§ 2. All laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. Neither approved nor disapproved. CHAPTER 60. AN ACT for the benefit of the Kentucky School for the Blind; to provide an increase in the annual appropriation for the white department and for the colored department and to make an annual appropriation for the education and vocational training of the adult blind of Kentucky. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: § 1. That Section 309a of Carroll's Statutes for 1915 which reads as follows: "That the annual appropriation to the Kentucky School for the Blind be, and the same is hereby, increased from $15,000.00 to $20,000.00 annually." That said section be amended so as to read as follows: "That the annual appropriation to the Kentucky School for the Blind be, and the same is hereby, increased from $20,000.00 to $28,000.00 annually." $ 2. That Section 310 of Carroll's Statutes for 1915 which reads as follows: "That the further sum of three thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid annually for the sole and exclusive use of the colored blind children of this Commonwealth." That said section be amended so as to read as follows: "That the further sum of four thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid annually for the sole and exclusive use of the colored blind children of this Commonwealth." $ 3. That as the state makes no provision for the education and training of blind adults, and as such persons with the proper vocational training may become self-supporting citizens instead of dependents and as the maintenance of such training would be a great moral and economic benefit to the community, the sum of fourteen thousand dollars be annually appropriated for the education and vocational training of the adult blind of Kentucky, the said training and employment of the said blind persons to be under the direction and control of the Kentucky School for the Blind, but separate and apart from any school or training for the blind children. 4. As the School for the Blind is in need of the amounts herein appropriated for the training and support of the blind children and as there is great need for aid to assist the adult blind of the state, to enable them to become self-supporting, that an emergency is hereby declared to exist and this act shall take effect from and after its passage. Neither approved nor disapproved. CHAPTER 61. AN ACT to enjoin and abate houses of lewdness, assignation, and prostitution; to declare the same to be nuisances; to enjoin the person or persons who conduct or maintain the same and the owner or agent of any premises used for such purposes. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That whoever shall erect, establish, continue, maintain, use, own, occupy, lease or sub-lease any building, erection, or place used for the purpose of lewdness, assignation, or prostitution in the Commonwealth of Kentucky shall be guilty of a nuisance, and the building, erection, or place, and the ground itself in or upon which such lewdness, assignation, or prostitution is conducted, permitted, or carried on, continued, or exists, and the furniture, fixtures, and musical instruments therein, and all other contents thereof are declared a nuisance, and shall be enjoined and abated as hereinafter provided. § 2. That whenever a nuisance is kept, maintained, or exists as defined in this act the Commonwealth Attorney or County Attorney, or any citizen of the county wherein such nuisance exists, may maintain an action in equity in the name of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, upon the relation of such attorney or citizen, to perpetually enjoin said nuisance, the person or persons conducting or maintaining the same, and the owner or agent of the building or ground upon which nuisance exists. In such action the court, or a judge in vacation, shall, upon the presentation of a petition therefor alleging that the nuisance complained of exists, grant a temporary injunction without bond, if the existence of such nuisance be made to appear to the satisfaction of the court or judge by evidence in the form of affidavit, depositions, oral testimony, or otherwise, as the complainant may elect. Three days' notice, in writing, shall be given the defendant of the hearing of the application. When an injunetion has been granted it shall be binding on the defendant throughout the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and any violation of the provisions of injunction herein provided shall be a contempt as hereinafter provided. § 3. In such action evidence of the general reputation of the place shall be admissible for the purpose of proving the existence of said nuisance. If the complaint is filed by a citizen, it shall not be dismissed, except upon a sworn statement made by the complainant and his attorney, setting forth the reasons why the action should be dismissed, and the dismissal approved by the Commonwealth or County Attorney in writing or in open court. If the court is of the opinion that the action ought not to be dismissed, it may direct the Commonwealth or County Attorney to prosecute said action to judgment; and if the action is continued more than one term of court, any citizen may be substituted for the complaining party and prosecute said action to judgment. If the action is brought by a citizen, and the court finds there was no reasonable ground or cause for said action, the costs may be taxed to such citi zen. $ 4. That in case of the violation of any injunc tion granted under the provisions of this Act, the court, or, in vacation, a judge thereof, may summarily try and punish the offender. The proceedings shall be commenced by filing with the clerk of the court an affidavit, setting out the alleged facts constituting such violation, upon which the court or judge shall cause an order of arrest to issue, under which the defendant shall be arrested. The trial may be had upon affidavits, or either party may at any stage of the proceedings demand the production and oral examination of the witnesses. A party found guilty of contempt, under the provisions of this action, shall be punished by a fine of not less than $200 nor more than $1,000 or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than three nor more than six months or by both fine and imprisonment. § 5. That if the existence of the nuisance be established in an action as provided in this Act, an order of abatement shall be entered as a part of the judgment in the case, which order shall direct the removal from the building or place of all fixtures, furniture, musical instruments, or movable property used in conducting the nuisance, and shall or der the sale thereof in the manner provided for the sale of chattels under execution, and the effectual closing of the building or place against its use for any purpose, and so keeping it closed for a period of one year, unless sooner released. If any person shall break, enter or use a building, erection, or place so directed to be closed he shall be punished as for contempt, as provided in the preceding action. The sheriff shall be allowed for sales hereunder the same fees as allowed for sales under execution. For all other services hereunder the sheriff shall be allowed a reasonable fee by the court to be taxed as part of the costs in the action. Provided, that no injunction shall issue against an owner, nor shall an order be entered requiring that any building or apartment, or any place be closed or kept closed, if it appears that such owner and his agent have in good faith endeavored to prevent such nuisance. Nothing in this act contained shall authorize any relief respecting any other apartment than that in which such a nuisance exists. § 6. That the proceeds of the sale of the personal property, as provided in the preceding section, shall be applied in the payment of the costs of the action and abatement, and the balance, if any, shall be paid to the defendant. § 7. That if the owner, agent or lessee of any building, erection place or ground against which an injunction has been issued, appears and pays all costs of the proceeding and filed a bond, with surety to be approved by the clerk, qualified as required by section 684 of the Civil Court of Practice, in the full value of the property to be ascertained by the court, or, in vacation, by the judge thereof conditioned that he will immediately abate said nuisance and prevent the same from being established or |