and address of the owner and address of the agent or both, or lessee and manager of such hotel, rooming house, apartment house, together with a full description of the building and property to be used or proposed to be used for such business, and stating the location of same, which application upon its return to the State Board of Health, shall be accompanied by a license fee, as provided by law. Penalty.

Section 8. Every person, firm or corporation who shall fail or refuse to comply with the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be subject to a fine of not less than $5.00 nor more than $50.00 for each and every day he shall fail or refuse to so comply.

Sanitation-Fire Escape.

Section 9. Every hotel, rooming house, apartment house or restaurant in this state shall be properly plumbed, lighted and ventilated, and shall be conducted in every department with strict regard to health, comfort and safety of the guests; provided, that such proper lighting shall be construed to apply to both daylight illumination, and that such proper plumbing shall be construed to mean that all plumbing and drainage shall be constructed and plumbed according to approved sanitary principles, and that such proper ventilation shall be construed to mean at least one door and one window in each sleeping room.

No room shall be used as a sleeping room which does not open to the outside of the building or upon light wells, air shafts or courts, and all sleeping rooms shall have at least one window and one door.

In each sleeping room there must be at least one window with openings so arranged as to provide easy access to the outside of building light wells or courts.

Health and Sanitation.

Section 10. In all cities, towns and villages not having a system of waterworks, every hotel, rooming house,

apartment house, or restaurant, shall have properly constructed privies or other vaults to receive the night soil, the same to be kept clean and well screened at all times, and free from filth of every kind. Separate apartments shall be furnished for sexes, each being properly designated.

Wash Room.

Section 11. Each hotel or restaurant in this state shall be provided with a main public wash room convenient and of easy access to guests.

Examinations.

Section 12. For the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this act, the State Board of Health shall supervise the licensing, examination and inspection of all hotels, rooming houses, apartment houses, or restaurants as provided herein.

Duty of Inspector-Records.

Section 13. It shall be the duty of said inspector under the supervision and direction of the State Board of Health, to see that all provisions of this act are complied with and said inspectors shall personally inspect, once in twelve months as herein provided, every hotel, rooming house, apartment house, and restaurant as defined in this act, but it shall be unlawful for such inspector to make known to the proprietor in charge of such hotel his intentions to make inspection at such time. Said inspectors are hereby granted police power to enter any hotel, rooming house, apartment house or restaurant, at any reasonable hour to determine whether or not the provisions of this act are being complied with. The State Board of Health shall keep a complete set of books for public use and inspection showing the condition of each hotel, rooming house, apartment house, and restaurant so inspected, together with the name of the proprietor, and showing its sanitary conditions and the number and condition of its fire escapes and any other information for the benefit of the public ser

vice. It shall be the duty of the State Board of Health to furnish any citizen of the state with such blanks as to facilitate the reports desired to be made by any such citizen relative to any hotel, rooming house, apartment house, or restaurant, subject to the provisions of this act and to enable such citizen to give an abstract of evidence or names of witnesses which may be produced to sustain the charge of any violation of this act.

Certificate of Inspection.

Section 14. If the State Board of Health shall find, after examination and report of the inspector of any hotel, rooming house, apartment house, or restaurant in such county that his law has been fully complied with and the license fee paid, said Board of Health shall issue certificate to that effect to the proprietor of such hotel, rooming house, apartment house or restaurant, and said certificate shall be kept posted up in a conspicuous place, in said building.

False Certificate.

Section 15. Any inspector or member of the State Board of Health who shall wilfully certify falsely regarding any building inspected by him or under them or who shall issue a certificate to any person operating a hotel, rooming house, apartment house, or restaurant when the person operating the same has not complied with the provisions of this act, he shall be deemed guilty of a felony and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or shall be confined in the state prison for a year and a day and shall forever be disqualified from holding any public office in the State of Oklahoma.

Resisting Officer-Violations of Act.

Section 16. Any proprietor of a hotel, rooming house, apartment house or restaurant who shall obstruct or hinder any inspector in the proper discharge of his duties under this act, or who shall operate such hotel, rooming

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house, apartment house or restaurant or keep the same open for the public, after an examination thereof as provided in this act, without paying the license fee and obtaining the certificate authorized to be issued by this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

Complaint.

Section 17. It shall be the duty of the inspector, upon ascertaining by inspection or otherwise, that after this act takes effect, any hotel, rooming house, apartment house or restaurant is being carried on contrary to the provisions of this act, to make complaint and cause the arrest of the person so violating same.

Violations-Misdemeanor.

Section 18. Any violation of this act (where not otherwise provided for, both as to grade and punishn.ent) shall constitute a misdemeanor, and any person convicted shall be fined in a sum not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars or by punishment or imprisonment in the county jail for not less than five nor more than sixty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Approved April 7, 1915.

CHAPTER 228.

COUNTY TREASURER-DEPUTIES.

AN ACT providing for deputies to County Treasurers and fixing their salaries; and declaring an emergency.

Be It Enacted By the People of the State of Oklahoma: Deputies-Number and Salary.

Section 1. The county treasurer shall have the power to appoint one or more deputies by permission of the board.

of county commissioners, who shall receive the compensation as provided in this act, and no more.

In counties having a population of not more than fourteen thousand, one deputy, at a salary not exceeding seventy-five dollars ($75.00) per month; in counties having a population of more than fourteen thousand and not to exceed thirty thousand two deputies, the first deputy to receive a salary of not to exceed seventy-five dollars ($75.00) per month and the second deputy not to exceed sixty-five dollars ($65.00) per month. In counties having a population of more than thirty thousand and not to exceed fifty thousand, the first deputy shall receive a salary not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100.00) per month, and the second deputy not to exceed seventy-five dollars ($75.00) per month, and each additional deputy not to exceed fifty dollars ($50.00) per month. In counties having a population of more than fifty thousand and not to exceed sixty thousand, the first deputy shall receive a salary not to exceed one hundred and fifteen dollars ($115.00) per month, and the first five additional deputies shall each receive a salary of not to exceed eighty dollars ($80.00) per month, and the remaining deputies shall each receive a salary of not to exceed seventy-five dollars ($75.00) per month in the manner provided by law. In counties having a population in excess of sixty thousand, the county treasurer shall, with the advice and consent of the county commissioners, be allowed not to exceed eleven deputies; one of said deputies to receive a salary not to exceed $100 per month, one to receive a salary of not to exceed $90.00 per month, one to receive a salary of not to exceed $80 per month, each, to be fixed by the county commissioners; provided, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to counties having a population of over 15,650 and less than 15,680 according to the last federal census or any census hereafter taken.

Emergency.

Section 2. It being immediately necessary for the