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BOISE, May 13 One hundred , and thirty-three new laws, including! ned to strengthen the one desige I nands of local authorities in, deal ing with juvenile wrongdoing, will go into effect in Idaho Text Thursday. are the laws passed by the future which carried no elf e. In such cases, the laws m ay go into effect 60 days! gislature adjourns. Included are laws making parents l Jiable for Acts of vandalism by their children, UP to $300; changing the name of the Idaho advertising com mision to the Idaho potato and an ion commission, and creating a new district, judgeship 1 eastern Idah. Another new law transfers a por tion of the job of making signs for Idaho's highways from the high way department to the state peni tentiary. The highway board has said that about two-thirds of the sign making will be shifted to the prison, Wat gen LE. Clapp says the penientiary expects to make 5,245 signs by the end of the year, using equipment in automation after thelet was on hand and supplies which the highway department has. Later, the prison will have to order its own supplies. Glapp said the penitentiary is also’ going to take on the job of, repairing signs for the department.’ Another will allow physicians and surgeons not licensed In Itaho to work in Hospitals under the juris diction of the state board of health. This will open the way for em ployment of foreigne trainerd psy chiatrists to alleviate a shortage of psychiatric help at the state's mo menth hospitals. If Others permit sale of Waller by the drink in golf course city houses outsa side city limits, permit waitresses, to serve cocktails and permit women to tend bar in their own or their ‘husband's establishment. Another will require hotels and restaurants to pay their employees i the full minimum wage of 76 cents ‘an hour, without subtracting a cer tain amount for tips. There are actually two laws re seardhing the ninth judicial district in eastern Idaho. One creates a second judgeship for the district and the other splits the district. Gov. Robert E. Smylle signed both, but indicated he would only appoint one judge, because the ap propriation which becomes avail able July 1 provides only enough money for one. It is assumed he will appoint the judge for the new dis trict. ' The new amendments to the youth rehabilitation act provide, among other things, that the names of juvenile offenders can be made pub lic ,unless the judge orders that it would be contrary to the interest of the parties involved, which order shall be made in writing and in each case.” The present act, passed in 1935, provides that records in the cases shall be open to Inspection “only by consent of the judge.” It adds a new group to those who are subject to the act. Any juven ile “who is incorrigible, or who wanders the street in the night time without being on any lawful business or occupation, or who is a habitual truant from school.” These provisions were in Idaho's original juvenile act, passed In 1921, but were repealed by the 1955 en actment. C. M. Roberts, assistant Ada county prosecutor in charge of juveniles, says this has made it difficult for authorities to deal with truants. The new law gives to the prosecu tor the authority, previously reserv ed for the probate judge, to decide whether a juveniile charged with a crime of violence should be called into district court lke an adult. Prosecutors are empowered to proceed under the act against any juvenile who breaks a law involving drunken or reckless driving, or who breaks the traffic laws for the third time. Under the 1955 statute, a youth had to have four traffic vio lations, regardless of their nature before the act was effective. Ordinarily, traffic Violators are arraigned in police or justice courts. The new amendments remove from the law a provision that no child shall be transported in any vehicles which also contains adults ‘under arrest. It permits police to fingerprint’ and photograph juveniles if they find it necessary in detective work. It permits police to hold juveniles 48 hours, instead of 24, before ob taining a court order.
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Twin Falls Times News
Twin Falls, Idaho, US
Mon, May 13, 1957
Page 11
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Julie M.
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