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 77th General Assembly. 
 
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 Columbus, Ohio : 
 
 F. J. Hker, State Printer. 
 
 1903. 
 
SUPPLEMENT 
 
 TO THE 
 
 Ohio School Laws 
 
 CONSISTING OF THE 
 
 Amendments Enacted by the 
 77th General Assembly. 
 
 Issued by the State Commissioner 
 OF Schools, July 15, 1908. 
 
 
 Columbus, Ohio: 
 
 F. J. Heer, State Printer. 
 
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OHIO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 (House Bill No. 1279) 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To amend section 2834b of the Revised Statutes relating to restrictions as to con- 
 tracts, agreements, obligations, appropriations and expenditures. 
 
 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio : 
 
 Section i. That section 2834b of the Revised Statutes be amended 
 so as to read as follows : 
 
 Sec. 2834b. The commissioners of any county, the trustees of any 
 township and the board of education of any school district, shall enter 
 into no contract, agreement or obligation involving the expenditure of 
 money, nor shall any resolution or order for the appropriation or ex- 
 penditure of money be passed by any board of county commissioners, 
 township trustees or board of education, unless the auditor or the clerk 
 thereof shall first certify that the money required for the payment of 
 such obligation or appropriation is in the treasury .to the credit of the 
 fund from which it is to be drawn, or has been levied and placed on the 
 duplicate, and in process of collection and not appropriated for any 
 other purpose ; which certificate shall be filed and immediately recorded, 
 and the sums so certified shah not thereafter be considered unappro- 
 priated until the county, township or board of education, is fully dis- 
 charged from the contract, agreement or obligation, or so long as the 
 order or resolution is in force, and all contracts, agreements or obli- 
 gations, and all orders or resolutions entered into or passed contrary 
 to the provisions of this section, shall be void. Provided, that none of 
 the provisions of this section shall apply to the contracts authorized to 
 be made by other provisions of law for the employment of teachers, 
 officers, and other school employes of boards of education. 
 
 Section 2. That said section 2834b of the Revised Statutes be 
 and the same is hereby repealed, and that all acts and parts of acts 
 inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed as to such inconsistency but 
 not otherwise. 
 
 Freeman T. Eagleson, 
 Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
 James M. Williams, 
 
 President of the Senate. 
 
 Passed May 9, 1908. 
 
 Approved May 9, 1908. 
 
 Andrew L. Harris, Governor. 
 
4 OHIO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 (Senate Bill No. 591) 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To amend and supplement section 3726 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio, relating; 
 to the conferring of degrees by colleges and universities. 
 
 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio : 
 
 Section i. That section 3726 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio be 
 amended so as to read as follows : 
 
 Sec. 3726. The trustees of a college, university, or other institu- 
 tion of learning incorporated for the purpose of promoting education,, 
 religion, morality, or the fine arts, which has acquired real or personal 
 property of the value of twenty-five thousand dollars, and which has 
 filed in the ofiice of the secretary of state a schedule of the kind and 
 value of such property, verified by the oaths of the trustees, may appoint 
 a president, professors, and tutors, and any other necessary agents and 
 officers, and fix the compensation of each, and may enact such by-laws 
 not inconsistent with the laws of this state or the United States, for the 
 government of the institution, and for conducting the affairs of the 
 corporation, as they may deem necessary ; and may, on the recommenda- 
 tion of the faculty, confer all such degrees and honors as are conferred 
 by colleges and universities of the United States, and such others having 
 reference to the course of study, and the accompHshments of the student, 
 as they may deem proper. 
 
 Provided, that no college or university shall confer any degree until 
 the president or board of trustees of such college or university shall 
 have filed with the secretary of state a certificate issued by the state 
 commissioner of common schools that the course of study of such insti- 
 tution of learning has been filed in his office, and that the equipment as 
 to faculty and other facilities for carrying out the said course of study 
 are proportioned to the property of such institution and the number of 
 students in actual attendance so as to warrant the issuing of degrees 
 by the trustees of said institution. Provided, further, that any char- 
 tered institution of learning failing to file with the secretary of state on 
 or before June ist, 1908, the certificate herein provided for shall forfeit 
 its charter and the same shall be revoked by the said secretary of state. 
 
 Section 2. That said section 3726 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio 
 be and the same is hereby repealed. 
 
 Freeman T. Eagleson, 
 Speaker of the House of Representatives, 
 James M. Williams, 
 
 President of the Senate. 
 
 Passed May i, 1908. 
 
 Approved May i, 1908. 
 
 Andrew L. Harris, Governor. 
 
OHIO SCHOOL LAWS, 5 
 
 (House Bill No. 938) 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To amend section 3893 of the Revised Statutes, relating to the annexation of ter- 
 ritory to municipalities afifecting school districts. 
 
 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: 
 
 Section i. That section 3893 of the Revised Statutes, relating to 
 the annexation of territory to municipaHties affecting school districts 
 be amended so as to read as follows : 
 
 Sec. 3893. Whenever territory is annexed to .i city or village, 
 such territory thereby becomes a part of the city or village school dis- 
 trict and the legal title to all school property in said territory shall re- 
 main vested in the board of education of the school district from which 
 said territory was detached for all school purposes, until such a time as 
 may be agreeable between the several boards of education, when such 
 property may be transferred by warranty deed, or in case of disagree- 
 ment between said boards of education, like proceedings shall be had as 
 in section 3896 of the Revised Statutes. Provided, further, that where 
 territory located within the corporate limits of a village is attached for 
 school purposes to a district other than the village school district, and 
 the boards of education of the districts are unable to agree as to the 
 transfer of such territory, the board of education of the village school 
 district may file a petition in the Probate Court asking for the transfer 
 of the territory within the corporate limits of the village, and the 
 Probate Court shall have the same jurisdiction as is provided by section 
 3896 of the Revised Statutes. 
 
 Section 2. That said section 3893. of the Revised Statutes, be and 
 the same is hereby repealed. 
 
 Freeman T. Eagleson, 
 Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
 ♦James M. Williams, 
 
 President of the Senate. 
 
 Passed April 14, 1908. 
 
 Approved April 15, 1908. 
 
 Andrew L. Harris, Governor. 
 
 (Senate Bill No. 455) 
 AN ACT 
 
 To amend section 3897 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio, as amended April 25, 1904^ 
 relating to boards of education. 
 
 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio : 
 
 Section i. That section 3897 of the Revised Statutes be amended 
 to read as follows : 
 
6 OHIO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 Sec. 3897. In city school districts, the board of education shall 
 consist of not less than three members nor more than seven members 
 elected at large by the qualified electors of such city school district, pro- 
 vided that in city school districts which at the last preceding federal 
 census contained a population of more than 50,000 persons, the board of 
 education shall consist of not less than two nor more than seven mem- 
 bers elected at large by the qualified electors of such city school district, 
 and of not less than two members nor more than twelve members 
 elected from subdistricts by the qualified electors of their respective 
 subdistricts, and, provided further that whenever the number of mem- 
 bers of the board of education in the school districts of cities which at 
 the last or any subsequent federal census may have a population of more 
 than 50,000 persons is changed under the provisions of this act, then 
 such board of education shall consist of not less than three members 
 nor more than seven members elected at large by the qualified electors 
 of such city school district. 
 
 Not later than the first day of June next after the passage of this 
 act, the board of education of each city school district in which mem- 
 bers have heretofore been elected from subdistricts and within three 
 months after the official announcement of the result of each federal 
 ■census, the board of education of each city school district shall prescribe 
 the boundaries of the subdistricts or shall pass a resolution fixing within 
 the limits prescribed by this act, the number of members of said board of 
 education to be elected at large, and if any members of said board shall 
 have been elected by subdistricts designating the subdistrict members 
 to serve temporarily as members at large in accordance with the pro- 
 visions of this act. 
 
 Said subdistricts shall be bounded, as far as practicable by corpora- 
 tion lines, streets, alleys, avenues, public grounds, canals, water courses, 
 ward boundaries, voting precinct boundaries or present school district 
 boundaries, and shall be as nearly equal in population as possible and 
 shall be composed of adjacent and as compact territory as possible. 
 
 Whenever the number of members of the board of education of any 
 city school district shall have been changed in accordance with the pro- 
 visions of this act, then the members that have been elected at large 
 shall serve the terms for which they have been elected, and if any mem- 
 bers have theretofore been elected by subdistricts, and the number 
 of members at large shall be increased, the proper number shall be 
 chosen by lot. from the subdistrict members whose terms first expire 
 to serve until the expiration of their terms, and, the proper number 
 shall be chosen by lot from the subdistrict members whose terms last 
 expire to serve until the expiration of their terms. If the board of edu- 
 cation consists of an even number of members, one-half shall be elected 
 every alternate odd numbered year for four years, and if of an odd num- 
 ber of members then one-half plus one shall be elected in the year 1909, 
 
OHIO SCHOOL LAWS. 7 
 
 or four or a multiple of four years thereafter, and the remaining number 
 in the year 191 1 or four or a multiple of four years thereafter. At the 
 expiration of their respective terms, their successors shall be elected for 
 four years. 
 
 Whenever the number of members of any city board of education, 
 in which heretofore any members had been elected by subdistricts, is 
 changed in accordance with the provisions herein, then the office of sub- 
 . district members in such city school district is hereby abolished. 
 
 Subdistricts shall be numbered from one up, consecutively and 
 members to be elected to the board of education from subdistricts of odd 
 numbers beginning with one shall be elected in the year 191 1, and those 
 elected from subdistricts of even numbers shall be elected in the year 
 1909, and at the expiration of their respective terms, their successors 
 shall be elected for four years. 
 
 If the board of education shall fail to prescribe the boundaries of 
 the subdistricts or pass the resolution as provided herein at the time or 
 times herein specified, then and in that event the members who have 
 been elected at large of such board so failing, shall, subject to the re- 
 quirements of this act, forthwith prescribe the boundaries of the sub- 
 districts or pass the resolution as herein required at the time or times 
 herein specified. Members elected at large must be electors of the city 
 school districts and members elected .from subdistricts must be electors 
 of the city subdistricts from which they are chosen or of the territory 
 attached to the subdistrict for school purposes, and a removal from said 
 subdistrict territory or city school district shall vacate said office. The 
 number of members of the board of education shall not be changed 
 except at the times herein provided. 
 
 Section 2. That said section 3897 be and the same is hereby re- 
 pealed. 
 
 Freeman T. Eagleson, 
 Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
 James M. Williams,' 
 
 President of the Senate. 
 
 Passed May 9, 1908. 
 
 Approved May 20, 1908. 
 
 Andrew L. FIarris, Governor. 
 
 (House Bill No. 678) 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To amend section 3920 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio, as amended April 25, 1904, 
 relating to the organization of township boards of education. 
 
 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio : 
 
 Section i. That section 3920 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio be 
 amended so as to read as follows : 
 
8 OHIO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 Sec. 3920. Boards of education of township school districts shall 
 organize on the first Monday in January after the election of the board, 
 by the election of one of their members president and the election of a 
 clerk who may or may not be a member of the board, the president to 
 be elected for one year and the clerk to be elected for a term not to 
 exceed two years. They shall fix the time of holding regular meetings. 
 Each member of the board shall receive, as compensation, two dollars, 
 for each meeting actually attended for not more than ten meetings in 
 any year. The compensation allowed to members of the board shall be 
 paid from the contingent fund. 
 
 Section 2. That section 3920 be and the sa'me is hereby repealed. 
 
 Freeman T, Eagleson, 
 Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
 James M. Williams, 
 
 President of the Senate. 
 Passed April 14, 1908. 
 Approved April 15, 1908. 
 
 Andrew L. Harris, Governor. 
 
 (House Bill No. 723) 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To amend section 3922 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio, in relation to the suspension 
 of schools in subdistricts, and conveyance of pupils to other districts. 
 
 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio : 
 
 Section i. That section 3922 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio, 
 in relation to the suspension of schools in subdistricts, and conveyance 
 of pupils to other districts, be amended so as to read as follows : 
 
 Sec. 3922. The board of education of any township school district 
 is authorized to suspend the schools in any or all subdistricts in the 
 township district, but upon such suspension the board must provide for 
 the conveyance of the pupils residing in such subdistrict or subdistricts 
 to a public school in said township district, or to 1 public school in 
 another district, the cost of such conveyance to be paid out of the funds 
 of the township school district ; or the board may abolish all the sub- 
 districts providing conveyance is furnished to one or more central 
 schools, the expense of such conveyance to be paid out of the funds of 
 the district, but no subdistrict school where the average daily attendance 
 is twelve or more, shall be so suspended or abolished under the provisions 
 of this section, after a vote has been taken under the provisions of section 
 3927-2 of the Revised Statutes, when at said election a majority of the 
 votes cast thereon were against the proposition of centralization, or 
 
OHIO SCHOOL LAWS. 9 
 
 when a petition has been filed thereunder and has not yet been voted 
 lupon at an election. 
 
 No township schools shall be centralized under this section by the 
 board of education of the township until after sixty days' notice has 
 been given by the board, said notices to be posted in a conspicuous place 
 in eacn subdistrict of the township. When transportation of pupils is 
 provided for, the conveyance must pass within at least the distance of 
 one-half of a mile from the respective residence of all pupils, except 
 when such residences are situated more than one-half of a mile from 
 the public road ; but transportation for pupils living less than one and 
 ^ne-half miles, by the most direct public highway, from the school house 
 shall be optional with the board of education. 
 
 Sfxtion 2. That original section 3922 of the Revised Statutes of 
 Ohio be and the same is hereby repealed. 
 
 Freeman T. Eagleson, 
 Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
 ^ James M. Williams, 
 
 President of the Senate. 
 Passed April 23, 1908. 
 Approved April 24, 1908. 
 
 Andrew L. Harris, Governor. 
 
 (House Bill No. 716) 
 AN ACT 
 
 To provide transportation of pupils in village school districts with attached 
 
 territory. 
 
 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio : 
 
 Section i. Boards of education in village school districts with 
 .attached territory are authorized to provide for the v^onveyance of the 
 pupils of said districts to the school or schools of the district, the ex- 
 pense of said conveyance to be paid from the school funds of the village 
 district with attached territory. Provided, however, that boards of edu- 
 cation of such districts as provide transportation for the pupils thereof, 
 shall not be required to transport pupils living less than one mile from 
 the school house, or houses, transportation of pupils in any event shall be 
 optional with the boards of education. 
 
 Freeman T. Eagleson, 
 Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
 James M, Williams, 
 
 President of the Senate. 
 Passed April 29, 1908. 
 Approved April 29, 1908. 
 
 Andrew L. Harris, Governor. 
 
10 OHIO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 (House Bill No. 682) 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To amend section 3923 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio, as amended April 26, 1904,. 
 abolishing joint subdistricts. 
 
 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio : 
 
 Section i. That section 3933 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio be 
 amended so as to read as follows : 
 
 Sec. 3923. Joint subdistricts are hereby abolished and the territory 
 of such districts, situated in the township in which the schoolhouse of 
 the joint subdistrict is not located, shall be attached for school purposes 
 to the township school district in which said schoolhouse is located, and 
 shall constitute a part of said township school district, and the title of all 
 school property located in said joint subdistrict, is hereby vested in the 
 board of education of the township to which the territory is attached. 
 A map of such attached territory shall be prepared ander the direction 
 of the board of education of the township district to which such terri- 
 tory is attached and shall be made a part of the records of said board 
 and a copy of the same shall be filed with the auditor of the county in* 
 which said territory is situated, or if the territory be in two or more 
 counties, said map shall be filed with the auditor of each county. Pro- 
 vided, further, that when such subdistrict is a part of townships, both of 
 which have centralized schools, and no school is maintained in said sub- 
 district, then the boundaries of the civil township so situated shall form' 
 the boundaries of the township school districts, and each township shall" 
 have entire control of the territory of such subdistrict lying within its- 
 boundaries. 
 
 Section 2. That said section 3923 be and the same is hereby re- 
 pealed. 
 
 Freeman T. Eagleson, 
 Speaker of the House of Representatives.. 
 James M. Williams, 
 
 President of the Senate. 
 Passed April 14, 1908, 
 Approved April 15, 1908. 
 
 Andrew L. Harris, Governor. 
 
OHIO SCHOOL LAWS. II 
 
 (House Bill No. 7^)7.) 
 AN ACT 
 
 To nincial section ?i«4 of the Revised Statutes, authorizing boards of education 
 lit special school districts to provide for the transportation of pupils to 
 
 sciiool houses. 
 
 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: 
 
 Section i. That section 3934 of the Revised Statutes, be amended 
 so as to read as follows : ■ 
 
 5ec. 3934. Boards of education of special school districts are 
 authorized to provide for the conveyance of the pupils of said districts 
 to the school or schools of the districts or to a school of any adjoining: 
 district, the expense of said conveyance to be paid from the school fund 
 of the spec'al school districts; provided, however, that boards of educa- 
 tion of such districts as provide transportation for the pupils thereof, 
 shall not be required to transport pupils living less than one mile from the 
 schoolhouse ; transportation of pupils, in any event, being optional with 
 the l)()ard of education. 
 
 Sfctiox 2. That said section 3934 is hereby repealed. 
 
 Freeman T. Eagleson, 
 
 Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
 
 James M. Williams, 
 
 President of the Senate. 
 Passed May 1st, 1908. 
 
 Approved May ist, 190S. 
 
 Andrew L. Harris, Governor. 
 
 (House Bill No. 1003) 
 AN ACT 
 
 To amend section 3969 of the Revised Statutes relating to the action of the county 
 commissioners when a board of education fails to provide proper school 
 facilities, and section 3981 of the Revised Statutes with reference to vacancies 
 in boards of education and how filled. 
 
 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio : 
 
 Section i. That sections 3969 and 3981 of the Revised Statutes 
 be amended so as to read as follows : 
 
 Sec. 3969. If the board of education in any district fail in any 
 year to estimate and certify the levy for a contingent fund as required 
 by this chapter, or if the aniount so certified is deemed insufficient for 
 school purposes, or if it fail to provide sufficient school privileges for 
 all the youth of school age in the district or to provide for the continu- 
 
12 OHIO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 ance of any school in the district for at least thirty-two weeks in the 
 year, or to provide for each school an equitable share of school advan- 
 tages as required by this title, or to provide suitable school houses for all 
 the schools under its control, or to elect a superintendent or teachers,, 
 or to pay their salaries, or to pay out any other school money needed 
 in school* administration, or to fill a:ny vacancies in the board within 
 the period of thirty days after such vacancies occur, the commissioners 
 of the county to which such district belongs, upon being advised and sat- 
 isfied thereof, shall do and perform any or all of said duties and acts, in 
 as full a manner as the board of education is by this title authorized to do 
 and perform the same; and all salaries and other money so paid by the 
 commissioners of the county, shall be paid out of the county treasury 
 as other county expenses are paid, but the same shall be a charge 
 against the school district for which said money was paid, and the 
 amount so paid shall be retained by the county auditor from the proper 
 funds due to such school district, at the time of making the semi-annual 
 distribution of taxes ; and the members of a board who cause such fail- 
 ure shall be each severally liable, in a penalty not to exceed fifty nor 
 less than twenty-five dollars, to be recovered in a civil action in the 
 name of the state upon complaint of any elector of the district, which 
 sum shall be collected by the prosecuting attorney of the county and 
 when collected shall be paid into the treasury of the county, for the 
 benefit of the school or schools of the district. 
 
 Sec. 3981. Vacancies in any board of education which may be 
 caused by death, non-residence, resignation, removal from office, failure 
 of the person elected or appointed to qualify within ten days after the 
 organization of the board or of his appointment, removal from the dis- 
 trict, or absen'^e from meetings of the board for a period of ninety days,, 
 provided said absence is caused by reasons declared insufficient by a 
 two-thirds vote of the remaining members of the board, said vote to be 
 taken and entered upon the records not less than thirty days after said 
 absence ; such vacancies shall be filled by the board of education at its 
 next regular c special meeting or as soon thereafter as possible for the 
 unexpired term. 
 
 A majority vote of all the remaining members of the board can fill 
 any vacancy or vacancies that may exist in said board. 
 
 Section 2. That sai<J sections 3969 and 3981 be and the same are 
 hereby repealed. 
 
 Freeman Ti Eagleson, 
 Speaker of the House of Representatives.. 
 James M. Williams, 
 
 President of the Senate^ 
 
 Passed March 31, 1908. 
 
 Approved March 31, 190S, five o'clock p. m. 
 Andrew L. Harris, Goz/ernor. 
 
 Sec. 3998-3. Repealed. 99 v. 63. 
 
OHIO SCHOOL LAWS. 13 
 
 (House Bill No. 887) 
 AN ACT 
 To amend section 4007 of the Revised Statutes, relatmg to elementary schools. 
 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: 
 
 Section i That section 4007 of the Revised Statutes be amended 
 SO as to read as follows : 
 
 Sec. 4007. Each board of education shall establish a sufficient 
 number of elementary schools to provide for the free education of the 
 youth of school age within the district under its control, at such places 
 as will be most convenient for the attendance of the largest number of 
 such youth, and shall continue each and every elementary day school 
 so established not less than thirty-two nor more than forty weeks in each 
 school year, and all the elementary schools within the same school district 
 shall be coiitinued the same length of time. All boards of education are 
 required to prescribe a graded course of study for all schools under 
 their control in the branches named in section 4007-1 of the Revised 
 Statutes of Ohio, subject to the approval of the state commissioner of 
 common schools. Each township board of education shall establish and 
 maintain at least one elementary school in each subdistrict under its 
 control, unless transportation is furnished to the pupils thereof as pro- 
 vided by law. The board of education in any city school district may 
 establish and maintain a normal school within its respective district and 
 may establish and maintain such summer ,or vacation schools, school 
 gardening and play grounds as in its discretion seems desirable. 
 
 Section 2. That said section 4007, be and the same is hereby 
 
 repealed. 
 
 Freeman T. Eagleson, 
 
 Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
 
 James M. Williams, 
 
 Passed April 8, 1908. President of the Senate. 
 
 Approved April 9, 1908. 
 
 Andrew L. Harris, Governor. 
 
 (House Bill No. 1023) 
 AN ACT 
 
 To amend section 1 of an act entitled. "An act to empower township boards of 
 education to establish township or joint township high schools, and to dis- 
 continue sub-district schools when too small to justify their continuance," 
 passed April 25, 1898, as amended April 25, 1904, to provide for joint high 
 school districts. 
 
 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: 
 
 Section i. That section i of an act entitled, "An act to empower 
 
14 OHIO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 township boards of education to establish township or joint township 
 high schools, and to discontinue subdistrict schools when too small to 
 justify their continuance," passed April 25, 1904, be amended so as to 
 read as follows : 
 
 (4009-15) Sec. I. The boards of education of two or more ad- 
 joining township school districts, or of a township district and of a 
 village or special school district situated partially or wholly within the 
 township, or of any two or more of said school districts may, by a 
 majority vote of the full membership of each of said boards, unite said 
 districts for high school purposes and each board may submit the ques- 
 tion of levying a tax on the property in their respective districts, for the 
 purpose of purchasing a site and erecting a building, and may issue 
 bonds, as is provided for in section thirty-nine hundred and ninety-one, 
 thirty-nine hundred and ninety-two and thirty-nine hundred and ninety- 
 three, of the Revised Statutes of Ohio, but said question of tax levy 
 must carry in each district before it shall become operative in either. If 
 said boards of education have sufficient money in the treasury to pur- 
 chase said site and erect said building, or if there is a suitable building 
 in either district owned by the board of education that can be used for a 
 high school building it shall not be necessary to submit the proposition 
 to a vote, and the boards are authorized to appropriate money from their 
 funds for this purpose. Any high school so established shall be under 
 the management of a high school committee, consisting of two members 
 of each of the boards creating such joint district, elected by a majority 
 vote of said boards, and whose membership of said high school com- 
 mittee shall be for the same term as their term on the board which they 
 represent. Said high school shall be free to all youth of school age 
 within each district, subject to such rules and regulations as may be 
 adopted by said high school committee, having control of the school in 
 regard to the qualifications in scholarship requisite for admission, such 
 rules and regulations to be of uniform operation throughout each dis- 
 trict. The funds for the maintenance and support of such high school 
 shall.be provided by appropriations from the tuition or contingent funds, 
 or both, of each district, in proportion to the total valuation of property 
 in the respective districts, the same to be placed in a separate fund in 
 the treasury of the board of education of the district in which the school- 
 house is located, and paid out by action of said high school committee 
 for the purposes of maintaining said school. 
 
 And all boards of education exercising control for the purposes of 
 taxation over any territory within any township or joint township high 
 school district, are hereby authorized and empowered, to levy upon all 
 the taxable property within said territory, not exceeding five mills on 
 one dollar in any one year, in addition to all other levies authorized by 
 law, for the support and maintenance of any township or joint township 
 high school to which said territory may belong. And all funds derived 
 
OHIO SCHOOL LAWS. 1 5 
 
 from levies made under this act shall be kept separate and shall be paid 
 out for the support and maintenance of the high school for which such 
 levy is made. 
 
 Section 2. That said section i as amended is hereby repealed. 
 
 Freeman T. Eagleson, 
 Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
 James M. Williams, 
 
 President of the Senate. 
 Passed May 9, 1908. 
 Approved May 9, 1908. 
 
 Andrew L. Harris, Governor. 
 
 (House Bill No. 1052) 
 AN ACT 
 
 To amend section 5 of an aci- entitled, "An act to provide for supplying the schools 
 of Ohio with good and sufficient school books at the lowest possible prices," 
 passed April 22, 1896, relative to adoption of text books. 
 
 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio : 
 
 Section i. That section 5 of an act entitled, "An act to provide 
 for supplying the schools of Ohio with good and sufficient school books 
 at the lowest possible prices," passed April 22, 1896, be amended so 
 as to read as follows: 
 
 (4020-14) Sec. 5. Each board of education shall, at any regular 
 meeting, held between the first Monday in February and the first Mon- 
 day in August, determine by a majority vote of all members elected the 
 studies to be pursued and which of said text-books so filed shall be used 
 in the schools under its control, but no text-books now in use or here- 
 after adopted shall be changed, nor any part thereof altered or revised, 
 nor shall any other text-book be substituted therefor for five years after 
 the date of the selection and adoption thereof, as shown by the official 
 records of said boards, except by the consent, at any regular meeting, 
 of five-sixths of all members elected to the board. Books so substituted 
 shall be adopted for the full term of five years. Each board of education 
 shall cause it to be ascertained, and at any regular meeting shall deter- 
 mine which, and the number of each of said books the schools under its 
 charge shall require, and shall cause an order to be drawn for the amount 
 in favor of the clerk of the board of education, payable out of the con- 
 tingent fund ; and said clerk shall at once order said books so agreed 
 upon by the board, of the piiblisher and the publisher, on the receipt of 
 such order shall ship such books to said clerk without delay, and the 
 
l6 OHIO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 clerk shall forthwith examine such books, and, if found right and in 
 accordance with said order, remit the amount to said publisher, and the 
 board of education shall pay all charges for the transportation of such 
 books, out of the school contingent fund ; but if said boards of education 
 can, at any time, secure of the publishers books at a price less than said 
 maximum price, it shall be its duty so to do, and may, without unneces- 
 sary delay, make effort to secure such lower price before adopting any 
 particular text-book. Each board of education shall have power to, and 
 shall make all necessary provisions and arrangements to place the books 
 so purchased within easy reach of and accessible to all the pupils in 
 their district, and for that purpose may make such contracts, and take 
 such security as they may deem necessary, for the custody, care and 
 sale of such books and accounting for the proceeds ; but not to exceed 
 ten per cent, of the cost price shall be paid therefor, and said books shall 
 be sold to the pupils of school age in the district, at the price paid the 
 publisher, and not to exceed ten per cent, therefor added, and the pro- 
 ceeds of such sale shall be paid into the contingent fund of such district, 
 and whoever receives said books from the board of education for sale as 
 aforesaid to the pupils, and fails to account honestly and fully for the 
 same, or for the proceeds to the board of education when required, 
 shall be guilty of embezzlement and punished accordingly. Provided, 
 however, boards of education may contract with local retail dealers to 
 furnish said books at prices above specified, the said board being still 
 responsible to the publishers for all books purchased by the said board 
 of education. And when pupils remove from any district, and have 
 text-books of the kind adopted in such district and not being of the kind 
 adopted in the district to which they remove, and wish to dispose of the 
 same, the board of the district from which they remove, when requested, 
 shall purchase the same at the fair value thereof, and resell the same as 
 other books ; and nothing in this act shall prevent the board of education 
 from furnishing free books to pupils as provided by law. That for the 
 purpose of carrying into effect the foregoing provisions of this act, and 
 paying the expenses incident thereto, there be and is hereby appro- 
 priated out of any money in the state treasury, to the credit of the gen- 
 eral revenue fund, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of five hundred 
 dollars, to be disbursed and paid on the allowance ?.nd order of said 
 commissioner. Provided, however, that it shall be unlawful for any 
 superintendent, supervisor or principal, employed by any board of edu- 
 cation in the state, to act as a sales agent, either directly or indirectly, 
 for any person, firm or corporation whose school text-books are filed 
 with the state commissioner of common schools, for use in the pubHc 
 schools of the state, as provided by law ; any violation of this provision 
 shall work a forfeiture of their certificate to teach in the public schools 
 of the state of Ohio. 
 
OHIO SCHOOL laws: I7 
 
 Section 2. That said original section 5 be and the same is hereby 
 repealed. 
 
 Freeman T. Eagleson, 
 Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
 James M. Williams, 
 Passed May 9, 1908. President of the Senate. 
 
 Approved May 9, 1908. 
 
 Andrew L. Harris, Governor. 
 
 (House Bill No. 117-2) 
 AN ACT 
 
 To amend section 40'j!2-9 of the Revised Statutes providing relief to enable children 
 
 to attend school. 
 
 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio : 
 
 Section i. That section 4022-9 of the Revised Statutes be 
 amended to read as follows : 
 
 Sec. 4022-9. When any truant officer is satisfied that any child, 
 compelled to attend school by the provisions of this act, is unable to 
 attend school because absolutely required to work at home or elsewhere 
 in order to support itself or help to support or care for others legally 
 entitled to its services who are unable to support or care for themselves, 
 the truant officer shall report the case to the president of the board of 
 education, and it shall be the duty of said president of the board of edu- 
 cation to furnish text-books free of charge, and such other relief as may 
 be necessary to enable the child to attend school for the time each year 
 required under this act ; the expenses incident to furnishing said books 
 and relief to be paid from the contingent funds of the school district. 
 Such child shall not be considered or declared a pauper by reason of the 
 acceptance of the relief herein provided for. In case the child, or its 
 parents, or guardian, refuse or neglect to take advantage of the provi- 
 sions thus made for its instruction, such child may be committed to a 
 children's home or a juvenile reformatory, as provided for in section 
 4022-8 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio. 
 
 Section 2. That section 4022-9 of the Revised Statutes as 
 amended May 12, 1902, is hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect 
 and be in force on and after July i, 1908. 
 
 Freeman T. Eagleson, 
 Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
 James M. Williams, 
 
 President of the Senate. 
 
 Passed May 9, 1908. 
 
 Approved May 9, 1908. 
 
 Andrew L. Harris, Governor. 
 
16 OHIO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 (House Bill No. 933) 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To amend section 4029-2 of the Revised Statutes, relating to the compensation of 
 the clerk of the board of county school examiners. 
 
 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: 
 
 Section i. That section 4029-2 of the Revised Statutes be amended 
 SO as to read as follows : 
 
 Sec. 4029-2. The compensation of county examiners shall be the 
 same as that fixed in section 4075 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio for 
 the examination of teachers, and the compensation of the clerk of said 
 board of county examiners shall be the same as that fixed in section 4070 
 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio for the examination of teachers; and 
 each member of the said board of examiners, together with the clerk 
 of said board, shall be allowed the minimum fee provided for holding: 
 examinations for teachers as remuneration for his services incident to the 
 county Boxwell commencement, and such compensation and the neces- 
 sary expenses incident to the examination and county commencemiCnt 
 shall be paid out of the county treasury as provided in said section 4075 
 and 4070; no extra compensation shall be ahowed to county examiners 
 for holding the county commencement. The expenses incident to the 
 township commencement shall be paid by the township board of educa- 
 tion from the contingent fund of the township district, and when the 
 pupils of special districts take part in such commencements the boards of 
 education of such districts shall pay, from their contingent funds, to the 
 township board of education their share of such expenses, such share 
 to be based on the proportion of pupils, from each district, taking part 
 in such commencements; a proportional share of pupils from joint subdis- 
 tricts, taking part in such commencements, shall be paid from the con- 
 tingent fund of said joint subdistricts. 
 
 Section 2. That section 4029-2 of the Revised Statutes be and the 
 same is hereby repealed. 
 
 Freeman T. Eagleson, 
 Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
 James M. Williams, 
 
 President of the Senate. 
 
 Passed April 14, 1908. 
 
 Approved April 15, 1908. 
 
 Andrew L. Harris, Governor. 
 
OHIO SCHOOL LAWS. I9. 
 
 (House Bill No. 888) 
 AN ACT 
 
 To amend section 4030 of the Revised Statutes, relating to yearly enumeration of 
 
 school youth. 
 
 Be it enacted by the General Assembly df the State of Ohio: 
 
 Section i. That section 4030 of the Revised Statutes be amended 
 so as to read as follows : 
 
 Sec. 4030. There shall be taken in each district, annually, during 
 the two weeks ending on the fourth Saturday of May, an enumeration of 
 all unmarried youth, noting sex, between six and twenty-one years of. age, 
 resident within the district, and not temporarily there, designating also the 
 number between six and eight years of age, the number between eight 
 and fourteen years of age, the number between fourteen and sixteen 
 years of ag'e, the number between sixteen and twenty-one years of age, 
 and the number residing in the Western Reserve, the Virginia Military 
 district, the United States Military district, and in any original surveyed 
 township or fractional township to which belongs section 16, or other land 
 in lieu thereof, or any other lands for the use of public schools, or any 
 interest in the proceeds of such lands. When taking the enumeration 
 provided for in this section, the person appointed to take such enumer- 
 ation, shall make every efifort to ascertain as near as possible the number 
 of imbeciles or feeble-minded children between the ages of six and twenty- 
 one, resident within the district, and shall keep an accurate list of the 
 names, sex, age and place of residence of all such children, and shall 
 make said list a part of his report to the clerk of the board of education. 
 And there shall also be so taken an accurate enumeration of all 
 physically disabled, blind or deaf or mute children, noting sex between 
 six and twenty-one years of age, resident within the district. 
 
 Section 2. That said section 4030 of the Revised Statutes be and 
 the same is hereby repealed. 
 
 Freeman T. Eagleson, 
 Speaker of the House of Representatives,. 
 James M. Williams, 
 
 President of the Senate. 
 
 Passed April 8, 1908. 
 
 Approved April 9, 1908. 
 
 Andrew L. Harris, Governor. 
 
:20 OHIO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 (House Bill No. 830) 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To supplement section 4042 of the Revised Statutes, authorizing boards of education 
 of districts having depositories for school moneys to dispense with a treasurer 
 of such funds. 
 
 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: 
 
 Section i. That section 4042 of the Revised Statutes be supple- 
 mented as follows : 
 
 Sec. 4042a. When a depository has been provided for the school 
 moneys of any district as authorized by section 3968 of the Revised 
 Statutes of Ohio, the board of education of such district may, by resolu- 
 tion duly adopted by the vote of a majority of its members, dispense with 
 a treasurer of the school moneys belonging to such school district; and 
 in such district the clerk of the board of education thereof shall per- 
 form all the services, and discharge all the duties and be subject to all 
 the obligations that are required of the treasurer of such school district 
 by the Statutes of Ohio. Whenever such treasurer is dispensed with 
 as herein provided, then all the duties and obligations required by the 
 Statutes of Ohio of the county auditor, county treasurer, or other officer 
 or person, i;elating to the school moneys of such district, shall be com- 
 plied with by dealing with the clerk of the board of education of such 
 district. Such clerk before entering upon such duties, shall give an addi- 
 tional bond equal in amount and in the same manner as is prescribed by 
 law for the treasurer of such school district. 
 
 In any sucli district, should the depository for any reason cease to 
 act as custodian of the school moneys, then such money shall be placed 
 in the custody of the treasurer of the city, village or township in which 
 such school district is located, or of the special school district ; upon such 
 treasurer, as treasurer ex-officio of such school funds, or such treasurer 
 of such special school district, giving bond as required by law to the 
 approval of the board of education such moneys to be held and dis- 
 bursed by said treasurer in all respects as now provided by law until 
 such time as another depository is provided for such school moneys, 
 when the same shall be by said treasurer placed in such depository, and 
 the duties and obligations of such treasurer relating to said moneys shall 
 ■then cease. 
 
 Freeman T. Eagleson, 
 Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
 James M. Williams, 
 
 President of the Senate. 
 
 Passed April 27, 1908. 
 
 -Approved April 27, 1908. 
 
 Andrew L. Harris, Governor. 
 
OHIO SCHOOL LAWS. 21 
 
 (Senate Bill No. 453) 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To amend sections 4073 and 4081 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio, to provide for 
 the granting and revocation of teachers' certificates, age limit and hearing on 
 
 revocation of certificates in counties, and in city school districts. 
 
 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: 
 
 Section i. That section 4073 of the Revised Statutes relative to 
 cotinty teachers' certificates be amended so as to read as follows: 
 
 Sec. 4073. County boards of school examiners may grant teachers' 
 certificates for one, two, three, five and eight years from the day of ex- 
 amination ; and .said certificates shall be valid in all village, township, and 
 special school districts of the county wherein they are issued ; but in all 
 school districts situated in two or more counties, teachers' certificates 
 •obtained in either county shall be valid in such districts. All teachers' 
 certificates granted for one, two or three years shall be regarded as pro- 
 visional certificates, and shall be issued and renewed only in compliance 
 with such reasonable re.L^ulations and standards and upon such ratios as 
 the board may adopt. But when any teacher holds a two year or three 
 year certificate and has for th.e last five years preceding been continuously 
 engaged in teaching in the state of Ohio, such teacher shall be entitled 
 to have such certificate renewed by passing an examination in theory and 
 practice. All certificates granted for five years, or eight years, shall 
 be regarded as professional certificates and shall be renewed without 
 examination at the discretion of the examining board, provided that no 
 such certificate shall be renewable if the holder thereof has not been 
 actively engaged in teaching within the four years preceding. Such pro- 
 fessional certificate shall be valid in any county in the state. County 
 l^oards of school examiners may at their discretion issue certificates with- 
 out formal examinations to holders of certificates granted by other county 
 and city boards of school examiners. 
 
 Each countv board of school examiners may make its own regula- 
 tions to grant certificates without formal examinations, except in theory 
 and practice of teaching and in the science of education, to graduates of 
 schools for the training of teachers, providing at least a two-years' course 
 of study in addition to graduation from a first grade high school, and 
 of colleges or universities, providing at least a four years' course of study 
 in addition to graduation from a first grade high school, as may be ap- 
 proved by them. Certificates thus granted to such graduates may be is- 
 sued, on application within one year after graduation, first for one year ; 
 and at their expiration, on satisfactory evidence of success in teaching, 
 certificates for longer terms may be issued. 
 
 Between regular examinations, county boards of school examiners 
 may, at their discretion, issue temporary certificates, which shall be valid 
 
22 OHIO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 only until the next regular examination held by said boards after the 
 issue of said certificates. 
 
 No certificate shall be issued to any person who is less than eighteen 
 years of age ; and if at any time the recipient of a certificate be found 
 intemperate, immoral, incompetent or negligent, the examiners, or any 
 two of them, may revoke the certificate ; but such revocation shall not 
 prevent a teacher from receiving pay for services previously rendered ; 
 but before any hearing is had by a board of examiners on the question of 
 the revocation of a teacher's certificate, the charges against the teacher 
 shall be reduced to writing and placed upon the records of the board ; 
 and the teacher shall be notified in writing as to the nature of the charges 
 and the time set for the hearing, such notice to be served personally or 
 at his residence; and the teacher shall be entitled to produce witnesses 
 and defend himself; the examining board shall have power to send for 
 witnesses and examine them on oath or affirmation touching the matter 
 under investigation, and said oath or affirmation may be administered 
 by any member of the board of examiners. The fees and the per diem of 
 examiners for conducting such investigation, at three dollars a day each, 
 and other expenses of such trial shall be certified to the county auditor 
 by the clerk and president of the examining board, and be paid out 
 of the county treasury upon the order of the auditor. 
 
 Section 2. That section 4081 of the Revised Statutes relative to 
 teachers' certificates in cities be amended so as to read as follows : 
 
 Sec. 4081. Each city board of school examiners may grant teachers' 
 certificates for one, two, three, five and eight years, from the day of ex- 
 amination ; and said certificates shall be valid within the district wherein 
 they are issued. All teachers" certificates granted for one, two or three 
 years shall be regarded as provisional certificates and shall be issued and 
 renewed only in compliance with such reasonable regulations and stand- 
 ards and upon such ratios as the board may adopt. 
 
 But when any teacher holds a two or three year certificate and has 
 for the last five years preceding been continuously engaged in teaching 
 in the state of Ohio such teacher shall be entitled to have such certificate 
 renewed by passing an examination in theory and practice. All certificates 
 granted for five years, or eight years, shall be regarded as professional 
 certificates and shall be renewed without examination at the discretion 
 of the examining board, provided that no such certificate shall be re- 
 newable if the holder has not been actively engaged in teaching within 
 the four years preceding. Such professional certificate shall be valid in 
 any city in the state. City boards of school examiners at their discretion 
 may issue certificates without formal examinations to holders of certificates 
 granted by other city and county boards of school examiners. 
 
 Each city board of school examiners may make its own regulations 
 to grant certificates without formal examinations, except in theory and 
 practice of teaching and in the science of education, to graduates of 
 
OHIO SCHOOL LAWS. 23 
 
 schools for the trauiing of teachers, providing at least a two-years' 
 course of study in addition to graduation from a first grade high school 
 and of colleges or universities, providing at least a four-years' course of 
 study in addition to graduation from a first grade high school, as may 
 be approved by them. Certificates thus granted to such graduates may be 
 issued, on application within one year after graduation, first for one year ; 
 and at their expiration, on satisfactory evidence of success in teaching, 
 certificates for longer terms may be issued. 
 
 Between regular examinations, city boards of school examiners may, 
 at their discretion, issue temporary certificates, which shall be valid only 
 until the next regular examination held by said board after the issue of 
 said certificates. 
 
 No certificates shall be issued to any person who is less than eighteen 
 years of age ; and if at any time the recipient of a certificate be found 
 intemperate, immoral, incompetent, or negligent, the examiners, or any 
 two of them, may revoke the certificate, but such revocation shall not 
 prevent a teacher from receiving pay for services previously rendered, 
 but before any hearing is had by a board of examiners on the question 
 of the revocation of a teacher's certificate, the charges i.gainst the teacher 
 shall be reduced to writing and placed upon the records of the board, and 
 the teacher shall be notified in writing as to the nature of the charges 
 and the time and place set for the hearing. Such notice shall be served 
 either personally or at the residence of the teacher whose certificate it 
 is proposed to revoke and the teacher shall be entitled to produce wit- 
 nesses and defend himself ; the examining board shall have power to 
 send for witnesses and examine them on oath touching the matter under 
 investigation, and said oath or affirmation may be administered by any 
 member of the board of examiners. The fees and the per diem of ex- 
 aminers for conducting such investigation, at three dollars a day each, 
 and other expenses of such trial shall be certified to the city auditor 
 by tlie clerk and president of the examining board, and be paid out of 
 the city treasury upon the order of the city auditor. 
 
 Section 3. That said sections 4073 and 4081 of the Revised Statutes 
 :be and the same are hereby repealed. 
 
 Freeman T. Eagleson, 
 Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
 James M. Williams, 
 
 President of the Senate. 
 
 Passed May 9, 1908. 
 
 Approved May 9, 1908. 
 
 Andrew L. Harris. Governor. 
 
24 OHIO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 (Senate Bill No. 415) 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To amend section 4075 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio relative to compensation, 
 of county school examiners. 
 
 Be it enacted by the General Assembly o\f the State of Ohio: 
 
 Section i. That section 4075 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio be 
 amended so as to read as follows : 
 
 Sec. 4075. Each member of the county board of school examiners 
 shall be entitled to receive ten dollars for each examination of fifty ap- 
 plicants or less, fourteen dollars for each examination of more than fifty 
 applicants and less than one hundred, eighteen dollars for each examina- 
 tion of one hundred applicants and less than one hundred and fifty, twen- 
 ty-two dollars for each examination of one hundred and fifty applicants 
 and less than two hundred, and four dollars for each additional fifty ap- 
 plicants, or fraction thereof, to be paid out of the county treasury on the 
 order of the county auditor ; all books, blanks and stationery required by 
 the board shall be furnished by the county auditor ; the board may con- 
 tract for the use of suitable rooms in which to conduct the examination, 
 for the printing of examination questions, may procure fuel and light, and' 
 employ janitors, to take charge of the rooms and keep them in order, and 
 the expenses so incurred, together with the cost of advertising required 
 by section forty hundred and seventy-one, shall be paid out of the county 
 treasury on orders of the county auditor, who shall issue such orders upon 
 the certificate o*f the president of the board, countersigned by the clerk. 
 
 Section 2. Said section 4075 be and the same is hereby repealed. 
 
 Freeman T. Eagleson, 
 Speaker of the House of Representatives, 
 James M. Williams, 
 
 President of the Senate. 
 
 Passed April 30, 1908. 
 
 Approved April 30, 1908. 
 
 Andrew L. Harris, Governor. 
 
 (House Bill No. 892) 
 AN ACT 
 
 To amend section 4091 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio, relating to the compensa- 
 tion of teachers while attending county institutes. 
 
 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: 
 
 Sfxtion I. That section 4091 of the Revised Statutes of Ohio be 
 
 amended so as to read as follows : 
 
 Sec. 4091. All teachers and superintendents of the public schools- 
 
OHIO SCHOOL LAWS. , 25, 
 
 within any county in which a county institute is held while the schools 
 are in session may dismiss their schools for one week for the purpose 
 of attending such institute and the boards of education of all school dis- 
 tricts are required to pay the teachers and superintendents of their re- 
 spective districts their regular salary for the week they attend the institute 
 upon the teachers or superintendents presenting certificates of full reg- 
 ular daily attendance at said institute signed by the president and sec- 
 retary thereof ; and when said institute is held when the public schools 
 are not in session, said teachers or superintendents shall be paid two 
 dollars a day for actual daily attendance, as certified by the president 
 and secretary of said institute, for not less than four nor more than 
 six days of actual attendance, the same to be paid as an addition to the 
 first month's salary after said institute by the board of education by 
 which said teacher or superintendent is then employed, or in case he or 
 she is unemployed at the time of the institute, then by the board next 
 employing said teacher or superintendent, provided the term of said em- 
 ployment begins within three months after said institute closes. 
 
 Section 2. That said original section 4091 of the Revised Statutes 
 be and the same is hereby repealed. 
 
 Freeman T. Eagleson, 
 Speaker of tJie House of Representatives.. 
 James M. Williams, 
 
 President of the Senate. 
 
 Passed May 9, 1908. 
 
 Approved May 9, 1908. 
 
 Andrew L. Harris, Governor. 
 
 (House Bill No. 1120) 
 AN ACT 
 
 To abolish fraternities, sororities and other like societies among the pupils of the 
 public schools of the state of Ohio. 
 
 Be it enacted by the General Assembly df the State of Ohio: 
 
 Section i. It shall be unlawful for any pupil of the public schools 
 of the state of Ohio in any manner to organize, join or belong to any 
 fratcrnitv or sorority or other like societies composed or made up of 
 pupils of the public schools. 
 
 Section 2. It shall be the duty of every teacher, principal or super- 
 intendent having knowledge or reason to believe that such fraternity, 
 sorority or like society is being organized or maintained in any of the 
 schools of the state, or that any of the pupils attending said schools are 
 organizing or belonging to such fraternity, sorority or like society to 
 advise immediatelv the oresident or secretary of the board of education- 
 
.25 OHIO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 in charge of such schools of such facts. Upon receipt of such notice, it 
 shall be the duty of such board of education within thirty days after the 
 receipt thereof, and after not less than ten days' written notice to the 
 persons charged with violating this act, or to their parents or guardians, 
 to investigate the charges therein contained, and if such board of educa- 
 tion find the same to be correct and true, it shall be the duty of the sec- 
 retary of such board to notify immediately, in writing, any and all pupils 
 organizing, joining or belonging to such fraternity, sorority or like society 
 to disband and discontinue the same and to withdraw therefrom within 
 five days from the receipt of said notice. 
 
 And if within such time any pupil guilty of organizing, joining 
 or belonging to any such fraternity, sorority or like society shall fail to 
 obey said notice, said pupil shall have violated the rules of the school and 
 be immediately suspended from the public schools of this state by the 
 superintendent or principal in charge of the same in cities or districts 
 having such superintendent or principal, or by the clerk of the board of 
 ■education in villages, special and township districts not having such 
 superintendent or principal, until such pupil shall comply with the order 
 'wf the board. 
 
 Section 3. Any officer, teacher, principal, superintendent or other 
 persons mentioned in this act, neglecting to perform any duty imposed 
 upon him by this act, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not less than 
 ten dollars ($10.00) nor more than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for each 
 ofifense. 
 
 Section 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and 
 after the first day of July, 1908. 
 
 Joseph D. Chamberlain, 
 Speaker pro tern, of the House of Representatives. 
 James M. Williams, 
 
 President of the Senate. 
 
 Passed April 30, 1908. 
 
 Approved April 30, 1908. 
 
 Andrew L. Harris, Governor. 
 
 (Senate Bill No. 305) 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To provide for the expenses of the members of boards of education in school 
 districts of the state of Ohio. 
 
 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: 
 
 Section i. That a service fund for members of the board of educa- 
 tion of any city school district be authorized and that it be operated 
 :as follows : 
 
 Upon the passage of this act and upon the third Monday of every 
 
OHIO SCHOOL LAWS. 2/" 
 
 January thereafter the clerk of the board of education shall certify to- 
 the board of education of which he is clerk, the number of pupils enrolled 
 in the public schools of that district, whereupon the board of said city 
 school district may by resolution set aside from the contingent fund a 
 sum not to exceed five cents for each child so enrolled, said sum of 
 money to be known as the "service fund" to be used only in paying the 
 expenses of said members actually incurred in the performance of their 
 duties ; such payments to be made only on statement of the several 
 members furnished at the last meeting held in each month. 
 
 Freeman T. Eagleson, 
 Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
 James M. Williams, 
 
 President of the Senate. 
 Passed May 9, 1908. 
 Approved May 9, 1908. 
 
 Andrew L. Harris, Governor. 
 
 (House Bill No. 794) 
 AN ACT 
 
 To amend section 14 of an act passed May 15, 1894, entitled, "An act relating to 
 the conduct of elections to pay the expense of elections." 
 
 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: 
 
 Section i. That section 14 of an act passed May 15, 1894, entitled 
 "An act relating to the conduct of elections" be amended so as to read 
 as follows : • 
 
 Sec. 14. All expenses arising for printing and distributing ballots, 
 cards of explanation to officers of the election and voters, blanks, and 
 all other proper and necessary expenses of any general or special election, 
 including compensation of precinct election officers, shall be paid out of 
 the county treasury as other county expenses. 
 
 In November elections held in odd numbered years, such compensa- 
 tion and expenses shall be a charge against the township, city, village or 
 political division in which such election was held, and the amount so paid 
 bv the county shall be retained by the county auditor from the funds due 
 to such township, city, village or political division, at the time of making 
 the semi-annual distribution of taxes; the county commissioners, town- 
 ship trustees, councils, boards of education, or other authorities authorized 
 to levy taxes, shall make the necessary levy to meet such expenses, which 
 levy may be in addition to other levies authorized or required by law ; 
 the amount of all such expenses shall be ascertained and apportioned by 
 the deputy state supervisors to the several politica.1 divisions and certified" 
 to the county auditor. In the case of municipalities situated in two or 
 more counties, the proportion of expense charged to each of the counties- 
 
J28 OHIO SCHOOL LAWS. 
 
 ■shall be ascertained and apportioned by the clerk of the corporation, and 
 ■certified by him to the several county auditors. 
 
 Section 2. That section 14 of an act passed May 15th, 1894, en- 
 titled, "An act relating to the conduct of elections" be and the same is 
 hereby repealed. 
 
 Freeman T. Eagleson, 
 Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
 James M. Williams, 
 
 President of the Senate. 
 Passed April 8, 1908. 
 Approved April 9, 1908. 
 
 Andrew L. Harris, Governor. 
 
 (House Bill No. 1166) 
 AN ACT 
 
 To protect the lives of school children by an adequate compulsory fire drill. 
 
 'Be it enacted by the Genera! Assembly of the State of Ohio: 
 
 Section i. It shall be the duty of the principal or other person in 
 ■charge of every public or private school or educational institution within 
 the state, having an average daily attendance of fifty or more pupils, to 
 instruct and train the pupils by means of drills, so that they may in sudden 
 ^emergency be able to leave the school building in the shortest possible 
 time and without confusion or panic. Such drills or rapid dismissals 
 shall be held at least once for each month when said schools are in session 
 and all doors of exit shall be kept unlocked during school hours. 
 
 That every teacher or instructor in every public, private or parochial 
 school shall devote not less than thirty minutes in each month during 
 which the school is in session, to instruction of pupils between the ages 
 of six and fourteen years, in fire dangers. 
 
 For the purpose of such instruction it shall be the duty of the state 
 fire marshal to prepare a book conveniently arranged in chapters, or 
 lessons, such chapters or lessons to be in number sufficient to provide 
 a different chapter or lesson for each week of the maximum school year, 
 one of such lessons to be read by the teachers in such schools each week. 
 The books shall be published at the expense of the state under the direc- 
 tion of the state school commissioner and shall be distributed in quantities 
 sufficient to provide a copy for each -teacher required by the provisions 
 'of this act to give the instruction herein provided for ; the distribution 
 to be made by the state school commissioner. 
 
 Section 2. Willful neglect by any principal or other person in 
 charge of any public or private school or educational institution to comply 
 with the provision of this act, shall be a misdemeanor, punishable, each 
 ■offense,, by a fine of not more than twenty nor less than five dollars. 
 
OHIO SCHOOL LAWS. 29 
 
 Section 3. It shall be the duty of the members of school boards, 
 •School directors, trustees, or other body of persons having control of the 
 schools of any township, town or city, to cause a copy of this act to be 
 printed in the manual or handbook prepared for the guidance of teachers, 
 where such manual is in use or may hereafter come in use. 
 
 Section 4. The provisions of this act shall not apply to colleges and 
 ainiversities. 
 
 Freeman T. Eagleson, 
 Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
 James M. Williams, 
 
 President of the Senate. 
 Passed April 28, 1908. 
 Approved April 28, 1908. 
 
 Andrew L. Harris. Governor. 
 
 (House Bill No. 1225) 
 AN ACT 
 
 To enlarge the powers of the chief inspector of workshops and factories in the 
 matter of public schools and other buildings, and to increase the number of 
 district inspectors. 
 
 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio : 
 
 Section i. In addition to the powers now vested in the chief in- 
 spector of workshops and factories it shall be his further duty to cause 
 his district inspectors to inspect all schoolhouses, colleges, opera houses, 
 lialls, theaters, churches, infirmaries, children's homes, hospitals, medical 
 institutes, asylums and other buildings used for the assemblage or better- 
 ment of people in any municipal corporation, township or county in the 
 state of Ohio with special regard to the precautions taken for the pre- 
 vention of fires, and the provision of fire escapes, exits, emergency exits, 
 liallwavs, air space, and all other matters which relate to the health and 
 •safety of those occupying or assembling in such structures. 
 
 Section 2. The district inspectors shall file with the chief inspect- 
 ■or of workshops and factories a written report of every inspection made 
 •of any of the aforesaid structures, stating the condition in which such 
 building was found, and, if it is found that necessary precautions for 
 the prevention of fire or other disaster have not been taken, nor means 
 provided for the safe and speedy egress of the persons who might be 
 assembled therein, said report shall specify such appliances, additions 
 or alterations as are necessary to provide such precautions and protec- 
 tion, and it shall then be the duty of the chief inspector of workshops 
 .and factories to notify in writing the owner or person having control of 
 
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 such Structure of the appliances, additions or alterations necessarj' to be 
 added to or made in such structure. 
 
 Section 3. A copy of said notice shall be mailed to the mayor of 
 the municipality, if such structure is located therein, and if not, then to 
 the prosecuting attorney of the county wherein it is located, and it shall 
 be the duty of the mayor of the municipality, with the aid of the police, 
 or the prosecuting attorney, with the aid of the sheriff, upon receiving 
 such notification, to prohibit the use of said structure for the assemblage 
 of people until the appliances, additions or alterations required by said 
 notice have been added to or made in such structure. 
 
 Section 4. Upon receiving said notice it shall be the duty of the 
 owner or person in control of such structure to comply with each and 
 every detail embodied therein, and it shall be his further duty, upon the 
 completion of every such detail, to report the tact in writing to the chief 
 inspector of workshops and factories and the mayor of the municipality,, 
 or the prosecuting attorney of the county, as the case may be. 
 
 Section 5. The plans for every such structure aforesaid which 
 may be hereafter erected in the state of Ohio, and the plans for any alter- 
 ations in or additions to any such structure aforesaid that is now erected, 
 shall be approved by the chief inspector of workshops and factories, 
 except that in municipalities having regularly organized building inspec- 
 tion departments the plans shall be approved by said municipal depart- 
 ments. 
 
 Section 6. Any architect, builder or other person who shall alter 
 the approved plans, or fail to construct or alter the building in accord- 
 ance with said approved plans without the consent of the department 
 that approved them shall be deemed guilty of a criminal offense, and, 
 upon conviction, shall be fined in any sum not less than five hundred 
 dollars ($500.00) nor more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), or 
 imprisoned in the county jail no less than thirty days nor more than one 
 year, or both, such fine and imprisonment at the discretion of the court. 
 
 Section 7. For the purpose of carrying out this provision of this, 
 act the chief inspector of workshops and factories shall, with the ap- 
 proval of the governor, appoint one assistant chief inspector who shall 
 be a competent and practical architect, and whose duty it shall be to 
 examine carefully the plans and specifications of such buildings, altera- 
 tions and additions, and perform such other duties as Ihe chief inspector 
 may direct. The salary of said assistant chief inspector shall be two 
 thousand five hundred dollars a year, which salary and all necessary 
 traveling expenses incurred by said inspector in the discharge of his 
 official duties shall be paid out of the treasury of the state on the war- 
 rant of the auditor from any fund therein not otherwise appropriated. 
 
 Section 8. For the purpose of carrying out this act the chief in- 
 spector of workshops and factories is authorized to appoint, with the 
 approval of the governor, ten additional district inspectors who shall be 
 
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 competent and practical mechanics with a knowledge of building con- 
 struction, and who shall receive the same compensation, be clothed with 
 the same powers, and whose terms of office shall be the same as is now 
 l^rovided by law for the district inspectors of workshops and factories. 
 Section 9. Any person, firm, board or corporation, being the 
 owner or in control of any building mentioned in this act, who shall use 
 or permit the use of such building, in violation of anv order prohibiting 
 its use, issued in accordance with this act, or who shall fail to comply 
 with I he requirements of any order so issued relating to the change, 
 improvement or repair of such building, shall be fined not less than ten, 
 nor more than one hundred dollars, and each day that such use or failure 
 shall continue, shall constitute a separate ofifense. 
 
 Freeman T. Eagleson, 
 Speaker of the Hoiue of Representatives. 
 James M. Williams, 
 
 President of the Senate. 
 Passed April 28, 1908. 
 Appnved April 28, 1908. 
 
 A.NDREW L. Harris, Governor. 
 
 (House Bill No. 1274) 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 Tti authorize school boards to levy tax to support universities and colleges located 
 
 in village school districts. 
 
 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio: 
 
 Section i. That the school board of any village school district in 
 which is located a university or college, organized under the laws of 
 the state of Ohio as an institution of learning not for profit, and under 
 the management of a board of trustees, may levy a lax not exceeding 
 two mills annually, in addition to all tax authorized by law for all other 
 purposes, upon all taxable property within such village district for the 
 support of such university or college. 
 
 Section 2. Provided, that in the event such levy is made by such 
 board of education, all holders of a high school diploma obtained from 
 such ^ illage district high school shall have the right to attend such 
 university or college for the period of two years, free of tuition. 
 
 Section 3. The funds arising from such tax levy shall be turned 
 'Ovor to the board of trustees of such university or college by the county 
 
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 treasurer to be expended by them in the conduct of such university or 
 college and for no other purpose. 
 
 Freeman T. Eagleson, 
 Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
 James M. Williams, 
 
 President of the Senate. . . 
 Passed May 9, 1908. 
 Approved May 9, 1908. 
 
 Andrew L. Harris, Governor. 
 
 (House Bill No. 1302) 
 
 AN ACT 
 
 To make appropriations for the support of the common schools of the state. 
 
 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio : 
 
 Section i. That there be, and is hereby appropriated, from any 
 moneys raised or coming into the state treasury for the support of the 
 common schools and not otherwise appropriated, the sum of forty-five 
 thousand dollars ($45,000.00), to assist in the maintenance of weak 
 school districts, which shall be distributed by the auditor of state, in 
 accordance with the provisions of the act passed April 2, 1906. 
 
 Freeman T. Eagleson, 
 Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
 James M. Williams, 
 
 President of the Senate. 
 Passed May 9, 1908. 
 Approved May 9, 1908. 
 
 Andrew L. Harris, Governor. 
 
INDEX TO STATUTES. RELATING TO SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES,. 
 ENACTED, AMENDED, OR REPEALED LV 1908. 
 
 P.\GE. 
 
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 on "28841^ amended 3- 
 
 on 3726 amended 4 
 
 on 3893 amended 5. 
 
 on 3897 amended (], 
 
 on 39'20 amended 7 
 
 on 3922 amended g 
 
 sporfation of pupils in village districts 91 
 
 on 3923 amended 10- 
 
 on 3934 amended 11 
 
 on 3969 amended 11 
 
 on 8981 amended 12 
 
 on 3998-3 repealed 12. 
 
 on 4007 amended 13 
 
 on 4009-L5 amended 14 
 
 on 4020-14 amended 1,"), 
 
 on 4022-9 amended 17 
 
 on 4029-2 amended 18 
 
 on 4030 amended 19 
 
 on 4042a amended 20' 
 
 on 4073 amended 21 
 
 on 4075 amended 24 
 
 on 4081 amended 22 
 
 on 4091 amended 24 
 
 To abolish fraternities in the public schools 25. 
 
 To provide for expenses of members of boards of education 26 
 
 To provide expenses of school eLctions 27 
 
 To protect lives of school children 28 
 
 To provide for inspection of school buildings 29' 
 
 To authorize tax to support colleges 31" 
 
 To appropriate state aid to weak school districts 32.' 
 
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