from the State Dairy Bureau of the State of California a license herein required.

SEC. 7. Any person, firm or corporation found guilty of violating any of the provisions of this act shall be punished by a fine of not less than $50 nor more than $500, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than 30 days nor more than 6 months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

SEC. 8. It shall be the duty of the State dairy bureau, now existing under the laws of this State, to enforce the provisions of this act: Provided, That nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent any city or county or State board of health or other city or county official from enforcing the provisions of this act. Milk and Cream Containers-Marking, Cleanliness, and Handling. Assembled Dairy Products-Production and Labeling. (Ch. 190, Act May 5, 1919.)

SECTION 1. A new section is hereby added to an act entitled "An act to prevent the manufacture or sale of dairy products from unhealthy animals, or that are produced under unsanitary conditions; to prevent deception or fraud in the production and sale of dairy products, and in the manufacture and sale of renovated butter and oleomargarine; to license the manufacture and sale of renovated butter and oleomargarine; to regulate the business of producing, buying and selling dairy products, oleomargarine, renovated or imitation butter and cheese; to provide for the enforcement of its provisions and for the punishment of violations thereof, and appropriating money therefor and to repeal section 17 of an act approved March 4, 1897, entitled 'An act to prevent deception in the manufacture and sale of butter and cheese, to secure its enforcement, and to appropriate money therefor,' and to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act," approved April 21, 1911, as amended, to be numbered 30a, and to read as follows:

SEC. 30a. The following rules and standards must be observed by all persons, firms, or corporations engaged in the preparation of dairy products for market or delivery thereto :

(1) The owner's name, or other identification mark, the nature of which shall be made known to the dairy inspectors shall appear permanently and in conspicuous place on or be attached to every milk or cream bottle, can, or container.

(2) All milk, cream and ice-cream cans, bottles, and containers shall be kept clean and shall be thoroughly washed and sterilized after each using.

SEC. 2. A new section is hereby added to the said act, approved April 21, 1911, as amended, to be numbered 30b and to read as follows:

SEC. 30b. All carriers of dairy produces, whether producer, gratuitious private carrier other than the producer, private carrier for hire, or common carrier, in transporting milk and cream shipping containers shall observe and maintain the following standard:

(1) All cars or other vehicles, while hauling milk or cream, shall be kept clean and all containers shall be so covered as to protect the milk or cream at all times from dust and from the rays of the sun.

(2) All milk or cream cans or other shipping containers, while containing milk, cream, or other dairy products, shall be handled carefully, and kept right end up.

(3) Every vehicle, railway car or boat in which milk or cream is transported shall be kept in a sanitary condition. Every vehicle and every boat transporting milk or cream either shall be inclosed or shall provide canvas covering to protect the milk and cream at all times from the sun or from the outside

warm air, except only while taking on or discharging freight. No fowls, fresh meat or other contaminating things shall be kept or carried on top or in close proximity to milk, cream, or other dairy products.

(4) No milk or cream and no empty cans, bottles or other containers shall be hauled in any vehicle for hauling manure or garbage or in any other unclean vehicle, car or boat.

(5) Nothing herein shall be construed to derogate from any powers or authority of the Railroad Commission of the State of California.

SEC. 3. A new section is hereby added to said act, approved April 21, 1911, as amended, to be numbered 30c and to read as follows:

SEC. 30c. Persons producing or marketing assembled dairy products must conform to the following rules: All the ingredients used in the process of assembling must conform to all the standards of purity set for such ingredients and must have been produced under the same sanitary conditions and regulations required for the production of milk and cream where such products are sold, and such products must be labeled as herein provided for assembled products in imitation of milk, cream and ice cream.

All assembled dairy products to which has been added any condensed or evaporated milk, or any condensed or evaporated skimmed milk, or any dry milk or milk powder or any skimmed milk or skimmed powder or any butter or sweet butter or dairy products that have been produced by the mechanical assembling of any of the natural ingredients of milk or cream, shall be so labeled on each container thereof with the words " Assembled from milk, butter, milk powder, skim milk or other milk products," as the case may be, correctly naming on the label, bill of sale, invoice, and bill of fare, all the ingredients used in such assembled goods in plain letters of the English language at least one-eighth of an inch in height; and no other names or prefixes shall be used than those by which such ingredients are separately known to the commercial trade.

SEC. 4. A new section is hereby added to said act approved April 21, 1911, as amended, to be numbered 30d and to read as follows:

SEC. 30d. Any person who violates any provision of section 30c of this act or who directs or knowingly permits an employee to violate any of said provisions, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than $25 nor more than $200, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than 10 days nor more than 60 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Any firm, corporation, society, or association which violates any of said provisions shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined as above provided.

In the event an officer, director, manager, or managing agent of any firm, corporation, society, or association violates any of the provisions of section 30c of this act, or directs or knowingly permits any employee to violate any of said provisions, such officer, director, manager, or managing agent shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by fine or imprisonment or both, as above provided; and, in such a case, the firm, corporation, society, or association shall also be guilty, and upon conviction shall be fined as above provided. One-half of all such fines shall be paid into the State treasury and placed to the credit of the general fund.

Food and Liquor-Standard of Purity-Procedure When Act is Violated. (Ch. 161, Act May 5, 1919.)

SECTION 1. Section 3 of an act entitled "An act for preventing the manufacture, sale or transportation of adulterated, mislabeled or misbranded foods

and liquors, and regulating the traffic therein, providing penalties, establishing a State laboratory for foods, liquors and drugs, and making an appropriation therefor," approved March 11, 1907, as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 3. The standard of purity of food and liquor shall be that published in Circular No. 19, the food inspection decisions and the service and regufatory announcements of the Bureau of Chemistry of the United States Department of Agriculture. Nothing in this section contained shall authorize or permit any adulteration of any food or liquor because the standard of purity of such food or liquor shall not be proclaimed by the Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture.

SEC. 2. Section 16 of said act is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 16. When an examination or analysis of the directors of the State laboratory shows that any provisions of this act have been violated, notice of that fact, together with a copy of the certificate of the findings, shall be furnished to the party or parties from whom the sample was obtained, or who executed the guaranty, as provided in this act, and a day shall be fixed by the secretary of the State board of health, at which said parties may be heard before the State board of health, or before any two members thereof and the secretary. The hearing shall be held at such place as the State board of health or its secretary may designate, and at least 15 days notice thereof shall be served upon the party complained of. These hearings shall be private and confined to questions of fact. Parties interested therein may appear in person or by attorney and may propound interrogatories and submit oral or written evidence to show any fault or error in the findings made by the director of the State laboratory. If the examination or analysis be found correct, or if the party or parties fail to appear at such hearing, after notice duly given as provided herein, the secretary of the State board of health shall forthwith transmit a certificate of the facts so found to the district attorney of the county in which said adulerated, mislabeled or misbranded food was found. No publication as in this act provided shall be made until after said hearing is concluded.

Sulphur for Sulphuring Fruits or Other Foods-Regulation of Sale and Use. (Ch. 189, Act May 5, 1919.)

SECTION 1. No person, firm, company, or corporation shall sell, offer for sale, or keep for sale sulphur containing more than 10 parts per 1,000,000 of arsenic oxide (As2O) for the purpose of sulphuring fruits or other foods.

SEC. 2. For the purposes of this act the term "sulphur for sulphuring fruits or other foods" shall be construed to mean sulphur which contains not more than 10 parts per 1,000,000 of arsenic oxide (As2O3).

SEC. 3. No person, dealer, jobber, firm, company, or corporation shall sell, keep for sale, or offer for sale sulphur for sulphuring fruits or other foods which contains more than 10 parts per 1,000,000 of arsenic oxide (AS2O3). Every package, parcel, bag, or container of sulphur for sulphuring fruits or other foods shall be labeled or tagged, and said label or tag shall contain the words in bold-faced type, not less than one-fourth inch in height, "Sulphur for sulphuring fruits or other foods." Said label or tag shall also contain the name and address of the person, firm, company, or corporation which manufactures, prepares, or packs the sulphur.

SEC. 4. No person, firm, company, or corporation shall use sulphur containing more than 10 parts per 1,000,000 of arsenic oxide (As2O3) for the purpose of sulphuring fruits or other foods.

SEC. 5. Any person, firm, company, or corporation which violates any provision of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than $5 nor more than $500, or shall be impris oned in the county jail for a term not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

SEC. 6. The State board of health is hereby empowered to enforce the provisions of this act and to prescribe the form of tags or labels to be used, and to prescribe and enforce such rules and regulations as it may deem necessary to carry into effect the full intent and meaning of this act.

Water Supplies-Prevention of Pollution-Analyses-Cross Connections. (Reg. Bd. of H., Nov. 1, 1919.)

Whereas there exists or may exist a danger to the health of employees and the public due to the use of unsafe private sources of water supply or private sources of supply not under laboratory control for drinking and domestic supply purposes, and whereas the danger to the public is intensified according to the extent of cross connection between lines carrying a safe public water supply at relatively low pressure and private lines carrying a potentially unsafe supply at high pressure: Therefore be it

Resolved, That (1) the attention of employers be called to their obligations under “An act' to require employers of labor to furnish

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pure drinking water to their employees during working hours," approved May 24, 1915, and that they accordingly keep themselves informed of the quality of such water by inspection and laboratory control analyses.

(2) There shall be no physical connection between such a private source of supply or system and a public water system.

(3) Water companies or municipalities now or in future furnishing water for domestic purposes, regardless of whether an unrevoked domestic water supply permit from the State board of health is held, shall be held responsible to its consumers for pollution of the public system by violations of section (2) and shall forbid service to premises maintaining cross connections which may pollute the public system, or shall prevent the pollution of the public system by other means acceptable to the State board of health Violations shall constitute sufficient grounds for revoking any domestic water supply permit.

(4) In pursuance of these purposes, the secretary of the State board of health may deputize employees of water companies or municipalities as inspectors of the State board of health.

(5) City officials and health officers shall be urged to investigate from time to time, by inspections and laboratory control, the condition of safety of private sources of supply.

Births, Deaths, and Marriages-Registration. (Ch. 273, Act May 16, 1919.)

SECTION 1. Section 3 of an act' entitled “An act to provide a central bureau for the preservation of records of marriages, births and deaths, and to provide for the registration of all births and deaths; the establishment of registration districts under the superintendence of the State bureau of vital statistics; the is suance and registration of burial and disinterment permits and certificates of births and deaths; the appointment of State and local registrars of vital statistics; to prescribe the powers and duties of registrars, coroners, physicians,

1 Pub. Health Repts. Reprint 338, p. 50. 2 Pub. Health Repts. Reprint 338, p. 56.

undertakers, sextons, and other persons in relation to such registration and to fix penalties for violation of this act; to create the offices of State and local registrars of vital statistics, to provide for the salary and fees of same; to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith," approved May 19, 1915, as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 3. For the purposes of this act the State shall be divided into registration districts as follows: Each city and county, or city and incorporated town having at least 5,000 inhabitants at the Federal census, shall constitute a primary registration district; and each county, exclusive of the cities and incorporated towns therein having at least 5,000 inhabitants at the last Federal census may be subdivided by the State registrar into a sufficient number of primary rural registration districts, the boundaries of which he shall define and which he may alter, combine, or subdivide from time to time as may be necessary to promote efficient and convenient registration of all births and deaths. SEC. 2. Section 4 of said act is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 4. The clerk of each city and incorporated town having at least 5,000 inhabitants at the last Federal census shall be the local registrar in and for such primary registration district and shall perform all such duties of local registrar as hereinafter provided: Provided, however, That in cities and counties and cities having a freeholders' charter the health officer shall act as local registrar and perform all the duties thereof. The State registrar, subject to the approval of the State board of health or its secretary, shall appoint a local registrar for each primary rural district, whose term of office shall be four years, and whom the State registrar may remove forthwith for failure or neglect to perform his duty as prescribed by this act. Each local registrar, besides transmitting to the State registrar each original birth and death certificate registered by him, and besides retaining a complete and accurate copy of each such birth and death certificate for the local record of his district, as required by section 19 of this act, shall also transmit to the recorder of the county for a special county record a complete and accurate copy of each original birth and death certificate transmitted by said local registrar to the State registrar: Provided, That the health officer of a city and county when acting as local registrar shall not be required to transmit copies of birth or death certificates to the county recorder thereof: And provided further, That in accordance with sections 3076, 3078, and 3079 of the political code, the county recorder shall be the sole local registrar for marriages performed anywhere in the county. Each local registrar shall immediately appoint a deputy in writing, whose duty it shall be to act in his stead in case of his absence or disability; and such deputy shall, in writing, accept such appointment and be subject to all rules and regulations governing local registrars. And when it appears necessary for the convenience of the people in any registration district, the local registrar is hereby authorized, with the approval of the State registrar, to appoint one or more suitable persons to act as subregistrars, who shall be authorized to receive certificates and to issue burial or removal permits in and for such portions of the district as may be designated; and each subregistrar shall note on each certificate, over his signature, the date of filing, and shall forthwith forward all certificates to the local registrar of the district, and in all cases before the third day of the following month: Provided, That each subregistrar shall be subject to the supervision and control of the State registrar, and may be by him removed for neglect or failure to perform his duty in accordance with the provisions of this act or the rules and regulations of the State registrar, and shall be subject to the same penalties for neglect of duty as the local registrar.