To co-operate with local police, etc.

When to assume office.

Orders, etc., pending.

Appropria

tions, transferred.

Biennial appropriations.

Proviso.

How paid

out.

Fees, where deposited.

assistance in the performance of any duty imposed by this act; and upon being notified or called upon for such aid and assistance, it shall be the duty of the officer concerned to comply with such order to the extent requested. Refusal or neglect to comply therewith shall be deemed misfeasance in office and shall subject the officer so refusing or neglecting to removal from office.

The said Commissioner shall formulate and put into effect plans and means of co-operating with the local police and peace officers throughout the state for the purpose of the prevention and discovery of crimes and the apprehension of criminals; and it shall be the duty of all such local police and peace officers to co-operate with such commissioner in such plans and means. Every telegraph and telephone company operating within this state shall grant priority of service to the police agencies and to the Department of Public Safety when notified that such service is urgent in the interests of the public safety.

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SEC. 7. The Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner of the Department of Public Safety shall assume office for the purpose of preparing the organization of the said department immediately upon their appointment and qualification. tions two, three, and four of this act shall take effect the first day of June of the year nineteen hundred twenty-one. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency. All matters and orders pending before or made by any officer or department transferred under this act to the Department of Public Safety shall be deemed to be continued with like status in the Department of Public Safety. All existing appropriations for the support and maintenance of any office or department, transferred under this act, or for the performance of any duties transferred from any department to the De partment of Public Safety, are hereby re-appropriated, as of the time of such transfer, for the support and maintenance of the Department of Public Safety.

SEC. 8. There is hereby appropriated from the general fund for the State Department of Public Safety for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred twenty-two, the sum of three hundred fifty thousand dollars, and for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred twentythree, the sum of three hundred fifty thousand dollars, for all purposes: Provided, That all expenditures hereunder shall be subject to the control of the State Administrative Board. SEC. 9. The amounts hereby appropriated shall be paid out of the state treasury, and the disbursing officer of the State Department of Public Safety shall render his accounts therefor at such times and in such manner as is or may be provided by law.

SEC. 10. All fees or other moneys received by said State Board of Public Safety shall be forwarded to the State Treasurer each month and shall be by said Treasurer deposited in

the state treasury to be disbursed in such manner and for such purposes as may be provided by law.

SEC. 11. The Auditor General shall incorporate in the Tax clause. state tax for the years nineteen hundred twenty-one and nineteen hundred twenty-two sufficient amounts to reimburse the general fund for the appropriations hereby made. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved May 5, 1921.

[No. 124.]

AN ACT to amend section twenty of sub-division seven of chapter four of part two of act number two hundred fiftysix of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, entitled "An act to revise, consolidate and classify the laws of the state of Michigan relating to the insurance and surety business; to regulate the incorporation of domestic insurance and surety companies and associations and the admission of foreign companies; and to provide for the departmental supervision and regulation of the insurance and surety business within this state," as added by act number one hundred thirty-five of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nineteen.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

amended.

SECTION 1. Section twenty of sub-division seven of chapter Section four of part two of act number two hundred fifty-six of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, entitled "An act to revise, consolidate and classify the laws of the state of Michigan relating to the insurance and surety business; to regulate the incorporation of domestic insurance and surety companies and associations and the admission of foreign companies; and to provide for the departmental supervision and regulation of the insurance and surety business within this state," as added by act number one hundred thirty-five of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nineteen, is hereby amended to read as follows:

Sub-division Seven.

SEC. 20. Nothing contained in this act shall be construed Exceptions. to affect or apply to orders, societies or associations of the following described classes, which provide for a death benefit of not more than two hundred fifty dollars, or disability benefits of not more than three hundred fifty dollars to any one person in any one year, or both:

Grand or subordinate lodges of Masons, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias (exclusive of the insurance department of the Supreme Lodge Knights of Pythias), the Junior Order of United American Mechanics (exclusive of the beneficiary degree of the insurance branch of the National Council Junior Order of the United American Mechanics), or to similar societies or orders or associations now doing business in this state, which provide benefits exclusively through local or subordinate lodges;

(b) Labor organizations or associations which limit their membership to persons of any one occupation employed in a designated city or town;

(c) Domestic societies which limit their membership to the employes of a particular city or town, designated firm, business house or corporation;

(d) Domestic societies or associations of a purely religious, charitable and benevolent description of a single denomination which limit their membership to the residents of a designated city, village, or town and of contiguous cities, villages, or towns.

Approved May 5, 1921.

Section amended.

[No. 125.]

AN ACT to amend section one of act number two hundred thirty-five of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred eleven, entitled "An act to provide for the payment and reimbursement by counties, in certain cases upon application therefor, of expenses incurred in the burial of the bodies of army nurses, honorably discharged soldiers, sailors or marines, or the wives or widows of said soldiers, sailors or marines, and to repeal act number two hundred fifty-two of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine, approved June two, nineteen hundred nine," being section one thousand fifty-seven of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, as last amended by act number one hundred sixtyfive of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nineteen.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Section one of act number two hundred thirtyfive of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred eleven, entitled "An act to provide for the payment and reimbursement by counties in certain cases upon application therefor, of expenses incurred in the burial of the bodies of army nurses, honorably discharged soldiers, sailors or marines, or the wives or widows of said soldiers, sailors or marines, and to repeal act number two hundred fifty-two of the Public Acts of nine

teen hundred nine, approved June two, nineteen hundred nine," being section one thousand fifty-seven of the Compiled Laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, as last amended by act number one hundred sixty-five of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nineteen, is hereby amended to read as follows:

funeral

SEC. 1. Hereafter whenever any honorably discharged sol- Reimbursedier, sailor or marine, having served in the army or navy of ment for the United States, during any period of time in which the expenses. United States was at war, or the wife or widow of such soldier, sailor or marine, or any army nurse who was employed as a nurse by authority which is recognized by the War Department, and who rendered actual service as a nurse in attendance upon the sick and wounded in any regimental post, camp or general hospital of the armies of the United States for a period of three months or more, and who was honorably relieved from such service, shall die, not possessed of an estate, both real and personal, exceeding the sum of three thousand dollars, over and above all encumbrances and is a resident of this state, it shall be the duty of the board of supervisors in the respective counties, or the board of county auditors in counties having a board of county auditors, upon application therefor, by the executor or administrator of the estate of such deceased person, or by the person or persons who may have incurred or advanced the expense in connection with the burial of said army nurse, soldier, sailor or marine, or the wife or widow of said soldier, sailor or marine, to pay to the estate of such deceased person, or to the person or persons who incurred or advanced such expense, a sum not to exceed seventy-five dollars: Provided, however, Proviso, cerin counties with a population of one hundred fifty thousand tain counties. inhabitants or over, the maximum sum be fixed not to exceed one hundred dollars for the purpose of reimbursing such person or persons for the expense thus incurred: Provided, That Proviso. if the investigation herei after provided for shows that said deceased left no dependents surviving, but did leave sufficient estate to meet all lawful claims, including the said burial expenses, then in such case the board of supervisors or the county auditors shall not pay said expenses: Provided fur- Further ther, That nothing in this act shall apply to wives, widows proviso. or mothers of World War Veterans.

Approved May 6, 1921.

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To display light.

Penalty.

[No. 126.]

AN ACT to regulate the use of the public streets and highways of the state by certain vehicles, to require such vehicles to display lights during the period from one hour after sunset to one hour before sunrise, and to provide a penalty for the violation thereof.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. It is hereby declared to be unlawful for any person to drive, or to cause or permit to be driven, upon any incorporated village or city street or a trunk line highway of this state, any vehicle, including wagons, buggies and carriages, drawn by horses or other draft animals, during the period, or any part or portion thereof, from one hour after sunset to one hour before sunrise unless there shall be displayed in a conspicuous place on the left side of such vehicle a light of such an arrangement and character that the same may be plainly seen either from the front or rear at a distance of not less than three hundred feet.

SEC. 2. Any person violating the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be liable to a fine of not more than five dollars. Approved May 6, 1921.