Funeral expenses. Contract to cover all businesses. Obligations assumed. Filing of notice of termination. Conflicting provisions nullified. Provisions to appear on policy. (c) That it will pay or cause to be paid the reasonable expense of the last sickness and burying of all employes, whose deaths are caused by accidental injuries happening during the life of this contract or policy and arising out of and in the course of their employment with the said employer, which the said employer may be obligated to pay under the provisions of said workmen's compensation law, the amount in each case, however, not to exceed two hundred dollars; (d) That this insurance contract or policy shall for all purposes be held and deemed to cover all the businesses the said employer is engaged in at the time of the issuance of this contract or policy and all other businesses, if any, said employer may engage in during the life thereof, and all employes the said employer may employ in any of his businesses during the period covered by this policy; (e) That it hereby assumes all obligations imposed upon the said employer by his acceptance of the Michigan workmen's compensation law, as far as the payment of compensation, death benefits, or for medical, surgical or hospital care or medicines is concerned; (f) That it will file with the Industrial Accident Board, at Lansing, Michigan, at least ten days before the taking effect of any termination or cancellation of this contract or policy, a notice giving the date at which it is proposed to terminate or cancel this contract or policy; and that any termination of this policy shall not be effective as far as the employes of the insured covered thereby are concerned until ten days after such notice of such proposed termination or cancellation is received by the said Industrial Accident Board: (g) That all the provisions of this contract, if any, which are not in harmony with this paragraph are to be construed as modified hereby, and all conditions and limitations in said policy, if any, conflicting herewith are hereby made null and void." The said provisions shall be printed upon or attached to the first page of every insurance contract or policy issued by any insurance company or organization for the purpose of protecting any employer accepting the Michigan workmen's compensation law, in type not smaller than long primer and shall constitute a separate paragraph of the said policy; and any provision of the policy, if any, inconsistent with the said undertakings and agreements of the insurance company or organization, contained in the said provisions shall be null and void. Approved April 11, 1919. [No. 65.] AN ACT relative to free schools of cities having a population of two hundred fifty thousand or over, and comprising a single school district. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. The board of education of any city having a Powers of population of two hundred fifty thousand or over, comprising school boards. a single school district, may exercise any power herein stated, and shall have such rights as are herein given, and shall be governed hereby with respect to things herein stated, notwithstanding the provisions of any general law or special act to the contrary. SEC. 2. Its members shall be nominated as shall be pro- Members, how vided by law for the nomination of officers of the city. nominated. of district. facilities for outsiders. divided district. school taxes. SEC. 3. Its boundaries are hereby made and shall be Boundaries co-extensive with the boundaries of the city and any change in the latter shall automatically work the same change in the former: Provided, however, If in the annexation to the city Proviso, of a portion of an adjoining school district, the remainder shall be without school facilities, it shall furnish school facilities to such remainder, on being paid therefor a sum of money equal to the amount such remainder would raise in taxes for school purposes, if such remainder was a part of the city's school district. It shall assume and pay the debts Liabilities of and liabilities of the district thus divided. It shall take possession of the sinking fund, if any exists, of the district thus divided. It shall take and have the right to collect all Unpaid unpaid school taxes of the portion of the district taken. It shall take, based on the last school census, such part of the primary school money unexpended and in the treasury of the district, thus divided, as the number of children of school age in the portion taken bears to the number of children of school age, in the whole district thus divided. It shall take and receive such portion of the unexpended school taxes collected and in the treasury of the district thus divided, as the assessed value of the portion taken bears to the whole district thus divided. In other cases, it shall have no obligation or responsibility towards the remainder or portion of district not annexed. It shall have title to all public school Title to property within its boundaries and in any addition thereto, whether by law or by annexation proceedings, title to any of the public school property in the portion added or taken, shall pass to it. Primary school money. Ratio of unexpended school taxes. school property. budget. SEC. 4. Its annual budget shall be prepared at the same Annual time and in the same way, as the city's budget, and shall be submitted to and considered by the same board or officers. Fiscal year. Contracts for work, etc. Cafeteria for pupils. Gifts of land. Powers in regard to employes. Truant school. Unsold bonds, validity of. Rate of interest on bonds, etc. SEC. 5. Its fiscal year shall be identical with that of the city. SEC. 6. It may authorize a contract for work or services before the money is available, if an appropriation or an authorization of bonds has been made for it and may, after an appropriation or an authorization of bonds has been made, authorize its financial officers to borrow, on the best terms obtainable on the credit of such appropriation or authorization of bonds, any sums necessary to make any payments demanded by said contracts. SEC. 7. It may sell meals to the pupils, but not at a financial loss to the district. It may make a contract for this privilege for a period of not more than three years, or it may engage directly in the business. SEC. 8. It may use and may take, without restriction as to location or amount, land by gift or devise. SEC. 9. It shall have full power over its employes, may specify the duties to be performed by them, and fix the qualifications necessary for any position, notwithstanding any general or special law to the contrary. SEC. 10. It may establish, maintain and conduct a parental or truant school for the purpose of affording a place of confinement, discipline, instruction and maintenance of children of the city of compulsory school age, who may be committed thereto by a court of competent jurisdiction, or admitted thereto on the recommendation of such judge with the consent of their parents or guardians. It shall give no religious instruction in such school, nor shall it furnish clothing to any child and no child shall be committed or admitted thereto who has ever been convicted of any offense, punishable by confinement in any penal institution. SEC. 11. Whenever it or its financial officers attempt to sell bonds, the proceeds of which are to be used for school purposes and the bonds are not sold, all the proceedings which do not affect or bear upon the objection, or disability which rendered the sale impossible, shall be valid and effectual and may be used to support a subsequent sale, when the objection or disability has been removed. SEC. 12. Bonds for the purpose of the schools may be issued as herein and as otherwise heretofore provided, but shall bear interest at a rate not exceeding five per cent per annum; they may be issued serially or all made to mature Sinking fund. at a fixed time. If the latter, a sinking fund shall be created to provide for their payment, but if the city has a sinking fund, and by custom or law the debt of the school district has been provided for by the city's sinking fund, this may be continued and all of said city officers charged with this duty are for this purpose ex-officio made the officers of the school district. Short term loans. SEC. 13. In addition to its other powers, it may with the consent of the legislative body of the city, authorize its financial officers to borrow for a period of one year or less, on the best terms obtainable, any sums necessary to pay any awards in condemnation proceedings. SEC. 14. Any local agency or local officer charged by special or local act passed by the State legislature, with any duty or responsibility to any school or school district, is hereby on the revision or amendment of said act by local authority made the agent or afficer of the school district for the performance of the said duty and the discharge of the said responsibility. SEC. 15. It shall have no power to admit pupils, both of whose parents live outside the city, to its schools without payment of a tuition fee, nor shall it exercise any power herein conferred except in the manner provided by law for its guidance. SEC. 16. This act is hereby declared immediately neces sary for the preservation of the public peace, health and safety. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Local officer, when officer of district. Tuition for non-resident pupils. [No. 66.] AN ACT to provide for the cutting of noxious weeds within the State of Michigan. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of every owner, possessor or occupier of land or of every person or persons, firm or corporation having charge of any lands in this State to cut or cause to be cut down and destroyed all Canada thistles, milkweed (asclepica cornutus), wild carrots, ox-eye daisies, or other noxious weeds growing thereon, at least once in each year, before the first day of July in townships south of range sixteen north and before the fifteenth day of July in townships north of range sixteen north, and as much oftener as may be necessary to prevent them going to seed, and if any owner, possessor or occupier of land, or any person or persons, firm or corporation having charge of any lands in this State shall, knowingly, suffer any Canada thistles, milkweed, wild carrots or other noxious weeds to grow thereon or shall suffer the seeds to ripen, so as to cause or endanger the spread thereof, he or they shall, on conviction in any court Penalty for refusal. Notice to owner, etc. How given. Time of posting. Suggested form. of competent jurisdiction be liable to a fine of ten dollars, together with costs of prosecution, for every such offense and he or they shall pay the cost of cutting and destroying such weeds. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the commissioner of highways in each road district to give general notice in the following manner to every owner, possessor or occupier of land and to every person or persons, firm or corporation having charge of any lands in this State, whereon noxious weeds are growing, to cut and destroy such noxious weeds: Four notices, each not less than one foot square shall be printed in clear, readable type and posted one in each of four conspicuous places in the road district, and notices shall also be published in some local paper having a general circulation in the township. These notices shall set forth the fact that all noxious weeds must be cut on or before a certain date, which date shall be fixed by the commissioner. The posting and publishing of such notices shall take place at least ten days prior to the date upon which the weeds must be cut, and such notice may read as follows: To owners, possessors or occupiers of land, or any person or persons, firm or corporation having charge of any lands in this State: Notice is hereby given that all noxious weeds growing on must be cut down and destroyed on or before the. day of...... Failure to comply with this notice on or before the date mentioned or within ten days thereafter shall make the parties so failing liable for the costs of cutting same to be levied and collected against the property in the same manner as other taxes are levied and collected. Dated... Commissioner of highways of the township of... county of.... Also, at the time of posting said notices to mail a copy of the same to every owner, possessor or occupant or occupier of land and to every person or persons, firm or corporation having charge of any lands in this State, whereon noxious weeds are growing, whose postoffice address is known. |