[No. 80.] AN ACT to authorize and empower the Board of State Auditors, the Board of Control, Board of Trustees or governing board of certain State institutions, to make, prescribe and enforce rules and regulations for the care, order and preservation of buildings or property dedicated and appropriated to the public use and the conduct of those coming upon the property thereof; to prescribe penalties for a violation thereof and to repeal all acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act. The People of the State of Michigan enact: make rules for of order. SECTION 1. The Board of State Auditors, the Board of State boards may Trustees of the Industrial School for Boys, the State Board of care of property, Education, the Board of Guardians of the State Industrial and maintenance Home for Girls, the Board of Control of the Michigan College of Mines, the Board of Trustees of the Eastern Michigan Asylum, the Board of Trustees of the Michigan Asylum for the Insane, the Board of Trustees of the Northern Michigan Asylum, the Board of Trustees of the State Asylum, the Board of Trustees of the Upper Peninsula Hospital for Insane, the Board of Control of the State Prison at Jackson, the Board of Control of the State House of Correction and Branch Prison of the Upper Peninsula, the Board of Control of the Michigan Reformatory at Ionia, the Board of Trustees of the Michigan School for the Deaf, the Board of Control of the Michigan School for the Blind, the Board of Managers of the Michigan Soldiers' Home, the Board of Control of the Michigan Home for Feeble Minded and Epileptic, the Board of Trustees of the Michigan Employment Institution for the Blind, the Board of Control of the State Public School, the State Board of Agriculture, the State Board of Fish Commissioners, the Michigan State Agricultural Society, and the Board of Regents of the University of Michigan shall have authority to make and prescribe rules and regulations for the care, preservation and protection of buildings and property dedicated and appropri ated to the public use, over which they have jurisdiction or power of control and the conduct of those coming upon the property thereof, which may be necessary for the maintenance of good order and the protection of said State property; and shall have authority to enforce such rules and regulations, and May enforce empower one or more persons with the authority prescribed in rules, and punish this act, and cause any person or persons found guilty of a violation thereof to be punished in the manner hereinafter prescribed. offenders. who deemed SEC. 2. Any person who shall wilfully cut, peel, or other Misdemeanor, wise injure or destroy any tree or shrub standing on any guilty of. property dedicated or appropriated to the public use and within the control or under the jurisdiction of any of the said Penalty. Policemen, vested with au warrant. above named boards; who shall carry, draw, leave or deposit within or upon said property any filth, rubbish or garbage; who shall efface any mark or inscription of any kind whatsoever or mutilate or destroy any building, machine, or appliance, fence or hedge of any kind; who shall enter, hunt or trespass upon any part or portion of property or skate upon, or fish, in any manner in any pond, brook or stream, the use of which is forbidden to the general public, and relative to which there are signs or notices to that effect; who shall be guilty of any boisterous or disorderly conduct upon the premises thereof, annoy, harass, assault or disturb any inmate or person cared for or under the control of said boards; who shall without authority or permission unlock or open any gate, window or door or enter any room, hall, ward or yard or other portion of any institution in which inmates or persons are detained under State control; who shall create, cause or attempt to create any disturbance or openly and wilfully refuse to conform to such rules, regulations, and orders as any of the said boards may prescribe, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof may be fined not more than fifty dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail of the county where such offense is committed for a period of not less than ten days nor more than sixty days, or both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. SEC. 3. Every person duly appointed or chosen by any of thority of sheriff. the said boards to act in the capacity of superintendent, policeman, watchman, marshal, deputy marshal, guard or attendant, shall be vested with the general authority of sheriffs, relative to the arrest and custody of offenders against rules and regulations prescribed by said boards or any provisions of this act, and shall have authority to apprehend and arrest, and it To arrest without shall be the duty of such officer or appointee to arrest without warrant any person found violating any rules which shall have been made or prescribed by the respective board relative to trespasses upon property, good order, the preservation of property, or the mutilation or destruction or injury to property in any manner whatsoever. It shall be the duty of said officers or appointees to make complaint against offenders of any provision of this act, or the rules and regulations of their respective board, before any justice of the peace or police justice of the township or city, or any justice of the peace of the county within the limits of which the institution is located, and any justice of the peace, police justice or judge of the recorder's court, before whom complaint is made, is hereby authorized to take cognizance, hear, try, and determine such matters, and pass sentence upon offenders in accordance with law. To make complaint against offenders. Who may hear and determine such matters, pass sentence. When members of boards may make complaint. SEC. 4. The members of each of the above named boards and all other persons are also hereby given authority to make complaint, before such justice of the peace or police justice as is referred to in section three of this act, against any person or persons who it is believed has wilfully violated any law, rule or regulation pertaining to the property or building over which they have any jurisdiction or power of control, and the proceedings pertaining to the arrest and punishment of offenders shall be in the manner hereinbefore prescribed. corded, and premises. SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of said boards to have all rules Boards to have and regulations which may be made or prescribed, entered in rules, etc., reconvenient form, in a record book kept in the respective office posted on for that purpose and posted in at least three conspicuous places on said premises. It shall be the duty of the prosecut- Duty of prosing attorney of the county in which the offense is committed to prosecute offenders against the provisions of this act or any rule or regulation made or prescribed by said boards, under the authority of this act. ecuting attorney. SEC. 6. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with or con- Repealing clause. travening the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. Approved May 1, 1905. [No. 81.] AN ACT to provide for the collection and dissemination of useful information concerning the agricultural resources of Michigan, and to repeal act number one hundred sixty-two of the session laws of eighteen hundred fifty-nine, and all acts amendatory thereof, being compiler's sections four thousand six hundred twenty-one, four thousand six hundred twenty-two, four thousand six hundred twenty-three, four thousand six hundred twenty-four, four thousand six hundred twenty-five of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven. The People of the State of Michigan cnact: State to collect SECTION 1. The Secretary of State is hereby authorized to Secretary of collect information concerning the agricultural productions agricultural and resources of the State of Michigan, which in his judgment statistics. may be necessary or useful in the development of the agricultural interests of the State, and he is authorized to compile and To compile and publish the information so collected in circular or pamphlet publish. form for free distribution, in such manner as shall in his judgment best promote and develop such interests. submitted. SEC. 2. The copy for each such circular or pamphlet shall To whom copy be submitted to the State Board of Auditors and such board shall determine the number of each to be printed; the cost Cost limited. not to exceed fifteen hundred dollars in any year. SEC. 3. Act number one hundred sixty-two of the session Act repealed, laws of eighteen hundred fifty-nine and all acts amendatory thereto, the same, as amended, being compiler's sections four thousand six hundred twenty-one, four thousand six hundred twenty-two, four thousand six hundred twenty-three, four This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Sections amended. How society may receive loans. Proviso. Society to first invest capital in paying costs of formation, etc. L [No. 82.] AN ACT to amend sections three, eight, twelve and thirteen of act number two hundred five of the public acts of eighteen hundred seventy-seven, entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of societies for the receiving, loaning and investing of money," being sections six thousand one hundred ninety-two, six thousand one hundred ninety-seven, six thousand two hundred one and six thousand two hundred two of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninetyseven, as amended by act number two hundred seventythree of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-nine, and by act number one hundred eighty-four of the public acts of nineteen hundred one. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Sections three, eight, twelve and thirteen of act number two hundred five of the public acts of eighteen hundred seventy-seven, entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of societies for the receiving, loaning and investing of money," being sections six thousand one hundred ninety-two, six thousand one hundred ninety-seven, six thousand two hundred one and six thousand two hundred two of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, as amended by act number two hundred seventy-three of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-nine, and by act number one hundred eighty-four of the public acts of nineteen hundred one, are hereby amended so as to read as follows: SEC. 3. Such society may receive loans or deposits of money from its members, or from other persons, partnerships or corporations, at interest not exceeding seven per centum per annum, or without interest, and for such time certain as may be agreed upon, and may issue its bonds, certificates or other evidences of indebtedness therefor: Provided, That such society shall not receive any such loans or deposits until such society shall have actually invested one hundred thousand dollars of its paid-in permanent stock capital in real estate securities as provided in sections eight and nine of this act. SEC. S. Such society is hereby empowered to lay out and invest its capital, or other moneys intrusted or in anywise belonging to such society, in the first place, in paying and mainder of discharging all costs, charges and expenses incurred in the formation and management of such society; and the remainder May loan reof such capital, or other moneys, or so much thereof as may m from time to time be deemed necessary, may be advanced by way of a loan to any person or persons, partnerships or corporations, upon security of bonds and mortgages, or notes and mortgages, or bonds and deeds of trust, on unincumbered real estate, of at least double the value of such loans; or any part or parts of such capital, or other moneys, may be invested May invest in in the stocks or bonds of the United States, or of any of the and bonds. so-called New England, middle or northwestern states, or in any bonds lawfully issued by any county, city, village or school district in any state of the United States, and upon such terms and conditions as such society shall deem satisfactory and expedient. certain stocks executed. SEC. 12. When all moneys intended to be secured by any Release of inbond and mortgage, or note and mortgage, or bond and deed cumbrance, how of trust, given to any society formed under this act have been fully paid, a release of such incumbrance shall be given, duly executed by the proper officers of the society in the customary form and in accordance with the general law relating to the discharge of such instruments. of association. SEC. 13. The persons proposing to form a society under the Shall make provisions of this act shall make written articles of associa- written articles tion, which shall be signed and acknowledged before a notary public, and which shall state: First, The name by which such society shall be known; Second, The place in this State where its principal office is to be located; Third, The purpose for which such society is formed; Fourth, Whether its capital stock is fixed, and if so, at what amount, or whether it is to be of an amount varying from time to time; Fifth, The amounts of its several shares, and how designated, one class of which shall be known as permanent stock; Sixth, How such several shares may be paid; Seventh, What amount of capital, if any, will be actually paid in before commencing business; Eighth, The maximum extent, not exceeding the limits prescribed by section four of this act, to which such society is to receive money on loan or deposit; Ninth, The time such society shall exist, not exceeding thirty years; and Tenth, The names, in full, of the persons associating, their respective residences, and the number and class of shares subscribed for by each of them. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. What to state. |