SEC. 3. Section 5 of said act is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 5. The body of any person whose death occurs in this State, or which shall be found dead therein or which shall be brought from outside the State, shall not be interred, deposited in a vault or tomb, cremated, disinterred or otherwise disposed of, or removed from or into any registration district, or be temporarily held pending further disposition more than five days after death, unless a permit for burial, removal, or other disposition thereof shall have been properly issued by the local registrar of the registration district in which the death occurred or the body was found, or by the county recorder of the county where said district is located, and it shall be the duty of said county recorder to mail within 24 hours the original death certificate to said local registrar: Provided, That nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent an undertaker from removing a body from the registration district where the death occurred or the body was found to another registration district in the same or an adjoining county in an undertaker's conveyance for the purpose of preparing said body for burial or shipment. A removal permit must be secured within 48 hours and before embalming the body. No body where death occurred from any disease held by the State board of health to be infectious, contagious, or communicable and dangerous to the public health shall be removed without first securing a removal permit in the manner provided in section 19 of this act. And no such burial or removal permit shall be issued by any registrar until, wherever practicable, a complete and satisfactory certificate of death has been filed with him as hereinafter provided: Provided, That when a dead body is transported from outside the State into a registration district in California for burial, the transit or removal permit, issued in accordance with the law and health regulations of the place where the death occurred, shall be ac cepted by the local registrar of the district into which the body has been transported for burial or other disposition, as a basis upon which he may issue a local burial permit, noting upon the face of the burial permit the fact that it was a body shipped in for interment, and giving the actual place of death; and no local registrar shall receive any fee for the issuance of burial or removal permits under this act other than the compensation provided in section 20. SEC. 4. Section 21 of said act is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC. 21. The State or local registrar shall forthwith upon request supply to any applicant a certified copy of the record of any birth or death or marriage registered under provisions of this act, for the making and certification of which he shall be entitled to a fee of 50 cents, to be paid by the applicant. And any such copy of the record of a birth or death or marriage when properly certified by the State or local registrar to have been so registered within a period of one year from the date of the event, shall be prima facie evidence in all courts and places of the facts therein stated. For any search of the files and records when no certified copy is made the State registrar or local registrar shall be entitled to a fee of 50 cents for each hour or fractional hour of time of search, such fee to be paid by the applicant. The State registrar shall keep a true and correct account of all fees by him received under these provisions, and such money so received by the State registrar shall be deposited with the State treasurer, who shall credit the amount to the fund provided and to be used for the payment of the traveling and contingent expenses of the State board of health, and the money so collected by the local registrar shall be paid by him into the county or city treasury, as the case may be: Provided, That the local registrar shall, upon request of any parents or guardian, supply, without fee, a certificate limited to a statement as to the date of birth of any child when the same shall be necessary for admission to school, or for the purpose of securing employment: And provided further, That the Unitd States Census

Bureau may obtain, without expense to the State, transcripts of births and deaths without payment of the fees herein prescribed.

(b) If, upon such search, it shall develop that for any cause any birth or death or marriage occurring in this State was not registered in conformity with the provisions of law in effect at the time when such birth or death or marriage occurred by the filing of the certificate therefor with the local registrar within a period of one year from the date of the event, any person beneficially interested in establishng of record the fact of such birth or death or marriage may petition the superior court of the county in which such birth or death or marriage is alleged to have occurred for an order judicially establishing the fact of such birth or death or marriage. Such petition shall be verified and shall contain all the data necessary to enable the court, upon hearing the same, to determine the fact of such birth or death or marriage upon the proofs adduced in behalf of the petitioner at the hearing thereof. A copy of such petition shall be served upon the local registrar of vital statistics, and also upon the district attorney of the county in which such birth or death or marriage is alleged to have occurred, and either of said officials shall have the right in his discretion to appear at such hearing and oppose the making of such order. Such hearing shall be had at such time as the court may appoint, not less than 10 days subsequent to the date of filing such petition, and notice thereof must be given by publication for the same time and in the same manner required by law to be given prior to the hearing of the petition for the admission to probate of any will, or the issuance of letters testamentary or of administration thereon.

If, upon such hearing, the proofs of the allegation of the petition are established, to the satisfaction of the court, the court may make an order determining that such birth, death, or marriage did in fact occur in such county and at the time shown by the proofs adduced upon such hearing.

Such order must be made in the form and upon the blank prescribed and furnished by the State registrar and but one birth, death, or marriage may be included therein. And said order shall become effective upon the filing of a certified copy thereof with the local registrar of vital statistics, and the delivery therewith for transmittal to the State registrar of a standard certificate containing such facts and signatures as are obtainable, and upon the filing of a certified copy of said order with the State registrar.

Death Certificates-Correction of Errors on. (Ch. 650, Act May 27, 1919.)

SECTION. 1. Section 13 of an act entitled "An act to establish a State board of embalmers, defining the duties thereof, providing for the better protection of life and health, preventing the spread of contagious disease, regulating the practice of embalming in connection with the care and disposition of the dead and providing penalties for the violation thereof," approved April 16, 1915, is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 13. Whenever it may be alleged that the facts are not correctly stated in any certificate of death theretofore registered, the local registrar shall require an affidavit under oath to be made by the person asserting the fact, to be supported by the affidavit of one other credible person having knowledge of the facts, setting forth the changes necessary to make the record correct. Having received such affidavits, the local registrar shall file them and shall then draw a line through the incorrect statement or statements in the certificate, without erasing them, and make the necessary corrections, noting on the margin of the certificate his authority for so doing, and transmit the affidavits, attached to the original certificate, when making his regular monthly returns to the State registrar. If the correction relates to a certificate previously returned to the

State registrar, the local registrar shall transmit the affidavit forthwith to the State registrar. If the correction is first made upon the original certificate on file in the State bureau of vital statistics, the State registrar shall transmit a certified copy of the original certificate, corrected as above, to the local registrar, who shall thereupon substitute such certified copy for the copy of the certificate in his records. All such corrections and marginal notes referring to them shall be legibly written in ink, typewritten or printed.

Dead Bodies-Removal. (Ch. 362, Act May 19, 1919.)

SECTION 1. Section 10 of an act entitled "An act to provide a central bureau for the preservation of records of marriages, births, and deaths; the establishment of registration districts under the superintendence of the State bureau of vital statistics; the issuance and registration of burial and disinterment per mits 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, undertakers, sextons, and other persons in relation to such registration and to fix penalties for violation of this act; to create the office 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. 10. The removal of a dead body from one registration district to another must be accompanied by a yellow transit paster prepared according to a form prescribed by the State board of embalmers and approved by the State board of health.

Sewers, Water Mains, Etc.—Construction and Maintenance Jointly by Municipalities or Sanitary Districts. (Ch. 109, Act May 5, 1919.) SECTION 1. Section 4 of an act entitled "An act authorizing municipal corporations to permit other municipal corporations to construct and maintain sewers, water mains, and other conduits therein, also to construct and maintain sewers, water mains, and other conduits for their joint benefit, and at their joint expense, and to make and enter into contracts for said purposes," approved March 22, 1909, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

SEC. 4. Whenever the city councils, sanitary boards, or other legislative bodies of two or more municipal corporations, two or more sanitary districts, or one or more municipal corporations, and one or more sanitary districts, shall by resolutions adopted by them determine and declare that it will be for the interest or advantage of such municipal corporations or sanitary districts to do so, such municipal corporations or sanitary districts, by their respective councils, sanitary boards, or other legislative bodies, may enter into a joint agreement authorizing and providing for the joint construction and maintenance of sewers, water mains, or other conduits situated in the streets or other public places of either or any of such municipal corporations or sanitary districts, including the joint construction and maintenance of all necessary outfall sewers, whether constructed within or outside of the exterior boundaries of such municipal corporations or sanitary districts, and by such joint agree ment shall provide for the joint payment of the cost and expense of and for the joint use, benefit, and maintenance of all such sewers, outfall sewers, water mains, and other conduits, upon such terms and conditions, and under such regulations, as may be approved by the city councils, sanitary boards, or other legislative bodies of all such municipal corporations or sanitary districts; and the city council, sanitary board, or other legislative body of each such

municipal corporation or sanitary district may, and are hereby vested with power to, bind and obligate such municipal corporations or sanitary districts to pay such proportionate part of the cost of the construction of such sewer, outfall sewer, water mains, or other conduits, at such times and in such installments as may be provided for in such joint agreement. All contracts for the construction of sewers, outfall sewers, water mains, or other conduits under the provisions of this section shall be made and entered into by the one of such municipal corporations or sanitary districts designated by the city councils, sanitary boards, or other legislative bodies of all such municipal corporations or sanitary districts, and in the manner provided in section 3 of this act. Two or more municipal corporations, two or more sanitary districts, or one or more municipal corporations, and one or more sanitary districts, may also, by their city councils, sanitary boards, or other legislative bodies, enter into an agreement or agreements with each other for the joint use by such municipal corporations or sanitary districts, of any sewers, outfall sewers, water mains, or other conduits theretofore constructed in whole or in part in the streets or other public places of either or any such municipal corporations or sanitary districts, upon such terms and conditions as they by mutual agreement may by their respective city councils, sanitary boards, or other legislative bodies determine to be proper. Authority is hereby specifically granted to use the streets within the public corporations entering into such an agreement for the construction and maintenance of sewers provided for by this section, and whenever it is necessary to extend such sewers without the limits of the public corporations entering into such joint or mutual agreement then authority is hereby granted to use public highways without the limits of an incorporated city for the construction and maintenance of such sewers, subject only to the right of the board of supervisors to make reasonable police regulations for the protection of the highways so used.

SEC. 2. A new section is hereby added to the said act approved March 22, 1909, to be numbered 5 and to read as follows:

SEC. 5. Whenever any municipal corporation or sanitary district shall enter into a joint agreement for the joint construction and maintenance of sewers, outfall sewers, water mains, or other conduits, as provided for in section 4 of this act, then the proportionate part of the cost and expense of the construction and maintenance of such sewers, outfall sewers, water mains, or other conduits required to be paid by such municipal corporation or sanitary district, as provided for in the joint agreement entered into by any such municipal corporation or sanitary district, may be raised by any means provided by law including the issuance and sale of the bonds of such municipal corporation or sanitary district.

SEC. 3. A new section is hereby added to the said act approved March 22, 1909, to be numbered 6 and to read as follows:

SEC. 6. Whenever, in the construction of any sewer, outfall sewer, water main, or other conduit authorized or provided for by this act it shall become necessary to take or damage private property, all such property necessary may be condemned and taken by appropriate action under the right of eminent domain. Such action shall in all respects be subject to and governed by the code of civil procedure relating to eminent domain: Provided, That all such actions may be brought by and in the name of the one of the municipal corporations or sanitary districts designated by all of the municipal corporations or sanitary districts which have entered into such joint agreement for the construction thereof.

Public Health Work-Counties and Municipalities May Contract with Each Other to Secure Performance of. (Ch. 108, Act May 5, 1919.)

SECTION 1. A new section is hereby added to the political code to be numbered 4225a, and to read as follows:

4225a. The board of supervisors of any county wherein a county health officer has been appointed under the provisions of section 4225 of the political code shall have power to contract with any incorporated city or town or chartered city within such county, and such incorporated city, town, or chartered city therein, through its board of trustees, council, or other legislative body, shall have power to contract with such county for the performance by health officers or other employees of health departments of any or all functions relating to public health. Whenever such contract has been duly entered into, the county health officer and his deputies shall thereupon exercise the same powers and duties within such city or town or chartered city as are conferred upon health officers thereof by State law and local ordinance within such city or county. In any such contract the city, town, or chartered city shall have power and authority to provide for the payment by such incorporated city or town or chartered city to the county of such consideration as may be agreed upon, the same to be paid to the county treasurer of the county.

The board of supervisors of any county may contract with any incorporated city or town or chartered city within such county, through its board of trustees, council, or other legislative body, to secure the performance by the health officer or other health department employees of such city, town, or chartered city, or in any unincorporated territory adjacent thereto, of any or all functions relating to public health. Payment for said services in such unincorporated territory shall be made by the county to the city treasurer of such city or town or chartered city.

Said contracts may further provide for the care and support, including medical attendance, of indigent sick, and for compensation therefor.

Public Swimming Pools and Appurtenances-Construction and Operation. (Reg. Bd. of H., Aug. 2, 1919.)

RULE 1. Safety of pool water.-All the water in the pool and applied to the pool shall be continuously safe hygienically. As a tentative standard a total bacterial count of 1,000 colonies per cubic centimeter on agar incubated at 37.50° C. and a B. coli count of 1 per cubic centimeter is set for the pool water in any part of the pool, examined within 48 hours after sampling. All tests are to be made in accordance with the latest methods of the American Public Health Association.

Note. Tests will be made at the laboratory of this bureau on request for sample bottles.

The suggestion is offered that the requirements of this rule can be met by any of the following methods and perhaps others, in order of preference:

(a) Continuous addition of new water in amount to supply each bather with perhaps 800 to 2,000 gallons per swim. The figure varies greatly with the concentration in the pool, class of patronage, care in enforcing showers, and general sanitary surroundings, and can not be established except by trial.

Pools in which the entire pool is emptied nightly may meet this standard, but pools in which the water is held for a longer period can not meet it without disinfection, as discussed in (b) and (c).

Under ordinary circumstances, where the water supply is purchased and heated, the dilution method is costly and likely prohibitive.

(b) Recirculating method, whereby the contents of the pool are pumped from the pool, disinfected, and returned to the pool. It appears necessary that the pump have a capac