CHAPTER CXLV. An act to amend section fourteen hundred and ninety-two of the Political Code of the State of California, relating to the joint board of normal schools trustees. [Approved March 16, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section fourteen hundred and ninety-two of the Political Code of the State of California is hereby amended to read as follows: of normal 1492. There shall be a joint board of state normal school Joint board trustees, to be composed of the governor, the superintendent of school public instruction, the presidents of the different state normal trustees. schools, the chairman and two other members of each normal school board. The two members besides the chairman of each local board shall be selected by the respective local boards for every joint meeting. Said joint board shall meet on the second. Friday of April in each year, alternately at the different state normal schools. The first meeting after the passage of this act shall be at San Diego, the second meeting at San Francisco, the third at San José, the fourth at Chico, and the fifth at Los Angeles. Thereafter the places of meeting shall be in the order mentioned above. Special meetings may be called at any time and at any place by the governor for the transaction of any urgent business affecting the welfare of any or all the state normal schools, when in his judgment it is necessary. The governor shall be ex officio chairman of said joint board of normal school trustees. The powers and duties of said joint board of normal schools General trustees are as follows: 1. To prescribe and enforce a uniform series of text-books for use in the state normal schools; the state series of text-books shall be used, when published, in the grades and classes for which they are adapted. 2. To prescribe and enforce a uniform course of study, and time and standard for graduation from the state normal schools. 3. To prescribe a uniform standard of admission for students entering the normal schools, and for transfer of pupils from one normal school to another; provided, that a student for good cause may, upon recommendation of the president of the school from which he seeks to be transferred, enter any other normal school and without examination be admitted to classes corresponding to those in the school which he has left. 4. To sit as a board of arbitration in matters concerning the management of each state normal school that may need adjustment. 5. The joint board shall also have the power to pass any powers general regulations that may be applied to all the state normal schools, thus affecting their well-being. 6. Members in attending the meetings of the joint board shall receive mileage while in actual attendance upon the meeting, the same to be paid out of any appropriation made by the legislature for that purpose. 7. The superintendent of public instruction shall be the secretary of the joint board. The secretary shall keep a full record of all proceedings of the joint meetings of the trustees, and shall notify the secretary of each board of trustees of any changes made in the course of study, or the text-books to be adopted. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. County school fund; estimate. How computed. Amount to be collected. CHAPTER CXLVI. An act to amend section 1817 of the Political Code, relating to the duties of county superintendents of schools. [Approved March 16, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section eighteen hundred and seventeen of the Political Code is hereby amended to read as follows: 1817. The county superintendent of every county having a population of less than three hundred and forty thousand inhabitants must, on or before the first regular meeting of the board of supervisors, in September in each year, furnish the supervisors and the auditor, respectively, an estimate, in writing, of the minimum amount of county school fund needed for the ensuing year. This amount he must compute as follows: First-He must ascertain, in the manner provided for in subdivisions one and two of section eighteen hundred and fiftyeight, the total number of teachers for the county. Second-He must calculate the amount required to be raised at five hundred dollars per teacher. From this amount he must deduct the total amount of state apportionment, and the remainder shall be the minimum amount of county school fund needed for the ensuing year; provided, that if this amount is less than sufficient to raise a sum equal to six dollars for each census child in the county, then the minimum amount shall be such a sum as will be equal to six dollars for each census child in the county. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. CHAPTER CXLVII. An act to add a new section to the Penal Code of the State of California, to be numbered 373a, making the continuance of a public nuisance after notice from a health officer or district attorney to remove or abate the same a misdemeanor. [Approved March 16, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. A new section to be numbered three hundred and seventy-three a, is hereby added to the Penal Code of the State of California, to read as follows: nuisance; 373a. Every person who maintains, permits, or allows Public a public nuisance to exist upon his or her property or prem- penalty. ises, and every person occupying or leasing the property or premises of another who maintains, permits or allows a public nuisance to exist thereon, after reasonable notice in writing from a health officer or district attorney to remove, discontinue or abate the same has been served upon such person, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished accordingly; and the existence of such nuisance for each and every day after the service of such notice shall be deemed a separate and distinct offense, and it is hereby made the duty of the district attorney to prosecute all persons guilty of violating this section by continuous prosecutions until the nuisance is abated and removed. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER CXLVIII. An act to provide for the change of name of school districts and the manner of making such change. [Approved March 16, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: name of cedure. SECTION 1. Whenever a petition shall be presented to the Change of board of supervisors, signed by at least fifteen qualified electors school disof said district, asking that the name of any school district be trict; prochanged, the said board of supervisors shall designate a day upon which they will act upon such petition, which day must not be less than ten days nor more than forty days after the receipt thereof. The clerk of the said board of supervisors must give notice to all parties interested, by sending by registered mail to each of the trustees of such school district, a notice of the time set for the hearing of said petition, which notice must be mailed at least ten days before the day set for hearing, whereupon the board shall by resolution either grant or deny the petition, and if granted, the clerk shall notify the county superintendent of the change of the name of said district. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. Election to declare bonded ness due and payable. Notice of election. CHAPTER CXLIX. An act to authorize municipal corporations to declare all or any of their bonded indebtedness to be at once due and payable, to compromise such bonded indebtedness and to consent to a judgment in favor of the holders of the same. [Approved March 16, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Whenever any incorporated city or town in this state has an outstanding indebtedness evidenced by the bonds indebted thereof the common council, board of trustees or other governing body thereof, shall have the power to submit to the qualified electors of such city or town at any election to be held for that purpose, the question of declaring all or any of such bonds to be at once due and payable, of compromising such bonded indebtedness, of consenting to a judgment in favor of the holders of such bonds, and of providing for the payment of such judgment in installments. Said election shall be called and held in the same manner in which other elections are held in such city or town. The notice of such election shall specify the bonded indebtedness which it is proposed to declare at once due and payable, the terms of the proposed compromise of the same, of the proposed judgment by consent in favor of the holders of such bonds, and the proposed method of paying such judgment in installments. The question shall be voted upon as an entirety. If at such election two thirds of the qualified electors vote in favor of the question submitted, the said common council, board of trustees or other governing body shall, by ordinance, declare the bonds described in said notice of election, to be at once due and payable and thereupon shall be authorized to carry into effect the compromise and to consent to the judgment specified in such notice of election, and to the proposed method of paying the same in installments, and to designate by resolution the officers and attorneys who shall sign the necessary documents, and to provide for the collection of an annual tax, sufficient to pay the interest on such judgment as it falls due, and such a proportion of the principal thereof as is designated in such notice of election. Duty of common council. SEC. 2. No proceeding under section one hereof shall affect Non-conthe rights of any non-consenting holder of any bond or bonds bondspecified in the notice of election. senting holders. SEC. 3. In any action brought upon any of the bonds Regularity described in the notice of election, the judgment of any court ings. of proceedof competent jurisdiction in such action, shall be conclusive as to the regularity of all proceedings taken under the provisions of section one of this act. of court. SEC. 4. Whenever any action is brought upon any of the Judgment bonds described in the notice of election, the plaintiff shall be required to deposit in the court in which such action is brought, the bonds upon which he sues and when the judgment of such court, rendered in accordance with the terms of the proposed compromise described in such notice of election, becomes final, the bonds sued upon shall be delivered to the treasurer of the city or town against which such judgment is rendered, to be held by him and his successors in office until such judgment shall have been satisfied in full. If for any reason such judgment should be reversed or set aside or any orders or writs thereunder should be disobeyed by the defendant or its officers, it shall be the duty of such treasurer to return such bonds to the plaintiff who thereupon may at his own option be relegated to all the rights which he held and enjoyed under such bonds, crediting, however, on such rights, all amounts already received on such judgment. The performance of the duty imposed herein upon such treasurer may be enforced by the court in which such judgment is rendered. SEC. 5. All acts or parts of acts conflicting with this act are hereby repealed. SEC. 6. This act shall take effect immediately. CHAPTER CL. An act amending the Code of Civil Procedure of the State of California by adding thereto a new section, numbered 1264, requiring all courts wherein there are or may be pending actions to enforce the right of eminent domain to give such actions preferences over all other civil cases, in the matter of setting the same for hearing or trial, and in hearing the same. [Approved March 16, 1903.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. A new section is hereby added to the Code of Civil Procedure of the State of California, numbered section 1264, to read as follows: eminent 1264. In all actions brought under the provisions of this Actions in title, to enforce the right of eminent domain, all courts wherein domain to such actions are or may hereafter be pending, shall give such preference. have |