SEC. 21. All employees in the several departments shall render not less than seven and one-half hours of labor each day, Saturday afternoons, Sundays and days declared by the negotiable instrument act to be holidays excepted in cases in which, in the judgment of the director, the public service will not thereby be impaired.

SEC. 22. Each employee in the several departments shall be entitled during each calendar year to 14 days' leave of absence with full pay. In special and meritorious cases where to limit the annual leave to 14 days in any one calendar year would work peculiar hardship, it may, in the discretion of the director of the department, be extended.

SEC. 23. No employee in the several departments, employed at a fixed compensation, shall be paid for any extra services, unless expressly authorized by law. SEC. 24. Nothing in this act shall be construed to amend, modify, or repeal the State civil service law, or to extend the application thereof to any position created by this act where the duties to be performed under such position do not now exist or are now performed by an officer or employee not in the classified civil service of the State. Every officer and employee in the classified civil service at the time this act takes effect shall be assigned to a position in the proper department created by this act, having, so far as possible, duties equivalent to his former office or employment, and such officers and employees shall be employees of the State in the classified civil service of the State, of the same standing, grade and privileges which they respectively had in the office, board, commission or institution from which they were transferred, subject, however, to existing and future civil service laws. This section shall not be construed to require the retention of more employees than are necessary to the proper performance of the functions of the departments.

SEC. 25. Each director of a department shall annually on or before the first day of December, and at such other times as the governor may require, report in writing to the governor concerning the condition, management and financial transactions of their respective departments. In addition to such reports, each director of a department shall make the semiannual and biennial reports provided by the constitution. The departments shall make annual and biennial reports at the time prescribed in this section, and at no other time.

SEC. 26. The directors of departments shall devise a practical and working basis for cooperation and coordination of work, eliminating duplication and overlapping of functions. They shall, so far as practicable, cooperate with each other in the employment of services and the use of quarters and equipment. The director of any department may empower or require an employee of another department, subject to the consent of the superior officer of the employee, to perform any duty which he might require of his own subordinates.

SEC. 27. The gross amount of money received by every department, from whatever source, belonging to or for the use of the State, shall be paid into the State treasury, without delay, not later in any event than 10 days after the receipt of the same, without any deduction on account of salaries, fees, costs, charges, expenses or claim of any description whatever. No money belonging to, or for the use of, the State shall be expended or applied by any department except in consequence of an appropriation made by law and upon the warrant of the auditor of public accounts.

SEC. 28. In the construction of buildings for the various departments, or in doing other construction work in or about buildings and grounds, exceeding the estimated value of $1,000, contracts therefor shall be let to the lowest responsible bidder. Supplies for the several departments, except in cases of emergency and in the case of perishable goods, shall be purchased in large quantities and contracts therefor shall be let to the lowest responsible bidder. Advertisements for bids for doing such construction work, or furnishing such supplies, shall be published for at least three days, the first and last of which publications shall be at least 10 days apart, in one or more newspapers of general circulation published in each of the seven largest cities of the State determined by the then last preceding Federal census, and, also, in one secular English

newspaper selected by the department of public works and buildings by competitive bidding in the same manner as it is herein provided other contracts may be let and designated as an "official newspaper," which newspaper so selected shall continue to be the official newspaper for a period of one year from the time of its selection. proposals shall be publicly opened on the day and hour and at the place mentioned in the advertisement and any and all bids may be rejected and when rejected a readvertisement shall be made in the manner above provided.

The

SEC. 31. Whenever in this act power is vested in a department to inspect, examine, secure data or information, or to procure assistance from another department, a duty is hereby imposed upon the department upon which demand is made, to make such power effective.

SEC. 32. Whenever rights, powers and duties, which have heretofore been vested in or exercised by any officer, board, commission, institution or department, or any deputy, inspector or subordinate officer thereof, are, by this act, transferred, either in whole or in part, to or vested in a department created by this act, such rights, powers and duties shall be vested in, and shall be exercised by, the department to which the same are hereby transferred, and not otherwise, and every act done in the exercise of such rights, powers and duties shall have the same legal effect as if done by the former officer, board, commission, institution or department, or any deputy, inspector or subordinate officer thereof. Every person and corporation shall be subject to the same obligations and duties and shall have the same rights arising from the exercise of such rights, powers and duties as if such rights, powers and duties were exercised by the officer, board, commission, department or institution, or deputy, inspector or subordinate thereof, designated in the respective laws which are to be administered by departments created by this act. Every person and corporation shall be subject to the same penalty or penalties, civil or criminal, for failure to perform any such obligation or duty, or for doing a prohibited act, as if such obligation or duty arose from, or such act were prohibited in, the exercise of such right, power or duty by the officer, board, commission, or institution, or deputy, inspector or subordinate thereof, designated in the respective laws which are to be administered by departments created by this act. Every officer and employee shall, for any offense, be subjected to the same penalty or penalties, civil or criminal, as are prescribed by existing law for the same offense by any officer or employee whose powers or duties devolved upon him under this act. All books, records, papers, documents, property, real and personal, unexpended appropriations, and pending business in any way pertaining to the rights, powers and duties so transferred to or vested in a department created by this act, shall be delivered and transferred to the department succeeding to such rights, powers and duties.

SEC. 33. Wherever reports or notices are now required to be made or given, or papers or documents furnished or served by any person to or upon any officer, board, commission, or institution, or deputy, inspector or subordinate thereof, abolished by this act, the same shall be made, given. furnished, or served in the same manner to or upon the department upon which are devolved by this act the rights, powers and duties now exercised or discharged by such officer, board, commission, or institution, or deputy, inspector or subordinate thereof; and every penalty for failure so to do shall continue in effect.

SEC. 34. This act shall not affect any act done, ratified or confirmed, or any right accrued or established, or any action or proceeding had or commenced in a civil or criminal cause before this act takes effect; but such actions or proceedings may be prosecuted and continued by the department having jurisdiction, under this act, of the subject matter to which such litigation or proceeding pertains.

SEC. 35. The following offices, boards, commissions arms, and agencies of the State government heretofore created by law, are hereby abolished, viz:

State board of health, secretary and executive officer of the State board of health,

THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH.

SEC. 55. The department of public health shall have power:

1. To exercise the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the State board of health, its secretary and executive officer, other officers and employees, except the rights, powers and duties vested by law in the State board of health under the act to regulate the practice of medicine and the act to regulate the practice of embalming; 2. To have the general supervision of the interests of the health and lives of the people of the State;

3. To act in advisory capacity relative to public water supplies, water purification works, sewerage system, and sewage treatment works, and to exercise supervision over nuisances growing out of the operation of such water and sewage works, and to make, promulgate and enforce rules and regulations relating to such nuisances;

4. To make such sanitary investigations as it may, from time to time, deem necessary for the preservation and improvement of public health;

5. To make examinations into nuisances and questions affecting the security of life and health in any locality in the State;

6. To maintain chemical, bacteriological and biological laboratories, to make examinations of milk, water, sewage, wastes, and other substances, and to make such diagnosis of diseases as may be deemed necessary for the protection of the people of the State.

7. To purchase and distribute free of charge to citizens of the State diphtheria antitoxin, typhoid vaccine, smallpox vaccine and other sera. vaccines and prophylactics such as are of recognized efficiency in the prevention and treatment of communicable diseases;

8. To obtain. collect and preserve such information relative to mortality, morbidity, disease and health as may be useful in the discharge of its duties or may contribute to the promotion of health or to the security of life in this State;

9 To make investigations and inquiries with respect to the causes of disease, especially epidemics, and to investigate the causes of mortality and the effect of localities, and other conditions upon the public health, and to make such other sanitary investigations as it may deem necessary for the preservation and improvement of the public health;

10. To keep informed of the work of local health officers and agencies throughout the State;

11. To promote the information of the general public in all matters pertaining to public health;

12 To supervise, aid, direct and assist local health authorities or agencies in the administration of the health laws;

13. To enlist the cooperation of organizations of physicians and other agencies for the promotion of the public health in the improvement of health and sanitary conditions throughout the State;

14. To make sanitary, sewage, health and other inspections and examinations for the charitable, penal and reformatory institutions and the normal schools;

15. To inspect, from time to time, all hospitals, sanitaria, and other institutions conducted by county, city, village or township authorities, and to report as to the sanitary conditions and needs of such hospitals, sanitaria and institutions to the officia. authority having jurisdiction over them;

16. To print, publish and distribute documents, reports, bulletins, certificates and other matter relating to the prevention of diseases and the health and sanitary condition of the State.

Public Health Districts-Organization—Members, Powers, and Duties of Boards of Health-Powers and Duties of Health Officers-Taxes. (Act June 26, 1917.)

SECTION 1. Any town, or two or more adjacent towns in counties under township organization, or any road district, or two or more road districts in counties not under township organization, or any town or towns in a county under township organization and an adjacent road district or road districts in a county not under township organization, may be organized into a public health district.

SEC. 2. Upon a petition containing the signatures of legal voters in number not less than 5 per cent of the total vote cast in any town or road district, and filed with the town or road district clerk at least 30 days before the regular town or road district election, the proposition of erecting such town or road district into a public health district shall be submitted to a vote of the people at the next regular town or road district election in the manner provided by this act.

SEC. 3. Upon a petition requesting that two or more adjacent towns or road districts be erected into a health district and containing the signatures of legal voters in number not less than 5 per cent of the total vote cast in each of two or more adjacent towns or road districts and filed with the county clerk at least 30 days before the regular town or road district election, the proposition of erecting such towns or road districts, or town and road district, into a public health district shall be submitted to a vote of the people of such towns or road districts at the next regular town or road district election in the manner provided by this act.

Where the towns or road districts desiring to be erected into a health district are in two or more counties, the petition shall be filed with the county clerk of the county in which the greater population of the proposed health district is located.

SEC. 4. Upon the filing of such petition with the town or road district clerk, the town or road district clerk shall, when giving notice of the holding of the next regular town or district election, also give notice that a vote will be taken at the regular town or district election for or against the proposition of the erection of the town or road district into a public health district.

SEC. 5. Upon the filing of such petition with the county clerk, such county clerk shall, at least 20 days prior to the regular town or district election, certify to the town or district clerk of each town or road district, petitions for which are on file in his office requesting that such towns or road districts be erected into a public health district, that the proposition of erecting such towns or road districts (naming them) will be submitted to a vote of the people of the towns or road districts at the regular town or road district election. The town or district clerk shall, when giving notice of the holding of the next regular town or district election, also give notice that a vote will be taken at the town or district election for or against the erection of the towns or road districts (naming them) into a public health district.

SEC. 6. The proposition shall be voted upon in the same manner as a constitutional amendment or other public measure.

When the proposition to be voted upon is to erect a town or road district into a public health district, the proposition may be substantially in the following form:

When the proposition to be voted upon is to erect two or more adjacent towns or road districts into a public health district, the proposition may be substantially in the following form:

SEC. 7. When the proposition voted upon is to erect a single town or road district into a public health district, such proposition shall be carried if a majority of those voting upon the proposition shall vote "yes."

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." SEC. 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.

SEC. 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.

SEC. 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.

SEC. 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. SEC. 12. The board of health shall meet in some convenient place in the public health district within two weeks after the declaration of the result 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.

SEC. 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.

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