vided, that before any certificate shall be so revoked, the holder thereof shall have notice in writing of the charge or charges against him, and at a day specified in said notice at least five (5) days after the service of notice thereof, be given a public hearing and be given an opportunity to present testimony in his behalf, and to confront the witnesses against him. Any person whose certificate has been revoked, may after the expiration of ninety (90) days apply to have his certificate regranted, and the same shall be regranted to him upon his giving satisfactory proof that his disqualification has ceased to exist. AN ACT relating to hotels, inns and public lodging houses in cities, villages and incorporated towns in the State of Illinois. Approved June 25, in force July 1, 1913. Laws 1913, p. 395. 353. Hotel Defined. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: Every building or structure kept, used or maintained as, or advertised as, or held out to the public to be an inn, hotel or public lodging house or place where sleeping accommodations are furnished for hire to transient guests, whether with or without meals in which ten (10) or more rooms are used for accommodation of guests shall, for the purpose of this Act, be defined to be a hotel and whenever the word hotel shall occur in this Act, it shall be construed to mean every such structure as in [is] described in this section. 354. Bedding, Requirements. SEC. 2. All beds for accommodation of guests in any hotel shall be provided with sufficient supply of clean bedding and with clean sheets each of which shall be at least eighty-one inches wide and ninety-nine inches long. All beds shall be provided with clean sheets as often as the same shall be assigned to different persons. 855. Towel Supply. SEC. 3. Each and every hotel having a public washroom shall keep therein at all times a sufficient supply of individual clean towels in a place in sight of, and easy [of] access to guests. Also, at least two clean towels in each room, each day. 356. Fumigation of Rooms. SEC. 4. Whenever any room in any hotel shall have been occupied by any person having a contagious or infectious disease, the said rooms shall be thoroughly fumigated and all bedding therein thoroughly disinfected before said room shall be occupied by any other person, but in any event, such room shall not be let to any person for at least forty-eight hours after such fumigation or disinfection. 357. Drainage and Plumbing, Lavatories. SEC. 5. Every hotel shall be well drained, constructed, and plumbed according to sanitary rules to be established by the State Board of Health and shall be kept clean and in a sanitary condition and free from effluvia arising from any sewer, drain, privy or other source within the control of the owner, manager, agent or other person in charge; and shall be provided with water closets or privies properly screened for the separate use of males and females, which water closets or privies shall be disinfected as often as may be necessary to keep them at all times, in a sanitary condition. 358. Violation, Penalty. SEC. 6. Every owner, manager, agent or person in charge of a hotel who shall fail to comply with any of the provisions of this Act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not less than ten dollars ($10.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00), or shall be imprisoned in the county jail for not less than ten days nor more than three months or both, and every day that such hotel is carried on in violation of this Act shall constitute a separate offense. 859. Posting Act. SEC. 7. That [the] State Board of Health shall cause to be printed and shall forward to each hotel, inn, and public lodging house coming under the provisions of this Act, a sufficient number of copies of this Act, so as to enable the management of the said hotel, inn, or public lodging house to post one notice in a conspicuous place in each room used for lodging purposes, and the said management shall cause the said notices so sent to be posted as provided for in this section. 360. Repeal. SEC. 8. All Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. AN ACT for the regulation and inspection of tenement and lodging houses, or other places of habitation. Approved and in force May 30, 1881. L. 1881, p. 155. 361. Tenements and Lodging Houses, Plans and Specification, Approval. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That it shall be the duty of any architect or architects, builder or builders of, or other person or persons interested in any projected tenement, lodging house, or other places of habitation, in any incorporated city of fifty thousand (50,000) inhabitants, to submit plans and specifications of any such building or buildings to the health commissioner or commissioners of such incorporated city that the said health commissioner or commissioners may examine the said plans and specifications, for his or their approval or rejection, as to the proposed plans for the ventilation of rooms, light and air shafts, windows, ventilation of water closets drainage and plumbing. 362. Plumbing Work, Instructions. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of any plumber or other person or persons interested in the contract for the plumbing work of such building or buildings, to receive a written certificate of instruction from the health commissioner or commissioners before commencing work on the said building or buildings, and to proceed according to the plans, specifications and instructions, as approved by the health commissioner or commissioners of said city. 363. Plumbing Work, Completion, Notice, Inspection. SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of any plumber or other person or persons interested in the plumbing work, after the completion of said plumbing work, and before any of the said plumbing work is covered up in any building or buildings, or on the premises connected with said building or buildings, to notify in writing the health commissioner or commissioners, that said building or buildings, or other premises are now ready for inspection, and it shall be unlawful for any plumber or other person or persons to cover up, or in any way conceal such plumbing work in or about such building or buildings, until the health commissioner or commissioners approve of the same. 364. Architect, Penalty. SEC. 4. If any architect or architects, builder or builders, violate the provisions of this Act, he or they shall be fined in a sum not less than one hundred (100) nor more than two hundred (200) dollars for each offense. 365. Plumber, Penalty. SEC. 5. If any plumber or other person or persons interested in the plumbing work, violate any of the provisions of this Act, he or they shall be fined in the sum not less than one hundred (100) nor more than two hundred (200) dollars for the first offense, and the further penalty of ten dollars ($10) for each and every day such plumbers or other interested person or persons shall, after first conviction, neglect or refuse (al) to comply with any provisions of this Act, or the written instructions of the health commissioner or commissioners, and for the second offense, a like penalty and a filed with the clerk of such municipality as hereinafter provided, within twenty-one days after the first publication of said ordinance, then the corporate authorities may proceed to carry out the provisions of the ordinance. But if within said period of twenty-one days there shall be filed with the clerk of such municipality a petition, signed by twenty per cent of the number of voters voting for presiding officer of the legislative body of such municipality at the next preceding general city, town or village election, asking that the question of acquiring or enlarging a water works system be submitted to a vote. [,] It [it] shall then be the duty of the legislative body of such municipality to call a special election in the manner provided by law, to vote upon such question, and if it appear that a majority of the voters voting upon such question at such election vote in favor of acquiring or enlarging the water works, then said ordinance shall be in full force and effect, and the corporate authorities may proceed to carry out the provisions thereof, but if a majority of the votes cast are against such acquiring or enlarging, then said city, incorporated town or village shall proceed no further for the period of six months next ensuing. 321. Water Fund, Application. SEC. 3. Whenever any such municipality shall avail itself of the provisions of this Act, the entire proceeds arising from the operation of the water works system thereof shall be paid into a fund known as the "water fund," and which fund shall be and remain inviolate until the certificates issued under the terms hereof and the interest thereon is fully paid, and the treasurer of such municipality shall not pay any warrants drawn on said fund unless the same be drawn in payment of the necessary operating expenses of such water works system, or in payment of the certificates issued hereunder or the interest thereon. 322. Mortgage or Trust Deed, Conditions. SEC. 4. In order to secure in the most ample manner the payment of the water certificates, authorized as aforesaid, any such municipality may convey by way of mortgage or deed of trust the water works system so acquired or enlarged which said mortgage or deed of trust shall be acknowledged and recorded in the same manner as mortgages of real property, and which mortgage or deed of trust may contain such provisions and conditions as are reasonably necessary to fully secure the payment of said water certificates, 323. Water Certificates, Foreclosure, Decree, Sale. SEC. 5. Whenever, and as often as default shall be made in the payment of water certificates, issued as aforesaid, and such default shall continue for the space of ninety days, it shall be lawful for said mortgagee or trustee to declare the whole of the principal and interest of such certificates at once due and payable, and proceed to foreclose the same in any court of competent jurisdiction, and in any decree to be rendered in such suit of foreclosure there shall be included a reasonable solocitor's fee for the complainant's solicitor, and such decree shall fix reasonable rates for water furnished from said water works system for public uses during the time that such municipality shall be deprived of the possession thereof, as hereinafter provided, and upon any sale under such decree of foreclosure the person or corporation offering to satisfy said decree for the rents, incomes and profits of said water works system for the least number of years, not exceeding fifty, shall become the purchaser thereof, and on satisfying said decree shall be let into the use, occupation and enjoyment of said water works system during the period of time for which the same were sold, and during such period such purchaser or assigns shall be entitled to receive and collect for water furnished for private uses the rates prescribed in the ordinance provided for in section 2 of this Act, and shall be entitled to receive and collect the reasonable rates fixed for the public uses of water in such decree. At the end of said period said purchasers or assigns shall deliver said water works system to such municipality in as good condition as when the same was received, ordinary wear and tear excepted. 324. Purchaser's Rights, Protection. SEC. 6. During the period of time when the purchaser at such foreclosure sale shall be entitled to the use and enjoyment of said water works system, it shall not be competent for such municipality to construct or authorize any other person or corporation to construct a competing system of water works, nor shall it be competent for the purchaser at such foreclosure sale, or assigns, to extend the water works system so purchased, except upon such terms as such municipality may authorize. 325. Scope of Act. SEC. 7. This shall be deemed and construed to confer powers in addition to but not limiting those now existing. 28 AN ACT to enable cities and villages to buy, construct or enlarge water works and to provide for the management thereof, and giving them authority to levy an annual tax and to pledge the same in payment therefor. Title to Act approved April 19, in force July 1, 1899, as amended by Act approved May 18, in force July 1, 1905. Laws 1905, p. 94. 326. Water Works, Purchase, Construction and Enlarging, Annual Tax. SECTION 1. That cities and villages shall have the power to levy, in addition to the taxes now authorized by law, a direct annual tax of not more than one cent on the dollar upon all the property within the corporate limits of the city or village, said tax to be payable yearly for a period of not more than thirty years; the proceeds of said tax to be used solely for the purchase, construction or enlarging of water works. (Amended by Act approved May 18, in force July 1, 1905. Laws 1905, p. 94. 327. Contract Ordinance. SEC. 2. Whenever any city or village desires to avail itself of the provisions of this Act, the city council or the board of trustees, as the case may be, may by ordinance or resolution contract for the purchase, erection or enlarging of water works for a provisionally certain fixed sum, or may so contract for purchase, extension or enlarging if the plant proposed to be purchased shall be inadequate, and such contract for erection, purchase or enlarging, together with a report from the city or village engineer recommending the same, shall be published at least once a week for three consecutive weeks in a daily or weekly newspaper published in said city or village, and shall at the same time provide by resolution or ordinance for the levying of a direct annual tax as authorized in section 1 of this Act, the total of which said tax for the term levied, together with the annual revenue which is estimated to be derived from the works, shall be sufficient to pay the contract price for the works, together with interest on same; but such contract for purchase, erection or enlarging, and such tax, shall not be valid or binding until confirmed by vote as follows: (Amended by Act approved May 18, in force July 1, 1905. Laws 1905, p. 94.) 328. Referendum. SEC. 3. Such contract and tax, after action by the council or trustees aforesaid, shall, before they shall be valid and binding, be submitted for ratification to the voters of the city or village at a regular or special election by giving notice of same, which notice shall specify the character of the said works proposed to be erected, purchased or enlarged and the amount of tax to be levied, and said notice shall be posted in ten public places within such city or village at least three weeks prior to said election, and also by publication three times in a daily or weekly newspaper published in said city or village, and for three weeks preceding such election there shall be on file in some public place, convenient of access, a full description of works, copy of contract and report of engineer, for the inspection of the voters, and notice of where said plans and specifications are on file shall be included 26 A municipality that has reached its constitutional limit of indebtedness can not take advantage of this Act by attempting to create an additional indebtedness. Village of East Moline v. Pope (1906), 224 III. 386. in the notice of election. If three-fourths of all the voters voting on said proposition shall vote in favor of said contract, and tax, the same shall be binding and tne tax duly levied. The ballots at such election shall read: "Proposition to construct, purchase or enlarge (or all) . years." ..annually (Amended by Act approved May 18, in force July 1, 1905. p. 94.) 329. Superintendent and Employees. Yes No Laws 1905, SEC. 4. The city council in cities and the board of trustees in villages shall have the power to carry into execution the contract for the erection, purchase or enlarging of water works when ratified by the voters, as directed in section 3, and employ a superintendent and such other employees as may be necessary and proper for the operation of such works for the collection of water rentals and for the conduct of the business necessary to the operation thereof. (Amended by Act approved May 18, in force July 1, 1905. Laws 1905, p. 94.) 330. Bonds, Authority. SEC. 5. The city council in cities and the board of trustees in villages shall have the power to issue bonds against the taxes levied, the same to be payable only out of said special tax when collected and out of the net revenue derived from the operation of said works. 331. Bonds, Provisions. SEC. 6. The said bonds shall be made to mature in as nearly as possible equal installments of one hundred dollars, or multiples thereof, the first installment to be payable one or two years from date, the last installment within one year after date of the last tax levy provided in the vote authorizing said levy. The bonds shall bear interest at a rate not to exceed six per cent, payable annually or semi-annually, shall be sold for not less than par, or may be paid out at not less than par for the construction, purchase or enlarging of said works. (Amended by Act approved May 18, in force July 1, 1905. Laws 1905, p. 94.) 332. Bonds, Form. SEC. 7. Said bonds shall be substantially in the following form: State of Illinois, for value received hereby promises to pay the bearer. hundred dollars, lawful money of the United States of America, on the ...day of.. A. D. . . . . . . . ., together with interest per centum per annum, payable annually thereon at the rate of. .day of. on the... This bond is one of a series of bonds amounting to. dollars, issued by ordinance of the city (or village) of. and is payable solely out of funds derived from special tax levy and net revenue of the water works of the city (or village) of... . . the erection, purchase or enlarging of said works and levy of said tax having been authorized at an election legally called and held on the... day of. A. D. ..; and out of no other funds. And it is hereby recited that all acts, conditions and things precedent to and in the issuance of this bond have been properly done, happened and performed in regular and due form as required by law. In testimony whereof the city council (or board of trustees) has caused this bond to be signed by the mayor (or president) and countersigned by the clerk, and caused the seal of the city (or village) to be affixed this ...day of... A. D. . Mayor. .Clerk. |