said grounds adjoining said public dance hall used in connection therewith shall be lighted during the entire time that such public dance hall shall be used for dancing, except dances in the day time. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm or corporation or manager in charge of any public dance hall to allow or permit dancing in said dance hall in the night time with dimmed or extinguished lights.

Section 8. Dance Halls-When Open.] It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm or corporation owning, controlling or operating a public dance hall within the State of South Dakota, to suffer, permit or allow the same to be open, or dances participated in therein, between the hours of two o'clock, a.m. and seven o'clock a.m. upon week days, and the same shall be closed from the hour of twelve o'clock midnight on Saturday evening and remain closed to the public until seven o'clock a.m. on the following Monday.

Section 9. Supervision.] It shall be the duty of the County Sheriff and the Chief Probation Officer of the County Court to enforce the provisions of this Act, and for that purpose such officer or officers or their deputies or assistants may enter such dance hall at any time and may remove therefrom any person found to be in an intoxicated condition or offending against morality or decency or violating any state law or any of the provisions of this Act. The Board of County Commissioners, if they deem it necessary, may require the employment of a matron or special officer to supervise dances conducted in public dance halls. Said matron or officer to be appointed by the said Board at a fixed compensation to be paid by the person or persons, firm or corporation operating such dance.

Section 10. Powers of Municipal Corporations.] Nothing in this Act contained shall be construed as limiting the powers now conferred by law upon municipal corporations in the licensing and regulating of public dances or dance halls within the jurisdiction of such municipal corporation, or within one mile of the limits of such municipal corporation.

Section 11. Penalty.] Any person or persons, firm or corporation violating any of the provisions of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not less than five (5) dollars, nor more than one hundred (100) dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding thirty (30) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, and the Board of County Commissioners may revoke any license issued under the provisions of this Act.

Section 12. Repeal.] Sections 4383, 4384, 4385 and 4386 of the South Dakota Revised Code of 1919 are hereby repealed.

Approved March 12, 1921.

Public Funds

CHAPTER 335.

(H. B. 72)

RELATING TO THE DEPOSIT OF PUBLIC FUNDS.

AN ACT Entitled, An Act Regulating the Depositing of all County, Municipal, Township and School Funds Within the State of South Dakota.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of South Dakota:

Section 1. That all funds of every kind and character, including moneys, credits or other assets, for the safety of which the treasurer of any county, municipality, township or school district is chargeable, shall be deposited in banks within the State of South Dakota, unless otherwise specifically provided by law.

Section 2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

Approved March 1, 1921.

CHAPTER 336.

(H. B. 20)

RELATING TO EMERGENCY BUILDING FUND.

AN ACT Entitled, An Act to Amend Section 6892 of the Revised Code of 1919, Pertaining to the Emergency Building Fund, and Declaring an Emergency.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of South Dakota:

Section 1. That Section 6892 of the Revised Code of 1919 be revised to read as follows:

Section 6892. Emergency Building Fund.] The emergency fund, heretofore created, shall be used only for the purpose of rebuilding, restoring or repairing buildings, office furniture, library books and other personal property belonging to the state that may be destroyed or injured by fire, lightning, or tornado. In case of any such building, office furniture, library books or other personal property shall be so destroyed or injured, the board or commission having it in charge may, upon the authorization of the governor and the attorney general, rebuild, restore or repair the same and the payment therefor may be made from the emergency building fund, upon vouchers itemized, certified and verified as provided by law and approved by such board, the governor and the attorney general; and there is hereby annually appropriated out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary to meet the expenditures authorized by this section, it being the intent of this section that there shall be available for the purposes prescribed herein, in each fiscal year, the sum of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and no more.

Section 2. Wheras, several of the state departments have been removed from the capitol to another building, where the fire hazard is great, and should a fire occur such departments would be left entirely helpless to continue their work, this act is declared to be necessary for the immediate preservation and support of the state government and its existing institutions and therefore an emergency is declared to exist and this act shall take effect upon its passage and approval. Approved January 27, 1921.

CHAPTER 337.

(S. B. 299)

PROVIDING FOR TEMPORARY TRANSFER OF COUNTY FUNDS.

AN ACT Entitled, An Act Providing for the Temporary Transfer of Funds in the County Treasury.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of South Dakota:

Section 1. Whenever moneys shall have been actually provided for any funds of the county by a levy of taxes, and such moneys shall not have been actually collected and covered into the county treasury, but concerning the receipt of which moneys there can be no question, the Board of County Commissioners are authorized, by a unanimous vote to anticipate the receipt of such moneys into such fund by drawing temporarily upon the moneys in any other fund of the county for which there shall not be immediate use. Any fund temporarily depleted by virtue of the foregoing provision shall be fully restored within nine months after a draft upon the same for the benefit of another fund shall have been made, and the moneys coming into the latter fund shall first be used to restore such depletion. The board shall provide, at the time of making such withdrawal, for reimbursing the fund from which moneys are thus temporarily withdrawn. The books of the county treasurer shall at all times show the true amount of moneys in any particular fund, as well as any temporary withdrawal therefrom.

Approved March 12, 1921.

CHAPTER 338.

(S. B. 232)

AUTHORIZING TEMPORARY TRANSFER OF FUNDS OF HANSON COUNTY.

AN ACT Entitled, An Act Authorizing the Board of County Commissioners of Hanson County, South Dakota, to Transfer Funds from the County General Fund to the Road and Bridge Funds for the Purpose of Constructing and Repairing Highways and Bridges in Hanson County, and Declaring an Emergency.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of South Dakota:

Section 1. Whereas recent floods have caused heavy damages to the roads and to several of the bridges upon the highways of Hanson County during the past year rendering such roads impassable and whereas the said Hanson County is now constructing one of the State

Trunk Highways through Hanson County, Known as Federal Aid Project Number 24, and there is not sufficient money remaining in the bridge and road funds of said county to repair such damage and complete said Federal Aid Project, and whereas it appears that there is more money in the general funds of said county than is or will be needed for general county purposes during the current fiscal year; therefore the County Auditor and County Treasurer of said Hanson County, acting under the authority and directed to transfer from the county general fund to the road and bridge funds of said county such amounts of money as may in the judgement of the Board of County Commissioners be required to repair the damaged roads and bridges of said county; provided, however, that there shall remain in the county general fund an amount sufficient for general county purposes for the current year.

Section 2. Whereas, this Act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public safety and for the support of the state government and its existing public institutions, an emergency is hereby declared to exist, and this Act shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and approval.

Approved March 12, 1921.

Public Health

CHAPTER 339.

(S. B. 295)

RELATING TO VENEREAL DISEASES.

AN ACT Entitled, An Act to Amend Section 3 of Chapter 284 of the Session Laws of 1919, Relating to Venereal Diseases.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of South Dakota:

Section 1. That Section 3 of Chapter 284 of the Session Laws of 1919 Relating to Venereal Diseases, be amended to read as follows:

Section 3. State, County and Municipal health officers, or their authorized deputies, within their respective jurisdiction are hereby directed and empowered to require persons infected with venereal disease to report for treatment to a reputable physician and continue treatment until cured, or to submit to treatment provided at public expense until cured, and also, when in their judgement it is necessary to protect the public health, to isolate or quarantine persons infected with venereal disease. It shall be the duty of all local and state health officers to investigate sources of infection of venereal disease, to cooperate with the proper officials whose duty it is to enforce laws directed against prostitution, and otherwise to use every proper means for the repression of prostitution. Any person convicted of being a prostitute or inmate of a disorderly house who may be found to be infected with venereal disease in a stage which, in the opinion of the health officer, is or is apt to become communicable, shall be quarantined or isolated so long as such person is so infected.

Approved March 12, 1921.

Public Lands

CHAPTER 340.

(S. B. 182)

RELATING TO USE OF FIRE TOOLS OF FOREST SERVICE.

AN ACT Entitled, An Act Prohibiting the Breaking, Removal, Molesting or Interfering With Fire Tools or Tool Boxes and Providing Penalties Therefor.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of South Dakota:

Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to break, remove or in any manner interfere with or molest any fire tool boxes or any fire tools, implements or equipment furnished and located by the state or federal forest service upon any of the public lands or elsewhere within this state excepting when necessary to use in case of fire. Any person found guilty of violating any of the foregoing provisions shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punishable by a fine of not less than $100.00 nor more than $500.00 or by imprisonment in a county jail for not less than thirty days nor more than six months or by such fine and imprisonment. Approved February 25, 1921.

Public Markets

CHAPTER 341.

(H. B. 99)

RELATING TO CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE, ETC.

AN ACT Entitled, An Act Declaring Chamber of Commerce, Board of Trade or Exchanges Where the Members Thereof Deal or Trade in Grain, Livestock or Other Farm Products to be Public Markets, to Regulate the Membership Thereof and the Rights of Members Therein.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of South Dakota:

Section 1. Every Chamber of Commerce, Board of Trade or Exchange maintaining or operating a regular place of business or trading room for members only, in which the members buy, sell or exchange grain, livestock or other farm products for themselves or for others, is hereby declared to be a Public Market subject to the provisions of this Act; provided, that this Act shall not apply to any such exchange or market whose total annual volume of transfers or exchanges does not exceed three million (3,000,000) bushels of grain, or one hundred thousand (100,000) head of live stock, or two million pounds (2,000,000) of butter fat.