Carter

In 1927 the legislature adopted an act effective August 2, 1927, entitled “An act to reduce the fire insurance hazards of the business of clothes cleaning establishments, providing for the enforcement thereof by the state fire marshal, providing ways and means for enforcement and providing penalties for violations.” (Stats. and Amdts. 1927, p. 1924.) The insertion of the italicized word insurance was clearly an inadvertence and must be disregarded. The intent of the title is in nowise affected by so doing.

In 1929 the legislature adopted an act effective August 14, 1929, to amend the title (republishing the same in full) and sections 1, 2, 3 and 4 of said 1927 act “and to add two new sections thereto to be known as section 5, relating to hazardous buildings and equipment, and section 6, creating a division of industrial fire safety in the department of industrial relations and transferring to said division the administration and enforcement of said act.” (Stats. and Amdts. 1929, p. 288.)

On January 13, 1928, Jose D. Carter, proprietor of a cleaning and dyeing plant known as The Poppy, located in the city of Pasadena, and a number of other persons, corporations and firms engaged…