of such person when there shall appear to be no just objection to the same. tection of health, from certain SEC. 23. It shall be the duty of said board of health Board to enforce to aid in the enforcement of, and, so far as practicable, to all laws for proenforce all laws of this State, applicable in said city, for the preservation of human life, or to the care, promotion, or protection of health; and said board may exercise the authority given by said laws to enable it to discharge the duty hereby imposed; and this section is intended to include all laws relative to cleanliness, and to the use or sale of poisonous, unwholesome, deleterious or adulterated drugs, medicine or food. Said board is authorized to require Reports required reports and information (at such times and of such facts, institutions. and generally of such nature and extent, relating to the safety of life and promotion of health as its by-laws or rules may provide) from all public dispensaries, hospitals, asylums, infirmaries, prisons and schools, and from the managers, principals, and officers thereof; and from all other public institutions, their officers and managers, and from the proprietors, managers, lessees, and occupants of all theaters and other places of public resort or amusement in said city; but such reports and information shall only Contents of be required concerning matters or particulars in respect of which it may, in its opinion, need information for the better discharge of its duties in said city. And it is hereby Institutions remade the duty of the officers, institutions, and persons so called on, or referred to, to promptly give such information and make such reports, verbally or in writing, as may be required by said board. reports. quired to report. tain causes of to other cities. issue warrants SEC. 24. The board of health shall use all reasonable Board to ascermeans for ascertaining the existence and cause of disease disease and im or peril to life or health, and for averting the same through- part information out said city, and shall promptly cause all proper information in possession of said board to be sent to the local authorities of any city, village or town in this State which may request the same, and shall add thereto such useful suggestions as the experience of said board may supply. SEC. 25. Said board may issue warrants to the super- When board may intendent of police of said city, the sheriff of the county to remove perof Wayne, or to any constable of said city, to apprehend sons. and remove such persons, as cannot otherwise be subjected to the orders and regulations by them adopted and whenever it shall be necessary to do so to issue their warrant to the said sheriff, superintendent and constables to bring to their aid the necessary assistance, all which warrants shall be forthwith executed by the officers to whom they shall be directed, who shall possess the like powers and be subject to the like duties in the execution thereof as if the same had been duly issued out of any court of record in this State. SEC. 26. Said board may delegate any portion of its Board may delepowers to the president, or health officer thereof, to be gate its powers exercised when the board is not in session, and the board health officer, to president or Right of board to examine sani tary conditions of all places. To publish report. Board or officers not liable for faith. When action against city for damages. may in the absence or during the inability of the presi- SEC. 28. No member, officer, or any agent of said board acts done in good of health, and no person shall be sued or held to liability for any act done or omitted by either person aforesaid (in good faith and with ordinary discretion) on behalf of or under said board, or pursuant to its regulations, ordinances or the health laws. And any person whose property may may be brought have been unjustly or illegally destroyed or injured pursuant to any order, regulation or ordinance, or action of said board of health or its officers, for which no personal liability may exist as aforesaid, may maintain a proper action against said city for the recovery of the proper compensation or damage to be paid by and from the funds of said board of health. Every such suit must be brought within one year after the cause of action arose, and the recovery shall be limited to the damages suffered. Court to abate nuisances. How such suit to be brought, Registration of plumbers. SEC. 29. Any court of equity having jurisdiction of the parties or as to any lands or other property mentioned in the bill of complaint shall have power by an injunction or other proper process at the suit of said city to prevent any threatened nuisance, source of filth or cause of sickness, and remove, arrest or abate the same. Such suit shall be brought by the law department when requested by the board of health, and the complainant shall not be required to make or file any bond or other undertaking as a condition of granting or continuing any injunction therein, but there shall be the same right to sue and recover against the city the same damages when the right is so reserved to the defendant in the order granting or continuing an injunction, that the party would have had, had an undertaking or bond been executed conditioned for the payment of such damages as a condition for granting or continuing said writ. SEC. 30. On or before the first day of September, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-five, every master or journeyman plumber, carrying on his trade in the city to plumbers. age of all build of Detroit, shall, under such rules and regulalations as the board of health shall prescribe, register his name and address at the office of the board of health, and after the said date it shall not be lawful for any person to carry on the trade of plumbing in the said city unless his name and place of business be registered as above provided and a license issued to him by said board after an To be licensed. examination as to his competency to carry on said business. No person, unless so licensed, shall display upon any Regulations as sign, placard or otherwise, in front of or upon or in or about his place of business words signifying that he is a licensed plumber, unless he be so licensed. Any licensed plumber if he change his place of business shall re-register as above provided. A list of the registered plumbers of said city shall be published in the official newspaper at least once in each year. The drainage and plumbing Board to approve of all buildings, both public and private, hereafter erected in plans for drainsaid city shall be executed in accordance with plans previ- ings. ously approved in writing, by the board of health of said city. Suitable drawings and descriptions of the said plumbing and draining shall before any building is so erected, in each case be submitted and placed on file in the office of said board of health. The board of health is also author- Board to file ized to receive and place on file drawings and descriptions plumbing done of the plumbing and draining of buildings erected prior to the prior to this act, passage of this act, if the owner or owners thereof should see proper to file the same and request approval thereof. Any court of record having authority to issue injunctions Court to restrain shall have power at any time after the service of notice of the violation of any of the provisions of this section and upon the affidavit of one of the members of the board of health or of its health officer to restrain by injunction the further progress of any violation named in this act, of any work, upon or about the building or premises upon which the said violation exists, and no undertaking shall be required as a condition to the granting or issuing of such injunction or by reason thereof. Any person violat- Violation a ing any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed misdemeanor. guilty of a misdemeanor. drawings of violations of this section. with board in deceased person. SEC. 31. In case of the death of any person in said Physicians and city, every physician, or person acting as such, who had corouers to file charge or who was in attendance upon such person at the formation as to time of death, and every coroner holding an inquest, shall forthwith file in the office of the board of health a tificate stating to the best of his knowledge, information and belief, the name, age, sex, nativity, occupation or profession of the deceased, date and manner of death, and name of disease. Every physician or other person attend- Physicians to ing at the birth of any child to file in the office of the le certificate board of health a statement or certificate of the birth of such child and of its sex, place of birth, and the names and color of its parents, and such other particulars as may be required by law or any ordinance of said city, and said of birth. board shall keep a record of the matters required by this This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Division clubs of [ No. 11. ] AN ACT to provide for the incorporation of divisions and clubs of the League of American Wheelmen. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, Ican Wheelmen That divisions and clubs of the League of American Wheelmay incorporate. men may be incorporated in pursuance of the provisions of this act. Articles of SEC. 2. Any fifteen or more persons, residents of this incorporation. State, being members of the League of American Wheelmen and desiring to become incorporated, may make and execute articles of association under their hands and seals, which said articles of association shall be acknowledged before some officer of the State having authority to take acknowledgment of deeds and shall set forth: Name. Corporate name of association. Purposes. Limit of First, The names of the persons associating in the first instance and their place of residence; Second, The corporate name by which such association shall be known in law, and the place of its business office; Third, The object and purpose of such association, which shall be to promote the general interests of cycling, to improve the condition of roads and to promote the general welfare of the League of American [Wheelmen] Wheel man; Fourth, The period for which it is incorporated, not incorporation. exceeding thirty years; Officers, term of office. Articles of assoclation to be filed with Secretary of State. Proviso, Fifth, The names of the officers and representatives who shall serve, until their successors are elected and have qualified in accordance with the by-laws of such corporation. SEC. 3. A copy of said articles of association shall be filed with the Secretary of State, and a copy thereof shall also be filed with the county clerk of the county in which such association is organized; and thereupon the persons who shall have signed such articles of association, their associates and successors, shall be a body politic and corporate, by the name expressed in the articles of association, and by that name they and their successors shall have succession, and shall be persons in the law, capable to purchase, take, receive, hold and enjoy to them and their successors, estates real and personal, of suing and being sued, and they and their successors may have a common seal which may be changed and altered at their pleasure: Provided, That the value of such real and personal estate shall not exceed the sum of fifty thousand dollars, and that they and their successors shall have authority and power to give, grant, sell, lease, demise and dispose of said real and personal estate or any part thereof, in accordance with the by-laws adopted by the association. SEC. 4. Such corporation shall have full power and author- Members to ity to make and establish rules, regulations and by-laws for prescribe rules, regulating and governing the affairs and business of said corporation, according to the laws of this State and the United States, and to designate, elect or appoint from its members such officers under such name and style as shall be in accordance with the by-laws adopted by such corporation. as evidence. SEC. 5. A copy of the record of such articles of asso- Copy of record ciation, under the seal of the State, duly certified accord. to be admitted ing to law, shall be received as prima facie evidence in all courts of this State of the existence and due incorporation of such corporation. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. [ No. 12. ] AN ACT to amend section seven of act number forty-nine of the public acts of eighteen hundred and seventy-five, entitled "An act to provide for a municipal court in the city of Grand Rapids to be called 'The Superior Court of Grand Rapids,"" approved March twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, as amended, being section six thousand five hundred and seventy of Howell's annotated statutes. SECTION 1. The People of the State of Michigan enact, Section That section seven of act number forty-nine of the public amended, acts of eighteen hundred and seventy-five, entitled "An act to provide for a municipal court in the city of Grand Rapids to be called be called The Superior Court of Grand Rapids, as amended, being section six thousand five hundred and seventy of Howell's annotated statutes, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 7. The clerk of said court shall be elected by the When clerk shall people of the said city of Grand Rapids at its charter be elected. election in the spring, for the term of two years from and after the first Monday in May next ensuing his election, and until his successor is duly elected and qualified; but the first election under this section and amendment shall not take place until the charter election of the spring of eighteen hundred and ninety-six. In case a vacancy shall How vacancies occur under this section because of death, resignation or otherwise, the judge of said court shall appoint a suitable filled in office of clerk. |