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House Bill No. 225 - Mr. Walsh (Cuyahoga), provides that citi- zens of villages may submit the question of detaching territory through petition to election boards, requesting an election, provided the territory involved in the proposed detachment is less than 1,500 acres of land. When territory is detached, an apportionment of the property, funds and indebtedness of such a village, shall be made between it and the detached territory on the basis of their respective tax duplicates. In the event water or sewer pipes already laid cause a dispute as to their value, the probate court shall, if called upon, authorize either the village or detached territory to have control in the detached section. Effective August 16.
House Bill No. 230- Mr. Powell (Gallia), supplements the law relating to a division of school funds and salaries paid teachers in school districts receiving state aid, because they are financially weak. Effective August 3.
House Bill No. 236- Mr. Yeatman (Hamilton), amends Section 6350 of the General Code, relating to property tax exemptions. Effec- tive August 2.
House Bill No. 239- Mr. Garver (Holmes), provides if a court hearing certain cases is satisfied a tax payer is entitled, when he receives judgment, to relief for costs and reasonable attorney's fees, the same shall be allowed. Amends Section 2923 of the General Code. Effective June 28.
House Bill No. 242 - Mr. Liggitt (Logan), permits county com- missioners to appropriate annually $25 for a G. A. R. and each Spanish War veteran camp in the county to meet Memorial Day expenses. Township trustees may provide $10 for such purpose. Effective July I.
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House Bill No. 245- Mr. Danford (Noble), provides that prior to the fourth Monday of May annually the judge or judges of the com- mon pleas court in a county shall appoint two electors to serve as jury commissioners - neither to be an attorney, nor more than one of whom shall belong to the same political party. Temporary vacancies may be filled by the court. Effective July 22.
House Bill No. 247 - Mr. Hite (Perry), appropriates $15,000 for installing Ohio battle flags of the Civil and Spanish-American wars in hermetically sealed cases in the rotunda of the state house. The flags were originally in the relic room. Effective August 13.
House Bill No. 248- Mr. Snyder (Pickaway), provides for the construction of a water gate on a line between land owners, where their division line, in adjacently owned property, crosses a stream over which a partition fence can not be built. Such gate must turn live stock. When adjacent land owners fail to maintain the improvement, town- ship trustees shall do so, and laws applicable to the maintenance of partition fences will apply. Effective July 30.
House Bill No. 249- Mr. Cowan (Putnam), amends the General Code relative to the admission of persons to state institutions, giving control boards authority, to regulate admissions, relieving the state charity board of responsibility, and placing the same with the State Board of Administration. Effective July I.
House Bill No. 251 - Mr. Hake (Trumbull), provides for the organization of farmers' institutes, 20 or more farmers, being permitted to effect an organization to teach agriculture under regulations and rules provided by the Ohio State University. After such an organization has elected officers and performed other acts required by the university's trustees it shall be a "body corporate". Not more than five such in- stitutes shall exist in one county. Provision is made whereby county auditors may allow not to exceed $300 a year for maintaining an insti- tute ; annual meetings are provided for, under the auspices of the agri- cultural extension department of the university, and lecturers are to be provided the institutes. Provision is made for "agricultural agents". To secure state aid the county commissioners shall agree to the employ- ment of an agent approved by the Dean of the college of agriculture of the university. The county agent shall do his utmost to educate farmers in economy, diversfication of crops, efficiency and co-ouerate with fed- eral agricultural authorities - be at the service of farmers always. If commissioners fail to provide for an agent, voters may take a referendum by petitioning the County Auditor. Effective August 28.
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House Bill No. 252- Mr. Hines (Tuscarawas), provides for the preservation of Ft. Laurens by the state. An appropriation of $5,500 is provided for the purchase of the site. Effective July 26.
House Bill No. 261 - Mr. Barnes (Hamilton), provides that who- ever, being 18 years of age, attempts to have carnal knowledge of a female under 16, with her consent, shall be imprisoned in the peniten- tiary not less than one nor more than 15 years, or six months in jail. The court may hear testimony in mitigation of a sentence. Effective July 25.
House Bill No. 265- Mr. Nieding (Lorain), fixes a penalty of $200 or imprisonment of not over six months for buying or selling motor vehicles from which the manufacturers serial number or other distinguishing marks have been removed, with fraudulent intent. Ef- fective July 30.
House Bill No. 266- Mr. Kious (Madison). The hypothecation of securities by county depositories shall be the proper legal transfer thereof as collateral, but such securities shall become the county's prop- erty in case the depository defaults. Effective July 28.
House Bill No. . .- Mr. Brotherton (Allen), provides that when tracks of a street railway cross those of a steam road at grade, street cars must stop within 10 and not more than 50 feet before attempting to cross, and an employe on the street car must go ahead to see that there is a clear tracks. Exception is made when an interurban road crosses an industrial line or switch track of a steam road. Effective September 3.
House Bill No. 282-Mr. Reighard (Fulton). County commis- sioners may submit to a vote at any general election the question of levying not over one-half a mill on property to secure funds for the erection of a soldiers' memorial, but the commissioners may spend as much as $1,500 without a vote to erect a memorial on county property or repair one already existing. Effective July 25.
House Bill No. 285 - Mr. Yeatman (Hamilton), provides a sched- ule of fees to be paid by building and loan associations to the inspector of the same. Every association shall annually pay $10 and one-eightieth of one per cent of its assets, as shown by annual reports ; foreign as- sociations shall pay a filing fee of $500 and annually $250 for a certifi- cate of authority. Effective August 5.
House Bill No. 286-Mr. Cromley (Knox), fixes the number of votes necessary for nomination for office in a primary, stipulating that
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when no nomination petition has been filed at least eight per cent of all the votes cast must be received before any candidate to a vacancy on the ticket can be nominated. Effective July 30.
House Bill No. 312-Mr. Clark (Warren), provides that G. A. R. and Spanish-American war organizations shall have quarters in armories, unless such quarters exist in other state, county or township memorial buildings. Effective August 23.
House Bill No. 314 - Mr. Reighard (Fulton). A deficiency meas- ure making an appropriation for current expenses of the state for the period from February 16, 1915, to June 30, 1915. Amount of appro- priation.
House Bill No. 321 - Mr. Beetham (Harrison), makes it unlawful for any person to pose as being blind, deaf, dumb or cripple, with a view to deceive. Effective August 2.
House Bill No. 323 - Mr. Sprague (Scioto), regulates the practice of nursing, provides the state medical board shall organize a nurses' examining committee, three nurse members to be selected from those suggested by the Ohio Association of Graduate Nurses, the secretary of the board to be the committee's executive. The committee shall meet in Columbus the second Tuesday in January and July of each year or at other times, if directed by the board, to held examinations. After January 1, 1916, no person shall practice nursing without the approval of the board's committee. The committee shall pass on diplomas pre- sented and issue certificates in accordance with qualifications of ap- plicants for registration. Holders of certificates must deposit them with the probate court wherein they reside before beginning nursing, and in December annually the court shall furnish the examining committee a list of certificates on file. Registered nurses from other states may practice in Ohio upon payment of a fee of $10, provided their credentials are satisfactory. A penalty of not over $100 is fixed for practicing as a registered nurse in violation of the act, or after a certificate has been revoked. Effective July 30.
House Bill No. 324- Mr. Hines (Tuscarawas), authorizes settle- ment with the P. C. C. & St. L. Ry. Co. for right of way heretofore appropriated in Tuscarawas county. Effective July 10.
House Bill No. 325-Mr. Knox (Washington), provides that National Guard officers and enlisted men shall receive pay during actual service and for attending federal inspection; enlisted men to receive
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$2.00 per day, officers an amount allowed officers of like grade in the federal service. Effective July I.
House Bill No. 333- Mr. Leist (Pike), provides that depots be provided to shelter school children in school districts where transporta- tion is furnished. Educational boards shall provide shelters. Effective August 25.
House Bill No. 334 - Mr. Reighard (Fulton), appropriates $10,515 for the state banking department to pay deficiencies prior to February 15, 1915.
House Bill No. 342- Mr. Plumb (Delaware). This act creates a budget commission in each county, the county auditor, county treasurer and prosecuting attorney being the commissioners, who shall meet on the first Monday of August anuually, and complete their work before the third Monday of that month, unless the State Tax Commission ex- tends the time. Effective July 28.
House Bill No. 343- Mr. Reighard (Fulton), appropriates $645,- 000 for interest on the irreducible debt, falling due January 1, 1915, and January 1, 1916, and $5,147,866, for the support of common schools for the years ending June 30, 1916, and June 30, 1917. Effective July 7.
House Bill No. 354- Mr. Beitler (Hancock), makes it a felony to draw a bank check or draft, with intent to defraud. The penalty is a fine of from $50 to $200, or imprisonment in the penitentiary from one to three years, or both. Effective August 31.
House Bill No. 356- Mr. Pence (Highland), provides that license tags shall be removed from automobiles when they are sold and requires an owner to notify Secretary of State of the name and address of the new owner and return the old registration certificate and number plate. In the event the owner seeks to register another motor vehicle within 30 days, he may obtain his original number by paying one dollar. Ef- fective July 30.
House Bill No. 358- Mr. Garver (Holmes), provides that action for divorce must be preceded by at least 30 days residence in the county wherein suit is brought. Except in action for alimony alone, plaintiff for divorce must reside in Ohio a year before filing suit for divorce. Effective August 23.
House Bill No. 364- Mr. Chester (Paulding), provides libraries may be established and maintained by counties where such libraries have been bestowed by gift or bequest, by having six trustees appointed
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by the common pleas court to look after the same, without pay, and they shall administer funds raised for library purposes through special taxes. Effective July 25.
House Bill No. 375 - Mr. Thatcher (Clinton), provides that before any agricultural lime or raw ground limestone shall be sold in the state the person or firm offering the same must pay annually a license fee of $30 for each brand offered. The fee goes to the agricultural board. Effective August 23.
House Bill No. 376- Mr. White (Columbiana), provides quali- fications for pharmacists and their registration. An applicant for a certificate must be 21, shall be a graduate from a standard school of pharmacy and shall have had at least two years' experience in a drug- store in the preparation of prescriptions, unless he has spent more than two years in a school of instruction. The state board of pharmacy is vested with regulating powers, and pharmacists must register apprentices with the board. Effective August 24.
House Bill No. 377 - Mr. Lustig (Cuyahoga), provides for cor- recting errors and determining amounts of taxes and methods of making refunds. Effective August 25.
House Bill No. 396- Mr. Snyder (Pickaway), authorizes building and loan association to sell securities when it desires to liquidate. Ef- fective August 25.
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House Bill No. 399- Mr. Reighard (Fulton), appropriates sums to pay animal owners whose stock was killed to prevent the spread of the "hoof and mouth disease", the amounts paid being one-half the ap- praised value of the animals destroyed. Effective June 5.
House Bill No. 402 - Mr. Pence (Highland), appropriates money to pay claims for live stock killed. Effective August 3.
House Bill No. 405 - Mr. Reighard (Fulton), declares there shall be an emergency board consisting of the Governor, Auditor of State and Attorney General, with the chairmen of the finance committees of the two houses of the Legislature. The board is empowered to approve the expenditures of money by departments when emergency arises, but no such authority is legal unless four of the emergency board members signify their approval. Effective July 28.
House Bill No. 406- Mr. Reighard (Fulton), provides the State Public Utilities Commission may in the interest of justice look into the rates charged by any public utility concern and ascertain the value of
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such concern's property. The commission may make such probe at the request of any municipality's council. Effective August 14.
House Bill No. 413 - Mr. Platt (Ashtabula), established an agri- cultural school at New Lyme, Ohio. Effective August 2.
House Bill No. 420- Mr. Plumb (Delaware). This act prohibits the sale of text books and school supplies by superintendents, super- visors, principals and teachers in schools. A violation, forfeits the certificate of a teacher. Effective August 31.
House Bill No. 450- Mr. Besaw (Portage, by request). This act amends the state moving picture censor board law, fixing a fee of one dollar for each reel of 1,000 lineal feet and an additional dollar for every additional 1,000 feet, the fee to go to the general revenue fund. Provides an outline map design of Ohio shall bear the seal of approval of the board, provided the map contains the words "Approved by the Ohio Board of Censors". Any film passed may be recalled and the certificate authorizing its exhibition may be revoked, if the board deems the public welfare justifies such action. Penalties are provided for exhibiting pictures not approved and showing portions ordered elim- inated. The maximum fine is $300; that if imprisonment runs from 30 days to one year, or both, penalties may be inflicted for each offense. Justices of the peace, mayors and police judges have jurisdiction in prosecutions for violations. Effective August 27.
House Bill No. . 453- Mr. Lustig (Cuyahoga), provides a pro- cedure for advertising and selling bonds by county commissioners, boards of education, township trustees, or free turnpike commissioners. Such bonds must be sold at not less than their face value; a majority of voters may authorize such a bond issue and they shall bear at least six per cent interest and payable within at least 40 years; bonds issued in anticipation of the collection of special taxes shall be backed by the full faith of the issuing political subdivision. Provision is made for levying taxes to meet deficiency bonds. Effective September I.
House Bill No. 456-Mr. Chester (Paulding), provides for con- trol and management of public parks of the state, defines policemen's duties the:sil and establishes rules for the navigation of state reser- voirs by power or sail boats. The Superintendent of Public Works is empowered to appoint all policemen, on probation, subject to civil service rules, but no money shall be expended at any reservoir in excess of its own earnings, unless from funds especially provided. The duties of policemen who are forbidden to drink while on duty, are defined, and
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lost children shall be cared for temporarily and all the assistance neces- sary be given persons in case of accidents.
Lengthy provisions are incorporated relative to row boats, fees for their use, leasing of cottages, regulation of the piloting of boats and launches, the erection of boat houses, use of docks, etc. No house shall be used for immoral purposes. Motor boats are defined and classified, their lights regulated, and rules for sailing yachts are prescribed. Sani- tation rules make a special sanitation district around state parks or pleasure resorts, extending back one-fourth a mile, and such special dis- trict shall be under control of the state health board. Violations of the act are penalized with fines running from $10 to $100. Effective Au- gust 24.
House Bill No. 457. Mr. Brown (Union). Relates to hunters' licenses. Effective August 2.
House Bill No. 459- Mr. Etling (Wayne), relates to letting con- tracts by election boards. It is a supplementary measure. Effective August 2.
House Bill No. 460- Mr. Jackson (Clark), repeals an act making first mortgage loans security for public deposits. Effective July 25.
House Bill No. ... - Mr. Graham (Licking), provides for an ex- tension of leases by the state of canal lands. Effective August 23.
House Bill No. 470- Mr. Deaton (Miami). This is an act to present blindness from inflammation of the eyes of new born, designat- ing certain powers to physicians, midwives and nurses in maternity homes, or parents or relatives, and others attending child birth, providing they report such blindness to health authorities. The proper health of- ficer is directed to investigate such reports, and, where possible, use a prophylactic against inflammation of the eyes. Physicians, midwives, nurses and maternity home managers are given the same authority. An appropriation of $5,000 is made to enforce the act. Failure of those held responsible is penalized by fines from $50 to $300. Effective August 27.
House Bill No. 477- Mr. Hasselman (Cuyahoga), supplements existing laws relative to selling, exchanging and incumbering realty held by charitable and religious societies. Effective September I.
House Bill No. 493 - Mr. Purdum (Ross), amends an act relative to the sale and lease of canal lands, providing that the state shall reserve to itself all gas, oil, coal or minerals on or under such lands, for the
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purpose of selling or leasing, or developing the same. Effective August 5.
House Bill No. 494- Mr. Hale (Summit), authorizes township trustees to control and improve public parks and squares and levy taxes for this purpose. Effective August 5.
House Bill No. 499- Mr. Smith (Butler), declares that screens shall be provided for motormen and conductors of street cars. Failure to provide the same subjects the proper authorities to a fine of from $25 to $100 for each day a car is not provided with the screens. Ef- fective August 5.
House Bill No. 503 - Mr. Fitzsimmons (Cuyahoga), defines an attorney and penalizes the abuse of the professional name by a fine of not less than $25 nor more than $500. Effective August 23.
House Bill No. 516 - Mr. Spencer (Meigs), amends the law rela- tive to mothers' pensions ; provides for partial support of women whose husbands are dead, permanently disabled, or whose husbands are pris- oners or have deserted their wives for three years. On proper showing such women, if they be mothers, may receive $15 a month for one child of school age and $7 a month for each additional child under working age, the allowance to be made by the juvenile court. Children of mothers thus aided must live with their mothers. Effective August 31.
House Bill No. 525 - Mr. Merkel (Cuyahoga), making it a peni- tentiary offense for I. and R. petition circulators to make false state- ments. Effective July 29.
House Bill No. 529- Mr. Bliss (Cuyahoga), penalizing the writ- ing or posting of anonymous attacks on candidates in elections, by fines ranging from $100 to $1,000, or imprisonment for not more than one year, or both. Effective August 27.
House Bill No. 545 - Mr. Sprague (Scioto). A supplementary act relative to normal school fees. Effective August 10.
House Bill No. 549- Mr. Bohm (Cuyahoga), provides for the use of school and other public buildings and grounds for recreational pur- poses. Declares upon application of at least seven citizens such places shall become "social centers". They shall also be used for polling places, library, civic uplift and other purposes. A tax levy of not to exceed two-tenths of a mill may be made for the purposes herein set forth by boards of education. Effective August 25.
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House Bill No. 353- Mr. Benedict (Lucas), amends an act au- thorizing county commissioners temporarily to repair property destroyed by the 1913 floods. Provides for permanent repairs; county commis- sioners, educational boards, councils and township trustees may issue bonds or notes to pay for constructive work. Effective August 23.
House Bill No. 564- Mr. Hake (Trumbull), provides for the centralization of schools. Centralization shall be submitted to voters, and where voters decide in favor of centralization the probate court shall create a new educational board for the centralized district. Effective September 2.
House Bill No. 566-Mr. Bohm (Cuyahoga). This act provides for the establishment of state forests, at a cost of not over $10 an acre, and the agricultural experiment station control board is empowered to purchase lands for this purpose, develop timber growth and sell wood and otherwise carry out the provisions of the act. Effective Septem- ber 2.
House Bill No. 571 - Mr. Hulswit (Hamilton), declares that every ballot in elections shall contain the names of candidates arranged in lists under the respective party or designation certified. When presidential electors are voted for, the names of the candidates for president and vice president shall immediately follow the party name, preceding im- mediately those of the electors. Effective August 23.
House Bill No. 572 - Mr. Cromley (Knox), authorizes the pub- lication and distribution of a roster of Ohioans who served in the Spanish-American War. Effective July 2.
House Bill No. 574 - Mr. Knox (Washington), declares the trustees of the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' and Orphans' Home, Xenia, shall receive the children of National Guard officers who lost their lives in the state's service. Effective August 31.
House Bill No. 575- Mr. Williams (Lawrence), gives general power to mayors and permits the merging of offices in cities of less than 20,000, when the majority of councilmen so decree. The offices of safety and service director may be combined. Effective August 31.
House Bill No. 576-Mr. Knox (Washington), designates the Ohio flag as pennant-shaped and declares each National Guard company shall have such an emblem. The Guard shall consist of not more than 103 companies of infantry, three of which shall be independent organ- izations; four batteries of artillery, four troops, with a band for each
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battalion, a medical department, signal corps, corps of engineers, the Governor's staff, and certain non-commissioned staff officers. The per- son displaying a foreign flag or emblem on a public building shall be fined not more than $50, or be imprisoned 30 days, or both, except such an emblem may be displayed when a foreigner is a recognized guest of a municipality. U. S. flags shall float above all state armories. Ef- fective August 27.
House Bill No. 577 - Mr. Beetham (Harrison), regulates the size if caboose cars, which shall be at least 24 feet long, exclusive of plat- forms, equipped with closets, a cupola and two-four-wheeled trucks. Effective August 25.
House Bill No. 585, Mr. Reighard (Fulton), provides a special ap- propriation for the compensation of prisoners in penal institutions to be known as the "manufacturing fund". Stipulates the State Board of Administration may place to the credit of prisoners a sum not to exceed the difference between the cost of maintaining a prisoner and the amount his labor is worth. Such earnings shall be paid to the prisoner or his family, but such allowances may be canceled if a prisoner violates prison rules. Consideration of character shall enter into such allowances. Ef- fective July 30.
House Bill No. 587 - Mr. Wydman (Hamilton), provides an as- sistant for the State Superintent of Public Works, the same to be a practical civil engineer, and not to receive over $2,500 a year. Effective August 23.
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