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Commissioner shall certify the facts to the State's Attorney oi 

 the county in which such violation occurred, and such State's 

 Attorney shall proceed against the party or parties for the fines 

 and penalties provided by this Act, and also for the abatement 

 of the nuisance : Provided, that the proceedings herein prescrib- 

 ed for the abatement of nuisances as defined in this Act shall, 

 not in any manner relieve the violator from prosecution in the 

 lirst instance for every such violation, nor from the penalties for 

 such violation prescribed by section 13 of this Act. 



Section 12. All fines collected under the provisions of this 

 Act shall be paid into the county treasury of the county in which 

 the prosecution is brought, and it shall be the duty of the 

 State's Attorney in the respective counties to prosecute all per- 

 sons violating or refusing to obey the provisions of this Acttl 



Section 13. Whoever violates any of the provisions of thi? 

 Act, or who refuses to comply with any lawful order or require- 

 ment of the State Food Commissioner, duly made in writing as 

 provided in section 11 of this Act, shall be guilty of a misde- 

 meanor and on conviction shall be punished for the first offense 

 by a fine of not less than ten dollars ($10.00) nor more than 

 two hundred dollars ($200.00), and for the second and subse- 

 quent offenses by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50.00). 

 nor more than two hundred dollars ($200.00), or by imprison- 

 ment in the county jail for not more than ninety days, or both, 

 in the discretion of the court ; and each day after the expiration 

 of the time limit for abating insanitary conditions and complet- 

 ing improvements to abate such conditions, as ordered by the 

 State Food Commissioner, as aforesaid, shall constitute a dis- 

 tinct and separate offense. 



Section 14. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with, the 

 provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. 



Approved June 5, 1911. In force July i, 191 1. 



