2432 CHAP. 299 Court or judge to hear and determine suit brought for unpaid taxes. State tax to be in lieu of all other taxes except tax on increased capital stock. Repeal of tax exemption. apply to the superior court for Hartford county, or any judge thereof, for an order for the payment of such tax, and in such application shall set forth the amount of such tax and the nonpayment thereof. Thereupon the court, or such judge, as the case may be, shall appoint a time for a hearing upon such application, and shall order reasonable notice of the pendency of the same and the time of hearing thereon to be given to the corporation by which said tax is payable. Upon such hearing the court or judge shall determine the amount of tax due and order payment thereof, and execution may be issued for the collection of such amount, which shall be served and returned as in civil actions. . SEC. 6. The tax computed upon the net income of companies as provided in part IV of said act and amendments thereto shall be in lieu of all taxes which otherwise would be laid on moneys, and credits, including accounts and bills receivable, owned by such companies, and shall be in lieu of all other taxes upon the franchises of the domestic corporations included in the companies defined in said part IV, except the tax on capital stock provided by section sixty-one of chapter 194 of the public acts of 1903, and shall be in lieu of all other taxes on the privilege of doing business within this state upon the foreign corporations included in the companies defined in said part IV. SEC. 7. Section sixty-one of chapter 194 of the public acts of 1903 is amended by striking out the following, in the last sentence: "Said payments shall be in lieu of all other taxes upon the franchise of the corporation, but shall not be in lieu of any tax imposed by law upon the property of the corporation or upon the shares of its stock in the hands of its stockholders." SEC. 8. This act shall take effect from its passage. Taxes and rentals, to whom to be paid. [Substitute for House Bill No. 1017.] CHAPTER 299. An Act concerning State Shell-Fisheries. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in SECTION 1 Section five of chapter 209 of the public acts. of 1907 is amended to read as follows: All taxes and rentals which shall be collected by said commissioners on grounds covered by such map shall be paid to the treasurer of the town or city in which such ground is located. CHAP. 300 rentals collected in SEC. 2. Section three of chapter 125 of the public acts of Taxes and 1909 is amended to read as follows: All taxes and rentals which shall be collected upon the grounds designated by such Westport to be map shall be paid to the treasurer of the town. SEC. 3. Section four of chapter 266 of the public acts of 1915 is amended to read as follows: All taxes and rentals laid on franchises designated on such map shall be paid to the treasurer of such town and such map shall be published in the biennial report of the shell-fish commission. The lines shown on such map shall be the official boundary of such franchises unless changed on appeal. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved, May 16, 1917. [Substitute for House Bill No. 240.] CHAPTER 300. An Act concerning Hours of Employment of Minors. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in paid to town treasurer. Taxes and rentals colMilford to be paid to town lected in treasurer. women not to be employed in SECTION 1. No public restaurant, cafe, dining room, Minors and barber shop, hair dressing or manicuring establishment or photograph gallery shall employ any minor under sixteen years of age or any woman, between the hours of ten o'clock in the evening and six o'clock in the morning. certain lines of business between certain hours. Employment of minors and women limited to fifty-eight hours a week in certain SEC. 2. No such establishment shall employ any such minor or female more than fifty-eight hours in any week. The hours of labor of such minors or females shall be conspicuously posted in such establishment in such form and manner as the commissioner of labor and factory inspection shall determine. SEC. 3. The provisions of this act shall not affect hotels. SEC. 4. A bowling alley shall be regarded as a mercantile Bowling alley establishment and the provisions of chapter 179 of the public to be classed acts of 1913 shall be applicable to employment therein. occupations. Act not to ap ply to hotels. as a mercantile establishment. commissioner of labor and SEC. 5. The commissioner of labor and factory inspection shall examine and inquire into the employment of such minors and women in the establishments described in this act and in- Duties of the vestigate all complaints of violations hereof and report all cases of such violation to the prosecuting officer having jurisdiction thereof. Said commissioner shall on or before the first day of December of each year make a report to the governor of the number of violations found and of the prosecutions instituted therefor. factory inspection defined. 2434 CHAP. 301 Penalty. HOMES OF DEPENDENT AND NEGLECTED CHILDREN. [Jan., SEC. 6. Any person violating any provision of this act shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars for each offense. SEC. 7. This act shall take effect January 1, 1918. Approved, May 16, 1917. Meetings of managers. Board to have full control of children until they become eighteen years of age. Powers of board. When parents are not entitled to the earnings of their children. [House Bill No. 365.] CHAPTER 301. An Act concerning Homes for Dependent and Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Section 2791 of the general statutes is amended to read as follows: In each county the board for the management of temporary homes for dependent children shall meet at least once in each three months for the purpose of attending to the duties imposed upon it by law, and notice of such meetings shall be sent to each member by mail at least three days prior thereto by the chairman of said board. At the meeting of said board in each county in the fall months of each year the town committees of the several towns in the county, and one or more of the supervisors of the state board of charities, shall meet with said board for the purpose of suggesting such provisions, changes and additions as they may think desirable in the temporary home, and assisting said board in the selection of family homes for the children in the temporary home, and advising said board of the results of their visits to children in family homes; and like notice of such meeting shall be given the town committees at least five days prior thereto by the chairman of said board. Said board in each county shall have full guardianship and control of each child committed to the temporary home for such county until such child shall have reached the age of eighteen years, or such guardianship and control shall have been legally transferred, or another guardian appointed by the probate court with the consent of said board; and said board in each county shall have power to place any child committed to the temporary home of the county at such employment and cause the child to be instructed in such branches of useful knowledge as may be suited to the age and capacity of the child for such term of years, not extending beyond the child's seventeenth year, as will inure to the benefit of the child. Parents whose children have been supported by a temporary home for three years shall not be entitled to their earnings or services after they have become eighteen years of age. Approved, May 16, 1917. [Senate Bill No. 683.] CHAPTER 302. An Act authorizing the Senators and Representatives to fix the Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in CHAP. 302 time for fixing the salary of SECTION 1. The senators and representatives of any Extending the county who shall fail to fix the compensation of the county sealer of weights and measures thereof at their biennial meeting may call a special meeting for such purpose at any time prior to August 1, 1917, and at such meeting may fix such compensation. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved, May 16, 1917. county sealer of weights and measures. [Senate Bill No. 231.] CHAPTER 303. An Act amending an Act concerning the Maintenance Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in education to maintain nor allowance Chapter 106 of the public acts of 1913 is amended to read as follows: The state board of education shall maintain normal State board of schools as seminaries for training teachers in the art of instructing and governing in the public schools of this state, at the mal schools, places where such schools are legally established, and such sum as the state board of education may, in each year, deem necessary for their support, not exceeding one hundred and twenty thousand dollars for the four normal schools now established, shall be annually paid therefor from the treasury of the state, on the order of said board; but the board shall not expend any Conditions. money for a normal school hereafter established, until the town, under which city or city school district, in which such school is situated, schools may shall have agreed in writing with said board to furnish, and be established. shall have furnished, schools, in suitable and sufficient school buildings in connection with the training department in said school, the terms of such agreement to be satisfactory to said board; and every such town, city or city school district is authorized to make and execute such agreements. Approved, May 16, 1917. new normal 2436 CHAP. 304 THE CONNECTICUT REFORMATORY. [Jan., Parole of inmates. Authority given refor matory board to make rules [Substitute for Senate Bill No. 343.] CHAPTER 304. An Act amending an Act establishing the Connecticut Reformatory. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Section eleven of chapter 162 of the public acts of 1909 is amended to read as follows: Any inmate of the reformatory who has been in confinement within said institution for a period of not less than six months may be allowed to go at large on parole in the discretion of a majority of the board of directors of said reformatory and the superintendent thereof acting as a reformatory board of parole, if in their judgment said inmate will lead an orderly life if set at liberty. Authority is conferred on said reformatory board of parole to establish such rules and regulations as it may deem necessary, upon which and regulations. such inmate may go upon parole, and to enforce such rules and regulations. While upon parole such inmate shall remain in the legal custody and under the control of the reformatory board of parole, and subject at any time to be taken back within the enclosure of the reformatory for any reason that shall seem sufficient to said board. The request of said reformatory board of parole, or of any person authorized by the rules of said board, shall be sufficient warrant to authorize any officer of said reformatory, or any officer authorized by law to serve criminal process within this state, to return any inmate on parole into actual custody; and it shall be the duty of the police officers, constables and sheriffs to arrest and hold any paroled inmate when so requested, without any written warrant, and, for the performance of said duty, the officer performing the same, except officers of said reformatory, shall be paid by the directors of said reformatory out of the reformatory funds such reasonable compensation as is provided by law for similar services in other cases. Person breaking parole may be arrested without warrant. Approved, May 16, 1917. |