Certificates heretofore issued valid and continued in force. for the purposes of this act and the members of the board shall before entering upon the discharge of their duties take the oath prescribed by the Constitution for State officers. § 3. This act shall take effect and be in force in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution, but it is expressly provided that all certificates issued by the board under the provisions of the law to which this is an amendment are hereby confirmed and continued in force, and all students who were matriculated in any reputable medical or osteopathic college in this Commonwealth on or before February 1, 1904, and shall have graduated prior to September 1, 1907, and make application to the board prior to January 1, 1908, shall receive certificates without examination. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. Approved March 18, 1904. Qualifications and duties of County Board of Health. CHAPTER 35. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An Act creating a State Board of Health, regulating the appointment of county boards, and prescribing their duties and compensation," which was approved by the Governor on the 20th day of April, 1893. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That an act to amend an act, entitled “An act creating a State Board of Health, regulating the appointment of County Boards, and prescribing their duties and compensation," which was approved on the twentieth day of April, 1893, be amended by repealing that portion of said act designated in Kentucky Statutes (Carroll Edition) as section 2055, and all laws in conflict with this act, and enacting the following instead: "It shall be the duty of the State Board of Health to appoint three intelligent and discreet licensed and practicing physicians residing in each county of this State who, together with the county judge and one person elected by the fiscal court of each county, shall constitute a local board of health for the respective counties in which they reside and such persons as members of the local board shall hold their office for a term of two years from the date of their appointment or election, and until their successors are appointed or elected, and such local boards are empowered and it shall be their duty to inaugurate and execute and to require the heads of families and other persons to execute such sanitary regulations as the local board may consider expedient to prevent the outbreak and spread of cholera, smallpox, yellow fever, scarlet fever, diphtheria and other epidemic and communicable diseases, and to this end may bring the infected population under prompt and proper treatment during premonitory or other stages of the disease and they are empowered to go upon and inspect any premises which they may believe are in an unclean or infectious condition, and it shall be empowered to fix and determine the location of an eruptive hospital for the county, sufficiently remote from human habitation and public highways as in its judgment is safe, and said boards are authorized and shall have power to enforce the rules and regulations adopted by the State Board of Health, and any person who shall fail or refuse, after written notice from the local board or State board, to observe or obey the written request shall be fined not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars for each day he so fails or neglects, and it shall be the duty of physicians practicing their professions in any county in which a local board is organized to report all or any of the above mentioned diseases under their special treatment, to such local board, and it shall likewise be the duty of heads of families, to report any of said diseases when known by them to exist in their respective families, to such local board, or to some member thereof within twenty-four hours from his or her knowledge of the existence of such disease, and such local board shall make report to the State Board of Health, at least once in every three months-first, of the character of the infectious, epidemic and communicable diseases prevailing in their county; second, the number reported as afflicted with such disease; third, the action taken by such board in arresting the progress of such epidemics, and the visible effects of such action, and shall also make special reports when they deem it expedient or when required by the State Board, and the local board shall receive no compensation for such services. The local board shall appoint a competent practicing physician who shall be the health officer of the county and secretary of the board, whose duties shall be to see that the rules and regulations provided for in this act, and the rules and regulations of the State Board of Health are enforced, and who shall hold his office at the pleasure of said board, and he shall receive a salary, the amount of which to be fixed by the fiscal court at the time, or immediately after his election. In no state of case shall said health officer claim or receive from the county any compensation for his services other than the salary fixed by the fiscal court. § 2. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. Approved March 18, 1904. CHAPTER 36. AN ACT to provide for the establishing of graded schools in common school districts bordering on county lines. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Graded schools established in common That it shall be the duty of the county judge in each county of this Commonwealth, upon a written petition school districts. signed by at least ten legal voters who are taxpayers in the school districts of his county, and who desire to unite with school districts of an adjacent county, for the purpose of establishing a graded school, to make an order on the order book at the next regular term of his court after he receives said petition, fixing the boundary of any proposed graded common school district, as agreed on by the county judges and petitioners of the counties, out of which said school district is to be joined, and directing the sheriff or other officer of each county, whose duty it may be to hold the election, to open a poll in said proposed graded common school district, on some day fixed by said judges in said order, for the purpose of taking the sense of the legal white voters in said proposed graded common school district upon the proposition whether or not they will vote an annual tax, in any sum named in said order, not exceeding fifty cents on each one hundred dollars of property assessed in said proposed graded common school district, belonging to said white voters or corporations, or a poll tax in any sum named in said order, not exceeding one dollar and fifty cents per capita on each white male inhabitant over twenty-one years of age residing in said proposed graded common school district, or both an ad valorem and a poll tax, if so stated in the order, for the purpose of maintaining a graded common school in said proposed graded common school district, and for erecting, purchasing or repairing suitable buildings therefor, if necessary: Provided, The proposition to establish any graded common school district and school as provided for in this section, is approved in writing on the petition to the county judges of each county represented by a majority of the trustees of any common school district, included wholly or partly within that portion of the said proposed graded common school district, which is included in his county, and approved in writing on said petition by the county superintendent of common schools in each county; that no point on the boundary of any proposed graded common school district be more than two and one half miles from the site of its proposed school house, and that the location and site of said school house in said district are set out with exactness in said petition to the county judges of the counties concerned. If, at any time, two years having intervened since such graded common school district was established, it becomes desirable to change the boundary of same, it shall be the duty of the county judges concerned, upon a written petition signed by the person or persons desiring to be changed, who are, under this law, legal voters in the school district or districts in which they reside, and who at the same time own the real estate sought to be transferred, to make an order on their respective order books at the next regular term of their court after receiving said petition fixing the new boundary of the said graded or common school district, as agreed on by the county judges and the petitioners. Such petition, to be valid, shall set out in full the new boundary of said district, which shall be recorded as in case of the original boundary, and a copy of same shall be furnished the Board of Education of said graded common school district, but no such change shall |