When the proposition voted upon is to erect two or more adjacent towns or road districts into a health district, such proposition shall be carried if the majority of those voting upon the proposition in each town or road district shall vote “yes.” § 8. When the proposition is submitted to the voters of a single town or road district, the ballots shall be counted, the returns canvassed and the result declared as in the case of a regular town or district election. § 9. When the proposition is submitted to the voters of two or more adjacent towns or road districts, the ballots shall be counted and the returns made to the county clerk of the county wherein the petition was filed as in the case of returns to the county clerk at a general election. The returns shall be opened and canvassed by the county clerk, with the assistance of two justices of the peace of the county, and the result declared. § 10. The town or district clerk, or the county clerk, as the case may be, shall record the result of the vote upon the proposition and such result may be proved in all courts and in all proceedings by such record or by a certified copy thereof. § 11. In counties not under township organization the county commissioners shall be the board of health for each public health district in the county. Where a public health district, in counties under township organization, consists of a single town, the supervisor, assessor and town clerk of such town shall be the board of health for such public health district. Where a public health district consists of two or more adjacent towns, the supervisors of such towns, together with the chairman of the county board, shall be the board of health for such public health district. Where a public health district consists of a town or towns in a county under township organization united with a road district or road. districts in a county not under township organization, the supervisor or supervisors of the town or towns, together with the road district clerk or road district clerks, shall be the board of health for such public health district. A majority of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. § 12. The board of health shall meet in some convenient place in the public health district within two weeks after the declaration of the results of the election, and shall elect from their own number a chairman and a secretary, and, either from their own number or otherwise, a treasurer. 13. The board of health shall, at its first meeting, select a suitable name for the public health district and file the same with the county clerk, or county clerks, of the county or counties in which the district is located, and thenceforth the public health district shall be a body corporate and shall be known by that name. Upon the filing of such name with the county clerk, or county clerks, the public health district shall be deemed to be completely organized. § 14. All courts shall take judicial notice of all public health districts organized under this Act. § 15. Each board of health shall have power and it shall be its duty: 1. To hold an annual meeting on the second Tuesday in April of each year, at which meeting officers shall be elected for the ensuing year; 2. To hold meetings quarterly on the second Tuesday of January, April, July and October; 3. To hold special meetings upon a written request signed by two members and filed with the secretary; 4. To levy, annually, in addition to all other taxes which are now or hereafter may be authorized to be levied on the aggregate valuation of all property within the public health district, a special "public health tax," not to exceed four mills on the dollar on all taxable property embraced within such public health district, according to the valuation of the same as made for the purpose of State and county taxation, to form, when collected, a fund to be known as the "public health fund;" 5. To appoint a public health officer from a list of eligibles supplied by the State Department of Public Health; 6. To appoint, upon the advice and approval of the public health officer, such nurses, chemists, experts, clerks and assistants as the public health officer may deem necessary; 7. To fix the compensation of the public health officer, which shall in no case be less than one thousand five hundred dollars; 8. To provide, equip and maintain suitable offices, facilities and appliances for the health officer and his assistants; 9. To establish, equip and maintain an analytical, biological and research laboratory; 10. To pay, from the "public health fund," the salary of the public health officer and the salaries of all appointees and employees and the expense of maintenance of the public health department, including therein the expense of administering the sanitation and health laws and ordinances; 11. To acquire and hold, in the name of the public health district, real estate and personal property; 12. To receive contributions of money or property; 13. To publish, annually, on or soon after the second Tuesday in April, in pamphlet form, for free distribution, an annual report showing the condition of their trust on the first day of April of that year, the sums of money received from taxation and from other sources, giving the name of the donor, how all moneys have been expended and for what purpose, and such other statistics and information in regard to the work of the health department as they may deem of general interest. § 16. It shall be the duty of the State Department of Public Health to prepare, by open, competitive examination, of which notice. shall be given in the "official newspaper." selected by the Department of Public Works and Buildings, for at least three weeks prior to the holding of such examination, a list of eligibles for appointment as public health officers. 17. The public health officer shall have power, and it shall be his duty: 1. To be the executive officer of the board of health; 2. To enforce and observe the rules, regulations and orders of the State Department of Public Health and all State laws pertaining to the preservation of the health of the people within the public health district; 3. To exercise the rights, powers and duties of all township boards. of health and county boards of health within the public health district; 4. To execute and enforce, within the public health district, all city, village and incorporated town ordinances relating to nuisances, public health and sanitation; 5. To investigate the existence of any contagious or infectious disease within the public health district and to adont measures, with the approval of the State Department of Public Health, to arrest the progress of the same; 6. To make all necessary sanitary and health investigations and inspections within the public health district; 7. To establish a free dental clinic for the benefit of the school children of the district; 8. To give professional advice and information to all city, village, incorporated town and school authorities within the public health district in all matters pertaining to sanitation and public health; 9. To devote his entire time to his official duties. § 18. In all public health districts all ordinances of cities, villages and incorporated towns lying within such public health district, relating to nuisances, sanitation, and public health, shall be administered by the public health officer appointed pursuant to this Act, and not otherwise. 19. Each board of health, organized under this Act, shall be empowered to issue warrants in anticipation of taxes to the same extent, in the same manner and with like limitations and restrictions as county, city, village and incorporated town authorities. § 20. Each board of health shall, annually, on or before the first day of August of each year, transmit to the county clerk in which such public health district is located, or if the public health district is located in more than one county, then to the county clerk of each county in which a part thereof is located, a certificate signed by the chairman and treasurer, setting forth the rate or percentage of such taxes by them levied for the purposes herein provided and it shall be, and is hereby made the duty of the county clerk to whom such certificate shall be transmitted, to set down in the general tax warrant of the year for the collection of the State and county taxes, in a separate column to be styled a "public health tax," a tax in amount equal to the sum resulting from the rate or percentage so certified by such board of health upon the real and personal property within such health district, or such part thereof as may be located in his county, according to the valuation of the same as made for the purpose of State and county taxation; and shall set down in each column the amount of tax chargeable to the several persons, corporations, lots or parcels of land, liable for taxes in such public health district according to such rate or percentage, and the collector shall proceed to collect the same in such manner as is now, or may hereafter be provided by law for the collection of State and county taxes; and the provisions of law in respect to collection of State and county taxes, and proceedings to enforce the same, which are now enforced, or which may be hereafter enacted, so far as applicable, shall apply to such taxes; and as fast as such tax shall be collected by the collector or other officer receiving the same, it shall be paid over to sh board of health, on the joint order of the chairman and treasurer of the board of health and shall be receipted for by such treasurer. The funds be disbursed by the treasurer on the joint order of the chairman and secretary. A failure by the board of health to file the certificate with the county clerk in the required time shall not vitiate the assessment. FILED June 26, 1917. This bill having remained with the Governor ten days, Sundays excepted, the General Assembly being in session, it has thereby become a law. LOUIS L. EMMERSON, Secretary of State. STATE FOOD COMMISSIONER. MILK AND CREAM TEST. § 1. Amends section 21, Act of 1907. (HOUSE BILL No. 996. $ 21. Test of milk and cream, APPROVED JUNE 25, 1917.) AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, “An Act to prevent fraud in the sale of dairy products, their imitation or substitutes, to prohibit and prevent the manufacture and sale of unhealthful, adulterated or misbranded food, liquors or dairy products, to provide for the appointment of a State food commissioner and his assistants, to define their powers and duties, and to repeal all Acts relating to the production, manu facture and sale of dairy and food products and liquors in conflict herewith," approved May 14, 1907, in force July 1, 1907, as subse quently amended by amending section twenty-one (21) thereof. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois. represented in the General Assembly: That an Áct entitled, "An Act to prevent fraud in the sale of dairy products, their imitation or substitutes, to prohibit and prevent the manufacture and sale of unhealthful, adul terated or misbranded food, liquors, or dairy products, to provide for the appointment of a State food commissioner and his assistants, to define their powers and duties, and to repeal all Acts relating to the production, manufacture and sale of dairy and food products and liquors in conflict herewith," approved May 14, 1907, in force July 1, 1907, as subsequently amended, be amended by amending section twenty-one (21) thereof, so that the said section twenty-one (21) when amended shall read as follows: § 21. A buyer of milk or cream buying of the producer on a butter fat basis, shall, in the presence of the producer or his agent, after having been petitioned in writing by one or more of its patrons so to do, take a fair sample of the producer's milk, of not less than two (2) ounces, and immediately deliver the same to the producer or his agent in a sealed receptacle to be furnished by the Department of Agriculture suit able for mailing or expressing. The receptacle shall be plainly marked with the producer's factory number and the name of the producer, and may be mailed or expressed by the producer or his agent to the Department of Agriculture for test. The Departmend [Department] of Agriculture shall receive and make prompt analysis of all such samples of milk or cream, wash and sterilize the containers, and return to the plant or person from whom received, the producer to pay the transportation charges. The Department of Agriculture shall, not later than the fifth day of each month, mail to the buyer a tabulated sheet, showing the result of each individual producer's test, for the preceding month, the average of which shall be the basis of settlement between the buyer and individual producer. The Department of Agriculture shall, not later than the eighth day of each month, mail to the individual producer at his post office address, the result of each of his tests for the preceding month. Samples of milk or cream, for the purpose of this Act, shall be taken out less than two (2) or more than four (4) times during each monthly period at the option of the buyer. It shall be unlawful for the owner, manager, agent or any employee of a creamery or cheese factory, to manipulate, underread or overread the Babcock test, or any other contrivance used for determining the quality or value of milk or cream, or to falsify the record thereof, or to pay for such milk or cream on the basis of any measurement except the true measurement as thereby determined. APPROVED June 25, 1917. REGULATING SALE OF PAINTS, OILS AND OTHER COMPOUNDS. AN ACT to regulate the sale of paints, oils and other articles or compounds used in connection therewith. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That every person, firm or corporation who shall expose for sale, or sell, within this State, any white lead or paint, shall accurately label the same as hereinafter required. |