The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-20

March 20 1917.
SENATE BILL NO. 6S7.
AN ACT concerning state oil inspection, the
osene, gasoline and benzine and provid
ing for the appointment of deputies, pay
ment of the salaries and expenses, pro
viding for inspection fees; creating Il
revolving fund with which to pay the
expenses of the department, providing
for penalties for violation of the pro-
visions thereof and repeating sections
5o13, 5o16, 5o17, 5o1s, 5o29. 5032 and 1854
of the General Statutes of 1915.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the
State of Kansas
Section L That the state oil inspector
IS hereby authorized to appoint and assign
for duty a sufficient number of deputy
oil inspectors, SO as to provide thorough
and practical inspection required and
PROVIDED for under the laws of the state
OF Kansas covering inspection of oil, the
number of deputies may be increased
decreased from time to time conditions
may arise, provided that before the state
oil inspector shall increase decrease the
number of deputy inspectors he shall pro
cure the permission, approval and consent
! of the governor, but no more deputies shall
| be employed than is absolutely necessary
| for tie actual inspection required.
Sec. ,. The state inspector or his dep
uties are entitled to demand and receive
from the owner OF any and all oils or
fluids inspected the sum of three cents (}c)
per barrel, fifty 600 gallons to be con-
sidered and counted a barrel provided
however, that when it appears to the state
oil inspector and the governor that said
charge of three cents (3c) per barrel creates
fund more than sufficient to pay the
department then the state oil inspector,
with his deputies and the governor, may fix
fees in any sum less than three cents (5cl,
which, together with the revolving fund.
shall be sufficient to pay the expense of
inspection of al: oils and fluids:
| Sec. 3, 1t shall be the duty of the state
inspector and each deputy to keep an ac-
i curate record of all oils fluids tested
by him, which record shall state the day
of jr,Gn fftp of
tanned in each package, cask4or barrel, the
name of the person or company for whom
inspected, and the sum of money received
for such inspection, and such record shall
be open 20 examination by all persons in
ter.sted. -
That on the 10th day of each and every
month each deputy inspector shall for
ward to the state inspector true copy of
such record and shall remit all moneys
received by him for such inspection to the
state inspector.
The state Inspector Shall on or before
the Goth day of each and every month, :
der oath. make report of all oils OF fluids
inspected by himself. or his deputies and
stating the full amount of fees collected
for the preceding month, stating therein
his own and his depaties' salaries and
proper expense accounts. and said inspec-
tor shall, at the time of making his report
pay to the state treasurer all moneys re
ceived by him or his deputies fees for
the inspection of oils and fluids for the
preceding month. which money shall be
credited to the state oil inspection depart
! H.
1t is hereby made the duty of the state
treasurer to carry separate account upon
the books of his office of the said re-
volving fund and to be known.
All moneys SO entered in said fund shall
at all times, and after July LIST. 1917
be available for the use of the department
subject only to the constitutional provis-
ions of reappropriation of said revolving
fund by the legislature at each regular
session
See. L. There is hereby created in the
state treasury fund to be known as the
state oil inspection department revolving
fund. and is hereby appropriated TO such
fund all fees of the department belonging
to the state, accruing and after the
first of the month next following the
publication of this act, in the official state
paper, also all interest received by the
state treasurer on such fund, which he
shall report monthly to the state oil in
spector. and the state oil inspector is here
by authorized to draw and disburse SAID
nii,u' hS neleanai.ti proNiueu as the SAINT
provisions of this act
All payment out of said revolving FUND
shall be drawn upon warrants of the stat,
auditor, drawn upon vouchers verified by
the state oil inspector, and in no even
shall the total expenses of the department
exceed the total amount received as fee:
belonging to the state.
Sec s. The state oil inspector shall re
ceive an annual salary of twenty five hun
dred dollars ($25O0) and all necessary trav
cling expenses, together with office ex
penses and such other expenses actual ant
necessary in the performance of his dutie.
as state oil inspector. The deputy oil in
spectors shall each receive an annual sal
airy of fifteen hundred dollars (Si500) pc
: year and the necessary travelling expense
in performing the duties of deputy oil in
spectors. The state oil inspectors shall
employ stenographer and bookkeel,er
who shall be one and the same person. VIII.
shall keep the books of the department
together with an account of the bushes
of said office and who shall receive al
annual salary of twelve hundred dollar
tS1200) per year. All salaries provided 70
In this section. together with the expenses
of the office, shall be paid monthly: pro
: vided, that person shall be appointe,
to or hold any place position or b.
employed in any department of the ser
vice herein provided for, who is related b,
blood Or marriage to such state oil in
any of them.
Sec. 6. In testing by said inspector o
his deputies of all kerosene oils for fIIum
: mating purposes they shall reject all sucl
temperature of less than 40 degrees Fab
f renheit- The oil tester known as .sTh
Foster Automatic Cup shall be used ii
the making OF these tests, and the OF
: shall not be heated faster than two de
RreeS per minute All kerosene oils TO
: Illuminating purposes shall not show
lower flash point than the 10 degrees Fab
Tenheit above mentioned All gasoline tina
is used for heating, Illuminating and powe
purposes shall he tested and graded an.
i all said gasoline used for heating illum
mating, and power purposes shall be sub
Jected to the following test: Said gaso
line shall-be of water white color swee
and free from obnoxious odors. and shall
be weighed by hydrometer OF Tagiiabues
some other standard and reliable weigh
of hydrometer 1.-THE temperature at line o
test 90 degrees Fahrenheit). All gasoIin
graded and tested offered for sale in Kan
Beaume. GO degrees temperature; an,
shall show by fractional distiliatiou ties