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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 Any person whose certificate has been revoked, may after the expiration of ninety (90) days apply to have his certificate regranted, and the same shall be regranted to him upon his giving satisfactory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

forfeiture of his or their license to do business in said city for one (1) year after conviction.

SEC. 6. (Emergency.)

27AN ACT to regulate the manufacture of clothing, wearing apparel and other articles in this State, and to provide for the appointment of State inspectors to enforce the same and to make an appropriation therefor. Approved June 17, 1893, in force July 1, 1893. L. 1893, p. 99.

366. Workshops, Tenements, Inspection, Reports.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: (a) That no room or rooms, apartment or apartments in any tenement or dwelling house used for eating or sleeping purposes, shall be used for the manufacture, in whole or in part, of coats, vests, trousers, knee-pants, overalls, cloaks, shirts, ladies' waists, purses, feathers, artificial flowers or cigars, except by the immediate members of the family living therein.

(b) Every such workshop shall be kept in a cleanly state, and shall be subject to the provisions of this Act, and each of said articles made, altered, repaired or finished in any of such workshops shall be subject to inspection and examination, as hereinafter provided, for the purpose of ascertaining whether said articles, or any of them, or any part thereof, are in a cleanly condition and free from vermin and any matter of an infectious and contagious nature.

(c) And every person so occupying or having control of any workshop as aforesaid, shall within fourteen days from the taking effect of this Act, or from the time of beginning of work in any workshop as aforesaid, notify the board of health of the location of such workshop, the nature of the work there carried on, and the number of persons therein employed.

367. State Inspector, Powers and Duties.

SEC. 2. If the board of health of any city or said State inspector finds evidence of infectious or contagious diseases present in any workshop, or in goods manufactured or in process of manufacture therein, and if said board or inspector shall find said shop in an unhealthy condition, or the clothing and materials used therein to be unfit for use, said board or inspector shall issue such order or orders as the public health may require, and the board of health are hereby enjoined to condemn and destroy all such infectious and contagious articles.

368. Imported Goods, Inspection, Disposal.

SEC. 3. (a) Whenever it shall be reported to said inspector or to the board of health, or either of them, that coats, vests, trousers, knee-pants, overalls, cloaks, shirts, ladies' waists, purses, feathers, artificial flowers or cigars are being transported to this State, having been previously manufactured in whole or part under unhealthy conditions, said inspector shall examine said goods and the condition of their manufacture.

(b) And if upon such examination said goods, or any of them, are found to contain vermin, or to have been made in improper places or under unhealthy conditions, he shall make report thereof to the board of health, or inspector, which board or inspector shall thereupon make such order or orders as the public health shall require, and the board of health are hereby empowered to condemn and destroy all such articles.

369. Employment of Children, Registry, Inspection.

SEC. 4. (a) No child under fourteen years of age shall be employed in any manufacturing establishment, or factory or workshop within this State.

(b) It shall be the duty of every person, firm or corporation, or agent or manager of any corporation employing children to keep a register in which shall be recorded the name, birthplace, age and place of residence of every person employed by him, them or it under the age of sixteen years; and it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, or any agent or man

27 This act was taken from the Pamphlet

compiled for the Department of Labor.

ager of any corporation, to hire or employ in any manufacturing establishment, factory or workshop any child over the age of fourteen years and under the age of sixteen years, unless there is first provided and placed on file an affidavit made by the parent or guardian, stating the age, date and place of birth of said child; if said child have no parent or guardian, then such affidavit shall be made by the child, which affidavit shall be kept on file by the employer, and which said register and affidavit shall be produced for inspection on demand by the inspector, assistant inspector or any of the deputies appointed under this Act.

(c) The factory inspector, assistant inspector and deputy inspectors shall have power to demand a certificate of physical fitness from some regular physician of good standing in case of children who may appear to him or her physically unable to perform the labor at which they may be engaged, and shall have power to prohibit the employment of any minor that can not obtain such a certificate.

SEC. 5. (Invalid.) 28

370. Hours of Labor, Notice, Employment List, Posting.

SEC. 6. Every person, firm or corporation, agent or manager of a corporation employing any female in any manufacturing establishment, factory or workshop, shall post and keep posted, in a conspicuous place in every room where such help is employed, a printed notice stating the hours for each day of the week between which work is required of such persons, and in every room where children under sixteen years of age are employed a list of their names, ages and place of residence.

371. Terms Defined, List of Workshops.

SEC. 7. (a) The words "manufacturing establishment," "factory" or "workshop," wherever used in this Act, shall be construed to mean any place where goods or products are manufactured or repaired, cleaned, or sorted, in whole, or in part, for sale, or for wages.

(b) Whenever any house, room or place is used for the purpose of carrying on any process of making, altering, repairing or finishing for sale, or for wages, any coats, vests, trousers, knee-pants, overalls, cloaks, shirts, ladies' waists, purses, feathers, artificial flowers or cigars, or any wearing apparel of any kind whatsoever, intended for sale, it shall, within the meaning of this Act, be deemed a workshop for the purposes of inspection.

(c) And it shall be the duty of every person, firm or corporation to keep a complete list of all such workshops in his, their or its employ, and such list shall be produced for inspection on demand by the board of health or any of the officers thereof, or by the State inspector, assistant inspector or any of the deputies appointed under this Act.

872. Penalty.

SEC. 8. Any person, firm or corporation who fails to comply with any provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof shall be fined not less than three dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense.

SEC. 9. (Repealed by implication).

373. Appropriation.

SEC. 10. That the following named sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, respectively for the purposes hereinafter named, be and are hereby appropriated:

First. (Invalid.) 29

Second. The sum of eight thousand dollars to defray traveling expenses and other necessary expenses incurred by said inspector, assistant factory

28 This section prohibits the employment of women in factories or workshops for longer periods than eight hours in one day, and was declared invalid. Ritchie v. People (1895), 155 Ill. 98, 102, et seq.; Sec. 2, Art. 2, Const. 1870; 14th Amendment to Federal Constitution.

29 The first clause of this section was declared unconstitutional on the ground that it appropriated a sum of money for salaries of state officers in an Act embracing other subjects than such appropriation. Ritchie v. People (1895), 155 Ill. 98, 121; Secs. 13, 16, Art. 4, Const. 1870.

inspector or deputy inspectors while engaged in the performance of their duties, not to exceed four thousand dollars in any one year.

374. Warrants.

SEC. 11. The Auditor of Public Accounts is hereby authorized and directed to draw warrants on the State Treasurer for the sums herein specified, upon the presentation of proper vouchers, and all sums herein appropriated shall be paid upon monthly pay rolls, duly certified by the inspector, and the State Treasurer shall pay the same out of the proper funds in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Such warrants shall be drawn in favor and payable to the order of the person entitled thereto.

AN ACT to provide for the licensing of plumbers, and to provide for the supervision and inspection of plumbing and providing penalties for the violation thereof, and to repeal an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the licensing of plumbers and to supervise and inspect plumbing" approved June 10, in force, July 1, 1897, and all amendments thereto and all Acts and parts of Acts inconsistent herewith. June 29, in force July 1, 1917. Laws 1917, p. 520.

375. Plumbing Work and Sewage Regulations.

Filed

SEC. 5. Each city, town or village in this State having a system of water supply or sewerage, shall by ordinance or by-law within three months of the passage of this Act and with the advice of the Department of Public Health, prescribe rules and regulations for the materials, constructions, alteration and inspection of all plumbing and sewerage placed in or in connection with any building in such city, town or village; and the board of health or proper authorities shall further provide that no plumbing work shall be done except in case of repairing of leaks without a permit being first issued therefor and upon such terms and conditions as such city, town or village shall prescribe.

AN AOT to regulate the making, re-making and renovation of mattresses, quilts, or bed comforters, and regulating the sale thereof, and providing a punishment for a violation thereof. Approved June 29, in force July 1, 1915. L. 1915, p. 375.

376. Mattresses.30

EMBALMING, POISONS AND NUISANCES.

AN ACT to revise the law in relation to coroners. Approved February 6, in force July 1, 1874.

377. Inquest, Embalming, Coroner's Permission, Penalty.

SEC. 25. No undertaker or other person shall embalm the dead body of any person with, or inject therein, or place thereon any fluid or preparation of any kind before obtaining permission from the coroner where such body is the subject of a coroner's inquest. Any person who shall violate the provision of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not exceeding fifty dollars ($50.00). (Added by Act approved May 17, in force July 1, 1907. L. 1907, p. 214.)

AN ACT to regulate the manufacture, sale, use or disposal of embalming fluids, containing arsenic or strychnine, and providing for a penalty for the violation thereof. Approved May 20, in force July 1, 1907. L. 1907, p. 267.

378. Embalming Fluid, Manufacture, Labeling.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That no person, firm, corporation or

30 This act consisting of four sections is omitted for the reason that in People v. Weiner (1915), 271 Ill. 74, sections 1 and 2 of said Act are expressly declared invalid as an absolute or unconditional prohibition of the conduct of a business which is subject

to reasonable regulation. Although section 3 was treated as a valid provision, the statement in the opinion that the act amounts to class legislation justifies considering and treat. ing the entire act as unconstitutional,

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