STATE LAWS AND REGULATIONS PERTAINING TO

PUBLIC HEALTH.

ADOPTED DURING THE YEAR 1917.

ALASKA.

Salaries of Assistant Commissioners of Health-Traveling Expenses of Commissioner of Health. (Ch. 53, May 3, 1917.)

SECTION 1. That all assistant commissioners of health appointed by the commissioner of health under and in pursuance of chapter 42 of the session laws of Alaska, 1913, entitled: "An act to provide for the registration and restriction of communicable diseases in the Territory of Alaska; and declaring an emergency," shall be paid by the Territorial treasurer from Territorial funds not otherwise appropriated upon vouchers, in duplicate, properly signed and countersigned by the commissioner of health, an annual salary of $200.

That actual traveling expenses be allowed the commissioner of health whenever in the exercise of his duties he may be called away from his regular place of business provided all such expenditures shall be authorized by the governor prior to the date of expenditure.

Mines Privies-Ventilation.

(Ch. 51, Act May 3, 1917.)

SEC. 11. Sanitation.-That in any working mine, the inspector may require a sufficient number of portable, water-tight privies to be provided for the underground employees, such privies to be taken to the surface and cleaned every 24 hours.

SEC. 23. Ventilation.-An adequate amount of ventilation shall at all times be produced so that all mine workings and the roads to and from such workings shall be free from any offensive gases. The air must be in such a state that a candle will burn freely at all times in any working portion of the mine.

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ARIZONA.

Common Drinking Cups and Common Towels-Prohibited in Public Places. (Ch. 55, Mar. 14, 1917.)

SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person within the State of Arizona to provide or furnish a common towel or a common drinking cup which may be used by more than one person in any barber shop, public wash house, public lavatory, or in any other public place.

SEC. 2. Any person violating the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be liable of a fine not to exceed $25 for each offense.

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ARKANSAS.

Bureau of Sanitation-Establishment-Employees. Hotels, Restaurants, and Rooming Houses License. (Act 210, Mar. 10, 1917.)

SECTION 1. There is hereby created a bureau of sanitation of the State of Arkansas, which shall be under the supervision and jurisdiction of the State board of health. The usual facilities for transacting its business shall be furnished as hereinafter provided.

SEC. 2. The State board of health shall appoint one chief inspector of the bureau of sanitation and is empowered to employ such other help and assistants as are necessary to carry out the terms of this act. Said chief inspector of the bureau of sanitation shall receive a salary of $1,800 per annum and traveling expenses. The said board of health may appoint assistant inspectors at a salary not exceeding $1,500 each per annum and traveling expenses, and other employees' salaries shall not exceed the sum of $900 each per annum. The said chief inspector shall be known as the chief inspector of the bureau of sanitation and shall be appointed for a term of four years and hold his office at the pleasure of the State board of health, shall aid in the discharge of all the duties which shall devolve upon him, and the assistant inspectors and other employees shall also discharge all duties which shall be assigned to them. They are authorized and required to make reports in the manner and form prescribed by the State board of health and shall be required to assist in the enforcement of any rules and regulations promulgated by the State board of health relating to hotels, rooming houses, and restaurants.

SEC. 3. Every building or other structure kept, used, maintained, advertised or held out to the public to be a place where food is served and sleeping accommodations are offered for pay to transient guests, in which six or more rooms are used for the accommodation of such transient guests, and having one or more dining rooms or cafés, where meals or lunches are served to such transient guests, such sleeping accommodations and dining rooms being conducted in the same building and under the same management, together with any buildings in connection therewith, shall, for the purpose of this act, be deemed a hotel.

SEC. 4. Every building or other structure kept, used, maintained, advertised or held out to the public to be a place where sleeping accommodations are furnished for pay to transient guests, in which six or more rooms are used for such guests, but which does not maintain dining room or cafés in the same building, and under the same management together with any buildings in connection therewith, shall, for the purpose of this act, be deemed a rooming house.

SEC. 5. Every building or other structure kept, used, maintained, advertised or held out to the public to be a place where meals or lunches are served without sleeping accommodations, together with all outbuildings in connection therewith, shall for the purpose of this act, be defined a restaurant.

SEC. 6. That within three months after the passage of this act, every person, firm or corporation now engaged in the business of conducting a hotel, or restaurant, or both, or rooming house, and every person, firm or corporation which shall hereafter engage in conducting such business shall procure a license for each hotel, rooming house, or restaurant so conducted or proposed to be conducted, provided that one license shall be sufficient for combined hotel and restaurant, when both are conducted in the same building and under the same management, such license shall expire on the 31st day of December next following its issuance. No hotel, rooming house or restaurant shall

be maintained and conducted in this State after the taking effect of this act, without a license therefor, and no license shall be transferable: Provided, This section shall not be interpreted to apply to change in management or proprietorship.

SEC. 7. The fee for license to conduct a hotel, rooming house, or restaurant in this State shall be $3 per annum, except for hotels that contain 10 sleeping rooms the license fee shall be $5, and for every additional room therein an additional fee of 10 cents shall be charged: Provided, That no license fee shall exceed $20, which shall be paid to the State treasurer before said license shall be issued. The license fee provided for above shall be due and payable on the 1st day of April, 1917, and shall be due and payable thereafter on the 1st day of January of each year.

SEC. 8. On the first day of each month, the secretary of the State board of health and the chief inspector shall file with the State treasurer a list of all hotels, houses and restaurants which are entitled to receive a license, and on certification of the State treasurer to the State board of health that the proper fees have been paid by hotels, rooming houses, or restaurants, the said State board of health shall issue a license in accordance with the provisions of this act, which shall bear the signature of the chief inspector, president, and secretary of said board and its official seal.

SEC. 9. No hotel, rooming house, or restaurant proprietor shall be subject to prosecution for not complying with the provisions of this act until his or her place of business shall have been inspected: Provided, That the proprietors of hotels, rooming houses, and restaurants shall procure a license within 90 days after this act takes effect. Said license shall be properly framed and kept in the office of said place in a conspicuous manner.

SEC. 10. After 30 days' notice by the inspector to any firm, person, or corporation failing to comply with the provisions of this act or the rules and regulations made and promulgated in pursuance hereof, if said act or rules and regulations are not then complied with, the building and premises involved may be closed for use as such hotel, rooming house, or restaurant, without further procedure by the inspector with the approval of the State board of health, until all of the provisions of this act and the rules and regulations pertaining thereto are complied with.

SEC. 11. All notices to be served by the inspectors, provided for in this act, shall be in-writing and shall be either delivered personally or by registered letter to the owner or lessee or manager of such hotel, rooming house, or restaurant. Any person, firm or corporation operating a hotel, rooming house, or restaurant in this State or leasing a building used for such business without first having complied with the provisions of this act and having a license granted by the State board of health, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined in the sum of not less than $10 nor more than $100 for each and every noncompliance with this act, together with the cost of the suit.

SEC. 12. It shall be unlawful for any inspector to accept lodging, meals, or anything of a substantial nature from any source whatsoever involving the places of business herein designated, and it shall be unlawful for any proprietor, manager, or employee to offer accommodations or courtesy of a substantial nature to an inspector. Such a violation shall be deemed a misdemeanor and shall be punishable by a fine of not less than $10 nor more than $100.

SEC. 13. All fees collected under the provisions of this act shall be deposited with the State treasurer in a fund to be known as the "sanitary fund of the State board of health," and shall available [sic] as soon as collected for maintaining the bureau of sanitation when duly appropriated by the general assembly.

SEC. 14. That the sum of $10,000, or so much thereof as is necessary, be and the same is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the State treasury to the credit of the fund known as the "sanitation fund of the State board of health" for the support and maintenance of the bureau of sanitation of the State board of health.