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location in a public hallway outside of the sleeping rooms at or near the head of the stairs, and shall always be in a condition for use.

SEC. 21. [Towels.] All hotels and restaurants in this state shall furnish hereafter, in the main public wash room, individual towels, in view and reach of guests during the regular meal hours, and where no regular meal hours are maintained, then between the hours of 6:30 A. M. and 9 A. M., and 11:30 A. M. and 2 P. M., and 6, P. M., and 8 P. M., and in each bedroom furnish each guest with two clean individual towels, so that no two or more guests will be required to use the same towel unless it has been first washed. Such individual towel shall not be less than ten inches wide and fifteen inches long, after being washed.

SEC. 22. [Sheets; pillow slips.] All hotels and rooming houses hereafter shall provide each bed, bunk, cot or other sleeping place for the use of guests with pillow slips and under and top sheets. Each sheet shall be made ninety-nine inches long and of sufficient width to completely cover the mattress and springs, provided that a sheet shall not be used which measures less than ninety inches after being laundered. Said sheets and pillow slips shall be made of white cotton or linen, and all such sheets and pillow slips, after being used by one guest, must be washed and ironed before they are used by another guest, a clean set being furnished each succeeding guest.

SEC. 23. [Bedding material; vermin.] All beddings, including mattresses, quilts, blankets, pillows, sheets and comforts used in any hotel or rooming house in this state, must be thoroughly aired, disinfected and kept clean. Provided, that no bedding, including mattresses, quilts, blankets, pillows, sheets or comforts, shall be used which is worn out, or is unfit for further use. Any room in any hotel, rooming house or restaurant, infested with vermin or bed-bugs, shall be fumigated, disinfected and renovated until said vermin or bedbugs are exterminated.

SEC. 24. [Inspectors; office help.] The Deputy Hotel Commissioner is hereby empowered to employ such

office help and traveling inspectors as are necessary to carry out the terms of this act. Such inspectors shall be under the control and direction of the Hotel Commission and shall receive such compensation as shall be fixed by the Hotel Commission, not to exceed Twelve Hundred Dollars per annum, payable monthly, together with all necessary traveling expenses.

SEC. 25. [Notices, service; violation of act.] All notices to be served by the Deputy Hotel Commissioner, provided for in this act, shall be in writing and shall be either delivered personally or by registered letter, to the owner, agent, lessee or manager of such building and premises, or the owner, agent, lessee or manager of such hotel, rooming house, apartment house or restaurant. Any person, firm or corporation operating a hotel, rooming house, apartment house or restaurant in this state, or leasing a building used for such business, without having first complied with the provisions of this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall upon conviction thereof, be fined in the sum of Five Dollars for each and every day of such non-compliance with this act, together with costs of suit.

SEC. 26. [Prosecutions.] The County Attorney of each county in this state is hereby authorized and required upon complaint on oath of the Deputy Hotel Commissioner or other person, to prosecute to termination before any court of competent jurisdiction in the name of the state of Nebraska, a proper action or proceeding against any person or persons violating the provisions of this act.

SEC. 27. [Amendments.] That Sections 6384 and 6929 of Cobbey's Annotated Statutes of Nebraska for 1911 [C. S., Ch. 30, §§ 20, 15] are hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 6384. [Fire protection; stairways, platforms.] That within six months after the passage of this act, every building now or hereafter used, in a whole or in part, as a public building, public or private institution, office or store building, school house, theatre, public hall, place of assemblage or place or public resort, more than two stories high and containing above the ground floor, offices, assembly hall, work rooms or

a room intended to be used as a place of amusement, all or any of which rooms are designed for occupancy by fifteen or more persons, shall be provided with one or more fire proof stairways, chutes or toboggans, constructed on the outside thereof, placed in such position and as many in number as may be designated by the Commissioner of labor, or Deputy Commissioner of Labor. Such fireproof stairways, chutes or toboggans shall connect the cornice with the top of the first story of such building by a wrought iron or steel platform properly surrounded by a wrought iron or steel railing; said platform to be constructed on a level with the floor of each story so connected, and of sufficient length to permit access to the same from not less than two windows of each story-said platform shall be so constructed as to be of convenient access from the interior of the building, commodious in size and form and of sufficient strength to be safe for the purpose of ascent and descent.

SEC. 6929. [Same; fire escapes; exits.] That after the passage and approval of this act, every building now or hereafter used, in whole or in part, as a public building, public or private institution, office or store building, school house, theatre, public hall, place of assemblage or place of public resort, more than two stories high and containing above the ground floor offices, assembling hall, work rooms or a room intended to be used as a place of amusement, all or any of which rooms are designed for occupancy by fifteen or more persons, shall be provided with one or more fireproof stairways, chutes or toboggans constructed on the outside thereof, placed in such position and as many in number as may be designated by the Commissioner of Labor, or his Deputy Commissioner of Labor. Such fireproof stairways, chutes or toboggans shall connect the cornice with the top of the first story of such building by wrought iron or steel platform, properly surrounded with a wrought iron or steel railing; said platform to be constructed on a level with the floor of each story so connected, and of sufficient length to permit access to the same from not less than two windows of each story said platform shall be so constructed as to be of convenient access from the interior of the building, commodious in size and form and of sufficient strength to be safe for the purpose of ascent and descent;

provided, however, that all buildings more than two stories in height used for manufacturing purposes, mercantile establishments, schools, seminaries, hospitals, asylums or other institutions where twenty-five or more persons congregate at any one time, there shall be placed one automatic metallic fire escape or device for every twenty-five persons, for which working accommodations are provided above the second floor of said building, material, design and location of such escapes to be subject to the approval of the Deputy Commissioner of Labor. Provided, that all theaters, moving picture galleries and other places of amusement shall have proper exits, opening outwardly, which shall be not less than three feet wide by six feet six inches high. All operating booths for apparatus involving the use of a combustible film more than ten inches in length shall be constructed of galvanized or other metal, lined with asbestos and otherwise constructed according to the regulations of the Commissioner of Labor. The Deputy Commissioner of Labor, or any person deputized by him, shall have authority to inspect all such theaters, moving picture galleries or other places of amusement and prescribe regulations for the construction and operation of the same.

SEC. 28. [Repeals.] That Sections 6384, 6397, 6398, 6399, 66[3]99X1, 6399X2, 6399X3, 6399X4, 6399X5, 6399X6, 6399X7, 6399X8, 6399X9, 6399X10, 6399X11, 6399X12 6399X13, 6399X14, 6399X15, 6399X16, 6399X17, 6929 and 6930 of Cobbey's Annotated Statutes of the State of Nebraska for the year 1911 [C. S., Ch. 30, §§ 20, 15; Ch. 39, §§ 14-33; Ch. 39b, § 6.] are hereby repealed.

Approved, April 5, 1913.

CHAPTER 64.

(House Roll No. 637.)

[Introduced by Committee Finance, Ways and Means.]

AN ACT To provide an annual levy of 85 one hundredths of one mill upon the dollar valuation of the grand assessment roll of the state, for the support of state normal schools at Peru, Kearney, Wayne, and Chadron and for expenses of the State Board of Education, to appropriate ninety per cent of the face of said levy for the biennium ending March 31, 1915 and to declare an emergency.

Be it Enacted by the People of the State of Nebraska:

SECTION 1. [Appropriation, normal schools.] There shall be levied by the State Board of Equalization, in the year 1913 and annually thereafter, a tax of 85 one hundredths of one mill upon the dollar valuation of the grand assessment roll of the state. All moneys accruing to this fund are hereby appropriated for the maintenance of the state normal schools at Peru, Kearney, Wayne and Chadron, including salaries, current expenses, buildings and permanent improvements, together with all other expenses of the state board of education having charge of said normal schools.

SEC. 2. [Same, how expended.] Ninety per cent of the 85 one hundredths of one mill tax levy for the state normal schools at Peru, Kearney, Wayne and Chadron for the years 1913 and 1914 is hereby appropriated for the biennium ending March 31, 1915, to the uses of the state normal schools at Peru, Kearney, Wayne and Chaldron and to the expenses of the state board of education, to be expended under the direction of said board.

SEC. 3.

[Same; warrants; vouchers.] When the grand assessment roll for each year of the biennium ending March 31, 1915, is made up, the auditor and the treasurer shall place to the credit of the fund, to be expended under the direction of the state board of education having charge of the state normal schools at Peru, Kearney, Wayne and Chadron, ninety per cent of the face of the returns from the tax levy provided in Section One of this act. Warrants not exceeding the amount of credits specified in this section shall be drawn by the auditor on vouchers presented by the state board of

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