Societies, etc., not affected. Sub-Division Seven. SEC. 20. Nothing contained in this act shall be construed 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: (a) 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 the membership to the residents of a designated city or town. Approved April 25, 1919. Who deemed maintaining boarding home for children. [No. 136.] AN ACT to provide for the licensing and regulation of boarding homes for children, and prescribing the duties and compensation of county agents with reference thereto, and prescribing penalties for violations of this act. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Whoever has in his custody or control for a longer period than thirty days, one or more children under the age of fifteen years unattended by a parent or guardian, except children related to him by blood or marriage, for the purpose of providing such child or children with care, food and lodging, shall be deemed to maintain a boarding home for Proviso, legal children: Provided, That nothing in this act shall be construed to apply to the legal guardian of the child. guardian. for license. of home. to state. SEC. 2. The State Board of Corrections and Charities is Authority to license. hereby authorized to grant licenses to such persons as may apply therefor. Applications for such licenses shall be made Application to the State Board of Corrections and Charities upon blanks to be furnished by said board upon request. Before granting a license the said board shall satisfy itself through an inspection by any member of the board, its secretary, a duly authorized agent of the board, or a county agent of the board, as to the suitableness of the home, and may refuse a license to any Suitability applicant when, in the opinion of the board, the conditions in the home are unsuitable. Such license shall state the name of What license the licensee, the particular premises to which it shall apply, and the maximum number of children to be maintained or boarded by the licensee at any one time. Such license shall Change termiapply only to the premises occupied by the licensee at the time of issuance and a change of residence shall automatically terminate the same. Licenses issued hereunder shall expire Expiration by by limitation on the thirtieth day of September following their issuance and may be renewed from year to year. The Rules and State Board of Corrections and Charities is hereby expressly authorized to make and prescribe all such rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the provisions of this act, as shall be deemed necessary or advisable to protect the best interests of boarding children and to carry out the intent and purposes of this act. SEC. 3. The State Board of Corrections and Charities may revoke such license in its discretion, and shall note such revocation upon the face of the records thereof. nates license. limitation. regulations, Revocation. be kept. SEC. 4. Every such licensee shall keep a record in the form Record to to be prescribed by the State Board of Corrections and Charities, of every child received, the date of its reception, the name and address of the person or society from whom it was received, the date of its discharge, and the name and address of the person or society to whom it was delivered on discharge, and any other facts regarding such child as the board may direct. The per diem of home. Per diem and expenses. SEC. 5. The State Board of Corrections and Charities by Examination any member thereof, by its secretary, by any duly authorized agent thereof, or by any county agent thereof, shall have authority at any time to investigate and examine into the conditions of any licensed boarding home, and it shall be the duty of such licensee to admit the members of the board, its secretary, its duly authorized agent, or county agent, and to submit for examination its books and records. and expenses of county agents for the inspection of boarding homes, when ordered by the State Board of Corrections and Charities, shall be paid in the same manner and at the same rate as fixed by statute for other services rendered by such agents, and all claims rendered by such agents shall, when duly verified by the agent and approved by the secretary of the State Board of Corrections and Charities, be audited by the Board of State Auditors and paid from the general fund of the State. How paid. Penalty for unlicensed homes. Provision for blank forms. Whoever maintains a boarding home for children, unless licensed therefor by the State Board of Corrections and Charities, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment. SEC. 7. The State Board of Corrections and Charities shall prepare and have printed such blank forms as are deemed necessary under the provisions of this act, and the expenses necessarily incurred in the printing and distribution of such blanks shall be audited by the Board of State Auditors and paid from the general fund. SEC. 8. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. Approved April 25, 1919. Noxious animals. Bounty on wolf. On coyote. [No. 137.] AN ACT authorizing the payment of bounties for the destruction of certain noxious animals and providing a penalty for the violation thereof. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. For the purposes of this act, wolves, coyotes, lynx, wild cats and foxes shall be termed noxious animals. SEC. 2. Any person who shall kill a full grown wolf or wolf's whelp in any organized county in this State shall be entitled to a bounty of thirty-five dollars for each wolf over six months old and fifteen dollars for each wolf's whelp under the age of six months; and any person who shall kill a coyote over six months old shall be entitled to a bounty of thirty-five dollars and fifteen dollars for each coyote's whelp under the On wild cat. age of six months; and any person who shall kill a wild cat shall be entitled to a bounty of five dollars; and any person who shall kill a lynx shall be entitled to a bounty of five dollars; and any person who shall kill a fox shall be entitled to a bounty of one dollar, to be allowed and paid in the manner hereinafter provided. On lynx. How allowed and paid. Oath taken. SEC. 3. Every person intending to apply for a bounty on any of the noxious animals mentioned in section two of this act shall take the head thereof, of such animal, with the ears and skin entire thereon, to the county clerk of county within which such animal was taken or killed, who shall thereupon decide upon such application. The person claiming such bounty shall be sworn by said clerk and state on oath the time and place, when and where, such noxious animals for which a bounty is claimed by him were taken and killed; and he Doubt as to identity of shall also submit to such further examination on oath concerning the taking and killing of such animals as said clerk may require, and the statement by him shall be reduced to writing in the form of an affidavit, which shall be subscribed Affidavit. and sworn to by the person presenting the head, ears and skin of any such animal upon which he shall claim a bounty. After taking such statement, if the county clerk is in doubt as to the kind of animal so presented, he may send the head, ears and skin of such animal to the State Game, Fish and Forestry Department of the Public Domain Commission whose duty it shall be to identify such animal and return the same to the county clerk with his findings thereon. animal. Clerk to make punch marks in ears. Certificate and affidavit sented by to be pre claimant. SEC. 4. If it shall appear to said clerk that the animal from which the head, ears and skin were taken, was killed within some organized township in his county by the person applying for such bounty, he shall make three punch marks through the butt of both ears of such animal, large enough to be readily found by examination of such ears, and return such pelt of such animal to the owner thereof together with a copy of the certificate of the facts, and shall file the original affidavit of said applicant in his office. The said certificate and original affidavit filed with the said county clerk may be presented by the claimant, or his agent, to the board of supervisors of the county in which said animal shall have been taken or killed, at any meeting thereof, and if said board of supervisors shall doubt the correctness or sufficiency of said affidavit, they shall notify the person claiming such bounty to make further proof of his claim before said board at that or a subsequent meeting thereof to be named in said notice. If the board of supervisors shall have no doubt as to the cor- Award of rectness of such claim, or if their doubt shall be removed by further proof, they shall award to the person to whom such certificate shall have been granted the bounty above specified, and shall cause the certificate and all affidavits and proofs to remain on file with their county clerk. bounty. certificates, SEC. 5. Duplicate certificates, stating all the bounties that Duplicate shall have been allowed by the board of supervisors at any where meeting, shall be made under their direction, and after being delivered. signed by their chairman and clerk, shall be delivered to the Payment. county treasurer, who shall thereupon pay to the several persons named in such certificates, out of any moneys in the treasury for defraying the contingent expenses of the county, the bounties respectively allowed. charged to SEC. 6. The county treasurer shall charge to the treasurer One-half of the State the one-half of all the bounties allowed by the State. board of supervisors, and shall transmit an account thereof to the Auditor General, accompanied by one of the duplicate certificates received from the board of supervisors. SEC. 7. The Auditor General shall examine every account so transmitted to him, and if he shall discover any defect or irregularity, which induces him to believe the same ought not to be allowed, he may suspend, in whole or in part, the Auditor Gen eral to exam ine accounts. May reject. How sums paid out. Additional bounties. Proviso, authority. Certain acts a violation. Penalty. payment of such account, until satisfactory proof be made to him, by affidavit or otherwise, of the correctness and justice of such accounts; and if the further proofs produced to him shall not be satisfactory he shall reject such portion of the account as shall have been suspended, and his decision thereon shall be final and conclusive. Every sum audited and allowed by the Auditor General, upon any such account, not exceeding the one-half of the bounties allowed by the board of supervisors, shall be paid out of the treasury of the State, to the treasurer of the county from which such account was transmitted. SEC. 8. The boards of supervisors of the several counties of this State shall have power, at the expense of their respective counties, to award and allow such other or additional bounties for the destruction of the said noxious animals, which are not protected by any of the laws of this State, within their respective counties, as they may think proper; and the same proof shall be required in such case as is hereinbefore prescribed, and such additional and other bounties, when duly allowed and certified, shall be paid out of the county treasury: Provided, That the county treasurer is expressly prohibited from paying any claim for bounty until authorized to do so by the board of supervisors of his county. SEC. 9. Any county clerk who shall be applied to for a certificate under the provisions of this act, who shall knowingly or wilfully give a false certificate in connection therewith, or any county treasurer who shall pay any claim for bounty before the same has been allowed by the board of supervisors, or any person who shall present the head, ears and skin of any animal to the county clerk and claim a bounty thereon, other than any animal mentioned in section two of this act, or any other person who shall obtain or attempt to obtain any bounty under the provisions of this act by any false or fraudulent statement or any misrepresentation shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding five hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year, or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. SEC. 10. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. Approved April 25, 1919. |