The Coconino sun., 1927-07-29
EIGHTY mine new LAWS
EFFECTIVE LAST WEEK

Eighty-nine new state laws went
into effect last week, 90 days after
the eighth state legislature. -Four
other laws would have become effec-
tive at the same time but were re-
ferred by referendum petitions to the
vote of the electorate at the next
general election in 1928
The eighth legislature enacted a
total of 113 measures, of which 10
carried the emergency clause and be-
came effective Immediately after the
governor signed them. One other bill,
the general appropriation measure,
went into effect July 1. Of the SO
remaining bills, SO became the law of
the land last week.
One of these bills, house bill No.
43, although it became a law with
the others, will not go into effect un-
til January /, 1929. 1t will then re-
quire four more years for the bill to
go entirely into effect. This is the
measure which increases the salaries
of the justices of the supreme court
to $500 a year. Under the terms of
the constitution the increases in sal
larry will not become effective during
the terms of the incumbent justices,
but must start with the beginning OF
each new six year term beginning
January 1, 1929.
Under the terms of house bill No.
Sc, now effective, all persons, firms
and corporations engaged in the
weighing of cotton will be known as
public weighmasters.
Other bills which went into effect
were house bill 27, providing for a
school for delinquent juvenile girls,
house bill "a which provides that no
graduate nurse may practice in the
state without license, and house bill
86, which makes it felony to steal an
automobile, motorcycle or motor driv-
en- vehicle and provides for a penalty
of from one to five years in the state
prison for the offense. Heretofore,
automobile thieves have been prose
cuted for grand larceny.
House bill SO requires all sellers of
lubricating oils to display the brand
or kind of oil sold on the container.
ties to erect and maintain aviation
fields.
Senate bill 80 allows the local cleo
tion boards to install voting machines
in elections. House bill 100 provides
that all persons, firms or corporations
storing cotton and wool for hire shall
be public service corporations under
the jurisdiction Of the corporation
commission.
House bill 146 repeals the school
census law under which only one cen
sus was ever taken.
House bill so provides for the es-
tablishment of a colony for the educa-
ton of mentally deficient children.
House bill so provides for the or
ganization of county mutual fire in
surance companies.
A large number of the measures
passed by the eighth legislature were
bills amending already existing laws.
Six bills providing for appropriations
for roads and bridges went into eff
feet. They were senate bill IA appro-
priating 100000 to match federal aid
on road from Whiteriver to McNary,
senate bill 128 appropriating $4,000
for a road from Burro Greek to King
man, senate bill 25 appropriating for
a bridge over the Gila river at Dome,
house bill 100 appropriating $150,000
for road from Wickenburg to Ehren-
burg, senate bill Al appropriating
$65 900 for a bridge over the Verde
river on the Fossil Greek road, and
senate bill "a appropriating $150,000
for road from Casa Grande to Gila
Bend
There were 18 relief bills passed
during the session, all of which went
into effect last week.
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