Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1913-08-22

following terms as used in this section
shall be construed as follows,
(a) The term .hotel'' shall mean and
embrace all buildings or other structures
kept, used end maintained as places
wherein sleeping accommodations are Of
fered for pay to transient guests with or
without meals in which five or more
rooms are used for the accommodation of
IsSuch transient guests, and shall also
mean and embrace all buildings or places
used In connection Herewith.
(b) The term RESTAURANT as used
herein shall mean and embrace all build
maintained as places wherein meals and
lunches are served without sleeping ac-
commodations for transient guests, to-
gether with all buildings or places used
in connection Herewith.
lc) The term public health and
safety" as used herein shall be con-
strued to mean the highest degree OF
protection against infection, contagion
and disease that a hotel or restaurant
will reasonably permit.
2. On or before January !, 1914 ana
each year thereafter, every person, nrm
or corporation now engaged In the Dusl-
ness of conducting a hotel or restaurant,
or both, and every person, firm or cor
poration who shall hereafter engage In
conducting such business, shall procure
permit from the state board Of health for
each hotel or restaurant so conducted or
proposed to be conducted; provided that
one permit shall be sufficient Tor eacn
combined hotel and restaurant where both
are conducted in the same building ana
under the same management. Each per-
NIT shall expire on the 31st day OF De-
cember next following the issuance no
hotel or restaurant shall be advertised or
held out to the public as such or be main
tanned and conducted in this state, aIter
the taking effect of this act without a
permit therefor; and no permit shall be
transferable.
g. The annual fee for a permit to con-
duct a hotel or restaurant In this state
shall be two dollars; provided that for
hotels containing more than thirty sleep
ing rooms used for transient guests, the
fee shall be three dollars. All such fees
shall be paid to the secretary OF the
state board Of health before said permit
is issued, and the secretary of the said
board shall, weekly, pay into the state
treasury ali fees collected for permits
issued during the preceding week.
a. The board of health shall, upon re-
quest therefor, furnish to any person,
firm or corporation desiring to conduct
hotel or restaurant the necessary ap-
plication blank for permit which the
applicant shall fill in, stating the full
of the building, or BOTH the lessee and
manager Of such hotel or restaurant, to-
gether with a full description of the
building and property to be used or pro-
stating the location Of the same and such
other information as the state board OF
health may require. Such app1catlon,
upon its return to the state board OF
health, shall be accompanied by the per-
nit fee herein required.
S. 1t shall be the duty Of every person,
firm or corporation owning, managing,
controlling or maintaining any hotel or
restaurant in this state to conduct and
maintain the same with a strict regard to
the public health and safety and 1t shall
be unlawful for any person, firm or cor
poration owning managing or MAINTAIN
ing any such hotel or restaurant to con-
duct or maintin the same in violation or
the provisions of this section or in VIOLA
ton Of any rule, regulation or order made
or adopted by the state board Of health,
as herein provided.
g. 1t shall be the duty Of the state
| board of health, and it shall have power.
jurisdiction and authority in addition to
other powers and duties conferred upon
1t by law:
ca To engage or appoint such assist
ants or inspectors as may be needed in
carrying out the provisions of this section
and such inspectors or appolntees SHAH
possess such qualifications as the state
board Of health may determine are neces-
sary to successfully carry on the work. to
fix their compensation and to assign to
them their duties;
CD To administer and enforce the
laws relating to the public health and
safety and sanitation in hotels and res
taurants;
(o) To investigate, ascertain, declare
and prescribe what alterations, improve
ments or other means or methods are
reasonably necessary for the protection
of the public health and safety in hotels
and restaurants;
(d) To ascertain and fix such reason
able standards and to prescribe, modify
and enforce such reasonable orders for
the adoption of improvements and other
means or methods to be as nearly uniform
as possible, as may be necessary to carry
out all laws and lawful orders relative to
| the protection of the public health and
| safety in hotels and restaurants;
(e) To adopt reasonable and proper
| rules and regulations relative to the ex-
ercise OF It's powers and authorities to
carry out the provisions OF this section
and proper rules to govern its proceed
| ings and to regulate the mode and man
ner of all Investigations, inspections and
hearings; such rules and regulations shall
not be effective until ten days after their
publication. A copy Of such rules and
regulations shall be delivered to every
citizen making application therefor
z. Amy person, firm or corporation In
interest, being dissatisfied with any order
of the state board Of health, may COM
mence an action in the circuit court for
Dane county against the commission as
defendant to vacate and set aside any
such order on the ground that the order
is unlawful, or that any such order is un-
reasonable, in which action the COM
laint shall be served with the summons.
The procedure to review orders Of the
board and for the reconsideration Of mat
tiers not fully heard by the board as pro-
vided and prescribed in sections 2394-68
and 2394-69 shall, so far as applicable,
! govern in such action or proceedings.
s. ALI orders of the state board of
health in carrying out the provisions Of
this section, in conformity with law, shall
be in force, and shall be prima facie
| lawful; and all such orders shall be valid
and in force, and prima facie reasonable
and lawful until they are found otherwise
in an action brought for that purpose
pursuant to the provisions Of subsection z
of this section or until altered or re-
voked by the board.
g. Any person, firm or corporation
owning, leasing, managing or conduct
ing any hotel or restaurant in violation
of any of the provisions of this section
or in violation of any rule or regulation
of the state board of health shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon
conviction thereof shall be punished by
fine of not less than twenty-five nor
more than two hundred dollars; and any
person, firm or corporation conducting a
hotel or restaurant in violation of any
order Of the state board of health, after
such order shall have been served upon
or directed to such person, firm or cor
poration, shall be deemed guilty Of mis-
demeanor and upon conviction thereof
shall forfeit five dollars for each and
every day of such noncompliance with