and jurisdiction to decide upon the variety, kind and character of trees, hedges and shrubs that shall be planted upon said roads, highways, grounds and property; and to determine all questions respecting the pruning, cutting and removal of any trees, hedges and shrubs now growing and to grow thereon and the necessity therefor and the extent of and the manner in which said work shall be done; and to enforce, carry out and effectuate the provisions of this act; provided, however, that said board, in the exercise of its powers and the performance of its duties hereunder, shall not interfere with the jurisdiction of the board of supervisors over the roads, highways, grounds and property in the improvement, care and general control thereof. § 8. It shall be unlawful for any person or corporation (except said county board of forestry) in any county or city and county where a eounty board of forestry has been created and appointed under the provisions of this act, to trim, prune, cut, deface, destroy or remove any shade or ornamental tree, hedge or shrub growing or to grow upon any such road, highway, ground or property or to paint, place, attach to or put upon any such trees, hedges or shrubs any sign, notice, advertisement or advertising device without the consent in writing of said board first obtained, or to plant any tree, hedge or shrub on any such road, highway, ground or property without such written consent. § 9. Every person who shall violate any of the provisions of section 5 of this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. § 10. All moneys received as penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act, shall be paid into the county treasury to the credit of the county board of forestry fund, which fund is hereby created, and the moneys thereof hereby appropriated for the expenses of said board in the carrying out of provisions of this act and the policy and purposes herein provided. 11. Boards of supervisors, whenever the provisions of this act are availed of, shall appropriate money for the use of said county board of forestry sufficient to pay the compensation of said county forester and for the necessary expenses of said county board of forestry. § 12. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. § 13. This act shall take effect immediately. HOGS. General acts relating to hogs running at large were repealed by the estray law of 1897, p. 198. For acts relating to particular localities, see particular title. TITLE 209. ACT 1469. An act authorizing boards of supervisors or other governing bodies of municipalities to declare holidays. [Approved March 23, 1901. Stats. 1901, p. 658.] § 1. The board of supervisors or other governing body of any county, town, city, or city and county, may declare the day on which a primary or other election is held in such municipality to be a holiday therein. ACT 1470. An act declaring February 12, the birthday of Abraham Lincoln, a legal holiday and providing for a half-day session in the public schools on such holiday, and for certain exercises in the public schools. Lincoln day. [Approved April 13, 1909. Stats. 1909, p. 861.] §1. February 12th, the birthday of Abraham Lincoln, is hereby declared a legal holiday, provided, however, that all the public schools throughout the state shall hold sessions in the forenoon of that day in order to allow the customary exercises in memory of Lincoln; and provided further, that when February 12th falls on Sunday, then Monday following shall be a legal holiday and shall be so observed; and provided still further, that when February 12th falls on Saturday such exercises in the public schools shall take place on the Friday afternoon preceding. Compare Act 1471. ACT 1471. An act declaring Friday, February twelfth, 1909, the 100th birthday of Abraham Lincoln, a legal holiday and providing for a half-day session of the public schools for that day. [Approved January 20, 1909. Stats. 1909, p. 2.] § 1. Friday, February twelfth, 1909, the 100th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, is hereby declared a legal holiday, provided, however, that all public schools throughout the state shall hold sessions in the forenoon of that day in order to allow the customary exercises in memory of the martyred president. §2. This act shall take effect immediately. Compare Act 1470. ACT 1474. TITLE 210. Incorporating. [Stats. 1873-74, p. 675.] Superseded by incorporating under statute of 1883, in 1901. ACT 1479. TITLE 211. HOME OF ADULT BLIND. Appropriating money for the establishment and management of the industrial home of mechanical trades for the adult blind. [Stats. 1885, p. 18.] Superseded 1887, p. 160, c. CXLVIII. ACT 1480. Establishing an industrial home of mechanical trades for the adult blind, and creating a board of directors for the government thereof. [Stats. 1887, p. 160.] In relation to homesteads. [Stats. 1867-68, p. 116.] Citations. Cal. 46/266; 47/80; 71/508. ACT 1486. Extending the privileges of the homestead law to certain persons. [Stats. 1860, p. 87.] Citations. Cal. 102/497, 500; 119/372. This act extended the law to unmarried men and women and to widows and widowers. The homestead acts are superseded by Civil Code, § 1237 et seq. ACT 1487. Alienating or incumbering. [Stats. 1873-74, p. 582.] Codified by §§ 1269a-1269c of Civil Code. Citations. Cal. 108/220; 114/670, 671, 672, 673, 676; 126/25. It provided for the alienation of the homestead in case of the insanity of either husband or wife. ACT 1492. TITLE 213. HOMESTEAD CORPORATIONS. To authorize formation of homestead corporations. [Stats. 1861, p. 567.] Repealed. See 288, Civil Code. Amended 1867-68, p. 539; 1869-70, p. 474. Supp. 1863-64. p. 492; 1873-74, p. 525. See supplementary act of 187374, p. 525, which appears in full in Appendix, Civil Code, p. 1910. Citations. Cal. 131/341. ACT 1497. TITLE 214. An act for the protection of the Antwerp messenger, or homing pigeon. [Approved February 26, 1897. Stats. 1897, p. 37.] Codified by § 598a of Penal Code. ACT 1502. TITLE 215. An act fixing rate of tare on baled hops. [Approved March 31, 1891. Stats. 1891, p. 452.] § 1. There shall be allowed on baled hops a tare at the rate of two per centum of the weight of the bale for the cloth and other material used in baling; that is, the tare shall be at the rate of two pounds per hundred on the weight of the bale. § 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. TITLE 216. ACT 1507. Incorporating town of. [Stats. 1869-70, p. 471.] TITLE 217. See "Agriculture"; "Forestry"; "Viticulture." ACT 1510. An act to provide for the proper naming of trees, seeds, plants, and vines, sold, offered, or exposed for sale in this state and providing a penalty for the violation of this act. [Approved March 3, 1905. Stats. 1905, p. 44.] § 1. All trees, seeds, plants and vines, sold, offered or exposed for sale in the state of California shall be properly named as to variety and kind, and any person knowingly selling, trading, or exchanging, or offering or exposing for sale any trees, seeds, plants or vines falsely named as to variety and kind shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be liable to a fine of not less than ten dollars, nor more than three hundred dollars. ACT 1511. An act to provide for an investigation of the nature of the diseases known as pear blight and walnut blight and to prevent, eradicate, and procure a cure for the same and to cause to be prosecuted experimental and research work in the field of viticulture, directing publication of the results of such experiments and investigations, making an appropriation therefor and prescribing the duties of the controller and treasurer in relation thereto. [Approved March 18, 1905. Stats. 1905, p. 124.] §1. The regents and the president of the University of California are hereby directed to cause to be prosecuted with all possible diligence, in connection with and in addition to the work heretofore carried on by the agricultural experiment station, experimental and research work in the field of viticulture, including both cultural and industrial processes. They are directed to ascertain the adaptation of the various kinds of vines to the several climatic and soil conditions of the state, with the special reference to those stocks for propagating purposes, resistant to the phylloxera, and to further their adaptability and utility as grafting stocks for producing wine, raisin and table grapes. They are directed to ascertain the best methods of grafting and propagating said stocks and vines together with the most important methods of vinification and preparation, manufacture and application of yeasts in vinification and distillation. They are further directed to report upon the utilization of the by-products of the vineyard and winery, the study and treatment of the vine diseases, and all matters appertaining to the viticultural industry pertinent to the successful conduct of the business and that may be of general public interest, use and profit. They are further directed to publish the result of said experiments and investigations in form of bulletins from time to time, as may seem advisable and not less than twe bulletins showing the progress and result of the work, shall be issued in any fiscal year. And they are further directed to inaugurate an investigation of the cause, nature, and means of suppression or prevention, of the so-called pear blight, a destructive, infectious disease of pear and apple trees. For such investigation said director shall obtain and establish such assistants, equipment, materials, appliances, apparatus and other incidentals as may be necessary to the successful prosecution of the work, within the appropriation specified. And they are further directed to secure a remedy for the so-called walnut blight. The said regents are hereby authorized to employ an expert and if necessary, to send him abroad to ascertain the cause of this blight and in an endeavor to secure a remedy therefor. § 2. There is hereby appropriated for the use of said experiment station, for the purposes set forth in this act, the sum of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000). § 3. All money appropriated under this act shall be paid to the regents of the University of California, and expended under the direction of the director of the agricultural experiment station of said university for the specific purposes herein named. ACT 1512. To create and establish a state board of horticulture, and appropriate money for the expenses thereof. [Approved March 13, 1883. Stats. 1883, p. 289.] Amended 1885, p. 4; 1889, pp. 8. 89. Repealed 1903, p. 524. See Political Code, §§ 2319-2319j. |