CHAP. 245 Licenses may be issued to owners of spaces used for advertising purposes. Power of superinten dent of state police ing a hazard to traffic. SEC. 3. Section 3026 of the general statutes is amended to read as follows: The superintendent of state police may issue to any person owning or leasing any space for advertising purposes, a license authorizing the use of such space for such purpose, upon payment by such person of a fee determined as provided in section 3025 of the general statutes, which license shall state the location and size of such surface and shall be for one year from the date thereof, provided no such license shall be issued authorizing the use of advertising space so located as to obscure the view of any driver of any vehicle upon the highway, or upon an intersecting highway or highways to such an extent as to constitute a hazard to traffic. Any advertisement placed upon any such surface shall be exempt from the payment of any license fee during the period for which such space is so licensed. SEC. 4. Upon complaint made to the superintendent of as to signs constitut- state police that any advertising sign erected adjacent to any public highway constitutes such a hazard to traffic, the superintendent shall set a time and place for a hearing on such complaint, and shall give reasonable notice of such hearing, by registered mail, to the lessee of such premises who has control of such sign, and to the complainant. If, upon hearing, the superintendent of state police shall find that such sign constitutes such a hazard to traffic he shall order the lessee of such premises who has control of such sign to remove the same within thirty days. If such lessee shall fail to remove such sign within the time so ordered, the superintendent of state police shall order the highway commissioner to remove such sign, without unnecessary damage. Appeal from order of superintendent of state police for ing signs. SEC. 5. The owner of the premises upon which such sign is erected or the lessee of such premises having control of such removal of advertis- sign may, within ten days after the removal of such sign is ordered, appeal to the court of common pleas in the county wherein such sign is located, or if there be no court of common pleas then to the superior court of the county, or to the judge thereof if said court be not in session, and in such appeal may allege that such sign does not constitute such a hazard to traffic, and ask that the superintendent of state police be restrained from ordering the removal of such sign. The appellant shall file, with such appeal, a bond, with sufficient surety, in the amount of one hundred dollars to prosecute such appeal to effect, and such appeal shall be privileged as to assignment for hearing. If said court or judge shall find that such sign does not constitute such a hazard to traffic he shall issue an order to the superintendent of state police restraining him from ordering the removal of such sign and if such court or judge shall find that such sign constitutes such a hazard, such appeal shall be dismissed and an order of removal of such sign shall be issued. Approved, June 1, 1921. CHAP. 246 [Substitute for House Bill No. 723.] CHAPTER 246. An Act concerning Personal Tax. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in vided. SECTION 1. Section 1154 of the general statutes is amend- Personal tax proed to read as follows: Every person between the ages of twentyone and sixty years shall, except as otherwise specially provided by law, be liable to pay a personal tax of two dollars for town and state taxes. to compile lists of persons liable for taxes. SEC. 2. Section 1155 of the general statutes is amended Registrars of voters to read as follows: The registrars of voters unless otherwise specially provided by law, of every consolidated town and city, the warden of every consolidated town and borough, and the selectmen of every other town shall, annually, make a list of all persons between the ages of twenty-one and sixty years residing in their respective towns on the first day of October in each year, and shall lodge said list in the town clerk's office on or before the thirty-first day of December for public inspection. This section shall not repeal the provision of section 739 of the eneral statutes. Approved, June 1, 1921. [Senate Bill No. 657.] CHAPTER 247. An Act providing for the Appointment of a State Agent to Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in duties of state agent. SECTION 1. The treasurer shall, upon the passage of this Appointment and act, appoint a state agent who shall hold office until July 1, 1921, and on or before July 1, 1921, and biennially thereafter, the treasurer shall appoint a state agent who shall hold office for two years and until his successor is appointed and qualified. Said state agent shall administer the provisions of chapter 323 of the public acts of 1919, entitled "An Act providing Aid for Widows having Dependent Children," approved May 13, 1919, and shall exercise the authority and discharge the duties conferred under the provisions of chapter 345 of the public acts of CHAP. 248 1919 entitled "An Act concerning the Administration of the Laws concerning State Paupers and Indigent Persons," approved May 21, 1919. Establishment of special laboratories for research work authorized. Establishment of laboratories restricted. State department of health may join with municipalities and inistitutions in establishing laboratories. [Substitute for House Bill No. 927.] CHAPTER 248. An Act establishing Special Laboratories for Examinations and Research Work. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in SECTION 1. The commissioner of health, with the approval of the public health council, may establish and maintain district or special laboratories for physical, chemical or bacteriological examinations or research work for the protection and preservation of public health. SEC. 2. No such laboratory shall be established or maintained in any district where the laboratory service provided by section 2370 of the general statutes as amended by chapter 62 of the public acts of 1919 can be utilized without prejudice to health within said district, provided research or emergency laboratories may be located to the best advantage for the work contemplated. SEC. 3. To provide for laboratory service as authorized in this act, the state department of health may join with municipalities or institutions in establishing or maintaining laboratories, provided such agreements as shall be made for the apportionment of the expenses thereof shall be approved by the comptroller. Approved, June 1, 1921. Treasurer to cover back unexpended balances of certain appropriations. [House Bill No. 969.] CHAPTER 249. An Act concerning Duties of the Treasurer in Regard to Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives ira Section 103 of the general statutes is amended to read as follows: The treasurer shall, except as hereinafter provided, cover back into the treasury all unexpended balances belonging to any specific appropriation three months after the close of the period covered by such appropriation, and the comptroller is authorized to draw orders on such appropriations during said three months for the payment of expenses properly incurred, or the fulfillment of contracts properly made during said period, and for no other purpose; provided the provisions of this section shall not apply to appropriations for the improvement of public roads, which appropriations shall be continuous and no part thereof shall be covered back into the treasury. The treasurer shall specify the amount of each balance so covered back in the book of estimates next succeeding the time when such balances are covered back into the treasury. Approved, June 1, 1921. CHAP. 250 [House Bill No. 968.] CHAPTER 250. An Act concerning Inventories of State Property. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in State departments and institutions to make and establish an inventory account. SECTION 1. Each state department and state institution shall, before July 1, 1921, and annually thereafter, transmit to the state comptroller a detailed inventory, as of June first, of all property, real or personal, owned by the state and in the custody of said department or institution, and, subject to the direction of the comptroller, establish an inventory account. SEC. 2. Each state department and institution shall keep Inventory account to an inventory account established as hereinbefore provided in the form prescribed by and under the direction of the comptroller. Such accounts shall be audited by the state auditors. Approved, June 1, 1921. be maintained. [House Bill No. 970.] CHAPTER 251. An Act concerning Salaries of State Officials and Employees. Section 2208 of the general statutes is amended to read as follows: All annual and per diem salaries shall be payable on the last business day of the month wherein the services were rendered; and the comptroller shall draw on the treasurer for the same. Approved, June 1, 1921. CHAP. 252 Compensation and fees of official stenographers. [Substitute for Senate Bill No. 101.] CHAPTER 252. An Act amending an Act concerning the Compensation of Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Section 2229 of the general statutes as amended by chapter 300 of the public acts of 1919 is amended to read as follows: Official stenographers shall each receive fifteen dollars for each day when attending court, to be paid as court expenses. When assistant stenographers are employed as authorized by law, each of said assistants shall in like manner receive fifteen dollars a day for each day when attending court; and all official and assistant stenographers shall be entitled, in addition to the compensation herein before provided, to ten cents for each folio of one hundred words when transcribed from the original shorthand notes as provided by law. The fee for a transcript of said notes when made for the court or for the state's attorney when acting in his official position, and for one copy each to the plaintiff and defendant, shall, upon the certificate of the presiding judge having so ordered said transcript, be paid as other court expenses; in all other cases by the party ordering the same, and shall be furnished within a reasonable time. The official stenographer of the superior court of any county, or any assistant stenographer acting in his stead, and the stenographer of any court of common pleas, or his assistant, while attending such court in a town other than that in which he resides, shall receive, in addition to the compensation allowed by law, actual traveling expenses, the same to be taxed and paid as other court expenses. Approved, June 14, 1921. Credit authorized for certain licenses paid by manufacturers and dealers in imitation butter. [House Bill No. 979.] CHAPTER 253. An Act providing for a Portion of the License Fees Paid by for Renewal. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Any manufacturer or user of, or dealer in, oleomargarine, butterine or renovated butter, licensed under the provisions of sections 2450 of the general statutes, shall, upon application |