1924 CHAPTER 36. An Act respecting Slot Machines. (Assented to April 12, 1924.) HIS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as "The Slot Machine Act." Short title Interpretation 2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, (a) "Peace officer" shall mean any person who is a mem- Peace officer ber of the Alberta Provincial Police Force, or of the police force of any city, town, village or municipal district in Alberta, or who is appointed as a constable under the provisions of any statute of the Province of Alberta providing for the appointment of constables; (b) "Slot machine" shall mean any automatically or Slot machine mechanically operated contrivance or device which delivers or purports to deliver to any person upon or subsequently to the insertion therein of any money or any substance representing money, any premium, prize or reward consisting either of money or money's worth or anything which is intended to be exchanged for money or money's worth, and whether such contrivance or device also delivers or causes to be delivered any goods to, or performs or causes to be performed any service for any person or not. property 3. No slot machine shall be capable of ownership and Negation of shall not be the subject of property rights within this Pro- rights in slot vince, and no court of civil jurisdiction shall recognize or machine give effect to any property rights in any slot machine. 4. No person shall keep or operate, or permit to be kept Operation, etc. or operated upon any premises or in any place, any slot of slot machine. machine forbidden 5. Any peace officer shall, upon finding any slot machine Notice by within the Province, serve a notice upon the owner or lessee peace officer of the same, or the owner or lessee of the premises upon which the same is found, warning him that if the same is Procedure Coming into force found within the Province at any time after the expiration of one week from the date of the notice, the same will be liable to seizure and confiscation under the provisions of this Act. 6. If any slot machine in respect of which a notice has been given pursuant to section 4 hereof is found within the Province at any time after the expiration of one week from the giving of such notice every peace officer is empowered to seize such slot machine and the same to bring before a justice of the peace who shall thereupon issue a summons addressed to the person or persons in whose apparent possession the same was in at the time of seizure, calling upon such person at the time and place therein mentioned to shew cause why the same should not be confiscated; and unless the justice of the peace is then satisfied that the same is not a slot machine, he shall proceed to make an order that such machine shall be confiscated to His Majesty to be disposed of as the Attorney General may direct, and shall have power to make such order, whether or not the person summoned is the owner or lessee of or otherwise entitled to the lawful possession of the said machine. 7. This Act shall come into force upon proclamation. 1924 CHAPTER 37. An Act respecting the Hours of Labor of Employees of Permanent Fire Departments. (Assented to April 12, 1924.) HIS IS MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Alberta, enacts as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as "The Fire Department's Short title Hours of Labor Act.” hours holiday 2. Where in any city, town or village there is a permanent Twenty-four fire department the officers and employees of which are regularly employed and paid by the municipal corporation, every officer and employee of such department shall be off duty for one full day of twenty-four hours in every calendar week, but where what is known as "double-platoon system" is in operation in any such fire department the twenty-four hours release at the change of platoons shall not be regarded as a day off for the purposes of this section. of by-laws 3. The provisions of this Act shall have effect notwith- Supersession standing any regulation or by-law of a municipal corporation relating to a fire department. violation 4. Every Fire Chief, Superintendent, director or officer Penalty for of every such fire department who requires or requests an requesting employee of the department to be on duty in violation of the provisions of section 3 shall incur a penalty of not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars. forbidden 5. No deduction shall be made from the pay or the holi- Deductions days of the officers or employees of the fire department in any municipality by reason only of the application of this Act to the municipality. conflagration 6. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Act, in provision for case of a conflagration for the control of which the attend- extensive ance of all officers and employees of the fire department is, in the opinion of the Fire Chief or officer in charge of the fire department, necessary, he may require the attendance of all the officers and employees for work during the continuance of the conflagration. Procedure Supersession of Act by vote of electors Coming into force 7. The penalties provided by this Act shall be recoverable under The Fines and Penalties Act. 8. Notwithstanding anything in this Act contained, the other provisions of this Act shall not apply to any city, town or village, until a vote has been taken and assented to by a majority of the electors voting thereon at the next annual election of councillors. 9. This Act shall come into force and take effect one month after the date upon which it is assented to. |