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him or her, and a public hearing by the Department of Registration and Education.

Upon the hearing of any such proceeding, the Director of Registration and Education, the Assistant Director of Registration and Education or the Superintendent of Registration, may administer oaths, and the Department of Registration and Education may procure by its subpoena, the attendance of witnesses and the production of relevant books and papers.

Any Circuit Court, or any judge of a Circuit Court either in term time or in vacation, upon the application, either of the accused or of the Department of Registration and Education, may, by order, fully entered, require the attendance of witnesses and the production of relevant books and papers, before the Department of Registration and Education, in any hearing relating to the refusal, suspension or revocation of certificates of registration. Upon refusal or neglect to obey the order of the court or judge, the court or judge may compel, by proceedings for contempt of court, obedience of its or his order.

§ 8. Upon payment of the required fee, an applicant who is a nurse, registered or licensed under the laws of another State or territory of the United States, or of a foreign country or province may, without examination, be granted a certificate of registration as a registered nurse by the Department of Registration and Education, in its discretion, upon the following conditions:

(a) That the applicant is at least twenty-two years of age, of good moral character and temperate habits; and

(b) That the requirements for the registration or licensing of nurses in the particular state, territory, county or province, were at the date of the license, substantially equal to the requirements then in force in this State.

§ 9. The fee to be paid by an applicant for an examination to determine his or her fitness to receive a certificate of registration as a registered nurse is ten dollars ($10.00).

The fee to be paid by an applicant for a certificate of registration as a registered nurse is two dollars ($2.00).

The fee to be paid upon the renewal of a certificate of registration is one dollar ($1.00).

The fee to be paid by an applicant for an examination to determine his or her preliminary education is two dollars ($2.00).

The fee to be paid by an applicant for a certificate of registration who is a nurse registered or licensed under the laws of another state or territory of the United States or of a foreign country or province is twelve dollars ($12.00).

The fee to be paid for the restoration of an expired certificate of registration as a registered nurse is two dollars ($2.00).

§ 10. The Department of Registration and Education may adopt reasonable rules and regulations relating to the enforcement of the provisions of this Act.

§ 11. Each of the following Acts constitutes a misdemeanor, punishable upon conviction by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00), nor more than two hundred dollars ($200.00):

(a) The practice of nursing, or an attempt to practice nursing as a registered nurse without a certificate of registration as a registered nurse;

(b) The obtaining of, or an attempt to obtain, a certificate of registration, or practice in the profession, or money, or any other thing of value, by fraudulent representation;

(c) The making of any wilfully false oath or affirmation as required by this Act.

All fines and penalties shall inure to the Department of Registration and Education.

12. The Department of Registration and Education shall keep a record which shall be open to public inspection at all reasonable times, of its proceedings relating to the issuance, refusal, renewal, suspension, and revocation of certificates of registration. This record shall also contain the name, known place of business and residence, and the date and number of certificate of registration of every registered nurse in this State.

§ 13. An Act entitled "An Act to provide for the registration of nurses and to repeal a certain Act therein named," approved June 30, 1913, in force July 1, 1913, as amended, is repealed.

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$ 14. This Act may be known and cited as "The Illinois Nursing

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AN ACT to amend section 6 of an Act entitled, "An Act to provide for the organization of reserve militia from the unorganized militia of the State," approved June 25, 1917, in force July 1, 1917.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: Section 6 of an Act entitled, “An Act to provide for the organization of reserve militia from the unorganized militia of the State" is amended to read as follows:

§ 6. The expense of the organization, equipment and maintenance of the reserve militia shall be borne by the State. Such expense shall be the same as that allowed by law for the organization, equipment and maintenance of the National Guard.

§ 2. Because of an emergency, this Act shall take effect from and after its passage.

APPROVED May 15, 1919.

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AN ACT to amend sections 9, 14, 19, 20, 21 and 27 of an Act entitled, "An Act to revise the laws in relation to coal mines and subjects relating thereto, and providing for the health and safety of persons employed therein," approved June 6, 1911, in force July 1, 1911, as amended.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in the General Assembly: Sections 9, 14, 19, 20, 21 and 27 of an Act entitled, "An Act to revise the laws in relation to coal mines and subjects relating thereto, and providing for the health and safety of persons employed therein," approved June 6, 1911, in force July 1, 1911, as amended, are amended to read as follows:

§ 9. (a) For every coal mine in this State, whether worked by shaft, slope or drift, there shall be provided and maintained, in addition to the hoisting shaft, or other place of delivery, an escapement shaft or opening to the surface, or an underground communicating passageway with a contiguous mine, so that there shall be at least two distinct

and available means of egress to all persons employed in such coal mines.

(b) In mines sunk after the passage of this Act, the first escapement shaft shall be separated from the main shaft by such extent of natural strata as may be agreed upon by the inspector of the district and the owner of the property, but the distance between the main shaft and the escapement shaft shall not be less than 500 feet nor more than 2,000 feet: Provided, that in mines employing ten (10) men or less the distance between the hoisting shaft and the escapement shaft shall not be less than two hundred and fifty (250) feet.

(c) It shall be unlawful to employ underground, at any one time, more men than in the judgment of the inspector are necessary to complete speedily the connections with the escapement shaft or adjacent mine; and said number must not exceed ten men at any one time for any purpose in said mine until such escapement or connection is completed.

The time allowed for completing such escapement shaft or making such connections with an adjacent mine, as is required by the terms of this Act, shall be three months for shafts 200 feet or less in depth, and six months for shafts less than 500 feet or more than 200 feet, and nine months for all other mines, slopes or drifts, or connections with adjacent mines. The time to date in all cases from the hoisting of coal from the hoisting shaft: Provided, that in mines employing ten (10) men or less, the time for completing the escapement shaft shall not be more than six months from the time of hoisting coal.

(d) The escapement shaft at every mine opened after the passage of this Act shall be equipped with a substantial stairway, set at an angle not greater than forty-five degrees, which shall be provided with hand rails and with platforms or landings at each turn of the stairway:

Provided, that all coal mines more than two hundred (200) feet in depth, opened on or after July 1, 1919, the escapement shaft shall be equipped with both a cage and stairway: Provided, further, that if the coal mine is equipped with a stairway in the main shaft, no stairway shall be required in the escapement shaft.

If any escapement shaft, at the time of the passage of this Act, be equipped with a cage for hoisting men, such shaft, cage and all equipment used in connection therewith must conform to the requirements of this Act in reference to the hoisting and lowering of men.

Where an escapement way is connected to a compartment in which. coal is hoisted in such manner that men using the escapement way are endangered by falling coal or by themselves falling into such hoisting compartment, the State Mine Inspector shall have power to order suitable protection against such dangers.

(e) Such escapement shaft or opening or communication with at contiguous mine as aforesaid, shall be constructed in connection with every seam of coal worked in such mine, and all passageways communicating with the escapement shaft or place of exit from the main hauling ways to said place or exit, shall be maintained free of obstruc

tion at least 5 feet high and 5 feet wide. Such passageways must be so graded and drained that it will be impossible for water to accumulate in any depression or dip of the same in quantities sufficient to obstruct the free and safe passage of men. No passageway to an escapement shaft shall pass through a stable. At all points where the passageway to the escapement shaft or other place of exit is intersected by other roadways or entries, conspicuous signboards shall be placed indicating the direc tion it is necessary to take in order to reach such place of exit.

(f) When operators of adjacent mines have, by agreement, established underground communications between said mines as an escapement outlet for the men employed in both, the intervening doors shall remain unlocked and ready at all times for immediate use.

When such communication has once been established between contiguous mines, the operator of either shall not close the same without the consent of the operator of the contiguous mine and of the State inspector for the district: Provided, that when either operator tesires to abandon mining operations the expense and duty of maintaining such communication shall develop upon the party continuing the operations and using the same.

§ 14. (a) At every coal mine there shall be provided, supplied and maintained an amount of air which shall not be less than one hundred (100) cubic feet per minute for each person, and not less than five hundred (500) cubic feet per minute for each animal in the mine, measured at the foot of the downcast and of the upcast; except that in gaseous mine there shall be not less than one hundred and fifty (150) cubic feet of air per minute for each person in the mine. The inspector shall have power by order in writing to require these quantities to be increased.

(b) The main current of air shall be split or subdivided as to give a separate current of reasonably pure air to every 100 men at work, and the inspector shall have authority to order, in writing, separate currents for smaller groups of men, if, in his judgment, special conditions render it necessary.

(c) Doors, curtains or brattices shall be placed at such places as may be designated by the mine manager, subject to the approval of the State inspector, to conduct into the working places an amount of air sufficient to render the working places reasonably free from deleterious air of every kind.

(d) Away from the pillar for the mine bottom, cross-cuts between entries shall be made not more than sixty feet apart without permission of the State inspector of the district and then only in case of "faults." When such consent is given, brattice or other means must be provided within sixty feet of the face to convey the air to the working place until a cross-cut is opened up.

When undercut or sheared, the entry, cross-cut and room-neck may be advanced concurrently, but not more than one cutting shall be shot in the room-neck until the cross-cut is finished; and after the entry has advanced fifteen feet beyond the location of the new cross-cut, only

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