placed in the machine. Also a certificate which shall be filled out after the polls have been closed, that the machine has been locked against voting and sealed; the number of electors as shown on the public counter; the number on the seal; the number registered on the protective counter, and that the voting machine is closed and locked.

Statement of votes cast, what to show and how prepared. The statement of result of votes cast shall show the total number of votes cast for each office, the number of votes cast for each candidate as shown on his counter, and the number of votes for persons not nominated, which shall be certified by the board of election. As soon as the polls of the election are closed, the board of election shall immediately lock the voting machine against voting, and open the counting compartments, in the presence of the watchers and all other persons who may lawfully be within the polling place, giving full view of all counter numbers. The chairman of the board of election shall, in the order of the offices as their tities are arranged on the machine, read and announce in distinct tones the designating number and letter on each counter for each candidate's name, the result as shown by the counter numbers, and shall then read the votes recorded for each office on the irregular ballots. He shall also in the same manner announce the vote on each constitutional amendment, proposition or other question.

Verification. The vote as registered shall be entered on the statements of result of votes cast, in the same order on the space which has the same designating number and letter, after which the figures shall be verified by being called off in the same manner from the counters of the machine by another member of the board. The counter compartment of the voting machine shall remain open until the official returns and all other reports have been fully completed and verified by the election board.

Who may be present. Proclamation of result. During such time any candidate or watcher who may desire to be present shall be admitted to the polling place. The proclamation of the result of the votes cast shall be deliberately announced in a distinct voice by the board of election who shall read the name of each candidate, with the designating number and letter of his counter, and the vote registered on such counter; also the vote cast for and against each question submitted. During such proclamation ample opportunity shall be given to any person lawfully present to compare the result so announced with the counter dials of the machine and any necessary corrections shall then and there be made by the election board, after which the doors of the voting machine shall be closed and locked.

Sealing and locking machine. Before adjourning the board shall, with the seal provided therefor, so seal the operating lever and lock the machine that the voting and counting mechanism will be prevented from operation.

§ 20. Machine to be kept locked and sealed until end of contest period. The board of election shall, as soon as the count is complete and fully ascertained, lock the machine against voting and it shall remain locked and sealed against operation until the time for filing contest of election has expired which shall not exceed a period of

thirty (30) days following any state, primary, general or special election or a period of eight (8) days following any city, city and county, town or other election, held by any municipal corporation or subdivision of this state at which voting machines are used in any or all of the precincts.

§ 21. Custody of keys. The keys of the machine shall be inclosed in an envelope which shall be supplied by the officials on which shall be written the number of the machine and the precinct and other district where it has been used, which shall be securely sealed and indorsed by the election officers, and shall be so returned to the officer from whom they were received. The number on the seal and the number registered on the protective counter, shall be written on the envelope containing the keys. A public officer who, by any provision of law, is entitled to the custody of a machine for any period of time shall be entitled to the keys therefor while such machine is in his charge. It shall be unlawful for any unauthorized person to have in his possession any key or keys of any voting machine used in an election; and all election officers, or persons entrusted with such keys for election purposes, or in the preparation of the machine therefor, shall not retain them longer than necessary to use them for such legal purpose.

§ 22. Recanvass of votes where discrepancy in returns. Whenever it shall appear that there is a discrepancy in the returns of any election precinct, the county clerk, registrar of voters or other official in charge and control of elections shall summon the board of election thereof and said board shall, in the presence of said official make a record of the number of the seal and the number on the protective counter, open the counter compartment of said machine, without unlocking said machine against voting, and shall recanvass the vote cast thereon.

§ 23. Election precincts. Election boards. For any election in any county, city and county, cities or towns in which voting machines are to be used, the election precincts in which such machines are to be used may be created, united, divided or combined by the officers charged with the duty of creating election precincts, at any time on or before the fortieth day preceding any election.

The board of election where voting machines are used shall consist of one inspector and two judges; the judges shall act as clerks, provided where more than one voting machine is used in any precinct there shall be appointed an additional inspector for each additional machine.

§ 24. Application of other laws. Misconduct at elections. Offenses concerning voting machines. All the provisions of the Political Code, the Penal Code, and the general laws relating to elections, of the primary election laws, and of any city, or city and county, charter or ordinance not inconsistent with this act shall apply to all elections in districts or precincts where voting machines are used; and any provision of law, or of any city, or city and county charter, or ordinance, which conflicts with the use of such machines as herein set forth, shall not apply to the districts or precincts in which voting machines are used; and all acts, or parts of acts, or city, or city

and county charters, or ordinances, in conflict with any of the provisions of this act, shall be of no force or effect in election districts or precincts where voting machines are used.

The provisions of the penal laws and election laws relating to misconduct at elections shall apply to elections with voting machines. Any person, who shall, before or during an election, tamper with any voting machine; or who shall interfere, or attempt to interfere, with the correct operation of the voting machine, or the secrecy of voting; or shall willfully injure a voting machine, to prevent its use; or, any election or police officer, or anyone employed to assist in the care or arrangement of the voting machine, or any unauthorized person who shall make or have in his possession a key to a voting machine that has been adopted and will be used in elections in this state shall be guilty of a felony, punishable by imprisonment in a state prison for not less than one year nor more than fourteen years.

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§ 25. Definitions. The list of offices and candidates, and the statements of questions used on the voting machines shall be deemed an official ballot and the words "ballot labels," as used in this act shall mean the cards, paper or other material containing the names of officers and candidates, and statements of questions to be voted on. The word "diagram" shall mean an illustration of the official ballot when placed upon the machine, showing the names of the parties, offices and candidates, and statements of the questions in their proper places, together with the voting device therefor, and shall be considered a sample ballot. The word "question" shall mean a statement of such constitutional amendment or other proposition as shall be submitted to a popular vote at any election; provided, however, the ballot labels for "questions" shall contain a condensed statement of not than twenty words, of each question to be voted on, accompanied by the words "Yes" and "No." The words "irregular ballot" shall mean the paper or other material on which a vote is cast for persons whose names do not appear on the ballot labels. The word "vote indicator" shall mean those devices with which votes are indicated for candidates, or for or against questions. The word "counters" shall mean the counters on which are registered the votes cast for candidates and on questions. The words "public counter" or "protective counter" shall mean a counter or device that will register each time the machine is operated and shall be so constructed, and so connected that it cannot be reset, altered or operated, except by operating the machine. The words "voting machine booth" shall mean the enclosure occupied by the voter when voting. The word "model" shall mean a mechanically operated model of a portion of the face of the machine illustrating the manner of voting. The words "statement of votes cast" shall mean a statement and return in book or sheet form of the votes cast at any election together with suitable certificates of its correctness.

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ELECTRICITY.

ACT 2283.

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mains and other conduits, and pole lines for the transmission of electricity and electric energy in, through, over, along and across its streets and public places, and to construct and maintain sewers, water-mains and other conduits and pole lines for the transmission of electricity and electric energy for their joint benefit and at their joint expense, through, over, along and across such streets and public places, and to make and enter into contracts for such purposes, prescribing a method for compelling such use of such streets and public places.

One city may permit another city to maintain sewers, watermains or other conduits and pole lines.

Resolution submitted. Description of sewers, etc. Request for permission. Right to connect sewers.

Letting of contracts. Contractors' bonds. Cities may construct. Joint agreement to construct sewers, water-mains or other conduits or pole lines. One city to contract for all.

Complaint to railroad commission upon refusal. Hearing of application.

Sanitary districts.

Determination of controversies.

Judgment of railroad commission conclusive.
Act not repealed.

§ 1. One city may permit another city to maintain sewers, watermains or other conduits and pole lines. Any municipal corporation, under such terms and conditions as may be prescribed by the city council or other legislative body thereof is hereby authorized and empowered to permit any other municipal corporation or county to construct and maintain sewers, water-mains or other conduits and pole lines for the transmission of electricity and electric energy in, through, over, along or across the streets and other public places of such municipal corporation, and to use the same for such purpose under the provisions of this act, and not otherwise.

§ 2. Resolution submitted. Description of sewers, etc. Request for permission. Right to connect sewers. Whenever a city council, board of trustees or other legislative body of any municipal corporation or board of supervisors of any county shall find, and by resolution shall declare, that the location of such municipal corporation or county or any portion of the territory included therein is such that the same cannot be adequately or conveniently provided with sewers, water-mains or other conduits or with electricity or electric energy, without the construction and maintenance by such municipal corporation or county, of certain sewers, water-mains or other conduits or with pole lines for the transmission of electricity and electric energy, connecting therewith, in, over, across or along said streets or other public places of any other municipal corporation or corporations, such city council, board of trustees, board of supervisors or other legislative body may cause a copy of such resolution, certified by the clerk thereof to be submitted to the city council, board of trustees or other legislative body of such other municipal corporation or corporations in which such streets or other public places are situated.

Description of sewers. Said resolutions shall contain a description of the sewers, water-mains or other conduits or pole lines for the

transmission of electricity or electric energy proposed to be constructed and maintained in such other municipal corporation or corporations, and shall designate the streets or other public places by name or other proper designation, in, through, over, along or across which such sewers, water-mains or other conduits or pole lines for the transmission of electricity or electric energy are so proposed to be constructed and maintained. Said resolution shall contain a description of the sewers, water-mains or other conduits, or pole lines for the transmission of electricity or electric energy proposed to be constructed, and maintained in such other municipal corporation or corporations and shall designate the streets or other public places by name or other proper designation, in, through, over, along or across which such sewers, water-mains, conduits or pole lines are proposed to be constructed and maintained.

Request for permission. Said resolution shall be accompanied by a request in writing, that the municipal corporation or sanitary district, on behalf of which the same was made, signed by the clerk thereof, be granted permission to construct and maintain the sewers, water-mains or other conduits or pole lines for the transmission of electricity or electric energy, described in said resolution. The city council or board of trustees or other legislative body of any municipal corporation receiv ing such request and a certified copy of such resolution, may by ordinance, grant such permission and under such terms and conditions as it shall therein prescribe.

Right to connect sewers. If the permission granted under the provisions of this section shall be for the construction and maintenance of sewers, the city council, board of trustees or other legislative body of any municipal corporation granting the same, may, as a condition to the exercise of such permission, require that said municipal corporation shall have the right to connect its sewers and those of its inhabitants with the sewers to be constructed under such permission, and to use the same in connection with its sewer system upon the payment by it of such proportionate part of the cost of construction and maintenance of such sewers to the municipal corporation or county by which the same shall be constructed as may be determined by resolution of its city council, board of trustees or other governing body, or board of supervisors, or both such municipal corporations or such corporation and county as the case may be, such payments to be made at such times and in such amounts as may be determined.

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§ 3. Letting of contracts. Contractor's bonds. Cities may struct. All contracts for the construction or completion of any sewers, water-mains or other conduits or for such pole lines for the transmission of electricity or electric energy or for furnishing labor or materials therefor, to be constructed by any municipal corporation or county, in, across or along the streets or other public places of any other munici pal corporation or corporations as herein provided, shall be let to the lowest responsible bidder. The city council, board of trustees, or board of supervisors or other legislative body of the municipal corporation or county constructing such sewers, water-mains or other conduits or such pole lines for the transmission of electricity or electric energy under permission granted as in this act provided, shall advertise for at least ten days in one or more newspapers published in such municipal corpo