the ballot shall be declared elected by the board of trustees without delay, and if two or more persons shall have received an equal number of votes where only one trustee is to be elected, the said board of trustees shall choose one of said persons by lot as such trustee. The ballots shall, when the Ballots, disvote shall have been declared, be returned to the boxes and posal of.. the boxes be locked and sealed and deposited with the secretary at the time of the filing of said statement. Each person Oath of office. so declared elected to the office of school trustee under the provisions of this act shall, within five days after he has been declared elected, qualify by taking and subscribing the required oath of office and filing the same with the secretary of the board of education.

Am. 1911, Act 221.

SCHOOL SITES.

An Act authorizing the commissioner of the state land office to sell sites to school districts, churches and cemetery associations from lands held by the state as tax homestead lands.

[Act 223, P. A. 1909.]

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

may sell.

(442) SECTION 1. The commissioner of the state land Sites for school, etc., office is hereby authorized to sell sites to school districts, commissioner churches and cemetery associations from any lands held by the state of Michigan as tax homestead lands, at such price as shall be fixed by the said commissioner. The application Application. for the purchase of such sites shall be made by the proper officers of the school district, or the trustees of the church or cemetery association, upon blanks prepared and furnished by the said commissioner for that purpose: Provided, That the Proviso. said commissioner shall not sell for any such purpose any land in excess of the amount which may be necessary for the use of any such school district, church or cemetery association: Provided further, That any land so sold shall be Further used solely for the above purposes, and when same ceases to proviso, uge. be used for such purpose, it shall revert to the state of Michigan.

Act 270 of 1913 abolishes the office of commissioner of the state land office and transfers his duties to the public domain commission and the superintendent of public instruction.

Plans to be submitted to superintendent of public instruction.

Approval.

Proviso, inspection during construction.

Condemnation of schoolhouse.

Notice to board of education.

When superintendent may close building.

APPROVAL OF PLANS FOR SCHOOL BUILDINGS.

An Act to require plans for all school buildings and for additions to school buildings, the cost of which shall exceed three hundred dollars, to be approved by the superintendent of public instruction, and to authorize the condemnation of school houses under certain conditions.

[Act 17, P. A. 1915.]

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

(443) SECTION 1. No school house shall hereafter be erected in any school district in this state, and no addition to a school building in any such district shall hereafter be erected, the cost of either of which shall exceed three hundred dollars, until the plans and specifications for the same shall have been submitted to the superintendent of public instruction and his approval indorsed thereon. Such plans and specifications shall be submitted in duplicate and shall show in detail the ventilation, heating and lighting: Provided, That the said superintendent of public instruction shall have authority to inspect such building or buildings during the process of construction in order to determine that the provisions of this act are being complied with.

(444) SEC. 2. The superintendent of public instruction shall have authority to inspect and condemn school houses. After an inspection of a school house, if in the judgment of the said superintendent of public instruction such building, or any part thereof, is not in a safe and sanitary condition, notice thereof shall be given to the district board or board of education of the district in which such building is located, said notice to be given at least six months preceding the first day of August. On the first day of August following such notice given, if said building has not been placed in a safe and sanitary condition by the district board or board of education, said superintendent of public instruction shall have authority to close such building, or a part thereof, and such building, or part thereof, shall not again be opened for public use until such building, or part thereof, shall have been placed in a safe and sanitary condition to the satisfaction of the said superintendent of public instruction: Provided, That after such building, or part thereof, has been closed for public use said superintendent of public instruction shall be authorized and he is hereby required to have such building, or part thereof, placed in a safe and sanitary condition at the expense of the district: Proorder to close. Vided, That any district board or board of education, being dissatisfied with the order of the superintendent of public instruction determining such schoolhouse to be in an unsafe or insanitary condition, may within thirty days of the issuance of such order and notice thereof, commence

Proviso,

placing in safe condition.

Proviso, vacation of

an action in the circuit court in chancery for the county in which such schoolhouse is located, against the superintendent of public instruction as defendant, to vacate and set aside such order on the ground that said order is unlawful or unreasonable; in which suit the superintendent of public instruction shall be served with subpoena and a copy of the complaint.

expended

certification

(445) SEC. 3. No tax voted by a district meeting, or other Tax not to be competent authority in any such school district, exceeding without the sum of three hundred dollars for building purposes, shall of plans. be expended by the district board or board of education of such district until the superintendent of public instruction shall certify that the plans and specifications for the såme comply with the provisions of this act.

SCHOOL BONDS.

An Act to exempt from taxation bonds hereafter issued by any county, township, city, village or school district within the state of Michigan.

[Act 88, P. A. 1909.]

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

empt from

(446) SECTION 1. All bonds hereafter issued by any Bonds, excounty, township, city, village or school district within the taxation. state of Michigan pursuant to statute are hereby exempted from all taxation.

Sec. 2 repeals inconsistent acts.

An Act to prescribe and limit the power of school districts having a population of more than fifteen thousand and less than one hundred thousand to borrow money and issue bonds of such district therefor, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith.

[Act 150, P. A. 1915.]

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

borrow money

(447) SECTION 1. Any school district within the state of Power to Michigan, whose population shall exceed fifteen thousand and and issue be less than one hundred thousand, shall have power and bonds. authority to borrow money and issue bonds to an amount not greater than five per cent of the total assessed valuation

of said district. Subject, however, to all provisions of law Referendum. now or hereafter in force relative to the submission to the

electors of such districts of any or all questions relative to such borrowing of money and issuing of bonds therefor.

(448) SEC. 2. All acts or parts of acts, whether local or general, in anywise conflicting with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

Factory inspectors, power to condemn.

outward.

7449)

FIRE PROTECTION IN THE SCHOOLS.

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

SEC. 13. Factory inspectors shall have power to condemn all school houses if in their opinion they are unsafe and liable to collapse and cause the lives of children to be endangered; also factory inspectors shall have power to order fire escapes on all manufacturing establishments, hotels, stores, theaters, schools, halls, public and office buildings two or more stories in height, and apartment houses three or more stories in height, if in the opinion of the factory inspector it be necessary to insure the safety of persons in such places; said fire escape or means of egress, or as many thereof as may be deemed sufficient by the inspector, shall be provided, and where it is necessary to provide fire escapes on the outside of such building they shall consist of landings and balconies at each floor above the first, to be built according to Doors to open specifications provided by the factory inspector. All doors in school houses and the doors of the capitol building and all state institutions shall open outward. Factory inspectors shall in writing notify the owner, agent or lessee of such manufacturing establishments, hotels, stores, theaters, schools, halls, apartment houses and public and office buildings of the required location and specifications of such escapes as may be ordered and as to all failures to comply with the provisions of this act. Any person, firm or corporation, or any member of any school board, who shall violate or cause to be violated any of the provisions of this section, or shall fail or refuse to erect or cause to be erected any fire escape ordered by any factory inspector, under authority of this section, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, or imprisoned for not less than three months nor more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.

Penalty.

Am. 1911, Act 251.

ESTABLISHMENT, ETC., OF HIGHWAY TO SCHOOL BUILDING.

[Extract from Chap. I, Act 283, P. A. 1909.]

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SEC. 10. * * (450) The said township board shall Highway to every public cause to be established and improved a public highway to school. each and every public school building in any organized school district in every township, and where a highway is already laid out and established, and not improved and made passable to any such public school building, the said board shall cause the same to be so improved and made passable for public use.