Chapter 1–An Act to create a legislative fund.

[Approved January 22, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  For the purpose of paying the mileage and the per diem of members of the present legislature, the salaries of the attaches and the incidental expenses of the respective houses thereof, the state treasurer is hereby authorized and required to set apart, from any money now in the general fund not otherwise especially appropriated, the sum of thirty thousand ($30,000) dollars, which shall constitute the legislative fund.

      Sec. 2.  The state controller is hereby authorized and required to draw his warrants on said fund in favor of the members and attaches of the senate and assembly, for per diem, mileage, stationery allowance, compensation and incidental expenses of the respective houses, when properly certified to, in accordance with law, and the state treasurer is hereby authorized and required to pay the same.

      Sec. 3.  All moneys remaining in said fund, at the adjournment of the legislature, shall revert to the general fund.

Legislative appropriation, $30,000

Duties of controller and treasurer

Residue to revert

Chap. 2–An Act providing for the printing and enrolling of legislative bills and resolutions, and other matters relating thereto.

[Approved January 27, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The state printer shall print as many copies of every bill and resolution introduced in either house in the state legislature as shall be authorized by resolution of the branch of the legislature in which said bill or resolution is introduced, and in printing such bills and resolutions the state printer is hereby authorized to correct in the copy furnished him all errors in spelling or punctuation, and to supply the enacting clause, if omitted; provided, that no change shall be made by the state printer which shall in any way vary the apparent meaning of said bill or resolution.

State printer to print bills and resolutions; number fixed by resolution

Bills and resolutions; copy to be in triplicate

State printer to furnish special copy on buff paper for engrossing committee

Printed bill becomes original bill, when

Engrossed copy may be ordered reprinted by resolution

Size specified for enrolled bills and resolutions

him all errors in spelling or punctuation, and to supply the enacting clause, if omitted; provided, that no change shall be made by the state printer which shall in any way vary the apparent meaning of said bill or resolution.

      Sec. 2.  All bills and resolutions shall be introduced in triplicate, and one copy of each bill or resolution shall be marked “original”; one shall be marked “duplicate”; one shall be marked “triplicate.” The copy marked “duplicate” shall be sent to the state printer for the purpose of printing, and the copy marked “triplicate” shall be referred to the engrossing committee of the house in which such bill or resolution was introduced.

      Sec. 3.  The state printer shall immediately after receipt of the copy of any bill or resolution print, in addition to the regular number hereinbefore authorized, one copy thereof upon heavy buff paper, which copy shall be delivered to the engrossing committee of the house in which the bill or resolution originated. The said engrossing committee shall carefully compare the printed copy of said bill with the triplicate copy thereof and if said printed copy is found to be in all respects correct said engrossing committee shall cause the copy of said bill printed upon buff paper to be securely bound with a substantial cover on which the history of said bill shall be endorsed; the chairman of the engrossing committee of the house in which said bill or resolution originated shall then certify to the correctness of said bound copy and deliver same to the chief clerk of the assembly or secretary of the senate, as the case may be; whereupon said bound copy printed upon buff paper so compared and certified to, shall be substituted for the original copy introduced and thereafter be deemed the official copy of said bill or resolution.

      Sec. 4.  When any bill or resolution is ordered engrossed the house ordering such engrossment may, as a part of such resolution, if deemed advisable, order such bill or resolution to be reprinted, one copy upon buff paper, for engrossment as amended, before being transmitted to the other house.

      Sec. 5.  All legislative bills and resolutions shall be enrolled in typewriting on sheets of paper sixteen (16) inches by nine and one-half (9 1/2) inches in dimensions with a one and one-half inch (1 1/2) margin on left-hand side and top and bottom of said sheet, and not more than a one-inch (1) margin on right-hand side, ruling to be on both sides of each sheet. The paper shall be the best quality of ledger paper and suitable for making one clear carbon copy. An original and carbon copy shall be made. If the bill embraces more than one of said sheets they shall be temporarily bound together by a Hotchkiss fastener in the upper left-hand corner of said sheet. All portions of sheets not covered by typewriting shall be ruled off in red ink to prevent insertion of other matter. The complete history of each bill and resolution shall be endorsed in typewriting upon the back of the last sheet of the original copy thereof, and the same shall then be signed by the presiding officers of the respective houses and by the secretary of the senate and the chief clerk of the assembly.

thereof, and the same shall then be signed by the presiding officers of the respective houses and by the secretary of the senate and the chief clerk of the assembly. The original copy shall then be presented to the governor for his action. The duplicate copy thereof shall be deposited with the secretary of state for transmission to the state printer to be used by him in preparation of the volume of statutes enacted at the session of the legislature; provided, the printed bill may by resolution be used as the enrolled bill in accordance with section 4124 of the Revised Laws of Nevada, 1912.

      Sec. 6.  All legislative bills and resolutions deposited with the secretary of state after approval by the governor shall be bound in a substantial volume as now provided by law, together with an index thereof.

      Sec. 7.  All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

Printed bill may become enrolled bill, when

Enrolled bills to be bound

Repeal

Chap. 3–An Act to repeal an act entitled “An act authorizing and directing the board of county commissioners of Humboldt County to pay from the county general fund the sum of five hundred dollars monthly, to cover expenses incurred by the Humboldt County chamber of commerce in promoting the public good, and matters properly connected therewith,” approved March 24, 1913.

[Approved February 1, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  That certain act of the legislature of the State of Nevada, entitled “An act authorizing and directing the board of county commissioners of Humboldt County to pay from the county general fund, the sum of five hundred dollars monthly, to cover expenses incurred by the Humboldt County chamber of commerce in promoting the public good, and matters properly connected therewith,” approved March 24, 1913, is hereby repealed.

      Sec. 2.  This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval.

Repeal of certain act concerning Humboldt County chamber of commerce

In effect

Repealing section making county commissioners canvassers of election

Chap. 4–An Act repealing section thirteen of an act entitled “An act to create a board of county commissioners in the several counties of this state, and to define their duties and powers,” approved March 8, 1865, as amended February 21, 1877, as amended March 8, 1879, being section 1513, Revised Laws of Nevada.

[Approved February 2, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 13 of an act entitled “An act to create a board of county commissioners in the several counties of this state, and to define their duties and powers,” approved March 8, 1865, as amended February 21, 1877, as amended March 8, 1879, being section 1513, Revised Laws of Nevada, is hereby repealed.

Claims must be presented to incorporated cities within six months

Claims not paid unless above conditions are observed

Rejected claims never to be reconsidered

Chap. 5–An Act concerning claims and accounts against incorporated cities.

[Approved February 2, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  All unaudited claims or accounts against any incorporated city in this state shall be presented to the city council of said city, duly authenticated, within six months from the time such claims or accounts become due or payable; provided, nothing contained in this act shall be construed so as to prevent the presentation and auditing of any claim or account now due against any incorporated city in this state, at any time within six months from the passage and approval of this act.

      Sec. 2.  No claim or account against any incorporated city in this state shall be audited, allowed, or paid by the city council or any officer or officers of said incorporated city unless the provisions of section 1 of this act shall have been strictly complied with.

      Sec. 3.  No claim or account which has once been presented and rejected shall ever again be considered or allowed by the same or any subsequently elected or appointed city council of the same city.

Chap. 6–An Act to repeal an act entitled “An act to prohibit gift enterprises, and to provide punishment for a violation of the same,” approved March 13, 1913.

[Approved February 4, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  That said act entitled “An act to prohibit gift enterprises, and to provide punishment for the violation of the same,” approved March 13, 1913, be, and the same is, hereby repealed.

Repeal of act prohibiting gift enterprises

Chap. 7–An Act to authorize the board of county commissioners of the county of Mineral, State of Nevada, to issue bonds to provide for the maintenance of a county high school in the town of Hawthorne, Nevada.

[Approved February 8, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The board of county commissioners of Mineral County is hereby authorized, empowered, and directed to prepare and issue bonds of said county, for an amount not to exceed the sum of two thousand dollars, exclusive of interest, for the purpose of providing funds for the maintenance of a county high school in the town of Hawthorne.

      Sec. 2.  The board of county commissioners of said Mineral County shall cause said bonds to be prepared and made ready for issuance. Such bonds shall be signed by the chairman of the board, countersigned by the county treasurer, and authenticated with the seal of the county. Coupons for interest shall be attached to each bond, so that the same may be removed without injury to the bonds, and each of said coupons shall be consecutively numbered, and signed by the chairman of said board and the county treasurer.

      Sec. 3.  The clerk of the board of county commissioners shall keep a record of all proceedings under the provisions of this act, showing the number and date of each bond and to whom issued.

      Sec. 4.  The board of county commissioners of Mineral County is hereby authorized to negotiate the sale of said bonds or such number thereof as they may deem necessary, by advertising for sealed proposals or by private sales, as they deem for the best interests of the county, and may reject any and all bids; provided, that no bonds shall be sold for less than par value; and provided further, that all bonds shall be payable in gold coin of the United States, and the interest thereon shall be payable in like gold coin.

      Sec. 5.  Said bonds shall be each for the sum of five hundred dollars. They shall be numbered from one to four, consecutively, and the interest on the same shall not exceed six per cent per annum, payable semiannually on the first Monday of July and January of each year, at the office of the county treasurer of said Mineral County, and in no case shall any of said bonds run for a longer period than eighteen months.

Bonds for Mineral County high school

Bonds to be issued

Record to be kept

Negotiation of bonds

Provisos

Denomination of bonds

Interest

“County High School Fund”

County treasurer responsible

“Mineral County High School Bond Redemption Fund”

Treasurer to cancel bonds when redeemed

Interest ceases, when

State’s faith pledged

secutively, and the interest on the same shall not exceed six per cent per annum, payable semiannually on the first Monday of July and January of each year, at the office of the county treasurer of said Mineral County, and in no case shall any of said bonds run for a longer period than eighteen months.

      Sec. 6.  All moneys derived from the sale of said bonds shall be paid to the county treasurer of said county, and the said treasurer is hereby required to receive and safely keep the same in a fund known as “County High School Fund,” and to pay out said moneys only in the manner now provided by law for payment of the “County High School Fund” and for the purposes for which the same were received.

      Sec. 7.  The county treasurer of said Mineral County shall be liable on his official bond for the safe keeping of the moneys which shall come into his hands under the provisions of this act, and for the faithful discharge of all his duties in relation thereto.

      Sec. 8.  For the purpose of creating a fund for the payment of the bonds authorized by this act, and the interest thereon, the board of county commissioners of the said Mineral County is hereby authorized and required to levy and collect, during the year of 1915, a special tax on the assessed value of all property, both real and personal, subject to taxation, including proceeds of mines, within the boundaries of said Mineral County, sufficient to pay such bonds and interest thereon and to pay and retire two of such bonds on the first Monday of January, 1916, and to pay and retire the remaining bonds on the first Monday of July, 1916. Such tax shall be levied and collected in the same manner and at the same time as other taxes are assessed and collected, and the proceeds thereof shall be kept by the county treasurer in a special fund to be known as the “Mineral County High School Bond Redemption Fund.”

      Sec. 9.  Whenever the county treasurer shall redeem any of the bonds issued under the provisions of this act, he shall cancel the same by writing across the face thereof “Paid,” together with the date of such payment, sign his name thereto, and turn the same over to the county auditor, taking his receipt therefor, which receipt shall be filed with the clerk of the board of county commissioners, and the auditor shall credit the treasurer on his books for the amount so paid.

      Sec. 10.  Should the holder of said bonds, or any of them, for any cause whatever, fail to present said bonds to the said county treasurer for payment, when they become due, all interest on such bonds shall thereafter immediately cease.

      Sec. 11.  The faith of the State of Nevada is hereby pledged and this act shall not be repealed, nor the taxation thereby imposed be omitted, until all the bonds and coupons issued under and by virtue hereof shall have been paid in full, as in this act specified.

Chap. 8–An Act to amend “An act creating the office of inspector of mines, fixing his duties and powers; providing for the appointment of a deputy, and fixing the compensation for both; requiring certain reports and notices of accidents to be made to said inspector, and defining the duties of the attorney-general and district attorneys in relation to suits instituted by the inspector of mines,” approved March 24, 1909.

[Approved February 8, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 4 of an act creating the office of inspector of mines; fixing his duties and powers; providing for the appointment of a deputy and fixing the compensation for both; requiring certain reports and notices of accidents to be made to said inspector, and defining the duties of the attorney-general and district attorneys in relation to suits instituted by the inspector of mines, approved March 24, 1909, being section 4201 of the Revised Laws of Nevada, is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 4.  It shall be the duty of the inspector of mines at least once a year, to visit in person each mining county in the State of Nevada and examine all such mines therein as, in his judgment, may require the examination for the purpose of determining the condition of such mines as to safety, and said inspector of mines shall post or cause to be posted, in a prominent place upon the gallows-frame or other superstructure at the collar of the main workings of such mine, a copy of his recommendations within twenty-four hours from the date of such examination, and it shall be the duty of the inspector of mines to collect information and statistics relative to mines and mining and the mineral resources of the state, and to collect, arrange, and classify mineral and geological specimens found in this state and to forward the same to the state school of mines, and it shall be the duty of the inspector of mines to establish a uniform code of signals.

State inspector of mines

To post notices of recommendations within 24 hours

Statistics of mineral resources

To establish code of signals

Preamble

Money from U. S. government

University authorized to receive United States money

Chap. 9–An Act authorizing and empowering the regents of the University of Nevada to receive grants of money appropriated under that certain act of the Congress of the United States of America, entitled “An act to provide for cooperative agricultural extension work between the agricultural colleges in the several states receiving the benefits of the act of Congress approved July 2, 1862, and of acts supplementary thereto, and the United States Department of Agriculture”; and to organize and conduct agricultural extension work in connection with the college of agriculture of the University of Nevada, in accordance with the terms and conditions expressed in said act of Congress.

[Approved February 10, 1915]

      Whereas, The Congress of the United States has passed an act approved by the president May 8, 1914, entitled “An act to provide for cooperative agricultural extension work between the agricultural colleges in the several states receiving the benefits of the act of Congress approved July 2, 1862, and of acts supplementary thereto, and the United States Department of Agriculture”; and

      Whereas, It is provided in section 3 of the act aforesaid that the grants of money authorized by this act shall be paid annually to “each state which shall by action of its legislature assent to the provisions of this act”: now, therefore,

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  That the assent of the State of Nevada, by its legislature, be, and it is, hereby given to the provisions and requirements of said act, and that the regents of the University of Nevada be, and they are, hereby authorized and empowered to receive the grants of money appropriated under said act, and to organize and conduct agricultural extension work which shall be carried on in connection with the college of agriculture of the University of Nevada, in accordance with the terms and conditions expressed in the act of Congress aforesaid.

Chap. 10–An Act fixing and establishing the fees to be charged in certain cases by the county clerk of White Pine County and ex officio clerk of the Ninth judicial district court, in the State of Nevada, and providing for the disposition of such fees.

[Approved February 10, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The county clerk of White Pine County and ex officio clerk of the Ninth judicial district court of the State of Nevada shall charge and collect fees as follows:

      For all services performed by him in any action or proceeding (except a probate or guardianship proceeding) to and including the making up of the judgment roll, five dollars, to be collected in advance from the party commencing the action or proceeding; provided, that in cases where an injunction or an attachment or a receiver is asked for, an additional advance fee of two dollars and fifty cents shall be charged and collected.

      For filing cross-complaint, counter-claim, or a complaint in intervention, two dollars and fifty cents.

      For entering judgment by confession, three dollars.

      For services performed in an action appealed from a justice’s court, four dollars.

      For filing and indexing papers on transfer of a cause from the district court of another county, two dollars and fifty cents.

      For transmission of files and papers on the granting of change of venue to the district court of another county or to the United States court, exclusive of express charges or postage, two dollars and fifty cents.

      For issuing a commission to take testimony, seventy-five cents.

      For filing notice and undertaking and all services, including indexing, on appeal to the supreme court, three dollars and fifty cents.

      For all services after judgment roll is made up, pending appeal to the supreme court (not including the making of copies), two dollars and fifty cents, to be paid by the party moving for a new trial or to set aside judgment.

      For services performed in proceedings to perpetuate testimony, one dollar.

      For services performed in an adoption case, five dollars.

      For certificates for dismissal of appeal, when prepared by the clerk, two dollars and fifty cents, and when prepared and furnished by the attorney, one dollar.

      For filing remittitur from supreme court, one dollar, and for recording judgment entered thereon, ten cents per folio.

      For issuing execution or order of sale, one dollar, and for copying decree and return, ten cents per folio.

      For filing any papers in any cause after judgment, not otherwise provided for, twenty-five cents.

      For issuing transcript of judgment and certifying thereto, one dollar.

      For taking and certifying depositions, for each folio, twenty cents, besides four dollars for each day’s attendance.

      For services in probate and guardianship proceedings, up to and including the final settlement of the case: (a) in which the value of the estate does not exceed twenty-five hundred dollars, fifteen dollars; (b) in which the value of the estate exceeds twenty-five hundred dollars and does not exceed ten thousand dollars, twenty dollars; (c) in which the value of the estate exceeds ten thousand dollars, twenty-five dollars; the valuation herein mentioned to be ascertained from the inventory filed, and the fees above provided to be collected as follows, to wit, the sum of fifteen dollars at the time of filing petition for letters testamentary or of administration or guardianship, and the balance, if any, at the time of filing such inventory.

Fees of county clerk of White Pine County

Fees of county clerk of White Pine County

Additional to “special court fees”

Clerk to pay all fees to treasurer

In effect-proviso

lows, to wit, the sum of fifteen dollars at the time of filing petition for letters testamentary or of administration or guardianship, and the balance, if any, at the time of filing such inventory.

      For filing objections or cross-petitions to the appointment of an executor, administrator, or guardian, or objections to the settlement of accounts or any other proceedings in an estate or guardianship matter, five dollars, to be paid by the moving or objecting party.

      For any copy of any record, proceeding, or paper on file in the office of the clerk relating to any civil action or proceeding theretofore tried or pending in said court, when such copy is made by him, per folio, fifteen cents, and when such copy is not made by him, per folio, ten cents, and for each certificate thereto, twenty-five cents.

      For all services not herein enumerated, such fees as are now or may hereafter be fixed by law; provided, that no fee shall be allowed to or charged by the clerk for any services rendered in any criminal case.

      Sec. 2.  The foregoing fees shall be collected in addition to the fees provided for and known as “special court fees” in sections 2030 and 2031 of the Revised Laws of Nevada, 1912.

      Sec. 3.  The clerk shall on the first Monday of each and every month pay to the county treasurer the amount of all fees charged by the said clerk during the next preceding month.

      Sec. 4.  This act shall take effect on May 1, 1915; provided, that in all proceedings begun, or for acts performed, previous to this act becoming a law, such fees and charges as were provided by law at the time such action or proceeding was begun or acts performed shall be charged and collected until the termination thereof.

Relief of Wellington Bowen

Chap. 11–An Act for the relief of Wellington Bowen.

[Approved February 10, 1915]

      Whereas, On the first day of December, one thousand eight hundred and seventy, Wellington Bowen displayed marvelous heroism in the defense of the state prison and, at the imminent peril of his own life, defended the officers from the infuriated convicts, thereby preventing a general outbreak of the prisoners, received a wound upon the head from a slungshot in the hands of a prisoner, which disabled him for life; and

      Whereas, Said Bowen from the effects of said wound, now, and for a long time past, has been unable to labor for his own support and is utterly helpless and indigent; and

      Whereas, The legislature of the State of Nevada did, at its twenty-first session, and at various sessions thereafter, pass acts appropriating various sums of money for the benefit of said Wellington Bowen in appreciation of the services so rendered; and

      Whereas, Said appropriation has been exhausted; now, therefore,

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The sum of seven hundred and twenty ($720) dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary to be used and paid as hereinafter specified, is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the general fund of the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the benefit of the said Wellington Bowen.

      Sec. 2.  It shall be the duty of the state controller to draw his warrant on the state treasurer in favor of the said Wellington Bowen for the sum of thirty ($30) dollars, for each and every month during the lifetime of the said Wellington Bowen, or until the said sum of seven hundred and twenty ($720) dollars shall be fully exhausted.

Preamble

Appropriation, $720

Duties of controller and treasurer

Chap. 12–An Act authorizing the Nevada-California-Oregon railway, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of this state, to amend its articles of incorporation by increasing the number of its board of directors from five to eleven.

[Approved February 10, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The Nevada-California-Oregon railway, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of this state, is hereby authorized and empowered to amend its articles of incorporation so as to increase its board of directors from five directors, as now constituted, to eleven directors; such amendment to be made pursuant to the provisions of section 1142 of the Revised Laws of Nevada, being section 40 of “An act providing a general corporation law,” approved March 16, 1903.

Allowing N.-C.-O. railway to increase board of directors

Abolishing Nevada bureau of industry, agriculture and irrigation

Capitol commissioners to receive property and effects

Duty of capitol commissioners

In effect April 1, 1915

Chap. 13–An Act to repeal an act entitled “An act creating and establishing a Nevada bureau of industry, agriculture and irrigation, providing for a commission in charge thereof; creating the office of commissioner of industry, agriculture and irrigation, and fixing his compensation; defining the objects and purposes of said bureau; prescribing the powers and duties of said commission; appropriating funds for its support and maintenance, and to carry out its objects and purposes, and other matters relating thereto,” approved March 17, 1911; and providing for the disposition of the records, property, and effects of said bureau.

[Approved February 11, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  An act entitled “An act creating and establishing a Nevada bureau of industry, agriculture and irrigation, providing for a commission in charge thereof; creating the office of commissioner of industry, agriculture and irrigation, and fixing his compensation, defining the objects and purposes of said bureau; prescribing the powers and duties of said commission; appropriating funds for its support and maintenance, and to carry out its objects and purposes, and other matters relating thereto,” approved March 17, 1911, is hereby repealed.

      Sec. 2.  Upon the taking of effect of this act the Nevada bureau of industry, agriculture and irrigation and the commissioner thereof shall deliver to the board of capitol commissioners of the State of Nevada all records, property, and effects belonging to or theretofore in any manner acquired by said bureau.

      Sec. 3.  It shall be the duty of the said board of capitol commissioners to accept and receive said records, property, and effects, and the same shall thereafter be under the direction and control of said board of capitol commissioners until disposed of by it in the manner provided in sections 4417 or 4418 of Revised Laws of Nevada, 1912.

      Sec. 4.  This act shall become effective from and after April 1, 1915.

Chap. 14–An Act to repeal an act entitled “An act to authorize and empower the board of county commissioners of Nye County to issue bonds for the purpose of creating a fund for liquidating and paying all outstanding indebtedness of said county, and for paying current expenses of Nye County, State of Nevada,” approved March 20, 1911.

[Approved February 11, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  That certain act of the legislature of the State of Nevada entitled an act to repeal an act entitled “An act to authorize and empower the board of county commissioners of Nye County to issue bonds for the purpose of creating a fund for liquidating and paying all outstanding indebtedness of said county, and for paying current expenses of Nye County, State of Nevada,” approved March 20, 1911, is hereby repealed.

authorize and empower the board of county commissioners of Nye County to issue bonds for the purpose of creating a fund for liquidating and paying all outstanding indebtedness of said county, and for paying current expenses of Nye County, State of Nevada,” approved March 20, 1911, is hereby repealed.

      Sec. 2.  This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval.

Repeal of act bonding Nye County

In effect immediately

Chap. 15–An Act establishing a rule of evidence, and to amend section four hundred of an act entitled “An act concerning crimes and punishments, and repealing certain acts relating thereto,” approved March 17, 1911, effective January 1, 1912.

[Approved February 11, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 400 of an act entitled “An act concerning crimes and punishments, and repealing certain acts relating thereto,” approved March 17, 1911, effective January 1, 1912, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 400.  Every person who shall make, pass, utter, or publish, with an intention to defraud any other person or persons, body politic or corporate, either in this state or elsewhere, or with the like intention shall attempt to pass, utter, or publish, or shall have in his possession, with like intent to utter, pass, or publish, any fictitious bill, note, or check purporting to be the bill, note or check, or other instrument in writing, for the payment of money or property of some bank, corporation, copartnership, or individual, when in fact there shall be no such bank, corporation, copartnership, or individual in existence, the said person knowing the said bill, note, check, or instrument in writing for the payment of money or property to be fictitious, shall be deemed guilty of forgery, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a term not less than one or more than fourteen years. Whenever such note, bill, check, or other instrument in writing is drawn upon any bank, proof that the purported drawer of the same had no account at said bank, shall be deemed sufficient evidence to sustain the allegation of the nonexistence of the drawer of such instrument.

Crimes and punishments act amended

Rule of evidence established regarding uttering of false paper

Deemed forgery-penalty

Criminal practice act amended

Giving or refusing to give bond, effect

Imprisonment limited to 6 months

Chap. 16–An Act to amend section twenty of an act entitled “An act to regulate proceedings in criminal cases in this state, and to repeal all other acts in relation thereto,” approved March 17, 1911; effective January 1, 1912.

[Approved February 12, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 20 of an act entitled “An act to regulate proceedings in criminal cases in this state, and to repeal all other acts in relation thereto,” approved March 17, 1911, effective January 1, 1912, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 20.  If the bond required by the last section is given, the person complained of shall be discharged. If he does not give it, the magistrate must commit him to prison until he gives such bond, specifying in the warrant the requirement to give security, the amount thereof, and the omission to pay the same; provided, that in no event shall the person complained of be confined in prison for a period of longer than six months for a failure or omission to give such bond.

Prosecution of crime by information

Information, how made

Upon affidavit, when

Chap. 17–An Act to amend section nine of an act entitled “An act providing for the prosecution and punishment of crimes, misdemeanors, and offenses by information,” approved March 24, 1913.

[Approved February 12, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 9 of an act entitled “An act providing for the prosecution and punishment of crimes, misdemeanors, and offenses by information,” approved March 24, 1913, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 9.  An information may be filed against any person for any offense when such person has had a preliminary examination as provided by law before a justice of the peace, or other examining officer or magistrate, and has been bound over to appear at the court having jurisdiction, or shall have waived his right to such preliminary examination. If, however, upon such preliminary examination the accused has been discharged, or the affidavit or complaint upon which the examination has been held has not been delivered to the clerk of the proper court, the district attorney may, upon affidavit of any person who has knowledge of the commission of an offense, and who is a competent witness to testify in the case, setting forth the offense and the name of the person or persons charged with the commission thereof, upon being furnished with the names of the witnesses for the prosecution, by leave of the court first had, file an information, and process shall forthwith issue thereon.

names of the witnesses for the prosecution, by leave of the court first had, file an information, and process shall forthwith issue thereon. The affidavit mentioned herein need not be filed in cases where the defendant has waived a preliminary examination, or upon such preliminary examination has been bound over to appear at the court having jurisdiction. All informations shall set forth the crime committed according to the facts.

Shall set forth facts

Chap. 18–An Act to amend an act entitled “An act relating to the support of the poor,” approved November 29, 1861.

[Approved February 12, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 10 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 10.  The board of county commissioners of any county in this state may, if they think proper, cause to be built or provide in their respective counties workhouses for the accommodation or employment of such indigents as may, from time to time, become a county charge, and such workhouse and indigents shall be under such rules and regulations as said board of county commissioners may deem proper and just; and said board of county commissioners may, if they think proper, purchase a suitable tract of land not to exceed eighty acres in extent, within four miles of said workhouse, or any county hospital heretofore or hereafter established, or any home for the indigent poor or sick heretofore or hereafter established, for a county poor-farm; and said board of county commissioners are hereby authorized to pay for the purchase of said county poor-farm out of the general fund of the county.

County commissioners may provide workhouses or poor-farms

Purchase paid from county general fund

Chap. 19–An Act to prohibit state, county, municipal and township officials from employing or keeping in their employ any person or persons related to them within the third degree of consanguinity, or affinity, and providing penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act.

[Approved February 13, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  From and after July 1, 1915, it shall be unlawful for any state, township, municipal, or county official, elected or appointed, to employ or to keep in his employ on behalf of the State of Nevada, or any county thereof, in any capacity, his wife, son, daughter, or any person or persons related to him (by blood or marriage) within the third degree of consanguinity or affinity. Nothing in the Act shall be deemed to disqualify any widow as an employee of any state or county officer.

Nepotism prohibited

Within third degree of consanguinity or affinity

Payment prohibited

Misdemeanor-find or imprisonment

to disqualify any widow as an employee of any state or county officer.

      Sec. 2.  No person employed contrary to the provisions of this act shall be entitled to or allowed compensation for such employment.

      Sec. 3.  Any violation of this act shall constitute a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall subject the person found guilty to a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $1,000, or to imprisonment in the county jail for not less than thirty days nor more than six months, or to both such fine and imprisonment.

Amending revenue act

Fortune-tellers, etc., must pay license

Chap. 20–An Act to amend an act entitled “An act to provide revenue for the support of the government of the State of Nevada and to repeal certain acts relating thereto,” approved March 23, 1891.

[Approved February 13, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The above-entitled act is hereby amended by adding a section numbered 123 1/2, as follows:

      Section 123 1/2.  Every fortune-teller, clairvoyant, palmist, or medium charging, collecting, or receiving any consideration, or any thing of value, for his or her services, directly or indirectly, shall pay a license of $25 the month, or $50 the quarter; provided, that the terms herein used include every person or persons who read or purport to read, or to tell fortunes, or to predict or to tell the future or past by cards, palmistry, clairvoyancy, or other methods.

Penalty for school teachers repealed

Chap. 21–An Act to amend an act entitled “An act concerning public schools, and repealing certain acts relating thereto,” approved March 20, 1911.

[Approved February 13, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 109 of the above-entitled act, being section 3348 of the Revised Laws of Nevada, is hereby repealed.

Chap. 22–An Act fixing the allowance for expenses of any state officer, commissioner, or other employee while traveling, or at destination, on official business.

[Approved February 13, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The maximum amount of expense money per day for personal uses, allowed to any individual officer or commissioner, or other employee of the state, while traveling, or at his destination, on official business for the State of Nevada, shall not exceed the sum of five dollars per day; provided, that nothing in this act shall be construed to include the cost of seats or sleeping-berths in railway trains, railroad fare, stage fare, automobile hire or fare, team or horse hire, bus, or streetcar fare, or transportation charges of any kind whatsoever.

      Sec. 2.  Paid vouchers for each item must accompany each expense account when presented to the board of examiners for approval.

      Sec. 3.  All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

      Sec. 4.  This act shall take effect upon its passage and approval.

Public officials limited in subsistence expenses

Exceptions

Vouchers required

Repeal

Immediate effect

Chap. 23–An Act fixing the salaries and compensation of the officers of Eureka County, and repealing all acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act.

[Approved February 13, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  From and after the approval of this act the county officers of Eureka County, State of Nevada, named in this act, shall receive the following salaries and fees, in full compensation for their services:

      The sheriff shall receive a salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum, and such fees in civil cases, wherein the State of Nevada or the county of Eureka is not a party, as are provided for by law; provided, that when in criminal cases it becomes necessary for the sheriff to travel a greater distance than twenty miles from the county-seat, but within the State of Nevada, he shall be allowed his necessary traveling expenses. The sheriff shall present to the board of county commissioners a bill of items of such necessary expenses actually incurred, and the board of county commissioners shall audit and may allow such claims in the same manner as other county expenses are audited and paid. He may appoint a deputy sheriff, who shall act as jailer, at a compensation not exceeding ninety dollars per month.

Salaries of Eureka County officers

Sheriff

District attorney

Clerk

Recorder

Assessor

Commissioners

Allowances restricted

Salaries payable monthly

shall act as jailer, at a compensation not exceeding ninety dollars per month.

      The district attorney shall receive a salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum, and such fees as are now allowed by law; provided, that when in proper discharge of his duties as district attorney it becomes necessary to travel a greater distance than twenty miles from the county-seat, he shall be allowed his actual traveling expenses. The district attorney shall present to the board of county commissioners a bill of items of such necessary expenses actually incurred, and the board of county commissioners shall audit and may allow such claims in the same manner as other expenses are audited and allowed.

      The county clerk, who shall be ex officio county treasurer in and for said county and ex officio clerk of the district court and of the board of county commissioners of said county, shall receive as a salary as treasurer the sum of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum, and as clerk a salary of six hundred dollars per annum, and such fees, in all cases wherein the State of Nevada or the county of Eureka is not a party, as are now allowed by law to county clerks.

      The county recorder and ex officio county auditor shall receive for all such services a salary of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum, and in addition thereto such fees, in all cases wherein the State of Nevada or the county of Eureka is not a party, as are now allowed by law to the county recorder.

      The county assessor shall receive a salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum; provided, that when in the proper discharge of his duties as assessor it becomes necessary to travel a greater distance than three miles from the county-seat, he shall be allowed his actual traveling expenses. The assessor shall present to the board of county commissioners a bill of items of such necessary expenses actually incurred, and the board of county commissioners shall audit and may allow such claims in the same manner as other expenses are audited and allowed.

      The county commissioners shall receive a salary of six hundred dollars per annum and ten cents per mile in going to and from the county-seat, when attending upon the regular monthly meetings, and when meeting as a board of equalization and board of canvassers, and when meeting to consider cases of extradition, as provided by law, and they shall meet regularly on the first Monday of each month for the transaction of all business that may come before them.

      Sec. 2.  No allowance shall be made by the board of county commissioners for the compensation of any deputy or deputies for any officers except as herein expressly provided.

      Sec. 3.  All salaries herein provided for and not otherwise payable shall be payable in twelve equal monthly installments. The county auditor shall, on the first Monday of each month, draw his warrant in favor of each of the officers herein named for the salary due each officer for the last preceding month, and the county treasurer shall pay such warrant out of the salary fund.

for the salary due each officer for the last preceding month, and the county treasurer shall pay such warrant out of the salary fund.

      Sec. 4.  All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

Repeal

Chap. 24–An Act to create a legislative fund.

[Approved February 13, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  For the purpose of paying the mileage and the per diem of members of the present legislature, the salaries of the officers and attaches, and the incidental expenses of the respective houses thereof, the state treasurer is hereby authorized and required to set apart, from any money in the general fund not otherwise especially appropriated, the sum of forty-five thousand dollars, which shall constitute the legislative fund.

      Sec. 2.  The state controller is hereby authorized and required to draw his warrants on said fund in favor of the members, officers, and attaches of the senate and assembly, for per diem, mileage, stationery allowance, compensation, and incidental expenses of the respective houses, when properly certified to, in accordance with law, and the state treasurer is hereby authorized and required to pay the same.

      Sec. 3.  All moneys remaining in said fund, at the adjournment of the legislature, shall revert to the general fund.

Legislative appropriation, $45,000

Duties of controller and treasurer

Residue to revert

Chap. 25–An Act for the relief of certain persons, firms, associations, and corporations, who advanced funds for the construction of the Nevada school of industry, in the town of Elko, State of Nevada, and authorizing the repayment of the same by the town of Elko, State of Nevada.

[Approved February 17, 1915]

      Whereas, During the twenty-sixth session of the legislature of Nevada, an act entitled “An act establishing a state institution for delinquent boys, providing for the purchase of a site, erection of buildings, organizing the government of said school, and providing for the maintenance thereof, and creating a tax levy to raise funds for such purposes,” approved March 26, 1913, was passed, creating a Nevada school of industry and a commission for the construction of said school and the government thereof, and conditioned that the Nevada school of industry, therein created, should be located in the county of Elko, State of Nevada, upon land deeded to the state, without charge, and upon the payment to the commission, by the citizens of Elko, of the sum of five thousand dollars; and

Preamble

Preamble

Persons advancing money for Nevada school of industry

Town of Elko to reimburse persons advancing money for Nevada school of industry

Persons and sums named

      Whereas, The commission provided in said act was duly appointed, and the conditions set forth in said act were duly complied with, and said school has been constructed; and

      Whereas, No authority had been provided by which the said town of Elko could appropriate the said five thousand dollars; and

      Whereas, In order not to delay the construction of said building, the following-named persons, firms, associations, and corporations paid and advanced to the said commission the said sum of five thousand dollars, as is hereafter more particularly set forth, to wit: W. T. Smith Company, $250; Elko Lumber Company, $250; A. G. McBride, $250; R. H. Mallett, $250; Guy Saval, $250; A. W. Hesson Company, $250; Chris Eshleman, $250; Doctors Hood & West, $250; L. J. Wintermantel Company, $250; Elko Hide and Junk Company, $250; Mayer Hotel Company, $250; George Russell, $250; Elko Automobile Company, $250; E. M. Steninger, $250; Sutherland & McFarlane, $250; Engler Company, $250; E. Dotta, $250; Thomas Hunter, $250; First National Bank of Elko, $250; and Henderson Banking Company, $250; and

      Whereas, Said sums were so advanced and paid, with the understanding that the same would be a charge against the town of Elko, State of Nevada, and be repaid by said town, as soon as an enabling act should be enacted by the legislature of the State of Nevada: now, therefore,

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  That the board of county commissioners of the county of Elko, State of Nevada, acting as the town board of Elko, be, and it is, hereby authorized, empowered and directed, as soon as there be sufficient funds in the town fund of the town of Elko, State of Nevada, upon presentation and proof that said sums have been paid to the commission for the establishment of the Nevada school of industry, to approve and allow on said fund, the claim of W. T. Smith Company, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of Elko Lumber Company, for two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of A. G. McBride, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of R. H. Mallett, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of Guy Saval, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of A. W. Hesson Company, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of Chris Eshleman, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of Doctors Hood & West, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of L. J. Wintermantel Company, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of Elko Hide and Junk Company, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of Mayer Hotel Company, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of George Russell, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of Elko Automobile Company, for two hundred fifty dollars ($250);

claim of Elko Automobile Company, for two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of E. M. Steninger, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of Sutherland & McFarlane, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of Engler Company, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of E. Dotta, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of Thomas Hunter, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of First National Bank of Elko, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); and the claim of the Henderson Banking Company, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250).

      Sec. 2.  After the approval and allowance of said amounts, or any of them, by the said board of county commissioners of the county of Elko, State of Nevada, acting as a town board, the auditor of the county of Elko, State of Nevada, is hereby directed and required to draw his warrant in favor of the persons, firms, associations, and corporations above named, for the amounts specified in this act; and the treasurer of the county of Elko, State of Nevada, is hereby directed and required to pay the same from the town fund.

Money to come from town fund of Elko

Chap. 26–An Act to regulate the racing of horses in the State of Nevada, and to establish a state racing commission, and to define its powers and duties, and prescribing a penalty for violation thereof.

[Approved February 20, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Any association or corporation formed for the purpose of racing and breeding or improving the breed of horses and conducting races and contests of speed between horses shall have the right and power, subject to the provisions of this act, to hold one or more race meetings in each year and to hold, maintain and conduct horse-races at such meetings. At such meetings the corporation or association or the owners of the horses engaged in such races, or others who are not participants in the racing, may contribute purses, prizes, premiums, or stakes to be contested for; but no person or persons other than the owners of a horse or horses contesting in a race shall have any pecuniary interest in a purse, prize, premium, or stakes contested for in such races or be entitled to or receive any portion thereof after such races shall have been finished; and the whole of such purse, prize, premium, or stakes shall be allotted in accordance with the terms and conditions of such race.

      Sec. 2.  Such race meetings shall not exceed thirty days racing, nor shall any meeting be given where bookmaking is allowed, nor shall any person, association, or corporation furnish to poolrooms or their agents any information whatever in regard to racing, or permit to be furnished from any course or premises any such information.

Horse-races permitted under restrictions

Term of meetings limited; other restrictions

Bookmaking and information to poolrooms prohibited

Penalty

No Sunday racing

State racing commission established; personnel of same

Commission to appoint secretary

Salary

Biennial report

Commission to prescribe rules for horse-racing

License for racing

License revoked, when

in regard to racing, or permit to be furnished from any course or premises any such information. Any person, association, or corporation who shall conduct any race meeting contrary to the provisions of this act, or engage in bookmaking on horseraces, or furnish or allow to be furnished any information whatever to poolrooms contrary to this act, are hereby declared to be guilty of a misdemeanor; and any person, association, or corporation acting or aiding them shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not less than five hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail for a period of not less than thirty days nor more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

      Sec. 3.  No horse-races are authorized or shall be permitted between sunset and sunrise or on Sundays.

      Sec. 4.  A state racing commission is hereby established to consist of three persons to be appointed by the governor, within twenty days after this law shall be in force. The members of said commission shall hold their offices for a term of four years; provided, that the commissioners first appointed shall determine, by lot, one of themselves to go out of office at the end of each two years. The successor of each commissioner so going out of office shall hold office for the full term of four years.

      Sec. 5.  Such commission shall appoint a secretary who shall serve during its pleasure, whose duty it shall be to keep a full and faithful record of its proceedings, and preserve at its general office all books, maps, documents, and papers entrusted to its care, and perform such other duties as the commission shall prescribe. He shall be paid a salary to be fixed by the commission at a rate not exceeding eighteen hundred dollars per annum, which, together with other expenses of the commission, shall be paid by the racing corporations or associations who shall obtain licenses from said commission. The commission shall biennially make a full report to the governor of its proceedings for the two-year period ending with the first day of January preceding the meeting of the legislature, and shall embody therein such suggestions and recommendations as it shall deem desirable.

      Sec. 6.  Such commission shall have the power to prescribe the rules, regulations, and conditions under which horse-races shall be conducted in this state, and no races shall be conducted except by an association or corporation duly licensed by said commission as herein provided. Any association or corporation desiring to conduct such racing may apply to the state racing commission for a license so to do. The commission may, in in its discretion, grant the same for not to exceed one year, and every such license shall contain a condition that all races or race meetings conducted thereunder shall be subjected to the rules, regulations, and conditions from time to time prescribed by the commission, and shall be revocable by the commission for any violation thereof, or whenever the continuance of such license shall be deemed by the commission not conducive to the interests of legitimate racing.

license shall be deemed by the commission not conducive to the interests of legitimate racing. But if said license is refused or revoked said commission shall cause its reasons for so doing to be written in full in the minute books of said commission, which books shall at all times be open to inspection by any one. The refusal of the commission to grant to any racing association or corporation a license, or to assign a racing association or corporation at least sixty days in each year, if desired, for racing at such place as such association or corporation may desire and the decision of such commission revoking any license of any association or corporation shall be subject to review of the courts of this state.

      Sec. 7.  Every race meeting held or conducted, except as allowed by this act, is hereby declared to be a public nuisance, and every person acting or aiding therein shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and punished by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars for each day of such meeting and racing; and a restraining order may issue against any proposed unauthorized race meeting at the suit of the state racing commission.

      Sec. 8.  The provisions of this act relative to the payment to the said state racing commission of proportionate moneys to pay the expenses of conducting said commission shall not apply to race meetings conducted by any state fair association, agricultural society, county fair, or any other association to which state or county aid is given; and no such state fair association shall hold a race meeting for a period of more than twelve days in any one year; and no such agricultural society, county fair, or other association to which state or county aid is given shall hold a race meeting for a period of more than six days in any one year.

      Sec. 9.  Any association or corporation conducting horse-races in the State of Nevada where paris mutuals may be permitted shall take out such commissions from all moneys received from the sale of paris mutuals as may be prescribed by the state racing commission, not to exceed eight per cent; one-sixth of which shall be paid by said associations or corporations daily to the said state racing commission, and shall be paid by said state racing commission to the county treasurer of the various counties of the State of Nevada, and shall be prorated among them in proportion to the total mileage of the county roads in said counties, to be used by said counties for the building, improvement, and care of their roads and highways. It is hereby made the duty of the state racing commission, and they are hereby granted the power, to inspect the books of any such associations or corporations and to revoke their licenses unless the said books are fully, accurately, and fairly kept.

      Sec. 10.  It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to bribe, influence, or have any understanding or connivance with any jockey, owner, groom, or any one connected with any of the stables, horses, racing, or races at any race meeting, and any one violating this provision shall be guilty of a felony and upon conviction shall be imprisoned in the state prison for a period of not less than three years or more than ten years.

Revocation of license may be be reviewed by courts

Unauthorized race meetings public nuisance; penalty and restraining order

Certain provisions not to apply to state and county associations receiving public aid

State and county meetings limited

Paris mutuals to pay percentage to public treasuries for care of highways

Racing books may be inspected

Unlawful to bribe or influence jockeys, etc.

Penalty

one violating this provision shall be guilty of a felony and upon conviction shall be imprisoned in the state prison for a period of not less than three years or more than ten years.

State fair to be held at Fallon, Churchill County

State not liable for premiums or debts

Repeal

Chap. 27–An Act to amend an act entitled “An act to provide for the management and control of the state agricultural society by the state,” approved March 7, 1885, 77.

[Approved February 20, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 5 of an act entitled “An act to provide for the management and control of the state agricultural society by the state,” approved March 7, 1885, 77, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 5.  The state board of agriculture shall be charged with the exclusive management and control of the state agricultural society as a state institution; shall have possession and care of its property, and be intrusted with the direction of its entire business and financial affairs. They shall define the duties of the secretary and treasurer, fix their bonds and compensation, and shall have power to make all necessary changes in the constitution and rules of the society to adapt the same to the provisions of this act, and to the management of the society, its meetings and exhibitions. They shall provide for an annual fair or exhibition by the society of all the industries and industrial products of the state at the city of Fallon, Churchill County, State of Nevada; provided, that in no event shall the state be liable for any premium awarded or debt created by said board of agriculture.

      Sec. 2.  All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

Amending divorce law

Divorce, how obtained

Chap. 28–An Act to amend section 22 of an act entitled “An act relating to marriage and divorce,” approved November 28, 1861, as said section has heretofore been amended, and particularly as amended by act approved February 15, 1875, and by act approved February 20, 1913.

[Approved February 23, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 22 of the said act of 1861, together with all amendments to and reenactments of said section, are hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 22.  Divorce from the bonds of matrimony may be obtained, by complaint under oath, to the district court of the county in which the cause therefor shall have accrued, or in which the defendant shall reside or be found, or in which the plaintiff shall reside, if the latter be either the county in which the parties last cohabited, or in which the plaintiff shall have resided six months before suit be brought, for the following causes:

which the defendant shall reside or be found, or in which the plaintiff shall reside, if the latter be either the county in which the parties last cohabited, or in which the plaintiff shall have resided six months before suit be brought, for the following causes:

      First-Impotency at the time of the marriage continuing to the time of the divorce.

      Second-Adultery, since the marriage, remaining unforgiven.

      Third-Wilful desertion, at any time, of either party by the other, for the period of one year.

      Fourth-Conviction of felony or infamous crime.

      Fifth-Habitual gross drunkenness contracted since marriage of either party, which shall incapacitate such party from contributing his or her share to the support of the family.

      Sixth-Extreme cruelty in either party.

      Seventy-Neglect of the husband, for the period of one year, to provide the common necessaries of life, when such neglect is not the result of poverty on the part of the husband, which he could not avoid by ordinary industry.

      Sec. 2.  All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

Six months residence

Causes for divorce

Repeal

Chap. 29–An Act to provide for the consolidation of school districts, for the transportation of children to and from school, and other matters relating thereto.

[Approved February 26, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Any two or more adjacent school districts may unite for the purpose of establishing a single consolidated district.

      Sec. 2.  The process of uniting two or more school districts into a consolidated district shall be as follows: Upon receipt of a petition signed by a majority of the voters who are entitled to a vote at school elections, from each of the districts to be affected by the consolidation, the county commissioners of the county in which such districts are located shall cause a notice to be published for three consecutive weeks in a newspaper having general circulation throughout the county, which notice shall state fully the names of the districts proposing to consolidate, the boundaries of the proposed consolidated district, and shall set forth a day and hour at the next regular meeting of the board of county commissioners when the said board will canvass the signatures on each petition and hear statements that any of the residents of any of the districts to be affected by the consolidation may wish to make either for or against the proposition of consolidation. At the time set forth in the notice the county commissioners shall proceed to canvass the signatures on each petition,

School districts may consolidate

Method of consolidation

Notice to be published

County Commissioners to act upon receipt of petitions

Trustees of consolidated districts, how elected

Old districts disorganized, when

Contracts with drivers of school vehicles

Bond required of drivers

Funds for transportation of children

notice the county commissioners shall proceed to canvass the signatures on each petition, and if a majority of said board are satisfied that the petitions presented represent the will of a majority of the voters of each of the districts affected, they shall unite such districts into a single consolidated district, shall designate the said district as Consolidated School District No. ......., and shall designate a place at which the school trustees of the several districts united shall meet to hold an election. If three or more school districts are proposing to consolidate and a majority of the voters of any district are opposed to such consolidation, such district shall not be made a part of the consolidated district, but the county commissioners may consolidate such other districts as are affected by the consolidation without requiring new petitions.

      Sec. 3.  On the second Saturday after the consolidated district has been formed the trustees of the several districts which have consolidated shall meet at the place designated by the county commissioners as hereinbefore provided and shall elect by ballot three of their number to be trustees of the consolidated district and such trustees shall hold office until the next regular election of school trustees as now provided by law. A certified statement of the result of said election, together with the oaths of office of the trustees elected, shall be filed with the superintendent of the supervision district in which the consolidated district is located. In case such election is not held, the superintendent shall appoint the trustees. Upon the election or appointment of the trustees of the consolidated district, the districts which have consolidated shall each be considered disorganized and the offices of trustees of each of the several districts as no longer existing.

      Sec. 4.  And provided further, that the trustees of consolidated school districts shall require contracts with persons whom shall be of reputable character elected as drivers of vehicles used to transport children to school at the expense of the district. Such contracts shall state the time of the arrival at and the departure from the schoolhouse each day, the time such person is to act as driver of such vehicle unless released by agreement, the compensation of the driver and any other details that the trustees may designate. Before any driver of any school vehicle shall begin the duties of that position he shall furnish a bond of an amount equal to his total wages for the current term of school in which he shall be hired, which bond shall insure the faithful performance of his contract.

      Sec. 5.  To obtain funds for such transportation, the trustees shall, each year, make an estimate of the amount of money necessary to maintain such transportation for that year or for the next ensuing year or for both, and shall certify the amount to the county commissioners, who shall ascertain the necessary percentage on the property in said district as shown by the last assessment made thereof after equalization to raise the amount of money certified to and shall add it to the next county tax to be collected on the property aforesaid;

tax to be collected on the property aforesaid; and the same shall be paid into the county treasury in favor of said district and be kept as a separate fund to be known as Consolidated School District No. ........ Transportation Fund, to be drawn only for purposes of transportation of school children to and from school, and in the same manner as is now provided by law for drawing other school moneys; provided, that if the trustees shall certify to the county commissioners that such money is necessary for immediate use, the tax provided for in this section shall be due and payable to the treasurer of the county in the same manner as are all other taxes.

      Sec. 6.  The trustees of any school district, other than a consolidated district, shall provide transportation to and from school for all children living one mile or more therefrom in the manner provided in sections four and five of this act, if at any regular or special election held in the district the proposition of providing transportation for pupils to and from schools shall have been submitted to the qualified voters of the district and a majority of the votes cast shall have favored such transportation.

      Sec. 7.  In apportioning county and state school moneys to a consolidated school district the superintendent of public instruction shall apportion such moneys in the following manner:

      First-He shall ascertain from former records of the state or the county in which such consolidated district is located the number of districts that united to form the consolidated district, and the exact number of census children in all of those districts at the time of the annual school census last preceding the date of the consolidation. The number of census children thus found shall constitute the basis upon which such consolidated district shall receive its share of sixty per cent of the county school fund, and thirty per cent of the state school fund at all apportionments of state and county school moneys until the next regular school census is taken. Thereafter at each apportionment such consolidated district shall receive its share of sixty per cent of the county school fund, and thirty per cent of the state school fund upon the basis of the actual number of census children in such district as shown by the last preceding school census.

      Second-In determining the number of teachers that the consolidated district is entitled to receive state and county school moneys upon according to the law governing the apportionment of state and county school moneys to the several school districts of the state, the superintendent of public instruction shall determine the number of teachers that constituted the basis for apportioning state and county school moneys to each of the districts that united to form the consolidated district at the time of the apportionment of state and county school moneys last preceding the date of the consolidation. He shall determine the number of teachers that shall constitute the basis for apportioning state and county school moneys to any consolidated district by adding together the teachers thus found in the several districts that united to form the consolidation district;

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Certain children provided with transportation

Public moneys, how apportioned to consolidated districts

Same

Public moneys, how apportioned

Funds to accrue to consolidated district

Old debts, how disposed of

Property accrues to new district

School law to govern

Certain old districts entitled to privileges of this act

Repeal

moneys to any consolidated district by adding together the teachers thus found in the several districts that united to form the consolidation district; provided, that if at any future time the number of children in the consolidated district shall become such as to allow a larger number of teachers for apportionment purposes, according to the law governing such matters in other school districts of the state, the superintendent of public instruction shall apportion state and county school moneys to such consolidated district upon the actual number of teachers as determined by the general law of apportionment of state and county school moneys.

      Sec. 8.  All state and county school funds remaining to the credit of school districts that have become disorganized by uniting to form a consolidated district shall accrue to and be placed to the credit of the consolidated district of which the disorganized districts form a part.

      Sec. 9.  If any school district uniting to form a consolidated district shall have, at the time of its disorganization, a legally bonded indebtedness, such indebtedness shall attach to and become a charge against the territory comprised in the consolidated district, and it shall be the duty of the county commissioners of the county in which such territory is located to cause annually to be levied upon the property, real and personal, in such consolidated district, a tax sufficient to meet the interest and provide a sinking fund for the payment of such indebtedness.

      Sec. 10.  The school property of the disorganized districts shall, upon the organization of the consolidated district, be and become the property of the said consolidated district and the board of trustees of said district is hereby authorized to use said property in carrying out the school work of the consolidated district or to sell or dispose of it in the manner now provided by law for the disposition of school property and for the best interests of the said district.

      Sec. 11.  In all matters relating to consolidated school districts, not provided for in the preceding sections of this act, the law relating to other school districts shall be in force where said laws are applicable.

      Sec. 11a.  All school districts in the State of Nevada that shall have been transporting school children to the schoolhouse at the expense of the school district at the time of the passage of this act shall be entitled to all the privileges given in this act to consolidated school districts, and after the passage of this act such districts as were transporting children to a school at the expense of the district at the time of the passage of this act shall thereafter be designated as consolidated districts, and shall come under all the rules, laws and regulations of this act.

      Sec. 12.  All acts and parts of acts in so far as they conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

Chap. 30–An Act to amend section 253 of an act entitled “An act concerning crimes and punishments, and repealing certain acts relating thereto,” approved March 17, 1911, and as amended March 21, 1913.

[Approved February 26, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 253 of an act entitled “An act concerning crimes and punishments, and repealing certain acts relating thereto,” approved March 17, 1911, and as amended March 21, 1913, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 253.  It shall be unlawful for any person to deal, play or carry on, open or conduct in any capacity whatever, any game of faro, monte, roulette, lansquenet, rouge et noir, rondo, tan, fan-tan, seven-and-a-half, twenty-one, hokey-pokey, craps, klondyke, or any banking or percentage game played with cards, dice, or any device, for money, property, checks, credit, or any representative of value; or any gambling game in which any person keeping, conducting, managing or permitting the same to be carried on receives, directly or indirectly, any compensation or reward, or any percentage or share of the money or property played, for keeping, running, carrying on or permitting the said game to be carried on; or to play, maintain or keep, any slot machine played for money or for checks or tokens redeemable in money, or to buy, sell, or deal in pools, or make books on horse-races, save and except that any and all racing associations and corporations which shall obtain license to conduct race meetings in the State of Nevada, pursuant to law, may carry on and permit within the inclosure where horse-racing is held, betting upon the races conducted within said inclosure by and through the paris mutual system of betting; and any person who violates any of the above provisions shall be guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be imprisoned in the state prison for a period of not less than one year nor more than five years. Every person who shall play at any game whatsoever, other than those hereinabove excepted, for money, property or gain, with cards, dice or any other device which may be adapted to or used in playing any game of chance, or in which chance is a material element, or who shall bet or wager on the hands or cards or sides of such as do play as aforesaid, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor; provided, however, that nothing in this paragraph shall be construed as prohibiting social games played only for drinks and cigars served individually, or for prizes of a value not to exceed two dollars, nor nickel-in-the-slot machines for the sale of cigars and drinks and no play-back allowed.

Amending crimes and punishments act

Certain gambling games prohibited

Certain horse-races included

Penalty-misdemeanor

Certain social games excepted

Amending banking act

Banks prohibited from investing capital in certain ways

Does not preclude banks from investing in federal reserve banks

Bank may sell any collateral security

Chap. 31–An Act to amend section thirteen of an act entitled “An act to regulate banking, and other matters relating thereto,” approved March 22, 1911.

[Approved February 26, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 13 of an act entitled “An act to regulate banking and other matters relating thereto,” approved March 22, 1911, is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 13.  No bank shall employ its moneys, directly or indirectly, in trade or commerce by buying or selling goods, chattel wares, or merchandise, and shall not invest any of its funds in the stock of any bank or trust company or corporation, nor make any loans or discounts upon the security or the shares of its own capital stock, nor be the purchaser or holder of any such shares, unless such security or purchase shall be necessary to prevent loss upon a debt previously contracted in good faith, and stock so purchased or acquired shall, within twelve months from the time of its purchase, be sold or disposed of at public or private sale; after the expiration of twelve months any such stock shall not be considered as part of the assets of any bank or trust company; provided, however, that nothing in this section nor in this act shall be deemed to prohibit banks from subscribing to, purchasing, or becoming the owners of stock in federal reserve banks as established by act of Congress of the United States, approved December 23, 1913, or any branch thereof; and all banks doing business under and by virtue of the laws of this state are hereby expressly permitted and authorized to subscribe for and purchase stock of federal reserve banks and become members of any reserve bank; provided further, that any bank may sell or become the owner of any property which may come into its possession as collateral security for any debt or obligation due it, according to the terms of any contract depositing such collateral security, and if there be no such contract, then collateral security may be sold in the manner provided by law.

Amending crimes and punishments act

Chap. 32–An Act amending section 354 of an act entitled “An act concerning crimes and punishments, and repealing certain acts relating thereto,” approved March 17, 1911; effective January 1, 1912.

[Approved February 26, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 354 of an act entitled “An act concerning crimes and punishments, and repealing certain acts relating thereto,” approved March 17, 1911; effective January 1, 1912, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 354.  Every-

      1.  Idle or dissolute person, without visible or known means of living, who has the physical ability to work, and who does not for the space of ten days make proper inquiry for, and use due diligence to seek, employment or labor, when employment is offered him; or

      2.  Idle or dissolute person who roams about the country from place to place without any lawful business; or

      3.  Healthy beggar who solicits alms as a business; or

      4.  Person who makes a practice of going from house to house, begging food, money, or other articles, or seeks admission to such houses upon frivolous pretexts for no other apparent motive than to see who may be therein, or to gain an insight of the premises; or

      5.  Idle or dissolute person or associate of known thieves who wanders about the streets at late or unusual hours of the night, or prowls around dark alleys, by-ways, and other dark or unfrequented places at any hour of the night without any legitimate business in so doing; or

      6.  Idle or dissolute person who lodges in any barn, shed, shop, outhouse, or place other than that kept for lodging purposes, without the permission of the owner or person entitled to the possession thereof; or

      7.  Common drunkard who is in the habit of lying around the streets, alleys, sidewalks, saloons, barrooms, or other public places in a state of intoxication; or

      8.  Pimp, panderer, procurer, or procuress; or

      9.  Male person who lives in and about houses of prostitution, or solicits for any prostitute or house of prostitution; or

      10.  Female person known as a “street walker,” or common prostitute, who shall, upon the public streets, or in or about any public place or assemblage, or in any saloon, barroom, clubroom, or any other public or general place of resort for men, or anywhere within the sight or hearing of ladies or children, conduct or behave herself in an immodest, drunken, indecent, profane, or obscene manner, either by actions, language, or improper exposure of her person; or

      11.  Boy or male person under the age of twenty-one years, who habitually remains away from his home or place of residence after the hour of 9 o’clock p. m., without some lawful and necessary business, or other imperative duty, or good and sufficient reason or cause for such absence from home after such hour, or his own amusement and pastime, without any legitimate business for so doing, frequents and passes his time in any billiard-room or other place where any such games are played, or any saloon or other place where intoxicating liquor is sold or drank; or who at any hour of the night or day, for his own amusement and pastime, without any legitimate business for so doing, frequents or loafs around any low den, house, or other place of vice, infamy, or immorality, where known thieves and other vicious and infamous persons resort or congregate;

Defining “vagrant”

Defining “vagrant”

Penalty

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thieves and other vicious and infamous persons resort or congregate; or who at any hour of the night, either alone or otherwise, prowls about the streets or town, disturbing the peace and quiet of the neighborhood by loud or unnecessary noise, or committing petty depredations, tricks or pranks, upon the person or property of other people, or by abusive, obscene, or insulting language, or by any manner of rowdyism whatsoever, disturbs or annoys the passersby, any lawful assemblage of persons, or the neighborhood at large; or

      12.  Person who keeps a place where lost or stolen property is concealed; or

      13.  Person who solicits or procures, or who attempts to solicit or procure, money, or other thing of value, by falsely pretending or representing himself or herself to be blind, deaf, dumb, without arms or legs, or to be otherwise physically deficient or suffering any physical defect or infirmity-

Is a vagrant, and shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than three months, or by a fine of not more than three hundred dollars, or both.

      Sec. 2.  All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

Vestrymen in Protestant Episcopal church, how elected

Chap. 33–An Act to amend section two of an act entitled “An act for the incorporation of the Protestant Episcopal churches in the United States of America in the Territory of Nevada,” approved December 19, 1862.

[Approved February 26, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 2 of an act entitled “An act for the incorporation of the Protestant Episcopal churches in the United States of America in the Territory of Nevada,” approved December 19, 1862, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 2.  It shall be lawful for all persons, over the age of eighteen years, of any church or congregation in communion with the Protestant Episcopal church, in this territory, who shall have belonged to such church or congregation for the last six months preceding such election, and who shall have been baptized in the Episcopal church, or who shall have been received therein, either by the rite of confirmation, or by receiving the holy communion, or by purchasing or hiring a pew or seat in said church, or by some joint act of the parties and of the rector whereby they shall have attached themselves to the Protestant Episcopal church, and who are not already incorporated, at any time to meet for the purpose of incorporating themselves under this act, and by a majority of voices, to elect two church wardens, and not less than three nor more than twelve vestrymen, and to determine upon what day of the week called Easter week the said officers,

the week called Easter week the said officers, called church wardens and vestrymen, shall annually thereafter cease, and their successors in office be chosen; of which first election notice shall be given, in the time of morning service, on two Sundays previous thereto, by the rector; or, if there be none, or he be necessarily absent, then by any other person belonging to such church or congregation, and the said rector, or if there be none, or he be necessarily absent, then any other person called to the chair shall preside at such first election, and, together with two other persons duly selected, shall make a certificate, under their hands and seals, of the church wardens and vestrymen so elected, of the day of Easter week so fixed upon for the annual election of their successors, and of the name or title by which such church or congregation shall be known in law; which certificate being duly acknowledged and proved by one or more of the subscribing witnesses, before the judge of any court of competent jurisdiction in the county where such church or place of worship of such congregation shall be situated, shall be recorded in the office of the recorder of such county. Nothing in this act shall be held to exclude women, qualified as aforesaid, from serving as members of the vestry; provided, that not more than one-half of the membership of the vestry may be women.

Time, Easter week

Women may be elected

Chap. 34–An Act to amend an act entitled “An act providing for the incorporation of cities, their classification, the establishment and alteration of their boundaries, the government and disincorporation thereof, and repealing all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith,” approved March 27, 1907.

[Approved February 26, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 105 of an act entitled “An act providing for the incorporation of cities, their classification, the establishment and alteration of their boundaries, the government and disincorporation thereof, and repealing all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith,” approved March 27, 1907, shall be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows, to wit:

      Section 105.  Whenever one-fourth of the legal voters of any city now existing or hereafter created, whether by general or special law, shall petition the district court in and for the county wherein such corporation is situated for the disincorporation of said city, it shall cause to be published, for at least thirty days, a notice stating the question of disincorporating such corporation will be submitted to the legal voters of the same at the next municipal election, and the form of the ballot shall be “For Disincorporation” or “Against Disincorporation.”

Cities may be disincorporated at referendum election

Ballot

same at the next municipal election, and the form of the ballot shall be “For Disincorporation” or “Against Disincorporation.” Not more than one of such elections shall be held in two years.

What constitutes a valid will

In effect

Chap. 35–An Act to amend section three of an act entitled “An act concerning wills,” approved December 19, 1862.

[Approved February 26, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 3 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 3.  No will, executed in this state, except such nuncupative wills as are mentioned in this act and except such holographic wills as are mentioned in an act entitled “An act relating to holographic wills,” approved March 20, 1895, shall be valid, unless it be in writing, and signed by the testator, or by some person in his presence, and by his express direction, and attested by at least two competent witnesses, subscribing their names to the will in the presence of the testator.

      Sec. 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.

When wills are deemed legally executed

Uniformity with laws of other states

In effect

Chap. 36–An Act relative to wills executed without this state, and to promote uniformity among the states in that respect.

[Approved February 26, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  A last will and testament, executed without this state in the mode prescribed by the law, either of the state where executed, or of the testator’s domicile, shall be deemed to be legally executed, and shall be of the same force and effect as if executed in the mode prescribed by the law of this state; provided, said last will and testament is in writing and subscribed by the testator.

      Sec. 2.  This act shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law of those states which enact it.

      Sec. 3.  This act shall take effect immediately.

Chap. 37–An Act to regulate the salary and compensation of the justices of the peace and constables in the county of Elko, State of Nevada.

[Approved February 26, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  On petition to the board of county commissioners of Elko County, Nevada, of sixty per cent of the qualified voters of any precinct in the county of Elko, State of Nevada, said number to be determined from the list of registered voters who registered for the last preceding general election, the said board of county commissioners shall place the offices of justice of the peace and constable within that precinct on a salary basis; the justice of the peace to receive not to exceed fifty ($50) dollars per month, and the constable not in excess of seventy-five ($75) dollars per month, to be paid out of the general fund of said Elko County; provided, however, that nothing in this act shall apply to precincts in which the registration is less than one hundred voters, or affect present officers whose salary is fixed by legislative enactment.

      Sec. 2.  All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

Justices of the peace and constables, Elko County, salaries

Exceptions

Repeal

Chap. 38–An Act to amend sections 2, 3, and 5 of article III, sections 3, 4, 5, 7, and 10 of article XII, section 1 of article XVI, and section 1 of article XIX of an act entitled “An act to incorporate the town of Reno, and to establish a city government therefor,” approved March 16, 1903, as amended March 13, 1905, and further amended on March 28, 1907, March 24, 1909, March 31, 1909, February 1, 1911, March 10, 1911, March 18, 1911, March 24, 1913, and March 25, 1913.

[Approved February 26, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 2 of article III of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 2.  The mayor, with the city clerk, or some member of the city council, may, alone or in conjunction with the board of county commissioners of Washoe County, at least once each month, count the cash in the city treasury and see that such count corresponds with the books of the treasurer and auditor, and report the result to the city council. He shall see that all contracts are faithfully kept and fully performed, and to that end, and in any case where necessary or proper to protect the interests of the city, shall cause legal proceedings to be instituted or defended. He shall have the power to suspend any appointive officer for dereliction, neglect, or nonperformance of duty, and report such action and cause therefor to the city council at the first subsequent regular meeting, and if the city council by a majority vote of all the members elected approve the suspension, such office shall be declared vacant.

Amending Reno charter

Various duties of mayor

Mayor’s duties

Vote in case of tie

Veto power

Mayor nominates appointive officers

Vacancies, councilmen, how filled

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of duty, and report such action and cause therefor to the city council at the first subsequent regular meeting, and if the city council by a majority vote of all the members elected approve the suspension, such office shall be declared vacant. If a majority vote of all the members elected be against such approval, such suspension shall be revoked.

      Sec. 2.  Section 3 of said article III is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 3.  The mayor shall preside over the city council when in session and shall preserve order and decorum among the members and enforce the rules of the city council, and determine the order of business, subject to such rules, and to appeal to the city council. He shall not be entitled to a vote except in case of a tie, when he shall have a casting vote. The mayor may exercise the right of veto upon all matters passed by the city council and it shall require a three-fourths vote of all the members elected to the city council to pass any matter receiving the mayor’s veto. No resolution or contract requiring the payment of money, or any ordinance, shall go into force or have any effect until approved by the mayor; provided, if the mayor do not approve such resolution, contract, or ordinance so submitted, he must, within five days from the receipt thereof, return the same to the city clerk with his reasons in writing for not approving it, and if the mayor do not so return it, such resolution or contract shall thereupon go into effect and such ordinance become a law in like manner and with the same effect as if the same had been approved by the mayor.

      Sec. 3.  Section 5 of said article III is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 5.  The mayor shall, subject to confirmation by the city council, appoint all officers of the city whose election or appointment is not otherwise provided for in this charter or by law. The mayor must nominate such appointments to the city council at the first subsequent meeting, and in case the person so nominated is not confirmed by a majority vote of all the members elected, the mayor shall nominate another, and so on until the place is filled.

      Sec. 4.  Section 3 of article XII of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 3.  Any vacancy occurring in the office of councilman shall be filled by the mayor and city council at the first regular meeting after such vacancy, when the mayor shall, subject to confirmation by the city council, appoint some person possessing the requisite qualifications as hereinbefore prescribed, and in case the person so nominated is not confirmed by a majority vote of all the members elected, the mayor shall nominate another and so on until the place is filled. The person so appointed shall hold said office until the election and qualification of a councilman therefor at the next general city election; provided, that if a vacancy shall occur at any time during the first two years of any four-year-term councilman, the mayor and city council shall elect some person possessing the requisite qualifications, to fill such office until the next general city election and until his successor is elected and qualified, at which said election the electors of the ward for which such vacancy occurred shall elect some person possessing the requisite qualifications, who shall serve out the balance of the term, as provided in the preceding section.

shall occur at any time during the first two years of any four-year-term councilman, the mayor and city council shall elect some person possessing the requisite qualifications, to fill such office until the next general city election and until his successor is elected and qualified, at which said election the electors of the ward for which such vacancy occurred shall elect some person possessing the requisite qualifications, who shall serve out the balance of the term, as provided in the preceding section.

      Sec. 5.  Section 4 of article XII of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 4.  A majority of all the members elected to the city council shall constitute a quorum to do business, but a less number may meet and adjourn from time to time and, with the approval of the mayor, compel the attendance of the absent members. The city council may adopt rules for the government of its members and proceedings. It must keep a journal of all its proceedings and upon the call of any one member, or the mayor, must cause the ayes and nays to be taken and entered in its journal upon any question before it. Its deliberations, sessions, and proceedings must be public. The councilmen shall each receive a salary of six hundred dollars per annum from and after this act goes into effect.

      Sec. 6.  Section 5 of article XII of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 5.  The city council shall hold its regular meetings on the second and fourth Mondays of each month and shall continue in session until the unfinished business of each regular meeting shall have been fully and finally disposed of as far as practicable. Special meetings may also be held on a call of the mayor, or by a majority of all the members elected to the city council; provided, that no ordinance shall be read or passed, or any claim allowed at such special meeting; and provided further, that no business shall be transacted at such special meeting except such as shall be stated in the call therefor.

      Sec. 7.  Section 7 of article XII of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 7.  The style of ordinances shall be as follows: “The City Council of the City of Reno do ordain,” and all proposed ordinances, when first proposed, shall be read aloud, in full, to the city council, and then laid over until the next regular meeting for adoption or rejection. All ordinances shall be signed by the mayor and be published in full, together with the votes cast thereon, in some daily newspaper published in the city, for the period of at least one week, before the same shall go into effect, except as provided in section 10, subdivision second, article XII, of this charter.

      Sec. 8.  Section 10 of article XII of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

Quorum of city council

Salary of councilmen

Regular and special meetings

Ordinances must be published

Duties of city council

To pass ordinances, etc.

Ordinances to be printed

Tax for sewage-disposal plant

Fund for interest and redemption of bonds

Concerning city property

Concerning streets, alleys, etc.

      Section 10.  The city council, among other things, shall have power:

      First-To fix the place of its meetings and the time for calling same to order, and to judge of the qualifications and election of its own members.

      Second-To make and pass all ordinances, resolutions, and orders, not repugnant to the constitution of the United States, or of the State of Nevada, or to the provisions of this charter, necessary for the municipal government and the management of the city affairs, for the execution of all the powers vested in said city, and for making effective the provisions of this charter, and to cause to be compiled from time to time, not to exceed once in every two years, the charter and its amendments and the ordinances of the city of Reno in book or pamphlet form, of which not less than two hundred copies shall be issued for general distribution within said city, at a reasonable price, in which said compilation the ordinances of the said city once passed and published as provided in section 7 of this article may be repealed, revised, amended, and validated without further publication.

      Third-To levy and collect annually for general purposes a tax of not to exceed three-quarters of one per cent upon the assessed value of all real and personal property within the city, and which is by law taxable for state and county purposes, fifteen per cent of which shall be set aside in a special fund to provide for a sewage disposal plant or system for the city, and for no other purpose, until such time as said sewage plant or system shall be actually installed and paid for; and in addition thereto to levy and collect annually a tax of not to exceed one-quarter of one per cent upon the assessed value of all real and personal property within the city, and which is by law taxable for state and county purposes, to provide a fund for the payment of the interest on the bonds of the city outstanding, and that may be lawfully issued and sold hereafter, and to provide a fund for the payment of the principal of such bond, and for the redemption thereof as they shall mature, and for no other purpose.

      Fourth-To sell, use, lease, improve, hold, and take care of the real estate and personal property of the city; provided, the city council shall not have power to mortgage, hypothecate, or pledge any property of the city for any purpose.

      Fifth-To lay out, extend, change the grade, open, vacate, and alter the streets and alleys within the city, and by ordinance require and provide for the macadamizing, oiling, curbing, graveling, grading and regrading, paving, draining, cleaning, repairing, lighting, surfacing and resurfacing and widening any highway, street, or alley, or otherwise improving same; also to provide by ordinance the improvement and preservation of the city parks, and the construction, repair, and preservation of the sidewalks, crossings, bridges, drains, curbs, gutters, and sewers; for the prevention and removal of obstructions from the streets and sidewalks of the city; and to regulate and prohibit the placing of signs, awning posts, show windows, and other things upon and over the sidewalks, and regulate and prohibit the construction and use of openings in the streets and sidewalks, and all vaults, structures, and excavations in and under the same, and to prevent, prohibit, and remove all obstructions and nuisances upon the sidewalks, streets, and alleys within the city limits; and for that purpose and for the purpose of defraying the expense thereof, may divide the city into districts.

of obstructions from the streets and sidewalks of the city; and to regulate and prohibit the placing of signs, awning posts, show windows, and other things upon and over the sidewalks, and regulate and prohibit the construction and use of openings in the streets and sidewalks, and all vaults, structures, and excavations in and under the same, and to prevent, prohibit, and remove all obstructions and nuisances upon the sidewalks, streets, and alleys within the city limits; and for that purpose and for the purpose of defraying the expense thereof, may divide the city into districts. Such part of the expenses of improving any streets, lanes, avenues, or alleys by grading, paving, graveling, curbing, constructing sidewalks, or otherwise improving the same, as the city council shall determine, may be paid from the general fund, street fund, or district street fund, from the proper street district, or the said cost, or a portion thereof, as the city council shall determine, may be defrayed by special assessments upon lots and premises fronting upon that part of the street or alley so improved or proposed so to be, or the lands fronting upon such improvement and such other lands as in the opinion of the city council may be benefited by the improvement. When the city council shall determine to make any public improvements, such as laying pavements, constructing sewers, drains, or sidewalks and curbing, macadamizing, oiling, graveling, or grading any streets or alleys, or in any way improving the same, and defray the whole or any part of the costs or expenses thereof by special assessment, they shall so declare by ordinance, stating the improvements and what part or portion of the expenses thereof shall be paid out of the general fund, street fund, district street fund or any other fund. When expenses for such improvements or repairs shall be assessed, and there shall be lands belonging to the city, school buildings, or other public building or public grounds not taxable, fronting on such improvements, such part of the expense of such improvement as in the opinion of the city council, or assessor making such special assessment would be justly apportionable to such public grounds, buildings, and city property, and to any interior, squares or spaces formed by the intersection of streets where they are taxable, shall be paid from the general fund, or from the proper street or district street fund, or part from each, as the city council shall determine to be just, and the balance of such expense shall be assessed upon the taxable lots and premises fronting upon such improvement or improved streets, in proportion to their number of feet frontage; or, if the special assessment shall include other lands not fronting upon the improvement, then upon all land included in such special assessment, in proportion to the estimated benefits resulting thereto from the improvement. When such assessment is to be made upon lots in proportion to their frontage upon the improvement, if from the shape or size of any lot, the assessment thereon in proportion to its frontage would be unjust and disproportionate to the assessment upon other lots, the city council, or assessor making the assessment, may assess such lots or such number of feet frontage as in their opinion would be just.

Expenses, how paid

Improvements declared by ordinance

Assessment, how determined

City public buildings

Special assessments, when

Estimates of expense by city engineer

and disproportionate to the assessment upon other lots, the city council, or assessor making the assessment, may assess such lots or such number of feet frontage as in their opinion would be just. The cost and expense of the following improvement, including the necessary land therefor, viz., for city hall and other public buildings for the use of the city, officers, engine-houses and structures for the fire department, water-works, city prison, levees and embankments, shall be paid from the proper general fund of the city; except that, in case of lands appropriated for streets and rights of way, the cost thereof may be paid in whole or in part from the avails of special assessment to be levied therefor in the manner herein prescribed. Whenever, in the opinion of the city council, the benefits thereof are special rather than general or public, when by the provisions of this act the cost and expense of any local improvements may be defrayed in whole or in part by special assessment upon the lands fronting and adjacent to or otherwise benefited by such improvement, such assessment may be made in the manner hereinafter specified. When the city council shall determine to make any public improvements or repairs, in the laying of pavements, or constructing sidewalks, or in any way improving the streets in the city, and defray the whole or any part of the cost and expenses thereof by special assessments, they shall so declare by ordinance, stating the improvement and what part or portion of the expense thereof shall be paid by special assessment, and what part, if any, has been appropriated from the general fund of the city, or from the street funds, or district street funds, and whether the assessment is to be made according to benefits or frontage, and in case the assessment is to be made according to benefits they shall by apt description designate the district, if a special district is set apart therein, including the lands to be so assessed; or in case there is no district so set apart they shall describe definitely the location of the improvement, and state that the assessment is to be made upon all the lands benefited thereby according to benefit; but in case the assessment is to be upon the property according to the frontage, it shall be sufficient in said ordinance to so state with a definite location of the improvements to be made. It shall not be necessary in any case to describe minutely in the ordinance each particular lot to be assessed, but simply to so designate the property, district, or the location that the various parts to be assessed can be ascertained and described by the city assessor. Before ordering any public improvement or repairs as provided in the last preceding section, any part of the expense of which is to be defrayed by special assessment, the city council shall cause estimates of the expense thereof to be made by the city engineer, and also plats and diagrams, when practicable, of the work and of the locality to be improved, and deposit the same with the city clerk for public examination; and they shall give notice thereof and of the proposed improvement or work and of the location of the improvement and of the district to be assessed, by publication for two weeks at least in one of the newspapers of the city, by posting printed notices of the same in at least three of the most public places in each ward, and also a notice in or near each postoffice of said city, and three notices near the site of the proposed work in some public and conspicuous place, and of the time when the city council will meet and consider any suggestions and objections that may be made by parties interested with respect to the proposed improvements.

of the location of the improvement and of the district to be assessed, by publication for two weeks at least in one of the newspapers of the city, by posting printed notices of the same in at least three of the most public places in each ward, and also a notice in or near each postoffice of said city, and three notices near the site of the proposed work in some public and conspicuous place, and of the time when the city council will meet and consider any suggestions and objections that may be made by parties interested with respect to the proposed improvements. Unless a majority of the persons to be assessed shall petition therefor, no such improvement or work shall be ordered except by the concurrence of two-thirds of all the members elected to the city council. In all cases where the board of health or other officials of the city or the city council are authorized to so do, or cause to be done, certain things, the whole or any part of which may be charged as a special assessment upon the property, and where special provisions for making the levy are not herein made, the city council may cause sworn statements of the cost thereof, and of the location thereof, to be made as provided in the last paragraph, and may at their option refer the same to the city assessor and have the same assessed against such property. The cost and expenses of any improvement which may be defrayed by special assessments shall include the cost of surveys, plans, assessments, and cost of construction. In no case shall the whole amount be levied by special assessment upon any lots or premises where any one improvement exceeds twenty per cent of the value of such lands as last before valued and assessed for state and county taxation in the county tax roll. Any cost exceeding that per cent which would otherwise be chargeable upon said lots or premises shall be paid from the general funds of the city. The city council shall prescribe the fees and compensation that may be charged in the work of making any special assessment as part of the assessment. No contract for doing the work or making the improvement contemplated herein shall be made or awarded, nor shall the city council incur any expense or liability in relation thereto until after the notice and hearing provided for herein shall have been given or had. But nothing herein contained shall be construed as preventing the city council from advertising for proposals for doing the work whenever they see fit, provided the contract shall not be made or awarded before the time herein stated. When any special assessment is to be made pro rata upon the lots or premises in any special assessment district, according to frontage or benefits, the city council shall, by ordinance, direct the same to be made by the city assessor, and shall state therein the amount to be assessed, and whether according to frontage or benefits, and describe or designate the lots and premises, or the locality constituting the district to be assessed; in fixing the amount or sum of money that may be required to pay the costs of any improvement, the city council need not necessarily be governed by the estimates of such improvement provided for herein, but the city council may decide upon such other sum, within the limitations described, as they may deem necessary to cover the cost of such improvement.

Notices of improvements to be posted

Cost of improvements limited

Contracts, when

Duties of city assessor

Proviso

City assessor to report to city council

Form of report

by the estimates of such improvement provided for herein, but the city council may decide upon such other sum, within the limitations described, as they may deem necessary to cover the cost of such improvement. Upon receiving such order and directions the city assessor shall make out an assessment roll, entering and describing all lots, premises, and portions of land to be assessed with the names of the persons, if known, chargeable with the assessments thereon, and shall levy thereon and against such persons the amount to be assessed in the manner directed by the city council and the provisions of this act applicable to the assessment; provided, in all cases where the ownership thereof is unknown to the assessor he shall, in lieu of the name of the owner, insert the name “unknown”; provided also, if by mistake or otherwise any person shall be improperly designated as the owner of any lot or premises, or if the same shall be assessed without the name of the owner, or the name of the person other than the owner, such assessment shall not for any cause be vitiated, but shall in all respects be as valid upon and against such lot, parcel of land, or premises as though assessed in the name of the proper owner, and when the assessment roll shall have been confirmed and recorded, shall be a lien on such lot, parcel of land, or premises, and collected as in other cases. If the assessment is required to be according to the frontage, the city assessor shall assess each lot or parcel of land or such relative portion of the whole amount to be levied, as the length of front of such premises fronting upon the improvement bears to the whole frontage of all the lots to be assessed; unless on account of the shape or size of any lot or lots an assessment for a different number of feet would be more equitable; and the frontage of all lots to be assessed shall be deemed to be the aggregate number of feet as determined upon for assessment by the city assessor. If the assessment is directed to be according to benefits, the city assessor shall assess upon each lot such relative portion of the whole sum to be levied as shall be proportionate to the estimated benefit resulting to such lot from the improvement. When the assessor shall have completed the assessment he shall report the same to the city council. Such reports shall be signed by him and made in the form of a certificate and endorsed on the assessment roll as follows:

      State of Nevada, City of Reno, ss. To the City Council of the City of Reno: I hereby certify and report that the foregoing is the assessment roll, and the assessment made by me pursuant to an ordinance of the city council of the said city, adopted (give date), for the purpose of paying that part of the cost which the city council decided should be paid and borne by special assessment for the purpose of paying the costs of (e. g.) for paving Virginia street from First street to Fourth street in said city (as the case may be), (or constructing a sewer on Sierra street), (or as the case may be). That in making such assessment, I have as near as may be and according to my best judgment conformed in all things to the directions contained in the ordinance of the city council hereinbefore referred to, as well as to the charter of the city relating to such assessment.

ing to my best judgment conformed in all things to the directions contained in the ordinance of the city council hereinbefore referred to, as well as to the charter of the city relating to such assessment.

Dated Reno, Nevada,......................, A. D. 19.....

                                                                ................................., City Assessor.

      When any expense shall be incurred by the city upon or in respect to any separate or single lot, parcel of land, or premises which, by the provisions of this act, the city council is authorized to charge and collect a special assessment against the same, and not being of that class of special assessments required to be made pro rata upon several lots or parcels of land, an account of the labor or services for which such expense was incurred, verified by the officer or person performing the services, or causing the same to be done, with a description of the lot or the premises upon or in respect to which the expense was incurred, or the name of the owner or person, if known, chargeable therewith, shall be reported to the city council in such manner as the city council shall present. And the provisions of the previous subdivisions with reference to special assessments generally and the proceedings necessary to be had before making the improvement, shall not apply to the assessments to cover the expense incurred, in respect to that class of improvements contemplated in this subdivision.

      The city council shall determine what amount or part of every expense shall be charged and the person, if known, against whom and the premises upon which the same shall be levied as a special assessment; and as often as the city council shall deem it expedient they shall require all of the several amounts so reported and determined, and the several lots or premises and the persons chargeable therewith respectively to be reported by the city clerk to the city assessor for assessment.

      Upon receiving the report mentioned in the preceding subdivision the city assessor shall make a special assessment roll and levy a special assessment therein upon each lot or parcel of land so reported to him and against the person chargeable therewith, if known, the whole amount or amounts of all the charges so directed as aforesaid to be levied upon each of such lots or premises, respectively, and when completed he shall report the assessment roll to the city council. When any special assessment shall be reported by the city assessor to the city council as in this section and subdivision directed, the same shall be filed in the office of the city clerk and numbered. Before adopting the assessment the city council shall cause notice to be published for two weeks at least in some newspaper of the city of the filing of the same with the city clerk, and appointing a time when the city council and assessor will meet to review the assessments. Any person objecting to the assessment may file his objections thereto in writing with the city clerk. The notice provided for in this subdivision may be addressed to the persons whose names appear upon the assessment roll and to all others interested therein, and may be in the following form:

Expenses, how met

Council to determine pro rata of expenses

City assessor to make special assessment roll

Notice of special assessment

Assessment reviewed

Clerk’s certificate

Two-thirds vote necessary for confirmation of assessment

subdivision may be addressed to the persons whose names appear upon the assessment roll and to all others interested therein, and may be in the following form:

Notice of Special Assessment

      To (insert the names of the persons against whom the assessment appears) and to all persons interested, take notice: That the roll of the special assessment heretofore made by the city assessor for the purpose of defraying that part of the costs which the city council decided should be paid and borne by special assessment for the (e. g., paving Virginia street to Fourth street in said city), (or constructing a sewer on Sierra street between First street and Fifth street), or (as the case may be), is now on file at my office for public inspection. Notice is hereby given that the city council and city assessor of the city of Reno will meet in the council room in said city on (insert the date fixed upon), to review said assessment, at which time and place opportunity will be given all persons interested to be heard.

Dated.................                                    ................................City Clerk.

      At the time appointed for the purpose aforesaid the city council and city assessor shall meet and there, or at some adjourned meeting, review the assessment; and shall hear any objection to said assessments which may be made by any person deeming himself aggrieved thereby, and shall decide upon the same; and the city council may correct the same as to any assessment or description of the premises, appearing therein, and may confirm it as reported or as corrected, or they may refer the assessment back to the city assessor for revision; or annul it and direct a new assessment; in which case the same proceedings shall be had as in respect to the previous assessment. When a special assessment shall be confirmed the city clerk shall make an endorsement upon the roll showing the date of confirmation which shall be in the following words: “Special assessment roll for (describing fully what the assessment is for), as approved by the city council, the ............. day of .................................. (month), 19..... (affixing the time).

Dated.................                                    ................................City Clerk.”

      Sixth-When any special assessment roll shall be confirmed by the city council it shall be final and conclusive except as hereinafter provided; but no such assessment shall be confirmed except by a two-thirds vote of all the members elected to the city council. The city clerk and clerk of the city council shall thereupon deliver to the county auditor, acting ex officio city auditor, the assessment roll as confirmed by the city council, with his certificate of such confirmation, and of the date thereof. The county auditor, acting ex office city auditor, shall thereupon, without extra compensation, record such assessment roll in his office, in a suitable book to be kept for that purpose, and append thereto his certificate of the date of such recording, whereupon from said date all persons shall be deemed to have notice of the contents of such assessment roll.

of the date of such recording, whereupon from said date all persons shall be deemed to have notice of the contents of such assessment roll. Said roll when so endorsed and recorded shall be prima facie evidence in all courts and tribunals of the regularity of all proceedings preliminary to the making thereof and of the validity of said assessment and assessment roll.

      All special assessments shall, from the date of recording thereof, constitute a lien upon the respective lots or parcels of land assessed and shall be charged against the persons and properties until paid. Upon the confirmation and recording of any assessment the amount thereof may be divided into not more than ten installments, one of which installments to be collected yearly, in a manner hereinafter prescribed, with annual interest thereon at a rate not exceeding seven per cent.

      All special assessments, except such installments thereof as the city council shall make payable at a future time, shall be due and payable upon recording, and suit may be commenced for the collection thereof in the name of the city of Reno in the same manner as any other action for money owed the city of Reno; provided, the court shall order the property, or sufficient thereof to cover the amount of judgment and costs, sold, and the proceedings in said action, where the same are not inconsistent, shall be the same as is provided in the civil practice act of the State of Nevada, and whenever and wherever the words justice court, justice of the peace, and constable are used in said civil practice act the same shall be held to mean police court, police judge, and chief of police, respectively, for the purposes of said action.

      Should any lots or lands be divided after a special assessment thereon shall have been confirmed, and divided into installments, and before the collection of the installments, the city council may require the city assessor to apportion the uncollected amounts upon the several parts of lands so divided. The report of such apportionment when confirmed shall be conclusive on all the parties, and all assessments thereafter made upon such lots or lands shall be according to such subdivision.

      Should any special assessment prove insufficient to pay for the improvement or work for which it is levied, and the expense incident thereto, the amount of such deficiency shall be paid from the general fund in the treasury of the city; and in case a greater amount shall have been collected than was necessary the excess shall be refunded ratably to those by whom it was paid.

      Whenever any special assessment shall, in the opinion of the city council, be invalid by reason of any irregularity or informality in the proceedings, or if any court of competent jurisdiction shall adjudge such assessments to be illegal, the city council shall, whether the improvement has been made or not, or whether any part of the assessments have been paid or not, have power to cause a new assessment to be made for the same purpose for which the former assessment was made.

Assessment roll prima facie evidence

Assessments lien on lands

Assessments, when payable

Assessor to apportion amounts, when

Deficit or surplus of assessment, how adjusted

New assessment, when

Lien of city not impaired

Annual installments, when

Auditor to extend roll

Proviso

purpose for which the former assessment was made. All of the proceedings for such reassessment and for the collection thereof shall be conducted in the same manner as provided for special assessment in this act.

      Whenever any sum or any part thereof levied upon any premises in the assessment so set aside has been paid and not refunded, the payment so made shall be applied upon the reassessment on said premises; and the assessment to that extent be deemed satisfied.

      No judgment or decree nor any act of the city council vacating a special assessment shall destroy or impair the lien of the city upon the premises assessed for such amount of the assessment as may be equitably charged against the same or as by regular mode of proceedings might have been lawfully assessed thereon.

      When any special assessment shall be confirmed, recorded, and be payable, and the city council desires to have the same paid in annual installments as hereinbefore provided, the city council may, by resolution, direct the city clerk to report to the city assessor a description of such lots and premises as are contained in said roll, with the amount of the assessment levied upon each, or the amount of the annual installment with the interest added, and the name of the owner or occupant against whom the assessment was made, and to require the city assessor to levy the several sums so assessed as a tax upon the several lots or premises to which they were assessed respectively, and the city council shall annually and at the same time the city tax levy is made continue to so require the city assessor to levy the said installments of special assessments until the whole sum assessed with interest thereon has been paid. Upon receiving such report, the city assessor shall levy the sums therein mentioned upon the respective lots and premises to which they were assessed and against the persons chargeable therewith as a tax in the general assessment roll next thereafter to be made in a column for special assessments, and the county auditor, acting ex officio city auditor, shall extend the same on said roll in the same manner as state and county taxes or assessments are extended, and thereupon the amount so levied in said assessment roll shall be collected and enforced with the other taxes in the assessment roll by the county tax receiver, acting ex officio city tax receiver, and in the same manner, and shall continue to be a lien upon the premises assessed until paid, and when collected shall be credited to the proper funds; provided, that nothing in this paragraph set forth shall be construed as preventing the city of Reno from collecting any special assessment by suit in the name of the city of Reno in the manner in this subdivision before contained, and the said special assessment roll and the certified resolution confirming it, as recorded, shall be prima facie evidence of the regularity of the proceedings in making the assessment and of the right of the city to recover judgment therefor.

the proceedings in making the assessment and of the right of the city to recover judgment therefor.

      If in any action for the collection of any assessment it shall appear by reason of any irregularity or informality the assessment has not been properly made against the defendant, or the lot or the premises sought to be charged, the court may, nevertheless, on satisfactory proof that the expense has been incurred by the city which is a proper charge against the defendant, or the lot or the premises in question, render judgment for the amount properly chargeable against such defendant or upon such lot or premises.

      The city council of the city of Reno is hereby authorized and empowered to correct or amend the said special assessment roll, by resolution, at any time after confirmation and recording of the same, so as to make it conform to the actual cost of the work for which the same was levied, and all changes in said roll shall be made by resolution, by a two-thirds vote of all the members elected to the city council, and the said resolution, or a copy thereof certified by the clerk of the city council as being a true copy, shall be posted in the said special assessment roll and shall constitute conclusive authority for the change so made.

      In construing the fifth and sixth powers of section ten, article twelve, anything in this act contrary thereto shall not be deemed in conflict with the provisions of said powers.

      Seventh-To organize, regulate, maintain, and disband a fire department, to provide for the extinguishment of fire and protection against the same; to regulate or prohibit the storage of gunpowder or other explosive, combustible, or inflammable material within, or transported through, the city, and to prescribe the distance from said city where the same may be stored, held, or kept; to regulate the selling, using, or keeping of firecrackers, fireworks, and the giving of any exhibition of fireworks within the city limits and any designated portion thereof.

      Eighth-To determine, by ordinance, what shall be deemed nuisances, and to provide for the abatement, prevention, and removal of the same by the city or at the expense of the parties creating, maintaining, causing, or committing such nuisances, and to provide for the penalty and punishment of the same.

      Ninth-To provide for safeguarding the health of the city. For this purpose, the city council may appoint a city board of health and by ordinance, prescribe its duties and powers, and provide that any violation of any order of the board of health shall be considered a misdemeanor.

      Tenth-To fix, impose and collect a license tax on and to regulate all character of lawful trades, callings, industries, occupations, professions and business, conducted in whole or in part within the city, including all theaters, theatrical or melodeon performances and performances of any, every, and all kinds for which an admission fee is charged, or which may be held in any house, place, or enclosure where wines, spirituous, malt, vinous, or intoxicating liquors are sold or given away; circuses, shows, billiard tables, pool tables, bowling alleys, and all exhibitions and amusements.

Informalities not to vitiate tax

Council may correct special assessment roll

Not to conflict

Fire precautions

To define nuisances

Health of city

To collect licenses on all businesses

To collect licenses on all businesses

all kinds for which an admission fee is charged, or which may be held in any house, place, or enclosure where wines, spirituous, malt, vinous, or intoxicating liquors are sold or given away; circuses, shows, billiard tables, pool tables, bowling alleys, and all exhibitions and amusements. To fix, impose, and collect a license tax on and regulate all taverns, hotels, restaurants, chop houses, cafes, saloons, eating-houses, lunch counters, barrooms, lodging-houses accommodating four or more lodgers, manufacturers, laundries, livery stables, sale stables, cattle or horse corrals, express companies, telegraph and telephone companies, oil wells or tanks, oil refineries, tanneries, foundries, brickyards, pressed-brick yards, street railway companies operating in whole or in part within the city. To fix, impose, and collect a license tax on and regulate auctioneers and stock brokers. To fix, impose, and collect a license tax on, regulate, prohibit, or suppress all tippling houses, dram shops, saloons, bars, barrooms, raffles, hawkers, peddlers, except those dealing in their own agricultural products of this state. To fix, impose, and collect a license tax on, regulate, prescribe the location of, or suppress, all saloons, barrooms, gambling games, tippling houses, dram-shops, any and all places where intoxicating drinks are sold or given away, street fakers, street peddlers, except as above stated, fortune tellers, mediums, astrologers, palmists, clairvoyants, phrenologists, pawn shops, pawn brokers, oil wells, oil tanks, oil refineries, soap manufacturers, brickyards, livery, feed, or sale stables, cattle or horse corrals, foundries, and machine shops. To prohibit and suppress all dog-fights, prize-fights, cock-fights, bear, bull, or badger baits, sparring and sparring contests. To regulate, prohibit, prescribe the location of, and suppress, all houses of ill-fame, hurdy-gurdy houses, bawd houses, and any and all places where persons resort to for lewd or lascivious purposes, or purposes of lewdness or prostitution, including dance houses and saloons having special attractions, such as music or otherwise. To fix, impose, and collect a license tax on and regulate all lawful professions, trades, callings, and business whatsoever, including grocers, merchants of any, every, and all kinds, trades and traders of all kinds, hotels, butcher shops, slaughter houses, wood and fuel dealers, coal dealers, sewing machine agents, marble or stone dealers, saddle or harness makers or shops, cigar stores, stationery stores, confectionery stores, newspaper stands, plumbing shops, tin shops when separate from hardware stores, hardware stores, paint or oil stores, bicycle shops, garages, repair shops, cycleries, warehouses, cold-storage plants, daily, weekly, semiweekly, monthly, and semimonthly newspapers or publications, ice peddlers, insurance companies, fire, life, and accident, and agents or solicitors for the same, surety companies, and agents or solicitors for the same, shooting galleries, upholsterers, soap factories, barbershops, collection agencies, and collectors, carpet cleaners,

cleaners, photographers, wagon makers, wheelwrights, blacksmith shops, horseshoeing shops, tailors and tailor shops, shoe shops, cobblers, tinkers, cloth-cleaning and dyeing establishments, all billiard or pool games or other or any table games played with cue and balls or other mechanical device, bakeries, milliners, gunsmith shops, steam renovating works, dress-making establishments, railroad, telegraph and telephone companies, stage companies, electric light, water, and power companies, bankers and brokers of any, every, and all kinds, electrical supply houses, job printers, manufacturers of soda water or other or any soft drinks, or of beer, malt, spirituous, or vinous liquors or other or any alcoholic beverages, brewing companies, brewing agencies, patent medicine agencies, agencies of any and all kinds, wholesale liquor houses, or purchasers or brokers, sampling works, flour mills, city express and job wagons, draymen, second-hand stores, messenger service establishments, contractors, contracting mechanics or builders, sash and door factories, planing mills, machine shops, car shops, building and loan companies and agents or solicitors for the same, real estate agents, real estate solicitors, popcorn, peanut, delicatessen, fruit and lemonade stands, refreshment or coffee stands, booths and sheds, dry-goods stores of every, any, and all kinds, boot and shoe stores, furniture stores, drug stores, undertakers, glass and crockery stores, tamale stands or shops, abstract of title companies, or persons furnishing the same, iron works, notions and notion stores, pipe and tobacco stores, advertising by billboards, placards and the like, bootblacks and bootblack stands, gun stores, sporting, hunting, and fishing tackle stores, jewelry stores, resorts for amusements of all kinds, and all and singular, each and every, and any business, and all trades and professions, including attorneys, doctors, physicians, and dentists, and all character of lawful business or callings not herein specifically named; provided, that in fixing licenses, the city council must as nearly as practicable, make the same uniform in proportion to the approximate amount of business done by the licensee; and provided further, that in fixing licenses hereunder, the city council must have due regard for and be governed as far as possible by, the approximate amount or volume of business done by each person, firm, company, association, or corporation thus licensed.

      Eleventh-To fix, impose, and collect a license tax on, and regulate all saloons, barrooms, dram shops, bars, tippling houses, or places where spirituous, malt, vinous, or intoxicating liquors are sold or given away; and to limit the number of saloons and all other retail liquor licenses, and to revoke the same.

      Twelfth-To fix, impose, and collect an annual per capita tax on all dogs and to provide for the capture and destruction of all dogs on which said tax shall not be paid. To fix, impose, and collect a license tax on and regulate hacks, hackney coaches, cabs, omnibuses, express wagons, drays, job wagons, and all other vehicles used for hire, and to regulate the stands of all hacks, hackney coaches, cabs, omnibuses, express wagons, drays, job wagons, and all other vehicles used for hire, and to regulate their rates of fare, and to require schedules of rates to be posted on or upon such public vehicles.

To collect licenses on all businesses

To regulate liquor traffic

Dog tax, vehicles, runners, etc.

To preserve peace

Chain gang

City elections

To curtail fast driving

Safety precautions

To examine city accounts

To fix amount of licenses

To make appropriations

coaches, cabs, omnibuses, express wagons, drays, job wagons, and all other vehicles used for hire, and to regulate the stands of all hacks, hackney coaches, cabs, omnibuses, express wagons, drays, job wagons, and all other vehicles used for hire, and to regulate their rates of fare, and to require schedules of rates to be posted on or upon such public vehicles. To fix, impose, and collect a license tax on, regulate, prohibit, or suppress runners for hotels, taverns, or other business.

      Thirteenth-To prevent and restrain any riot or riotous assemblage or disorderly conduct within the city, and to provide for the punishment of the same.

      Fourteenth-To provide for the formation of a chain gang for persons convicted of offenses against the ordinances of the city, and for their proper employment for the benefit of the city, and to safeguard and prevent their escape while being so employed.

      Fifteenth-To provide for conducting all city elections, regular or special, establishing election precincts, changing the same, and appointing the necessary officers of election.

      Sixteenth-To regulate the speed at which cars, automobiles, bicycles, and other vehicles may run within the city limits, and to prescribe the length of time any street may be obstructed by trains being made up or cars standing thereon, and to require railway companies, at the expense of said railway companies, either to erect safety gates and maintain the same, or to station flagmen or place such sufficient warning signals or signal bells on street crossings as may, in the judgment of the city council be necessary, and to require street railway cars to be provided with modern fenders, and sufficient heat and other conveniences for the passengers and employees, and to have warning or signal bells rung at all street crossings, and generally to regulate and control the same for the comfort, safety, and security of pedestrians and the traveling public. And the city council of the city of Reno is hereby vested with full power and authority to exercise the right of eminent domain in all cases where the same is deemed necessary to condemn a right of way for street or other public purposes over and across any railroad right of way.

      Seventeenth-To examine all books, papers, reports, and statements of the several officers or other persons having custody, care, or disbursement of any moneys belonging to the city, and to examine and liquidate all accounts and claims against the city and to allow or reject the same or any part thereof.

      Eighteenth-To provide for the issuance of all licenses in this charter authorized and to fix the amount thereof and the times for, manner of and terms upon which the same shall be issued.

      Nineteenth-To make all appropriations, examine and audit, reject or allow the accounts of all officers, or other persons having the care or custody of any city moneys or property and to determine the fee or salary of such officer or person, except as herein otherwise provided, to make contracts and agreements for the use and benefit of the city, such contracts to specify the fund out of which payment for the same is to be made; provided, that in no case shall a liability be created or warrant drawn against any fund beyond the actual amount then existing in such fund wherewith to meet the same.

and to determine the fee or salary of such officer or person, except as herein otherwise provided, to make contracts and agreements for the use and benefit of the city, such contracts to specify the fund out of which payment for the same is to be made; provided, that in no case shall a liability be created or warrant drawn against any fund beyond the actual amount then existing in such fund wherewith to meet the same.

      Twentieth-To control, enlarge, or abolish cemeteries and to sell or lease lots therein; to control and regulate the interments therein and to prohibit them within the city limit, and to prescribe the distance from said limits, where the same may be located; and to provide for the issuance of burial or transit permits, and make a charge therefor.

      Twenty-first-To establish, lay out and change fire limits and regulate or prevent the erection or repair of wooden buildings therein; to regulate and prescribe the material to be used in the construction or repair of buildings or sheds in such limits and to prevent the erection or construction of any buildings or sheds of other material; to regulate, prescribe the material of, and prohibit awnings, porches, signs, placards or billboards over sidewalks, or across streets, and to regulate the same throughout the city.

      Twenty-second-To provide by ordinance, for supplemental registration of all persons possessing the requisite qualifications of voters in said city and whose names do not appear on the official register of voters in said city for the next preceding general election; such supplemental registration may be had every two years, before the police judge, and conform as nearly as possible with the requirement of general laws governing registration of persons for general elections; provided, that no such supplemental registration shall be had or taken later than thirty days preceding any regular city election, and the registration books shall be closed at least ten days before the day of election.

      Twenty-third-To provide and maintain a city prison and provide for the guarding, safe-keeping, care, feeding, and clothing of the city prisoners.

      Twenty-fourth-To prevent or regulate the running at large in the city any poultry, hogs, sheep, goats, swine, horses, cows, or animals; to establish and maintain a pound and to authorize the impounding, sale, or disposal of any animals found running at large, and to authorize the destruction of all fowls or poultry running at large.

      Twenty-fifth-To regulate or prohibit the use of steam boilers; the location of telegraph, telephone, electric light and other poles, and the suspension thereon of wires, and the construction of entrances to cellars and basements from sidewalks.

      Twenty-sixth-To prevent and regulate the erection or maintenance of insecure or unsafe buildings, walls, chimneys, stacks, or other structures; to prescribe the manner of construction and location of drains and sewers; to layout, change, and create sewer districts;

Proviso

Cemeteries and burial of dead

Fire limits, etc.

Registration of city voters

City prison

To prevent animals running at large

Regulations of boilers, poles, etc.

To regulate safety of structures, etc.

To regulate safety of structures, etc.

Prevent overcrowding of public halls, etc.

Regulate pipe lines, etc.

Railways to repair and sprinkle streets

Abolish nauseous nuisances

struction and location of drains and sewers; to layout, change, and create sewer districts; to require connections with sewers; to require the owners, lessees or other persons in control or possession of public buildings or buildings used for public purposes, including hotels, dancing halls, theaters, and theater buildings, to place in or upon the same, fire escapes and appliances for protection against the extinguishment of fire; to prevent the construction and cause the removal of dangerous chimneys, stovepipes, ovens and boilers, and to prevent the depositing of sewer filth, offal, manure, or other offensive matter in the city; to prevent the depositing of ashes, rubbish, shavings, or any combustible material in unsafe places; to regulate and compel the abating, removal, or cleansing, at the expense of the persons in possession or responsible therefor, of all nauseous matter, filth, accumulated rubbish, debris, nauseous, stinking or foul privy vaults; and if after the city council has given written notice to the owner or agent of any lot or premises to clean the same of any accumulated rubbish, garbage, or filth, the said owner or agent refuses or fails for a period of two days from and after receipt of said notice so to do, the city council may remove the said rubbish, garbage or filth and collect the cost of said removal by suit against the said owner and lot or premises, and the cost of said removal shall be a lien against the said lot or premises until paid, and in the said action for recovery of the cost of said removal it shall not be necessary to join as a defendant any party other than the name of the actual record owner and the said lot or premises.

      Twenty-seventh-To regulate the entrance to and exit from theaters, lecture rooms, public halls, and churches, and the number and construction of such entrances and exits, and to prohibit the placing of chairs, stools, or benches in or crowding or otherwise impeding or obstructing the passageways, aisles, entrances or exits of such places.

      Twenty-eighth-To regulate and control the construction and maintenance of any tubes, pipes, or pipe lines, conduits, ditches, signal bells, warning signs, and other electric, telegraph, and mechanical appliances in, along, over, under, and across the streets and alleys; provided, that no such appliances shall be placed so as to interfere with the fire alarm system, or the extinguishment of fires, or permanently, with the free use of the streets, sidewalks or alleys.

      Twenty-ninth-To require every railroad and street railway company to keep the streets in repair between the tracks and along and within the distance of two feet upon each side of the tracks, and to require all street railway companies to sprinkle the streets between their tracks, and for a reasonable distance on each side thereof.

      Thirtieth-To require upon such notice as the city council may direct, any noxious or offensive smell, filth, or debris to be abated, removed, or otherwise destroyed, at the expense of the person or persons causing,

of the person or persons causing, committing, or responsible therefor, and the city council in like manner may require or cause any lots or portions of lots covered by stagnant water for any period, to be filled up to such level as will prevent the same from being so covered, and may assess the cost or any portion thereof, of filling, upon such real estate and make the same a lien thereon, in which case said lien shall be preserved, enforced, and foreclosed as in other cases herein provided for.

      Thirty-first-To provide for and regulate the manner of weighing of all food products and food stuffs, and hay, grain, straw, and coal, and the measuring and selling of firewood and of all fuel within the city, and to provide for the seizure and forfeiture of such articles offered for sale which do not comply with such regulations, and to examine, test and provide for the inspection and sealing of all weights and measures, throughout the city and enforce the keeping by traders and dealers, of proper weights and measures duly tested and sealed, and by ordinance provide a penalty for the using of false weights or measures.

      Thirty-second-To restrain and punish vagrants, drunkards, drunkenness, disorderly persons, common prostitutes, mendicants, street walkers, street solicitors for alms or otherwise, street beggars, house beggars, and lewd persons; to suppress and abolish houses of assignation, or places resorted to by persons for the purpose of prostitution or immoral purposes; to prevent diseased, maimed, injured, or unfortunate persons from displaying their infirmities for the purpose of receiving alms, and to prevent and punish obscene language, or conduct, indecent exposure of person, loud and threatening or lewd language, or profane language in the presence and hearing of women or children, and all obnoxious, offensive, immoral, indecent, and disorderly conduct and practices in the city; to prevent and punish the discharging of firearms in the city, the lighting of fires in yards, streets, or alleys, or other unsafe places anywhere within the city; to prevent and punish the carrying of weapons, concealed or otherwise; to prevent and punish fast driving, fast horseback riding, or the riding or breaking to drive of wild or unmanageable horses in the city; to require that all horses when left standing shall be hitched to post or weight, and to prescribe the length of time any horse or animal may be allowed to remain tied, held, or otherwise kept on the streets or alleys of the city.

      Thirty-third-To prevent and punish all persons from showing, selling, or exhibiting for sale or in any manner publishing, any obscene or indecent drawings, engravings, paintings, books, or pamphlets, and all obscene or indecent exhibitions and shows of every kind.

      Thirty-fourth-To regulate the use and sale of water, gas, electric, and other lights in the city; to fix and determine the price as well as the rentals of all water, gas, and electric light meters within the city; and to provide for the inspection of such meters; to regulate telephone service and the use of telephones, and to fix and determine the charges for telephones, telephone service, and connections within the city; provided, that nothing herein contained shall be held to supersede any state law upon this subject, so long as any such state law may be in effect.

Regulate weights and measures

To punish and prevent vagrancy, etc.

Firearms

Regulating horses, etc.

Obscene literature, etc.

To regulate all meters

Proviso

Public lighting

Lodging houses, etc.

General power as to ordinances

To keep streams clean

Bridging of waters

Regulating slaughter houses, etc.

To employ competent mechanical supervisor

meters within the city; and to provide for the inspection of such meters; to regulate telephone service and the use of telephones, and to fix and determine the charges for telephones, telephone service, and connections within the city; provided, that nothing herein contained shall be held to supersede any state law upon this subject, so long as any such state law may be in effect.

      Thirty-fifth-To provide for the lighting of the streets and public buildings and places of the city and to regulate such lighting.

      Thirty-sixth-To regulate lodging, tenement, and apartment houses having four or more lodgers; to prevent the overcrowding of the same, and to require the same to be kept in a sanitary condition.

      Thirty-seventh-To adopt and enforce by ordinance, all such measures and establish all such regulations in case no express provision is in this charter made, as the city council may from time to time deem expedient and necessary for the promotion and protection of health, comfort, safety, life, welfare, and property of the inhabitants of said city, the preservation of peace and good order, the promotion of public morals and the suppression and prevention of vice in the city, and to pass and enact ordinances on any other subject of municipal control, or to carry into force or effect any other powers of the city, and to do and perform any, every, and all acts and things necessary or required for the execution of the powers conferred or which may be necessary to fully carry out the purpose and intent thereof.

      Thirty-eighth-To provide for the cleaning of the river, reservoirs, and streams of the city, and the ditches connected therewith, of all driftwood and noxious matter; to prohibit, prevent, and punish the depositing therein of any filth or other matter tending to make the water thereof impure, unwholesome, or offensive.

      Thirty-ninth-To require of all ditch or canal companies, persons, or individuals owning, operating, or controlling any ditch or canal running over or across any of the streets or alleys of the city to cause such ditch or canal to be completely bridged from side to side of such street or alleys.

      Fortieth-To compel the owner of any grocery, tallow-chandler shop, soap or candle factory, butcher shop or stall, slaughter house, stable, barn, corral, sewer, privy, or other offensive, nauseous, or unwholesome place or house, to cleanse, remove, or abate the same, whenever the city council shall deem it necessary for the health, comfort, or convenience of the inhabitants of the city; the expense thereof to be paid by the person causing, maintaining, or committing the same.

      Forty-first-To select, appoint, and employ an engineer, surveyor, architect, or other skilled mechanic or person from time to time, whenever in the judgment of the city council it shall be necessary or expedient for the purpose of supervising and directing any public work; the salary or compensation, duties, and responsibilities of such person to be fixed, determined, and fully defined by ordinance.

and directing any public work; the salary or compensation, duties, and responsibilities of such person to be fixed, determined, and fully defined by ordinance.

      Forty-second-To prescribe fines, forfeitures, and penalties for the breach or violation of any ordinance, or the provisions of this charter, but no penalty shall exceed the amount of five hundred dollars or six months imprisonment, or both such fine and imprisonment.

      Forty-third-To require of and prescribe the amount of official bonds from its members and all officers of the city, whether elective or appointive.

      Forty-fourth-To institute and maintain any suit or suits, civil or criminal, in the name of the city, in the proper courts, whenever necessary, in the judgment of the city council to enforce or maintain any right of the city, and they may, in like manner, defend all actions against the city; to institute and maintain any suit to foreclose liens or otherwise, against any property owner refusing or neglecting to pay as assessed by the city council, his ratable proportion of the cost of paving, grading or otherwise improving any street, or building any sidewalk or other improvement, which benefits the property or owner thereof.

      Forty-fifth-To hold, manage, use and dispose of all real and personal property of the city, and to enforce the payment and collection of all dues, assessments, or demands of every nature or kind, belonging or inuring to the city, but no sales of property belonging to the city shall be made until after it shall have been appraised by three disinterested appraisers, residents and taxpayers of the city, at the actual market value, nor shall it be sold for less than seventy-five per cent of such appraised value; provided, that no park or property acquired for park or public purposes shall be sold or in any manner disposed of.

      Forty-sixth-To prohibit the injury to or interference with the ornamental trees and shrubbery in the streets and public places of the city, and to prescribe the punishment for such injury and interference.

      Forty-seventh-Any property, real or personal, necessary or required for the public use of the city, may be condemned and appropriated in the manner prescribed by general law and all rights of eminent domain may be exercised by the city in relation thereto.

      Forty-eighth-To change or enlarge the boundaries of any ward, by ordinance, so as to annex or include therein additional lands, with the tenements, property and inhabitants thereof; provided, the city council shall be first petitioned so to do by a majority of the persons of the district proposed to be so annexed; and provided further, that no change in the boundaries of any ward, except for the purpose of enlarging the same, shall be made within sixty days next preceding any general city election, and in no event oftener than once every two years.

To prescribe fines, etc.

Official bonds

To maintain suits at law

To buy and sell city property under restrictions

To protect shrubbery

May condemn property-eminent domain

To change wards

Provisos

Circus licenses

Provide advertising fund

Salaries, etc., regulated by ordinances

general city election, and in no event oftener than once every two years.

      Forty-ninth-To suppress or regulate and collect a license tax on circus or other public parades through the streets of the city.

      Fiftieth-In its discretion, to provide and set aside yearly a reasonable fund, which once so provided and set aside shall not be increased, but may be diminished, during the year, for purposes of publicity.

      Sec. 9.  Section 1 of article XVI of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 1.  The fees, salaries or other compensation of officers or other persons shall be regulated by regularly enacted ordinances as to salaries and by resolution as to compensation for persons not regularly employed by the city. All claims for fees, salaries and all expenses necessarily incurred in carrying on the legitimate purposes and duties of the city government and all claims against the city, wherever the nature of such claims will permit, shall be filed with the city clerk and acted upon by the city council at the first regular meeting thereafter, and the city council shall consider and allow or reject the same in the order as presented and filed, and the record of their action shall be entered upon the journal. Upon allowance in whole or in part of any claim, by a majority of all the members elected to the city council, the city clerk shall certify all such claims or portions allowed as the case may be after the same is signed by the mayor to the city auditor, who shall, if such claim is approved by him, draw a warrant upon the treasurer for the amount so allowed and shall state in general terms the nature of the claim, and when so presented to the treasurer, the same shall be paid by him.

Salaries of White Pine County officers

Repeal

In effect

Chap. 39–An Act to enable the board of county commissioners of White Pine County, Nevada, to fix the salaries and authorize the appointment of certain deputies.

[Approved February 26, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The board of county commissioners of White Pine County, Nevada, is hereby authorized to fix the salaries of any and all deputies and assistants appointed by the county clerk, recorder and auditor, treasurer, sheriff and assessor of White Pine County, Nevada, and shall fix the number of any and all such deputies and assistants and the term of their employment.

      Sec. 2.  All acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

      Sec. 3.  This act shall take effect on March 1, 1915.

Chap. 40–An Act to amend section 197 of an act entitled “An act concerning public schools, and repealing certain acts relating thereto,” approved March 11, 1911, and adding thereto a new section to be known as section 197a.

[Approved February 26, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 197 of said act is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 197.  Whenever any school district shall issue any bonds under the provisions of this act, or shall have any bonds outstanding, it shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners of the county in which such district may be situated to levy and assess a special tax on all the taxable property of the district, including the net proceeds of mines, in an amount sufficient to pay the interest accruing thereon promptly when and as the same becomes due according to the tenor and effect of said bonds, and the county treasurer shall collect the same as other taxes are collected, in cash only, keeping the same separate from other funds received by him, and shall cause said interest to be promptly paid at the place of payment specified in the bonds; and if there shall be any surplus after paying said interest and the expenses of collecting such special tax, the treasurer shall, without delay, pass the same to the credit of such school district, and such funds so passed to the credit of the district shall be subject to the disposal of the board of trustees; and in the calendar year following the year in which the bonds are issued, and annually thereafter, until the full payment of said bonds has been made, the board of county commissioners of the county in which said school district is situated shall levy and assess a special tax, and shall cause said special tax to be collected, on all the taxable property of the school district, including the net proceeds of mines, sufficient to raise annually a proportion of the principal amount of the said bonds equal to a sum produced by taking the whole amount of said bonds outstanding and dividing it by the number of years said bonds then have to run, which amount shall be levied, assessed, and collected by the county treasurer in the same manner as the tax for the payment of the interest coupons and when collected shall be known as the “................School District Bond Sinking Fund” and shall be used only in the payment of such bonds. The sinking fund thus provided may be applied to the purchase and cancelation of the outstanding bonds of the district. At the maturity of such bonds (or prior to the maturity thereof as hereinafter in section 2 hereof provided) and at their place of payment, the county treasurer shall cause such bonds and accrued interest thereon to be paid, and duly cancel the same, and certify his action to the board of trustees of the school district; and the said county treasurer shall, if the tax for interest on the bonds for the first year after their date of issue is not collected in time for use in paying the interest coupons maturing during that year, pay the interest accruing on said bonds in said year out of the general county fund and return, as soon as the funds are realized from the taxes for interest on said bonds, and from said interest fund, the amount so borrowed from said general county fund.

Concerning school bonds generally

Special tax

Interest paid out of general fund, when

Redemption of school bonds

said county treasurer shall, if the tax for interest on the bonds for the first year after their date of issue is not collected in time for use in paying the interest coupons maturing during that year, pay the interest accruing on said bonds in said year out of the general county fund and return, as soon as the funds are realized from the taxes for interest on said bonds, and from said interest fund, the amount so borrowed from said general county fund.

      Sec. 2.  There shall be added to the said act a new section to be known as section 197a, which said section shall be as follows:

      Section 197a.  In the event that there shall be in the hands of the county treasurer in such school district bond sinking fund, a sufficient sum to redeem one or more of such bonds, and to pay the accrued interest thereon, although before the maturity of such bonds and interest, he shall, if requested by the board of trustees of such school district so to do, post a notice in a conspicuous place in the main entrance to his office or the main entrance to the building in which his office may be situated, which notice shall state that the said county treasurer has on hand in the “....................... School District Bond Sinking Fund” sufficient funds to redeem ....... bonds of said issue, and that there is in the said bond interest fund sufficient funds to pay the accrued interest on such number of bonds, and that he will on a certain day and hour (which shall not be sooner than thirty days from the date of posting such notice), at his office, receive proposals for the purchase of such number of bonds and paying the accrued interest thereon; upon the opening of said proposals the bid of the person offering the requisite number of bonds at the lowest rate shall be accepted by such treasurer; provided, that such offer to sell said bonds shall not involve a premium on the same of more than ....... per cent; if the entire issue of such bonds are provided to mature serially at different times, the treasurer shall redeem such bond or bonds at the lowest regular premium which matures first. If the entire issue of such bonds is provided to mature at one time, among equal offers for the sale of said bonds at the same rate of premium, the treasurer shall redeem such bond or bonds presented bearing the lowest serial number. The said treasurer shall certify all his actions hereunder to the board of trustees of said school district as in section 197 of this act provided.

Chap. 41–An Act providing that any person, firm, association, or corporation, or agent, superintendent, or manager thereof employing special agents, detectives, or so-called spotters shall, before disciplining or discharging any employee upon a report by such special agent, detective, or so-called spotters, give notice and accord a hearing to such employee upon his request therefor, and providing that such accused employee shall have the opportunity to be confronted with the person making such report, and providing for the punishment for the violation thereof.

[Approved February 27, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association, or corporation, or agent, superintendent, or manager thereof, employing any special agent, detective, or person commonly known as “spotter” for the purpose of investigating, obtaining and reporting to the employer, his agent, superintendent, or manager, information concerning his employees, to discipline or discharge any employee in his service, where such act of discipline or the discharge is based upon a report by such special agent, detective, or spotter, which report involves a question of integrity, honesty, or a breach of rules of the employer, unless such employer, his agent, superintendent, or manager shall give notice and accord a hearing to the employee thus accused, when requested by the said employee, at which hearing said accused employee shall have opportunity to be confronted with the person making such report and shall have the right to furnish testimony in his defense.

      Sec. 2.  Any person, corporation, firm, association, or employer violating any provision of this act shall be liable to the State of Nevada for a penalty of five hundred dollars for each offense; and such penalty shall be recovered and suit brought in the name of the State of Nevada in a court of proper jurisdiction by the attorney-general, or under his directions by the district attorney in any county having proper jurisdiction.

Concerning “spotters”

Employee has right to be confronted with his accuser

Penalty-fine

Chap. 42–An Act to establish a board of commissioners for the promotion of uniformity of legislation in the United States, and other matters relating thereto.

[Approved February 27, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  That within thirty days after the approval of this act, the governor shall appoint three suitable persons, and they and their successors are hereby constituted a board of commissioners for the promotion of uniformity of legislation in the United States.

Commission for promotion of uniform legislation

Duty of said commission

To keep record and report to legislature

No compensation

commissioners for the promotion of uniformity of legislation in the United States. Said commissioners shall hold their office for a term of three years, and until their successors are appointed. Any vacancy in said board shall be filled by appointment by the governor.

      Sec. 2.  That it shall be the duty of said board to examine the subjects upon which uniformity of legislation in the various states of the union is desirable, but which are outside the jurisdiction of the Congress of the United States; to confer upon these matters with the commissioners appointed by the other states for the same purpose; to consider and draft uniform laws to be submitted for approval and adoption by the several states, and to generally devise and recommend such other or further course of action as shall accomplish the purposes of this act.

      Sec. 3.  That the said board of commissioners shall keep a record of all its transactions, and shall at each session of the legislature, and may at any other time, make a report of its doings and of its recommendations to the legislature.

      Sec. 4.  That no member of said board shall receive any compensation for his services.

Counties may purchase or construct railroads

Title vests in county

Petition, action upon

Chap. 43–An Act to authorize the county commissioners of any of the counties of the State of Nevada to purchase or construct railway lines, and to issue bonds for that purpose.

[Approved February 27, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The county commissioners of any of the counties of this state are hereby authorized, upon there being filed with them a petition signed by two-thirds of the taxpayers of the county, requesting them so to do, to purchase or construct a railway line, or lines, within the limits of the county, if in their judgment it would be to the interest of the county so to do, and to pay for the same out of the general fund of the county, or from a fund to be created for that purpose by the sale of bonds as hereinafter provided.

      Sec. 2.  The title to any railway line or lines constructed or acquired by or under the authority of any board of county commissioners in this state, as provided in this act, shall be vested in said county, and under its control and management.

      Sec. 3.  Upon the filing of the petition provided for in section 1, if the county commissioners shall adjudge it to be to the interest of the county to build or construct the railway line specified in such petition, and if in the opinion of the said county commissioners it is advisable that funds for that purpose should be acquired by the sale of bonds, the county commissioners shall, not later than eight weeks before any general or special election, determine the amount of such bonds to be issued and make and enter in their minutes a certificate of such determination, and make and enter an order submitting the question of the issuance of such bonds to the qualified electors of said county.

commissioners shall, not later than eight weeks before any general or special election, determine the amount of such bonds to be issued and make and enter in their minutes a certificate of such determination, and make and enter an order submitting the question of the issuance of such bonds to the qualified electors of said county. If such order of submission shall be made and entered more than six months prior to the time for holding a general election, the board of county commissioners may order a special election for said purpose, which said special election shall be conducted in the manner provided by law for conducting elections, and the ballots at such election shall have printed thereon the words: “For the County Railway Bonds,” and the words: “Against the County Railway Bonds.” The votes cast for and against the issuance of said bonds at any election therefor shall be counted and returns thereof made and canvassed in the manner provided by law for counting, making returns, and canvassing the votes of a general election.

      Sec. 4.  If a majority of the votes cast on a proposition to issue such bonds shall be in the affirmative, it shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners, as soon thereafter as practicable, to issue the negotiable coupon bonds of the said county in such form and denomination as the board may direct, said bonds to run for a period of from one to twenty years from the date of issue, and bearing interest at a rate not exceeding six (6) per cent per annum, both principal and interest payable at the office of the county treasurer of such county, interest payable semiannually, and said bonds to be sold for not less than par and provided that such bonds shall be issued for such periods of time that there shall always be bonds redeemable by any funds in excess of one thousand dollars available in the county railway bond fund by this act hereinafter created. And before any sale is made of said bonds notice of such proposed sale shall be given by publication in a newspaper published in the county, if there be one published in the county, and if not, then by publication in the newspaper published nearest to the county-seat of said county, for at least ten (10) days before such bonds are disposed of, inviting sealed bids to be made for said bonds; and said bonds shall be sold only to the highest and best bidder therefor.

      Sec. 5.  All bonds issued under the provisions of this act shall be signed by the chairman of the board of county commissioners, countersigned by the county treasurer, and authenticated with the seal of the county. Coupons for interest shall be attached to each bond, so that the same may be removed without injury to the bonds, and each of said coupons shall be consecutively numbered, and signed by the chairman of said board and by the county treasurer.

      Sec. 6.  For the purpose of creating a fund for the payment of the principal and interest of the bonds so issued, the board of county commissioners of such county so issuing such bonds is authorized and directed to levy and collect annually thereafter a special tax upon all the property, both real and personal, subject to taxation, including the proceeds of mines, within the boundaries of such county, until such bonds and the interest thereupon have been fully paid and discharged, sufficient to pay the interest upon said bonds, and to provide a fund for the payment of the principal of the same according to their tenor and effect.

Referendum election

Majority vote; duties of county commissioners; bonds, etc.

Concerning bonds

Railway bond fund provided for

Redemption and cancelation of bonds

Interest ceases, when

In effect

is authorized and directed to levy and collect annually thereafter a special tax upon all the property, both real and personal, subject to taxation, including the proceeds of mines, within the boundaries of such county, until such bonds and the interest thereupon have been fully paid and discharged, sufficient to pay the interest upon said bonds, and to provide a fund for the payment of the principal of the same according to their tenor and effect. Such tax shall be levied and collected in the same manner and at the same time as other taxes are assessed and collected, and the proceeds thereof shall be kept by the county treasurer in a fund known as the “County Railway Bond Fund,” and paid out therefrom only in the payment of the principal and interest of said bonds; provided, that when the principal and interest of the said bonds shall have been fully paid, and all of said bonds retired, any and all moneys remaining on hand in said fund shall be transferred to the general fund of said county.

      Sec. 7.  Whenever the County Treasurer shall pay and redeem any bond issued under the provisions of this act, he shall forthwith cancel the same by writing across the face thereof the word “Paid,” together with the date of such payment, and sign his name thereto, and turn the same over to the county auditor, taking his receipt therefor, which receipt shall be filed with the clerk of the board of county commissioners, and the auditor shall credit the treasurer on his books for the amount so paid.

      Sec. 8.  Should the holder of such bonds, or any of them, for any cause whatever, fail to present such bonds to the said county treasurer when they become due, all interest on such bonds shall thereafter immediately cease.

      Sec. 9.  This act shall take effect immediately.

Concerning advertising resources of counties

Chap. 44–An Act authorizing and empowering the boards of county commissioners of the several counties of this state to exploit and promote the agricultural, mining, and other resources, progress, and advantages of their respective counties; providing ways and means for this purpose, and repealing all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith.

[Approved March 1, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The boards of county commissioners of the several counties of this state are hereby authorized and empowered to, in their discretion, annually include in their respective county budgets items to cover the expense of exploiting, promoting, and publishing to homeseekers and the public at large, by any means in their judgment calculated to accomplish this purpose, the agricultural, mining, and other resources, progress, and advantages of their respective counties.

      Sec. 2.  Such expenditures as may by the board of county commissioners of any county in this state be decided upon shall be met by including the same in the annual tax levy of and for that county; provided, that the tax levy for this purpose shall not in any one year exceed one cent on each one hundred dollars of the assessed valuation of the property in that county; provided further, that, pending the accumulation and setting aside of the fund for the purposes authorized by this act, said boards of county commissioners are hereby authorized and empowered to pledge their respective counties for said purposes to an amount not exceeding the sum to be raised as in this section provided, and to be paid out of the fund raised and set aside therefor as herein authorized.

      Sec. 3.  Section 1 of an act entitled “An act to amend an act entitled ‘An act supplementary to an act entitled “An act to create a board of county commissioners in the several counties of the state and to define their duties and powers,” approved March 8, 1865,’ approved February 19, 1867,” approved March 27, 1911, and all other acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act, are hereby repealed in so far as the same apply to or interfere with the provisions of this act, but in no other particular.

Tax levy for same

Provisos

Limited repeal of certain acts

Chap. 45–An Act to repeal that certain act entitled “An act giving the clerk of the supreme court authority to appoint a deputy in his office,” approved March 15, 1911.

[Approved March 1, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  That certain act entitled “An act giving the clerk of the supreme court authority to appoint a deputy in his office,” approved March 15, 1911, is hereby repealed.

Repeal-deputy clerk of supreme court

Chap. 46–An Act to amend section one of an act entitled “An act requiring nonresident joint-stock companies, associations, and corporations, doing a building and loan business, to furnish security before doing business in this state, and prescribing a penalty for a failure to do so,” approved March 20, 1911, being section 1361 of the Revised Laws of Nevada.

[Approved March 1, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 1 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 1.  From and after the passage of this act no joint-stock company,

Investment companies must deposit securities with state treasurer

stock company, association, or corporation, heretofore or hereafter organized under the laws of any other state, territory, or foreign country, for the purpose of engaging in a building and loan business, or dealing in investment certificates, except a banking business, shall be allowed to continue or do business, without having first deposited with the state treasurer the sum of ten thousand dollars in money, or United States bonds, or municipal bonds, of this state, or in first mortgages upon real estate located within this state, and in addition thereto, when the amount due upon investment certificates issued to residents of this state shall exceed one hundred thousand dollars, an additional deposit equal to ten per cent of such excess over one hundred thousand dollars so issued; such security so deposited to be approved by the state treasurer as a guaranty fund for the protection and indemnity of residents of the State of Nevada, with whom such companies, associations, or corporations shall do business. The funds or securities so deposited shall be subject to attachment, garnishment, levy, and sale upon execution, as in other cases under the laws of this state.

Certain city officers may be elected

When appointed

Repeal

Chap. 47–An Act to amend section thirty-six of an act entitled “An act providing for the incorporation of cities, their classification, the establishment and alteration of their boundaries, the government and disincorporation thereof, and repealing all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith,” approved March 27, 1907, as amended by act approved March 25, 1911, and repealing all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith.

[Approved March 1, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 36 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 36.  In addition to the mayor and city council, there may be elected in each city of the first or second class a city clerk, a city treasurer, a judge of the municipal court, a city attorney. All elective officers shall hold their respective offices for two years and until their successors are elected and qualified. In cities of the third class, the mayor, by and with the advice and consent of the city council, may appoint any or all of such officers as may be deemed expedient, and such appointive officers shall hold their respective offices during the pleasure of the mayor and city council.

      Sec. 2.  All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

Chap. 48–An Act to amend sections 120 and 121 of an act entitled “An act concerning crimes and punishments, and repealing certain acts relating thereto,” approved March 17, 1911.

[Approved March 1, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 120 of an act entitled “An act concerning crimes and punishments, and repealing certain acts relating thereto,” approved March 17, 1911, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 120.  Express malice is that deliberate intention unlawfully to take away the life of a fellow creature, which is manifested by external circumstances capable of proof. Malice shall be implied when no considerable provocation appears, or when all the circumstances of the killing show an abandoned and malignant heart.

      Sec. 2.  Section 121 of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 121.  All murder which shall be perpetrated by means of poison, or lying in wait, or torture, or which shall be committed in the perpetration, or attempt to perpetrate, any arson, rape, robbery, or burglary, or which shall be committed by a convict in the state prison serving a sentence of life imprisonment, shall be deemed murder of the first degree; and all other kinds of murder shall be deemed murder of the second degree; and the jury before whom any person indicted for murder shall be tried shall, if they find such person guilty thereof, designate by their verdict whether it be murder of the first or second degree; but, if such person shall be convicted on confession in open court, the court shall proceed, by examination of witnesses, to determine the degree of crime, and give sentence accordingly. Every person convicted of murder in the first degree shall suffer death or confinement in the state prison for life, at the discretion of the jury trying the same; or upon a plea of guilty the court shall determine the same; and every person convicted of murder of the second degree shall suffer imprisonment in the state prison for a term of not less than ten years, and which may be extended to life.

Amending crimes and punishments act

“Express malice” defined

Defining murder of first degree

Second degree

Penalty, how determined

Repeal of act concerning certain mining corporations

In effect

Chap. 49–An Act to repeal an act entitled “An act requiring certain mining corporations to file statements with the county recorders and attorney-general, and to mail copies thereof to stockholders; regulating the issuance and sale of certain treasury and promotion stock, and defining the same for the purpose of this act; declaring certain acts to be unlawful; providing penalties for the violation thereof, and other matters relating thereto,” approved March 5, 1909, as amended March 27, 1911.

[Approved March 2, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  That certain act of the legislature of the State of Nevada entitled “An act requiring certain mining corporations to file statements with the county recorders and attorney-general, and to mail copies thereof to stockholders; regulating the issuance and sale of certain treasury and promotion stock, and defining the same for the purpose of this act; declaring certain acts to be unlawful; providing penalties for the violation thereof, and other matters relating thereto,” approved March 5, 1909, as amended March 27, 1911, is hereby repealed.

      Sec. 2.  This act shall take effect immediately upon its approval.

Repealing certain sections concerning revenue

Chap. 50–An Act to repeal certain sections of an act entitled “An act to provide for the support of the government of the State of Nevada, and to repeal certain acts relating thereto,” approved March 23, 1891.

[Approved March 2, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Sections 143 and 144 of the above-mentioned act, being sections 3755 and 3756 of the Revised Laws of Nevada, 1912, are hereby repealed.

Chap. 51–An Act making it unlawful for certain persons to accept fees, commissions, or gratuities for the employment of labor, prescribing certain penalties for the violation thereof, and other matters properly connected therewith.

[Approved March 2, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  It shall be and is hereby made unlawful for any manager, superintendent, officer, agent, servant, foreman, shift boss,

boss, or other employee of any person or corporation, charged or intrusted with the employment of any workmen or laborers, or with the continuance of workmen or laborers in employment, to demand or receive, either directly or indirectly, from any workman or laborer, employed through his agency, or worked or continued in employment under his direction or control, any fee, commission, or gratuity of any kind or nature as the price or condition of the employment of any such workman or laborer, or as the price or condition of his continuance in such employment; and any such manager, superintendent, officer, agent, servant, foreman, shift boss, or other employee of any person or corporation, charged or intrusted with the employment of laborers or workmen for his principal, or under whose direction or control such workmen and laborers are engaged in work and labor for such principal, who shall demand or receive, either directly or indirectly, any fee, commission, or gratuity of any kind or nature, from any workman or laborer employed by him or through his agency, or worked under his direction and control, either as the price and condition of the employment of such workman or laborer, or as the price and condition of the continuance of such workman or laborer in such employment, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50) and not exceeding three hundred dollars ($300), or by imprisonment not exceeding six (6) months, or both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court trying the charge.

      Sec. 2.  Section 518 of “An act concerning crimes and punishments, and repealing certain acts relating thereto,” approved March 17, 1911, being section 6783 of the Revised Laws of 1912, is hereby repealed.

Unlawful for any employer to demand or receive any emolument as condition to giving employment to any workman

Penalty

Certain section repealed

Chap. 52–An Act authorizing the county commissioners of Lander County, Nevada, to appropriate money for the payment of rent and maintenance of offices for the use of justices of the peace.

[Approved March 2, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The board of county commissioners of Lander County is hereby authorized and directed to appropriate and pay from the county treasury each month the sum of ten dollars, to be paid to each of the duly qualified and acting justices of the peace, in addition to the compensation now allowed by law, for the rent and maintenance of suitable quarters for the transaction of justice court business. In the event that the board of county commissioners shall, at any time, provide suitable quarters for the use of any duly qualified and acting justice of the peace,

Justice of the peace in Lander County to receive rent money

justice of the peace, such payment shall not be made to him, during the period of such provision.

Certain county officers to receive fees for money collected for state tax

Appropriation, $5,000

Chap. 53–An Act to amend section twenty-one of an act entitled “An act regulating the compensation of county officers in the several counties of this state, and other matters relating thereto,” approved March 11, 1885, and making an appropriation for carrying out the purposes of this act.

[Approved March 2, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 21 of the above-named act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 21.  The State of Nevada shall allow the several counties of this state, for the services rendered under the revenue act by the auditor, assessor, and treasurer of each county, a sum which shall be the proportion of the state tax to the whole tax levied by the county on the basis of salaries allowed said officers by any special or general act relating to the same. These allowances shall be made at the time of the semiannual settlement provided by law, upon vouchers furnished the county treasurer by the board of commissioners of each county; provided, that if any county has heretofore paid or may hereafter by mistake pay into the state treasury on any such semiannual settlement more money than it should have paid according to the terms of this section, or under any special act relating to one county only containing similar provisions, such county may present its claim for such overpayment, as a claim against the state, to the state board of examiners for examination and allowance, and the state controller is hereby authorized to draw his warrants in favor of such county in refund of such overpayment in such amount as shall be allowed by such board of examiners; but if any such county shall feel aggrieved by any allowance made by said board of examiners on any such claim, an action may be prosecuted thereon for and on behalf of said county against the State of Nevada under and pursuant to the provisions of sections 5653-5655, Revised Laws of Nevada, 1912, which are hereby made applicable to any such action.

      Sec. 2.  For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act the sum of five thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Chap. 54–An Act to provide for an oil painting of Abraham Lincoln for the state capitol building, in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of Nevada’s statehood.

[Approved March 2, 1915]

      Whereas, The State of Nevada, has completed its first half-century; and

      Whereas, The admission of the Territory of Nevada into the union as a state was deemed of the greatest importance by President Lincoln in order to make certain the abolition of slavery by constitutional amendment; and

      Whereas, The admission of Nevada made possible the early ratification of such amendment and in this and in other ways the state effectively aided in establishing permanent peace and good-will between all the United States; and

      Whereas, Both the Territory and the State of Nevada were established during the administration of President Lincoln, and the acts of the immortal martyred president, in advocating and proclaiming statehood for Nevada, are part of the illustrious history of this commonwealth; and

      Whereas, It is eminently appropriate that the people of Nevada observe the event of the conclusion of the first half-century of statehood by some suitable memorial, permanent in form and of historical value: therefore

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The governor, the chief justice of the supreme court, the president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, and the president of the state historical society are hereby constituted a special committee, to be known as the Lincoln portrait committee, for the purpose of procuring an oil portrait of Abraham Lincoln, and a frame for such portrait, which portrait when procured shall be hung in the assembly chamber of the state capitol building and shall thereafter be committed to the care and custody of the state board of capitol commissioners. It shall be in the discretion of the Lincoln portrait committee to purchase the portrait painted by the artist Charles M. Shean, or to procure a portrait by some other artist.

      Sec. 2.  The sum of thirteen hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, to carry out the purposes of this act.

Preamble

Nevada’s statehood-Fiftieth anniversary

Portrait of President Lincoln to be purchased

Appropriation, $1,300

Churches, etc., may become corporations

Articles, how made

What articles shall specify

Church officer may be corporation sole

Chap. 55–An Act to provide for the creation of corporations sole, and defining the powers thereof, and other matters relating to such corporations.

[Approved March 2, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Corporations may be formed for acquiring, holding, or disposing of church or religious society property, for the benefit of religion, for works of charity, and for public worship, in the manner hereinafter provided in this chapter.

      Sec. 2.  Any person being the archbishop, bishop, president, trustee in trust, president of stake, president of congregation, overseer, presiding elder, or clergyman, of any church or religious society or denomination, who may have been duly chosen, elected, or appointed, in conformity with the constitution, canons, rites, regulations, or discipline of said church or religious society, and in whom shall be vested the legal title to property held for the purposes, use, or benefit of such church or religious society, may make and subscribe written articles of incorporation, in duplicate, acknowledge the same before some officer authorized to take acknowledgement, and file one of such articles in the office of the secretary of state, and retain possession of the other.

      Sec. 3.  The articles of incorporation shall specify: 1. The name of the corporation, by which it shall be known; 2. The object of said corporation; 3. The estimated value of the property at the time of making the articles of incorporation; 4. The title of the person making such articles and the manner in which any vacancy occurring in the incumbency of such arch-bishop, president, trustee in trust, president of stake, president of congregation, overseer, presiding elder, or clergyman is required by the rules, regulations, or discipline of such church, society, or denomination to be filled.

      Sec. 4.  Upon making and filing for record articles of incorporation as herein provided, the person subscribing the same, and his successor in office by the name or title specified in the articles, shall thereafter be deemed, and is hereby created, a body politic and a corporation sole, with continual perpetual succession, and such corporation shall have power to acquire and possess, by donation, gift, bequest, devise, or purchase, and to hold and maintain property, real, personal, and mixed, and to grant, sell, convey, rent, or otherwise dispose of the same as may be necessary to carry on or promote the objects of the corporation; and shall have authority to borrow money and to give promissory notes or other written obligations therefor, and to secure the payment thereof by mortgage or other lien, upon real or personal property.

      Sec. 5.  Such corporation shall have the power to contract and be contracted with, in the same manner as a natural person, and to sue and be sued, plead and be pleaded in all courts of justice, and to have and use a common seal by which all deeds and acts of such corporation may be authenticated.

      Sec. 6.  All deeds and other instruments of writing shall be made in the name of the corporation and signed by the person representing the corporation, and be sealed with the seal of the corporation, an impression of which seal shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state.

      Sec. 7.  The articles of incorporation, or a certified copy of those filed and recorded in the office of the secretary of state, shall be evidence of the existence of such corporation.

      Sec. 8.  In the event of the death or resignation of any such archbishop, bishop, president, trustee in trust, president of stake, president of congregation, overseer, presiding elder, or clergyman, or of his removal from such office by the person or body having the authority to remove him when such person is at the time a corporation sole, his successor in office, as such corporation sole, shall be vested with the title to any and all property held by his predecessor, as such corporation sole, with like power and authority over the same, and subject to all the legal liabilities and obligations with reference thereto. Such successor shall file in the office of the county recorder of each county wherein any of said real property is situated, a certified copy of his commission, certificate, or letter of election or appointment.

Power of such corporation

Instruments, how made

Filed with secretary of state

Succession established

Filed with county recorder

Chap. 56–An Act reapportioning senators and assemblymen of the several counties to the legislature of the State of Nevada.

[Approved March 5, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The apportionment of senators and assemblymen in the several counties of this state shall be as follows:

      Churchill County, one senator and two assemblymen;

      Clark County, one senator and two assemblymen;

      Douglas County, one senator and one assemblyman;

      Elko County, one senator and four assemblymen;

      Esmeralda County, one senator and three assemblymen;

      Eureka County, one senator and one assemblyman;

      Humboldt County, one senator and three assemblymen;

      Lander County, one senator and one assemblyman;

      Lincoln County, one senator and one assemblyman;

      Lyon County, one senator and two assemblymen;

      Mineral County, one senator and one assemblyman;

      Nye County, one senator and four assemblymen;

      Ormsby County, one senator and one assemblyman;

Apportionment of senators and assemblymen

Present terms not disturbed

      Storey County, one senator and one assemblyman;

      Washoe County, one senator and seven assemblymen;

      White Pine County, one senator and three assemblymen.

      Sec. 2.  Nothing in this act shall be construed as to affect the term of office of senators and assemblymen now in office.

      Sec. 3.  All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

Concerning county commissioners

Meetings of county commissioners

Chap. 57–An Act to amend an act entitled “An act to amend section three as amended March 16, 1897, of an act entitled ‘An act to create a board of county commissioners in the several counties of this state, and to define their duties and powers,’ approved March 8, 1865,” approved March 24, 1909.

[Approved March 5, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 1 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 3 of an act entitled “An act to create a board of county commissioners in the several counties of this state and to determine their duties and powers,” approved March 8, 1865, and amended March 16, 1897, is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 3.  The meetings of the board of county commissioners shall be held at the county-seats of their respective counties on the fifth day of each month and every calendar month; special meetings may be held at the county-seat for the transaction of business pertaining to the county whenever said meeting shall be authorized by the board by resolution duly adopted and entered upon its minutes at a regular meeting. The board shall also meet on the tenth day after each general election to canvass election returns.

Chap. 58–An Act amendatory of and supplemental to an act entitled “An act to provide for the organization and government of drainage districts, and to provide for the acquisition, repair, and development of canals, drains, ditches, watercourses, and other property, and for the distribution of water thereby for drainage purposes, and to provide for the levying of taxes, and for the issuing and sale of bonds thereof,” approved March 31, 1913.

[Approved March 6, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 20 of said act is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 20.  After adopting a plan of said drainage canal or canals, drains, drain ditches, and works, the board of supervisors shall proceed to give notice, by publication thereof, not less than twenty days, in at least one newspaper published or having a general circulation in each of the counties composing the district, and in such other publication as they may deem advisable, calling for bids for the construction of such work or of any portion thereof; if less than the whole work is advertised, then the portion so advertised must be particularly described in such notice. Said notice shall set forth that plans and specifications can be seen at the office of the board of supervisors and that the board of supervisors will receive sealed proposals therefor, and that the contract will be let to the lowest responsible bidder, stating the time and place appointed, and the same shall be opened in public, and as soon as convenient thereafter the supervisors shall let said work, either in portions or as a whole, to the lowest responsible bidder, or they may reject any and all bids, in which event the board of supervisors shall have the power to cause all necessary work to be done by contract approved by and under the supervision and control of said board of supervisors, said contract not to be effectual until ratified by the board of county commissioners. Contract for the purchase of material shall be awarded to the lowest responsible bidder. Any person or persons to whom a contract may be awarded shall enter into a bond with good and sufficient sureties, to be approved by the board, payable to said district for its use, for 50 per cent of the amount of the contract price, conditioned for the faithful performance of said contract in accordance with its provisions. The work shall be done under the direction and to the satisfaction of the engineer, and to be approved by the board of supervisors. The supervisors shall not be interested, directly or indirectly, in any material furnished or contract awarded by the said board of supervisors.

      Sec. 2.  Section 21 of said act is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 21.  The board of supervisors or other officers of the district shall have no power to incur any debt or liability whatever, either by issuing bonds or otherwise, in excess of the express provisions of this act.

Concerning drainage districts

Plans, etc

Notice to be published

Contracts let

Bond

Supervisors not to be interested in contracts

Debts and liabilities limited

Supervisors may issue bonds

Proviso

Special election

district shall have no power to incur any debt or liability whatever, either by issuing bonds or otherwise, in excess of the express provisions of this act. A debt or liability incurred in excess of express provisions shall be and remain absolutely void, except that for the purposes of organization or for the purposes of this act the board may, before the collection of the first assessment, incur an indebtedness not exceeding in the aggregate a sum equal to twenty-five per cent of the estimated cost of the work and may cause the promissory notes of the district to issue therefor, bearing interest not exceeding seven per cent per annum, repayable from the proceeds of taxes or bonds.

      Sec. 3.  Section 32 of said act is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 32.  Whenever the board of supervisors deem it expedient it shall have the power, for the purpose of constructing drains, drainage canals, and other required improvements, to issue bonds of the district to run not more than twenty years and to bear interest payable semiannually, at a rate not exceeding seven per cent per annum, to be called “Drainage District Bonds,” and which said bonds shall not be sold for less than their par value, and the proceeds of which shall be used for no other purpose than paying the cost of constructing such drain, drainage canal, or other like work; provided, that before such bonds shall be issued the board of supervisors shall request the board of county commissioners to, and the said board of county commissioners shall at once, call a special election to be held within a time not less than thirty nor more than forty-five days from the date of filing such request, and due notice of such election which shall be held within the said district or at some convenient point adjacent to said district. Such notice shall require the electors to cast ballots which shall contain the words “Drainage Bonds ...................... District ......... Yes,” or “Drainage Bonds ...................... District ......... No,” or words equivalent thereto. No person shall be entitled to vote at any such election held under the provisions of this act unless he shall be a freeholder in the district. The board of county commissioners in the county where such district shall be, shall appoint the judges of election and shall provide for as many places of election as will be convenient. Such election shall be conducted as nearly as practicable in accordance with the general laws of the state; provided, that no particular form of ballot shall be required. The said board of county commissioners shall meet on the second Monday next succeeding such election and proceed to canvass the votes cast thereat, and if upon such canvass it shall appear that a majority of all the votes as “Drainage Bonds ...................... District ......... Yes,” the said board shall, by order to be entered upon its minutes, declare that such drainage bonds have been duly and affirmatively voted upon. The expenses of such election shall be paid out of the funds belonging to said drainage district.

election shall be paid out of the funds belonging to said drainage district. Any property owners may pay the full amount of the benefit assessed against his property before such bonds are issued and receive a receipt in full therefor. Such payments shall be made to the county treasurer, and it shall be the duty of the county clerk to certify to the treasurer the amount of any such assessment when requested to do so, and the county treasurer shall enter the same upon the tax lists in his hands in a separate place provided therefor, and shall furnish the county clerk with duplicate receipts given for all assessments so paid in full. The terms and times of payment of the bonds shall be fixed by the board. Said bonds shall be issued for the benefit of the district numbered thereon, and each district shall be numbered by the board of supervisors and recorded by the county clerk, said record showing specifically the lands embraced in said district and upon which the tax has not been previously paid in full. In no case shall the amount of bonds exceed the benefits assessed. Each bond issued shall show expressly upon its face that it is to be paid only by a tax assessed, levied, and collected on the lands within the district so designated and numbered, and for the benefit of which district such bond is issued; nor shall any tax be levied or collected for the payment of said bond or bonds, or the interest thereon, on any property outside the district so numbered, designated, and benefited. The said board of supervisors shall, by resolution, provide for the issuance and disposal of such bonds, and for the payment of interest thereon, the creation of a sinking fund for the ultimate redemption thereof, and for the date and manner of the redemption of said bonds.

      Sec. 4.  The above-entitled act is hereby amended by adding thereto a new section, as follows:

      Section 36.  Nothing in this act contained shall be held to disqualify, upon the ground of interest, any person from being chosen or appointed to serve upon the board of supervisors by reason of his ownership of land within said district, or being interested in said drainage district, and the taxes levied or to be levied thereon.

      Sec. 5.  This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval.

Property owners may pay, when

Various duties of officers

Land owners not disqualified

In effect

How franchises may be granted by boards of county commissioners

Duties of board

Notice published

Provisos

Chap. 59–An Act to amend section three of an act entitled “An act concerning the granting of franchises by boards of county commissioners, prescribing the terms under which said franchises shall be granted, and repealing certain acts pertaining thereto, and allowing corporations, associations, and persons having franchises obtained under other laws of this state to obtain the benefits of this act, and providing for other matters properly connected therewith,” approved March 23, 1909; said section three being also section 2131 of the Revised Laws of Nevada, 1912.

[Approved March 6, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 3 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 3.  An applicant shall also file with such application, and as a part thereof, if such franchise, right, or privilege is to be exercised within any unincorporated town or city in such county, a petition, in writing, signed by a majority of the resident taxpayers of such unincorporated town or city. Said taxpayers must be residents and owners of real estate situated in said county, and paying taxes upon said real estate; provided, that if such street-railway, electric-light, heat, and power lines, gas and water mains, telegraph and telephone lines shall not pass through any unincorporated town, or city, no petition need be filed with the said application for the franchise. Upon the filing of the said application, the said board of county commissioners shall, at its next regular meeting, cause notice of said application to be given; such notice shall contain the name of the firm, association, corporation, person, or persons making the application; the nature in general terms of the franchise, right, or privilege applied for; the day when the hearing upon such application shall be had, which shall not be less than ten (10) days after the period of publication or notice herein provided for has been completed, or at the next regular meeting of the board of county commissioners, after the completion of said publication, or notice, as the case may be; notice that all persons who have any objection to the granting of said franchise, right, or privilege to file their objection, in writing, with the clerk of said board before the date of said hearing, or to appear at said meeting, and present their objections at said time. Said notice shall be published once a week for four consecutive weeks in some newspaper of general circulation, published in said county. The clerk shall also cause three copies of said notice to be posted in three public places nearest where said application shall take effect, and if more than one incorporated city or town shall be affected thereby, such notice shall be posted in three public places in each of said incorporated towns or cities; provided, however, that if no newspaper shall be published in said county, that notice shall be given by the posting of notices as herein provided.

that if no newspaper shall be published in said county, that notice shall be given by the posting of notices as herein provided. Proof of such notice shall be made by the clerk of the board before the hearing in said matter shall proceed, and such proof shall become a part of the record in such proceedings; provided, however, that before such notice shall be given, the applicant must deposit with such clerk the cost of such publication, and notice, the amount thereof to be fixed by said board of county commissioners.

Proof of notice to be made

Chap. 60–An Act authorizing school trustees of school district No. 4, Churchill County, Nevada, to issue bonds for the purpose of improving the school grounds, buying additional school furniture, and completing and repairing the public school buildings of said district No. 4 in the city of Fallon, and owned by said district, and matters properly connected therewith.

[Approved March 6, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The board of school trustees of school district No. 4, Churchill County, Nevada, is hereby authorized to prepare and issue bonds of said school district in the amount not to exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000), exclusive of interest, for the purpose of improving the school grounds, buying additional school furniture, and completing and repairing the school buildings of said district No. 4, in the city of Fallon, and now owned by said district.

      Sec. 2.  The bonds authorized under the provisions of section 1 of this act shall be issued in the sum of five hundred dollars each; shall bear interest at a rate not to exceed 6 per cent per annum; said bonds shall be numbered from one to ten, inclusive, and shall be signed by the president and clerk of said board of school trustees and countersigned by the treasurer of Churchill County. Coupons for interest shall be attached to each bond, so that the same may be removed without injury to the bond, and each of said coupons shall be consecutively numbered and signed by the president and clerk of said board of trustees and the county treasurer.

      Sec. 3.  The board of school trustees of said district No. 4 are hereby authorized to negotiate the sale of said bonds by advertising for sealed bids, or by private sale, as they may deem for the best interest of the school district; provided, that no bonds shall be sold for less than their par value, and that the bonds shall be made payable in gold coin of the United States, and the interest thereon shall be payable in like gold coin.

Bonds for school purposes in Churchill County

Denomination of bonds

Negotiation of bonds

“Fallon School District No. 4 Improvement Fund”

Tax for redemption of bonds

Redemption of same

Interest ceases, when

Treasurer to cancel redeemed bonds

Tax ceases, when

      Sec. 4.  All moneys received from the sale of said bonds shall be paid to the county treasurer of Churchill County, Nevada, and the said county treasurer is hereby required to receive and safely keep the same in a fund to be known as the “Fallon School District No. 4 Improvement Fund,” and to pay out said money only on warrants signed by the president and clerk of the said board of school trustees. The county treasurer shall be liable on his official bond for the safe keeping of said moneys which shall come into his hands, and for the faithful discharge of his duties in relation thereto.

      Sec. 5.  For the purpose of creating a fund for the payment of said bonds, as authorized by this act, and the interest thereon, the board of county commissioners of Churchill County is hereby authorized, at the time of making the annual levy of taxes for state and county purposes for the year 1916, and annually thereafter until the said bonds are redeemed, to levy sufficient taxes on all property, both real and personal, to redeem one of said bonds each year and the payment each year of the accumulated interest on all the bonds authorized by this act. The taxes so levied shall be assessed and collected as other taxes are assessed and collected, and shall be paid into the county treasury and set apart as a fund which is hereby known as the “Fallon School District No. 4 Improvement Fund.”

      Sec. 6.  On the first Monday in January, 1917, and every year thereafter, one of said bonds, together with the interest thereon, and the accumulated interest on all unredeemed bonds shall be paid. The payment and redemption of said bonds shall be in the order of issuance, the lowest-numbered bond to be first paid and redeemed, and so on until the whole number of bonds issued under the provisions of this act shall have been paid and redeemed, and all coupons shall be paid annually.

      Sec. 7.  Should the holder of said bonds, or of any of them, for any cause whatsoever, fail to present said bonds to the said county treasurer for payment when they become due, all interest on such bonds shall thereafter immediately cease.

      Sec. 8.  Whenever the county treasurer shall redeem any of the bonds issued under the provisions of this act, he shall cancel the same by writing across the face thereof, “Paid,” together with the date of such payment, sign his name thereto, and turn the same over to the county auditor, taking his receipt therefor, which receipt shall be filed with the clerk of the board of county commissioners, and the auditor shall credit the treasurer on his books for the amount so paid. All bonds issued under the provisions of this act shall be payable at the office of the county treasurer of Churchill County.

      Sec. 9.  Whenever the bonds and interest provided for by this act shall have been fully paid, the tax authorized by this act shall cease, and all moneys remaining in said bond fund shall, by order of the board of county commissioners of Churchill County, be transferred to the county school fund of the said school district No. 4.

      Sec. 10.  The faith of the State of Nevada is hereby pledged that this act shall not be repealed, nor taxation thereby imposed omitted, until all the bonds and coupons issued under and by virtue thereof shall have been paid in full.

Faith of state pledged

Chap. 61–An Act to amend section four and section five of an act entitled “An act to facilitate the giving of bonds and undertakings in certain cases, and prescribing conditions upon which surety companies may become liable thereon in this state; fixing penalties for the violation thereof, repealing conflicting acts, and other matters relating thereto,” approved March 26, 1909.

[Approved March 6, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section four of the above-entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 4.  Any surety company qualified by this act to transact business in this state may, at any time, apply to the secretary of state, and, upon the payment of a fee of five dollars therefore, obtain a certificate which shall state the name of such company, the state under which it is incorporated or exists, and that such company has fully qualified under the provisions hereof to assume risks and become surety on all bonds and undertakings mentioned in section 1 hereof, stating also the date such company qualified as aforesaid; provided, that such certificates shall expire on the first day of January of the year succeeding the date of issuance.

      Sec. 2.  Section five of the above-entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 5.  The certificate or any duplicate certificate issued by the secretary of state in accordance with the provisions of this act shall be prima facie evidence in all the courts of this state of all matters herein stated; provided, such certificate shall not have expired. Any printed copy of a circular issued by the treasury department of the United States known as form No. 356, stating the amount of the capital and surplus of any such surety company, and not more than six months old as appears from the date of issuance thereof, shall be prima facie evidence of the amount of such capital and surplus and of the amount to which such company is entitled to be received as sole surety on any bond in this state, and shall, if accompanied with the certificate of the secretary of state herein mentioned, be a complete justification for any amount not exceeding ten per centum of such capital and surplus, whenever any such company shall be required to justify on any bond or undertaking; provided, that the party requiring such justification may produce competent evidence to show that such surety company is not worth such sum over and above all its just debts and liabilities exclusive of property exempt from execution; provided further, that bonds and undertakings on which such company may have become surety shall not be considered as debts or liabilities unless the obligation thereon shall have accrued and the obligee shall have demanded payment from such company.

Surety company to obtain certificate from secretary of state

Certificate to be evidence

Provisos

In effect January 1, 1916

company is not worth such sum over and above all its just debts and liabilities exclusive of property exempt from execution; provided further, that bonds and undertakings on which such company may have become surety shall not be considered as debts or liabilities unless the obligation thereon shall have accrued and the obligee shall have demanded payment from such company.

      Sec. 3.  This act shall take effect on the first day of January, 1916.

Employer shall not prohibit employees from entering politics

Penalty-fine

Principal responsible

Damages not prevented

Chap. 62–An Act to prohibit any employer from making any rule or regulation against any of his or her employees on account of engaging in politics or running for public office, and providing a penalty for the violation thereof.

[Approved March 6, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation doing business or employing labor in the State of Nevada to make any rule or regulation, prohibiting or preventing any employee from engaging in politics or becoming a candidate for any public office in this state.

      Sec. 2.  Any person, firm, or corporation violating the provisions of this act shall upon conviction thereof be fined in a sum of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars. The foregoing penalty shall be recovered in a suit brought for that purpose by the attorney-general in the name and for the benefit of the State of Nevada, but no such prosecution shall be commenced later than three months after the commission of the offense herein described. In all prosecutions hereunder the person, firm, or corporation violating this act shall be held responsible for the acts of his, her or its managers, officers, agents, and employees.

      Sec. 3.  Nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent the injured employee from recovering damages from his or her employer for injury suffered through violation of this act.

Relief of H. C. Jepson

Chap. 63–An Act to provide for the relief of H. C. Jepson, clerk and treasurer of Douglas County.

[Approved March 6, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The sum of fifty-seven dollars and eighty cents is hereby appropriated out of any money in the game and fish preservation fund of Douglas County, to be paid to H. C. Jepson, clerk and treasurer of Douglas County, for extra labor performed in the years of 1913 and 1914, in the issuance of fishing and hunting licenses and in keeping record thereof, his compensation consisting solely of fees.

clerk and treasurer of Douglas County, for extra labor performed in the years of 1913 and 1914, in the issuance of fishing and hunting licenses and in keeping record thereof, his compensation consisting solely of fees.

      Sec. 2.  The county auditor of said Douglas County is hereby directed to draw his warrant in favor of the said H. C. Jepson for fifty-seven dollars and eighty cents, and the county treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same.

$57.80 from Douglas County treasury

Chap. 64–An Act to amend an act entitled “An act to establish a state printing office, and to create the office of superintendent of state printing,” approved March 11, 1879, by adding a section thereto, to be known as section 22.

[Approved March 6, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  An act entitled “An act to establish a state printing office and to create the office of superintendent of state printing,” approved March 11, 1879, is hereby amended by adding a section to be known as section 22, to read as follows:

      Section 22.  No person other than a practical printer shall be eligible to the office of superintendent of state printing.

Superintendent of state printing must be practical printer

Chap. 65–An Act providing for the nomination and election of United States senators, and repealing sections 1, 2, 3, and 4 of chapter 9 of “An act relating to elections and removals from office,” approved March 31, 1913.

[Approved March 6, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  At the general election next preceding the expiration of the time for which any United States senator was elected or appointed to represent the State of Nevada in the United States senate, candidates for United States senator may be nominated and elected in the same manner as provided by law for the nomination and election of state officers.

      Sec. 2.  Certificates of nomination of candidates for United States senator shall be filed with the secretary of state of Nevada, who shall certify the names of all candidates as shown therein to the various county clerks as now required by law in case of candidates for state officers, and the several county clerks in preparing the ballots to be voted for at any such general election, shall place thereon the names of all such candidates under the words “U. S. Senator-Vote for One,”

Election of U. S. senator

Nomination certificate to be filed with secretary of state

Governor may appoint, when

Repeal

In effect

words “U. S. Senator-Vote for One,” and there shall be a margin at the right-hand side of these names at least one-half inch wide, where the voter may indicate his choice of said candidates by making a cross or X.

      Sec. 3.  In case of a vacancy in the office of United States senator caused by death, resignation, or otherwise, the governor of Nevada may appoint some qualified person to fill said vacancy, who shall hold office until the next general election, and until his successor shall be elected and qualified.

      Sec. 4.  Sections 1, 2, 3, and 4 of chapter 9 of “An act relating to elections and removals from office,” approved March 31, 1913, are hereby repealed.

      Sec. 5.  All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

Amending jury act

Certain officers, callings, and professions exempt from jury duty

Chap. 66–An Act to amend section 9 of an act entitled “An act concerning juries,” approved March 5, 1873; approved March 5, 1875; approved March 5, 1877; approved March 7, 1881; approved March 12, 1895, the same being section 4932, Revised Laws, 1912.

[Approved March 6, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 9 of an act entitled “An act concerning juries,” approved March 5, 1873, approved March 5, 1875, approved March 5, 1877, approved March 7, 1881, approved March 12, 1895; the same being section 4932, Revised Laws, 1912, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 9.  Upon satisfactory proof, made by affidavit or otherwise, the following-named persons, and no others, shall be exempt from service as grand or trial jurors: Any federal or state officer, judge, justice of the peace, county clerk, sheriff, constable, assessor, recorder, attorney at law, physician, nurse, married women or school teacher, dentist, minister of the gospel, telegraph and telephone operator, locomotive or stationary engineer, mail carrier, engaged in the actual carrying of the United States mail, on a regular mail route, and one-half of all members of each regularly enrolled fire company in the state, said half to be determined by the several fire companies respectively, and all officers of such fire companies, not exceeding ten for each company, and also in all cities and towns wherein there is a paid fire department, after such paid fire department shall have been organized and put in operation, all members of said paid fire department, and all persons who are now or may hereafter become members of any exempt fireman’s association, society, or organization within this state; but such exemption shall not extend to any member of such association, society, or organization, unless, prior to becoming a member of the same, such member shall have served as an active fireman,

such member shall have served as an active fireman, in some regularly organized fire department in this state, for the period of three years, and also, in all cities and towns in this state, wherein there are volunteer fire departments, after such volunteer departments shall have been organized and put in operation, all members thereof; and also all members thereof who may hereafter become members of any exempt fireman’s association, society, or organization within this state; but such exemption shall not extend to any member of such association, society, or organization, unless, prior to becoming a member of the same, such member shall have served as an active fireman in some regularly organized volunteer fire department in this state for the period of five years; provided, that the entire exemption of such firemen, where there is a paid fire department, shall not exceed in one town or city, one hundred and fifty; and where there is a volunteer fire department, the entire exemption shall not exceed, in any one town or city, fifty; and further provided, that any person liable to grand or trial jury duty residing sixty or more miles distant from the county-seat of his county shall be exempted from service on either grand or trial juries for the period of one year upon making affidavit to the fact that he so resides, and filing the same with the clerk of the district court of the district in which his county is situated, and paying to such clerk the sum of twenty-five dollars. Upon the receipt of such affidavit and such sum, the clerk shall deliver to such person a certificate stating the fact of such receipts, and thereafter, for the period of one year from the date of such payment, the name of such person shall not be placed in the jury box, nor shall such person be selected as a grand or trial juror. It shall be the duty of said clerk, upon the receipt of said sum, to deliver the same to the county treasurer of his county, and the said treasurer shall immediately place the same to the credit of the general fund of said county. As amended, Stats. 1875, 137; 1877, 176; 1881, 155; 1895, 51.

Provisos

Persons residing 60 miles from county-seat exempt upon affidavit

Chap. 67–An Act to amend section eighty-two of “An act for the incorporation of cities, their classification, establishment, and alteration of their boundaries, the government and disincorporation thereof, and repealing all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith,” approved March 27, 1907, as amended March 3, 1909, and as incorporated in the Revised Laws of Nevada, 1912, as section 848.

[Approved March 6, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section eighty-two of said act is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 82.  Before ordering any public improvement or repairs as provided in the last preceding section,

Estimates to be made by council of city improvements

Notices to be published, and posted near proposed work

repairs as provided in the last preceding section, any part of the expense of which is to be defrayed by special assessment, the council shall cause estimates of the expenses thereof to be made, and also plats and diagrams, when practicable, of the work and the locality to be improved, and shall file such plats and diagrams with the city clerk for public examination; and they shall give notice thereof and of the proposed improvement, or work, of the location of the improvement and of the district to be assessed, by publication for at least two weeks in some newspaper published in said city, and by posting notices of the same in at least three public places in each ward, and also by posting a notice in or near the postoffice in said city, and by posting notices in three public places near the site of said proposed work. Said notices shall state the time when the council will meet and consider any suggestions and objections that may be made by parties in interest with respect to the proposed improvements. Unless the owners of more than one-half of the frontage to be assessed shall file written objections thereto, the improvement or work shall be ordered.

Salary of justice of peace in Reno