visors. 15. Each member of the board of supervisors, twelve hun- Superdred dollars per annum, and twenty-five cents per mile while traveling from their respective residence to the county seat, not more than once each month. 16. In counties of this class the official reporter of the Reporter. superior court shall receive such fees as are now and may hereafter be allowed by law. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force immediately. CHAPTER 434. An act to amend section 629 of the Civil Code of the State of California relating to the furnishing of gas, electricity, steam, or heat. [Approved April 12, 1911.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section 629 of the Civil Code of the State of California is hereby amended to read as follows: electricity, buildings hundred feet dis 629. Upon the application in writing of the owner or occupant of any building or premises distant not more than one Companies hundred feet from any gas or steam main, or direct or primary must supwire of the corporation, and payment by the applicant of all ply gas, money due from him, the corporation must supply gas, elec- etc., to tricity, steam or heat as required for such building or premises, within one and cannot refuse on the ground of any indebtedness of any former owner or occupant thereof, unless the applicant has tant from undertaken to pay the same. If, for the space of ten days after such application, the corporation refuses or neglects to supply the gas, electricity, steam or heat required, it must pay to the applicant the sum of fifty dollars as liquidated damages and five dollars per day, as liquidated damages for every day such refusal or neglect continues thereafter. main. CHAPTER 435. An act to amend section 3051 of the Civil Code of the State of California. [Approved April 12, 1911.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section 3051 of the Civil Code, is hereby amended to read as follows: personal 3051. Every person who, while lawfully in possession Lien on of an article of personal property renders any service to property the owner thereof, by labor or skill, employed for the protec- thereon. for services Proceedings on homesteads. tion, improvement, safe keeping, or carriage thereof, has a special lien thereon, dependent on possession, for the compensation, if any, which is due to him from the owner for such service; a person who makes, alters, or repairs any article of personal property, at the request of the owner, or legal possessor of the property, has a lien on the same for his reasonable charges for the balance due for such work done and materials furnished, and may retain possession of the same until the charges are paid; and livery or boarding or feed stable proprietors, and persons pasturing horses or stock, have a lien, dependent on possession, for their compensation in caring for. boarding, feeding, or pasturing such horses or stock; and laundry proprietors and persons conducting a laundry business, have a general lien, dependent on possession, upon all personal property in their hands belonging to a customer, for the balance due them from such customer for laundry work; and veterinary proprietors and veterinary surgeons shall have a lien, dependent on possession, for their compensation in caring for, boarding, feeding, and medical treatment of animals; and keepers of garages for automobiles shall have a lien, dependent on possession, for their compensation in caring for and safe keeping such automobiles. CHAPTER 436. An act to amend sections twelve hundred and forty-five, twelve hundred and forty-six and twelve hundred and forty-eight of the Civil Code of the State of California relating to proceedings on execution against homesteads. [Approved April 12, 1911.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section 1245 of the Civil Code is hereby amended to read as follows: 1245. When an execution for the enforcement of a judgexecution ment obtained in a case not within the classes enumerated in against section one thousand two hundred and forty-one is levied upon the homestead, the judgment creditor may at any time within sixty days thereafter apply to the superior court of the county in which the homestead is situated for the appointment of persons to appraise the value thereof, and if such application shall not be made within sixty days after the levy of such execution the lien of the execution shall cease at the expiration of said period, and no execution based upon the same judgment shall thereafter be levied upon the homestead. SEC. 2. Section 1246 of the Civil Code is hereby amended to read as follows: Applica tion. 1246. The application must be made upon a verified petition of the judgment creditor showing: 1. The fact that an execution has been levied upon the homestead within sixty days prior to the filing of said petition. 2. A description of the homestead and the name of the claimant. 3. That the value of the homestead exceeds the amount of the homestead exemption. 4. That no previous execution arising out of the same judgment has been levied upon said homestead. SEC. 3. Section 1248 of the Civil Code is hereby amended to read as follows: notice of hearing. 1248. Within ninety days from the date of filing the peti- Service of tion, a copy thereof, with the notice of the time and place of hearing, must be served upon the claimant or his attorneys at least two days before the hearing; and if such notice shall not be so served, the lien of the execution shall cease at the expiration of said period of ninety days, and no execution based upon the same judgment shall thereafter be levied upon the homestead. CHAPTER 437. An act to amend sections ten hundred ninety-five and ten hundred ninety-six of the Political Code of the State of California, relating to registration of electors. [Approved April 12, 1911.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section ten hundred ninety-five of the Political Code of the State of California is hereby amended so as to read as follows: electors 1095. In the affidavits of registration the clerk must, as Names of hereinafter provided, enter in duplicate the names of the entered in qualified electors of the county, and the provisions of section duplicate. one thousand and ninety-six of this code are hereby declared to be mandatory. Any officer charged with the registration of voters who neglects or refuses to make all the entries provided for in section one thousand and ninety-six of the Political Code, or neglects or refuses to take the oath of the voter applying to him for registration in respect to the same, shall, upon conviction, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor for each and every such omission. SEC. 2. Section ten hundred ninety-six of the Political Code of the State of California is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 1096. Such entry must show: 1. The name at length. 2. The age, omitting fraction of years. 3. The occupation. 4. The height. 5. The visible marks or scars, if any, and their location. 6. The country or state of nativity. Registration to show. 7. Political affiliation, if any. 8. The place of residence (giving ward and precinct); and in municipal corporations, by specifying the name of the street, avenue, or other location of the dwelling of such elector, with the number of such dwelling, if the same has a number, and if not, then with such description of the place that it can be readily ascertained and identified. If the elector be not the proprietor or head of the house, then it must show that fact, and upon what floor thereof, and what room such elector occupies in such house. 9. If naturalized, the place of naturalization. 10. The date of the entry of each person. 11. The post office address. 12. The fact whether or not the elector desiring to be registered is able to read the constitution in the English language and to write his name, and whether or not the elector has any physical disability, by reason of which he cannot mark his ballot; and if he can not mark his ballot by reason of physical disability, then the nature of such disability must be entered. Cancellation of entry. Compelling registration. Compelling cancel. lation. CHAPTER 438. An act to amend sections eleven hundred five, eleven hundred eight and eleven hundred nine of the Political Code of the State of California, relating to registration of voters. [Approved April 12, 1911.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section eleven hundred five of the Political Code of the State of California is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 1105. Cancellation is made by writing on the affidavit of registration, the word "Cancelled" and the reason therefor. SEC. 2. Section eleven hundred eight of the Political Code of the State of California is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 1108. If the clerk refuses to register any qualified elector in the county, such elector may proceed by action in the superior court to compel such registration. SEC. 3. Section eleven hundred nine of the Political Code of the State of California is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 1109. Any person may proceed by action in the superior court to compel the clerk to cancel any registration made illegally, or that ought to be cancelled by reason of facts that have occurred subsequent to the time of such registration; but if the person whose name is sought to be cancelled be not a party to the action, the court may order him to be made a party defendant. CHAPTER 439. An act to amend sections eleven hundred thirteen, eleven hundred fifteen and eleven hundred seventeen of the Political Code of the State of California, relating to registration of electors. [Approved April 12, 1911.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section eleven hundred thirteen of the Political Code of the State of California is hereby amended so as to read as follows: affidavits tration 1113. Within five days after the last day of registration. Clerk to the clerk shall arrange the affidavits of registration for each arrange precinct alphabetically by surnames, and number the same, of regis beginning with one in each case, and bind the same, or cause by prethem to be bound, into a book by fastening the left-hand edges cincts. together with a staple, wire, thread or other suitable material; he shall at the same time treat the duplicate affidavits of registration in the same manner. SEC. 2. Section eleven hundred fifteen of the Political Code of the State of California is hereby amended so as to read as follows: ing great 1115. Within five days after the binding of said books the Indexing clerk shall prepare an index of each book, said index to contain and bindthe numbers, names, ages, occupations, addresses, and political register. affiliations as they appear in said books, and shall have at least one hundred copies of said index printed. The clerk shall have bound together in one or more volumes, a general index of said books arranged alphabetically by precinct, and shall keep at least one copy of said general index in his office for public reference. SEC. 3. Section eleven hundred seventeen of the Political Code of the State of California is hereby amended so as to read as follows: that per 1117. A certified copy of an uncanceled affidavit of registra- Evidence tion is prima facie evidence that the person named in the entry is an elector of the county. CHAPTER 440. An act to amend section eleven hundred forty-two of the Political Code of the State of California, relating to boards of election. [Approved April 12, 1911.] The people of the State of California, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows: the SECTION 1. Section eleven hundred forty-two of Political Code of the State of California is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 1142. When an election is ordered, the board of super son is an elector. |