Sec. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after January 1st, 1918. Approved April 12, 1917. CHAPTER 203—S. F. No. 426. An act to provide for the public health in villages in the State of Minnesota, by requiring sewer and water connection, in all dwelling houses, and business houses and the installing of toilets therein, and the prohibiting of privies on all property platted into lots and blocks and abutting upon streets in which have been laid and constructed a municipal water and sewer system and providing a penalty for the violation thereof. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota : Section 1. Property owners required to connect with water and sewer systems in villages.-Whenever any village in the State of Minnesota, having power to do so, installs, builds and constructs a municipal sewer and water plant within its corporate limits along any public street or alley, it shall be the duty of every owner or occupant of any abutting property platted into lots and blocks having a dwelling house or business property situate thereon to install a toilet in said dwelling or business property, and make connection thereof with the water and sewer in the street or alley adjacent thereto, within thirty days after written notice is given to such owner or occupant to install such toilet and make such connection by the governing body of such village, and the authority to give such notice. may by ordinance of such village be delegated to any elective or appointive officer of such village and when the owner or occupant of any property so notified in writing to install a toilet and make sewer and water connection shall for thirty days after such written notice is given, and proof of the service of such notice shall fail, refuse and neglect to make such connection and install such toilet, such governing body may by resolution direct that a toilet be installed and connection made with sewer and water and that the cost of said installation be paid in the first instance by the village out of the general fund of revenue. and the actual cost thereof assessed against the said property. benefited; after such installation and connection is completed there shall be served a written notice of such assessment and an order directing the owner or his or her representative of such property to pay said assessment and within ten days after the service of said written notice, to the treasurer of such village, and after proof of such notice and order and that assessment has not been paid within said ten days the same shall be certified to the county auditor for collection as other assessments i for benefits except that such assessment may be spread over a term of three years if so requested when certified, and shall become a lien upon said property until paid. Sec. 2. Penalty for failure to make connection. Any person who shall in any way interfere with the carrying out of the provisions of this act shall be, when convicted subject to punishment by a fine of not less than twenty-five ($25.00) dollars nor more than one hundred ($100) dollars, or to imprisonment in the county jail for not more than three months or by both fine and imprisonment at the discretion of the trial court. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved April 12, 1917. CHAPTER 204-S. F. No. 480. An act to amend Section 5897 of the General Statutes of Minnesota 1913, relating to the time of maturity of negotiable instruments falling due or becoming payable on Saturday or a holiday. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota: Section 1. Payment of negotiable instruments when falling due on holidays or Saturdays. That section 5897 of the General Statutes of Minnesota 1913, be amended so as to read as follows: 5897. Every negotiable instrument is payable at the time fixed therein without grace. When the day of maturity falls upon Sunday, or a holiday, the instrument is payable on the next succeeding business day. Instruments falling due or becoming payable on Saturday are to be presented for payment on the next succeeding business day, except that instruments payable on demand may, at the option of the holder, be presented for payment before twelve o'clock noon on Saturday when that entire day is not a holiday; and if presented after 12 o'clock noon on Saturday when that entire day is not a holiday may at the option of the payor be then paid. Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved April 12, 1917. CHAPTER 205-S. F. No. 864. An act to amend Section 3, of Chapter 148, of the General Laws of 1887, as amended by Section 1, of Chapter 166, of the General Laws of 1899, as amended by Section 1, of Chapter 222, of the General Laws of 1905, as amended by Section 1, of Chapter 259, of the General Laws of 1915, for the relief of honorably discharged indigent ex-soldiers, sailors and marines, and permitting the admission of wives, widows and mothers of soldiers to the soldiers' home. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota : Section 1. Limitation on admission of wives and widows of soldiers to Minnesota soldiers' home. That section 3 of chapter 148 of the Gèneral Laws of 1887 as amended by section 1 of chapter 166 of the General Laws of 1899, as amended by section 1 of chapter 222 of the General Laws of 1905, as amended by section 1, of chapter 259, of the General Laws of 1915, for the relief of honorably discharged indigent ex-soldiers, sailors and marines, be amended so as to read as follows: Section 3. The object of the soldiers' home shall be to provide a home for all honorably discharged ex-soldiers, sailors and marines, who served in the army or navy of the United States during the war of the rebellion, or the Mexican war, or in the war begun in the year 1898 between the Kingdom of Spain and the United States, or the Philippine Insurrection, or the Boxer Rebellion, who now are or may hereafter become citizens of the State of Minnesota, who, by reason of wounds, disease, old age or infirmities are unable to earn their living, and who have no adequate means of support. No applicant shall be admitted to the soldiers' home who has not been a resident of the State of Minnesota for one year next proceeding the time of making his application, unless he served in a Minnesota regiment, or was accredited to the State of Minnesota. All persons who are otherwise entitled under the provisions of this section to admission to said soldiers' home, who actually served in any campaign against the Indians in Minnesota, in the year 1862 shall be entitled to admission to such soldiers' home, notwithstanding such persons were not regularly enlisted, mustered into or discharged from the military service of the United States. The board of trustees are hereby authorized to admit wives with their husbands, and the widows or mothers of those who are, or if living, would be, eligible to admission under this act, but no wife or widow shall be admitted unless she shall have been married to her soldier husband prior to the year 1905, and no wife or widow of any honorably discharged ex-soldiers, sailors and marines, who served in the army or navy of the United States in the war begun in the year 1898 between the Kingdom of Spain and the United States, or the Philippine Insurrection, or the Boxer Rebellion, shall be admitted unless she shall have been married to her soldier husband prior to the year 1916, and then only in the event that by reason of physical disabilities, infirmities or old age she is unable to support herself and has no other adequate means of support; and no wife, widow or mother shall be admitted unless she shall have been a resident of the State of Minnesota no less than five (5) years next preceding the date of her application, and no wife, widow or mother shall be admitted unless she shall have attained the age of 55 years at the time of making such application. Provided, however, that in case any such wife, widow or mother who had previously been a resident of Minnesota for not less than ten years, and who has lost her residence in this state by removal therefrom for the benefit of her health or the health of her husband or son, and who has returned to this state for the purpose of making it her home, may be admitted to said soldiers' home after having been a resident of this state for not less than one year next preceding the date of her application, provided such applicant is otherwise eligible to admission under the provisions of this section, and provided further, that all soldiers of the Minnesota National Guard who heretofore or hereafter may lose an arm or leg or his sight, or may become permanently disabled from any cause while in the line and discharge of duty, and are not able to support themselves, may be admitted to the home under such rules and regulations as the board of trustees may adopt, and any soldier of the Minnesota National Guard suffering from illness or injury sustained from any cause in the line and discharge of military duty, shall be admitted to the soldiers' home hospital for medical treatment and hospital service until recovery from such illness or injury, under such rules and regulations as the board of trustees may adopt." Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved April 12, 1917. CHAPTER 206-H. F. No. 232. An act to amend Section 880, General Statutes of Minnesota 1913, relating to the clerk hire in county treasurer's office in counties of this state. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota: Section 1. Clerk hire for county treasurer of Goodhue county. That section 880 of the General Statutes of Minnesota 1913, be amended so that said section shall read as follows: Section 880. In each county of this state having an area of less than 2,500 square miles and which now has or may hereafter have an assessed valuation of more than fourteen million dollars ($14,000,000) and less than thirty-five million dollars ($35,000,000) according to the assessment of the last preceding year the county treasurer shall be allowed for clerk hire onetwelfth of one mill for each dollar of such assessed valuation. Such allowance for clerk hire shall be paid monthly out of the county treasury upon order of the county auditor. Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved April 12, 1917. CHAPTER 207-H. F. No. 484. An act to amend Section 3345, of the General Statutes of Minnesota, 1913 relating to disposition of fire department aid. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota : Section 1. Fire department aid fund to be used for relief of sick, injured or retired members. That section 3345, of the General Statutes of Minnesota, 1913, be and the same hereby is, amended to read as follows: 3345. Such amount shall be kept as a special fund, and disbursed only for the following purposes: (1) For the relief of sick, injured, or disabled members of such fire department, their widows and orphans. (2) For the equipment and maintenance of such depart ment. But if there shall be a duly incorporated fire department relief association in such municipality, organized with the consent of the governing body thereof, such amount shall be paid to the treasurer of said relief association, to be disbursed as hereinabove prescribed for municipalities, and as hereinafter provided for service pensions, or relief of sick, injured, or disabled, active or retired members of the fire department in such city who are members of such relief association. In case any fire department relief association or any trustee having any of said funds in its hands shall resign its trust in relation thereto, or shall be dissolved or shall have been heretofore or shall be hereafter removed as such trustee, the district court of the proper county may appoint a trustee or trustees of said funds, or cause such trust to be executed by its officers under its direction, or such court may direct that such trust funds be paid to the treasurer of the proper municipality, and all funds so held in trust or so paid to any such treasurer shall be kept as a special fund and disbursed only for the purposes provided in this section. Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved April 12, 1917. |