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(SENATE BILL NO. 253. APPROVED JUNE 28, 1919.)

AN ACT to enable counties or cities to segregate and treat persons suffering from certain communicable diseases.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That any county or city may by ordinance or order provide for the segregation and treatment of persons suffering from communicable venereal diseases.

§ 2. Such counties or cities may provide for the procurement and maintenance of hospitals, sanitaria or clinics or for the segregation or treatment in hospitals, sanitaria or clinics already established and pay the cost and expenses thereof from the public funds of such county or city.

§ 3. Any person suffering from any communicable venereal disease may apply to the county or city clerk, the clerk of any County or City Court or to any peace officer for admission to treatment in such county or city hospital, sanitarium or clinic and it shall be the duty of such officer to refer such applicants to the director or person in charge of such institution to treat such applicant as the case may require.

§ 4. When it appears to any judge or justice of the peace from the evidence or otherwise that any person coming before him on any criminal charge may be suffering from any communicable venereal disease, it shall be the duty of such judge or justice of the peace to refer such person to the director of such hospital, sanitarium or clinic, or to such other officer as shall be selected or appointed, for the purpose of examining the accused person and if such person be found to be suffering from any communicable venereal disease, he or she may by order of the court be sent for treatment to a hospital, sanitarium or clinic if any be available and if necessary to be segregated for such term as the court may impose at such hospital, sanitarium or clinic.

APPROVED June 28, 1919.

HOMESTEADS.

EXEMPTION.

§ 1. Amends section 4, Act of 1873.

§ 4. Procedure in validating.

(HOUSE BILL No. 516. APPROVED JUNE 23, 1919.)

AN ACT to amend section 4 of an Act entitled, "An Act to amend an Act entitled 'An Act to exempt the homestead from forced sale, and to provide for setting off the same, and to exempt certain personal property from attachment and sale on execution, and from distress for rent"; approved April 30, 1873; in force July 1, 1873, as subsequently amended.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That section 4 of an Act entitled "An Act to amend an Act entitled 'An Act to exempt the homestead from forced sale, and to provide for setting off the same, and to exempt certain personal property from attachment and sale on execution, and from distress for rent"; approved April 30, 1873; in force July 1, 1873, as subsequently amended, so that said section when amended will read as follows:

§ 4. No release, waiver or conveyance of the estate so exempted, shall be valid, unless the same is in writing, subscribed by said householder and his or her wife or husband, if he or she have one, and acknowledged in the same manner as conveyances of real estate are required to be acknowledged, or possession is abandoned or given pursuant to the conveyance; or if the exemption is continued to a child or children, without the order of a court of competent jurisdiction directing a release thereof: Provided that where a conveyance is made by a husband, who is such householder as grantor, to his wife, or by a wife who is such householder as grantor, to her husband, such conveyance shall be effectual to pass the title expressed therein to be conveyed thereby whether the grantor in such conveyance is joined therein by such wife or husband, as the case may be or not. And provided further, in all cases where such release, waiver or conveyance shall be taken by way of mortgage or security, the same shall only be operative as to such specific release, waiver or conveyance; and when the same includes different pieces of land, or the homestead is of greater value than one thousand dollars, said other lands shall first be sold before resorting to the homestead, and in case of the sale of such homestead, if any balance shall remain after the payment of the debt and costs, such balance shall, to the extent of one thousand dollars ($1,000) be exempt, and be applied upon such homestead exemption in the manner provided by law.

APPROVED June 23, 1919.

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AN ACT to establish the Illinois Housing and Building Commission and to define its powers and duties.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: That the Illinois Housing and Building Commission is hereby created. Such commission shall consist of seven members, all to be appointed by the Governor. Of the seven members of said commission, two shall be members of the Senate of the 51st General Assembly, two shall be members of the House of Representatives of the 51st General Assembly, one shall be an architect, one shall be a building contractor, and the seventh member any voter in the State of Illinois. The Governor shall designate the chairman of said commission.

§ 2. The commissioners shall meet and organize as soon as possible after their appointment. The duties and functions of the commission shall cease and the terms of office of the members thereof shall terminate upon the convening of the 52nd General Assembly.

§ 3. It shall be the duty of the commission to prepare and draft a State housing code, a State building code, and a zoning bill for the State of Illinois, for presentation to the 52nd General Assembly.

§ 4. The Department of Public Works and Buildings, the Department of Public Welfare, the Department of Public Health, the Department of Trade and Commerce, the Department of Labor, the Joint Legislative Reference Bureau and all other departments and agencies of the State government shall furnish such information and assistance as may be required of them by the commission, with reference to the performance of its duties under the provisions of this Act.

APPROVED June 28, 1919.

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(HOUSE BILL No. 759. APPROVED JUNE 28, 1919.)

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled: "An Act to revise the law in relation to idiots, lunatics, drunkards and spendthrifts," approved March 26, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, as amended, by amending sections 1, 2, 10, 18, 20, 21, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 42 and 44 thereof, and by adding thereto eleven sections to be known as sections 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55 and 56.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: An Act entitled: "An Act to revise the law in relation to idiots, lunatics, drunkards and spendthrifts," approved March 26, 1874, in force July 1, 1874, as amended, is amended by amending sections 1, 2, 10, 18, 20, 21, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 42 and 44 thereof, and by adding thereto eleven sections to be known as sections 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55 and 56, the amended and added sections to read as follows:

§ 1. When any person having any estate, real or personal, shall be, or be supposed to be, an insane person, who, by reason of unsoundness of mind, is incapable of managing and caring for his own estate, or when any person having any estate shall be, or be supposed to be

a drunkard or spendthrift or otherwise incompetent, as defined in this Act, the County Court of the county wherein such person resides, or if such person resides out of this State and has an estate within this State, then, the County Court of the county where his real estate or a part thereof may lie, or if such non-resident has no real estate in this State then the County Court of the county where he may have personal property, shall, on the proper petition of any reputable citizen of such county, for the appointment of a conservator of the person or estate (or both) of such person, proceed in the manner hereinafter provided, to ascertain whether such person be an insane person, who, by reason of unsoundness of mind, is incapable of managing and caring for his own estate, a drunkard, spendthrift or incompetent as aforesaid: Provided, that in any county wherein a Probate Court is or hereafter may be established, such application shall be made to said Probate Court.

§ 2. On any petition for the appointment of a conservator of any person being filed, the court shall set said cause for hearing, summons shall be issued returnable on any day of the term, and service thereof shall be had upon the person for whom a conservator is sought to be appointed, in the same manner by summons or otherwise as service is had in chancery, excepting that where personal service of such summons is had, such service shall be had at least three days before the return day of such summons. At the time fixed for the hearing, a jury of six persons (or at the request of either the petitioner or the respondent twelve persons) shall be empaneled to try the case. The court may, for good cause, continue the case from time to time. If any person be found to be an insane person, as defined in this Act, who by reason of such condition, is incapable of managing or caring for his estate, or a drunkard, spendthrift or incompetent person, as defined by this Act, it shall be the duty of the court to appoint a conservator for such person, or his estate or both: Provided, no nonresident of this State shall be appointed under this Act as conservator. No petition filed, under the provisions of this Act for the appointment of a conservator, shall be dismissed or withdrawn, without leave of the court in which such petition is filed.

The trial shall proceed in the same manner, as near as may be, as trials at law in the Circuit Court, except as otherwise provided in this Act. Upon the return of the finding of the jury, the court shall cause the same to be recorded at large by the clerk of the court, and unless the court shall grant a new trial, the court shall enter the proper order in accordance with the findings of the jury. Motions for a new trial in such causes may be made orally and when so made shall be entered upon the records.

§ 10. On every accounting or final settlement of a conservator, he shall exhibit and file his account as such conservator, setting forth, specifically, in separate items, on what account expenditures were made by him, and all sums received and paid out since his last accounting, and on what account each was received and paid out, and showing the true balance of money on hand-and an itemized account of all notes,

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