CHAPTER CCLV.

A Further Supplement to an act entitled "An act to provide for the regulation and incorporation of insurance companies" [Revision], approved April ninth, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.

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1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That hereafter it shall not be Unlawful for lawful for any insurance company organized or incor- pany to issue or porated under the laws of this state, transacting the busi- renew policy en ness of insuring the health of persons, injury, disable- excess of ten ment or death of persons resulting from traveling, general paid up capital accidents by land or water, guaranteeing the fidelity of and net surplus. persons holding places of public or private trust, the lives of horses, cattle, and other live stock, plate-glass against breakage, steam-boilers against explosion and against loss of life or property resulting therefrom, or against loss by burglary or theft, or either or any of them, to issue or renew any policy or policies on any one risk in excess of ten per centum of the amount of its paid-up capital stock and net surplus.

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2. And be it enacted, That hereafter it shall not be law- Same as to inful for any insurance company organized or incorporated panies of other under the laws of any other state or country authorized states or counand permitted by the laws of this state to transact the business of insurance on the health of persons, injury, disablement or death of persons resulting from traveling, by general accidents by land or water, guaranteeing the fidelity of persons holding places of public or private trust, the lives of horses, cattle, and other live stock, plate-glass against breakage, steam-boilers against explosion and against loss of life or property resulting therefrom, or against loss by burglary or theft, or either or any of them, to issue or renew, in this state, any policy or policies on any one risk situated or located in this state, in excess of ten per centum of the amount of its paid-up capital stock and net surplus.

Secretary of state to revoke

3. And be it enacted, That whenever any insurance company such as is described in the second or third sections company violat- of this act, shall violate any of the provisions of this act,

certificates of

ing act.

Unlawful to effect insurance in company violating act.

Penalty.

the secretary of state, on being satisfied of any such violation, shall revoke and cancel any and all certificates of whatever character issued by him to any such insurance company or to the agents of any such insurance company. 4. And be it enacted, That it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to seek, take or effect, or cause, or procure to be made or effected, or receive applications for any character of insurance named in the first or second sections of this act, by or in behalf of any such insurance company as is described in the provisions of this act which shall have violated any of the provisions of this act; and every violation of the provisions of this section. shall subject the party violating the same to a penalty of five hundred dollars, to be sued for and recovered in the name of the state by the prosecutor of the pleas of the county in which such violation shall occur; one-half of the said penalty, when recovered, shall be paid to the treasurer of the said county for the benefit of the charitable fund of the fire department in said county, or if there is none, then for the benefit of said county, and the other half to the informer of the violation.

5. And be it enacted, That this act is a public act and shall take effect immediately.

Approved May 9, 1889.

CHAPTER CCLVI.

A Further Supplement to the act entitled "An act to establish in this state boards of health and a bureau of vital statistics, and to define their respective powers and duties," approved March thirty-first, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven.

ditional powers.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey, That all local boards of health Local boards shall, in addition to the powers now vested in them, have vested with adpower to pass, alter or amend ordinances and rules within their respective jurisdictions; to license and regulate persons to engage in the business of cleaning cesspools and privies; to fix the fees that shall be charged for each license granted, not exceeding twenty dollars for each vehicle or conveyance; to prohibit unlicensed persons from engaging in said business, and to require all vehicles and conveyances used in said business to be approved by the local board of health of the jurisdiction in which the same may be used.

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2. And be it enacted, That each license granted under License to conthe provisions of the foregoing section shall continue for tinue for one the term of one year from the date of granting the same; provided, that if any person licensed as aforesaid, or any Proviso. of his employees, servants or agents, shall violate any ordinance or rule of said board in cleaning any cesspool or privy, or in removing the contents thereof, such license may, in the discretion of the board which granted the same, be revoked by said board.

drainage system.

3. And be it enacted, That all local boards of health Local boards except township boards of health which now have, or may charge fee may hereafter pass an ordinance or ordinances under the plumbing or power now conferred by law, requiring that the plan of the plumbing or drainage system to be constructed in any building within their respective jurisdictions, shall be filed in the office of the board of health, shall have the

power to charge a fee not exceeding two dollars, to be paid by the owner or other person filing said plan to the said board of health, on filing said plan.

4. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately.

Approved May 9, 1889.

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CHAPTER CCLVII.

An Act regulating the pay of officers and policemen in certain cities of this state.

1. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of Salaries of offi- the State of New Jersey, That in all cities of this state other cers and police than towns, cities or boroughs which are known as seaside resorts, the pay or salaries of the following-named officers shall be as hereinafter specified, viz.: to aids, sergeants, detectives or lieutenants, the sum of twelve hundred dollars per annum; to round-sergeants or roundsmen, the sum of not less than ten hundred and fifty dollars per annum, and to patrolmen the sum of ten hundred dollars per annum, in lieu of all other compensation whatever.

Act inoperative

by majority of

voters.

2. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect imuntil assented to mediately; provided, that its provisions shall remain inoperative in any city or municipality until assented to by a majority of the legal votes cast for or against an increase of pay at any regular charter or general election to be hereafter held in such city or municipality, when submitted to said voters by the concurrence of the boards hereinafter designated; and the city clerk of such city or municipality shall, on the resolution of the common council, board of aldermen, board of police commissioners, or other governing body of such city or munici pality, when concurred in by the board having charge

How election conducted.

and control of the finances in such city, provide for each elector voting at such election, ballots, to be printed or written, or partly printed or partly written, on which shall be either the words, "for increase of pay of police department," or "against increase of pay of police department;" and if a majority of those voting shall be in favor of an increase of the pay of the police, then this act shall go into effect immediately, and the pay or salaries of the officers or men of such department shall be as hereinbefore stated; persons entitled to vote at any charter or general election shall express their assent to or rejection of this act by depositing their ballots in the box provided for depositing ballots at such election in the election precints, districts or wards of any such city, and those who are in favor of the acceptance of this act shall each deposit a ballot containing the words "for increase of pay of police department" written or printed thereon, and those who are opposed shall each deposit a ballot with the words "against increase of pay of police department" written or printed thereon, and this acceptance or rejection may be expressed upon the ballot on which are the names of the ward, city, county or state officers, and shall be counted in determining such result, and there shall be a canvass on the return of the votes upon the question of such acceptance or rejection made by the election officers in the same way and manner as for officers voted for at such election.

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3. And be it enacted, That in any city or municipality when increase in which this act shall become operative in the manner into effect. therein provided, the increase of pay or salaries therein made shall go into effect on the first day of the next calendar month thereafter, notwithstanding that there may not be any existing appropriation or fund sufficient to permit such increase, and the board or authority having control of the finances of such city or municipality shall How paid. borrow a sufficient sum to cover such increase for the remainder of the current fiscal year of such city or municipality, or may permit the same to be paid out of any money of said city or municipality, and shall put such sum in the next tax levy raised in said city or municipality. 4. And be it enacted, That this act shall take effect immediately.

Approved May 9, 1889.