Proviso, certain single districts.

a life certificate. After three years' teaching experience satisfactory to the State Board of Education said board may issue a life certificate to a person who has received such limited certificate: Provided, That in cities in this state comprising a single school district having a population of two hundred fifty thousand or over, and maintaining a normal training school for the training of teachers for the public schools, the State Board of Education may issue life certificates and degrees to the graduates of such normal training school if the course of study pursued shall be approved by the State Board of Education.

Approved April 15, 1921.

Permit to

operate pool room, etc.

To whom not granted.

Application, what to state.

[No. 53.]

AN ACT to regulate the establishment, maintenance and conducting of public billiard and pool rooms, dance-halls, bowling alleys and soft-drink emporiums outside of incorporated cities and villages; to provide for the issuance of permits for such places; to prescribe the powers and duties of township boards with relation thereto; and to prescribe the penalty for violation of the provisions hereof.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. No public billiard or pool room, public dancehall, bowling alley, or soft-drink emporium shall be established, maintained or conducted in any place within this state outside of an incorporated village or city, by any person or corporation without first obtaining a permit to operate such place from the township board of the township wherein such place is established or proposed to be operated or established. No person shall be granted a permit under the provisions of this act who is under twenty-one years of age and who has not resided within this state for a period of at least one year immediately prior to the application for such permit; nor shall any such permit be granted to any person who has been convicted of any crime involving moral turpitude, nor to any person whose general reputation in any community in which he has resided during the five years next preceding such application is that of a gambler, boot-legger, cheat or promoter of vice and immorality.

SEC. 2. Any person desiring to open or establish any of the places mentioned in section one hereof, shall first make application therefor to the clerk of the township wherein such place is to be located, setting forth in such application his age, and correct name, postoffice address and residence, the length of time he has resided within this state, and where,

and his places of residence for the past five years immediately
before the time of such application; whether or not he has
ever been convicted of any crime involving moral turpitude;
and giving references in such application to at least five
reputable citizens of the community wherein he has last re-
sided within this state, and the written recommendations of
at least two such reputable citizens of such community re-
specting his moral character. Every such application shall Fee.
be accompanied by a fee of five dollars payable to the town-
ship treasurer for the use of the township upon issuing of
license to the applicant; and the applicant shall specify in
such application the class of business and the exact location
of the place thereof for which he requests a permit. In case
the applicant for such permit is a corporation authorized to
do business in this state, the application shall be made by
the agent of such corporation who will have principal charge
of the place proposed to be established, and such applica-
tion shall contain all of the statements and furnish all the
facts and recommendations in respect of such agent as are
required in the case of a private individual herein.
permit to a corporation shall be revocable upon the occur-
rence of a change in the agent so managing such place, and
a new permit may be required by such township board be-
fore any new agent shall take charge of such place for such
corporation. In case of a partnership, each active partner
in such business shall join in the application for such per-
mit, and shall furnish all of the information and recom-
mendations required of an individual applicant.

Such Revocation.

granted.

SEC. 3. The township board receiving such application, if Permit, when presented in due form, shall pass upon the same at its next regular meeting or at any special meeting called for such purpose, or at any adjournment thereof, and if satisfied that such applicant possesses the qualifications herein prescribed, shall grant such permit for the term of one year. All such Form. permits shall be in such form as the township board may prescribe, but shall contain the name, address, place of business and the class of such business so permitted to the holder, and the date of expiration of such permit, and shall be authenticated by the signature of the township clerk.

SEC. 4. Any permit issued in accordance with this act may Renewal. be renewed for an additional year upon the same terms and subject to the same requirements as provided herein for an original permit. Whenever the holder of such permit desires to effect a change of place of doing business he shall notify the township board and make application for a permit for such new place in the same manner as in the first instance, excepting that proof of good character may be dis pensed with by such township board. No permit issued pur- Not transsuant to this act shall be assignable or transferable, nor shall any person excepting the person to which it was issued be permitted to do business thereunder either directly or indirectly.

ferable.

When license revoked.

Notice of.

Notice of revocation.

Powers not abrogated.

Penalty.

SEC. 4-a. Every such license shall be revoked for any of the following causes:

(1) That intoxicating liquors are either sold or drunk on the premises, or that persons under the influence of intoxicating liquors are permitted to frequent, be in, or remain on said premises;

(2) That gambling in any form is permitted in or about said premises;

(3) That such places are frequented habitually by persons of low repute, or that the place is conducted in such a manner as to be generally reputed in the immediate vicinity thereof to be immoral and a menace to the morals and good citizenship of the community.

In either of the foregoing cases the township board shall revoke said license and give notice of such revocation to the holder. For the purpose of enforcing these provisions for revocation the township board may act on its own initiative, or on complaint of any resident. When such revocation is sought, the township clerk shall give a written notice to the licensee personally, or by leaving the same with his agent or employe at his place of business, in which notice shall be stated the charges made against him for which revocation of his license is sought; the time and place at which he may ap pear to defend against such charges, which time shall be not sooner than three full days from the serving of said notice. For such hearing the township board may subpoena witnesses in the same manner as such witnesses are now subpoenaed in criminal cases in justice court. Such hearings need not follow the strict legal requirement of court trials. If, after an impartial and unbiased investigation, the township board is convinced that the charges have been sustained, it shall revoke the license. If a township board desires the services of the prosecuting attorney at such hearing, it is herein made the duty of the prosecuting attorney to attend and assist in the conduct of such hearing. If the township board shall determine that such license shall be revoked, the township clerk shall personally notify the licensee, or his agent or employe in charge of his place, in writing, and the said license shall be revoked from and after midnight of the said day.

SEC. 5. Nothing in this act contained shall be construed as lessening or abrogating the general powers of townships in respect of the regulation and control of places of amusement therein, nor in respect of their general licensing powers as defined by law; nor their general powers of providing by ordinance for the protection of the health and safety of the people thereof.

SEC. 6. Any person violating any of the provisions hereof shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be subject to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars for each offense, or to imprisonment in the

county jail not less than ninety days, or to both such fine
and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.
Approved April 15, 1921.

[No. 54.]

AN ACT to provide for the changing of the boundary lines of a township district organized under a special act, and for the uniting of two township districts operating under special acts to form one school district.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Any township school district organized under Boundaries, a special act may alter its boundaries by attaching or detach- may alter. ing territory. In such altering of the boundary lines of said township district, the school board of the township district shall act for said district and the township board, or boards, if fractional, shall act for the territory located in other districts and post notices of said proposed action in the same. manner as provided in the general school laws for the altering of the boundaries of primary districts. In such attaching or detaching of territory the township school district organization shall continue to be the school organization for the township school district the same as if no territory had been attached or detached.

tion, referen

SEC. 2. Two adjacent township school districts each of Consolidawhich is organized under a special act may be consolidated dum on. to form one township school district, whenever a majority of the legal school electors of each township school district present and voting at an annual meeting or at a special meeting called for that purpose, shall so direct.

The form of the ballot shall be substantially as follows: Ballot, form "Shall the school board of the township school district of

state of Michigan unite the territory of said township school district with that of the township of

county of .,..

.....

... and state of Michigan to

form one township school district?

[ ] Yes.

[ ] No."

of.

SEC. 3. Whenever the legal voters shall have voted in favor Annual of the consolidation of two township school districts to form meeting. one township school district as herein provided, the county commissioner of schools shall call the annual meeting of said townships on the second Monday of July following at such place as he shall deem advisable, and at such time as

Trustees, election of.

shall be provided for the annual meeting in the act under which said township school districts shall organize. If said township school districts are either or both operating under act number one hundred seventy-six of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-one, as amended, they shall elect trustees on the second Monday in July following the affirmative action of the legal school electors, organize the board of education, and operate on and after said second Monday in July under said act number one hundred seventy-six of the Public Acts of eighteen hundred ninety-one, as amended. If said township school districts are operating under any other special act they shall elect trustees on the second Monday in July following the affirmative action of the legal school electors, organize the board of education, and operate under act number one hundred seventeen of the Public Acts of nineteen hundred nine, as amended. In the election of the first school board under the provisions of this act, the county commissioner of schools shall designate two members of the township board of each township to act as a board of elecCanvassing of tion inspectors to conduct the election. The ballots shall be taken, counted, and canvassed in the same manner that is now provided for the counting of ballots under the general election laws. The hours at which the polls shall be open shall be the same as that provided for the annual meeting in the act under which the township school district will be organized after the consolidation. The board of education of each township school district shall continue to act for its township school district until the election and organization of a township school board as herein provided: Provided, That if the township districts to be consolidated are located in more than one county, the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall designate the county commissioner of schools whose duty it shall be to call the election as herein provided.

votes.

Proviso.

Records, etc., how trans

ferred.

SEC. 4. When any two township school districts have been consolidated as herein provided, the existing boards of education of each township school district shall meet in joint session with the board of education as herein provided immediately after its organization and settle with the treasurer of the boards of education of said townships. Then and there the officers of the boards of education shall turn over to the proper officers of the board of education elected for the consolidated township school district, all records, papers, books, money and other property belonging to the district. Said records, papers, books, money, and other property shall thereafter constitute the property of said consolidated township school district.

Approved April 15, 1921.