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Judge, removal of.

Stenographer, salary of.

Supervisors,

etc.

of domestic relations as if given by the constitution or by law to the supreme court over said circuit courts.

SEC. 22. If the court of domestic relations has probable cause to believe that any crime, misdemeanor, offense or felony within the terms of the statutes specified in section three of this act has been committed within the jurisdietion of said court, said court may require any person whom said court has reason to believe has information of such crime, misdemeanor, offense or felony, to appear before said court, there to answer such questions under oath as may be put to him by said court. As a result of said investigation if it appears to the satisfaction of said court that there is probable cause to believe that such a crime has been committed within its jurisdiction, it may cause a warrant to issue for the apprehension of the person or persons suspected of said crime, misdemeanor, offense or felony, who shall be tried in the same manner as he or she would have been tried if complaint had been made under oath: Prorided, That nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to interfere with a grand jury whenever the same may be in

session.

SEC. 23. The judge of the court of domestic relations may be removed from office in like manner for like cause as is provided by law for the removal of circuit judges, his resig nation as judge shall be made to the Governor of the State, and he shall receive same salary in all respects as is paid to circuit judges of the county in which his court shall be located.

SEC. 24. The stenographer for said court shall receive the same salary that is paid to the other stenographers of the circuit court in the respective counties to which the provision of this law shall apply.

SEC. 25. The board of supervisors of said county shall powers, duties, have the power, and it shall be its duty to furnish a suitable court room for the purpose of said court, and provide for its needs in other respects in the same manner as provided by law in relation to circuit courts.

Jurors, how selected.

Cases, etc., pending.

SEC. 26. Juries of the court of domestic relations shall be composed of jurors, who shall be selected from those then in attendance upon the circuit court for the county in which the said court of domestic relations is located, and shall be subject to such regulations and provisions as govern the drawing, selecting, summoning and qualifications of jurors in circuit courts in the State of Michigan.

SEC. 27. Nothing in this act shall be construed to deprive any of the courts of this State of jurisdiction, power and authority of any case, matter or proceeding now pending undetermined before any of the said courts of the State of Michigan.

Approved May 6, 1913.

[No. 187.]

AN ACT making appropriations for special purposes for the Michigan Home for the Feeble-minded and Epileptic at Lapeer for the fiscal years ending June thirty, nineteen hundred fourteen, and June thirty, nineteen hundred fifteen, and to provide a tax to meet the same.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

purposes.

SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated for the Michi- Appropriagan Home for the Feeble-minded and Epileptic at Lapeer tion, special for the fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred fourteen, the sum of sixty-three thousand eight hundred eightyfour dollars seventy-one cents, by amounts and purposes as follows:

Additions and furnishings to cottage number three, ten thousand six hundred fifty-six dollars thirteen cents;

Additions and furnishings to cottage number four, ten thousand six hundred fifty-six dollars thirteen cents;

Furnishings for custodial dining room, two hundred forty dollars fifty-two cents;

Cow barn and two silos, four thousand five hundred twenty-five dollars seventy-eight cents;

Cold storage, three thousand eight hundred six dollars fifteen cents;

Compressed air machine, five hundred dollars;

Laundry machinery, four thousand dollars;

Electrical unit, five thousand dollars;

New boilers and connecting, ten thousand dollars;

Closets and tile floors, two thousand five hundred dollars;

Industrial building, twelve thousand dollars.

SEC. 2. The further sum of fifty-one thousand seven hun- Further apdred seven dollars two cents is hereby appropriated for the propriation. fiscal year ending June thirty, nineteen hundred fifteen, by ·

amounts and purposes as follows:

Office addition to administration building, four thousand

five hundred fifty-two dollars eighty-five cents;

Ice house number one, one thousand five hundred fortyfour dollars forty-five cents;

Ice house number two, two thousand nine hundred fiftyfour dollars seventy-two cents;

Hospital, thirty-five thousand dollars;

Two tubercular shacks, six thousand two hundred fifty dollars;

Trees, four hundred five dollars;

Fire hose, one thousand dollars:

transfer of

Provided, That if any of the amounts designated in this Proviso, act for any of the purposes stated, be insufficient to complete fran the work or purchase, any surplus remaining after the completion of the other work or purchases specified in said act,

How paid out.

Tax clause.

may, by obtaining the consent in writing of the State Board of Corrections and Charities and the Auditor General before any expense in excess of the specified appropriation is incurred, be used in the account or accounts where such deficiency seems unavoidable, the intent of this provision being to make the entire one hundred fifteen thousand five hundred ninety-one dollars seventy-three cents available for the purposes stated in this act, if in the judgment of the State Board of Corrections and Charities and the Auditor General it is deemed advisable to make the transfer for which provision is hereby made.

SEC. 3. The several sums appropriated by the provisions of this act shall be paid out of the general fund in the State treasury to the treasurer of the Michigan Home for the Feeble-minded and Epileptic at such times and in such amounts as the general accounting laws of the State prescribe, and the disbursing officer shall render his accounts to the Auditor General thereunder.

SEC. 4. The Auditor General shall add to and incorporate in the State tax for the year nineteen hundred thirteen, the sum of sixty-three thousand eight hundred eighty-four dollars seventy-one cents, and for the year nineteen hundred fourteen, the sum of fifty-one thousand seven hundred seven dollars two cents, which sums when collected shall be paid into the general fund in the State treasury to reimburse the same for moneys hereby appropriated.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.
Approved May 6, 1913.

Hotel defined.

Fire escapes.

[No. 188.]

AN ACT relating to the conduct of hotels, inns and public lodging houses.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Every building or structure kept, used or maintained as, or held out to the public to be an inn, hotel or public lodging house, shall, for the purpose of this act, be defined as a hotel, and wherever the word "hotel" shall occur in this act it shall be construed to mean every such structure as is described in this section.

SEC. 2. Every hotel that is more than two stories high shall be equipped with an iron fire escape on the outside of the building connecting on each floor, above the first, with at least two openings, which shall be well fastened and secured with landings not less than six feet in length and three feet in width, guarded by an iron railing not less than

three feet in height. Such landings shall be connected by iron stairs not less than two feet wide and with steps of not less than six inch tread and not more than eight inch rise, placed at an angle of not more than forty-five degrees and protected by a well secured hand rail on both sides and reaching to within twelve feet of the ground, with a drop. ladder eighteen inches wide reaching from the lower platform to the ground. Such fire escapes shall be sufficient if a perpendicular ladder shall be used instead of the stairs, provided such iron ladder is placed at the extreme outside of the platform and at least three feet away from the wall of the building, and provided said ladder is equipped with round iron rounds not more than fifteen inches apart, except that fire-proof buildings may have inside fire escapes placed in a well, shaft, or opening which shall be built of fire-proof material and shut off from the remainder of the building by fire-proof, tight doors. The way of egress to way of egress such fire escape shall at all times be kept free and clear unobstructed. of all obstruction of any and every nature. Storm windows and storm doors shall be considered an obstruction for the purpose of this act, and such way of egress shall at all times be kept unlocked. There shall be posted and maintained in a conspicuous place in each hall and each guest room, except the halls and rooms on the ground floor, of such hotel, a printed notice in characters not less than two inches high calling attention to and directing the way to such fire escape.

SEC. 3. Each and every hotel shall be provided with at Fire extinleast one sufficient chemical fire extinguisher for every twenty- guishers. five hundred square feet or less of floor area, which such extinguisher or extinguishers shall be placed in a convenient location in a public hallway outside of the sleeping rooms, and shall always be in condition for use.

or less, how

SEC. 4. Every hotel that is not over two stories in height Buildings and which is not provided with such fire escape as is de- two stories scribed in section two hereof, shall provide in every bed- equipped. room or sleeping apartment on the second floor a manila rope at least five eighths of an inch in diameter and knotted every eighteen inches, and of sufficient strength to sustain a weight and strain of at least five hundred pounds, and of sufficient length to reach the ground. Such rope shall be securely fastened to the joists or studdings of the building as near the windows as practicable, and shall be kept coiled in plain sight at all times, nor shall such rope be covered by curtains or other obstruction. Every such hotel shall provide and maintain in a conspicuous place in every bedroom or sleeping apartment above the ground floors, a printed notice calling attention to such rope and giving directions for its use.

Sanitation, drainage, etc.

Rooms, how furnished.

Violation, penalty.

Power of commission.

Inspectors.

Duties.

Power.

Certificate.

SEC. 5. Every hotel shall be well drained and maintained according to established sanitary principles; shall be kept clean and in a sanitary condition and free from effluvia arising from any sewer, drain, privy or other source within the control of the owner, manager, agent or other person in charge; shall be provided with water closets or privies properly screened for the separate use of males and females, which water closets or privies shall be disinfected as often as may be necessary to keep them at all times in a sanitary condition.

SEC. 6. Every hotel shall have and provide all toilet rooms, bath rooms and sleeping rooms with individual textile towels. Every hotel shall have and provide all beds with regulation sheets, not less than ninety inches in length. Such beds shall also be provided with sufficient number of regulation size blankets or quilts that are kept in a sanitary condition.

SEC. 7. Every owner, manager, agent or person in charge of a hotel, who shall fail to comply with any of the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty dollars, or shall be imprisoned in the county jail for not less than thirty days nor more than sixty days, or both, and every day that such a hotel is carried on in violation of this act shall constitute a separate offense.

SEC. 8. The Labor Commissioner, Dairy and Food Commissioner, Insurance Commissioner and the executive officer of the State Board of Health shall constitute a commission for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this act, and same shall be delegated with the power to adopt such rules and regulations as conditions may require.

SEC. 9. Such commission shall delegate and confer the title of hotel inspector or deputy inspectors upon such men now operating under the supervision of the several departments constituting this commission, and in such number as the lawful enforcement of this act shall justify.

SEC. 10. It shall be the duty of the inspector and his deputies to see that all of the provisions of this act are complied with, and said inspector or the deputy for the district shall personally inspect at least once each year and at such other times as in the best judgment of the commission or the deputy the occasion demands as defined by this act.

SEC. 11. Said inspector and his deputies are hereby granted police power to enter any hotel at reasonable hours to determine whether the provisions of this act are being complied with.

SEC. 12. If the inspector or deputy shall find after exwhere posted. amination of any hotel that this law has been fully complied with, he shall issue a certificate to that effect to the person operating the same, and said certificate shall be kept posted up in a conspicuous place in said inspected building.

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