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needs of the city, having in view the growth of the city and the extension of its boundaries, for both sanitary and storm-water drainage. After a comprehensive study has been made, the commission shall determine what work should be done to improve the different districts of the city, and shall detail proposed construction of combined sewers, separate sewers, and storm drains and improvement of watercourses." The commission is given broad powers to carry out the purposes of the act and there are provisions relative to the issuance and sale of bonds.]

Mattresses-Making, Remaking, Labeling, and Sale. (Ch. 114, Act 1920.)

SECTION 1. (1) That the term "mattress" as used in this act shall be construed to mean any mattress, mattress pad, or cushion, stuffed or filled with cotton, wool, hair, upholstered spring, or other soft material, to be used on a couch or other bed for sleeping or reclining purposes.

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(2) The term " person as used in this act shall be construed to include all individuals and all firms or copartnerships.

(3) The term "corporation as used in this act shall be construed to include all corporations, companies, association [sic], and joint stock associations of [or?] companies.

(4) Whenever the singular is used in this act it shall be construed to include the plural; whenever the masculine gender is used in this act it shall include the feminine and neuter genders.

SEC. 2. Par. (a) No person or corporation, by himself or by agents, servants, or employees, shall employ or use in the making, remaking, or renovating of any mattress any material of any kind that has been used in or has formed a part of any mattress used in or about any public or private hospital, or institution for the treatment of persons suffering from disease, or for or about any person having any infectious or contagious disease, any material, not otherwise prohibited in this act, of which prior use has been made, unless any and all of said material have been thoroughly sterilized and disinfected by a reasonable process, approved by the board of health of the city or town where said mattress is made, remade, or renovated.

Par. (b) The use of shoddy made from second-hand materials, jute, old comforts, pads, [or?] mattresses in the manufacture of new mattresses to be offered for sale as such is hereby prohibited.

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SEC. 3. Upon each mattress manufactured or offered for sale there shall be securely sewed upon the outside thereof a muslin, paper, or linen label or tag upon which shall be legibly written or printed, in the English language, the material used as the filling of such article of bedding; if all the material used in the manufacture of such article of bedding shall not have been previously used, the words "manufactured of new material" shall appear upon said label or tag, together with the name and address of the maker thereof.

SEC. 4. Any mattress made from any material of which prior use has been made shall have stamped or printed upon the tag attached thereto in type not smaller than 20 point the words "Secondhand material."

SEC. 5. If labeled felt or felted cotton, it is understood that the cotton or material has all been carded in layers or sheets by a Garnett or cotton felting machine.

SEC. 6. (a) In the description of the material used upon said label or tag it shall be unlawful to use in the description of such material used as the filling of any article of bedding any term or designation likely to mislead.

(b) Any person who shall remove, deface, alter, or in any manner attempt the same, or shall cause to be removed, defaced, or altered, any mark or 43163-23-10

statement placed upon any mattress under the provisions of this act, shall be guilty of a violation of this act.

(c) It shall be unlawful for any person except a purchaser at retail to remove or efface any marking upon any article or receptacle, or any tag attached thereto, under the provisions of this act.

SEC. 7. (a) It shall be the duty of any police officer or member of any municipal board of health, or other city or town official, who has reason to believe that the provisions of this act have been or are being violated, to give notice thereof to the State department of health.

(b) Any individual who has reason to believe that this act has been or is being violated may present the relevant facts to the board of health or any of its deputies; in which case it shall be the duty of the said board of health to make an investigation of such facts as of its own initiative, and if the said board is of the opinion that the act has been or is being violated, to prosecute the person, firm, or corporation guilty thereof. Any individual may institute proceedings to enforce this act and to punish violations of its provisions. [No section 8.]

SEC. 9. Any person or corporation violating the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than $20 and not to exceed $100 for each offense, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than three months and not exceeding six months, or by both said fine and imprisonment.

Wash Rooms for Use of Employees in Certain Industries. (Ch. 20, Act Mar. 17, 1920.)

[The following act has been declared unconstitutional by the Court of Appeals of Kentucky in the case of Commonwealth v. Beaver Dam Coal Co., 237 S. W. 1086, on the ground of its being a delegation of legislative power in violation of section 60 of the State constitution.]

SECTION 1. Wash rooms, establishment.-That every owner or operator of a coal mine, steel mill, foundry, machine shop, or other like business, working 30 persons or more, in which employees become covered with grease, smoke, dust, grime, and perspiration to such extent that to remain in such condition after leaving their work without washing and cleansing their bodies and changing their clothing will endanger their health or make their condition offensive to the public, shall provide and maintain a suitable and sanitary wash room, within six months after 30 per cent or more of said employees decide by a vote of the men affected to ask and notify the employer to erect a wash house, at a convenient place in or adjacent to such mine, mill, foundry, shop, or other place of employment for the use of such employees: Provided, That where the plants of two or more persons or corporations are situated in such proximity that a joint wash room will serve for the employees of each, then the construction and maintenance of a joint wash room sufficient to accommodate all of said employees shall be considered a compliance with the provisions of this act.

SEC. 2. Wash rooms, requirements.-Such wash room shall be so arranged that employees may change their clothing therein, and shall be sufficient for the number of employees engaged regularly in such employment; shall be provided with double lockers or hangers in which employees may keep their clothing; said lockers shall be equipped with steam pipes if practicable in order that the clothing of the employees may be dried after the day's work has been finished; shall be provided with hot and cold water and sufficient and suitable showers and places and means for using the same, and during cold

weather shall be sufficiently heated, it being distinctly understood that the wash rooms be maintained at the expense of the coal company, steel mill, foundry, machine shop, or other business in which it is necessary for employees to have the use of such wash room, except that each employee shall furnish his individual soap and towels.

SEC. 3. Inspection.-It shall be the duty of the State and assistant State inspectors of mines, steel mills, foundries, and other places where wash rooms are required by this act to inspect said wash rooms and places of business required by this act to be provided with wash rooms and report to the owner or operator the sanitary and physical conditions thereof in writing and make recommendations as to such improvements or changes as may appear to be necessary for compliance with the provisions of this act: Provided, This act shall not apply to mines that may be worked out within two years from the date of notification by the employees to erect said wash house, nor shall same apply to any owner or operator of any mine, steel mill, foundry, machine shop, or like business working 30 persons or more, where the expense of obtaining water to be used in connection with said wash house is so great as to be prohibitive of the business. It shall be the duty of every employee to make reasonable use of said wash rooms.

SEC. 4. Violation, penalty.-Any owner or employer who shall willfully fail or refuse to comply with the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not more than $100. SEC. 5. Second offense, etc., penalty.-Any owner or employer who shall be convicted of a violation of the provisions of this act shall be subject to a conviction for succeeding offenses for each and every day he shall neglect or refuse to comply herewith.

Housing Act. (Ch. 68, Act Mar. 23, 1920.)

SECTION 1. Short title.—This act shall be known as the housing act.

SEC. 2. Definitions.-Certain words and terms in this act are defined for the purposes thereof as follows:

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(2) (a) A “ dwelling is any house or building or portion thereof which is occupied in whole or in part as the home, residence, or sleeping place of one or more human beings, either permanently or transiently. For the purposes of this act dwellings are divided into three classes: (a) Private dwellings, (b) twofamily dwellings, (c) multiple dwellings.

(b) A "private dwelling" is a dwelling occupied by but one family alone. (c) A "two-family dwelling" is a dwelling occupied by but two families alone.

(d) A "multiple dwelling" is a dwelling occupied otherwise than as a private dwelling or a two-family dwelling.

All multiple dwelings are dwellings, and for the purposes of this act are divided into two classes, viz, class A and class B.

Class A-Multiple dwellings of class A are dwellings which are occupied more or less permanently for residence purposes by several families and in which the rooms are occupied in apartments, suites, or groups. This class includes tenement houses, flats, apartment houses, apartment hotels, bachelor apartments, studio apartments, duplex apartments, kitchenette apartments, and all other dwellings similarly occupied, whether specifically enumerated herein or not. Class B-Multiple dwellings of class B are dwelling [s] which are occupied, as a rule, transiently, as the more or less temporary abiding place of individuals who are lodged, with or without meals, and in which, as a rule, the rooms are occupied singly. This class includes hotels, lodging houses, boarding houses,

furnished-room houses, lodgings, clubhouses, convents, asylums, hospitals, jails, and all other dwellings similarly occupied, whether specifically enumerated herein or not.

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(7) A "public hall " is a hall, corridor, or passageway not within the exclusive control of one tenant or family.

(8) A "stair hall" is a public hall and includes the stairs, stair landings, and those portions of the building through which it is necessary to pass in going between any entrance and an apartment floor or the roof.

(9) A "basement" is a story partly underground, but having at least onehalf of its height above the curb level, and also one-half of its height above the highest level of the adjoining ground. A basement, if not occupied for living purposes by other than the janitor or his family, shall not be counted as a story. (10) A "cellar" is a story having more than one-half of its height below the curb level, or below the highest level of the adjoining ground. A cellar shall not be counted as a story for purposes of height measurement.

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(15) The word "nuisance," in this act, shall be held to embrace a public nuisance as known at common law or in equity jurisprudence; and it is hereby further enacted that whatever is dangerous to human life or detrimental to health in, under, over, around, or about a dwelling; whatever dwelling or part thereof is overcrowded with occupants, or is not provided with adequate ingress and egress to and from the same, or the apartments thereof; whatever dwelling, or part thereof, is not sufficiently supported, ventilated, sewered, drained, cleaned, or lighted in reference to the intended or actual use; and whatever renders the air or human food or drink therein unwholesome are also severally, in contemplation of this act, nuisances; and all such nuisances are hereby declared illegal.

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(17) Wherever the words department of buildings," "health officer," "mayor," or "city treasurer occur in this act, they shall be construed as if followed by the words “of the city of the class in which the dwelling is situated." Wherever the words "health officer occur in this act, they shall be construed as referring to the health officer having jurisdiction or such other appropriate public official as the mayor may designate.

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Wherever the words "city water are used in this act, they shall be construed as meaning any public supply of water through street mains; and wherever the words "public sewer" are used in this act, they shall be construed as meaning any part of a system of sewers that is used by the public, whether or not such part was constructed at the public expense.

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SEC. 4. Alterations and change in occupancy.-No dwelling hereafter erected shall at any time be altered so as to be in violation of any provisions of this act. And no dwelling erected prior to the passage of this act shall at any time be altered so as to be in violation of those provisions of this act applicable to such dwelling. If any dwelling or part thereof is occupied by more familes than provided in this act, or is erected, altered, or occupied contrary to law, such dwelling shall be deemed an unlawful structure, and the health officer may cause such dwelling to be vacated. And such dwelling shall not again be occupied until it, or its occupation, as the case may be, has been made to conform to the law.

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SEC. 7. Sewer connections and water supply. The provisions of this act with reference to sewer connections and water supply shall be deemed to apply only where connection with a public sewer and with public water mains is or becomes reasonably accessible. All questions of the practicability of such sewer and water connections shall be decided by the health officer. Where sewer connections and water supply are not accessible, the special provisions as hereinafter contained shall apply.

SEC. 8. Minimum requirements; law not to be modified. The provisions of this act shall be held to [be?] the minimum requirements adopted for the protection of health, welfare, and safety of the community. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to invalidate existing ordinances or regulations of any city of the first class, or [of] the board of health or other public officials having jurisdiction, of any such city [,] imposing requirements higher than the minimum requirements laid down in this act relative to light, ventilation, sanitation, fire prevention, egress, occupancy, maintenance, and uses for dwellings; nor be deemed to prevent any such city or the board of health or other public officials having jurisdiction of any such city from enacting and putting in force from time to time ordinances and regulations imposing requirements higher than the minimum requirements laid down in this act; nor shall anything herein contained be deemed to prevent such cities or the board of health or other public officials having jurisdiction of any such city from prescribing for the enforcement of such ordinances and regulations remedies and penalties similar to those prescribed herein. And every such city or the board of health, or other public officials having jurisdiction, of any such city, is empowered to enact such ordinances and regulations and to prescribe for their enforcement. No ordinance, regulation, ruling, or decision of any municipal body, officer, or authority, or the board of health of any such city shall repeal, amend, modify, or dispense with any of the said minimum requirements laid down in this act. SEC. 9. State board of health.-The State board of health shall have the power to examine into the enforcement of this act in each city. Whenever required by the governor it shall make such an examination and shall report the results thereof to the governor within the time prescribed by him.

SEC. 10. Time for compliance.-All improvements specifically required by this act upon dwellings erected prior to the date of its passage shall be made within one year from said date, or at such earlier period as may be fixed by the health officer.

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SEC. 21. Rooms, lighting and ventilation of.-In every dwelling hereafter erected, every room, including water-closet compartments, bathrooms, and kitchenettes, shall, except as hereinafter provided, have at least one window opening directly upon the street, or upon a yard, court, or shaft of the dimensions specified in this act, and such window or windows shall be so located as to properly light all portions of such room.

SEC. 22. Windows in rooms.-In every dwelling hereafter erected the total window area in each room, including water-closet compartments, bathrooms, and kitchenettes, shall be at least one-eighth of the superficial floor area of the room, and such required area of the whole window shall be made so as to open in all its parts. No such window shall be less than 12 square feet in area between the stop beads. The top of at least one window shall be not less than 7 feet 6 inches above the floor.

SEC. 23. Rooms, size of.-In every dwelling hereafter erected all rooms, except water-closet compartments, bothrooms, and kitchenettes, shall be of the following minimum sizes: In each dwelling or in each apartment, group, or suit

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