state unless and until it is submitted to a vote of the qualified electors thereof and ratified by a majority of the electors voting thereon. The legislative body of any city now having a municipal court of record may by a majority vote thereof submit to the qualified electors the question of adopting the provisions of this act, or any amendment thereto, or said questions may be submitted by initiatory petition in the same manner and with like effect as is or may be provided by law for the proposal and submission of amendments to the charter of any such city. All proceedings with reference to the submission of the question shall conform as nearly as may be to the requirements of the state law governing the submission of charter amendments, and the votes cast on the question shall be counted, canvassed and returned and the result declared in the same manner. A recount of the votes so cast may also Recount. be had in the same manner as is or may be provided for a recount of the ballots cast on proposed charter amendments: Provided, however, That in any municipality wherein the act Proviso, of which this act is amendatory is now operative, this act when subshall be submitted to the qualified electors thereof at the election to be held on the first Monday in April, nineteen hundred twenty-five: Provided, however, That if for any reason this Proviso. act is not submitted at said election, it may be submitted at any regular municipal or primary election held thereafter. If the provisions of this act shall be ratified by a majority of the electors voting thereon, as shown by the certification of the returns by the proper election officials of said city, then the provisions of this act shall become effective immediately following such certification of said returns. mitted. to make. SEC. 8. If in any city wherein the provisions of this act, Appointor any amendment thereto, may be adopted, as provided in ments, who the preceding sections, the number of judges of the municipal court of record now existing in such city is less than the number of judges hereby contemplated, such additional number of judges shall be appointed by the governor. Each judge so appointed shall assume office immediately following his appointment and shall hold the same until the next general election. Successors to the judges so appointed by the gov ernor shall be nominated and elected at the first general primary and election held following such appointment. and the judges so elected shall take office immediately following their election, and shall hold office until the expiration of the term of the sitting judges of said court. At the biennial spring primary and election next preceding the expiration of the term of offices of such judges, their successors shall be nominated and elected in the same manner as is or may be provided by law for the election of the sitting judges of said court, and the judges so elected shall take office the first day of January following their election and shall hold office for a term of six years thereafter and until their successors are elected and qualified. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Section amended. Extension of time for appeal. Proviso, limit of. Further proviso, extension. [No. 4.] AN ACT to amend section twenty of chapter fifty of act number three hundred fourteen of the public acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the statutes relating to the organization and jurisdiction of the courts of this state; the powers and duties of such courts and of the judges and other officers thereof; the forms of civil actions; the time within which civil actions and proceedings may be brought in said courts; pleading, evidence, practice and procedure in civil actions and proceedings in said courts; to provide remedies and penalties for the violation of certain provisions of this act; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with or contravening any of the provisions of this act," being section thirteen thousand seven hundred fifty-five of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section twenty of chapter fifty of act number three hundred fourteen of the public acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, entitled "An act to revise and consolidate the statutes relating to the organization and jurisdiction of the courts of this state; the powers and duties of such courts and of the judges and other officers thereof; the forms of civil actions; the time within which civil actions and proceedings may be brought in said courts; pleading, evidence, practice and procedure in civil actions and proceedings in said courts; to provide remedies and penalties for the violation of certain provisions of this act; and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with or contravening any of the provisions of this act," being section thirteen thousand seven hundred fifty-five of the compiled laws of nineteen hundred fifteen, is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 20. The time for taking and perfecting any appeal may be extended for a longer period than said twenty days by stipulation in writing by the attorneys for the respective parties filed with the clerk of the court or by an order of the circuit court in which such decree or order was rendered or the judge of such court at chambers, or any justice of the supreme court may, upon cause shown and notice to the opposite party, extend the time for taking or perfecting any appeal: Provided. That the time for perfecting an appeal shall not be extended for more than one year from the entry of the order or decree appealed from: Provided further, That the time in which appeals may be taken and perfected may be extended, not exceeding six months from the expiration of the time herein specified, by the supreme court or one of the supreme court justices at chambers, when any party has been prevented from taking or perfecting such appeal by cir cumstances beyond his control. Such extension shall only be made on special motion and after a proper showing. Approved March 12, 1925. [No. 5.] AN ACT authorizing the purchase of M. A. C. union bonds by the state administrative board out of the sinking funds created by and existing under the provisions of act number one of the first extra session, public acts of nineteen hundred twenty-one, and act number twenty-five of the extra session, public acts of nineteen hundred nineteen. The People of the State of Michigan enact: bonds. SECTION 1. The state administrative board may, when sat- May purisfied with the security offered, purchase not to exceed three chase certain hundred thousand dollars of M. A. C. union serial bonds, running not more than twenty years and drawing interest at not less than four per cent per annum, using for such purchase the moneys now in the sinking funds created by and existing under the provisions of act number one of the first extra session, public acts of nineteen hundred twenty-one, and act number twenty-five of the extra session, public acts of nineteen hundred nineteen. Such bonds, when purchased, where shall be credited to and made a part of each such sinking credited. fund in proportion to the amount of money used therefrom for such purchase. This act is ordered to take immediate effect. Approved March 12, 1925. Section amended. May levy [No. 6.] AN ACT to amend section one of act number two hundred sixty-six of the public acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, entitled, as amended, "An act to provide for a sinking fund in certain school districts and the investment thereof and to authorize the levy of taxes to pay principal and interest of bonds issued under the provisions of act number one hundred fifty of the public acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, entitled 'An act to prescribe and limit the power of school districts having a population of more than fifteen thousand and less than one hundred thousand to borrow money and issue bonds of such district therefor, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith,’ approved May seven, nineteen hundred fifteen, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith." The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Section one of act number two hundred sixtysix of the public acts of nineteen hundred seventeen, entitled, as amended, "An act to provide for a sinking fund in certain school districts and the investment thereof and to authorize the levy of taxes to pay principal and interest of bonds issued under the provisions of act number one hundred fifty of the public acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, entitled 'An act to prescribe and limit the power of school districts having a population of more than fifteen thousand and less than one hundred thousand to borrow money and issue bonds of such district therefor, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith,' approved May seven, nineteen hundred fifteen, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith," is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 1. The board of education or other legislative body of tax, purpose. any school district which shall have heretofore issued or shall hereafter issue bonds under the provisions of act number one hundred fifty of the public acts of nineteen hundred fifteen, entitled "An act to prescribe and limit the power of school districts having [a] population of more than fifteen thousand and less than one hundred thousand to borrow money and issue bonds of such district therefor, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith," approved May seven, nineteen hundred fifteen, shall provide annually for the levy and collection of a direct tax upon all the taxable property in such school district sufficient to pay the interest on such bonds as it falls due, and also to pay and discharge the principal thereof within thirty years from the date of issue. Approved March 18, 1925. [No. 7.] AN ACT to authorize the employment of public health nurses by counties. The People of the State of Michigan enact: SECTION 1. Each county of the state, through its board of May employ supervisors, is hereby authorized and empowered, subject to nurses. the provisions of this act, to employ public health nurses, and to appropriate such sums of money at [as] it may deem necessary to hire such nurses and defray their necessary and actual expenses in connection with such employment. quired. SEC. 2. No contract for the employment of any person as a Qualificapublic health nurse as herein authorized shall be valid until tions resuch nurses before their employment as public health nurses shall be duly registered as required by law and shall furnish to the Michigan department of health satisfactory evidence of having received a course of training of at least four months in public health nursing given under a recognized school, college, or university, or at least eight months' experience in public health nursing work under supervision of an organized staff. etc. SEC. 3. Such nurses will receive the aid and advice of the Reports, to Michigan department of health in regard to nursing problems whom made, and shall make such written reports through the board employing them to the state and local boards of health in such form and at such times as shall be prescribed by the Michigan department of health. All public health nurses employed under the provisions of this act shall be governed by the rules and regulations of the Michigan department of health: Provided, That no person who objects thereto or no minor whose parent or guardian objects thereto, shall be compelled to receive health examination, instruction or treatment. Proviso. SEC. 4. The work of the public health registered nurse may How dibe directed by a local committee of not more than five mem- rected. bers, known as the county health nurse committee, composed of the chairman of the county board of supervisors, and four ether persons as may be appointed by the board of supervisors, who shall hold office for a term of three years from the date of their appointment and until their successors shall be appointed and installed into office: Provided, however, That Proviso. the first committee appointed shall consist of four members. the first two of which shall continue for a period of three years or until their successors in office are appointed and installed, and the second two members shall be appointed for a period of two years, or until their successors in office shall be appointed and installed. penalty. SEC. 5. Any person employed and serving as a nurse under Misdethis act who shall violate any of the provisions thereof shall meanor. be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars. |