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imprisonment in the county jail or Detroit house of correc tion not exceeding ninety days or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. The penalty herein provided against any corporation violating the provisions hereof shall be recovered in an action to be brought in the name of the people of the state of Michigan by the prosecuting attorney of the proper county in which the offense charged shall have been committed upon the complaint of any person aggrieved by the violation by such corporation of the provisions of this act.

Approved May 6, 1925.

School of instruction.

Subjects taught.

Instructors,

etc.

Who may attend.

[No. 211.]

AN ACT to authorize the department of public safety to establish and conduct a training school to be known as the Michigan training school for police for the instruction of law enforcing officers.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. The department of public safety is hereby authorized to establish and conduct a school for the instruction of law enforcing officers of this state and of the several counties, townships, cities and villages thereof, such school to be known as the Michigan training school for police and to be conducted at Lansing, and the sessions thereof to be held at such times and for such periods as the director of public safety shall designate. Provision shall be made for instruction in the following subjects and such others as the director of public safety shall deem expedient:

(a) Identification of criminals and fingerprinting;

(b)

(d)

(e)

(f)

Methods of crime investigation;

Rules of criminal evidence;

Presentation of cases in court;

Making of complaints and securing of criminal warrants;

Securing and use of search warrants;

(g) Enforcement of prohibition laws;

(h) How to secure extradition and rendition;

(i)

(j)

(k)

Small arms instruction;

Regulation of traffic;

First aid.

SEC. 2. The director of public safety may call upon members of any state department or any instructor or professor in any state educational institution, to act as instructor or lecturer in such school, and may pay the reasonable expenses of such person while in attendance. The legislative body of any county, township, city or village may authorize the attendance at such school of any law enforcing officer under

the jurisdiction of such county, township, city or village, and may provide for the payment of the expenses of such person while in attendance which payment shall be made out of the general fund of such county, township, city or village.

SEC. 3. The department of public safety may provide board Board and and lodging for persons in attendance at such school, the cost lodging. thereof to be borne by the student or by the county, township, city or village authorizing his attendance at such school.

SEC. 4. To each person satisfactorily completing the course Diplomas, of study prescribed, the director of public safety shall issue when issued. a certificate of graduation or diploma stating that the holder has graduated from the, Michigan training school for police. Approved May 6, 1925.

[No. 212.]

AN ACT to amend the title and sections one and two of act number one hundred twenty-six of the public acts of nineteen hundred twenty-one, entitled "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:

amended.

SECTION 1. The title and sections one and two of act num- Title and ber one hundred twenty-six of the public acts of nineteen hun- sections dred twenty-one, entitled "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," approved May six, nineteen hundred twenty-one, is hereby amended to read as follows:

TITLE

An Act to regulate the use of the public streets and highways of the state by vehicles; to require vehicles to display lights during the period from one hour after sunset to one hour befor sunrise; and to provide a penalty for the violation thereof. SEC. 1. It is hereby declared to be unlawful for any To display person to drive, or to cause or permit to be driven, upon any street or highway of this state, any vehicle 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

light.

Penalty.

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 punished by a fine of not more than twenty-five dollars or imprisonment in the county jail not more than thirty days or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.

Approved May 6, 1925.

May appropriate for libraries.

Proviso.

[No. 213.]

AN ACT to provide for the maintenance and operation of libraries for public use, owned or controlled by associations or individuals.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Any township, city or village within this state. having within its limits a library that had been open to the public upon the payment of dues, may appropriate not to exceed one-half of one mill on its assessed valuation for the support of such library, and such sum or sums shall be raised by taxation in the ordinary way: Provided, That any library so receiving support from any municipality shall be kept open for the convenience of the public not less than the afternoons and evenings of three days of each week, and the books therein shall be for the free use of the public under such reasonable restrictions as such library shall prescribe.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved May 6, 1925.

Section amended.

[No. 214.]

AN ACT to amend section three of chapter twelve of act number three of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-five, entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of villages within the state of Michigan, and defining their powers and duties," being section two thousand seven hundred seventy-seven of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Section three of chapter twelve of act number three of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-four, en

titled "An act to provide for the incorporation of villages within the state of Michigan and defining their powers and duties," is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 3. In case the council shall declare that it is expedi- Referendum. ent for such village to acquire by purchase, construction or reconstruction, as the case may be, works for the purpose of supplying such village and the inhabitants thereof, or either, with electric or other lights, then the council shall cause to be made and recorded in their proceedings, an estimate of the expense thereof and the question of raising the amount required for such purpose or such part of such estimate not in excess of limitations on indebtedness of such village provided by law and not exceeding such estimate, shall be submitted to the electors of the village at its annual election, or at a special election called for that purpose by the council as provided in this act, and shall be determined as two-thirds of the electors voting at such election by ballot shall decide: Provided, That when villages incorporated under this act, Proviso. vote to raise a sum less than such estimate the council shall not have power to incur any indebtedness for such purpose on the general faith and credit of such village until the charter thereof shall have been so amended as to permit the issuance of mortgage bonds on such proposed lighting plant, its revenues and franchise, in excess of the general limitations on indebtedness as provided by this act, in an amount equal to the difference between the indebtedness authorized by this act, and such estimate.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved May 6, 1925.

[No. 215.]

AN ACT to authorize and empower the state highway commissioner to purchase or condemn property to exchange for the right of way, or a part thereof, of railroads, and railways, when such right of way, or part thereof, is necessary to be acquired for widening, straightening, altering or otherwise improving a trunk line highway, and to make such exchange.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

may pur

SECTION 1. Whenever the line of any railroad or railway Right of company is upon or adjacent to the right of way of a trunk way, when line highway and such right of way or any part thereof, is chase, etc. necessary to be acquired for widening, straightening, altering or otherwise improving such highway, the state highway commissioner shall be authorized to enter into negotiations with such railroad or railway company for the purchase of

Procedure applicable.

How paid for.

said right of way, or of any part thereof, and to enter into an agreement with any such railroad or railway company to exchange other designated property for such right of way, or for any part thereof, whenever such other designated property shall be acquired by him; and whenever any such agreement has been entered into, the said state highway commissioner shall be authorized and he is hereby empowered to acquire such other property by purchase or condemnation, and when acquired to execute the necessary conveyances and releases thereof to such railroad or railway company for its use, and to take in exchange therefor the railroad or railway right of way or part thereof for such public highway purposes in accordance with such agreement.

SEC. 2. The procedure that is, or may be, prescribed for condemnation proceedings instituted by boards of county road commissioners or the procedure that is, or may be, provided for the condemnation by state agencies and public corporations of private property for the use or benefit of the public, is hereby expressly made applicable to any proceeding brought by the state highway commissioner under the provisions of this act.

SEC. 3. Whenever any property shall be acquired by the state highway commissioner under and by virtue of the provisions of this act, the consideration or compensation to be paid therefor shall be paid out of the state highway fund in five equal annual installments.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved May 6, 1925.

Sections amended.

[No. 216.]

AN ACT to amend sections two and eleven of act number twenty-seven of the public acts of nineteen hundred nine. entitled "An act defining the powers and duties of local health officers and boards of health in the matter of the protection of the people of the state of Michigan from the disease known as tuberculosis," as amended by act number three hundred seventeen of the public acts of nineteen hundred nine, and being sections five thousand one hundred and five thousand one hundred nine of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Sections two and eleven of act number twentyseven of the public acts of nineteen hundred nine, entitled "An act defining the powers and duties of local health officers and boards of health in the matter of the protection of the people of the state of Michigan from the disease known as

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