What children deemed

truants or disorderly persons.

Who to make complaint.

Term of sentence.

MISCELLANEOUS OFFENSES.

An Act to prevent crime and to punish truancy.

[Act 222, P. A. 1887.]

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

(301) § 11765. § 11765. SECTION 1. That every boy between the age of ten and sixteen years, or any girl between the age of ten and seventeen years, who shall frequent or be found lounging about saloons, disreputable places, houses of ill fame, or who shall be an inmate or resident or a member of a ́ family who [reside] resides in any house of ill fame, or conduct any other disreputable place, or who shall frequent other rooms or places where dissolute and disreputable people congregate, or where intoxicating liquors are kept for sale, or who shall, against the command of his or her parents or guardian, run away or wilfully absent himself or herself from the school he or she is attending, or from any house, office, shop, firm or other place where he or she is residing or legitimately employed with labor, or who shall against such command of his or her parents or guardian or for any immoral, disorderly or dishonest purposes be found lounging upon the public streets, highways or other public resorts or at places of amusement of dissolute or improper character, or who shall against any such command or for any [such] disorderly or dishonest purposes attend any public dance, skating rink, or show shall be deemed guilty as a truant or disorderly child.

Charge held insufficient to sustain a conviction.-People v. Turja, 157 / 530.

(302) § 11766. § 11766. SEC. 2. Upon the complaint upon oath and in writing made before any justice of the peace, police justice or other criminal magistrate, by the parent or guardian, or other person knowing of the facts of his own knowledge, that any girl between the age of ten and seventeen years, or that any boy between the age of ten and sixteen years, or by the supervisor of any township, or mayor of any city, or president of any village, and in any city of over eight thousand population by the chief of police, mayor, or other person knowing of the facts of his own knowledge, that such minor has been guilty of any of the acts specified in section one of this act, such justice of the peace, police justice or other criminal magistrate, shall issue a warrant for the arrest of such minor, and upon conviction such minor, if a boy, may be sentenced by such justice of the peace, police justice or criminal magistrate, to the industrial school for boys at Lansing, and if a girl, to the industrial home for girls at Adrian, boys until eighteen years of age, and girls until twenty-one years of age, unless sooner discharged according

of sentence.

to law: Provided, That no person or persons shall be sent Proviso as to the said industrial school for boys or to the industrial to approval. home for girls until the sentence therein has been submitted to and approved by one of the judges of the recorder's court of the city of Detroit, or judge of the superior court of the eity of Grand Rapids, or any circuit judge or probate judge of the county in which such conviction shall be had.

Am. 1899, Act 75.

upon trial.

(303) § 11767. SEC. 3. The same proceedings shall be Proceedings had upon the trial of any person charged with being guilty of any of the offenses mentioned in section one of this act before the justice before whom such person is brought as are had in trials for misdemeanor, as far as the same are applicable, and the state agent for the care of juvenile offenders Duty of of the county wherein such offenders may be on trial shall state agent. have authority and take the same action in the premises as is provided by act number one hundred and seventy-one of the session laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-three of this state.

An Act to provide for the punishment of persons responsible for or contributing to the delinquency of children.

[Act 314, P. A. 1907.]

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

of delinquent

of,

(304) SECTION 1. In all cases where any child shall be a Parents, etc., delinquent child, or a juvenile delinquent person, as defined children, reby the statutes of this state, the parent or parents, legal guar-sponsibility dian or person having the custody of such child, or any other person, responsible for or by any act encouraging, causing or contributing to the delinquency of such child shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon trial and conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding the sum of one hundred dollars or imprisonment in the county jail for a period not exceeding ninety days, or both such fine and imprisonment: Provided, That the court may, in its discretion, Proviso as to suspend sentence upon any person found guilty under this suspension of act upon conditions which may be imposed by the court at the time of the suspension of such sentence.

sentence.

Minors or students, not permitted in saloon, etc.

An Act to provide for the protection of children.

(From this act only such portion is quoted as relates directly to students in schools.)

[Act 260, P. A. 1881.]

(305) § 5554. SEC. 2. No minor child under seventeen years of age, nor any minor who is a student in any public, private or parochial school in the state of Michigan, shall be permitted to remain in any saloon, bar room or other place where any spirituous or intoxicating liquor, or any wine or beer, or any beverage, liquor or liquors containing any spirituous or intoxicating liquor, beer or malt liquor is sold, given away or furnished for a beverage; or in any place of amusement known as dance houses, concert saloons, variety theaters; or in any house of prostitution; or in any room or hall occupied or used for hire, gain or reward, for the purpose of playing billards, pool, cards, dice or any other unlawful game; or in any room or hall used or occupied for gaming, pool-selling or betting in any manner whatever; or in any room or hall in which any cigars or tobacco are sold Misdemeanor. or kept for sale, where any such games are played. Any

Penalty.

proprietor, keeper or manager of any such place who shall permit such minor child or minor student to remain in any such place, and any person who shall encourage or induce in any way such minor child or minor student to enter such place or to remain therein shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than ten days nor more than thirty days, or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.

Am. 1905, Act 236; 1907, Act 55; 1909, Act 203.

Child under twenty-one.

EMPLOYMENT OF CHILDREN.

[Extract from Act 285, P. A. 1909.]

(306) SEC. 10. No child under the age of twenty-one years shall be employed, permitted or suffered to work in any theater, concert hall, or place of amusement where intoxicatUnder fifteen. ing liquors are sold. No child under fifteen years of age shall be employed, permitted or suffered to work in or in connection with any mercantile institution, store, office, hotel, laundry, manufacturing establishment, mine, bowling alley, billiard or pool room conducted for profit, theater, passenger or freight elevator, factory or workshop, telegraph or mes

lishments.

senger service within this state: Provided, This section Proviso, shall not apply to any child of the age of fourteen years or canning estabover, working during the established vacation period in preserving perishable goods in fruit or vegetable canning establishments. It shall be the duty of every mercantile institution, store, office, hotel, laundry, manufacturing establishment, mine, bowling alley, workshop, telegraph or messenger service or any person coming within the provisions of this act to keep a register in which will be recorded the name, Register of birthplace, age and place of residence of every person em- employes. ployed under the age of sixteen years, and it shall be unlawful for any such establishment or person to hire or employ, or permit to be hired or employed or suffered to work, any child under the age of sixteen years without there is first provided and placed on file in the business office thereof a permit issued by the superintendent of schools of the school Permit to district in which such child resides, or some one duly author- employ. ized by him in writing, or, where there is no superintendent of schools, by the county commissioner of schools, or some one duly authorized by him in writing, any of whom shall have power to administer oaths in relation thereto. Such permit shall be returned immediately to the issuing officer when such child leaves such employment; every limited vacation permit, hereinafter to be described, shall, upon its expiration, be void and of no effect. The said register and Register and permit to be permit shall be produced for inspection on demand of any produced. factory inspector appointed under this act. No fee shall be charged for such permit or other record required by this act by any officer by whom it shall be issued. Every employer Immunity of employer. complying with the provisions of this section shall be at liberty to employ the person so presenting the permit hereinbefore referred to, and is justified in considering and treating such person as of the age shown in such permit and shall not be liable, if it transpire that such person is under the age represented in such permit, to any greater extent than such employer would be liable if such person were of the age represented. The person authorized and required to When to issue permit. issue such permit shall not issue the same until he has received, examined, approved and filed the following papers, duly executed:

(a) The school report of said child properly filled out School report. and signed as hereinafter provided: Provided, however, That when such permit is issued during the summer vacation no such record shall be required, but all such permits, called in this act limited vacation permits, shall expire upon the first Monday in September, commonly called Labor day, shall contain a conspicuous statement of the time at which they shall expire and shall be of a special color distinct from regular permits;

(b) A passport, or duly attested transcript of the record Record of of birth, as kept by any duly authorized public authority,

birth.

Statement of physician.

Examination.

to state.

or a record of baptism or other religious record, showing the date and place of birth of such child;

(c) A statement from a physician connected officially with the board or department of health, which shall be required, however, only in case the above mentioned official or religious record cannot be produced, which statement shall certify that, in the opinion of the physician issuing said statement, the child is fifteen years of age or upwards, is in sound health and physically able to perform the work which it intends to do. Such statement shall also certify to the correct weight and height of said child, and shall be kept on file by the person issuing working permits; such person may, in his discretion, require also an affidavit from the parents or other evidence as additional proof of age;

(d) A statement by the issuing officer that he has examined said child, that in his opinion the child can read intelligently and write legibly simple sentences in the English language, that in his opinion the child is fifteen years of age or upwards, and has reached the normal development of a child of its age and is in sound health and physically able to perform the work which it intends to do, and that in his opinion the services of the child are essential to the support of itself or its parents. In doubtful cases, such physical fitness shall be determined by a medical officer of the board or Permit, what department of health. Every such permit shall be signed in the presence of the officer issuing the same by the child in whose name it is issued; and shall state the date and place of birth of the child, and describe the color of the hair and eyes, the height and weight and any distinguishing facial marks of such child, and that the paper required by the preceding sections has been duly examined, approved and filed, and that the child named in such permit has appeared before the officer signing the same and been examined. The school record required by this article shall be signed by the principal or chief executive officer of the school which such child has attended and shall be furnished on demand to What to state a child entitled thereto. It shall contain a statement certifying that the child has regularly attended the public school, or schools equivalent thereto, or parochial schools for not less than one hundred days during the school year previous to his arriving at the age of fifteen years or during the year previous to applying for such school record, and is able to read intelligently and write legibly simple sentences in the English language, and in the case of the public schools, has passed satisfactorily the work of the school up to and including the work of the sixth grade, as provided in the course of study of the public schools, or in the case of schools other than public, the equivalent thereto. Such school record shall also give the age and residence of the child as shown on the records of the school and the name of its parents or

School record, how signed.