or can covers, a description of the names, marks or devices whereon has been so filed and published as aforesaid, are being unlawfully used or filled, or had, by any person or corporation manufacturing or selling soda, mineral or aerated waters, porter, ale, cider, ginger ale, milk, cream, small beer, lager beer, weiss beer, white beer or other beverages or medicine, medical preparations, perfumery, oils, vinegar, compounds or mixtures, or that any junk dealer or dealer in second-hand articles, vendor of bottles, or any other person or corporation has any such bottles, boxes, siphons, tins, kegs or cans or can covers, in his or its possession or secreted in any place, the said magistrate must thereupon issue a search warrant to discover and obtain the same, and may also cause to be brought before him the person in whose possession such bottles, boxes, siphons, tins, kegs, cans or can covers, may be found, and shall then ingu're into the circumstances of such possession, and if such magistrate finds that such person has been guilty of a violation of subdivision 1 one of section three hundred and sixty-two, he must impose the punishment herein prescribed, and he shall also award possession of the property taken upon such warrant to the owper thereof.

§ 5. This act shall take effect immediately. C

defined.

CHAPTER 389
AN ACT to amend the code of criminal procedure, in relation to wayward

minors.
Became a law April 8, 1925, with the approval of the Governor. Passed,

three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Serate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Section nine hundred and thirteen-a? of the code of $ 913a

amended, criminal procedure is hereby amended to read as follows:

§ 913-a. Any person between the ages of sixteen and Wayward twenty-one who either (1) is habitually addicted to the use of minor drugs or the intemperate use of intoxicating liquors, or (2) habitually associates with dissolute persons, or (3) is found of his or her

own free will and knowledge in a house of prostitution or assignavi tion or ill fame, or (4) habitually associates with thieves, prostii tutes, pimps or procurers or disorderly persons, or (5) is wilfully

disobedient to the reasonable and lawful commands of parent, guardian or other custodian and is in danger of becoming morally depraved may be deemed a wayward minor.

§ 2. Sections nine hundred and thirteen-b, nine hundred and 913bthirteen-c, and nine hundred and thirteen-di of said code are hereby amended. amended to read as follows:

2 Word "vinegar
1 As added by L. 1923, ch. 868, and amended by L. 1924, ch. 389.
2 Word “person

» substituted for word “female."
3 Words
4 As added by L. 1923, ch. 868,

new.

5

Person may be adjudged wayward minor.

Probation

6

7

Commitment.

§ 913-b. Such person, where the charge is established upon competent evidence upon a hearing, may be so adjudged by any magistrate, other than a justice of the peace, where an information is laid before him on the complaint of a peace officer, parent, guardian, or other person standing in parental relation or being the next of kin, or by a representative of an incorporated society doing charitable or philanthropic work. Such magistrate may issue a summons and where such summons is not obeyed may issue a warrant for the appearance of any such wayward minor, in the same manner as provided by the code of criminal procedure and such minors shall have all the rights secured by law to defendants in proceedings under this title.

$ 913-c. Any person adjudged a wayward minor before commitment to an institution shall, so far as practicable, be placed on probation for a period not to exceed two years, and in no event during any part of the last year of his or her minority, subject to the provisions of law applicable to persons placed on probation.? If such minor, by reason of previous delinquency or other adequate reason, is not a fit subject for probation, he or she shall be committed to any religious, charitable or other reformative institution authorized by law to receive commitments of persons over the age of sixteen years. Such commitment shall be for an indeterminate period not to exceed three years and if to a religious institution, so far as practicable, to one that is governed by persons of the same religious faith as such minor.

§ 913-d. Any person committed under the provisions of

this title may be released or paroled in the manner provided by other dis- law with respect to adult and other offenders. Any perposition.

sons so committed who is in the opinion of the responsible head of the institution where committed incapable of benefiting by the training and discipline thereof or whose conduct is prejudicial to the good order thereof, may be returned to the committing magistrate or to the magistrate sitting in his stead and transferred for the remainder of his or her term to any other institution to which such minor might have been committed in the first instance, or may be committed to a parent or guardian or be otherwise disposed of in accordance with the provisions of this act.

§ 3. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith, so far as the same may apply to persons of the age of sixteen years or over are hereby repealed, but all such acts or parts of acts relating to children under the age of sixteen shall continue in force as to such children.

§ 4. This act shall take effect immediately.
6 Word “person

Release, parole, transfer;

Inconsistent acts.

added to

CHAPTER 390
AN ACT to amend the conservation law, in relation to the taxation of

real estate acquired by the state for river regulation by storage reservoirs. Became a law April 8, 1925, with the approval of the Governor. Passed,

three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. Chapter six hundred and forty-seven of the laws of 446a nineteen hundred and eleven, entitled “An act relating to con- L. 1911, servation of land, forests, waters, parks, hydraulic power, fish and ch, 647. game, constituting chapter sixty-five of the consolidated laws,” is hereby amended by inserting therein a new section, to be section four hundred and forty-six-a, to read as follows:

§ 446-a. Taxation of real estate. Real estate owned by the state and acquired pursuant to the provision of this article shall be assessed and taxed in the same manner as wild and forest land within the forest preserve pursuant to section twenty-two of the tax law. The taxes levied thereon shall be paid by the river regulating district under whose authority the land was acquired.

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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CHAPTER 391
AN ACT to amend the general city law, in relation to the definition of a

taxpayer.
Became a law April 8, 1925, with the approval of the Governor. Passed,

three-fifths being present.
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly,
do enact as follows:

Section 1. Section seventy of chapter twenty-six of the laws of L. 1909. nineteen hundred and nine, entitled “An act in relation to cities, ch, 26, constituting chapter twenty-one of the consolidated laws,'' is hereby amended. amended to read as follows:

§ 70. Submission of proposition to borrow money. Whenever
the common council of any city shall by resolution declare and
determine that the interests of such city and the convenience of the
public require that a bridge should be erected across any stream
or water course within the corporate limits of such city, such com-
mon council is authorized to submit to the qualified electors of such
city, being taxpayers, at any annual charter election held in such
city, or at a special meeting of such electors, being taxpayers, held
for that purpose, the proposition whether the amount needed to
build such bridge shall be borrowed by such city. A "taxpayer"
within the meaning of this article, is a person who is the owner of
real or personal property which was assessed on the last preceding
day of taxable status for taxation purposes on the assessment-roll
of such city.

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
1 Following sentence new.

L 1909. ch. 55,

CHAPTER 392
AN ACT to amend the second class cities law, in rilation to application.
Became a law April 8, 1925, with the approval of te Governor. Passed,

three-fifths being present.
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly,
do enact as follows:

Section 1. Section four of chapter fifty-five o' the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled “An act in ilation to cities of the second class, constituting chapter fifty-three of the consolidated laws,” is hereby amended to read as follows:

§ 4. Application of chapter. A provision of this chapter shall apply, according to its term, only to a city of he state which on the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, a city of the second lass, until such provision is superseded pursuant to the city come rule law or otherwise changed, repealed or superseded pursuant to law.

§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

amended.

was

CHAPTER 393
AN ACT to amend the general city law, in relation to lict ses to adult

blind persons.
Became a law April 8, 1925, with the approval of the Governor. Passed,

three-fifths being present.

L. 1909,
ch. 26,
$ 10
amended.

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. Section ten of chapter twenty-six of the laws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An act in relation to cities, constituting chapter twenty-one of the consilid 1. laws,” is hereby amended to read as follows:1

§ 10. Licenses to adult blind persons. The naye of any city shall have the power to issue a license to any adult lind person for the vending of goods, or newspapers in such places as he may set aside for this purpose. The license shall b issues for a term of one year and no charge shall be made for the license. A license shall not be issued to a blind person unless he or she is a citizen of the United States and a resident for three years in the cty in which

a
application for such license is made.

This license shall be revocable only for cause.
8 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

.

CHAPTER 394 ; AN ACT to amend she general city law, in relation to the regulation of

the density of population in given areas.

In
Became a law April 8, 1925, with the approval of the Governor. Passed,

three-fifths being present.
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly,
do enact as follows:

Section 1. Subdivision twenty-four of section twenty of chapter L. 1809, I twenty-six of the Hiws of nineteen hundred and nine, entitled "An <h226,

act in relation to cities, constituting chapter twenty-one of the con- subd. 24 solidated laws,” such section having been added by chapter two hundred and fort 1-seven of the laws of nineteen hundred and thirteen, and such ubdivision added by chapter four hundred and

eighty-three of the laws of nineteen hundred and seventeen, is : hereby amended to read as follows: 24. To regulate and limit the height and bulk of buildings Regulation

building i hereafter erected,1. to regulate and determine the area of yards, and dencourts and other open spaces, and to regulate the density of sity, of

population. population in any given area, and for said purposes to divide the city into districts. Such regulations shall be uniform for each class of buildings throughout any district, but the regulations in one or more dis 'ricts may differ from those in other districts. Such regulations hall he designed to secure safety from fire and other dangers and to promote the public health and welfare, including, so far as conditions may permit, provision for adequate light, air and convenience of access, and shall be made with reasonable regard to the character of buildings erected in each district, the value of land and the use to which it may be put, to the end that such regulations may promote public health, safety and welfare and the most desirable use for which the land of each district may be adapted and may tend to conserve the value of buildings and enhance the store of land throughout the city.

2. This i shall take effect immediately.

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CHAPTER 395
AN ACT to repeal secìion three of chapter two hundred and six of the laws

of eighteen hundred and eighteen, entitled "An act to amend an act, en-
titled 'An a'ét to incorporate medical societies for the purpose of regulating
the practici: of phyi ic and surgery in this state as amended by chapter
six hundred and forty-seven of the laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-

seven,'” relating to the appointment of censors by the state medical society.
Became a law April 8, 1925, with the approval of the Governor. Passed,

three-fifths being present. The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: Section 1. Section three of chapter two hundred and six of the L. 1818,

ch. 206, laws of eighteen hundred and eighteen, entitled “An act to amend this

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repealed. 1 Word "and" omitted. 2 Words " and to regulate the density of population in any given area,” new.