guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars. Approved, July 11, 1907. When public acts of 1907 take effect. Appointment of school physicians. Duties. Children to be referred to physicians for examination. [House Bill No. 788.] CHAPTER 206. An Act concerning the Time when the Public Acts of 1907 shall take Effect. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in SECTION 1. All acts public in form, passed at the present session of the general assembly, shall, unless otherwise provided in such acts, take effect on September 1, 1907. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. [Substitute for Senate Bill No. 123.] CHAPTER 207. An Act concerning the Appointment and Duties of School Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in SECTION 1. The board of school visitors, board of education, or town school committee of any town, or the board of education or committee of any school district, may appoint one or more school physicians and assign one to any public school within the limits of such town or school district, and shall provide such school physicians, when so appointed, with proper facilities for the performance of their duties. SEC. 2. Every school physician so appointed shall make a prompt examination of all children referred to him as hereinafter provided, and such further examination of teachers, janitors, and school buildings as in his opinion the protection of the health of the pupils may require. SEC. 3. The superintendent, principal, or teacher of any school to which a school physician has been assigned as hereinbefore provided shall refer to such physician every child returning to school without a permit from the health officer or board of health, after absence on account of illness or from unknown cause, and every child attending such school who appears to be in ill health, or is suspected to be sick with any contagious or infectious disease, unless such child be immediately excluded from such school under the provisions of the general statutes or the sanitary regulations in force in said town or district; provided, that in the case of schools in remote and isolated locations the school committee may make such other arrangements as may be advisable to carry out the purposes of this act. ination of SEC. 4. The school authorities of any town or school dis- Annual examtrict which has appointed a school physician in accordance with children. the provisions of this act shall cause every child attending the public schools therein to be separately and carefully tested and examined at least once in every school year to ascertain whether such child is suffering from defective sight or hearing, or from any other physical disability tending to prevent such child from receiving the full benefit of school work, or requiring a modification of such school work in order to prevent injury to the child or to secure the best educational results. to be given to SEC. 5. Notice of the disease or defects, if any, from Notice of disease which any child is found by such school physician to be suffer-parent or ing shall be given to the parent or guardian of such child with guardian. such advice or order relating thereto as said physician may deem advisable, and whenever any child shows symptoms of any contagious or infectious disease notice shall also be given to the health officer or board of health and such child may be excluded from attendance at such school in accordance with the provisions of the general statutes or the sanitary regulations in force in the town or district. matron or SEC. 6. Whenever the board of school visitors, board of Appointment of education, or town school committee of any town, or the board nurse. of education or district committee of any school district, shall have appointed a school physician as provided in section one of this act, said board or committee may also appoint a matron or nurse who shall take such action, under the direction of the school physician, as may be necessary for safeguarding the health of the pupils and teachers of the schools. Such matron or nurse shall also act, under the direction of the school physician, as a visiting nurse in the town or school district, shall visit the homes of pupils in the public schools, and shall assist in executing the orders of the school physician. paid. SEC. 7. The expenses incurred under the provisions of Expenses, how this act shall be paid in the same manner as are the ordinary expenses for the support of schools in the several towns and school districts. Approved, July 11, 1907. "Bucket-shop " defined. [House Hill No. 771.] CHAPTER 208. An Act concerning Bucket Shops. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in SECTION 1. A bucket shop, within the meaning of this act, is defined to be an office, store, or other place, wherein the proprietor or keeper thereof, either in his or its own behalf, or as the agent or correspondent of any other person, corporation, association, or copartnership within or without the state, conducts the business of making or offering to make contracts, agreements, trades, or transactions respecting the purchase or sale or purchase and sale of any stocks, grain, provisions, or other commodity, or personal property, wherein both parties thereto, or such proprietor or keeper, contemplate or intend that such contracts, agreements, trades, or transactions shall be or may be closed, adjusted, or settled according to, or upon the basis of the public market quotations of prices made on any board of trade or exchange upon which the commodities or securities referred to in such contracts, agreements, trades, or transactions are dealt in, and without a bona fide transaction on such board of trade or exchange; or wherein both parties, or such keeper or proprietor, shall contemplate or intend that such contracts, agreements, trades, or transactions shall be, or may be deemed, closed or terminated when the public market quotations of prices made on such board of trade or exchange for the articles or securities named in such contracts, agreements, trades, or transactions shall reach a certain figure; also, any office, store, or other place where the keeper or proprietor thereof, either in his or its own behalf, or as an agent as aforesaid, therein makes or offers to make, whether such offer is accepted or not, contracts, trades, or transactions with others for the purchase or sale of any such commodity, wherein the parties thereto do not contemplate the actual or bona fide receipt or delivery of such property, but do contemplate a settlement thereof based upon differences in the price at which said property is or is claimed to be bought and sold. It is the intention of this act to prevent, punish, and prohibit, within this state, the business now engaged in and conducted in places commonly known and designated as "bucket shops," also the practice now commonly known as "bucket-shopping" by persons, corporations, associations, or copartnerships, who or which ostensibly carry on the business or occupation of commission merchants or brokers in grain, provisions, cotton, coffee, petroleum, stocks, and bonds, or any of them. ing bucket-shop. SEC. 2. It shall be unlawful for any corporation, associa- Penalty for keeption, copartnership, or person to keep or cause to be kept, within this state, any such bucket shop; and any person or corporation, whether acting individually, or as a member, or as an officer, agent, or employe of any corporation, association, or copartnership, who or which shall keep or assist in the keeping of any such bucket shop within this state, shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not less than five hundred dollars and not more than one thousand dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail until such fine is paid; provided, that such imprisonment shall not continue for more than one year; and any person or persons who shall be found guilty of a second offense under this act shall, in addition to the penalty hereinbefore prescribed, be imprisoned in the county jail not less than sixty days nor more than one year, and any corporation convicted of such second offense shall be liable to forfeiture of its charter. The continuance of any such establishment after a first conviction shall be deemed a second offense. SEC. 3. Any corporation, association, copartnership, or Punishment of person who shall communicate, receive, exhibit, or display, in accessory. any manner, any statements of quotations of the prices of any property mentioned in section one, with a view to any transactions in this act prohibited, shall be deemed an accessory, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined and punished the same as the principal, and as provided in section two of this act. of stocks to be demand. SEC. 4. Every commission merchant, copartnership, asso- Name of the ciation, corporation, person, or broker in this state engaged in buyer or seller the business of buying or selling or buying and selling stocks, furnished on grain, provisions, or other commodities or personal property for any person, principal, customer, or purchaser shall furnish, upon demand, to any customer or principal for whom such commission merchant, broker, copartnership, corporation, association, or person has executed any order for the actual purchase or sale of the commodities hereinbefore mentioned, either for immediate or future delivery, a written statement containing the names of the parties from whom such property was bought, or to whom it was sold, as the case may be, the time when, the place where, and the price at which the same was either bought or sold; and the refusal of any such commission merchant, broker, copartnership, corporation, or association to promptly furnish such statement, upon reasonable demand, shall be prima facie evidence that such property was sold or bought in violation of the provisions of this act. SEC. 5. This act shall take effect July 1, 1908. Commission named. Map of shell-fish grounds. Expense of making map, how paid. Powers of shell-fish commissioners. Taxes, to whom to be paid. Powers of commission. [Substitute for House Bill No. 698.] CHAPTER 209. An Act concerning State Shell-Fisheries in New Haven Harbor. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in SECTION 1. The shell-fish commissioners, the selectmen of the town of Orange, and three persons appointed by the mayor of the city of New Haven shall be and constitute a commission for the purposes hereinafter named. SEC. 2. Said commission shall, on or before July 1, 1908, cause to be made a map of the shell-fish grounds located in New Haven harbor, so-called, or its tributaries, and lying north of a line drawn from Oyster river to South End. SEC. 3. The expense of making said map shall be paid by said town of Orange and said city of New Haven, each paying a share proportionate to the number of acres located in said town and city, respectively. SEC. 4. When such map is so made, and is accepted by the shell-fish commissioners, said shell-fish commissioners shall have and exercise all the powers and duties with reference to the grounds covered thereby as they have or may hereafter legally exercise with reference to the grounds south of said line. SEC. 5. All taxes which shall be collected by said commissioners on ground covered by said map shall be paid to the treasurer of the town or city in which said ground is located. SEC. 6. The commission mentioned in section one of this act shall have power to cause to be made copies of such books, records, and maps as may be necessary for the performance of its duties, which copies shall be kept on file in the office of the shell-fish commission, and the expense of making such copies shall be paid in the same manner and in the same proportionate amounts as the other expenses of making said map as provided in section three. SEC. 7. This act shall take effect from its passage. |
