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11. To report to the secretary of the board any necessary repairs to the school buildings or furniture and any required supply of fuel, drinking water, furniture or equipment;

12. To see that the provisions of clause 10 of section 5 of this Ordinance have been complied with, and if not to report to the board and in case of any neglect on the part of the board to notify the Commissioner;

13. To notify the chairman of the board whenever he has reason to believe that any pupil attending school is affected with or exposed to small-pox, cholera, scarlatina, diphtheria, whooping cough, measles, mumps, or other infectious or contagious disease, and to prevent the attendance of any pupil so affected or exposed or suspected of being affected or exposed until furnished with the written statement of a physician or the chairman of the board that such contagious or infectious disease does not exist or that all danger from exposure to any of them has passed away;

14. To suspend from school any pupil for violent opposition to authority and to forthwith report in writing the facts of such suspension to the board which may take such action with regard thereto as it deems necessary,

15. To assist the board and its officers in making the prescribed returns to the department;

16. To furnish to the Commissioner, the Superintendent of Schools, the board or any person appointed by the Commissioner any information which it is in his power to give respecting anything connected with the operation of the school or in anywise affecting its interests or character; 18. To deliver up any school registers, school house key or other property of the district in his possession when required to do so by a written order of the board;

19. To attend all meetings of the teachers called by the Superintendent of Schools where more than one teacher is employed;

20. If the school is not within the limits of an established school district, to make all reports to the Superintendent of Schools which he is required by this Ordinance to make to the Board of School Trustees. No. 27 of 1902, s. 100.

DUTIES OF PRINCIPAL OF SCHOOLS.

Principal.

Duties of principal.

101. In every school in which more teachers than one are employed the head teacher shall be called the principal and the other teachers the assistants. No. 27 of 1902, s. 101.

102. The principal shall prescribe with the concurrence of the board the duties of the assistants and shall be responsible for the organization and general discipline of the whole school. No. 27 of 1902, s. 102.

TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION.

103. Any number of teachers may organize themselves Teachers' into an association, and subject to the regulations of the association. department, may hold conventions and institutes for the purpose of receiving instructions in and discussing educational matters. No. 27 of 1902, s. 103.

EDUCATION OF NON-RESIDENT CHILDREN.

district may

104. The parent or lawful guardian of any child residing Persons outside the limits of any district may apply to the board outside for the admission of such child to its school, and it shall be have children the duty of the board to admit such child

Provided always that the board may demand that the application for admission of any non-resident child be accompanied by a statement from the Superintendent of Schools to the effect that the accommodation of the school is sufficient for the admission of such child. No. 27 of 1902, s. 104.

taught in school.

may send

105. The parent or lawful guardian of any child residing Persons not within the limits of any district and who is not a ratepayer ratepayers thereof may send his children to the school operated within children the district. No. 27 of 1902, s. 105.

to school.

district may

assessed.

106. Any persor not living within a district may apply Persons to the board of any district to have his or her property if outside not already included in any other district, assessed in such have their district to secure the advantages of education for his chil- property dren, and in such case on the report of the Superintendent of Schools that the accommodation of the school room is sufficient for the admission of the children of such person the board shall receive such application and place the said property on the assessment roll of the district, and such property shall remain liable to assessment in such district until a new district is established including the said property; and for the purpose of enforcing payment of taxes and of all remedies therefor the said property shall be deemed to be within the school district on whose assessment roll it is placed. No. 27 of 1902, s. 106.

PENALTIES AND PROHIBITION.

107. Any board or any member thereof that wilfully Liability neglects or refuses to exercise or to assist in exercising all of trustées. the corporate powers vested in such board by this Ordinance for the fulfilment of any contract or agreement made by it shall be personally responsible for the fulfilment of such contract or agreement. No. 27 of 1902. s. 107.

Liability of trustees

for debts.

Penalty for false report.

Penalty for
retaining
money
or books.

Penalty on returning officer for prejudicing result of election.

Penalty for disturbing meeting.

108. Should the board of any district wilfully contract liabilities in the name of the district, greater or other than as provided or allowed by this Ordinance, or appropriate any of the moneys of the district for purposes other than are provided or allowed by this Ordinance, the treasurer of the district or some other person authorized by the Commissioner may recover as a debt in a court of competent jurisdiction from such board jointly or severally the sum or sums for which the district has been rendered liable through the action of such trustees over and above the amount so provided by this Ordinance in addition to the total amount of any moneys that have been misappropriated by such trustees. No. 27 of 1902, s. 108.

109. If any trustee knowingly signs a false report, or if any teacher keeps a false school register, or knowingly makes a false return, he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding $20.00. No. 27 of 1902, s. 109.

110. Any trustee, officer or employee of a district who after ceasing to hold office retains any money, book, paper or thing belonging to the district, shall thereby incur a penalty not exceeding $20.00 for each day during which he wrongfully retains possession of such money, book, paper or thing after having received notice in writing from the chairman of the board or from the Commissioner requiring him to deposit the same in the hands of some person mentioned in such notice. No. 27 of 1902, s. 110.

111. Any returning officer of any district or proposed district acting under the provisions of this Ordinance who shall knowingly and wilfully prejudice the result of any voting by preventing votes from being taken or by taking unlawful votes or by altering returns or books in any way, or by any other means, shall be liable to a penalty of not less than $10.00 and not exceeding $100.00. No. 27 of 1902, s. 111.

112. Any person who wilfully disturbs, interrupts or disquiets the proceedings of any school meeting authorized to be held by this Ordinance, or any one who wilfully interrupts or disquiets any school established and conducted under its authority by rude or indecent behaviour, or by making a noise either within the place where school is kept or held, or so near thereto as to disturb the order of exercises of the school, shall be guilty of an offence for which he shall forfeit for the use of the district within which the offence was committed a sum not exceeding $20.00. No. 27 of 1902, s. 112.

be teacher.

113. No school trustee shall be eligible to appointment Trustee not to as teacher within the district of which he is trustee, nor shall the teacher of any school hold the office of school trustee. No. 27 of 1902, s. 113.

114. All moneys accruing from fines or penalties under Fines to this Ordinance shall unless otherwise provided belong to belong to general the general revenue fund of the Territory. No. 27 of 1902, revenue fund. s. 115.

Quantities of explosives that may be kept in

one place.

Quantities of

kerosene that

may be kept in one place.

Fire not to be set within fifty feet of building.

Ashes not to be deposited

in wooden vessel.

Space to be

left between

partition.

CHAPTER 67.

An Ordinance for the Prevention of Fires.

1. No person shall keep on any premises a larger quantity of gunpowder or other explosive than twenty-five pounds unless the same is stored at least one hundred feet from any building, nor shall any greater quantity than one hundred pounds be kept within any fire limits nor within one mile from the centre thereof. No. 2 of 1902, s. 1, and No. 13 of 1902.

2. No person shall keep on any premises a greater quantity of kerosene than one hundred and twenty gallons or a greater quantity of gasoline than forty gallons, unless the same is stored at least sixty-five feet from any building. No. 2 of 1902, s. 2.

3. No person shall set out fire within fifty feet of any building; provided, nevertheless, that a blacksmith may build a fire within fifty feet of his shop for the purposes of his trade. No. 2 of 1902, s. 3.

4. No person shall deposit ashes in any wooden vessel unless it is lined with metal. No. 2 of 1902, s. 4.

5. There shall be a space of at least nine inches between stovepipe and any stovepipe and partition or floor through which it passes unless such stovepipe is surrounded in such partition or floor by a thimble of brick, cement or concrete at least two inches in width and of the full thickness of such partition. or floor, or by a metal safety flue with an air space of at least three inches.

Distance of stovepipe from wall.

Houses over

one story to have ladder on roof.

Commissioner

(2.) At least twelve inches shall intervene between any stovepipe in use and the partition or wall nearest thereto. No. 2 of 1902, s. 5.

6. Every proprietor of any house more than one-story high, with a roof having a pitch greater than one foot in three shall keep a ladder on such roof near the chimney thereof. No. 2 of 1902, s. 6.

7. The Commissioner may by proclamation published in may establish the Yukon Official Gazette and in one newspaper published in the district affected by such proclamation (if there is one

fire districts.

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