ized by the commission, and the same shall be paid into the State treasury before any such securities shall be issued. Provided that no public utility shall be required to pay any fee for permission granted to it by any such commission in any of the following cases:

(1) To guarantee bonds or other securities.

(2) To issue bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness issued for the purpose of converting, exchanging, taking over, refunding, discharging or retiring any bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness except:

(a) When issued for an aggregate period of longer than two years for the purpose of converting, exchanging, taking over, refunding, discharging or retiring any note, or renewals thereof, issued without the consent of such State Public Utilities Commission of Illinois or such Public Utilities Commission.

(b) When issued for the purpose of converting, exchanging, taking over, refunding, discharging or retiring bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness issued prior to January 1, 1914, and upon which no fee has been previously paid.

FILED June 29, 1917.

This bill having remained with the Governor ten days, Sundays excepted, the General Assembly being in session, it has thereby become a law. Witness my hand this twenty-ninth day of June, A. D. 1917.

LOUIS L. EMMERSON, Secretary of State.

RAILROADS AND WAREHOUSES.

SAFETY APPLIANCES.

§ 1. Amends section 6, Act of 1905.

§ 6. Exemptions-penalty.

(SENATE BILL No. 353. FILED JUNE 29. 1917.)

AN ACT to amend section 6 of "An Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in moving traffic by railroad between points in the State of Illinois to equip their cars with automatic couplers and continuous brakes, and their locomotives with driving wheel brakes, and for other purposes," approved May 12, 1905, in force July 1, 1905.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section 6 of an Act entitled "An Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in moving traffic by railroad between points in the State of Illinois to equip their cars with automatic couplers and continuous brakes, and their locomotives with driving wheel brakes, and for other purposes," approved May 12, 1905, in force July 1, 1905, be and hereby is amended so as to read as follows:

§ 6. That any such common carrier using any locomotive, or tender running any train, or hauling or permitting to be hauled or used on its lines any car, or similar vehicle, in violation of any of the provisions of this Act shall be liable to a penalty of one hundred dollars for each and every such violation to be recovered in a suit or suits to be brought by the State's attorney in the Circuit Court of the county having jurisdiction in the locality where such violation shall have occurred; and it

shall be the duty of such State's attorney to bring such suits upon duly verified information being lodged with him of such violation having occurred; and it shall be the duty of the State Public Utilities Commission of Illinois to lodge with the proper State's attorneys information of any such violations as may come to its knowledge; Provided, that nothing in this Act contained shall apply to trains composed of four wheel cars or to trains composed of eight wheel standard logging cars, where the height of such car from the tops of the rails to the center of the couplings does not exceed twenty-five inches, or to locomotives used in hauling such trains when such cars or locomotives are exclusively used for the transportation of logs, or to street cars, or to trains, locomotives, tenders, cars and similar vehicles used in interstate commerce; And provided that nothing in this Act contained, except as to the requirements of section 2 of this Act shall apply to locomotives operated on any narrow gauge surface railway which does not interchange cars with any connecting railway, or to four wheel cars having a capacity of not to exceed eight tons, or trains composed of such cars, operated on such narrow gauge railway.

And provided further that nothing in this Act contained shall in any manner affect the power, authority and jurisdiction of the State Public Utilities Commission of Illinois to make and enforce any orders, rules or regulations it may now or at any time be authorized by law to make or enforce with regard to the health and safety of the employees, passengers and customers of such railway or the public.

FILED June 29, 1917.

This bill having remained with the Governor ten days, Sundays excepted, the General Assembly being in session, it has thereby become a law. Witness my hand this twenty-ninth day of June, A. D. 1917. LOUIS L. EMMERSON, Secretary of State.

AN ACT to regulate cold storage of certain articles of food.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: For the purpose of this Act,

"cold storage" shall mean the storage or keeping of articles of food at or below a temperature above zero of 45 degrees Fahrenheit in a cold storage warehouse; "cold storage warehouse" shall mean any place artificially cooled to or below a temperature above zero of 45 degrees Fahrenheit, in which articles of food are placed and held for thirty days or more; "article of food" shall mean fresh meat and fresh meat products and all fish, game, poultry, eggs and butter.

§ 2. No person, firm or corporation shall maintain or operate a cold storage warehouse without a license so to do issued by the Department of Agriculture. And person, firm or corporation desiring such a license shall make written application to the Department of Agriculture for that purpose, stating the location of the warehouse. The Department of Agriculture thereupon shall cause an examination to be made of said warehouse and, if it be found by him to be in a proper sanitary condition and otherwise properly equipped for its intended use, he shall issue a license authorizing the applicant to operate the same as a cold storage warehouse during one year. The license shall be issued upon payment of the applicant of a license fee of $25.00 per annum to the Department of Agriculture.

§3. In case any cold storage warehouse, or any part thereof, shall at any time be deemed by the Department of Agriculture, to be in an unsanitary condition, or not properly equipped for its intended use, he shall notify the licensee of such condition and upon the failure of the licensee to put such cold storage warehouse in a sanitary condition or to properly equip the same for its intended use, within a time to be designated by the Department of Agriculture, he shall revoke such license.

§ 4. Every such licensee shall keep accurate records of the articles. of food received in and of the articles of food withdrawn from his cold storage warehouse, and the Department of Agriculture shall have free access to such records at any time. Every such licensee shall submit a monthly report to the Department of Agriculture, setting forth in itemized particulars the quantities and kinds of articles of food in his cold storage warehouse. Such monthly reports shall be filed on or before the fifth day of each month, and the reports so rendered shall show the conditions existing on the last day of the preceding month reported and a summary of such reports shall be prepared by the Department of Agriculture and shall be open to public inspection on or before the tenth day of each month.

§ 5. The Department of Agriculture shall inspect and supervise all cold storage warehouses and make such inspection of articles of food. therein as he may deem necessary to secure the proper enforcement of this Act, and he shall have access to all cold storage warehouses at all reasonable times. The Department of Agriculture may appoint such persons as he deems qualified to make any inspection under this Act.

§ 6. No article of food intended for human consumption shall be placed, knowingly, received or kept in any cold storage warehouse, if diseased, tainted, otherwise unfit for human consumption, or in such condition that it will not keep wholesome for human consumption. No article of food, for use other than for human consumption, shall be

placed, received or kept in any cold storage warehouse unless previously marked, in accordance with forms to be prescribed by the Department of Agriculture, in such a way as to indicate plainly the fact that such article of food is not to be sold or used for human food.

§ 7. No person, firm or corporation shall place, receive or keep in any cold storage warehouse in this State articles of food unless the same shall be plainly marked, stamped or tagged, either upon the container in which they are packed, or upon the article of food itself, with the date when placed therein; and no person, firm or corporation shall remove, or allow to be removed, such article of food from any cold storage warehouse unless the same shall be plainly marked, stamped or tagged, either on the container in which it is enclosed or upon the article of food itself, with the date of such removal, and such marks, stamps and tags shall be prima facie evidence of such receipt and removal and of the dates thereof. All articles of food in any cold storage warehouse at the time this Act goes into effect shall, before being removed therefrom, be plainly marked, stamped or tagged with the date when this Act goes into effect and the date of removal therefrom.

§ 8. No person, firm or corporation shall hereafter keep or permit to remain in any cold storage warehouse any article of food which has been held in cold storage either within or without the State, for a longer aggregate period than twelve months, except with the approval of the Director of the Department of Agriculture as hereinafter provided. The Director of the Department of Agriculture may, from time to time, upon application in writing, extend the period of storage beyond twelve months for any particular article of food, provided the same is found upon examination by the Department of Agriculture to be in wholesome condition for further cold storage. The length of time for which such further storage is allowed shall be specified in the order granting the extension. A report on each case in which such extension of storage may be permitted, including information relating to the reason for the action of the said Director, the kinds and amounts of the articles of food for which the storage period was extended, and length of time for which this extension was granted, shall be filed, open to publie inspection, in the office of said Director. The Director of Agriculture shall have power to order any article of food held in cold storage to be removed therefrom before the expiration of the first period of twelve months or before the expiration of any period of extension granted by him for any of the following reasons:

(1) That the storage of the article of food beyond the time fixed by the Director of the Department of Agriculture in his order of removal will render such article of food unwholesome;

(2) That the person, firm or corporation storing such article of food has entered into a contract, agreement or understanding for the purpose or with the intent of fictitiously increasing the price of such article of food;

(3) That the storage of such article of food is for the purpose or with the intent of fictitiously increasing the price thereof;

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(4) That the storage of such article of food tends to create a mon

(5) That the stortge of such article of food tends to restrain or prevent competition in this State in the supply or price of such article. Before such article of food shall be ordered removed from storage, the Director of Agriculture shall give at least five days notice in writing of his intention to make such order, and shall accord the person, firm or corporation receiving such notice a full hearing thereon..

§ 9. It shall be unlawful to sell, or to offer for sale, any article of food which has been held for a period of thirty days or over in cold storage either within or without the State, without notifying persons purchasing, or intending to purchase, the same, that it has been so held, by the display of a placard plainly and conspicuously marked, "Cold Storage Goods," on the bulk mass or articles of food; and it shall be unlawful to represent or advertise as fresh any article of food which has been held in cold storage for a period of thirty days or over.

§ 10. It shall be unlawful to return to any cold storage warehouse any article of food which has been once released from storage for the purpose of placing it on the market for sale. It shall be unlawful to transfer any article of food from one cold storage warehouse to another if such transfer is made for the purpose of avoiding any provision of this Act, and such transfer shall be unlawful unless all prior stampings, markings and taggings upon such article shall remain thereon.

§ 11. The Department of Agriculture may make all necessary rules and regulations to carry this Act into effect. Such rules shall be filed in the Director's office, and shall not take effect until five (5) days after such filing.

§ 12. Any person, firm or corporation violating any provision of this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall upon conviction be punished for the first offense by a fine not exceeding one hundred ($100) and for the second or any subsequent offense by a fine not exceeding five hundred ($500) or by imprisonment of not more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.

§ 13. This Act shall be so interpreted and construed as to effect its general purpose to make uniform the law of those states which enact it.

§ 14. This Act may be cited as the Uniform Cold Storage Act. § 15. All Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with this Act hereby repealed.

FILED June 28, 1917.

This bill having remained with the Governor ten days, Sundays excepted, the General Assembly being in session, it has thereby become a law. Witness my hand this twenty-eighth day of June, A. D. 1917. LOUIS L. EMMERSON, Secretary of State.