exposes, without previous disinfection according to the rules of the board of health, any bedding, clothing, rags, or other objects which have been exposed to infection from any of the above diseases, shall, upon conviction, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. Sec. 17. Id. Any person who knowingly has conveyed a person affected with a contagious disease, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor unless he shall have immediately disinfected his conveyance in a thorough manner. Sec. 18. Id. The owner or agent of any house in which a person has been suffering from any contagious disease who shall knowingly let it or part of it for hire without having previously disinfected it and all articles therein liable to disinfection according to the rules of the board of health, shall be deemed guilty of a misde meanor. BURIAL PERMITS. Sec. 19. No Burial Without Permit. No burial or interment shall be lawful in the state of Utah, nor shall any dead body be removed from said state until a permit for such burial, interment or removal shall have been first obtained from the board of health of the county, city or town in which it is situated. Sec. 20. Regulations for Issuing Permit. Such permit shall be issued by the board of health upon receipt of the usual certificate of death, signed by the attending physician in the case; or, if none, by two reputable citizens; or, if the death be the subject of an inquest, by the coroner, or other officer holding such inquest. The said permit shall set forth, as nearly as possible, the name, age, color, sex, place of birth, occupation, date, locality, and the cause of death of the deceased. And no certificate shall be received, upon which to grant such permit, unless signed by a physician, coroner, or two reputable citizens, registered as such under his or their proper signature at the office of such board of health, health officer or other authorized officer or person; provided, that in cities of the first and second class it shall be the duty of the health officer to investigate all cases of death in which the death certificate is signed by any other person than a physician or coroner, with a view of determining the cause of same, and when he shall have so determined, he shall affix his signature to the certificate. Sec. 21. Penalty. Any undertaker or sexton and each and every other person engaged or concerned in a burial in violation of the provisions of this act, and the officers and employees of any transportation company, or any other person or persons engaged or concerned in the removal of a dead body from said state in violation of the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misde meanor. Sec. 22. Record of Burial Permits. The board of health shall enter in a suitable book to be kept for that purpose, a record of all burial permits issued, specifying the date of issue and to whom issued, together with all the items of information contained in the certificates upon which the issue of such permits is based. Sec. 23. Quarantine Regulations. The transporation or removal of bodies of persons who have died of small-pox, cholera, yellow fever, diphtheria, or other disease dangerous to the public health, is forbidden within the limits of the state except in conformity with the rules and regulations of the state board of health concerning the same. And no burial or exhumation of any body shall be permitted in the night time unless for good reasons, to be entered in full upon the record book above provided for. SCHOOLS. Sec. 24. Board of Health Has Jurisdiction in Matters Pertaining to Health in Schools. The local boards of health shall have jurisdiction in all matters pertaining to the preservation of the health of those in attendance upon the public and private schools in the state, to which end it is hereby made the duty of each of the local boards of health. (1) To exclude from said schools any person, including teachers, suffering with any contagious or infectious disease, whether acute or chronic, or liable to convey such disease to those in attendance. (2) To make regular inspections of all school buildings and premises, as to their hygienic condition, and to report on forms that shall be furnished by the state board of health, the result of such inspections to those having charge and control of such schools, with instructions as to the remedy of conditions (if any such be found) whereby the health of those in attendance may be impaired or life endangered. A copy of said report shall also at the same time be sent to the state board of health. Sec. 25. Board to Enforce Regulations. In the event of failure or refusal of those having such charge and control to carry out the instructions so given, then the board of health shall cause such faulty conditions to be remedied at the proper cost and expense of those having charge and control of the school or schools. PENALTY. Sec. 26. Penalty. Any person who violates, disobeys, omits, neglects or refuses to comply with, or resists any of the provisions of this chapter, or who refuses or neglects to obey any of the rules, orders, proclamations or sanitary regulations of the board of health, health officer, or mayor, or who omits, neglects or refuses to comply with or who resists any officers or orders or special regulations of said board of health, health officer, or mayor, shall, upon conviction, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. Approved March 9, 1899. CHAPTER 46. SALE OF LIQUOR TO INDIANS. AN ACT Repealing Section 4299 of the Revised Statutes of Utah, 1898, Relating to the Unlawful Sale of Liquor to Indians. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Utah: SECTION 1. Section 4299, R. S. Repealed. That section 4299 of the Revised Statutes of Utah, 1898, relating to the unlawful sale of intoxicating liquor within ten miles of an Indian reservation, except in incorporated cities or towns, be and the same is hereby repealed. Sec. 2. This act shall take effect upon approval. CHAPTER 47. HORTICULTURE. AN ACT to Amend Sections 1176, 1178 and 1181. of the Revised Statutes of Utah, 1898, Relating to Horticulture. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Utah: SECTION 1. Section 1176, of the Revised Statutes of Utah, 1898, is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 1176. County Fruit Tree Inspector to be Appointed Upon Nomination of Member State Board. Deputies. Term. Compensation. In every county wherein fruit trees are growing to the number of 5,000 or more it shall be the duty of the member of the state board of horticulture for the district in which any such county is located, on or before the first Monday in April, 1899, and thereafter bi-ennially, to nominate to the board of county commissioners of the respective counties three persons suitable to act as county fruit tree inspectors. It shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners to select from the names thus nominated one person to act as county fruit tree inspector. Such persons shall be a resident of the county within which he is appointed to serve and shall be a practical horticulturist. He shall perform the duties of fruit tree inspector as prescribed in this title, under the direction of the members of the state board of horticulture for the district. In counties with a population of 20,000 or greater, there shall be appointed by the county inspector as many deputy inspectors as in the judgment of the inspector and the members of the state board of horticulture may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this title. Such county fruit tree inspectors and deputy inspectors shall serve for the term of two years, unless sooner removed by the county com missioners for incompetency or direlection of duty or upon complaint of the member of the state board of horticulture for the district. Such county inspectors and deputy inspectors shall be employed such portion of each year as in the judgment of the member of the state board is necessary to secure the best protection to the fruit interests of the respective counties. The compensation of each county inspector shall be three dollars per day and of each deputy inspector two dollars per day for the time actually employed as provided in this title. Such compensation shall be paid out of the salary fund of the county and shall be paid monthly. Sec. 2. Inspection of Imported Nursery Stock. Section 1178 of the Revised Statutes of Utah, 1898, is amended to read as follows: Section 1178. Any inspector shall, upon evidence that nursery stock is imported or offered for sale within his district, cause a careful examination to be made of such stock. All or any nurserymen shall report to the county inspector any receipt of fruit trees. It shall be the duty of any consignee or any person who shall receive from points outside of this state any package, box, bale, bundle or any carload lot of fruit trees, bushes, vines, shrubs or grafts, to immediately notify the nearest fruit tree inspector or deputy inspector or any member of the state board of horticulture of the receipt of such fruit trees, bushes, vines, shrubs, or grafts, and it shall be unlawful for any person receiving freight as described in this section to remove such fruit trees, bushes, vines, shrubs or grafts from the original package of transportation without permission from the fruit tree inspector or deputy inspector or member of the state board of horticulture who has been notified of the freight described in this section. Any fruit tree inspector or deputy inspector or member of the state board of horticulture who shall be notified of the receipt of freight as described herein shall use due diligence in inspecting the same. This section shall not apply to shipments of freight accompanied by a certificate of inspection signed by any duly authorized county inspector or deputy inspector of any county in Utah appointed under the provisions of this act or by any member of the state board of horticulture. Sec. 3. Section 1181 of the Revised Statutes of 1898, is amended to read as follows: Sec. 1181. Compensation Members State Board. The compensation of each member of the state board of horticulture shall be $200 per annum, excepting that the member designated to act as secretary herein shall receive as compensation the sum of $600 per annum. In addition to such compensation each member of the board shall receive the amount of his actual and necessary traveling expenses when outside the county of his residence on official business not to exceed $250 per year. The salaries and other expenses provided herein shall be paid as provided in case of other state officers. Sec. 4. This act shall take effect upon approval. CHAPTER 48. TUBERCULOSIS. AN ACT to Prevent Persons Selling or Furnishing Milk or Dairy Products from Keeping Cattle Having Tuberculosis or Other Contagious or Infectious Diseases. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Utah: SECTION 1. Cattle Having Contagious Disease Must Not Be Kept by Dairymen. No person selling, exchanging, furnishing or delivering milk or dairy products shall have in his possession, at any place where milch cows are kept, any cattle having tuberculosis or other infectious or contagious disease. Sec. 2. Cattle Having Contagious Disease to be Killed. It shall be the duty of the dairy and food commissioner of this state, in case he shall find that cattle are kept in violation of the provisions of this act, to cause all such cattle, having any contagious or infectious disease, to be killed. Sec. 3. Penalty. Any person violating the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Sec. 4. This act shall take effect upon approval. CHAPTER 49. SHERIFF. AN ACT to Amend Section 599 of the Revised Statutes of Utah, Providing for the Duties of Sheriff. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Utah: That section 599 of the Revised Statutes of Utah be amended to read as follows: Sec. 599. Duties of Sheriff. It shall be the duty of the sheriff to duly serve and return all processes in criminal cases to which the state is a party, lawfully issued by any court of the state, and he shall perform such duty without fee in cases where such process is issued on behalf of the state; but where the process issues from a court outside of his county he shall be entitled to his actual expenses necessarily incurred in the service of the same, to be paid by the county where the process was issued. He shall perform such other duties as are required by law. Approved March 9, 1899. |