SEC. 14. All courts shall take judicial notice of all public health districts organized under this act.

SEC. 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 4 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 $1,500;

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 conditions 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.

SEC. 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.

SEC. 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 adopt 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.

Sec. 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.

SEC. 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.

SEC. 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 applirable, 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 such 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 shall be used only for the purposes herein prescribed and shall 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.

Sanitary Districts-Organization and Management-Sewage Disposal. (Act June 22, 1917.)

SECTION 1. That whenever any area of contiguous territory shall contain one or more incorporated cities, towns or villages or parts of one or more incorporated cities, towns or villages, and shall be so situated that the construction and maintenance of a plant or plants for the purification and treatment of sewage and the maintenance of a common outlet for the drainage thereof, will conduce to the preservation of the public

health, the same may be incorporated as a sanitary district under this act in the manner following:

Any 100 legal voters, resident within the limits of such proposed sanitary district may petition the county judge of the county in which the proposed district, or the major portion thereof is located, to cause the question to be submitted to the legal voters of such proposed district whether such proposed territory shall be organized as a sanitary district under this act, such petition shall be addressed to said county judge and shall contain a definite description of the boundaries of the territory to be embraced in such district, and the name of such proposed sanitary district: Provided, however, That no territory shall be included in any municipal corporation formed hereunder which is not situated within the limits of a city, incorporated town or village, or within 3 miles outside thereof, and no territory shall be included within more than one sanitary dis trict organized under this act or any other act. Upon filing of such petition in the office of the county clerk of the county in which such territory or the major portion thereof is situated, it shall be the duty of the county judge to call to his assistance two judges of the circuit court of the circuit enbracing such proposed district or major por tion thereof and such said county judge and circuit judges shall constitute a board of commissioners which shall have power and authority to consider the boundaries of any such proposed sanitary district, whether the same shall be as described in such petition or otherwise, and the decision of two of such commissioners shall be conclusive and not subject to review in any manner, directly or indirectly.

Notice shall be given by such county judge of the time and place where such commissioners will meet, by a publication inserted in one or more daily or weekly papers published in such proposed district, at least 20 days prior to such meeting and if no such newspaper is published in such proposed district, then by posting at least five copies of such notice in such proposed district at least 20 days before such hearing. At such meeting the county judge shall preside and all persons in such proposed district shall have an opportunity to be heard touching the location and boundary of such proposed district and to make suggestions regarding the same, and such commissioners, after hearing statements, evidence and suggestions, shall fix and determine the limits and boundaries of such proposed district, and for that purpose and to that extent may alter and amend such petition. After such determination by said commissioners or a majority of them, the same shall be incorporated in an order which shall be spread at length upon the records of the county court. Upon the entering of such order, the county judge shall submit to the legal voters of the proposed sanitary district. the question of organization and establishment of the proposed sanitary district as determined by said commissioners, at an election to be held within 60 days after the entering of such order, notice whereof shall be given by the county judge at least 20 days prior thereto by publication in one or more daily or weekly papers published within such proposed sanitary district, or if no daily or weekly newspaper is published in such proposed sanitary district, then by posting at least five copies of such notice in said district at least 20 days before such election. Such notice to specify briefly the purpose of such election, with a description of such proposed district, and the 'time and places for holding such election.

Each legal voter resident within such proposed sanitary district shall have the right to cast a ballot at such election. Ballots at elections held under this section shall be in substantially the following form, to-wit.

For sanitary district...

Against sanitary district..

The ballots so cast shall be received, returned and canvassed in the same manner and by the same officers as is provided by law, in the case of ballots cast for county officers, except as herein modified. The county judge shall cause a statement of the result of such election to be spread upon the records of the county court. If a majority of the votes cast upon the question of incorporation of the proposed sanitary district shall be in favor of the proposed sanitary district, such proposed district shall thenceforth be deemed an organized sanitary district under this act.

SEC. 2. All courts in this State shall take judicial notice of the existence of all sanitary districts organized under this act.

SEC. 3. A board of trustees, consisting of three members, for the government, control and management of the affairs and business of each sanitary district organized under this act shall be created in the following manner:

Within 20 days after the adoption of said act, as provided in section 1 hereof, the said county judge shall appoint three trustees not more than two of whom shall be from one incorporated city, town or village in districts in which are included two or more incorporated cities, towns or villages, or parts of two or more incorporated cities, towns or villages, who shall hold their office respectively for one, two and three years, from the first Monday of May next after their appointment and until their succesors are appointed and have qualified, and thereafter on or before the second Monday in April of each year the said county judge shall appoint one trustee whose term shall be for three years commencing the first Monday in May of the year in which they are respectively appointed. The length of the term of the first trustees shall be determined by lot at their first meeting.

Said county judge shall require each of said trustees to enter into bond, with security to be approved by such county judge, in such sum as said county judge may determine.

A majority of the board of trustees shall constitute a quorum but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day. No trustee or employee of such district shall be directly or indirectly interested in any contract, work or business of the district, or the sale of any article, the expense, price or consideration of which is paid by such district; nor in the purchase of any real estate or other property belonging to the district, or which shall be sold for taxes or assessments, or by virtue of legal process at the suit of said district: Provided, That nothing herein shall be construed as prohibiting the appointment or selection of any person as trustee or employee whose only interest in said district is as an owner of real estate in said district or of contributing to the payment of taxes levied by the said district. The trustees shall have the power to provide and adopt a corporate seal for the district.

SEC. 4. The trustees appointed in pursuance of the foregoing provisions of this act shall constitute a board of trustees for the district for which they are appointed, which board of trustees is hereby declared to be the corporate authorities of such sanitary district, and shall exercise all the powers and manage and control all the affairs and property of such district; said board of trustees immediately after their appointment and at their first meeting in May of each year thereafter, shall elect one of their number as president and one of their number as clerk, and said board of trustees shall have the right to elect a treasurer, engineer and attorney for said district, who shall hold their respective offices during the pleasure of the board, and who shall give such bond as may be required by said board. Said board may prescribe the duties and fix the compensation of all the officers and employees of said sanitary district: Provided, however, That a member of said board of trustees shall in no case receive a sum to exceed the sum of $100 per annum. Said board of trustees shall have full power to pass all necessary ordinances, rules and regulations for the proper management and conduct of the business of said board of trustees and of said corporation, and for carrying into effect the objects for which such sanitary district is formed.

SEC. 5. All ordinances imposing any penalty or making any appropriations shall, within one month after they are passed, be published at least once in a newspaper published in such district, or if no such newspaper of general circulation is published therein, by posting copies of the same in three public places in the district; and no such ordinance shall take effect until 10 days after it is so published, and all other ordinances, orders and resolutions, shall take effect from and after their passage unless otherwise provided therein.

SEC. 6. All ordinances, orders and resolutions, and the date of publication thereof, may be proven by the certificate of the clerk under the seal of the corporation, and when printed in book or pamphlet form, and purporting to be published by the board of trustees, such book or pamphlet shall be received as evidence of the passage and legal publication of such ordinances, orders and resolutions, as of the dates mentioned in such book or pamphlet in all courts and places without further proof.

SEC. 7. The board of trustees of any sanitary district organized under this act shall have power to provide for the disposal of the sewage thereof including the sewage and drainage of any incorporated city, town or village within the boundaries of such district and to save and preserve the water supplied to the inhabitants of such district from contamination and for that purpose may construct and maintain an enclosed conduit or conduits, main pipe or pipes, wholly or partially submerged, buried or otherwise, and by means of pumps or otherwise cause such sewage to flow or to be forced 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 [sic] 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. SEC. 8. Such sanitary district may acquire by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise any and all real and personal property, right of way and privilege, either within or without its corporate limits that may be required for its corporate purposes; and in case any district formed hereunder shall be unable to agree with any other sanitary district upon the terms under which it shall be permitted to use the drains, channels or ditches of such other sanitary district, the right to so use the same may be acquired by condemnation in any court of competent jurisdiction by proceedings in the manner, as near as may be, as is provided in and by an act entitled, "An act to provide for the construction, reparation and protection of drains, ditches and levees across the lands of others for agricultural, sanitary and mining purposes, and to provide for the organization of drainage districts:" approved and in force May 29, 1879, and all amendments thereto. The compensation to be paid for such use may be a gross sum, or it may be in the form of an annual rental, to be paid in yearly installments as and in the manner provided by the judgment or decree of the court wherein such proceedings may be had: Provided, however, When such compensation is fixed at a gross