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copartnership shall manufacture, give away, sell, expose for sale or deliver, any embalming fluid or other fluid of whatsoever name, to be used for or intended for use in the embalming of dead human bodies, which contains arsenic or strychnine, without having the words "Arsenic contained herein," or "Strychnine contained herein" (as the case may be) written or printed upon a label pasted on the bottle, cask, flask or carboy, in which said fluid shall be contained.

379. Embalming Fluid, Use by Undertakers.

SEC. 2. No undertaker or other person shall embalm with, inject into, or place upon, any dead human body, åny fluid or preparation of any kind which contains arsenic or strychnine.

380. Violation, Penalty.

SEC. 3. Any person, firm, corporation or copartnership who shall violate any provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not less than fifty dollars ($50.00).

AN ACT to regulate the sale of paris green. Approved April 22, in force July 1, 1907. L. 1907, p. 267.

381. Paris Green, Quality, Labeling, Sale.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That every lot or parcel of Paris green sold, or offered or exposed for sale, within the State shall have affixed thereto in a conspicuous place a printed label bearing the words, "High grade, for insecticide purposes," or the words, "Not for insecticide purposes," and every package labeled as of high grade for insecticide purposes shall have affixed thereto a plainly printed statement clearly and truly certifying the name, brand, or trade-mark under which the article is sold, the name and address of the manufacturer, importer, or dealer, the net weight of the package, and the percentage of arsenic in combination with copper which the Paris green in said package contains. If the Paris green is sold in bulk for insecticide purposes, or if it is put up in packages and sold at retail to the purchaser, the agent or dealer shall furnish the purchaser with the label and statement described in this section, and it shall be unlawful to sell, or to offer or expose for sale as of high grade for insecticide purposes, any Paris green which does not contain arsenic in combination with copper equivalent to at least fifty (50) per cent, of arsenious trioxide, or which contains arsenic in water-soluble forms, equivalent to more than three and one-half (32) per cent, of arsenious trioxide.

382. Penalty.

SEC. 2. Any manufacturer, importer, agent or other person selling, offering, or exposing for sale, any Paris green without the label required by section one of this Act, or selling, offering, or exposing for sale as of high grade for insecticide purposes, any Paris green without the printed statement required by section one of this Act, or with a label stating that the said Paris green contains substantially a larger percentage of arsenic in combination with copper than is actually present therein, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor more than two. hundred dollars ($200.00) for each offense.

383. Prosecution, State's Attorney.

SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the State's attorney of each county to prosecute the person or persons violating any provisions of this Act. AN ACT to revise the law in relation to criminal jurisprudence. Approved March 27, in force July 1, 1874.

384. Nuisance Defined.

SEC. 221. It is a public nuisance:

1. To cause or suffer the carcass of any animal or any offal, filth or noisome substance to be collected, deposited or to remain in any place, to the prejudice of others.

through such conduit or conduits, pipe or pipes to and into any ditch or canal constructed and operated by any other sanitary district, after having first acquired the right so to do, or such board may provide for the drainage of such district by laying out, establishing, constructing and maintaining one or more channels, drains, ditches and outlets for carrying off and disposing of the drainage (including the sewage) of such district together with such adjuncts and additions thereto as may be necessary or proper to cause such channels or outlets to accomplish the end for which they are designed, in a satisfactory manner, including pumps and pumping stations and the operation of the same. Such board may also treat and purify such sewage so that when the same shall flow into any lake or other watercourse, it will not injuriously contaminate the waters thereof, and may adopt any other feasible method to accomplish the object for which such sanitary district may be created, and may also provide means whereby the said sanitary district may reach and procure supplies of water for diluting and flushing purposes: Provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to empower or authorize such board of trustees to operate a system of water works for the purpose of furnishing or delivery (of) water to any such municipality or to the inhabitants thereof. Nothing in this Act contained shall authorize said trustees to flow the sewage of such district into Lake Michigan and any such plan for sewage disposal by any sanitary district organized hereunder, is hereby prohibited.

346. Pollution of Waters, Police, Appointment.

SEC. 18. The board of trustees of any such sanitary district shall have power and authority to prevent the pollution of any waters from which a water supply may be obtained by any city, town or village within said district, and shall have the right and power to appoint and support a sufficient police force, the members of which may have and exercise police powers over the territory within such drainage district, and over the waters from which said water supply may be obtained, for a distance of three miles from the shore thereof, or from the source of said water supply for the purpose of preventing the pollution of said waters, and any interference with any of the property of such sanitary district; but such police officers when acting within the limits of any such city, town or village, shall act in aid of the regular police force thereof, and shall then be subject to the direction of its chief of police, city or village marshals or other head thereof: Provided, that in so doing they shall not be prevented or hindered from executing the orders and authority of said board of trustees of such sanitary district: Provided, further, that before compelling a change in any method of disposal of sewage so as to prevent the said pollution of any water, the board of trustees of such district shall first have provided means to prevent the pollution of said water from sewage or refuse originating from their own sanitary district.

AN ACT creating a rivers and lakes commission for the State of Illinois, and defining the duties and powers thereof. Approved June 10, in force July 1, 1911. L. 1911, p. 115.

347. Pollution of Streams and Lakes, Investigation, Abatement.

SEC. 14. It shall be the duty of said Rivers and Lakes Commission (The Civil Administrative Code abolished this commission and placed its powers under the Department of Public Works and Buildings) to see that all of the streams and lakes of the State of Illinois, wherein the State of Illinois, or any of its citizens, has any rights or interest, are not polluted or defiled by the deposit or addition of any injurious substances, and that the same are not affected injuriously by the discharging therein of any foul or injurious substances, so that fish or other aquatic life is destroyed. And if, upon investigation, the commission shall find that any of such streams and lakes are so polluted and defiled, or are affected injuriously by the discharging therein of any foul or injurious substances so that fish or other aquatic life is destroyed, it shall be the duty of said commission to enter an order commanding the abatement of such nuisances within such time as may

be fixed by the commission. July 1, 1913. L. 1913, p. 121.)

(Amended by Act approved June 30, in force

SANITATION.

AN ACT to prohibit the use of a common drinking cup, glass or other utensil used for public drinking purposes in public and private schools, State educational institutions, halls used for public meetings or entertainments, hotels, lodging houses, theatres, factories or public or municipal buildings, on railroad trains and stations and in other public places in the State of Illinois. Approved June 5, in force July 1, 1911. Laws 1911, p. 289.

348. Common Drinking Cup, Public Buildings.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, directly or indirectly, connected in any public or private school or in any State institution, halls used for public meetings or enter tainments, hotels, lodging houses, theatres, factories or public or municipal buildings in the State of Illinois to use or permit for use a common drinking. cup, glass or other utensil used for public drinking purposes.

349. Railroad Trains and Stations.

SEC. 2. It shall be unlawful for any person or corporation in charge of or in control of any railroad trains or any station to permit the use of a common drinking cup, glass or other utensil used for public drinking purposes in or about any trains operated by it or in any building or premises used by it whatever.

350. Public Buildings, Railroad Trains and Stations, Common Drinking Cup, Furnishing.

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SEC. 3. No person, firm or corporation in charge of or in control of any railroad train or railroad station, or any public or private school, or any State educational institution, or of any hall used for public meetings or entertainments, or hotel, lodging house, theatre, or factory, or of any public or municipal building in the State of Illinois shall furnish any drinking cup, glass or other utensil used for public drinking purposes for public use, nor shall such person or corporation or institution use or have for use in or upon its premises any such common drinking cup.

351. Violation of Act, Penalty.

SEC. 4. Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any of the provisions of this Act shall, upon conviction, be fined for each offense the sum of not less than five dollars ($5.00) nor more than fifty dollars ($50.00). AN ACT to regulate the pursuit of the business, art and avocation of a barber, and to insure the better qualifications of persons following such a business in the State of Illinois. Approved June 10, in force July 1, 1909. Laws 1909, p. 98.

352. Barber Shops, Rules and Regulations, Notice, Quarantine, Hearing, Revocation of Certificate.

SEC. 11. Said board shall be authorized to adopt reasonable rules providing for the sanitary regulation of barber shops, subject to the approval of the State Board of Health, and shall have the power to enter any barber shop during business hours for the purpose of inspection of such shops. If any shop be found in an unsanitary condition, or if any barber working therein has been charged with imparting any contagious or infectious disease, the board shall immediately notify the health officer thereof, and such shop shall be quarantined and the barber so charged shall not practice his occupation until such quarantine shall be removed by the health officers. Said board shall have the power to revoke any certificate of registration granted by it under this Act, for conviction of crime, habitual drunkenness, for six months immediately before a charge duly made, gross incompetency, failure to comply with the sanitary rules approved by the State Board of Health or for having imparted any contagious or infectious disease: Pro

Seventy-sixth-To appoint a board of health, and prescribe its powers.

and duties.

Seventy-seventh -To erect and establish hospitals and medical dispensaries, and to regulate hospitals, medical dispensaries, sanatoria and undertaking establishments, and to direct the location thereof.

Seventy-eighth-To do all acts, make all regulations which may be necessary or expedient for the promition of health or the suppression of disease.

Seventy-ninth-To establish and regulate cemeteries within or without the corporation, and acquire lands therefore (therefor,) by purchase or otherwise, and cause cemeteries to be removed, and prohibit their establishment within one mile of the corporation. *

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Eighty-first-To direct the location and regulate the management and construction of packing houses, renderies, tallow chandleries, bone factories, soap factories, and tanneries, within the limits of the city or village, and within the distance of one mile without the city or village limits. Eighty-second-To direct the location and regulate the use and construction of breweries, distilleries, livery, boarding or sale stables, blacksmith shops, foundaries, machine shops, garages, laundries, and bathing beaches, within the limits of the city or village.

Eighty-third-To prohibit any offensive or unwholesome business or establishment within or within one mile of the limits of the corporation.

Eighty-fourth-To compel the owner of any grocery, cellar, soap or tallaw chandlery, tannery, stable, pig-sty, privy, sewer or other unwholesome or nauseous house or place, to cleanse, abate, or remove the same, and to regulate the location thereof.

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Eighty-ninth-The city council shall have power, by condemnation or otherwise, to extend any street, alley or highway over or across, or to construct any sewer under or through any railroad track, right of way, or land of any railroad company (within the corporate limits); but where no compensation is made to such railroad company the city shall restore such railroad track, right of way or land to its former state, or in a sufficient manner not to have impaired its usefulness.

AN ACT to define the jurisdiction of the cities and incorporated towns bordering on the Ohio river. Approved March 26, in force July 1, 1872. Laws 1871-2, p. 578.

388. Ohio River, Adjacent Cities, Jurisdiction.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That each of the several cities and incorporated towns of this State, lying on the Ohio river, and bounded thereby, are hereby invested with jurisdiction over their river fronts, and shall have jurisdiction over the waters of said river, in all cases occurring on said river, and opposite to each of said cities or incorporated towns, coextensive with the jurisdiction of the several counties in this State in which said cities or incorporated towns may lie: Provided, nothing herein contained shall be construed so as to extend the jurisdiction of said cities or incorporated towns over any islands in said river included within the corporated limits of any county in the state of Kentucky.

389. Ordinances, Jurisdiction.

ARTICLE III. SEC. 16. The city council and board of trustees shall also have jurisdiction in and over all places within one-half mile of the city or village limits, for the purpose of enforcing health and quarantine ordinances and regulations thereof.

AN ACT to define the jurisdiction of cities and incorporated towns and vil lages lying in different counties. Approved June 18, in force July 1, 1891. Laws 1891, p. 79.

390. Ordinance, Extra-Territorial Jurisdiction.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That cities and incorporated towns and

villages which are now or which may hereafter be incorporated or extended into different counties, shall have the right to extend and enforce their ordinances over the entire territory embraced within the limits of such cities, incorporated towns or villages for all municipal purposes.

AN ACT to extend the jurisdiction of towns and cities on any river within or on the borders of this State, for the purpose of police regulations. Approved and in force February 15, 1865. L. 1865, p. 111.

391. Territorial Jurisdiction, Boats and Steamers.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That cities and towns on any river within or on the borders of this State, shall have the right to extend and enforce their ordinances so as to include any boat or other floating structure, which shall be kept within two miles of the city or town limits, as a place for drinking spirituous liquors, or for gaming, or for the purpose of prostitution: Provided, no authority shall be given by this law, beyond what the law now authorizes, to interfere with any steamer or other boat, the usual business of which is the carrying of freight or passengers.

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