office for the remainder of the unexpired term. SEC. 5. When a vacancy shall occur in an elective or appointive county office, it shall be filled in the following man ner: 1. If the vacancy shall be in the office of county clerk or prosecuting attorney it shall be filled by appointment by the judge or judges of that judicial circuit and the person appointed shall hold office for the remainder of the unexpired term. 2. If the vacancy shall be in any other county office, either elective or appointive, the judge of probate, the county clerk and the prosecuting attorney shall appoint some suitable person to fill such vacancy and the person so appointed shall hold such office for the remainder of the unexpired term. SEC. 6. Whenever a vacancy shall occur in any elective Township or appointive township office, except the office of justice of the offices. peace, it shall be filled by appointment by the township board of the township, and the person appointed shall hold the office for the remainder of the unexpired term. A vacancy Justice of in the office of justice of the peace shall be filled at the next annual township election. the peace. office. SEC. 7. Whenever a vacancy shall occur in an elective or City, etc., appointive village or city office, it shall be filled in the manner provided by the law or charter governing the filling of vacancies in the village or city in which the vacancy occurs. Approved May 15, 1923. [No. 200.] AN ACT to amend section two of act two hundred seventeen of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, entitled "An act to provide for the registration of deaths in Michigan and requiring certificates of death," the same being section five thousand six hundred five of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: obtain. SECTION 1. Section two of act two hundred seventeen of Section the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, entitled amended. "An act to provide for the registration of deaths in Michigan and requiring certificates of death," the same being section five thousand six hundred five of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 2. Whenever any person shall die, the undertaker, Certificate of householder, relative, friend, manager of institution, sexton death, who to or other person superintending the burial of said deceased person, shall cause a certificate of death to be filled out with all of the personal and family particulars required in section three of this act, and attested by the signature of a relative or some competent person acquainted with the facts. The Physician to physician who attended the deceased person during his last certify cause illness shall fill out the medical certificate of cause of death, which death certificate shall be delivered to the registrar of death. Proviso. when issued. within forty-eight hours after the death shall have occurred. In case of death without the attendance of a physician, or if it shall appear probable that the deceased person came to his death by unlawful or suspicious means, then the registrar shall refer the certificate to the health officer or coroner for immediate investigation and report prior to issuing the permit: Provided, That when the health officer is not a physician and only in such case, the registrar is authorized to insert the facts relating to the cause of death from statements Burial permit, of relatives or other competent testimony. Upon the presentation of a certificate of death properly filled out and signed, the registrar shall issue a permit for the burial or removal of the body and shall immediately record the death in the register of deaths, numbering all certificates consecutively in the order in which they are received, beginning with number one for the first death that occurs in each year. In deaths from dangerous communicable diseases, burial or etc., diseases. removal permits shall be granted by the registrar only in accordance with the rules of the local board of health and of the state board of health relating thereto. The sexton or other person having charge of the interment or final disposition of the body shall retain the burial permit when presented to him by the undertaker: Provided, That when a body is shipped the removal permit shall be presented by the undertaker or other person shipping the same to the agent of the transportation company, and shall be attached by him, with the transit permit, to the box containing the body, to accompany the same to destination, and no transit permit shall be issued or received by any transportation company for the shipment of a body unless accompanied by the registrar's removal permit. Deaths from communicable, Proviso, removal permit. Approved May 15, 1923. Lands for public park. [No. 201.] AN ACT making an appropriation for the purchase of cer tain lands for a public park. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. There shall be appropriated the sum of twentyfive thousand dollars to be expended in the purchase from the owners thereof the lands described as being lots one (1), two (2), three (3), and four (4), and the east one-half (E2) of the southeast quarter (SE) of section seventeen (17); also lots one (1), two (2), and three (3) in section twenty (20); also the west one-half (W2) of the west half (W12) of lot one (1) and all of lots two (2), three (3), four (4), five (5), and six (6), and the northwest one-quarter (NW) of the southwest quarter (SW14) of section twenty-one (21); also the northeast quarter (NE) of the southwest quarter (SW), and the southeast quarter (SE) of the southwest quarter (SW14) of section twenty-one (21), all in township ten (10) north, range seventeen (17) west, in the township of Laketon, county of Muskegon, and state of Michigan, the whole containing about eight hundred fifty-five and fortyseven one-hundredths acres according to the government survey, be the same more or less. ment made. SEC. 2. The said sum of money shall be paid to the owners When payof the lands described in section one of this act out of any public moneys of the state not otherwise appropriated, upon a warrant from the auditor general, at such time as the owners of the said lands shall have delivered to the department of conservation of this state a warranty deed for the same, which deed shall have been certified by the attorney general of this state as conveying to the state a perfect, unencumbered title to the said lands. SEC. 3. The lands when so deeded to the state shall be Control of. placed under the control of the department of conservation who shall at all times preserve them for the use of the people of the state as a public park subject to such rules and regulations as the department of conservation may find necessary for the preservation of the said lands and their natural resources. The said department of conservation shall develop the said tract of land and take steps to enhance the natural beauty of the lands. SEC. 4. The auditor general shall incorporate in the state Tax clause. tax for the year nineteen hundred twenty-three the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, which sum when collected shall be placed in the general fund of the state to reimburse said fund for the amount so paid for the lands described in section one of this act. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [No. 202.] AN ACT to make appropriations for the state house of correction and branch prison for the fiscal years ending June thirty, nineteen hundred twenty-four, and June thirty, nineteen hundred twenty-five, for maintenance, operation and other purposes. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated from the general Amounts and fund for the state house of correction and branch prison for purposes. |