THE STATE OF OHIO

LEGISLATIVE ACTS

PASSED

AND

JOINT RESOLUTIONS

Adopted

BY THE

EIGHTY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY

At Its Regular Session

WHICH BEGAN JANUARY 3, 1921.

VOLUME CIX

Springfield, Ohio:

The Kelly-Springfield Printing Company.

State Printers.

1921.

Bound at the State Bindery.

GENERAL LAWS

[House Bill No. 24.1

To make supplementary appropriations for the 84th General

Assembly.

AN ACT

appropriations.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: Supplementary SECTION 1. The sums set forth in section 2 herein for the purposes specified, are hereby appropriated out of any monies in the state treasury to the credit of the general revnue fund, not otherwise appropriated.

SECTION 2. The following sums shall be expended to pay liabilities incurred subsequent to January 1, 1921.

Filed in the office of the Secretary of State at Columbus,
Ohio, on the 19th day of January, A. D. 1921.

1 G.

Sec. 6212-21.

Prohibition' commissioner: appointment, term, oath, salary.

Removal, causes for; hearing.

[Amended Senate Bill No. 17.]

AN ACT

To provide for the appointment of a commissioner of prohibition of Ohio and assistants to secure the enforcement of laws prohibiting the liquor traffic and to prescribe further duties and powers and fix their compensation and to repeal sections 6072, 6073 and 6074 of the General Code and to declare an emergency. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio:

SECTION 1. An officer to be known as the commissioner of prohibition of Ohio shall be appointed as hereinafter provided, who shall be an elector of the state. The governor of Ohio upon assuming office shall appoint such commissioner by and with the consent of the Senate, and the terms of such commissioner shall coincide with that of the governor provided that the term of the commissioner first appointed hereunder shall begin on the day next following that on which this act shall take effect and continue until the second Monday of January, 1923. Such commissioner shall take the constitutional oath of office, and his salary shall be five thousand dollars per year, and he shall be allowed and paid his necessary expenses when on duty away from his office. He shall devote his entire time and attention to the duties of his office.

The governor shall at any time have power to remove said commissioner for immoral conduct, inefficiency or neglect of duty, giving the commissioner a copy of the charges against him and an opportunity to be heard thereon. If such commissioner shall be removed the governor shall file in the office of the secretary of state a statement of all the

Sec. 6212-22.

Sec. 6212-23.

Sec. 6212-24.

charges made against such commissioner and his findings
thereon, and his decision thereon shall be final.

SECTION 2. The commissioner of prohibition shall ap-
point, with the approval of the governor, one deputy com-
missioner who shall be an elector of the state and who shall
have all the powers and perform all the duties of the com-
missioner during his absence or disability of the commis-
sioner. Said deputy shall be under the direction and con-
trol of such commissioner and shall hold his office at the
pleasure of said commissioner. Such deputy shall devote
his entire time to the duties of the office, and shall receive an
annual salary of thirty-six hundred dollars, and shall be
allowed and paid his actual and necessary expenses when
on duty away from the office.

The commissioner of prohibition shall have authority to appoint not to exceed twenty regular inspectors, who shall hold office at the pleasure of the commissioner, and who shall have the power and authority herein provided. They shall be under the control of said commissioner and shall exercise the powers herein provided, as directed by said commissioner. Each of said inspectors shall receive a salary of not less than fifteen hundred dollars, and not more than twentyfive hundred dollars per annum, as determined by the commissioner, and in addition be allowed and paid their actual and necessary expenses.

The commissioner may appoint such temporary inspectors as the emergency demands, who shall hold office at the pleasure of the commissioner and who shall have only the powers and authority delegated to them in their appointment and not inconsistent with this act. The number of such temporary inspectors shall not exceed that fixed by the governor. They shall be under the control of said commissioner and shall receive such compensation as may be fixed by him, not to exceed ten dollars per day when actually employed, and shall be allowed and paid their actual and necessary expenses.

They shall perform such duties as are assigned by the commissioner.

Said commissioner, deputy and inspectors shall not be included in the classified civil service of the state.

SECTION 3. The office of the commissioner shall be in the city of Columbus, and provisions shall be made by the commissioner for suitable office rooms, furniture, stationery and other facilities for transacting the business of the office, and such clerical and other assistance may be employed by the commissioner as the needs of the office demand.

SECTION 4. It shall be the duty of the commissioner, deputy and inspectors diligently to enforce laws of the state having to do with the prohibition of the liquor traffic, and exercise all powers herein conferred, provided, however, that nothing in this act contained shall in any manner relieve any local township, municipal, county or other state officer from responsibility for the enforcement of such laws.