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§ 1. Hotel defined. Every building or structure, kept as, used as, maintained as, or advertised as, or held out to the public to be, a place where sleeping or rooming accommodations are furnished to the public, or any part of the public, whether with or without meals, shall, for the purpose of this act, be deemed to be a hotel, and whenever the word "hotel" shall occur in this act, it shall be deemed to include lodginghouse and rooming-house.

§ 2. Clean bedding, etc. All bedding, bedclothes, or bedcovering, including mattresses, quilts, blankets, sheets, pillows or comforters, used in any hotel in this state must be kept clean and free from all filth or dirt; provided, that no bedding, bedclothes or bedcovering, including mattresses, quilts, blankets, sheets, pillows or comforters, shall be used which is worn out or unfit for use by human beings according to the true intent and meaning of this act.

§ 3. Infected rooms fumigated. Any room in any hotel in this stato which is or shall be infected with vermin or bedbugs or similar things. shall be thoroughly fumigated, disinfected and renovated until such vermin or bedbugs or other similar things are entirely exterminated.

§ 4. Clean rooms. Every room in any hotel in this state used for sleeping purposes, must be kept free from any and every kind of dirt or filth of whatsoever nature, and the walls, floors, ceilings and doors of every such room shall be kept free from dirt.

§ 5. Ventilation devices. Every room in any hotel, used for sleeping purposes, shall have devices, such as a window or transom, so constructed as to allow for proper and a sufficient amount of ventilation in each such room.

§ 6. Size of sheets. Every bed, for the accommodation of any person or persons or guests, kept or used in any hotel in this state, must be provided with a sufficient supply of clean bedding and must be provided with sheets at least eighty-one inches wide and ninety-eight inches long; provided, however, that on every single bed there shall be sheets at least fifty inches wide and ninety-eight inches long. Every bed shall be supplied with clean sheets and pillow slips as often as assigned to a different person.

§ 7. Individual towels. Every hotel, within this state, having a public washstand or washbowl, where different persons gather to wash themselves, must keep a sufficient supply of clean individual towels for the use of such persons within easy access of or to such persons and in plain sight and view.

§ 8. Penalty for violation. Every owner, manager, lessee or other person in charge of any hotel in this state who shall fail to comply with this act whether through the acts of his agents or employees, or otherwise, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars or shall be imprisoned for not more than three months; and every day that any hotel shall be kept in violation of any of the provisions of this act such keeping shall constitute a separate offense.

§ 9. Enforcement. It shall be the duty of the state board of health and local health officers to enforce the provisions of this act.

§ 10. Other than hotels. Nothing in this act shall be construed to include cots or bunks where the same are used in places other than in hotels.

§ 11. Stats. 1915, p. 213, repealed. An act of the legislature 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, is hereby repealed.

ACT 3452.

TITLE 257.

HOURS OF LABOR.

Of minors. See tit. "Infants," post.

To limit the hours of labor. [Stats. 1867-68, p. 63.] Superseded by Political Code, §§ 3244, 3245, and Penal Code, § 651. ACT 3453.

Limiting the hours of daily services of laborers, workmen, and mechanics employed upon the public works of or work done for the state of California, or any political subdivision thereof, providing for the insertion of certain stipulations in contracts for public works, imposing penalties for violations of the provisions of this act, and providing for the enforcement thereof. [Stats. 1899, p. 149.] Superseded by the following act:

ACT 3454.

An act limiting the hours of daily service of laborers, workmen, and mechanics employed upon the public works of, or work done for, the state of California, or any political subdivision thereof; providing, for the insertion of certain stipulations in contracts for public works; imposing penalties for violations of the provisions of this act, and providing for enforcement thereof. [Approved March 23, 1901. Stats. 1901, p. 561.]

This act was probably superseded in part, if not entirely, by the following act:

ACT 3455.

An act limiting the hours of service of laborers, workmen, and mechanics employed upon the public works of, or work done for, the state of California, or of, or for any political subdivision thereof; imposing penalties for violation of the provisions of said act, and providing for the enforcement thereof. [Approved March 10, 1903. Stats.

1903, p. 119.]

Codified by § 653c of Penal Code. See note to § 653c, Penal Code.

ACT 3456. An act limiting the hours of labor of females employed in any manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishment, laundry, hotel, or restaurant, or telegraph or telephone establishment or office, or by any express or transportation company; compelling each employer in any manufacturing, mechanical, or mercantile establishment, laundry, hotel or restaurant, or other establishment employing any female to provide suitable seats for all female employees and to permit them to use such seats when they are not engaged in the active duties of their employment; and providing a penalty for failure, neglect or refusal of the employer to comply, with the provisions of this act, and for permitting or suffering any overseer, superintendent, foreman or other agent of any such employer to violate the provisions of this act.

[Approved March 22, 1911. Stats. 1911, p. 437.]

Entirely amended 1913, p. 713; amended 1917, p. 828; 1919, p. 394. § 1. Females not to work more than eight hours per day. Employment in more than one establishment. Not applicable to nurses, fruit canning, etc.

§ 2.

§ 3.

Seats for female employees.

Enforcement of act.

§ 4. Penalty. Disposition of fines.

The title of the amendatory act of 1919 stated that sections 1 and 3 of the act were amended and that a new section la was added to the act. In the body of the act, however, only section 1 was amended.

§ 1. Females not to work more than eight hours per day. Employment in more than one establishment. Not applicable to nurses, fruit canning, etc. No female shall be employed in any manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishment, laundry, hotel, public lodginghouse, apartment house, hospital, place of amusement, or restaurant, or telegraph or telephone establishment or office, or in the operation of elevators in office buildings or by any express or transportation company in this state more than eight hours during any one day of twenty-four hours or more than forty-eight hours in one week. It shall be unlawful for any employer of labor to employ, cause to be employed or permit any female employee to labor any number of hours whatever, with knowledge that such female has heretofore been employed within the same date and day of twenty-four hours in anv establishment and by any previous employer, for a period of time that will, combined with the period of time of employment by a previous employer exceed eight hours; provided, that this shall not prevent the employment of ary female in more than one establishment where the total number of hours worked by said employee does not exceed eight hours in any one day of twenty-four hours. If any female shall be employed in more than one such place, the total number of hours of such employment shall not exceed eight hours during any one day of twenty-four hours or fortyeight hours in one week. The hours of work may be so arranged as to permit the employment of females at any time so that they shall not work more than eight hours during the twenty-four hours of one day, or forty-eight hours during any one week; provided, further, that the provisions of this section in relation to hours of employment shall not

apply to or affect graduate nurses in hospitals, nor the harvesting, curing, canning or drying of any variety of perishable fruit, fish or vegetable during such periods as may be necessary to harvest, cure, can or dry said fruit, fish or vegetable in order to save the same from spoiling. [Amendment approved May 10, 1919; Stats. 1919, p. 395.]

This section was also amended in 1913 (Stats. 1913, p. 714), and in 1917 (Stats. 1917, p. 828).

§ 2. Seats for female employees. Every employer in any manufacturing, mechanical or mercantile establishment, laundry, hotel, or restaurant, or other establishment employing any female, shall provide suitable seats for all female employees, and shall permit them to use such seats when they are not engaged in the active duties of their employment. [Amendment approved June 12, 1913. Stats. 1913, p. 714.]

§ 3. Enforcement of act. The bureau of labor statistics shall enforce the provisions of this act. The commissioner, his deputies and agents, shall have all powers and authority of sheriffs or other peace officers, to make arrests for violations of the provisions of this act, and to serve all processes and notices thereunder throughout the state. [Amendment approved June 12, 1913. Stats. 1913, p. 714.]

§ 4. Penalty. Disposition of fines. Any employer who shall permit or require any female to work in any of the places mentioned in section 1 more than the number of hours provided for in this act during any day of twenty-four hours, or who shall fail, neglect, or refuse to so arrange the work of females in his employ so that they shall not work more than the number of hours provided for in this act during any day of twenty-four hours, or who shall fail, neglect, or refuse to provide suitable seats as provided in section 2 of this act, or who shall permit or suffer any overseer, superintendent, foreman, or other agent of any such employer to violate any of the provisions of this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished for a first offense, by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than fifty dollars; for a second offense, by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than two hundred and fifty dollars; or by imprisonment for not more than sixty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. All fines imposed and collected under the provisions of this act shall be paid into the state treasury and credited to the contingent fund of the bureau of labor statistics. [New section approved June 12, 1913. Stats. 1913, p. 714.]

This act is constitutional: Miller, In re, 162 Cal. 687, 700, 124 Pac. 427. See Miller v. Wilson, 236 J. S. 373, and Bosley v. McLaughlin, 236 U. S. 385.

ACT 3466.

TITLE 258.

HOUSE OF CORRECTION.

To provide for commitments to the house of correction. [Stats. 1885, p. 34.]

Superseded by Act of 1889, p. 111; 1889, p. 100, creating Preston School of Industry. See post, title Preston School of Industry.

This act provided for commitments to houses of correction instead of to county jails in counties where there was a house of correction.

ACT 3476.

TITLE 259.

HOUSES OF PROSTITUTION,

To suppress houses of ill fame. [Stats. 1855, p. 76.]
Superseded by Penal Code, §§ 315, 316.

ACT 3486.

TITLE 260.
HUMBOLDT BAY.

To prevent persons from obstructing the channels of Humboldt Bay and Harbor. [Stats. 1853, p. 192.]

Superseded by Political Code, §§ 2567-2572, relating to harbor commissioners of Eureka.

ACT 3487.

To grant to the United States certain tide-lands belonging to the state of California for the purpose of improving the harbor of Humboldt Bay. [Approved March 9, 1887. Stats. 1887, p. 59.]

АСТ 3488.

To grant to the United States certain tide-lands belonging to the state of California, for the purpose of improving the harbor of Humboldt Bay. [Approved March 15, 1889. Stats. 1889, p. 201.]

ACT 3489.

Authorizing the governor and attorney general to purchase for the state certain lands in Humboldt Bay. [Stats. 1899, p. 166.]

ACT 3490.

An act appropriating money to be expended by and under the direction of the department of engineering for the purpose of making a preliminary survey of Humboldt Bay and gathering data for a report to the legislature as to the necessity of dredging and removing sand and other deposits formed across the channels of said bay and as to the best manner of removing said deposits that the navigability of said bay may be improved and making an estimate of the cost thereof. [Approved April 12, 1909. Stats. 1909, p. 841.] This act appropriated two thousand dollars for the purpose indicated.

ACT 3500.

TITLE 261.
HUMBOLDT COUNTY.

Clerk of, compensation of. [Stats. 1875-76, p. 81.] Repealed by County Government Act, 1897, p. 518, § 168. See Act 1864.

ACT 3501.

District attorney of, salary of. [Stats. 1875–76, p. 34.] Superseded by County Government Act, 1897, p. 518, § 168. See Act

1864.

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