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Certain corporations may renew corporate term.

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How called, etc.

[No. 55.]

AN ACT to provide for the reorganization of corporations for owning, maintaining and improving lands and other property kept for the purposes of summer resorts or for ornament, recreation or amusement, the term of existence of which has heretofore expired or may hereafter expire by limitation, and for the renewal of the corporate term and to fix the rights, duties and liabilities of such renewed corporation.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. It shall be lawful for any corporation heretofore or hereafter organized or existing under the laws of this State for the purpose of owning, maintaining and improving lands and other property kept for the purposes of summer resorts or for ornament, recreation or amusement, whose corporate term has expired, or shall expire by limitation, at a Special meet special meeting of its stockholders called for that purpose, by vote of at least four-fifths of its capital stock, to direct the reorganization of such corporation and the renewal, continuance and extension of its corporate term for such further period not exceeding thirty years from the expiration of its former term as may be expressed in a resolution for that purpose. Such meeting may be called by order of the directors de facto of such corporation, in accordance with the bylaws of such corporation and the laws of this State applicable to such class of corporations whose term has not expired. It shall be lawful to embrace in the call for such meeting a notice for the election of directors of such reorganized and renewed corporation. Upon the adoption of such resolution by a vote in person or by proxy duly filed, of a majority of at least four-fifths of the capital stock it shall be the duty of the president and secretary of such stockholders' meeting to certify under oath duplicate copies of such resolution and its adoption by at least four-fifths of the capital stock of such corporation, which copies shall be filed and recorded at the expense of said corporation in the same public offices wherein articles of association of the same class of corporations are required to be filed and recorded by the laws of this State, and the copies so filed or a certified copy of either of such records shall be prima facie evidence of the facts therein reFranchise fee. cited. The franchise fee provided by law shall apply to and be paid by such corporations so reorganized and renewed.

Resolution, where filed, etc.

When deemed reorganized.

SEC. 2. Upon the filing of such duplicate certificates in said public offices, such corporation shall be deemed reorganized and its term renewed, continued and extended as of the time of the expiration of the former term thereof, and such reorganized and renewed corporation and as well the stockholders thereof shall have all the rights, powers, privileges and

franchises and be seized and possessed of all of the property and of the same estate and interest therein, which said corporation and its stockholders or their assigns had or were seized or possessed of before the expiration of said corporate term, and as well all property acquired by or in the name of such corporation since the expiraton of said corporate term in all respects without change, diminution or prejudice by reason of the expiration of said corporate term or lapse of time thereafter, as fully and absolutely as if said corporate Liabilities. term had not expired; and said reorganized and renewed corporation shall be subject to and liable for all of the debts, obligations and liabilities of such corporation in all respects as if said corporate term had not expired.

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SEC. 3. Any such corporation whose term has already ex- Time limit for pired may take advantage of this act at any time within five tion. years of the date of such expiration, and any such corporation whose term shall hereafter expire may be so reorganized and renewed within three years of such expired term. Approved April 7, 1911.

[No. 56.]

AN ACT to prohibit the sale of certain pistols and explosives, and the making of regulations relative to fireworks and firecrackers.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

etc., unlawful

SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to sell or Fireworks, keep for sale any blank cartridge, toy pistol, toy gun or toy to sell. cannon that can be used to fire a blank cartridge; or to sell or keep for sale, or to fire, explode or cause to explode any blank cartridge or bomb; or to sell or keep for sale, or to set off, explode or cause to explode any fireworks containing any picric acid or picrates, or substance of a like nature, or any firecracker exceeding two inches in length and three eighths of an inch in diameter or of a greater explosive power than a firecracker of such size containing black powder only: Provided, That this section shall not apply to illuminating Proviso. fireworks set off between the hours of seven o'clock in the afternoon and twelve o'clock midnight, excepting those containing picric acid or picrates, or substances of a like nature, or to the sale of any article herein named to be shipped directly out of the State, or to the sale or use of explosives in the firing of salutes by official authorities, or to the sale or use of blank cartridges for a show or theatre, or for signal purposes in athletic sports or by railroads, or to experiments at any factory for the manufacture of explosives, or the firing

Penalty for violation.

of salutes with cannon on shore or on boats, or to the sale for use or the use by the militia or by any organization of war veterans, or in teaching the use of firearms by experts on 'days other than holidays.

SEC. 2. Whoever violates any provision of this act shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than thirty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. Approved April 7, 1911.

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Sections amended.

Annual meet-
ing, power
of voters at.

Chairman.

[No. 57.]

AN ACT to amend section twenty of chapter two, sections four, nine and eleven of chapter three of act number one hundred sixty-four of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-one, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the laws relating to public instruction and primary schools, and to repeal all statutes and acts contravening the provisions of this act," being sections four thousand six hundred sixty-five, four thousand six hundred sixty-nine, four thousand six hundred seventy-four and four thousand six hundred seventy-six of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Section twenty of chapter two and sections four, nine and eleven of chapter three of act number one hundred sixty-four of the public acts of eighteen hundred eighty-one, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the laws relating to public instruction and primary schools, and to repeal all statutes and acts contravening the provisions of this act," being sections four thousand six hundred sixty-five, four thousand six hundred sixty-nine, four thousand six hundred seventy-four and four thousand six hundred seventy-six of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, are hereby amenued to read as follows:

SEC. 20. The qualified voters of any school district when lawfully assembled at the first and at each annual meeting or at an adjournment thereof or at any special meeting lawfully called, except as hereinafter provided, shall have power:

First, At the first meeting and at any meeting after the organization of the district, in the absence of the moderator, to appoint a chairman for the time being and, in the absence of the director, to appoint some person to act in his stead, who shall keep a minute of the proceedings of such meeting and certify same to the director, to be by him entered in the records of the district;

Second, To adjourn from time to time as occasion may Adjournment. require;

tion of.

Third, To elect district officers as herein provided, and to officers, elecdetermine at what hour the annual meeting shall be held; Fourth, To designate as hereinafter provided a site or such Sites. number of sites as may be desired for school houses, and to change same when necessary;

Fifth, To direct the purchasing or leasing of a site or Purchase, etc. sites lawfully determined upon; the building, hiring or purchasing of a school house or houses, or the enlarging of a site or sites previously established;

Sixth, To vote such tax as the meeting shall deem sufficient Tax, limit of. to purchase or lease a site or sites, or to build, hire or purchase a school house or houses; but the amount of taxes to be raised in any district for the purpose of purchasing or building or altering a school house or houses in the same year that any bonded indebtedness is incurred shall not exceed two hundred fifty dollars in districts containing less than ten children between the ages of five and twenty years; in districts having between ten and thirty children of like age it shall not exceed five hundred dollars; and in districts having between thirty and fifty children of like age it shall not exceed one thousand dollars; the foregoing tax when levied "Building and collected, together with all funds derived from bonding for the same purposes, when received by the treasurer, shall be accounted for under the title of "Building fund:" Pro- Proviso. vided, That the money belonging to the building fund shall be used for no other purpose than that for which it was raised without a consenting vote of two-thirds of the taxpaying voters of the district present and voting at said election;

fund."

purposes.

Seventh, To determine the amount of money to be raised Other by tax for all school purposes, except as otherwise provided by law; the tax herein provided for, together with the onemill tax, when collected and received by the treasurer shall be accounted for under the title of "General fund;" Eighth, To authorize and direct the sale of any school School house, house, site, building or other property belonging to the dis- etc., sale of. trict, when the same shall no longer be needed for the use of

the district;

Ninth, To give such directions and make such provisions Suits. as they shall deem necessary in relation to the prosecution or defense of any suit or proceeding in which the district may be a party or interested;

mittee.

Tenth, To appoint as in their discretion it may be neces- Building comsary a building committee to perform such duties in supervising the work of building a school house as they may by vote direct;

terms.

Eleventh, At the first and annual meeting only to deter School mine the length of time a school shall be taught in their district during the ensuing year, which shall not be less than nine months in all districts having four hundred or more

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Officers, eligibility.

Proviso, husband and wife.

Running expenses, tax.

children of school age, and in all districts having over thirty children and less than four hundred children, not less than eight months, and not less than five months in all other districts on the pain of forfeiture of their share of the primary school interest fund; but in case the people do not determine the length of the school year, then the district board shall determine same, and in case the board or the district fix the length of the school year and later in the year it is found desirable to increase the length of said school year, such action may be taken at a properly called special school meeting, or the board may take such action on petition of a majority of the resident qualified voters: Provided, That each school district may at an annual meeting vote to discontinue school in the district for the ensuing year and determine that the children resident therein shall be sent to another school or schools, and when such action has been taken the school board shall have authority to use any funds, except library funds, in the hands of the treasurer to pay the tuition and transportation of all such children, and if necessary vote a tax for such purpose.

CHAPTER III.

SEC. 4. Any qualified voter in a school district whose name appears on the assessment roll and who is the owner in his own right of the property so assessed, shall be eligible to election or appointment to office in such school district: Provided, That where a husband and wife own property jointly, regardless of the name which appears on the assessment roll, if otherwise qualified, each shall be eligible to election or appointment to school office. It shall be illegal for any member of the district board to act as agent for any author, publisher or seller of school books or school apparatus, or to receive any gift or reward for his influence in recommending the purchase or use of any school book or apparatus in the State of Michigan. It shall be illegal for any member of the district board to perform any labor, except as provided in this act, or furnish any material or supplies for the school district in which he is an officer, and he shall not be personally interested in any way whatever directly or indirectly in any contract with the district in which he holds office. Any act herein prohibited, if performed by any such school officer, shall be deemed a misdemeanor, and he shall be liable to the punishment provided for such offense in accordance with the statute in such case made and provided.

SEC. 9. The district board shall have authority to vote such taxes as may be necessary for the regular running expenses of the school, which shall include school furnishings and all appurtenances, the care of school property, teachers' wages, water supply, premium upon indemnity bond for the treas urer of the district, transportation of pupils, record books and blanks, and all apparatus and material which may be

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