$ (3.) The Kentucky Normal and Industrial Institute for Colored Persons is in immediate need of funds to pay its current running expenses for the remainder of the fiscal year, and for this reason an emergency is hereby declared to exist and this Act shall take effect from and after its passage and approval as required by law. Approved March 26, 1918. CHAPTER 50. AN ACT to appropriate money to be expended by the Board of Prison Commissioners at the State Reformatory, Frankfort, Kentucky, for complete electric wiring throughout, heating plant for shoe factory, new boilers, electric motor and engine and dynamo. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That whereas the fire that in June 1916, destroyed the chair factory building, and the disastrous fire in January, 1917, in Cell House, "A" at the State Reformatory, Frankfort, Kentucky demonstrated the necessity for repairs and improvements to avoid possible repetition. Therefore, there is hereby appropriated the sum of fifteen thousand dollars for the complete electrical re-wiring throughout the State Reformatory, Frankfort, Kentucky. § 2. There is further appropriated the sum of ten thousand dollars for heating plant in shoe shop, electric motor, two new boilers and engine and dy namo. § 3. The sums are hereby appropriated out of the money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, and the Auditor of Public Accounts is authorized to draw his warrant in payment for this work upon the written order of the Board of Prison Com missioners, who shall contract for and supervise same. Approved March 26, 1918. CHAPTER 51. AN ACT relating to public health; to provide State aid to any county, tuberculosis district, or public or private organization not operated for profit, which shall employ a visiting nurse for the cure and prevention of tuberculosis and other diseases and to render aid in times of war or emergency to the sick, afflicted, injured or distressed from any cause, under the super. vision and direction of the State Board of Health. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 1. Any county, tuberculosis district, or other organization not operated for profit, which shall employ a visiting nurse for the cure and prevention of tuberculosis and other diseases in any county or counties of this Commonwealth, shall be entitled to receive State aid in providing compensation for such nurse, in accordance with the provisions of this act. § 2. The fiscal court of any county, or the district board of trustees of any tuberculosis district, or any organization not operated for profit, is authorized and empowered to employ a registered nurse, whose duties shall be as follows: To give instructions to tuberculosis patients and others relating to hygenic measures to be observed in preventing the spread of tuberculosis and other diseases; to aid in making reports of existing cases of tuberculosis and other diseases; to act as visiting nurse. throughout the county or the tuberculosis district, and to perform such other duties as a nurse and hygienic expert as may be assigned to her by the fiscal court or the tuberculosis district board of trustees, or other organization employing her. Such visiting nurse shall, at the end of each month, make a report in writing to the county judge of the county, or the tuberculosis district board of trustees, and to the Kentucky Board of Tuberculosis Commissioners or its successors, which reports shall show the visits made during the month then ending and the requests made for her services, and such other information as may be required by the fiscal court, the district board of trustees, or the Kentucky Board of Tuberculosis Commissioners, or its successors. $ § 3. Before any nurse can be appointed within the provisions of this act, she must be a registered nurse. Such nurse shall at all times be subject to the supervision of the Kentucky Board of Tuberculosis Commissioners or its successors under such rules and regulations as said commissioners or their successors shall prescribe. § 4. For the compensation of such visiting nurse, there shall be allowed each and every year, and paid out of the State treasury from funds not otherwise appropriated, to every county, tubercu losis district or other organization employing a visiting nurse within the provisions of this act, a sum equal to one-third of the money actually paid to such nurse as compensation for her services; however, in case the sum of money actually paid to such nurse as compensation for her services exceeds $75.00 (seventy-five) dollars per month, the amount to be paid by the State shall not exceed $25.00 (twenty-five) dollars per month for each nurse, and be limited to one visiting nurse to each county. The money hereby appropriated shall be paid in installments regularly, as is done in the case of charitable institutions maintained by the State of Kentucky, upon the filing of due proof, of facts in accordance with the forms and regulations which may be prescribed by the Kentucky Board of Tuberculosis Commissioners, or its successors. § 5. No part of the appropriation herein made shall be paid to any public or private sanatorium or organization other than that established by a tuberculosis district, until the sanitorium or organization to which the payment is to be made shall have executed, by its proper officers, a bond to the Commonwealth of Kentucky, with good and sufficient security, stipulating and providing that all of said money so paid to such sanatorium or organization shall be applied to the payment of the salary of the visiting nurse. There shall be attached to, as part of said bond, an attested copy of the articles of incorporation under which said sanatorium or organization is established and maintained, and further, a statement under oath, made by the chief officer, and the treasurer of said sanatorium or organization, showing the actual amount of money expended by said sanatorium or organization as salary for the visiting nurse. Said bond, articles of incorporation and statement under oath, and the approval of the Kentucky Board of Tuberculosis Commissioners or its successors signed by its president and attested by its secretary under seal, shall be first submitted to the State Inspector and Examiner to examine into and verify conditions embraced within said bond and statement. And when he shall have approved same, and further shall have ascertained that said sanatorium or organization is not being operated for profit, he shall certify such examination and approval to the Auditor of Public Accounts. ium or other organization availing itself of this act shall make an annual report to the Auditor of Public Accounts, showing when, where and in what manner the money received by such county, tuberculosis district, sanatorium or organization under this act has been applied and disbursed, and such report shall be subscribed by and sworn to by the chief officer of the sanatorium or organization, or by the county judge of the county, or by the chairman of the board of trustees of the tuberculosis district. § 7. Any county, tuberculosis district, sanatorium or other organization receiving any of the benefits of this act shall at all reasonable times keep open for the inspection of the State Inspector and Examiner its records and books of accounts, and the Kentucky Board of Tuberculosis Commissioners, or its duly authorized representative or the successors of the Kentucky Board of Tuberculosis Commissioners, or their duly authorized representative shall each year visit such county, tuberculosis district, sanatorium or organization for the purpose of accertaining whether or not such county, tuberculosis district, sanatorium or organization is observing the provisions of this act. § 8. That it shall be the duty of any county, tuberculosis district, sanatorium or other organization receiving any of the benefits of this act, when requested by the State Board of Health in times of war or emergency, to require such nurse as may be employed under the provisions of this act to perform the duties imposed herein, under the rules and regu lations of the State Board of Health, and it shall be the duty of such nurse to perform such duties as may be required by the State Board of Health, under its supervision and direction, and in the event such county, tuberculosis district, sanatorium or oth |