New-York tribune., 1921-05-15
Measure, Effective Aug. L.
Provides for Board of 3.
With $500 Year PAY:
Headquarters at ALBANY
New Bureau for
Boxing, Wrestling
Wage Raise, Increased
Terms for Livingston
and Aids Among Vetoes
From a Staff Correspondent


ALBANY, May lathe Lusk- CLAW.
ton bill establishing a motion picture
censorship and the Simpson -Brundage
Dill substituting a state athletic com
mlssion for the boxing commission anc
giving it jurisdiction over wrestling
as well as boxing, have been signed by
Governor Miller.
The firemen's two-platoon bill was
vetoed.
The Lusk-Clayton bill will take effect
August l.. 1t is estimated that the fees
for examining films will net the state
approximately $1,ooO,ooO annually. The
act provides for commission of three
to be appointed by the Governor.
The qualifications of each of the
commissioners is fixed in the law, which
provides that each shall be qualified
by education and experience for the
duties of the office",
Salary Is $500 Year
The term of Office is five years and
4aiy 10 Y',ooO. ne main ONCE
OF the commission shall be in ALBANY.
Branch Offices or bureaus may be main
tanned elsewhere. The bill further pro-
Nides that "the commission shall cause
to be promptly examined every motion
picture film submitted to it as herein
required, and unless such film or a part
tthereof is obscene, indecent, immoral,
character that its exhibition would tend
to corrupt morals or lncite to crime,
snail issue license therefor"
Where the commission shall not issue
license for the exhibition of film it
must assign reasons for the refusal in
writing to the producer. The commits
sion is instructed by the act to issue
permits for the showing of any motion
picture film which has been publicly
exhibited in the State of New York
prior TO August 1 of this year if appli-
cation is made within thirty days after
the act goes into effect. The fee for O.
used film permit shall be So for each
1000 feet or less.
On films which the commission shall
pass upon the fee will be So for each
1000 feet of original Aim and So for
each additional copy.
ship provision pictures shown for edu-
cational, charitable, religious and sci
entifc purposes.
The right of review by certiorari is
granted to applicants whose films have
been censored by the commission and
who desire to take the matter into the
courts.
Supervision for Advertising
Posters, banners and other advertis-
ing matter in connection with the mo-
ton picture industry which is cob
scene, indecent, immoral, inhuman, sac
rllegious or of such character that it's
exhibition would tend to corrupt
morals or incite crime" are also placed
under the ban.
Violation of the act may be punished
by the revoking of the permit to ex-
hibit or by fine or Imprisonment, as is
provided for misdemeanors or by both.
One section Of the act reads:
IF any section or provision of this
act shall at any time be declared to
be unconstitutional it is the expressed
legislative intent that no other section
or provision hereof be thereby affected. -
The Simpson -Brundage State Ath-
letic Commission bill abolishes the
present boxing commission, transfers
the powers and duties of the latter to
the new body and also gives it jurisdic-
tion over wrestling. The act provides
that the commissioners shall serve
without compensation. Four deputies
at $4,000 year may be appointed by
the commission.
The censorship bill and the Athletic
Commission bill were in the last group
of the thirty-day measures to be acted
upon in the City of New York and, with
the others, some signed and some
vetoed, were brought to the Capitol
to-day by a state trooper. William
Mccarthy, assistant secretary to the
Governor, made them public.
In the vetoed omnibus bill were sew
eral mandatory salary increases for
politicians, including the bill slipped
through in the closing hours of the
Legislature by the Brooklyn Tammany
Senator, Daniel F. Farrell. The Farrell
bill increased the salary of Jacob A.
Livingston, the Brooklyn Republican
leader, from $4,000 to $500, and his
term of Office from two to four years.
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