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in each county, city or other municipality with the officer or board having jurisdiction over such matters.

46. The State Fire Marshal shall enter all orders, general or special, in a permanent record. Every order, general or special, of the State Fire Marshal made and entered under this section shall be admissible as evidence in any prosecution for the violation of any of its provisions. Unless proceedings for a rehearing upon such order or a review thereof shall have been instituted and be pending and it shall not then have been finally instituted and be be pending and it shall not then have been finally determined, the provisions of such order shall be presumed to be reasonable and lawful and to fix a reasonable and proper standard and requirement of safety from such fire loss.

§ 47. Any owner, occupant or other person having control over or charge of any building, structure or other premises and any other person required to do or perform any act herein required, or any other law relating to the State Fire Marshal, who shall violate any provision of such laws or any part thereof, or who shall fail or refuse to comply with any such provision or any part thereof, or who shall violate or fail or refuse to comply with any lawful order made under such laws, or who, directly or indirectly, knowingly induced another so to do, shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than thirty days or by both such fine and imprisonment. In any prosecution under this subsection it shall be deemed prima facie evidence of a violation that the accused has failed or refused to comply with any order, rule, regulation or requirement of

the State Fire Marshal relative to the safety of any building, structure or premises, and the burden of proof shall thereupon rest upon the accused to show that he has complied with such order, rule, regulation or requirement. Every violation of the provisions contained in Sections 39, 40 and 45 or any part or portion thereof by any person or corporation is a separate and distinct offense and, in the case of a continuing violation thereof, each day's continuance thereof shall constitute a separate and distinct offense.

§ 48. Any officer, director, United States manager, employe, attorney in fact, agent adjuster, inspector, or other person violating any provision of the insurance laws in the transaction of the business of insurance or in any matter relating thereto, shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars ($10.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) or by imprisonment in the county jail for rot less than ten (10) days nor more than thirty (30) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, and in addition thereto, the court may in its discretion suspend or revoke any license held by such person for the transaction of the business of insurance or any business relating thereto.

§ 49. An act relating to fire, lightning, hail, windstorm and sprinkler leakage insurance, and to regulate and control the rates of premium thereon, and creating a State Insurance Board, and defining the powers and duties of said board, approved March 4, 1912, and all amendments thereto, and also Sections 700 and 762a of Carroll's Statutes, 1915, and all other acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith are hereby repealed.

Approved March 15, 1916.

CHAPTER 20.

AN ACT relating to agricultural extension work and home economics; accepting the provisions of the Act of Congress providing for co-operative agricultural extension work between agricultural colleges, which Act was approved May eighth, nineteen hundred and fourteen; providing that such work shall be done under the directions of the Kentucky University, Lexington, Kentucky; changing the name of said university to University of Kentucky; amending and re-enacting Section one of Chapter three Acts of nineteen hundred and eight; amending and re-enacting Section fifteen Kentucky Statutes, nineteen hundred and three; providing for the appointment of trustees of the University of Kentucky; creating an extension committee to have charge of extension work under the supervision of the University of Kentucky; providing for the election of an executive committee for the University of Kentucky; amending and re-enacting Section thirteen of the Act of March twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six, creating the State Board of Agriculture, Forestry and Immigration; repealing Section two of an act for the benefit of the Department of Agriculture, Labor and Statistics approved March eleventh, nineteen hundred and twelve; appropriating money for the University of Kentucky; providing for the establishment of a marketing bureau; authorizing the fiscal courts of the counties and the boards of education of counties to appropriate money for extension work, and amending and re-enacting Section five of an act for the benefit of the Department of Agriculture approved March twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: '

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1. That Section one of Chapter three of the Acts of nineteen hundred and eight, which was approved by the Governer on March sixteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

That the institution founded under the Land Grant of eighteen hundred and sixty-two by the

Congress of the United States and known formerly under the corporate designation and title of "Agricultural and Mechanical College of Kentucky" and afterwards known and designated as "The State University, Lexington, Kentucky," be hereafter known and designated as "University of Kentucky."

§ 2. That Section fifteen of the Kentucky Statutes, Carroll's Edition nineteen hundred and three, which is subsection fifteen, Subsections one, two and three of Section four thousand six hundred and thirty six c of the Kentucky Statutes, Edition nineteen hundred and fifteen, be amended and reenacted so as to read as follows:

That the government, administration and control of the University of Kentucky be and is hereby vested in a Board of Trustees constituted and appointed as follows:

One. His Excellency, the Governor of Kentucky who shall be ex officio chairman thereof.

Two. The Superintendent of Public Instruction, who shall be an ex officio member of said board.

Three. The Commissioner of Agriculture, Labor and Statistics, who shall be an ex officio member of said board.

Four. The President of the University of Kentucky, who shall be an ex officio member of said board.

Five. Fifteen men discreet, intelligent and prudent, who shall be nominated by the Governor of Kentucky by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. They shall hold office for six years, five retiring and five being appointed at each regular session of the General Assembly. Said nomination shall be made within fifteen days after the Legislature convenes. Said trustees shall be ap

pointed and distributed as follows, namely: One from each Congressional District outside of the Congressional District in which Lexington is situated, and the remainder from the latter district; but no more than three trustees shall be appointed from the county of Fayette; provided that no trustee now serving under an appointment previously made shall be displaced by the operation of this act before his term of service shall have expired.

Six. In all appointments made hereafter by the Governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky to the Board of Trustees of the University of Kentucky other than those elected by the alumni, one-fifth of such number shall be appointed from those who have attended the said university as students for at least two years.

Seven.

The seven members of the State Board of Agriculture, who shall be ex officio members of said board.

Eight. No member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Kentucky shall be held to be a public officer by reason of his membership on said board.

Nine. That Chapter sixty-seven of the Acts of nineteen hundred and fourteen approved March, twenty, nineteen hundred and fourteen, be and the same is hereby amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Section 1. Six members who shall be alumni of the university. The said six members of the board of trustees of the university referred to in this subsection shall be nominated and elected by ballot by the graduates of the University and by those who have received degrees therefrom in a method as hereinafter set forth. Provided that no graduate shall be permitted to vote during the

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