The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1921-06-17
NEW LAWS EFFECTIVE JUNE o.

Olympia-All bills passed by tn,
last Legislature which did not carry
emergency clauses go into effect June
9-right after midnight of June s
There are 14l new statutes to be-
come effective this month. though =
few do not become operative unit
later. For example: Auto driver.
must get licenses at once. but the law
is not enforced until Aug. /: the GA
tax is only collectable after July /:
three constitutional amendments viii
not be binding until approved by the
voters; the Franklin county salary
bill takes effect in January, 1923;
university and state college fees will
be collected later and Nov. II cannot
be observed by the schools as Victory
and Admission Day until fall.
Rules of the road governing high
way traffic and pedestrians were pro-
mulgated in the new auto license bill
that had an emergency clause and has
been in effect more than three
months, but strict enforcement has
been delayed until highway police are
named in midsummer.
Other laws effective June Q are:
farmers cooperative marketing bill,
budget law with teeth in it: anti
Japanese land ownership act: and
preparations for systematizing taxa
tion.
Four bills have been threatened by
referendum. Such petitions must be
filed with Secretary of State ]. Grant
Hinkle not later than June 8. The
Secretary expects an excess of names
to the petition against paragraphs in
the medical code and believes the GER
titicate of necessity bill is likely to be
referred. Mr.. Hinkle has 80 davs to
check the names.
Most important legislation taking
effect next week includes the auto
transportation code and the drivers
license law. All drivers must obtain
state license costing 81 and will be
held to strict accountability for any
violation of the law,
City, county and other public Of
ficials, except sheritfs. constables. DO
lice, game wardens and state officers
will be guilty of misdemeanor f
they drive or use an automobile own
cd by the public body they represent
which has not painted on it in letters
2 by 2ha inches sign showing the
city, county, town or other public
body owning the auto.
The cooperative marketing act
to take effect next week has been
known as the Sapiro bill and was
modelled after CALIFORNIA; statute.
Cooperative associations are not
obliged to come under the act. but if
they do the Director of Agriculture
names one member of the board of
directors and exercises general su-
pervision over them. Organization of
cooperative crop credit associations
is sanctioned by another new law.
Others give the Director of Agricul-
ture authority to fix fees for hay and
grain inspection high enough to pay
expenses; a dairyman is person
owning two, instead of four, COWS: a
milk vendor anybody peddling from a
vehicle; the Director of Agriculture
Is given power to quarantine against
infected horticultural or agricultural
shipments; the jurisdiction of the
deputies in the horticultural division
j. extended to cover vegetables
which will be inspected and graded
and fruit grading is closer safeguard
ed; seed dealers are required to take
out licenses to aid in preventing sale
of impure seeds. A number of cmer
gency measures have been in effect
more than three months.
In revising the medical aid and in
dustrial Insurance statutes the Legis
lature gives the Director of Labor
and Industries authority to super
wise contract doctor and hospital
agreements; requires such contract
ors to be efficient and up to recog-
nized standards of modern surgery:
allows d workman. a body of work
men or employers to require an in.
vetigation; obliges doctors to report
treatment for accidents within ten
days or suffer for misdcmeanor:
compelS county assessors to report
names Of persons engaged in extra
hazardous occupations in their cour
ties; puts new employers on proba-
tion for year; makes property own
ers responsible for payment Of fees
! by contractors they employ
The governor is given a fund OF
$4,000 and will be authorized June &
to appoint or employ taxation ex-
perts to study Washington's tax sys-
TEN to determine whether real am
personal property cannot be relieved
Of part Of the burden they bear
The budget bill, imposing a penalty
of $40 day upon state officers fol
delaying their budget estimates an
directing the state auditor to deduct
/ the amount from their salaries alsC