CHAPTER 1. APPROPRIATIONS-REGULATING ORDER OF PAYMENT. (S. B. No. 4.) AN ACT REGULATING THE PAYMENT OF APPROPRIATIONS IN CASE Be it Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado: Order of Section 1. In case the available revenues of the State for any fiscal year are insufficient to meet all payment if revthe appropriations made by the General Assembly enues insuffifor such year, such appropriations shall be paid in the following order: cient. Legislative, First: The ordinary expenses of the legislative, executive and judicial departments of the State executive and Government, and interest on any public debt, shall judicial. first be paid in full. Second: Appropriations for all institutions, Penal such as the Penitentiary, Insane Asylum, Industrial institutions, etc. School and the like, wherein the inmates are confined involuntarily, shall be next paid. Third: Appropriations for educational and Educational. charitable institutions. Fourth: Appropriations for any other officer or Pro rata if officers, bureaus and boards, to be paid pro rato, [pro insufficient rata] if there be not sufficient funds to pay in full. Fifth: All other appropriations made pro rata out of the General Fund shall next be paid from all revenues available to meet such appropriations. Section 2. In the opinion of the General Assembly an emergency exists; therefore, this Act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved April 14, 1897. funds. Available revenue. Emergency. CHAPTER 2. APPROPRIATION-ARBITRATION, STATE BOARD OF. Title. Objects. Governor appoint board of three. Qualifications. List of six from which third member chosen. (S. B. No. 90.) AN ACT CREATING A STATE AND LOCAL BOARDS OF ARBITRATION Be it Enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado: Section 1. There shall be established a State Board of Arbitration consisting of three members, which shall be charged, among other duties provided by this Act, with the consideration and settlement by means of arbitration, conciliation and adjustment, when possible, of strikes, lockouts and labor or wage controversies arising between employers and employes. Section 2. That immediately after the passage of this Act the Governor shall appoint a State Board of Arbitration, consisting of three qualified resident citizens of the State of Colorado and above the age of thirty years. One of the members of said Board shall be selected from the ranks of active members of bona fide labor organizations of the State of Colorado, and one shall be selected from active employers of labor or from organizations representing employers of labor. The third member of the Board shall be appointed by the Governor from a list which shall not consist of more than six names selected from entirely disinterested ranks submitted by the two members of the Board above designated. If any vacancy should occur in said Board, the Governor Vacancy. shall, in the same manner, appoint an eligible citizen for the remainder of the term, as herein before provided. secretary. Section 3. The third member of said Board shall Third member be Secretary thereof, whose duty it shall be, in ad- shall be dition to his duties as a member of the Board, to keep a full and faithful record of the proceedings of the Board and perform such clerical work as may be necessary for a concise statement of all official business that may be transacted. He shall be the custodian of all documents and testimony of an official character relating to the business of the Board; and shall also have, under direction of a majority of the Board, power to issue subpoenas, to administer oaths Have power to to witnesses cited before the Board, to call for and issue subpoenas examine books, papers and documents necessary for oaths. examination in the adjustment of labor differences, with the same authority to enforce their production Powers of as is possessed by courts of record or the judges courts of thereof in this State. and administer record. Oath of office. Section 4. Said members of the Board of Arbitration shall take and subscribe the constitutional oath of office, and be sworn to the due and faithful performance of the duties of their respective offices before entering upon the discharge of the same. The Secretary of State shall set apart and furnish an office in the State Capitol for the proper and con- office at state venient transaction of the business of said Board. capitol. submitted to Section 5. That whenever any grievance or dispute of any nature shall arise between employer and Labor disputes employes, it shall be lawful for the parties to sub-board. mit the same directly to said Board, in case such parties elect to do so, and shall jointly notify said Board or its Clerk in writing of such desire. Whenever such notification is given it shall be the duty of said Board to proceed with as little delay as pos- Board proceed sible to the locality of such grievance or dispute, to locality of and inquire into the cause or causes of such griev dispute. No lockout or strike until decision of board. ance or dispute. The parties to the grievance or dispute shall thereupon submit to said Board in writing, clearly and in detail, their grievances and complaints and the cause or causes therefor, and severally agree in writing to submit to the decision of said Board as to the matters so submitted, promising and agreeing to continue on in business or at work, without a lockout or strike until the decision is rendered by the Board, provided such decision shall be given within ten days after the completion of the investigation. The Board shall thereupon proceed to fully investigate and inquire into the matters in controversy and to take testimony under oath in relation thereto; and shall have power under its Chairman or Clerk to administer oaths, to issue subpoenas for the attendance of witnesses, the production of books and papers in like manner and with the same powers as provided for in Section 3 of this Act. Section 6. That, after the matter has been fully Render decision heard, the said Board, or a majority of its members, within ten days. shall, within ten days, render a decision thereon in writing, signed by them or a majority of them, stating such details as will clearly show the nature of the decision and the points disposed of by them. The Clerk of said Board shall file four copies of such decision, one with the Secretary of State, a copy served to each of the parties to the controversy, and one copy retained by the Board. File four copies. Section 7. That whenever a strike or lockout shall occur or seriously threaten in any part of the State, and shall come to the knowledge of the members of the Board, or any one thereof by a written notice from either of the parties to such threatened strike or lockout, or from the Mayor or Clerk of the city or town, or from the Justice of the Peace of the district where such strike or lockout is threatened, it shall be their duty, and they are hereby directed, to proceed as soon as practicable to the locality of such strike or lockout and put themselves in communica endeavor to tion with the parties to the controversy and endeavor When strike by mediation to effect an amicable settlement of such threatened shall controversy, and, if in their judgment it is deemed effect amicable best, to inquire into the cause or causes of the con- settlement. troversy: and to that end the Board is hereby authorized to subpoena witnesses, compel their attendance and send for persons and papers in like manner and with the same powers as it is authorized by Section 3 of this Act. witnesses. Section 8. That the fees of witnesses before said Fees of Board of Arbitration shall be two dollars ($2.00) for each day's attendance, and five (5) cents per mile over the nearest traveled route in going to and returning from the place where attendance is required by the Board. All subpoenas shall be signed by the Subpoenas Secretary of the Board and may be served by any person of legal age authorized by the Board to serve the same. signed by May submit disputed mat ized. organ Have powers of Section 9. The parties to any controversy or difference as described in Section 5 of this Act may submit the matters în dispute in writing to a local Board ters to local of Arbitration and conciliation; said Board may either boards. be mutually agreed upon or the employer may desig- How such nate one of such arbitrators, the employes or their boards duly authorized agent another, and the two arbitrators so designated may choose a third who shall be Chairman of such local Board; such Board shall in respect to the matters referred to it have and exercise all the powers which the State Board might state board. have and exercise, and its decision shall have such binding effect as may be agreed upon by the parties to the controversy in the written submission. The jurisdiction of such local Board shall be exclusive in respect to the matter submitted to it, but it may ask and receive the advice, and assistance of the State Board. Such local Board shall render its decision render decision in writing within ten days after the close of any within ten days. hearing held by it, and shall file a copy thereof with File with secrethe Secretary of the State Board. Each of such tary of state Local board board. |