ACT 5185. An act authorizing boards of supervisors of counties to establish and maintain museums. [Approved April 24, 1923. Stats. 1923, p. 43.] Supervisors may establish museums. § 1. § 1. Supervisors may establish museums. The board of supervisors of any county may by ordinance declare its intention to establish and maintain a museum of history, science and art, or of one or more of such similar objects, under the provisions of this act. After such ordinance has taken effect the board of supervisors shall have and may exercise any or all of the powers in this act provided, either directly or by agents under its direction and control, and any other power necessary and proper to promote the objects and purposes of a museum as an institution devoted to the acquisition, exhibition and utilization of scientific, artistic, historical or similar illustratve material. § 2. Property. Such board of supervisors shall have power to acquire real and personal property necessary properly to house and care for the exhibits and materials placed in such museum, and for the management of the same. § 3. Library. Such board of supervisors shall have power to acquire and maintain a library in furtherance of the objects of the museum. § 4. Material. Such board of supervisors shall have power to purchase, collect, trade or exchange for, or otherwise acquire exhibition or study material proper or necessary for the use of the museum and may sell, loan or exchange such material acquired by it, according to the established custom of museums. § 5. Public meetings. Such board of supervisors shall have power to conduct lectures, entertainments and receptions and hold meetings in furtherance of the interests of the museum for the purpose of acquainting the public with material or exhibitions in the museum, or in order that the educational advantages offered by the museum may be widely distributed. § 6. Research. Such board of supervisors may conduct or assist study, investigation or research in any department established by such museum. § 7. Instruction. Such board of supervisors may conduct special or technical schools or institutes for instruction in any of the matters pertaining to or connected with the museum and may charge such fees as may be necessary to defray the cost of such instruction. § 8. Co-operation. Such board of supervisors may co-operate with other governmental agencies, with universities, colleges, technical schools, societies or individuals in the advancement of learning in the arts and sciences. § 9. Publications. Such board of supervisors may publish documents pertaining to the work of the museum and may sell or exchange or distribute the same without charge. § 10. Employees. Such board of supervisors may employ such curators, attendants or other persons as may be necessary to conduct such museum and carry out the powers granted by this act. § 11. Associations. Any county in which a museum has been established and is being maintained under this act may become associated with other governmental agencies, associations, societies or persons in any society, association or conference the purpose of which is the promotion of museums and the objects advanced by museums, and its board of supervisors may send a representative to any meeting of any such society, association or conference. ACT 5186. Authorizing municipalities of less than the first class to obtain, by purchase, donation, or devise, lands for cemetery purposes; and authorizing the board of trustees of said municipalities to make all necessary rules and regulations for the government and disposition of the § 1. § 2. § 3. § 4. § 5. same. [Stats. 1899, p. 22.] Municipalities of less than first class may acquire property for cemetery purposes. Rules and regulations. Method and conditions of sale of lots. Repeal of conflicting acts. Act takes effect when. § 1. Municipalities of less than first class may acquire property for cemetery purposes. Cities and towns of less than the first class are hereby authorized to purchase, or receive by donation or devise and dispose of, all and any necessary property for cemetery purposes. § 2. Rules and regulations. The board of trustees or other governing body of said municipalities shall make all necessary rules and regulations for the government, embellishment, and disposition of the same. § 3. Method and conditions of sale of lots. The boards of trustees or other governing body of said municipalities shall, by ordinance, prescribe the method and conditions by which burial lots may be sold in said cemetery, and may authorize any officer of the municipality to execute conveyances in behalf of said municipality, subject to the restrictions that may be deemed proper. § 4. Conflicting acts repealed. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. § 5. Act takes effect when. This act shall take effect immediately. ACT 5187. An act to ratify and confirm the conveyance of certain property to trustees for charitable or educational purposes by the city council or trustees of any city of less than fifty thousand inhabitants, or of any incorporated town. [Approved March 8, 1889. Stats. 1889, p. 94.] § 1. Confirming conveyance of property for charitable or educational purpose. § 2. Act takes effect when. § 1. Confirming conveyance of property for charitable or educational purpose. Wherever the city council or trustees of any city of less than fifty thousand inhabitants, or of any incorporated town, has by deed of trust conveyed property, or any portion thereof, that has been set apart for a public park, to trustees, for charitable or educational uses, such conveyance is hereby ratified and confirmed; provided, that no institution now existing or to be established on such property shall be private in its benefits, or sectarian in its work or teachings, or be to any extent under the management or control of or in any way tributary to any religious creed or order, church, or sectarian denomination whatsoever; provided further, that land so conveyed shall be kept open as public grounds by the trustees of such institutions as are or may be placed thereon, and that the public visitation of such grounds shall not be restricted, excepting by such reasonable regulations as park property and the proper maintenance of such institutions may require; provided, further, that property so conveyed shall revert to the grantors, whenever and so far as the grantees do not use the same in accordance with the stipulations of the deed of trust and with the requirements of this statute. § 2. Act takes effect when. This act shall take effect immediately. ACT 5188. An act approving leases heretofore made by counties or municipalities of certain lands belonging to the state. [Approved March 23, 1907. Stats. 1907, p. 987.] § 1. Leases of tide-lands by counties confirmed. Improvement of premises. § 2. Act takes effect when. § 1. Leases of tide-lands by counties confirmed. Improvement of premises. In all cases in which any county or municipality in the state of California has, prior to the first day of January, 1907, and subsequent to the first day of January, 1901, leased to any person or persons any tide or submerged lands belonging to the state, within the municipal boundaries of such county or municipality, or within bound-" aries over which it was at the time of any such lease, acting in the exercise of de facto authority, the exclusive right to the use and pos session of such lands from the date of such lease, for the full tèrm thereof, not exceeding fifty (50) years in any case, is hereby confirmed in the lessee or lessees thereof and their successors in interest; and priority in date of any such leases shall give priority in right; provided, that nothing in this act contained shall be deemed or taken to confirm any such leases, unless the property therein described shall at all times during the continuance of such leases be applied by the lessees, or their successors in interest, to public or quasi-public uses; and provided, further, that within one (1) year from the date this act shall take effect said lessee or lessees, or their successors in interest, shall commence in good faith the improvement of said premises for the purposes aforesaid and shall prosecute the same to completion with reasonable diligence; and provided, further, that nothing herein contained shall be deemed to extend or revive any lease which by its terms has expired, nor to apply to any interest or claim of interest other than under a lease. § 2. Act takes effect when. This act shall take effect and be in force upon its passage. Constitutionality of this act: See San Pedro etc. Co. v. Hamilton, 161 Cal. 610, 119 Pac. 1073. ACT 5189. An act authorizing any incorporated town, city or municipal corporation to permit the construction and maintenance of any state or county highway or boulevard over highways or streets in its incorporated limits, or any portion thereof, by the supervisors or highway commissioners of the county. § 1. [Approved March 19, 1909. Stats. 1909, p. 429.] Amended 1913, p. 386. Use of streets as part of highway system permitted. § 1. Use of streets as part of highway system permitted. Any incorporated city, town or municipal corporation in this state, is hereby authorized and empowered to permit by ordinance the use of its streets and highways by the board of supervisors or highway commissioners of the county, for the purpose of constructing and maintaining thereon any highway or boulevard, as part of a state or county system of roads in such incorporated limits, or any portion thereof; and the board of supervisors shall have power to construct and maintain such bridge or bridges on such highway or boulevard in such incorporated town or city as such board may deem necessary; and the board of supervisors shall have power to macadamize, or pave, curb or gutter, such highway or boulevard in such manner as it may determine, and the cost or expense thereof shall be paid out of the general fund of the county treasury. [Amendment approved June 4, 1913. Stats. 1913, p. 386.] ACT 5190. An act authorizing municipal corporations, counties, and cities and counties to acquire and hold lands by purchase or otherwise, or by lease for a term of years, for the purpose of developing and encouraging agricultural, horticultural, or botanical products and exhibiting the same, or for the purpose of erecting, rebuilding or furnishing historical museums or art galleries thereon. [Approved March 22, 1909. Stats. 1909, p. 655.] § 1. Exhibition of farm products. Any municipal corporation, county, or city and county in this state is hereby authorized and empowered to acquire and hold by purchase or otherwise, or by lease, lands situated within the limits thereof, for a term not exceeding fifty years, for the purpose of developing and encouraging agricultural, horticul tural, or botanical products and for exhibiting the same, or for the purpose of erecting, rebuilding or furnishing historical museums or art galleries thereon under such terms and conditions as may be approved by the city council, board of trustees, or other legislative body of such municipal corporation, or by the board of supervisors of such county or city and county. § 2. Repeal of conflicting acts. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. § 3. Act takes effect when. This act shall take effect immediately. ACT 5191. An act granting to municipal corporations of the state of California, rights of way over public lands of the state for the location, construction and maintenance of waterworks and power plants; and the right to take material from such lands for the construction of such works and to take any waters belonging to the state for the purpose of supplying any such municipality and its inhabitants with water. [Approved March 20, 1909. Stats. 1909, p. 581.] Grant of rights of way over state lands. Right to take waters. § 1. § 2. § 3. Plat of lands to be furnished certain officers. § 1. Grant of rights of way over state lands. Right to take waters. That there is granted to every municipal corporation of the state of California, the right of way for the location, construction and maintenance of waterworks and works for the generation and distribution of electrical power, and for every necessary adjunct thereto, over any swamp, overflowed, or other public lands of the state, not otherwise disposed of or in use, not in any case exceeding in length or width that which is necessary for the construction of such works or adjuncts, or for the protection thereof, and not, in any case, exceeding one hundred feet in width along each side of the marginal limits of such works or adjuncts; also the right to take from any of the lands belonging to the state adjacent to the works of such corporation, all materials, such as wood, stone and earth, naturally appurtenant thereto, which may be necessary and convenient for the original construction of such works and adjuncts; and also the right to take any waters belonging to the state, not otherwise disposed of, now or hereafter flow ing by pal don nici belo legis corp the 1 Said corpo legisla act, s all the Civil ( any of of this to be t vey sai intended struction to be a corporati tion 141 § 2. C any such lands selec lands reve grantees fr §3. Plan tion of th. thereto is r thereof mus recorder of plat of the for which th and if appr issue to the unless on pet tion, a review §4. Act ta ACT 5192. mains, and expense, and [Appr Amended 1911 |