and operation of the water supply, plant, works or system owned, operated or controlled by it, which report shall be made by some competent person designated for the purpose by said board, and at the sole cost and expense of the holder of the permit. Any person, firm, corporation, public utility, municipality or other public body or institution who shall furnish or supply or continue to furnish or supply water used or intended to be used for human consumption or for domestic uses or purposes, or shall install additions to, modifications or alterations in, any of the existing plant, works, system, or sources of supply without having an unrevoked permit from the State board of health so to do, as in this act provided, may be enjoined from so doing by any court of competent jurisdiction at the suit of any person or persons, firm, corporation, municipal or other public corporation whose supply of water for human consumption or for domestic uses or purposes is taken, or received from, or supplied or furnished by any such water furnishing or distributing person, firm, corporation, public utility or municipality or other public body or institution, or it or he may be enjoined at the suit of the State board of health in the same manner. Anything done, maintained or suffered in violation of any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed to be a public nuisance dangerous to health and may be summarily abated in the manner provided by law and it shall be the duty of all and every public officer or officers, body or bodies lawfully empowered so to do to immediately abate the same.

Every person, firm, corporation, public utility, municipality, or other public body or institution, or officer, employee or agent thereof upon whom the duty to act is cast, and every person who shall violate any provision or part thereof of this act, or who shall fail to obey, observe or comply with any direction, order, requirement or demand or any part or provision thereof of the State board of health, or who procures, aids, or abets any such person, firm, corporation, public utility, municipality, or other public body or institution, or officer or employee or agent thereof, in any failure to obey or comply with the provisions of this act or the orders of the State board of health as provided in this act, shall become liable for and forfeit to the State of California the penal sum of not more than $1,000 for each separate offense. The continued existence of any violation of this act for each and every day beyond the time stipulated for compliance with any of its provisions or of any order of the State board of health as provided herein shall constitute a separate and distinct offense. All penalties are to be recovered by the State in civil action brought by the State of California and such penalties when collected shall be paid into the general fund of the State treasury.

Every officer, agent or employee of any person, firm, corporation, public utility, municipality, or other public body or institution or person who shall violate or fail to comply with any of the provisions of this act or the order of the State board of health, or any part thereof, or who procures, aids or abets in any failure to observe and comply with any such provision, order, or part thereof, is guilty of a misdemeanor and is punishable by a fine not exceeding $1,000 or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding one year or by both such fine or imprisonment, for each offense. Each day's violation of this provision shall constitute a separate and distinct offense.

Common Drinking Cups-Prohibited in Public Places-Drinking Water Receptacles. (Ch. 744, Act June 1, 1917.)

SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation conducting, having charge of, or control of, any hotel, restaurant, saloon, soda fountain, store, theater, public hall, public or private school, church, hospital, club, office building, park, playground, lavatory or washroom, barber shop, railroad train, boat, or any other public place, building, room, or conveyance, to provide or expose for common use, or permit to be so provided or exposed, or to allow to be used in common, any cup, glass, or other receptacle used for drinking purposes.

SEC. 2. For the purposes of this act the term "common use" when applied to a drinking receptacle shall be defined as its use for drinking purposes by, or for, more

than one person without its being thoroughly cleansed and sterilized in boiling water or steam between consecutive uses thereof: Provided, That nothing in this act is to be construed as prohibiting the use of cups or devices for individual use only: Provided, further, That the State board of health may by resolution prescribe other acceptable methods of sterilization which may be used in place of the methods specified in this act.

SEC. 3. No cask, water cooler or other receptacle shall be used for storing or supplying drinking water to the public or to employees unless it is covered and protected so as to prevent persons from dipping the water therefrom or contaminating the same. All such containers shall be provided with a faucet or other suitable device for drawing the water: Provided, That jugs, cans, buckets and similar receptacles without faucets or other devices for withdrawing water may be used if the water is protected against contamination and is withdrawn by pouring only.

SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the State board of health and of all health officers of counties, municipalities and health districts to enforce the provisions of this act. SEC. 5. Any person, firm or corporation violating any provision of this act is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding $25 for each offense.

Drinking Receptacles—Sterilization. (Res. Bd. of H., Dec. 1, 1917.)

The board, by resolution, in accordance with the provision of chapter 744, statutes of 1917, prescribed the following as an acceptable method of sterilizing drinking receptacles, which method may be used in place of sterilizing in boiling water or steam: The drinking receptacles shall be placed in a wire basket and immersed completely for a period of 5 minutes in a solution of not less than 1 pound of lye or caustic soda to each 24 gallons of water, the lye being of standard commercial quality and containing not less than 96 per cent of sodium hydrate. When practicable, the lye solution should be used hot. All traces of the lye should be removed by thorough rinsing before the glasses are handled.

Common Towels-Prohibited in Public Places. (Ch. 745, Act June 1, 1917.)

SECTION 1. No person, firm or corporation conducting, operating, having charge of, or control of, any hotel, restaurant, factory, store, barber shop, office building, school, public hall, railroad train, railway station, boat, or any other public place, room or conveyance, shall maintain or keep in or about any such place any towel for common

use.

SEC. 2. For the purpose of this act the term "common use" when applied to a towel shall be defined as its use by, or for, more than one person without its being laundered by a process involving exposure to boiling water or steam between consecutive uses of such towel: Provided, That the State board of health may by resolution prescribe other acceptable methods of sterilization which may be used in place of the methods specified in this act.

SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the State board of health and of all health officers of counties, municipalities and health districts, to enforce the provisions of this act. SEC. 4. Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this act is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding $25 for each offense. Births, Deaths, and Marriages-Registration-Establishment of Bureau of Vital Statistics-Appointment, Powers, and Duties of State Registrar-Burial and Removal Permits-Certified Copies of Records. (Ch. 548, Act May 18, 1917.)

SECTION 1. Section 1 of an act entitled "An act to provide a central bureau for the preservation of records of marriages, births and deaths, and to provide for the registration of all births and deaths, the establishment of registration districts under

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the superintendence of the State bureau of vital statistics; the issuance and registration of burial and disinterment permits and certificates of births and deaths; the appointment of State and local registrars of vital statistics; to prescribe the powers and duties of registrars, coroners, physicians, undertakers, sextons and other persons in relation to such registration and to fix penalties for violation of this act; to create the offices of State and local registrars of vital statistics, to provide for the salary and fees of same: to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith," approved May 19, 1915, is hereby amended to read as follows:

SECTION 1. The State board of health shall maintain a bureau of vital statistics which shall have charge of such matters and shall have such powers as may from time to time be referred and delegated to it by the State board of health. The board shall appoint a State registrar who, by virtue of his office, shall be director of the bureau of vital statistics. His salary shall be $2,400 per annum. The State registrar shall be a competent vital statistician. He shall have general supervision and control over the bureau of vital statistics. He shall devote his entire time to the duties of his office and shall not engage in any other occupation or business. The board shall appoint also a deputy statistician, whose salary shall be $1,600 per annum, and two copyists, each of whom shall receive a salary of $900 per annum. All such salaries shall be paid in the same manner and at the same time as the salaries of State officers. The State board of health may appoint and fix the compensation of such other additional professional and clerical assistants as may be necessary for the purposes of this act, but such compensation shall be paid from its fund for contingent expenses, as provided in the general appropriation act. As soon as practicable the custodian of the capitol shall provide for the bureau of vital statistics in the State capitol at Sacramento, suitable offices, which shall be properly equipped with fireproof vault and filing cases for the permanent and safe preservation of all official records made and returned under this act.

SEC. 2. Section 2 of said act is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 2. The State registrar shall under the direction of the State board of health have charge of the registration of births, deaths, and marriages, shall prepare forms and blanks with instructions for obtaining and preserving such records and shall procure the faithful registration of the same in each primary registration district as constituted in section 3 of this act, and in the bureau of vital statistics of the State board of health at the capital of the State. The said board shall be charged with the uniform and thorough enforcement of the law throughout the State, and shall promulgate any additional regulations.

SEC. 3. Section 3 of said act is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 3. For the purposes of this act the State shall be divided into registration districts as follows: each city and county, city and incorporated town, shall constitute a primary registration district; and each county, exclusive of the cities and incorporated towns therein, may be subdivided by the State registrar into a sufficient number of primary rural registration districts, the boundaries of which he shall define and which he may alter, combine, or subdivide from time to time as may be necessary to promote efficient and convenient registration of all births and deaths.

SEC. 4. Section 4 of said act is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 4. The clerk of each city and county, city and incorporated town, shall be the local registrar in and for such primary registration district and shall perform all such duties of local registrar as hereinafter provided: Provided, however, That in cities having a freeholders' charter, the health officer may act as local registrar and perform all the duties thereof. The State registrar, subject to the approval of the State board of health or its secretary, shall appoint a local registrar for each primary rural district whose term of office shall be 4 years, and whom the State registrar may remove forthwith for failure or neglect to perform his duty as prescribed by this act.

Each local registrar for a primary rural district, besides transmitting to the State registrar each original birth and death certificate registered by him and besides retaining a complete and accurate copy of each such birth and death certificate for the local record of the primary rural district as required by section 19 of this act, shall also transmit to the recorder of the county for a special county record a complete and accurate copy of each original birth and death certificate transmitted by said local registrar to the State registrar: Provided further, That in accordance with sections 3076, 3078, and 3079 of the Political Code, the county recorder shall be the sole local registrar for marriages performed anywhere in the county. Each local registrar shall immediately appoint a deputy in writing, whose duty it shall be to act in his stead in case of his absence or disability; and such deputy shall in writing accept such appointment, and be subject to all rules and regulations governing local registrars. And when it appears necessary for the convenience of the people in any registration district, the local registrar is hereby authorized, with the approval of the State registrar, to appoint one or more suitable persons to act as subregistrars, who shall be authorized to receive certificates and to issue burial or removal permits in and for such portions of the district as may be designated; and each subregistrar shall note, on each certificate, over his signature, the date of filing, and shall forthwith forward all certificates to the local registrar of the district, and in all cases before the third day of the following month: Provided, That each subregistrar shall be subject to the supervision and control of the State registrar, and may be by him removed for neglect or failure to perform his duty in accordance with the provisions of this act or the rules and regulations of the State registrar, and shall be subject to the same penalties for neglect of duty as the local registrar.

SEC. 5. Section 5 of said act is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 5. The body of any person whose death occurs in this State, or which shall be found dead therein or which shall be brought in from outside the State, shall not be interred, deposited in a vault or tomb, cremated, disinterred or otherwise disposed of, or removed from or into any registration district, or be temporarily held pending further disposition more than 72 hours after death, unless a permit for burial, removal, or other disposition thereof shall have been properly issued by the local registrar of the registration district in which the death occurred or the body was found: Provided, That nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent an undertaker from removing a body from the registration district where the death occurred or the body was found to a contiguous registration district in the same or an adjoining county in an undertaker's conveyance for the purpose of preparing said body for burial or shipment. A removal permit must be secured within 48 hours and before embalming the body. No body where death occurred from any disease held by the State board of health to be infectious, contagious or communicable and dangerous to the public health shall be removed without first securing a removal permit in the manner provided in section 19 of this act. And no such burial or removal permit shall be issued by any registrar until, wherever practicable, a complete and satisfactory certificate of death has been filed with him as hereinafter provided: Provided, That when a dead body is transported from outside the State into a registration district in California for burial, the transit or removal permit, issued in accordance with the law and health regulations of the place where the death occurred, shall be accepted by the local registrar of the district into which the body has been transported for burial or other disposition, as a basis upon which he may issue a local burial permit, noting upon the face of the burial permit the fact that it was a body shipped in for interment, and giving the actual place of death; and no local registrar shall receive any fee for the issuance of burial or removal permits under this act other than the compensation provided in section 20.

SEC. 6. Section 7 of said act is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 7. The certificate of death shall contain the following items, which are hereby declared to be necessary for the legal, social, and sanitary purposes subserved by registration records:

(1) Place of death, including State, county, township, village, or city. If in a city, the ward, street, and house number; if in a hospital or other institution, the name of the same to be given instead of the street and house number. If in an industrial camp, the name of the camp to be given.

(2) Full name of decedent. If an unnamed child, the surname preceded by "unnamed."

(3) Sex.

(4) Color or race as white, black, mulatto (or other Negro descent), Indian Chinese, Japanese, or other.

(5) Conjugal condition- as single, married, widowed or divorced.

(5a) Husband of

(56) Wife of

(6) Date of birth, including the year, month, and day.

(7) Age, in years, months and days. If less than 1 day, the hours or minutes. (8) Occupation. The occupation to be reported of any person, male or female who had any remunerative employment with the statement of (a) trade, profession or particular kind of work; (b) general nature of industry, business or establishment in which employed (or employer).

(9) Birthplace; at least State or foreign country, if known.

(10) Name of father.

(11) Birthplace of father; at least State or foreign country, if known.

(12) Maiden name of mother.

(13) Birthplace of mother; at least State or foreign country, if known.

(14) Signature and address of informant.

(15) Official signature of registrar, with the date when certificate was filed, and registered number.

(16) Date of death, year, month, and day.

(17) Certification as to medical attendance on decedent, fact and time of death. time last seen alive, and the cause of death, with contributory (secondary) cause of complication, if any, and duration of each, and whether attributed to dangerous of insanitary conditions of employment; signature and address of physician or official making the medical certificate.

(18) Length of residence (for inmates of hospitals and other institutions: transients or recent residents) at place of death and in California, together with the place where disease was contracted if not at the place of death, and former or usual place of resdence (giving city and State of residence).

(19) Place of burial or removal; date of burial.

(20) Signature and address of undertaker or person acting as such and license number of embalmer.

The personal and statistical particulars (items 1 to 13) shall be authenticated by the signature of the informant who may be any competent person acquainted with the facts.

The statement of facts relating to the disposition of the body shall be signed by the undertaker or person acting as such.

The medical certificate shall be made and signed by the physician, if any, last in attendance on the deceased, and said physician shall within 15 hours after the death deposit the certificate at the place of death, or deliver it to the attending undertaker at his place of business or at the office of said physician. Said physician shall specify in the certificate the time in attendance, the time he last saw the deceased alive and the hour of the day at which death occurred. And he shall further