The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-05
[ Published in The Topeka State Journal
April j. 1911
SENATE BILL NO. 719.

April g. 1911
| SENATE BILL NO 719.
AN ACT supplemental to section s42o of
| the General Statutes of 1915, and relat-
! ing to equitable distribution of cars in
certain cases.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the
| State of Kansas:
Section l. That the Public Utilities
hereby given full power and authority, and
it is made its duty, after having given
reasonable notice and upon hearing had,
to make, publish and enforce from time to
time such general rules and regulations
as just and equitable relative to the
distribution of grain cars in all cases in
which any railroad company companies
are unable to furnish a sufficient number
of grain cars at any station, or stations,
along its or their lines of railroad in Kan
sas. to receive and transport grain with
reasonable dispatch: such rules and reg
ulations shall become effective thirty days
after the publication thereof and shall be
published and furnished to any shipper
upon application; provided, that said com
mission may upon application OF any or
initiative, investigate the conditions in any
particular case of grain car shortage, and,
upon a hearing had after not less than
five days written notice to said parties
or upon their written waiver of such no.
tice, shall prescribe and enforce such spe-
| cific orders, rules and regulations relative
| to the proper distribution of grain cars
in any such in the Judgment of
the commission shall be equitable. Such
specific orders rules and regulations shall
be in full force and effect from and after
the making thereof with notice to the par
| ties in interest
Sec . That willful failure of any agent
or employee of any railroad company
operating in Kansas to comply with the
provisions of this act shall constitute a
misdemearor. and upon conviction thereof
such agent or employee shall be fined In
any not to exceed one hundred dol
/ lars ($100) for such offenSe.
Sec 3 That all the powers. rights and
remedies provided by law for the enforce
ment of orders of the commission shall be
applicable to the rules promulgated in ac-
cordance with the provisions of this act
Any party in interest dlssatls11ed with
the order promulgating said rules may
maintain action to set aside the order
of the commission as provided by law for
commencing actions to set aside the or
ders of the commission. and any party in
interest may, within ten days after the
PRONUNCIATION of any special order, com
order in the manner provided by law, not
| withstanding the fact that the rules may
be in force.
| in force from and after its publication in
| the official state paper.
1 hereby certify that the above Bill! orig
mated in the Senate, and passed that body
March 2, 1911;
President of the Senate.
Secretary of the Senate
| Passed the House March Z, 1911.
A. NJ. KEENE.
Speaker of the House.
CLARENCE w. MILLER,
Chief Clerk of the House.
Approved March 10. 1917.
| ARTHUR CAPPER. Governor.
State of Kansas
| Office of Secretary of State.
1. ]. T. BOTKIN. Secretary. of State
of the State of Kansas. do hereby certify
| copy of the original enrolled bill now gu
file in my office -
| hereunto subscribed nv
name and affixed my official
LSeal.l seal. this 18th day of March,
J. T. BOTKIN,
Secretary Of State.
BY Z. A. CORNELL.
Asst. Secretary of State.
Published in The Topeka State Journal,
| April 3, 1911
HOUSE BILL NO. ia.
AN ACT concerning roads and highways,
providing for a poll tax and certain ex-
emptions therefor and providing penal
ties for the violation thereof md amend
| ing section $3.50 of the General Statutes
of 1915, and repeating the original sec
ton amended.
Be it enacted by the Legislature OF the
| State of Kansas.
Section L That section $3.50 of the Gen
eral Statutes of 1915 be amended to read
as follows Section 500. That all male
persons between twenty -one and fifty years
of age who have resided thirty DAYS in
this State and who are not a public charge
shall be liable each year to pay the sum of
three dollars to the township trustee or to
person lives, who shall receipt for the same
| and account therefor to the treasurer of the
| township city and the same shall be ex-
pended on the public roads within the town
ship or city in which such persons live. And
all moneys received by such treasurer
shall be turned into the road fund for
such township city to be expended as
above provided. Any city having volun-
teer fire department may have the privf-
lege of eXempting the members of such de-
partment from paying the tax imposed by
this section provided, that If any such per-
son shall fail to pay such tax within thirty
days after the receipt of notice from the
township trustee. the proper officer of
the city. that said tax is due. the person so
failing shall upon conviction thereof be
ladjudged guilty of misdemeanor and fined
in the sum of five dollars. And it is hereby
made the duty of the township trustee or
proper officer of the city to give such no
tice to every such person on or before the
first day of August of each year. and every
such officer who shall fail refuse to give
such notice shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor and uTOn conviction shall be
punished by a fine not exceeding 500 and
may be removed from office in the manner
provided by law: provided, that nothing
herein contained shall be construed to pre-
vent the township trustee of any township
from giving the person notified to pay such
tax the privilege of paying the same In
labor upon the highway at time and place
to be designated by said township trustee-