exposed for sale to be drunk on the premises, and every person who by himself, his servant or agent, shall keep open any room, place, enclosure, structure or building in which spirituous and intoxicating liquors are sold or offered for sale to be drunk on the premises during the hours in which any borough election is held, shall be subject to the penalties of Section 2712, provided the provisions of this section shall not apply to an election in any city containing more than one ward, held and in which votes are cast in one ward only. The word "election" as used in this act shall be construed as meaning a selection by ballot of one or more persons to fill a public office or offices under the authority of this state or under the authority of some political subdivision of this state, and shall not include primary elections nor electors' meetings at which no persons are elected to public offices. Approved, May 14, 1917. [Substitute for House Bill No. 948.] CHAPTER 261. An Act concerning Night Work in Messenger Service. SECTION 1. No person under the age of eighteen years shall be employed by any telegraph or messenger company, in cities having a population of twetny thousand or over, to distribute, transmit or deliver goods or messages between the hours of ten o'clock at night and five o'clock in the morning. CHAP. 261 "Election" as used in act defined. Persons under eighteen years of age not to be employed in messenger ten o'clock service after at night. SEC. 2. The manager of the office of any corporation who Penalty. shall violate any provision of this act shall be fined not more than twenty dollars for each day of such employment. Approved, May 14, 1917. [Substitute for Senate Bill No. 192.] CHAPTER 262. An Act concerning Control of the White Pine Blister Rust. General Assembly convened: tion of white SECTION 1. The director of the Connecticut agricultural Providing for experiment station at New Haven shall have authority to inves- the exterminatigate and control the fungous disease known as white pine blister pine blister rust or currant rust. Said director may appoint member or rust. members of the experiment station staff to administer such work under his direction, and may employ other assistance when necessary. 2408 CHAP. 263 All trees or to be destroyed. SEC. 2. All white pine, currants or gooseberries infected shrubs infected with said rust may be uprooted and destroyed forthwith. Said director may designate districts within which currant or gooseberry bushes growing wild, abandoned or escaped from cultivation may be uprooted and destroyed under his direction, and in the performance of his duties, he or any person authorized by him, may at any time enter any public or private grounds, and any person wilfully hindering the performance of such duty shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars for each offense. Penalty. Appropriation for carrying out the purpose of the act. SEC. 3. The sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars is appropriated annually for carrying out the provisions of this act. Approved, May 14, 1917. Vote on [Substitute for House Bill No. 513.] CHAPTER 263. An Act amending an Act concerning Ballot on the Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in SECTION 1. Chapter 65 of the public acts of 1909 as amended by chapter 224 of the public acts of 1909 is amended to read as follows: Upon petition of not less than ten per centum of the registered voters of any town lodged with the town clerk at least twenty days before the date of any annual town meeting at which there is an election of officers by ballot, the selectmen thereof shall notify the legal voters of said town that at the annual town meeting a ballot will be taken to determine whether any person shall be licensed to sell spirituous and intoxicating liquors in said town. The ballot shall be cast either in favor of or against the granting of licenses for the sale of spirituous and intoxicating liquors and the vote then taken shall remain in full force until the first Monday of the second month after its annulment by a new vote taken at an annual town meeting, upon petition and after due notice as aforesaid, which vote shall become operative on the first Monday of the second month next succeeding said town meeting, provided, in towns electing town officers biennially under the provisions of chapter 227 of the public acts of 1907, and in which no town officers are elected annually, such ballot shall be taken only at the time and place of holding such biennial election. CHAP. 264 no license, re of two months. SEC. 2. When any town, upon petition and after due In towns voting notice, shall have voted that no person shall be licensed to sell newal licenses spirituous and intoxicating liquors in said town, any licensed may be granted dealer in any town so voting may apply to the county commis- for the period sioners for a renewal of his license for a period not later than the first Monday of the second month after said vote; and the fee to be paid for any such renewal period shall bear the same proportion to the license fee for a year as the time for which it is granted bears to the full year. SEC. 3. Application for renewal of license under the provisions of this act shall be subject to the provisions of the general statutes concerning such applications. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved, May 10, 1917. Limited renewals to be under the same restrictions as applications for a full license. [Substitute for House Bill No. 666.] CHAPTER 264. An Act concerning the Manufacture or Sale of Oleomargarine, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: oleomargarine, licensed. or but SECTION 1. No person shall manufacture, sell, offer or Persons sellexpose for sale, or have in possession with intent to sell, or use, ing or making oleomargarine, butterine or renovated butter, unless annually butterine licensed by the dairy and food commissioner. Such license shall renovated be issued in the form approved by the dairy and food commis- ter must be sioner, shall be hung in the place where such business is conducted and shall contain the name of the licensee and a description of the premises wherein such business is to be conducted and such license shall expire September thirtieth in each year. The application for such license shall be in such form as said commissioner shall prescribe and shall contain the name of the applicant and a description of the place and character of the business conducted by such applicant. Applications for such licenses shall be accompanied by the following fee payable to the treasurer of the state: For making oleomargarine, butterine or License fee. renovated butter, twenty-five dollars; for selling oleomargarine, butterine or renovated butter in quantities of more than ten pounds, five dollars; for selling oleomargarine, butterine or renovated butter at retail, in quantities of not more than ten pounds, two dollars; for the use of oleomargarine, butterine or renovated butter by a hotel, restaurant or dining room, one dollar. A license may be issued under the provisions of this section from the first day of any month to expire September thirtieth at a rate 2410 CHAP. 264 Penalty. Sale of imitation butter regulated. Conditions under which imitation but MANUFACTURE OR SALE OF OLEOMARGARINE. [Jan., proportionate to the yearly rate. The managing officer or agent of a corporation or any other person who violates any provision of this section shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars. SEC. 2. Section 2558 of the general statutes is amended to read as follows: No person by himself, his agents or servants, shall render or manufacture, sell, offer or expose for sale, take orders for the future delivery of, or have in his possession with intent to sell, any article, product or compound, made wholly or partly from any fat, oil or oleaginous substance or compound thereof, not produced from unadulterated milk or cream from the same, which shall be in imitation of yellow butter produced from pure unadulterated milk or cream of the same; but the provisions of this section shall not prohibit the manufacture or sale of oleomargarine in a separate and distinct form and in such manner as will advise the consumer of its real character, free from coloration and from any ingredient intended to cause it to look like butter. No imitation butter shall be sold, exposed for sale, or delivered except under the following conditions: (1) The seller shall maintain in plain sight, over the main outer entrance ter can be sold. of the premises where the selling is done, a sign bearing in plain black Roman letters, not less than two inches wide and four inches long, on a white ground, the words "Sold here" preceded by the name of the imitation article. If the selling is done from a vehicle such vehicle shall conspicuously bear such sign upon both sides of such vehicle upon the outside. (2) All imitation butter shall be kept in an enclosing package which shall bear on the outside of its body and cover, at all times in plain sight of a beholder of the package in black Roman letters, not less than one inch wide and two inches long on a white or light colored ground, the name of the imitation article. All signs prescribed in sections 2558, 2559 and 2560 shall be provided by the dairy commissioner, and all signs required to be maintained in plain sight over the main outer entrance of the premises where the selling is done shall be placed in position subject to the directions of the dairy commissioner or his deputy. All signs so furnished by the dairy commissioner shall be paid for by the parties receiving the same, at the actual cost thereof. Manufacture and sale of renovated but ter regulated. SEC. 3. The manufacture, sale and use of renovated butter shall be regulated by the use of such signs as are prescribed for the use and sale of oleomargarine as defined in sections 2558, 2559 and 2560 of the general statutes, provided the words "Renovated Butter" shall be substituted for the word "Oleomargarine." Approved, May 16, 1917. [House Bill No. 1063.] CHAPTER 265. CHAP. 265 An Act concerning the Appointment of Special Policemen for Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in policemen for SECTION 1. The governor may, upon the application of Governor may any electric, gas, telephone, telegraph or water company owning, appoint special leasing, maintaining, managing or controlling any property, the protection plant or equipment, in this state, commission, during his of public service pleasure, one or more persons designated by such company who, companies. having been duly sworn, may act at the expense of such company as policemen upon the premises used or occupied by such company in its business, or upon any highway adjacent to such premises, for the proper protection of such plant or property, and every policeman so appointed may arrest any person in his precincts for any offense committed therein, and take such person before some proper authority. The superintendent of state police may exercise such supervision and direction over any policeman Special policeappointed as herein provided as he may deem necessary. When any commission is issued to any such policeman, or revoked, the executive secretary shall notify the clerk of the superior court of each county in which it is intended that such policeman shall act. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved, May 10, 1917. men to be under of the superintendent of state the supervision police. [Substitute for House Bill No. 247.] CHAPTER 266. An Act concerning Public Markets. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in may run public Any city, borough or town may establish and maintain one Towns, cities or more public markets within the limits of such city, borough or or boroughs town, and may locate the same within the limits of any highway markets. or upon land adjoining the same; and such city, borough or town may erect buildings, appoint officers, and make rules, by-laws or ordinances for the proper regulation of any such market. Approved, May 10, 1917. |