Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-07-12
NEW STATE LAWS.
MANY ENAcTMENTs OF LAST SEES.
SION OF THE LEGISLATURE
GO INTO EFFECT
Beginning With July 4, Many Laws
Are In Force-A Resume of Some.
Of the Recent LegisIation-The Vital
Statistics of the Law.

large number of the laws enacted
by the last session of the legislature
went into effect July 4 A resume
of what these laws are would therefore
not be out of place at this time. Many
of these enactments cover points over
which there have been many grevious
struggles in the last legislature and the
preceding ones
One of the most important OF the
laws, which went into effect yesterday,
and one Of considerable interest local
ly, is the one which makes it obligatory
on the undertakers of the state to
cause certificates of death to be filed,
this heretofore having been the duty
of the attending physician. The follow
ing is the gist of the law:
The New Statistic Law.
The secretary of the state board OF
health is constituted state registrar OF
vital statistics, concerning deaths and
births and it will be his duty to pro-
mulgate and enforce such rules as may
be required to carry out the purpose
of this fact.
The undertaken or any person in
in the state of Iowa must fill out the
certificate of death, with statement
of the cause made out by the attending
physician, and shall file it with the
state registrar on or before the fifth
of each month.
1t will be the duty of the state reg
istrar to file with the clerk Of the dis
trict court Of each county on or before
the first day of February of each year
certified transcripts of the death certifi-
Gates filed with him during the past
year as we'll as to send similar tran
scripts to the U. S. Census bureau at
Washington. Also to arrange by coun-
ties, bind and deposit in the state his
torical building at Des Moines the orig
inal certificates.
1t will be the duty Of all assessors at
the time of making the assessment to
obtain and report to the clerk of the
district court the record of the births,
which have occurred in their respec-
tive districts.
The clerk of the district court is re-
quested to keep a book in which all
marriages and divorces, together with
such data concerning the same as the
state registrar shall require, shall be
recorded.
Other sections of the law make ap-
propriations for carrying out these
provisions and give penalties for any
failure to live up to the requirements
of the law.
The following new statutes became
effective July 4:
Fixing the rate for legal publications.
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township officers to coincide with the
provision of the biennial election
amendment.
Requiring county auditors to keep a
fee book.
Authorizing additional levy for libra
ry purposes.
Providing a uniform system of NUM-
cipal accounting.
Providing freedom of worship to in
mates of charitable state institutions.
Removing the circle from the ballot
I in all elections.
To exempt from taxation accumula-
ton and funds of fraternal benefit as
sociations.
Providing for the taxation Of state,
savings and national banks.
To encourage the protection and
planting of forest trees.
To encourage the use of wagons with
wide tires by remission Of part of road
! tax.
Authorizing life insurance companies
to invest funds in construction of of.
flee buildings.
Prohibiting issuance Of or accept
ance of free passes over steam or in
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public officials respectively.
Authorizing registration Of stations
and bulls.
Prohibiting the establishment of sa
looms within 200 feet of cemeteries.
Limiting petitions of consent to sell
or manufacture liquor to five years.
Prohibiting child labor in certain
cases.
Increasing powers and appropriation
of geological survey.
Increasing powers Of the state dairy
commissioner.
Prohibiting the transportation and
sale of dead birds, their plumage, feath
ers. skin, etc.
Prohibiting Importation into the
state of infected nursery stock.
Establishing course of clay working
and ceramics at state agricultural col
lege at Ames.
Raising the age limit for admission
to the girls industrial school from II
to Is years.
To preserve the public archives O.
the state
Authorizing state institutions to &C
cept requests.
To regulate assignment of wages.
/ Providing penalties for injury or de
struction Of sidewalks on Halloween
Prohibiting solicitation Of patronage
for immoral resorts.
Prohibiting the sale and manufac
ture of impure or adulterated foods.
Appropriating $500 for the dedica
ton Of Iowa monuments on southern
battlefields.