ACT 3428.

An act to provide for the establisament and maintenance of municipal hospitals within cities of the fifth and sixth classes.

[Approved May 26, 1921. Stats. 1921, p. 696. In effect July 29, 1921.] § 1. Establishment of municipal hospital in cities of the fifth and sixth class.

§ 1. Establishment of municipal hospital in cities of the fifth and sixth class. The board of trustees of any incorporated city of the fifth or sixth class in the state of California, must upon a petition signed by fifteen per cent of the registered, qualified electors of the city submit to the electors of the city the question whether a municipal hospital shall be established in said city; provided, that no municipal hospital has been already established therein. Said proposition may be submitted either at a general or special election and said election shall be conducted and the results thereof declared in conformity with the general election laws governing elections in cities of the fifth or sixth class, as the case may be. If a majority of the votes cast at said election are in favor of said proposition the municipal hospital for said city shall be deemed established and shall be managed and conducted in accordance with the provisions hereof.

§ 2. Board of hospital trustees. Such municipal hospital shall be managed by a board designated as the board of hospital trustees, consisting of seven members to be appointed by the president of the board of trustees, by and with the consent of the legislative body of said city. Such trustees shall severally hold office for three years, serving without compensation; provided, that the members of the first board appointed shall so classify themselves by lot that two of their number shall go out of office at the end of the current fiscal year, two at the end of one year thereafter and the other three at the end of two years thereafter. Residents and nonresidents shall be equally eligible to such appointment and vacancies shall be filled by appointment for the unexpired term in the same manner.

§ 3. Meetings. President. Board of hospital trustees shall meet at least once a month at such times and places as they may fix by resolution. Special meetings may be called at any time by three trustees, by written notice served upon each member at least three hours before the time specified for the proposed meeting. A majority of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Such boards shall appoint one of their number president who shall serve for one year and until his successor is appointed and in his absence shall select a president pro tem. Such board shall cause a proper record of their proceedings to be kept.

§ 4. Powers of boards of trustees. The boards of hospital trustees shall have power:

First To make and enforce all rules, regulations and by-laws necessary for the administration, government, protection and maintenance of municipal hospitals under their management and all property belonging thereto.

Second-To administer any trust declared or created for such hospitals, and received by gift, devise, or bequest and hold in trust or otherwise, property situated in this state or elsewhere, and where not otherwise provided, dispose of the same for the benefit of such hospitals.

Third-To prescribe the duties and powers of the manager, secretary and other officers and employees of any such hospitals; to determine the number of and appoint all such officers and employees, and to fix their compensation, which said officers and employees shall hold their offices or positions at the pleasure of said boards.

Fourth-To purchase all necessary surgical instruments and hospital equipment and equipment for nurses' homes and all other property necessary for equipping a hospital and nurses' home.

Fifth-To purchase such real property, and erect or rent and equip such buildings or building, room or rooms as may be necessary, when in their judgment a suitable building, or such portions thereof, has not been provided by the legislative body of the municipality for such hospital.

Sixth-To establish a nurses' training school in connection with such hospital, to prescribe a course of study for same and after the completion of same, to provide for the issuance of diplomas to graduate nurses.

Seventh-To do any and all things which an individual might do which is necessary for and to the advantage of a municipal hospital and a nurses' training school.

Eighth-To do any and all other acts and things necessary to carry out the provisions of this act.

§ 5. Report of trustees. Boards of hospital trustees shall, on or before the last day of July in each year, make a report to the legislative body of their municipality, giving the condition of the hospital on the thirtieth day of June preceding, together with a statement of their proceedings for the year then ended.

§ 6. Tax levy. The legislative body of any municipality in which a municipal hospital has been established in accordance with this act, shall in making the annual tax levy and as a part thereof, if provision has not been otherwise made therefor levy a tax for the purposes of maintaining such hospital and purchasing property therefor including any other indebtedness incurred under the provisions of section four hereof by said board of hospital trustees, which tax shall be in addition to other taxes, the levy of which is permitted in a municipality; provided, that the board of trustees of any such municipality may, in lieu of such tax, levy for the purchase of property necessary for such hospital or the necessary surgical instruments or hospital equipment or equipment for nurses' homes, raise the funds necessary therefor by a bond issue of such municipality under and pursuant to the provisions of an act entitled "An act authorizing the incurring of indebtedness by cities,

towns and municipal corporations for municipal improvements, and regulating the acquisition, construction or completion thereof" in effect February 25, 1901, as amended, and said act shall be applicable to such bond issue, and for the purpose of issuance of such bonds each and all of said purposes for which a tax levy may be made hereunder shall be deemed a municipal improvement within the meaning of said bond act.

§7. Hospital fund. The revenue derived from said tax, together with all money acquired by gift, devise, bequest, or otherwise, for the purposes of the hospital, shall be apportioned to a fund to be designated the hospital fund, and be applied to the purposes herein authorized. If such payment into the treasury should be inconsistent with the conditions or terms of any such gift, devise or bequest, the board shall provide for the safety and preservation of the same, and the application thereof to the use of the hospital, in accordance with the terms and conditions of such gift, devise or bequest. Payments for this fund shall be made upon warrants issued after due audit, by and on order from the hospital trustees, which warrants shall be signed by the president and secretary of said board of hospital trustees. The treasurer of the municipality shall pay such warrants without any further order or warrant from any other authority.

§ 8. Title in municipality. The title to all property acquired for the purposes of such hospitals, when not inconsistent with the terms of its acquisition, or otherwise designated, shall vest in the municipalities in which such hospitals are, or are to be situated, and in the name of the municipal corporations may be sued for and defended by action at law or otherwise.

ACT 3429.

An act to assist in providing hospital service and treatment for legal residents of the state afflicted with maladies or deformities which can probably be remedied, and who are unable to pay for such service and treatment, and making an appropriation to carry out the purposes hereof. [Approved June 3, 1921. Stats. 1921, p. 1282. In effect August 2, 1921.]

This act appropriated $200,000 for the purpose indicated to the regents of the University of California.

ACT 3430.

An act relating to certain funds in the custody or control of the superintendents of state hospitals and providing for the allotment and apportionment thereof.

[Approved May 21, 1923. Stats. 1923, p. 427.]

§ 1. Superintendents of state hospitals may expend certain funds. § 1. Superintendents of state hospitals may expend certain funds. The superintendents of state hospitals are hereby authorized and empowered to expend for the benefit of the patients at the hospitals such sums as may have heretofore accumulated or may hereafter accumulate as interest on patients' personal funds in the custody of the superintendents and deposited in savings banks.

ACT 3437.

TITLE 256.
HOTELS.

An act to regulate the use of illuminating gas.
[Approved March 20, 1903. Stats. 1903, p. 289.]

§ 1. Turning off gas at meter a misdemeanor.

§ 2. Act takes effect when.

§ 1. Turning off gas at meter a misdemeanor. Every hotel-keeper, lodging-house keeper, and innkeeper, or keeper of any place where rooms are let to lodgers in which, or any of which such places illuminating gas is used, who shall turn off, or cause to be turned off at the meter the flow of such illuminating gas, during the time of the use of any such room or rooms, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; provided, however, that this act shall not apply to any of the persons herein enumerated, when such person or persons shall have connected every exit orifice upon the gas fixtures used in such place or places with a practical and safe automatic gas igniter.

§ 2. Act takes effect when. This act shall take effect and be in force immediately from and after its passage.

ACT 3438.

An act to protect the lives and property of the patrons of all public hotels, lodging and rooming houses in the state of California.

[Approved March 25, 1911. Stats. 1911, p. 494.]

§ 1. Exit signs in lodging-houses.

§ 2. Penalty for violations.

§ 1. Exit signs in lodging-houses. Every owner, manager, proprietor, lessee or other person having the management, charge or control of any public hotel, lodging or rooming house, is hereby required to put up in conspicuous places in the halls of such hotel, lodging or rooming house, exit and stairway signs and permanently maintain the same. Said signs shall be made and placed where they will definitely direct the patrons thereof to the exits and stairways, so as to enable them to escape from such building in case of fire or other accident.

§ 2. Penalty for violations. Every owner, manager, proprietor, lessee or other person, having the management, charge or control of any such hotel, lodging or rooming house who shall violate any of the provisions of this act or who shall refuse or neglect to comply therewith shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by fine not to exceed one hundred dollars or by imprisonment not to exceed three months or by both such fine and imprisonment.

ACT 3439.

An act to regulate the building and occupancy of hotels and lodginghouses in incorporated towns, incorporated cities, and cities and counties, and to provide penalties for the violation thereof. [Approved June 16, 1913. Stats. 1913, p. 1429.]

Repealed 1917; Stats. 1917, p. 1422. See next act.

ACT 3440.

An act to regulate the erection, construction, reconstruction, moving, alteration, maintenance, use and occupancy of hotels, and the maintenance, use and occupancy of the premises and land on which hotels are erected or located, in all parts of the state of California, including incorporated towns, incorporated cities, and incorporated cities and counties, and to provide penalties for the violation thereof; and repealing an act entitled "An act to regulate the building and occupancy of hotels and lodging-houses in incorporated towns, incorporated cities, and cities and counties, and to provide penalties for the violation thereof," approved June 16, 1913, Statutes of California of 1913, page 1429. [Approved May 31, 1917. Stats. 1917, p. 1422. In effect September 1, 1917.]

Repealed 1921 (Stats. 1921, p. 534). Amended 1923, p. 12. Repealed again 1923, p. 833.

ACT 3441.

An act relating to hotels, defining the same, providing regulations in connection therewith, providing for the sanitation of the rooms of such hotels, providing for the sanitary method and manner of keeping, handling and using bedclothes or bedcovering in such hote's, repealing all acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act, providing for its enforcement by the state board of health and providing a penalty for the violation of any of its provisions. [Approved April 26, 1915. Stats. 1915, p. 213.]

Repealed 1917; Stats. 1917, p. 432. See next act.

ACT 3442.

An act relating to hotels, defining the same, providing regulations in connection therewith, providing for the sanitation of the rooms of such hotels, providing for the sanitary method and manner of keeping, handling and using bedclothes or bedcovering in such hotels, providing for its enforcement by the state board of health and local health officers, prescribing a penalty for the violation of the provisions hereof; and repealing an act entitled "An act relating to hotels, defining the same, providing regulations in connection therewith, providing for the sanitation of the rooms of such hotels, providing for the sanitary method and manner of keeping, handling and using bedclothes or bedcovering in such hotels, repealing all acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act, providing for its enforcement by the state board of health, and providing a penalty for the violation of any of its provisions," approved April 26, 1915. [Approved May 11, 1917. Stats. 1917, p. 432. In effect July 27, 1917.] § 1. Hotel defined.