Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-07-09
LAWS ARE in FORCE
LEGISLATION ENACTED BY THlR.
TEETH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
EFFECTIVE JULY 4.

TEETH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
EFFECTIVE JULY 4.
The Juvenile Court Law Revised,
Compulsory Education Law, Auto.
mobile Law and Others in Force.
The Juvenile court law, the compul-
sorry education law, the automobile
law, the news laws concerning the
registration of births and deaths, and
the law increasing the penalty for at
tempts to kill and many others enact.
ed by the last general assembly be-
came effective Monday, July 4. All
legislation enacted by the thirtieth
general assembly which was not made
effective Immediately upon its pas
sage became effective on that date.
Some Of the more important Of these
laws are as follows:
Register Births and Deaths.
Another statute now effective com.
pletely revises the rules regarding the
registration of births and deaths.
Every physician, every township and
city official and the head of the family
in which birth or death occur are
affected! Severe penalty attaches to
failure to make the proper registry
and to pay the fees connected there
with
Changing Of names Is also very
important proceeding under new
statute which is now in effect. 1t is
of especial Importance to Scandi-
nayians to study the provision Of the
lengthy statute covering this matter.
Compulsory Education Law.
1t Is now not only necessary for all
children to attend school, but the new
law renders 1t necessary for them to
attend school for the required period
beginning at the opening Of the fall
term. The period Of compulsory at
tendance Is also extended to sixteen
weeks. Under the former statute the
pupil was required to attend but
twelve weeks year and the law left
1t open so that the child might elect
to attend the last twelve weeks in.
stead of the first, and could defend
against any prosecution on the ground
that he had simply not got around to
it yet. The new law virtually makes
compulsory education effective in
Iowa for the first time.
OIL Inspector Law Effective.
Another important change relates tc
oil inspectors By the terms of the
new statute one chief oil inspectorshir
Is established and he assigned q
large number Of assistants. The meth
cd of testing oils is also greatly chang
| ed
The manner Of publishing legal no
tees also experiences an important
change
OF most Immediate effect about the
state house in Des Moines is the Law
which growing out of the Merriam
state officers who are compensated b!
means Of fees and commissions, shall
turn all such fees and commissions in
to the Office of the state treasurer, who
In turn pays them to the proper offlci
| ais.
Automobiles Must Register.
Secretary Of State W. B. Martin, Il
most directly interested in the new
law which is now effective, requir
ing that every motor vehicle in tn,
state be registered with him at cos
Of 81 per vehicle. Automobile own
ers all over the state are affected I'm
less they have registered and liable
to arrest If they make public ap
pearance in their machines.
Many features Of the new inebriat
laws became effective for the first tim
4 Monday. One hundred and twenty fiv
thousand dollars is to be expended i'm
mediately in erecting state hospita
for the inebriates at Knoxville. Unde
new laws it is made criminal offens
for any inmate to escape or attemp
to escape and heavy penalty attache
to any person assisting them. Pre-
i vision Is also made for the punishment
of any one who furnishes liquor to an
! one who has been an inmate of thi
hospital.
Among the most important law
operative is that creating juvenil
court. By the provisions o
this statute all magistrates
including justices of the peace an
police judges as well as judges of tn
: district court are given greatly er
larged powers in dealing with juve
: nile prisoners. 1t virtually suspend
: existing criminal statutes in so far a
ordinary offenses are concerned, an
: permits the court to make any orde
: respecting the defendant that his dis
y erection tells him is best calculated t
4 effect the reform of the child TIL
Y law is similar to that tried success
fully in Denver and Chicago. In tn
J. latter place there is special cour
\ for jevenile offenders.
:. One of the most important change
in the criminal statutes is that whic
increases the penalty for attempte
murder. 1t was enacted with a vie
i. to covering such cases as the assau
which resulted in the death of Pres
y dent Mckinley. Had the crime o,
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