Public utilities commission to have power to require change of location of [Senate Bill No. 368.] CHAPTER 230. An Act concerning the Powers of the Public Utilities Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in SECTION 1. The public utilities commission shall have power, after notice to the corporations interested and public hearing, to require any public service corporation or corporawires and poles. tions maintaining a line or lines of poles and wires in this state to change the location of such poles and wires in the public highways whenever public convenience or necessity requires such change and, in case two or more corporations are using or maintaining lines of poles or wires in the same street, to require the wires of such corporations to be strung upon one or more lines of poles to be owned and maintained by the corporations using the same as said commission shall determine. Penalty. SEC. 2. Any corporation failing to comply with any such order shall be liable to the penalties provided in section thirtyfive of chapter 128 of the public acts of 1911. Approved, August 30, 1911. Appointment of gineers. [Senate Bill No. 365.] CHAPTER 231. An Act concerning the Board of Civil Engineers. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in SECTION 1. The powers and duties heretofore exercised by board of civil en- the civil engineer member of the board of railroad commissioners concerning the appointment of members of the board of civil engineers shall be exercised by the commissioner of rivers, harbors, and bridges who is a civil engineer, and said commissioner, together with one civil engineer residing in each congressional district, to be appointed by him, shall constitute said board of civil engineers. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. [Substitute for Senate Bill No. 21.] CHAPTER 232. An Act concerning the Sale of Securities. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in filed with build commissioner where certificates, ities of mining or companies are SECTION 1. No shares or certificates of stock in any min- Statement to be ing or oil corporation established under the laws of this or ing and loan any other state, nor any such shares or certificates or other securities of any other corporation not incorporated under the shares or secur laws of this state or authorized to do business in this state, oil in his state. shall be sold or offered for sale in this state by such corporation, or by any person or firm acting as agent or broker for such corporation, until such corporation has filed with the commissioner on building and loan associations a statement or certificate showing the financial condition of such corporation, the location of the mine or mines, or oil properties, or other plant or property owned by such corporation, with, in the case of a mining or oil corporation, plans of the same, the amount of work done thereon, the amount of cash expended for improvements thereon, and the condition of the plant and machinery connected therewith, nor until said commissioner has given permission in writing for such sale or offer. Such statement or certificate shall be subscribed and sworn to by the president, treasurer, and secretary of said corporation. The building and loan commissioner shall make such investigation of the affairs of said corporation as may be necessary to ascertain its condition and the value of its said securities, and on becoming satisfied, after such examination, that the sale of such securities should be permitted, may issue to said corporation a permit, in writing, to sell or offer the same for sale in this state. For the filing of such statement or certificate and for such examination a fee of twenty-five dollars shall be paid to said commissioner, for the use of the state, whether or not permission is granted thereon as aforesaid. Such permit, if given, shall be valid for one year from its date unless said commissioner shall, within said time, revoke the same for cause, and such permission may be renewed for a period of one year, in the discretion of the commissioner, upon payment of a fee of twenty-five dollars for each renewal. SEC. 2. Any corporation, or agent or broker thereof, sell- Penalty for selling or offering for sale any such shares, certificates of stock, without a permit. ing securities or securities, without the permit provided for in section one report violations al. of this act, shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars for each offense. Building and loan SEC. 3. The building and loan commissioner shall report commissioner to to the attorney-general the names of all agents, corto attorney gener-porations, or brokers who, to his knowledge, are engaged in the sale of securities in violation of the provisions of this act, and the attorney-general shall cause prosecutions therefor to be instituted by the proper authorities. Exception. Investment com SEC. 4. The foregoing provisions shall not apply to any corporation all of whose mines, plant, or property are situated within this state. SEC. 5. No investment company as defined by section panies to bed. forty-one of chapter 194 of the public acts of 1903 shall do ing and loan com- business in this state until it has been licensed by the commis censed by build missioner. Repeal. sioner on building and loan associations in the manner pro- Approved, August 31, 1911. Selectmen to have nate shell fish grounds about [House Bill No. 103.] CHAPTER 233. An Act concerning Designation of Shell-Fish Grounds of the Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in SECTION 1. The selectmen of the town of Westport shall power to desig- hereafter have exclusive jurisdiction and power to designate shell-fish grounds in the waters, in said town, of all creeks and estuaries tributary to Compo Mill pond in said town. Compo mill pond. Repeal. SEC. 2. So much of chapter 125 of the public acts of 1909 as is inconsistent herewith is hereby repealed. Approved, August 31, 1911. | Substitute for House Bill No. 676.] CHAPTER 234. An Act concerning Indecent and Immoral Exhibitions. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Every person who shall produce or aid in the production Indecent and im of any exhibition, opera, or performance of any theatrical, moral exhibitions operatic, dramatic, or vaudeville show or exhibit, of a lascivious, sacrilegious, indecent, or immoral character, and the owner or lessee of any building who shall permit such building to be used for performances or exhibitions of such nature, shall, upon conviction, be fined not more than one thousand dollars, or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. Approved, August 31, 1911. [House Bill No. 858.] CHAPTER 235. An Act concerning the Time when the Public Acts of 1911 shall take Effect. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in SECTION 1. All acts, public in form, passed at the present Date of effect of session of the general assembly shall, unless otherwise provided of 1911. in such acts, take effect on the first day of November, 1911. . SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from its passage. Approved, September 5, 1911. the Public Acts [House Bill No. 920.] Repeal. CHAPTER 236. An Act repealing an Act concerning Assistant Registrars. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Section 1856 of the general statutes concerning assistant registrars is hereby repealed. Approved, September 5, 1911. [House Bill No. 867.] CHAPTER 237. State payment for drawbridge crossed by street railway. An Act amending an Act concerning State Payment for Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Section 2094 of the general statutes as amended by chapter 244 of the public acts of 1907 is hereby amended by inserting after the word "Every" in the first line of said section the word "county", by inserting in said line after the word "city" the words "individually or jointly", and by inserting after the word "the" in the fourth line thereof the words "county commissioners of such county", so that said section as amended shall read as follows: Every county, town, or city, individually or jointly, owning, operating, and maintaining a drawbridge over and across which any street railway operates its cars, shall, upon the presentation to the comptroller of a certificate to that effect, signed by the county commissioners of such county, the selectmen of such town, or the mayor of such city, receive from the state, annually, the sum of seven hundred and fifty dollars for each and every such drawbridge. Approved, September 5, 1911. |