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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 1κ

 

      Chapter 1, Statutes 1935, the same being Question No. 2 on the official ballot at the general election November 6, 1934, not receiving a majority of all the votes cast at said election, did not receive the approval required by section 2, article XIX, Nevada Constitution, therefore did not become the law of the State, and was erroneously incorporated herein.-Opinion of Attorney-General, No. 161, May 1, 1935.

LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEVADA

Passed at the

THIRTY-SEVENTH SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE

 

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1935

 

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CHAPTER 1, Referendum on So-Called Fish and Game Law

[Referendum on So-Called Fish and Game Law]

 

Chapter 1–An Act relating to and providing for the protection, propagation, restoration, domestication, introduction, purchase, and disposition of wild animals, wild birds and fish; creating certain offices, providing the method of selecting the officers therefor, defining the powers and duties of certain officers, and other persons; defining certain terms; providing for the licensing of and regulating of hunting, trapping, game farming and game fishing; authorizing the establishment, control and regulation of private fish hatcheries, state recreation grounds, sanctuaries and refuges, and the closing, opening and shortening of hunting and fishing seasons; regulating the transportation and possession of wild animals, wild birds and game fish; providing for the condemnation of property for certain purposes; providing for instruction in the game laws of this state in the public schools of this state; establishing certain funds and regulating expenditures therefrom, providing penalties for violation thereof, and repealing certain acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith, approved March 29, 1929.

 

[Enacted Pursuant to Direct Vote of the People, General Election, November 6, 1934]

 

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

 

      Sec. 91.  Every person in the State of Nevada who hunts any deer without first procuring a duplicate license tag therefor as provided in this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.

      (a) Duplicate license tags granting the privilege to hunt deer shall be issued and delivered by the fish and game commissioners, or their agents, to any person holding a hunting license for the current license year, upon application by such person in the form herein provided and upon the payment of one dollar by such applicant.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Must procure duplicate license tag to hunt deer


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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 2 (CHAPTER 1, Referendum on So-Called Fish and Game Law)κ

 

 

 

 

Form of duplicate tag

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Owner of tag granted certain privileges

 

 

 

 

 

 

Duty of licensee upon killing deer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Procedure to secure license tag

license for the current license year, upon application by such person in the form herein provided and upon the payment of one dollar by such applicant. Said license shall be prepared by the fish and game commissioners, of suitable size in the form of a duplicate tag, and have printed or stamped thereon the words “Deer Hunting License Tag No………………., State of Nevada; expires December 31, 19………, to accompany Hunting License No…………….,” with said tag number and appropriate year written or printed thereon, together with the other matters and things provided in paragraph (b) hereof; and said fish and game commissioners shall account to the state controller each month for all tags sold and on hand from October to December, inclusive, of each year.

      (b) All duplicate license tags issued as herein provided shall be valid authority for the person to whom issued to hunt, pursue and kill deer during the open season therefor, and in such numbers as may be allowed by law. Such duplicate license tag, or tags, shall continue in force until the licensee shall have killed the number of deer allowed by law to be killed in the open season therefor by any one person of this state; provided, such duplicate tags shall be void from and after the date of expiration written or printed thereon. Such licensee shall carry said duplicate license tag at any and all times while hunting deer, and upon killing of any deer said licensee shall immediately write the place, date and time of day of such killing and sign his name on said license tag and attach the original of said license tag to the horns of such deer, and keep the same attached thereto during the open season and for a period of ten days next succeeding the close of the open season; and shall write the place, date and time of day of such killing and sign his name and address on the duplicate of said license tag and mail the same immediately to the fish and game commissioners; and shall exhibit upon demand any deer or parts thereof that may be in his possession, or any duplicate license tag or tags obtained as herein provided, to any officer authorized to enforce the fish and game laws of the state, or any peace officer of this state.

      (c) Every person applying for and securing a license tag or tags as herein provided shall exhibit his hunting license, and furnish to the fish and game commissioners, or agent appointed by the fish and game commissioners, his name, resident address, together with a written description of himself by age, weight, nationality and color of eyes and hair, and said application shall set forth the date of issuance and the number of the license tag or tags issued to such person, and the number of his hunting license. The person issuing any license tag or tags as herein provided shall write his name thereon, together with the place and date of issuance, and shall write the number of such duplicate license tag or tags so issued on the hunting license of the applicant.


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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 3 (CHAPTER 1, Referendum on So-Called Fish and Game Law)κ

 

his name thereon, together with the place and date of issuance, and shall write the number of such duplicate license tag or tags so issued on the hunting license of the applicant.

      (d) Any one person holding a hunting license for the current license year shall be entitled, upon compliance with the provisions of this section, to receive only one duplicate tag for each deer allowed to be killed in the open season under the laws of this state, except upon affidavit by the applicant that a duplicate tag so issued has been lost or destroyed and then only upon payment of the original fee; provided, that no duplicate license tag or tags issued as herein provided shall be mutilated, defaced, changed or altered for the purpose of evading the provisions of this section, or transferred to another person, or used by any person other than the one to whom it was issued.

      (e) Every person who makes any false statement as to any of the facts required by this section for the purpose of obtaining a duplicate license tag or tags, and every person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; and shall forfeit such duplicate license tag or tags as may have been obtained, and no new license tag or tags shall be issued to such person for the remainder of the license year.

      (f) Any person legally killing a deer in this state and under the tagging system provided herein may transport said deer into any closed district, or into any other state; provided, he shall, before transporting such deer, have the tag herein provided for countersigned by a regular-salaried officer of the fish and game commissioners or deputy thereof, or by an officer authorized to administer oaths, and if such officer has an official seal such tag shall, in addition, bear the imprint of such seal.

      (g) All moneys collected from the sale of license tags, as provided herein, shall be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the fish and game preservation fund.

 

 

 

Owner of hunting license entitled to duplicate tag or tags

 

 

 

 

 

 

False statement misdemeanor

 

 

 

 

Disposition of deer legally killed

 

 

 

 

Fees paid into state treasury

 

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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 4κ

CHAPTER 2, Initiative Petition

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bounties to be paid; amount of

 

 

 

 

 

 

Duties of claimant of bounties

 

 

 

 

 

Duties of county clerk

 

 

 

 

 

Penalties for violation

[Initiative Petition]

 

Chap. 2–An Act providing for the payment of bounties for the destruction and eradication of predatory animals, prescribing the manner of payment, providing for cooperation with the federal government in such eradication by bounty payments, other matters relating thereto, and repealing all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith.

 

[Enacted Pursuant to Direct Vote of the People, General Election, November 6, 1934]

 

The People of the State of Nevada do enact as follows:

 

      Section 1.  For the destruction and eradication of predatory animals within the State of Nevada, the state shall pay the following bounties: For each mountain lion killed within the State of Nevada, twenty ($20) dollars; for each coyote, two ($2.50) dollars and fifty cents; for each bobcat, two ($2) dollars; provided, that the total payments for any one calendar year shall not exceed the sum of seventeen thousand ($17,000) dollars, and when said sum shall have been so expended payments shall automatically cease until the first day of the next following calendar year, when such payments shall be resumed.

      Sec. 2.  The claimant for any of the bounties enumerated in section 1 of this act must present to the county clerk of the county wherein such animal or animals were killed, the entire skin in one piece of each animal killed, and said skin must include and have attached thereto in one piece the tip of the nose, the ears, tail and all four feet with toes and claws intact; provided, that where such animal has lost a foot, toes or claws, the remaining portion of the skin of its leg, foot or toes shall be presented intact.

      Sec. 3.  Said county clerk shall administer an oath to the claimant for any such bounties, which oath shall be subscribed to over the signature of the claimant and shall contain the following particulars: That such animal or animals were killed within the State of Nevada and within the county where the claim is presented; that they were killed by the claimant in person; that they were of the species claimed; that they were not whelped in captivity.

      Should any claimant attempt to collect a bounty or bounties for any animal or animals not killed in the State of Nevada, he shall be guilty of fraud and upon conviction he shall serve not less than one year nor more than five years in the state prison.

      Should he swear falsely under the oath required in this section he shall be guilty of perjury, and upon conviction he shall serve not less than one year nor more than five years in the state prison.

      If the county clerk does not know the claimant personally or is in anywise in doubt as to the veracity or legality of the claim, he shall require additional and conclusive proof, which shall be made a part of the public records of his office, and for any failure upon his part to rigidly enforce the law in this regard he shall be liable to the State of Nevada under his official bond.


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or is in anywise in doubt as to the veracity or legality of the claim, he shall require additional and conclusive proof, which shall be made a part of the public records of his office, and for any failure upon his part to rigidly enforce the law in this regard he shall be liable to the State of Nevada under his official bond.

      Sec. 4.  Said county clerk shall count and examine said skins, and determine their species. He shall be provided by the state controller with a device for perforating said skins with the lettering and words, “Bounty Paid-Nevada,” with which he shall perforate the forehead of each skin of adult animals, such perforation to not damage the skin and to not occupy a space greater than two by three inches; provided, that in case of coyote pup skins or bobcat kitten skins, such perforation may occupy the whole or any part of the skin thereof. Said skins shall thereupon be returned to the claimant as his property.

      Said county clerk shall make a certification in triplicate, listing the skins presented by their true species and the amount due for each, which certificate shall be under his official seal, shall bear his signature together with that of the claimant; and a copy thereof shall be delivered to said claimant, another copy shall become and remain a part of the public records of said county clerk’s office, and a third copy shall be forwarded to the state controller.

      Upon receipt of such copy said state controller shall issue a warrant upon the state treasurer in favor of the claimant for the full amount thereof; and said warrant shall be paid in the same manner that other claims against the state are paid. Said state controller shall keep an accurate record of each of such transactions as a part of the public records of his office.

      Sec. 5.  For each calendar year while this act shall be in effect, for the payment of bounties as hereinabove provided, there is hereby appropriated from the general fund in the state treasury, of moneys not otherwise appropriated, the sum of seventeen thousand ($17,000) dollars, and any residue of said sum remaining unexpended at the end of any calendar year shall revert to the general fund of the state treasury.

      Sec. 6.  The legislature, or the governor, when the legislature is not in session, shall have authority to conclude a cooperative agreement with the federal government whereby said federal government shall contribute a sum per annum not less than seventeen thousand ($17,000) dollars, nor more than thirty-four thousand ($34,000) dollars, which sum shall be used to supplement the bounty for each species of predatory animals as above enumerated, the bounties to be in the same ratio as to species as hereinabove set out.

      Said governor is hereby directed, in case of the legislature not being in session when this act becomes effective, to forthwith enter into negotiations with said federal government for the consummation of such cooperative agreement, and to report the results of such negotiations to the legislature at its next ensuing session; provided, that the State of Nevada shall be a party to no agreement, nor continue to participate in any agreement now in effect, whereby salaries instead of bounties are paid for the destruction and eradication of predatory animals, nor whereby less than the full skin of the animal or animals is accepted in verification of any claim for bounty or bounties; nor shall salaries be paid for administration nor in anyway in relation to the administration of this act.

May require additional proof

 

 

Skins shall be perforated by county clerk

 

 

 

 

 

Record of each transaction to be in triplicate; disposition of

 

 

 

Duties of controller

 

 

 

 

Amount of bounty limited

 

 

 

State may participate with federal government


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Governor may enter into agreement

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Repeal

not being in session when this act becomes effective, to forthwith enter into negotiations with said federal government for the consummation of such cooperative agreement, and to report the results of such negotiations to the legislature at its next ensuing session; provided, that the State of Nevada shall be a party to no agreement, nor continue to participate in any agreement now in effect, whereby salaries instead of bounties are paid for the destruction and eradication of predatory animals, nor whereby less than the full skin of the animal or animals is accepted in verification of any claim for bounty or bounties; nor shall salaries be paid for administration nor in anyway in relation to the administration of this act.

      Sec. 7.  Any previous act of the legislature in conflict or inconsistent with any provision, section, sentence or clause of this act, or with its main purpose or intent, is hereby repealed.

 

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CHAPTER 3, SB 1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Legislative appropriation, $40,000

 

 

 

 

Duties of controller and treasurer

 

 

Residue to revert

 

In effect

[Senate Bill No. 1–Mr. Friedhoff]

 

Chap. 3–An Act to create a legislative fund.

 

[Approved January 23, 1935]

 

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 forty thousand dollars ($40,000), 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 allowances, 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 same.

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

      Sec. 4.  This act shall be in effect immediately upon its passage and approval.

 

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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 7κ

CHAPTER 4, SB 6

[Senate Bill No. 6–Senator Friedhoff]

 

Chap. 4–An Act to amend an act entitled “An act to provide for the organization and government of irrigation districts, for the irrigation and drainage of lands and other related undertakings thereby, and for the acquisition and distribution of water and other property, construction, operation and maintenance of works, diversion, storage, distribution, collection and carriage of water; cooperation with the United States; and matters properly connected therewith,” approved March 19, 1919, as amended, by adding two new sections thereto, to be designated, respectively, 49 1/2a and 49 1/2b, relating to funding and refunding bonds of local improvement districts in irrigation districts, and matters properly connected therewith.

 

[Approved January 26, 1935]

 

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

 

      Section 1.  An act entitled “An act to provide for the organization and government of irrigation districts, for the irrigation and drainage of lands and other related undertakings thereby, and for the acquisition and distribution of water and other property, construction, operation and maintenance of works, diversion, storage, distribution, collection and carriage of water; cooperation with the United States; and matters properly connected therewith,” approved March 19, 1919, as amended, is hereby amended by the addition of two new sections thereto to be known as sections 49 1/2a and 49 1/2b, and to read as follows:

      Section 49 1/2a.  The board of directors of any irrigation district may, as hereinafter provided, cause funding or refunding bonds to be issued for the purpose of funding or refunding any or all outstanding bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness of any improvement district in such district. Such funding or refunding bonds shall, except as otherwise provided herein, be issued in substantially the manner and form prescribed by this act for the issuance of other bonds of improvement districts in irrigation districts, and the provisions of this act concerning the authorization, certification, issuance and sale of bonds of improvement districts in irrigation districts shall be applicable to bonds issued under this section; provided, however, that no plan, estimate or report of the district engineer shall be required to be made or approved as provided in section 49 1/2 of this act, nor shall any new apportionment of benefits in respect of such bonds be required to be made or confirmed by the district court, but in lieu thereof the board or directors of any irrigation district desiring to fund or refund any of the bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness of any improvement district in such irrigation district may submit to the irrigation district bond commission its proposed plan for the funding or refunding of such bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New sections added

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Funding or refunding bonds may be issued


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Election to be called

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Duties of board of directors if bonds approved

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Duties of state controller

bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness of any improvement district in such irrigation district may submit to the irrigation district bond commission its proposed plan for the funding or refunding of such bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness.

      If such plan be approved by said commission, the board of directors of such irrigation district shall call an election in such improvement district for the purpose of authorizing the issuance of such funding or refunding bonds. Such election shall be called and held and the result thereof determined and declared substantially in the same manner provided by this act for the issuance of other bonds of improvement districts in irrigation districts, except that a majority vote only shall be required for the authorization of such funding or refunding bonds. The maturity or maturities of said funding or refunding bonds shall be fixed by the board of directors of such irrigation district, subject to the approval of the irrigation district bond commission, but in no case shall the majority of any of said bonds be more than forty years from the date thereof. The rate of interest on such bonds shall not exceed six percent per annum, payable semiannually.

      If the issuance of such funding or refunding bonds be carried by a vote of a majority of the qualified electors of such improvement district voting at such election, the board of directors shall petition the district court of the county in which the principal office of the district is located for confirmation of all of the proceedings in respect to such issuance of such funding or refunding bonds in the manner prescribed in this act for the confirmation of other proceedings by the district, and the proceedings on such petition shall be substantially the same as provided by section 49 1/2 of this act for the confirmation of proceedings in respect to local improvements in such irrigation district. The apportionment of benefits made in connection with the issuance of the bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness of such local improvement district so refunded shall be applicable to assessments made for the payment of principal and interest of such funding or refunding bonds; and for the payment of such principal and interest, the board of directors of such irrigation district shall levy annual assessments for the amount of interest and redemption of said funding or refunding bonds upon the lands affected by said local improvement according to such apportionment of benefits, and the provisions of section 49 1/2 of this act relating to assessments are hereby made applicable to funding or refunding bonds issued under the authority of this section.

      If such proposed plan for the funding or refunding of such bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness be approved by the irrigation district bond commission, and said funding or refunding bonds shall be authorized as herein provided, said funding or refunding bonds shall be certified by the state controller in the manner and with the effect prescribed in an act entitled “An act relating to bonds of irrigation districts, providing under what circumstances such bonds shall be legal investment for funds of banks, insurance companies and trust companies, trust funds, and any money or funds which may now or hereafter be invested in bonds of cities, counties, school districts or municipalities, and providing under what circumstances the use of bonds of irrigation districts as security for the performance of any act may be authorized,” approved February 26, 1921.


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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 9 (CHAPTER 4, SB 6)κ

 

or refunding bonds shall be authorized as herein provided, said funding or refunding bonds shall be certified by the state controller in the manner and with the effect prescribed in an act entitled “An act relating to bonds of irrigation districts, providing under what circumstances such bonds shall be legal investment for funds of banks, insurance companies and trust companies, trust funds, and any money or funds which may now or hereafter be invested in bonds of cities, counties, school districts or municipalities, and providing under what circumstances the use of bonds of irrigation districts as security for the performance of any act may be authorized,” approved February 26, 1921.

      Sec. 2.  The act as entitled in section 1 hereof is further amended by the addition of a new section to be known as section 49 1/2b, and to read as follows:

      Section 49 1/2b.  Any funding or refunding bonds of such local improvement district herein authorized to be issued may be sold from time to time in the same manner as other bonds of the irrigation district, or may be exchanged for outstanding bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness of such improvement district, upon such terms and conditions as may be approved by the irrigation district bond commission. Any such outstanding bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness so funded or refunded or exchanged shall be immediately canceled by the treasurer.

      Sec. 3.  This act shall take effect upon its passage and approval.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Disposal of bonds

 

 

 

 

 

 

In effect

 

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CHAPTER 5, AB 5

[Assembly Bill No. 5–Clark, Washoe, and White Pine Delegations]

 

Chap. 5–An Act extending the time of motor vehicle registration, licensing, and payment of license fees for and during the year 1935; providing for a limitation of the act; and other matters relating thereto.

 

[Approved January 30, 1935]

 

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

 

      Section 1.  Every person, officer, board of commission of the State of Nevada, or of any county of said state, acting under and pursuant to and by authority of the provisions of the laws of Nevada pertaining to the registration and licensing of motor vehicles and the collecting of the license fees therefor and thereon, are hereby authorized, directed and empowered to extend the time in which motor vehicles may be registered, licensed, and the license fees therefor paid, without penalty for the year 1935, to and including the first day of March, 1935, anything to the contrary in said laws notwithstanding.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Time extended for payment of motor vehicle license


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Expires, when

 

In effect

day of March, 1935, anything to the contrary in said laws notwithstanding.

      Sec. 2.  This act shall expire by its own limitation at 12 o’clock midnight the 31st day of March, 1935.

      Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective upon its passage and approval.

 

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CHAPTER 6, AB 34

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bond issue Pahranagat school district No. 1

[Assembly Bill No. 34–Mr. Stewart]

 

Chap. 6–An Act authorizing the issuance and sale of certain bonds of Pahranagat consolidated school district No. 1, Lincoln County, Nevada.

 

[Approved February 8, 1935]

 

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

 

      Section 1.  For the purpose of erecting repairing, and furnishing the present school building within and for said Pahranagat consolidated school district No. 1, and for the purpose of erecting and furnishing new buildings therein, and for the purpose of purchasing grounds on which to erect such buildings, as authorized by the electors thereof at an election held on the 29th day of June, 1931, the board of trustees of said Pahranagat consolidated school district No. 1, in the county of Lincoln, hereby declared to be the present governing board of said Pahranagat consolidated school district No. 1, is hereby authorized and empowered to issue and sell the negotiable coupon bonds of said Pahranagat consolidated school district No. 1, heretofore printed and dated July 1, 1931, in the sum of thirty thousand ($30,000) dollars, or any part thereof, consisting of sixty (60) bonds in the denomination of five hundred ($500) dollars each, dated July 1, 1931, bearing interest at the rate of six percent per annum, payable semiannually, said bonds to be due and payable according to their consecutive numbers, as follows: Bonds Nos. 1 to 9, inclusive, on the first day of January, 1934; bonds Nos. 10 to 12, inclusive, on the first day of January, 1935; bonds Nos. 13 to 15, inclusive, on the first day of January, 1936; bonds Nos. 16 to 18, inclusive, on the first day of January, 1937; bonds Nos. 19 to 21, inclusive, on the first day of January, 1938; bonds Nos. 22 to 24, inclusive, on the first day of January, 1939; bonds Nos. 25 to 27, inclusive, on the first day of January, 1940; bonds Nos. 28 to 30, inclusive, on the first day of January, 1941; bonds Nos. 31 to 33, inclusive, on the first day of January, 1942; bonds Nos. 34 to 36, inclusive, on the first day of January, 1943; bonds Nos. 37 to 39, inclusive, on the first day of January, 1944; bonds Nos. 40 to 42, inclusive, on the first day of January, 1945; bonds Nos.


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day of January, 1945; bonds Nos. 43 to 45, inclusive, on the first day of January, 1946; bonds Nos. 46 to 48, inclusive, on the first day of January, 1947; bonds Nos. 49 to 51, inclusive, on the first day of January, 1948; bonds Nos. 52 to 54, inclusive, on the first day of January, 1949; bonds Nos. 55 to 57, inclusive, on the first day of January, 1950; bonds Nos. 58 to 60, inclusive, on the first day of January, 1951; the principal and interest thereon being payable in gold coin of the United States of America, at present standard, at the office of the county treasurer, in the town of Pioche, county of Lincoln, State of Nevada, provided, however, that the taxes for the payment of the principal and interest on such bonds shall be levied only on and against the taxable property, including the net proceeds of mines, within the boundaries of said Pahranagat consolidated school district No. 1. Such taxes shall be certified annually by the board of school trustees of Pahranagat consolidated school district No. 1, or such other body as may from time to time constitute the governing board of said Pahranagat consolidated school district No. 1, to the board of county commissioners of Lincoln County, Nevada, and which taxes shall be levied by said board of county commissioners on all the taxable property, including the net proceeds of mines, within said Pahranagat consolidated school district No. 1, sufficient to pay the interest on and the principal of said bonds when and as the same respectively become due.

      Sec. 2.  All acts of the board of school trustees of Pahranagat consolidated school district No. 1, with relation to the holding of the election for the purpose of voting on the bond issue, or in any other way connected with or relating to the bonds enumerated in section 1 hereof, are hereby ratified and made valid and legal. Any and all bonds enumerated in section 1 hereof which may have been or may hereafter be sold are hereby declared to be a valid and legal and shall be a just, valid, legal and binding obligation upon the said Pahranagat consolidated school district No. 1.

      Sec. 3.  The faith of said Pahranagat consolidated school district No. 1 is hereby pledged to the purchaser of said bonds enumerated in section 1 hereof, and said Pahranagat consolidated school district No. 1, hereby stipulates, agrees and pledges that this act shall not be repealed, revised or in anyway amended or supplemented by any succeeding session of the legislature on or before the first day of January, 1951.

      Sec. 4.  This act shall be in full force and effect from and after the date of its passage and approval.

Bond issue Pahranagat school district No. 1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prior acts of board of trustees ratified

 

 

 

 

 

Faith of district pledged

 

 

 

 

In effect

 

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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 12κ

CHAPTER 7, SB 16

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Minimum wage established on all public works

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Penalty for violation of act

[Senate Bill No. 16–Senator Cobb]

 

Chap. 7–An Act to amend sections 1 and 2 of an act entitled “An act to fix the minimum wage rate for unskilled labor on all public buildings and public highways constructed or erected by or for the State of Nevada, and on all other public works constructed by or for the State of Nevada, or by or for any county, district, municipality, or other subdivision of the State of Nevada, or any board or commission thereof, and on all public works carried on within the State of Nevada, and also to provide for a penalty for the violation of the provisions of this act, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith,” approved March 6, 1933, being chapter 40, page 34, of the Statutes of Nevada 1933.

 

[Approved February 16, 1935]

 

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, being chapter 40 of the 1933 Statutes of Nevada, is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 1.  On all public buildings and public highways and other public works which may hereafter be erected or constructed by or for the State of Nevada, or by or for any county, district, municipality, or other subdivision of the State of Nevada, or any board or commission thereof, and on all public works carried on within the State of Nevada by any person, firm, association, company, or corporation under contract with the State of Nevada or with any county, district, municipality, or other subdivision of the State of Nevada, or with any board or commission thereof, and on all public works carried on by any contractor within the State of Nevada, and on all work and labor to be done in such erection or construction or any matter or thing incident thereto by any person, firm, association, company, or corporation under contract with the State of Nevada, unskilled labor shall be paid for at the rate of not less than five ($5) dollars per each eight-hour day, or 62 1/2’ per hour, for each male person over the age of eighteen years who shall be employed at such labor.

      Sec. 2.  Section 2 of the above-entitled act, being chapter 40 of the 1933 Statutes of Nevada, is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 2.  Any person, firm, association, company or corporation conducting or carrying on any such public work as that specified in section 1 of this act, or any portion thereof, who shall violate any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than fifty ($50) dollars nor more than one hundred fifty ($150) dollars for each person so employed at such labor for less than five ($5) dollars per each eight-hour day, or at less than 62 1/2’ per hour; and each day any such person shall be so employed at such labor for less than five ($5) dollars per each eight-hour day or at less than 62 1/2’ per hour shall be and constitute a separate offense.


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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 13 (CHAPTER 7, SB 16)κ

 

act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than fifty ($50) dollars nor more than one hundred fifty ($150) dollars for each person so employed at such labor for less than five ($5) dollars per each eight-hour day, or at less than 62 1/2’ per hour; and each day any such person shall be so employed at such labor for less than five ($5) dollars per each eight-hour day or at less than 62 1/2’ per hour shall be and constitute a separate offense.

      Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective from and after its passage and approval.

 

 

 

 

 

 

In effect

 

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CHAPTER 8, AB 17

[Assembly Bill No. 17–Mr. Renfro]

 

Chap. 8–An Act to amend an act entitled “An act regulating the nomination of candidates for public office in the State of Nevada,” approved March 23, 1917, 276, as amended.

 

[Approved February 16, 1935]

 

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

 

      Section 1.  Section 11 of the above-entitled act, being section 2414 Nevada Compiled Laws 1929, is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 11.  Immediately upon receipt by the county clerk of the certified list of nominees from the secretary of state, as provided in the preceding section, the county clerk shall forthwith publish a notice of primary election, which notice shall be, in substance, as follows:

      Notice is hereby given that on the first Tuesday, the………….day of September next, party primaries of the…………………..parties will be held for nomination of party candidates of said parties for the following offices: (Naming the offices.) At the same time and in the same primary nominations will be made of nonpartisan, judicial and school officers as follows: (Naming the offices.) The polls will open at 8 a. m. and continue open until 6 p. m. of the same day. The polling place (or places) is……………………….(description and location of polling place).

                                                                ............................................................... County Clerk.

      The foregoing notice shall name only the political parties in which there is a contest for nomination, and shall designate only the polling place for the respective precincts; provided, that in towns or cities which have more than one polling place the notice shall show the location and description of each.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Notice of primary election by county clerks

 

Form of notice

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Polling places to be named in cities


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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 14 (CHAPTER 8, AB 17)κ

 

Notice to registry agents

 

 

 

 

Notice must be published in newspaper

 

 

 

 

 

Separate ballots for each party and nonpartisan candidates; ballot paper furnished by secretary of state

 

 

 

Size of ballots prescribed

 

 

 

Specifications as to type, etc.

 

 

 

Vote marked in square

 

 

 

Further ballot requirements

      The county clerk shall forward to each registry agent within the county three written or printed notices for each precinct or voting district, and it shall be the duty of the respective registry agents to whom such notices shall be delivered to post the same in three of the most public places in each precinct or voting district, outside of incorporated cities, at least fifteen days prior to the date of the primary.

      Said county clerk shall cause a notice in similar form and substance, eliminating his descriptions of the polling places, to be published in a newspaper of general circulation, published in the county, once a week for two successive weeks prior to said primary.

      Sec. 2.  Section 12 of the above-entitled act, being section 2415 Nevada Compiled Laws 1929, is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 12.  All voting at primaries shall be by ballot. A separate official ballot for each party and for nonpartisan voters shall be printed and provided for use in each precinct, but such ballots must be alike in the designation of nonpartisan candidates. It shall be the duty of the county clerk of each county to provide such official printed ballots to be used at the primary. Such official ballots shall be printed on official paper furnished by the secretary of state in the manner provided in the general election laws. The names of all candidates who have filed the prescribed declarations of acceptance of candidacy, shall be printed thereon.

      (a) Official primary ballots shall be not less than twelve inches wide, and enough wider to conform to the requirements of the following provisions of this section, and as long as the herein prescribed captions, headings, party designations, directions to voters, and lists of names of candidates, properly subdivided according to the several offices to be filled, may require.

      (b) Across the top of the ballot shall be printed in black-faced capital type, not smaller than forty-eight point, the words: “Official Primary Ballot.” Beneath this shall be printed in not smaller than eighteen-point type the name of the party, or “Nonpartisan Ballot,” and beneath this the name of the county wherein such ballot is to be used, together with the date of such primary.

      (c) At least three eights of an inch below the name of the county as aforesaid, and the date of the primary, shall be printed in ten-point black-faced type, double-leaded, the following: “Instructions to Voters: To vote for a candidate stamp a cross (X) in the square at the right of the name of the person for whom you desire to vote, and in no other place.”

      (d) The “Instructions to Voters” shall be separated from the list of candidates and the designation of the several offices for which nominations are to be made by one light and one heavy line or rule.


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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 15 (CHAPTER 8, AB 17)κ

 

offices for which nominations are to be made by one light and one heavy line or rule.

      (e) The names of the candidates shall be grouped according to the office for which they are candidates, and the names in each group shall be placed with the surnames first and arranged alphabetically, and each group shall be preceded by the designation of the office for which the candidates seek nomination, and the words “Vote for one” or “Vote for two” or more, according to the number to be elected to such office at the ensuing general election. Such designation of the offices for which nominations are to be made and of the number of candidates to be nominated shall be printed in heavy-faced type, not smaller than eight-point. The word or words designating the office shall be printed flush with the left-hand margin, and the words “Vote for one” or “Vote for two” or more, as the case may be, shall extend to the extreme right of the column and over the voting square. The designation of the office and the directions for voting shall be separated from the names of the candidates by a light line.

      (f) The names of the candidates shall appear on the ballot in heavy-faced capital type not smaller than eight-point, between lines or rules, three eighths of an inch apart. To the right of the names of the candidates shall be printed a light line or rule so as to form a voting space at least three eighths of an inch on each side.

      Each group of names of candidates shall be separated from the succeeding group by one light and one heavy line or rule.

      (g) All voting at the primary under the laws of this state shall be by ballot, and the respective tickets of all political parties shall be printed on separate ballots, and the election officers shall not deliver any ballot to any elector other than the ballot containing the ticket of the party to which he belongs, as shown by the register; provided, that ballots showing names of nonpartisan candidates only shall be furnished to voters who have registered for the primary without declaring any party affiliations.

      (h) Where there is no party contest for any office the name of the candidate for party nomination shall be omitted from the ballot and shall be certified by the proper officer as a nominee of his party for such office.

      (i) The county clerk shall determine the size and shape of the ballot in such a way as to conform to the provisions of this act, using two, three, four, or five columns as shall be most convenient. Party ballots shall have an extra heavy black vertical line between the column or columns on the left in which the names of candidates for party offices are printed and the column or columns on the right in which the names of candidates for nonpartisan offices are printed.

 

Names of candidates, how grouped; surnames first

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Names in type not smaller than 8-point

 

 

 

 

Voters to receive no ballot other than their own party ballot

 

Nonpartisan ballots

 

No name printed where no contest

 

County clerk to determine size and shape of ballot


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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 16 (CHAPTER 8, AB 17)κ

 

 

 

Nonpartisan primary ballot

 

Repeal

In effect

the names of candidates for nonpartisan offices are printed.

      (j) In addition to the party ballots provided for in this section, the county clerk shall prepare and have printed a “Nonpartisan Primary Ballot,” which shall be the same, except as to size thereof, as the other official primary ballots; provided, that the names of all party candidates shall be omitted therefrom.

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

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

 

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CHAPTER 9, SB 19

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

May appoint two deputies

 

 

Repeal

 

In effect

[Senate Bill No. 19–Committee on Mines and Mining]

 

Chap. 9–An Act to amend section 9 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 of 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, as amended by acts of March 25, 1931, and March 28, 1933.

 

[Approved February 16, 1935]

 

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

 

      Section 1.  Section 9 of the above-entitled act, being 4216 N. C. L. 1929, as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 9.  The inspector of mines shall have the power to appoint two deputy inspectors, who shall each receive a salary of two hundred dollars per month as full compensation for all services. Said deputies shall be allowed traveling expenses while in the discharge of their duties.

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

      Sec. 3.  This act shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and approval.

 

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CHAPTER 10, SB 28

 

[Senate Bill No. 28–Senator Foy]

 

Chap. 10–An Act to amend an act entitled “An act in relation to the sale of state law books,” approved March 25, 1931.

 

[Approved February 16, 1935]

 

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, being chapter 194 of the Statutes of Nevada 1931, page 314, is hereby amended to read as follows:


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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 17 (CHAPTER 10, SB 28)κ

 

      Section 1.  The secretary of state is hereby authorized and directed to sell the state law books at the following prices, namely:

      For each volume of the Nevada Reports up to and including volume No. 50, $1; for each volume of the Nevada Reports published after volume No. 50, $4; for each volume of Nevada and Sawyer’s Digest (1878), 50 cents; for each volume Compiled Laws of Nevada (1861-1900), $1; Statutes of Nevada up to and including Statutes of 1929, $1; the Statutes of Nevada after 1929, $4; special session laws, 50 cents per volume; for each volume of Constitutional Debates, 1864, $1; for each set consisting of volumes 1 and 2 of Revised Laws of Nevada, 1912, $3; for volume 3, Revised Laws, $1.50; and for the Nevada Digest Annotated, 1912, by Edward T. Patrick, the same being a digest of volumes 1 to 32 of the Nevada Reports, and annotations of volumes 1 to 30 of the Nevada Reports, $1.50.

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

      Sec. 3.  This act shall take effect upon its passage and approval.

 

 

Prices to be charged for state law books

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Repeal

In effect

 

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CHAPTER 11, AB 14

[Assembly Bill No. 14–Mr. Persson]

 

Chap. 11–An Act to amend an act entitled “An act to authorize counties of the State of Nevada to issue negotiable interest-bearing warrants for payment of salaries and other necessary expenses of the county and schools, and other matters relating thereto,” approved March 20, 1933.

 

[Approved February 25, 1935]

 

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

 

      Section 1.  Section 4 of the above-entitled act, being chapter 89, page 107, Statutes of Nevada 1933, is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 4.  The intent and purpose of this act is to provide emergency relief to the various counties, including the schools therein, of the State of Nevada, and this act shall remain in force only to the end of the fiscal year 1936-1937; provided, that any county warrants registered in the office of the county treasurer on or before December 31, 1937, shall still be subject to the provisions of this act for payment; and provided further, that the full faith, credit and resources of such county are pledged to the payment of said warrants in such county.

      Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective immediately upon its passage and approval.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Act in force for fiscal years 1936 and 1937

 

 

 

 

 

In effect

 

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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 18κ

CHAPTER 12, SB 2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Preamble

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Additional appropriation for state printing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Duties of controller and treasurer

[Senate Bill No. 2–Senator Friedhoff]

 

Chap. 12–An Act making appropriations for several state departments of the state government, hereinafter named, for printing for the six-months’ period January 1, 1935, to and including June 30, 1935, and providing for the payment thereof.

 

[Approved February 25, 1935]

 

      Whereas, The legislature of 1933 reduced the appropriation of the Nevada state printing office from $46,200 to $40,150 for the two-year period ending July 1, 1935, a cut of approximately thirteen percent, believing at the time such reductions could be met; and

      Whereas, Several departments of the state are without funds to carry out the remaining six months of the biennium; and

      Whereas, The apportionment was so made in 1933 that in some instances reversion of a portion of the present appropriation will be had July 1, 1935, enough, it is believed, to cover the major portion of the amount herein requested; now, therefore,

 

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

 

      Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated out of the general fund of the state treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the following amounts as listed, totaling $2,000, said appropriation to be expended under the direction of the superintendent of state printing, subject to the approval of the state board of examiners:

University of Nevada.................................................................................................... $800.00

Lieutenant governor.......................................................................................................... 25.00

Adjutant general.............................................................................................................. 100.00

Surveyor-general............................................................................................................... 70.00

Attorney-general............................................................................................................... 50.00

Mine inspector................................................................................................................. 100.00

Superintendent of public instruction............................................................................ 300.00

Tax commission................................................................................................................ 250.00

Superintendent of banks.................................................................................................. 80.00

Fish and game commission.............................................................................................. 75.00

State engineer................................................................................................................... 100.00

Public service commission............................................................................................... 50.00

                                                                                                                                            

                                                                                                                           $2,000.00

      Sec. 2.  The state controller is hereby directed to draw warrants in favor of the departments mentioned herein from time to time as deemed necessary by the superintendent of state printing, subject to the approval of the state board of examiners, and the state treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same.


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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 19 (CHAPTER 12, SB 2)κ

 

      Sec. 3.  This act shall be in force and effect immediately upon its passage and approval.

In effect

 

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CHAPTER 13, Assembly Substitute for Assembly Bill No. 8

[Assembly Substitute for Assembly Bill No. 8–Committee on Judiciary]

 

Chap. 13–An Act to amend an act entitled “An act concerning district attorneys,” approved March 11, 1865.

 

[Approved February 25, 1935]

 

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

 

      Section 1.  Section 7 of the above-entitled act, being section 2076 N. C. L. 1929, is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 7.  The district attorney shall draw all indictments, when required by the grand jury; shall defend all suits brought against his county; shall prosecute all recognizances forfeited in the district court and all actions for the recovery of debts, fines, penalties and forfeitures accruing to his county; he shall also draw all legal papers and transact the legal business of the school districts within his county, and such other legal duties as may be required of him by the school trustees of the school districts within his county; and he shall also perform such other duties as may be required of him by law.

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Duties of district attorney

 

 

 

 

 

 

In effect

 

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CHAPTER 14, SB 5

[Senate Bill No. 5–Senator Marsh]

 

Chap. 14–An Act relating to securities pledged with the state treasurer by building and loan associations, and companies and similar associations and companies, and providing for the return of such securities in certain cases.

 

[Approved February 25, 1935]

 

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

 

      Section 1.  Whenever any building and loan association or company, or similar association or company, having deposited securities with the state treasurer of Nevada pursuant to any law of this state then or theretofore in effect, has been placed in the hands of a receiver or has been taken over for the purpose of liquidation by the properly authorized official or officials of the state wherein is located the legal domicile of such association or company, and when such receiver or state official or officials, having so taken possession of such association or company, is prepared and has agreed to release to the Nevada investors in the shares or certificates of such association or company a dividend or dividends in liquidation which is or which are in excess of the true value of such pledged security, at that time, as determined by the said state treasurer and the superintendent of banks of this state, then the said state treasurer may and he is hereby authorized to release to such receiver or such official or officials all of the security so pledged by such association or company.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

State treasurer may release building and loan securities, when


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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 20 (CHAPTER 14, SB 5)κ

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Repeal

In effect

of such association or company, and when such receiver or state official or officials, having so taken possession of such association or company, is prepared and has agreed to release to the Nevada investors in the shares or certificates of such association or company a dividend or dividends in liquidation which is or which are in excess of the true value of such pledged security, at that time, as determined by the said state treasurer and the superintendent of banks of this state, then the said state treasurer may and he is hereby authorized to release to such receiver or such official or officials all of the security so pledged by such association or company.

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

      Sec. 3.  This act shall be effective immediately upon its passage and approval.

 

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CHAPTER 15, AB 26

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nevada Heroes Memorial Building

 

 

In effect

[Assembly Bill No. 26–Mr. Rochon]

 

Chap. 15–An Act to amend an act entitled “An act to provide for distinctive and appropriate marking of the Nevada heroes memorial building and making an appropriation therefor, and matters properly relating thereto,” approved March 20, 1923.

 

[Approved February 27, 1935]

 

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, as the same appears at page 281, Statutes of Nevada 1923, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 1.  The governor, the adjutant general, and the state controller are hereby constituted a board to arrange for distinctive and appropriate marking of the Nevada heroes memorial building by placing on the front of said building the following inscription: “Nevada Heroes Memorial Building.”

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

 

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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 21κ

CHAPTER 16, AB 21

[Assembly Bill No. 21–Mr. Newton]

 

Chap. 16–An Act making a supplemental appropriation for the support of certain offices, departments and commissions of the government of the State of Nevada for the biennium beginning July 1, 1933, and ending June 30, 1935.

 

[Approved February 28, 1935]

 

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

 

      Section 1.  The following additional sums are hereby appropriated from the general fund, for the purposes hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1935:

For the salary and traveling expenses of the lieutenant governor..................   $1,695.00

For the support of the consolidated offices of superintendent of banks, state auditor and Nevada tax commission...........................................................................     1,000.00

For the support of the adjutant general and Nevada national guard.............        900.00

For the support of the labor commissioner.........................................................        300.00

For the support of the state free employment service......................................        300.00

For insuring cash and securities in the office of the state treasurer...............     1,250.00

For repairs to the governor’s mansion immediately needed............................     2,500.00

For the salary and traveling expenses of acting governor W. F. Dressler.....          72.00

      Sec. 2.  This act shall take effect upon its passage and approval.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Additional appropriations provided for certain departments

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In effect

 

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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 22κ

CHAPTER 17, AB 83

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Preamble

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

County commissioners authorized to issue bonds

[Assembly Bill No. 83–Washoe County Delegation]

 

Chap. 17–An Act to authorize the board of county commissioners of the county of Washoe, State of Nevada, to aid in the acquisition and construction of works and improvements for up-stream storage of waters of the Truckee river system; to provide for the issuance of noninterest-bearing bonds of said county of Washoe and for the delivery of such bonds to Washoe County water conservation district, for the purpose of assisting in the financing of the cost of such acquisition and construction; to provide for the levy and collection of taxes for the payment of said bonds; to authorize the county of Washoe, acting by and through its board of county commissioners, to enter into contracts with respect thereto; and declaring this act independent of and not subject to any other act of the legislature of the State of Nevada relating to bond issues.

 

[Approved February 28, 1935]

 

      Whereas, Washoe County water conservation district (a legally organized irrigation district under the laws of the State of Nevada) proposes to enter into a contract or contracts for the acquisition and construction of works and improvements for up-stream storage of waters of the Truckee river system consisting of a reservoir or reservoirs, controlling works, dams, canals, conduits, rights of way and other works and properties necessary or incidental thereto, or for the payment of moneys required to be paid in connection therewith; and

      Whereas, The acquisition and construction of such works and improvements will be of great benefit to the county of Washoe and the public thereof and will tend to prevent overflow of the waters of the Truckee river and its tributaries and damage to lands and property of the county of Washoe resulting from such overflow, and will improve sanitary conditions in, and in the vicinity of, said Truckee river system within the county of Washoe and otherwise benefit said county and the inhabitants thereof; now, therefore,

 

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

 

      Section 1.  The board of county commissioners of the county of Washoe, State of Nevada, is hereby authorized to aid in the manner hereinafter set forth in the acquisition and construction of said works and improvements for up-stream storage of waters of the Truckee river system, and to that end said board of county commissioners is hereby authorized and empowered to issue noninterest-bearing bonds of said county in the aggregate principal amount of $500,000, and to deliver the same to Washoe County water conservation district, in the manner and subject to the conditions hereinafter set forth.


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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 23 (CHAPTER 17, AB 83)κ

 

conservation district, in the manner and subject to the conditions hereinafter set forth.

      Sec. 2.  Said bonds shall consist of thirty-seven bonds, numbered consecutively from 1 to 37, inclusive. Bonds numbered 1 to 36, inclusive, shall each be of the denomination of $13,500 and bond numbered 37 shall be of the denomination of $14,000. Said bonds shall bear no interest and shall mature and be paid in numerical order beginning with bond number 1. One of said bonds shall mature and be payable each and every year commencing three years after the date of said bonds until all of said bonds shall be paid and redeemed. All of said bonds shall be payable to said Washoe County water conservation district, or order, in lawful money of the United States. Each of said bonds shall state on its face that it is issued under and pursuant to the authority granted by this act, specifying the title of the same.

      Sec. 3.  Immediately after the adoption and approval of this act said board of county commissioners shall by resolution prescribe the form and date of said bonds and shall cause the same to be printed and prepared for execution, and said bonds shall be signed by the chairman and clerk of said board of county commissioners and by the county treasurer of the county of Washoe, and authenticated by the official seal of said county, and delivered to the county treasurer for safe-keeping. Said county treasurer shall, upon written request of said Washoe County water conservation district made at any time within two years after the effective date of this act, deliver said bonds, without payment or charge, to said district for the purposes herein specified; provided, however, that prior to the time of delivery of said bonds to said district, said district shall have entered into a contract or contracts with the United States, an agency of the United States, or other corporation (public or private), for the acquisition and construction of said works and improvements for up-stream storage of waters of the Truckee river system, or for the payment of moneys required to be paid in connection therewith; and provided further, that all amounts collected by or paid to said Washoe County water conservation district under said bonds, and all proceeds thereof shall be used by said district for the purpose aforesaid, and for no other purpose. If within two years after the effective date of this act said contract shall not have been entered into and said request for the delivery of said bonds made by said district, said bonds shall be forthwith canceled and destroyed by said county treasurer.

      Sec. 4.  For the purpose of creating a fund for the payment and redemption of said bonds, said board of county commissioners of said county of Washoe shall levy and collect annually, commencing with the calendar year next preceding the calendar year in which bond number 1 of said issue shall mature, and each year thereafter, an ad valorem tax on all taxable property within said county sufficient to pay and redeem the bond maturing the next succeeding year.

 

Bonds to bear no interest; denomination; maturity

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Further duties of board of county commissioners

 

 

 

Duties of county treasurer

 

 

Proviso

 

 

 

 

Bonds to be canceled, if and when


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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 24 (CHAPTER 17, AB 83)κ

 

Tax for redemption of bonds

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Washoe County empowered to enter into certain contracts

 

 

 

Act independent

 

 

 

 

 

Invalidity of one section not to affect others

 

 

 

In effect

commissioners of said county of Washoe shall levy and collect annually, commencing with the calendar year next preceding the calendar year in which bond number 1 of said issue shall mature, and each year thereafter, an ad valorem tax on all taxable property within said county sufficient to pay and redeem the bond maturing the next succeeding year. Said taxes shall be levied and collected in the same manner as general county taxes, and when collected shall be paid into a special fund known as the “Truckee River Storage Fund,” and shall be used exclusively for the purpose of paying and redeeming said bonds.

      Sec. 5.  The county of Washoe, acting by and through its board of county commissioners, is hereby authorized and empowered to enter into such contracts with said Washoe County water conservation district, or such party or parties as may by either of them be deemed advisable, relating to the financial participation by said county in the costs of said work and improvements for up-stream storage of waters of the Truckee river system.

      Sec. 6.  This act shall be construed as independent of and not in any manner subject to the provisions of the act of the legislature of the State of Nevada entitled “An act relating to bond elections, providing for the manner of holding the same, defining the duties of certain persons in relation thereto, and other matters properly relating thereto,” approved March 20, 1933, or of any other act or acts of said legislature relating to bond issues.

      Sec. 7.  If any section, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of this act shall for any reason be held unconstitutional or void, the same shall not affect the validity of any other portion of this act; and the legislature of the State of Nevada hereby declares that it would have passed this act and each section, paragraph, sentence, clause, or phrase thereof irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, paragraphs, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared unconstitutional or void for any reason.

      Sec. 8.  This act shall take effect upon its passage and approval.

 

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CHAPTER 18, SB 95

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Additional legislative appropriation

[Senate Bill No. 95–Senator Friedhoff]

 

Chap. 18–An Act to create an additional legislative fund.

 

[Approved March 1, 1935]

 

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, an additional sum of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000), which shall constitute an additional legislative fund.


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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, an additional sum of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000), which shall constitute an additional 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.

      Sec. 4.  This act shall be in full force and effect immediately on its passage and approval.

 

 

 

 

Duties of controller and treasurer

 

 

 

Residue to revert

 

In effect

 

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CHAPTER 19, SB 17

[Senate Bill No. 17–Senator Marsh]

 

Chap. 19–An Act to amend section 1 of an act entitled “An act relating to the sale, by the county commissioners of the various counties of this state, of patented mining claims which have, or may hereafter, become the property of any county of this state through the operation of the revenue laws of this state,” approved March 6, 1933.

 

[Approved March 2, 1935]

 

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, being chapter 44, page 40, of the 1933 Statutes of Nevada, is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 1.  Whenever any person shall present to and file with the county commissioners of the proper county an affidavit and petition showing that he is a citizen of the United States; that there is belonging to said county as shown by the official records thereof a patented mining claim or claims, sufficiently identifying the same, which have become the property of said county through operation of the revenue laws of this state; the amount of the tax and penalties and costs, if any, for which said claim or claims became the property of said county; that it is his bona fide intention to explore and develop said claim or claims, not as agent for any person, company, association, partnership, firm, or corporation, but solely for his own use and benefit, the said county commissioners shall contract respecting said claim, or claims, as follows:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Application to explore patented mining claims belonging to county


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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 26 (CHAPTER 19, SB 17)κ

 

 

Permit granted; conditions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Repeal

 

In effect

      By an order appearing in its minutes give to such petitioner permission to enter upon, not to exceed two, of any such claims and explore the same for valuable minerals for a period of six months without any charge therefor; provided, no ore or valuable mineral, in excess of five hundred (500) pounds, shall be removed from any mining claim or claims until title thereto shall have been acquired by said citizen as is hereinafter provided. At the expiration of six months, or sooner, if said petitioner so desires, said county commissioners shall make and execute a deed conveying the title of such county to such claim or claims, not exceeding two, to said original petitioner for the sum for which said property became the property of the county.

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

      Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective immediately upon its passage and approval.

 

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CHAPTER 20, SB 24

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Summons, how served

[Senate Bill No. 24–Senator Robbins]

 

Chap. 20–An Act to amend an act entitled “An act to regulate proceedings in civil cases in this state, and to repeal all other acts in relation thereto,” approved March 17, 1911, as amended.

 

[Approved March 2, 1935]

 

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

 

      Section 1.  Section 81 of the above-entitled act, the same being section 8579 Nevada Compiled Laws 1929, is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 81.  The summons must be served by delivering a copy thereof attached to a certified copy of the complaint as follows:

      1.  If the suit is against a corporation formed under the laws of this state; to the president or other head of the corporation, secretary, cashier, managing agent, or resident agent thereof.

      2.  If the suit is against a foreign corporation, or a nonresident joint-stock company or association, doing business and having a managing or business agent, cashier, or secretary within this state; to such agent, cashier, or secretary, or to an agent designated in section 82; or in the event no such agent is designated as provided in section 82, to the secretary of state or the deputy secretary of state, as provided in section 83.

      3.  If against a minor, under the age of fourteen years, residing within this state, to such minor, personally, and also to his father, mother, or guardian; or if there be none within this state, then to any person having the care or control of such minor, or with whom he resides, or in whose service he is employed.


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to his father, mother, or guardian; or if there be none within this state, then to any person having the care or control of such minor, or with whom he resides, or in whose service he is employed.

      4.  If against a person residing within this state who has been judicially declared to be of unsound mind, or incapable of conducting his own affairs, and for whom a guardian has been appointed, to such person, and also to his guardian.

      5.  If against a county, city, or town, to the chairman of the board of commissioners, president of the council or trustees, mayor of the city, or other head of the legislative department thereof.

      6.  In all other cases to the defendant personally.

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

      Sec. 3.  This act shall take effect immediately from and after its passage and approval.

Summons, how served

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Repeal

 

In effect

 

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CHAPTER 21, AB 161

[Assembly Bill No. 161–Mr. Newton]

 

Chap. 21–An Act to amend an act entitled “An act authorizing educational district No. 1, Clark County, Nevada, to sell certain school property to the United States,” approved March 20, 1933.

 

[Approved March 7, 1935]

 

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.  Upon receipt of the proceeds of the sale of said property it shall be deposited with the county treasurer of the county of Clark, and a special account shall be kept by the secretary of said board of education covering said special account, and it shall be disbursed as ordered by said board of education in the following manner:

      (a) To the usual and necessary expenses of sale, including any expenses of perfecting the title to said land, recording fees, revenue stamps, expense of the required evidence of title, attorney’s fees and court costs.

      (b) A sum not less than fifteen thousand ($15,000) dollars to be used in payment of the erection of a school building at Logandale, Nevada, in said educational district number one.

      (c) The balance remaining after deductions under (a) and (b) of this section may be used by said board of education for repairs, additions, betterments or improvements of the permanent school properly now owned by said educational district No. 1, or by order of said board of education any balance remaining may be used in payment of outstanding bonds or special claim or indebtedness of said district.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Disbursements of proceeds


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Repeal

 

In effect

balance remaining may be used in payment of outstanding bonds or special claim or indebtedness of said district.

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

      Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective immediately upon its passage and approval.

 

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CHAPTER 22, AB 54

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Penalty for removing landmarks

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Repeal

 

In effect

[Assembly Bill No. 54–Messrs. Boak and Fogliani]

 

Chap. 22–An Act to amend an act entitled “An act concerning crimes and punishments, and repealing certain acts relating thereto,” approved March 17, 1911, together with the acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto.

 

[Approved March 7, 1935]

 

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

 

      Section 1.  Section 411 of the above-entitled act, being section 10363 N. C. L. 1929, is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 411.  Every person who shall willfully or maliciously remove any monument of stone, wood, or other durable material, erected for the purpose of designating the corner, or any other point, in the boundary of any lot or tract of land, mining claim or claims, or any post or stake fixed or driven in the ground, for the purpose of designating a point in the boundary of any lot or tract of land, mining claim or claims, or alter the marks upon any tree, post or other monument, made for the purpose of designating any point, course or line, in the boundary of any lot or tract of land, mining claim or claims, or shall cut down or remove any tree upon which any such marks shall be made for such purpose, with the intent to destroy such marks, shall, upon conviction, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and punished by fine of not more than five hundred ($500) dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail for not more than six months.

      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 immediately after its passage and approval.

 

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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 29κ

CHAPTER 23, AB 35

[Assembly Bill No. 35–Mr. Goodwin]

 

Chap. 23–An Act to amend section 1 of an act entitled “An act regulating and fixing the fees to be charged and collected by the justice of the peace of Reno township, and repealing all acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith,” approved March 22, 1921, and being chapter 170, Statutes of Nevada 1921.

 

[Approved March 7, 1935]

 

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, being chapter 170, Statutes of Nevada 1921, is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 1.  The justice of the peace of Reno township shall be allowed to charge, and to collect, the following fees:

      On the commencement of any action or proceeding in the justice’s court, Reno township, to be paid by the party commencing such action or proceeding, five dollars; provided, that the fee for the preparation and filing of an affidavit in an action instituted under section 9364 et seq., Nevada Compiled Laws 1929, shall be one dollar.

      On the appearance of any defendant, or any number of defendants answering jointly, to be paid by him or them on filing the first paper in the action, or at the time of the appearance, if the appearance or answer be oral, two dollars; for every additional defendant, appearing separately, one dollar; provided, that no fee shall be charged where a defendant or defendants appear in response to an affidavit executed under Nevada Compiled Laws 1929, section 9365 et seq.

      For entering judgment by default or confession, one dollar.

      For issuing commission to take testimony, one dollar.

      The foregoing fees shall be in full for all services rendered by said justice of the peace in the case, to and including entering satisfaction of or credit on judgment.

      For filing a notice of appeal, and appeal bonds, each, one dollar; provided, however, but one charge shall be made if both papers are filed at the same time.

      For issuing supersedeas to an execution, one dollar.

      For making up and transmitting transcript and papers on appeal, five dollars.

      For taking depositions, per folio, thirty-five cents.

      For taking acknowledgments of any instrument, fifty cents.

      For taking any affidavit, except in criminal cases, fifty cents.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fees of justice of peace of Reno township


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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 30 (CHAPTER 23, AB 35)κ

 

 

Repeal

 

In effect

      For celebrating marriage and returning certificate to recorder, five dollars.

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

      Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective immediately upon its passage and approval.

 

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CHAPTER 24, AB 91

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Guideboards; style of board

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Highway department to erect markers and signs

[Assembly Bill No. 91–Mr. Boak]

 

Chap. 24–An Act to amend an act entitled “An act to provide for the erection of guideboards on public roads and highways,” approved February 21, 1879.

 

[Approved March 7, 1935]

 

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, being section 5422 N. C. L. 1929, is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 1.  It is hereby made the duty of the board of county commissioners in each county of this state, within six months from and after the passage of this act, to cause to be put up, and to be thereafter kept up, at each crossing or forks of any county roads in such county, a guideboard, having thereon an index or pointer, and the words “to (naming the place or first point of any importance on such road, and in remote desert and mountain areas, to the nearest water, and the number of miles, as near as may be, thereto) miles.” Such number of guideboards shall be put up and so placed at all such points as to enable travelers to readily understand therefrom the road they wish to travel in order to arrive at the desired destination, or to find such water.

      Sec. 2.  Section 2 of the above-entitled act, being section 5443 N. C. L. 1929, is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 2.  It shall be the duty of the Nevada state highway department, from and after the passage of this act, to cause to be put up, and to be thereafter kept up, on and along the state highways of Nevada, all such usual and necessary road markers and highway signs as have been adopted or shall hereafter, from time to time, be adopted by the American association of state highway officials. It shall further be the duty of the Nevada state highway department to cause to be put up, and to be thereafter kept up, informative signs, distinctive in color and design, pointing out, calling attention to, and descriptive of nearby points, location, and distance to water, and objects of natural, scenic, geographical, geological, paleographical, and historical interest to the traveler within or passing through the State of Nevada.


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geographical, geological, paleographical, and historical interest to the traveler within or passing through the State of Nevada.

      Sec. 3.  Section 3 of the above-entitled act, being section 5444 N. C. L. 1929, is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 3.  Any person or persons, who shall willfully tear down, dig up, or in any manner deface, destroy or carry away any such guideboards, road marker, highway, or descriptive signs as herein provided, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than three hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than one month nor more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

      Sec. 4.  All acts or parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

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

 

 

 

 

 

Misdemeanor to deface guideboard

 

 

 

 

Repeal

 

In effect

 

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CHAPTER 25, SB 49

[Senate Bill No. 49–Senator Marsh]

 

Chap. 25–An Act requiring the boards of county commissioners of the several counties of this state, and all officers having to do with the assessment of property and the collection of taxes in each of the counties of this state to prepare, assemble, and deliver to the attorney-general of the State of Nevada, all data relating to assessment or taxation of corporations in their respective counties which may be required by the attorney-general to properly prepare the defense to certain actions now pending in the federal court for the recovery of taxes paid under protest to the State of Nevada; and authorizing and directing them to provide funds in an amount sufficient to carry out and meet the requirements of this act, and other matters properly connected therewith.

 

[Approved March 7, 1935]

 

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, and all officers having to do with the assessment of property and the collection of taxes in each of the counties of this state shall, and they are hereby directed to, prepare, assemble, and deliver to the attorney-general of Nevada all data relating to the assessment or taxation of corporations in their respective counties which may be required by the attorney-general to properly prepare the defense to certain actions now pending in the district court of the United States of America, in and for the district of Nevada, for the recovery of taxes paid under protest to the State of Nevada by the Southern Pacific railway company, the Central Pacific railway company, the Nevada Northern railway company, the Sierra Pacific power company, and the Western Pacific railway company.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

County commissioners to furnish data to attorney-general


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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 32 (CHAPTER 25, SB 49)κ

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Expense charge against county

 

 

Repeal

In effect

may be required by the attorney-general to properly prepare the defense to certain actions now pending in the district court of the United States of America, in and for the district of Nevada, for the recovery of taxes paid under protest to the State of Nevada by the Southern Pacific railway company, the Central Pacific railway company, the Nevada Northern railway company, the Sierra Pacific power company, and the Western Pacific railway company.

      Sec. 2.  The boards of county commissioners of the several counties of this state, and all officers having to do with the assessment of property and the collection of taxes in each of the counties of this state shall, and they are hereby empowered and authorized to, provide funds in an amount sufficient to carry out and meet the requirements of this act.

      Sec. 3.  All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

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

 

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CHAPTER 26, SB 4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trains limited to seventy cars

 

 

 

Exception

 

 

Penalty for violation

[Senate Bill No. 4–Senator Foy]

 

Chap. 26–An Act to promote the public safety and the safety of travelers upon railroads and the safety of railroad employees by limiting the number of cars that may be operated in trains operated on railroads in the State of Nevada; providing a penalty for the violation thereof and for the recovery of such penalty by suit; providing certain exceptions in the act; and other matters properly connected therewith.

 

[Approved March 11, 1935]

 

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, company, or corporation, or any receiver of any railroad company operating any railroad in the State of Nevada, to operate, or cause to be operated, or permit to be operated over his, their, or its line of railroad, or any portion thereof, any train of cars consisting of more than seventy freight or other cars, exclusive of caboose.

      Sec. 2.  Nothing in this act shall be construed to apply to the operation of any of the trains mentioned in this act in the event of disablement, breakdown, or mechanical failure of the motive power of any such trains between freight division terminals.

      Sec. 3.  Any person, firm, association, company, or corporation, or any receiver of any railroad company, who or which shall violate any of the provisions of this act, shall be liable to the State of Nevada for a penalty of five hundred dollars ($500) for each offense; and such penalty shall be recovered in suit brought therefor in the name of the State of Nevada by the attorney-general or, under his direction, by the district attorney of the proper county, in a court of competent jurisdiction in any county of the state in or through which the line of the railroad upon which it is alleged there was operated a train or trains in violation of this act may run or be operated.


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dollars ($500) for each offense; and such penalty shall be recovered in suit brought therefor in the name of the State of Nevada by the attorney-general or, under his direction, by the district attorney of the proper county, in a court of competent jurisdiction in any county of the state in or through which the line of the railroad upon which it is alleged there was operated a train or trains in violation of this act may run or be operated.

      Sec. 4.  This act shall take effect sixty days after its passage and approval.

 

 

 

 

 

 

In effect

 

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CHAPTER 27, AB 72

[Assembly Bill No. 72–Mr. Conwell]

 

Chap. 27–An Act for the relief of George H. Carter.

 

[Approved March 12, 1935]

 

      Whereas, George H. Carter was a candidate at the last general election held in Nevada on November 6, 1934, for the office of assemblyman from Eureka County and was, by the fact of the returns, apparently elected to said office in said county; and

      Whereas, The said George H. Carter was given a certificate of election by the county clerk of Eureka County and duly presented his credentials to the assembly upon the convening thereof on the 21st day of January, 1935, at Carson City; and

      Whereas, A contest for George H. Carter’s seat in the assembly was instituted by J. R. (Nolan) Reynolds of Eureka County; and

      Whereas, The contention of the said J. R. (Nolan) Reynolds was upheld by the assembly of the State of Nevada, thereby unseating the said George H. Carter and giving his seat to the said J. R. (Nolan) Reynolds; and

      Whereas, The said George H. Carter has expended the sum of seventy-nine dollars and eighty cents ($79.80) for mileage in good faith and upon the assumption that he was a duly elected and qualified assemblyman from Eureka County; and

      Whereas, There is no adequate provision made by the legislature of the State of Nevada for the reimbursement of such sum to the said George H. Carter; and

      Whereas, The sum of seventy-nine dollars and eighty cents ($79.80) is a just claim against 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 sum of seventy-nine dollars and eighty cents ($79.80) is hereby appropriated from the general fund of the State of Nevada in payment of the said claim of George H. Carter,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Relief of George H. Carter

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Appropriation, $79.80


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In effect

claim of George H. Carter, and the state controller is hereby directed to draw his warrant in favor of the said George H. Carter in said amount, and the state treasurer is directed to pay the same from the said appropriation.

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

 

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CHAPTER 28, AB 70

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When not recorded void as against whom

 

Repeal

 

In effect

[Assembly Bill No. 70–Mr. Renfro]

 

Chap. 28–An Act to amend an act entitled “An act concerning conveyances,” approved November 5, 1861, together with the acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto.

 

[Approved March 12, 1935]

 

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

 

      Section 1.  Section 26 of the above-entitled act, being section 1498 N. C. L. 1929, is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 26.  Every conveyance of real estate within this state hereafter made, which shall not be recorded as provided in this act, shall be void as against any subsequent purchaser, in good faith and for a valuable consideration, of the same real estate, or any portion thereof, where his own conveyance shall be first duly recorded.

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

      Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective from and after its passage and approval.

 

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CHAPTER 29, AB 3

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Destruction of unused motor vehicle plates

[Assembly Bill No. 3–Mr. Rochon]

 

Chap. 29–An Act to provide for the destroying of unused, unsold and confiscated motor vehicle license plates, and other matters properly connected therewith.

 

[Approved March 12, 1935]

 

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

 

      Section 1.  The head or heads of departments issuing motor vehicle license plates under any motor vehicle licensing or registration law of this state shall, annually, destroy all unused, unsold and confiscated motor vehicle license plates of the previous year’s issue that remain unused, unsold or confiscated on the 31st day of December of each calendar year; provided, such license plates shall not be destroyed until counted and checked by the state auditor and the number thereof credited to said department or departments by such auditor.


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of the previous year’s issue that remain unused, unsold or confiscated on the 31st day of December of each calendar year; provided, such license plates shall not be destroyed until counted and checked by the state auditor and the number thereof credited to said department or departments by such auditor.

      Sec. 2.  This act shall be effective upon its passage and approval.

 

 

 

 

In effect

 

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CHAPTER 30, AB 113

[Assembly Bill No. 113–Mr. Cline]

 

Chap. 30–An Act reserving to the State of Nevada rights of way for state highway purposes over state-owned lands.

 

[Approved March 12, 1935]

 

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

 

      Section 1.  All lots, tracts, parcels, plots, or subdivisions of state lands that may hereafter be sold, or contracted for sale, by the state land register and upon, over and across which there shall have been surveyed a definitely designated or a proposed state highway, shall be sold, or contracted for sale, with a right of way thereover reserved to the State of Nevada for such highway of two hundred feet in width; provided, that after such land or lands shall be sold, any such highway shall not be constructed and the plan for the construction thereof be abandoned, or if such highway, after construction, shall be abandoned by proper state authority according to law, all the right, title and interest of the State of Nevada in and to said right of way, herein reserved, shall revert to and become the property of the purchaser of such land or lands, his assigns, or successors in interest.

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rights of way reserved to state under certain conditions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In effect

 

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CHAPTER 31, SB 66

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Game fish designated

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Limit of catfish

 

In effect

[Senate Bill No. 66–Senator Sawyer]

 

Chap. 31–An Act to amend an act entitled “An act relating to and providing for the protection, propagation, restoration, domestication, introduction, purchase and disposition of wild animals, wild birds and fish; creating certain offices, providing the method of selecting the officers therefor, defining the powers and duties of certain officers and other persons; defining certain terms; providing for the licensing of and regulating of hunting, trapping, game farming and game fishing; authorizing the establishment, control and regulation of private fish hatcheries, state recreation grounds, sanctuaries and refuges, and the closing, opening and shortening of hunting and fishing seasons; regulating the transportation and possession of wild animals, wild birds and game fish; providing for the condemnation of property for certain purposes; providing for instruction in the game laws of this state in the public schools of this state; establishing certain funds and regulating expenditures therefrom, providing penalties for violation thereof, and repealing certain acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith,” approved March 29, 1929, as amended.

 

[Approved March 12, 1935]

 

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.  The words “game fish,” wherever used in this act, shall be held to mean and include river trout, rainbow trout, lake trout, brook trout, white fish, landlocked salmon, royal chinook salmon, perch, bass and catfish; provided, that in all counties in this state in which there were cast at the last preceding biennial or general election two thousand two hundred and sixty-six (2,266) votes for representative in Congress, catfish shall not be deemed to be included in the term “game fish.”

      Sec. 2.  The above-entitled act is hereby further amended by adding thereto a new section to be known as section 39 1/2 thereof, which section shall read as follows:

      Section 39 1/2.  It shall be unlawful for any person to take, catch or kill, or have in his, her or their possession on any one calendar day more than fifty catfish, regardless of weight.

      Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective from and after its passage and approval.

 

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CHAPTER 32, AB 46

[Assembly Bill No. 46–Mr. Sherwood]

 

Chap. 32–An Act to amend an act entitled “An act to limit the hours of labor of persons employed by the state, county, and municipal governments, and of persons employed by contractors, subcontractors or other persons in the performance of a public work; requiring a condition limiting the hours of labor in all contracts for public work; fixing the penalties for the violations of this act, and other matters properly relating thereto,” approved March 29, 1919, 370.

 

[Approved March 12, 1935]

 

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, being section 6170 N. C. L. 1929, is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 1.  The services and employment of all persons, except as otherwise provided herein, who are now, or may hereafter be, employed by the State of Nevada, or by any county, city, town, township, or any other political subdivision thereof, or by any contractor, subcontractor or other person having a contract with the State of Nevada, or with any county, city, town, township, or any other political subdivision thereof, for the performance of public work, is hereby limited and restricted to not more than eight hours in any one calendar day and not more than fifty-six hours in any one week; and it shall be unlawful for any officer or agent of the State of Nevada, or of any county, city, town, township, or other political subdivision thereof, or any contractor, subcontractor or other person having a contract as herein provided, whose duty it shall be to employ, direct or control the services of such employees, to require or permit such employees to work more than eight hours in any one calendar day or more than fifty-six hours in any one week, except in cases of emergency where life or property is in imminent danger; provided, the period of eight hours’ employment mentioned in this act shall commence from the time the employee takes charge of any equipment of the employer or acts as assistant or helper to a person who is in charge of any equipment of the employer, or enters upon or into any conveyance of or operated by or for the employer at any camp or living quarters provided by the employer for the transportation of employees to the place of work; and provided further, nothing in this act shall apply to officials of the State of Nevada, or of any county, city, town, township, or other political subdivision thereof, or to employees thereof who are engaged as employees of a fire department, or to nurses in training or working in hospitals, or to deputy sheriffs or jailers, or to work done directly by any public utility company pursuant to order of the public service commission or other public authority.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eight-hour day for all employees on public works

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When employment begins

 

 

 

 

Exceptions defined


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Repeal

 

In effect

to deputy sheriffs or jailers, or to work done directly by any public utility company pursuant to order of the public service commission or other public authority.

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

      Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective from and after its passage and approval.

 

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CHAPTER 33, AB 61

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What teachers eligible for retirement salary

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Proviso

[Assembly Bill No. 61–Mr. Riddell]

 

Chap. 33–An Act to amend an act entitled “An act to provide for the payment of retirement salaries to public school teachers of this state, and all matters properly connected therewith,” approved March 23, 1915, together with the acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto.

 

[Approved March 12, 1935]

 

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

 

      Section 1.  Section 12 of the above-entitled act, being section 6014 N. C. L. 1929, is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 12.  Every public school teacher who shall have complied with all the requirements of this act, and who shall have served as a legally qualified teacher in the public schools, or as a teacher in the state orphans’ home, or as a teacher in county normal schools, or partly as such teacher and partly as superintendent or supervising executive or educational administrator, for at least thirty school years, at least fifteen of which shall have been in the schools of this state as above specified, including the last ten years of service immediately preceding retirement, under a legal certificate, shall be entitled to retire; or, if physically or mentally incapacitated for the proper performance of the duties of teacher, may be compelled to retire by the board of education, school trustees, or other school authorities employing such teacher. Upon retirement, voluntary or involuntary, such teacher shall be entitled to receive during life an annual retirement salary of six hundred dollars, payable in installments monthly by warrant drawn as provided in section seven of this act; provided, that application for such salary be made within two years after the last month of service or within two years after the approval of this act.

      Sec. 2.  Section 13 of the above-entitled act, being section 6015 N. C. L. 1929, is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 13.  Any public school teacher who shall have complied with all the requirements of this act and who shall have served as a legally qualified teacher for at least fifteen years in the public schools of this state, or as a teacher in the state orphans’ home, or as a teacher in county normal schools, or partly as such teacher and partly as superintendent or supervising executive or educational administrator, and who shall have by reason of bodily or mental infirmity become physically or mentally incapacitated for further school service, under a legal certificate, shall be entitled to retire, or may, by the board of education, school trustees, or other school authorities employing such teacher, be compelled to retire.


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have served as a legally qualified teacher for at least fifteen years in the public schools of this state, or as a teacher in the state orphans’ home, or as a teacher in county normal schools, or partly as such teacher and partly as superintendent or supervising executive or educational administrator, and who shall have by reason of bodily or mental infirmity become physically or mentally incapacitated for further school service, under a legal certificate, shall be entitled to retire, or may, by the board of education, school trustees, or other school authorities employing such teacher, be compelled to retire. Upon retirement, voluntary or involuntary, such teacher shall be entitled to receive during the period of such disability an annual retirement salary, payable in installments monthly, which shall be the same fraction of the maximum retirement salary of six hundred dollars as said teacher’s time of service is of thirty years; provided, that application for such retirement salary shall be made within two years of the last month of service or within two years after the approval of this act.

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

      Sec. 4.  This act shall become effective from and after its passage and approval.

Disabled teachers may retire on certain proportion of retirement salary

 

 

 

 

 

Proviso

 

 

 

Repeal

 

In effect

 

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CHAPTER 34, AB 106

[Assembly Bill No. 106–Committee on Education]

 

Chap. 34–An Act to amend an act entitled “An act to provide books, equipment, and materials free of charge to the pupils of the public schools and to provide for and encourage the economic use thereof, and fixing penalties for its infraction, and repealing an act in conflict herewith,” approved March 14, 1913, as amended.

 

[Approved March 12, 1935]

 

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, being section 5895 Nevada Compiled Laws 1929, is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 1.  The board of trustees of each school district shall purchase all new text and supplementary school books, to be used by the pupils of such district, and the cost of the same shall be a legal charge against the county school fund belonging to such district. Such boards, at their option, may purchase, or may require parents and guardians to purchase, paper, pencils, pens, crayons, and other such consumable supplies to be used by the pupils, which cannot, like textbooks, be used by successive pupils and classes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trustees to furnish textbooks

 

 

Duties of parents


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Repeal

 

In Effect

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

      Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective immediately upon its passage and approval.

 

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CHAPTER 35, AB 107

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

School officers to administer oaths

 

 

 

 

Repeal

 

In Effect

[Assembly Bill No. 107–Committee on Education]

 

Chap. 35–An Act to amend an act entitled “An act concerning public schools, and repealing certain acts relating thereto,” approved March 20, 1911, as amended.

 

[Approved March 12, 1935]

 

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

 

      Section 1.  Section 37 of the above-entitled act, being section 5685 N. C. L. 1929, is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 37.  The superintendent of public instruction and the deputy superintendents of public instruction are hereby authorized to administer the oath (or affirmation) to teachers, and all other oaths, affirmations, or affidavits relating to public schools; provided, that county high school principals and city superintendents may administer all oaths of office, affirmations and affidavits relating to the public schools of their own districts.

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

      Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective immediately upon its passage and approval.

 

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CHAPTER 36, AB 190

[Assembly Bill No. 190–Clark County Delegation]

 

Chap. 36–An Act to amend an act entitled “An act to amend an act entitled ‘An act to incorporate the town of Las Vegas, in Clark County, and defining the boundaries thereof, and to authorize the establishment of a city government therefor, and other matters relating thereto,’ approved March 16, 1911,” as amended, by amending section 4 of chapter I thereof; section 10 of chapter II, as amended, thereof; section 20 of chapter II thereof; section 21 of chapter II thereof; section 31 of chapter II, as amended, thereof; section 53 of chapter II thereof; and section 76 of chapter II thereof, together with all other acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto.

 

[Approved March 13, 1935]

 

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

 

      Section 1.  Section 4 of chapter I of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 4.  Additional Powers.  The said city shall have and be vested with all the rights, powers, property, and things of every kind now belonging to the town of Las Vegas, and may have and use a common seal and the same alter at pleasure, and may purchase, receive, hold and enjoy real and personal property within or without the city, and sell, convey and dispose of the same for the common benefit; and may purchase, receive, hold and acquire, manage and enjoy, operate and maintain, municipal water works and municipal power plants, electrical or otherwise, or other public utility; and may determine and declare what are public uses, for the purpose of the city, and when the necessity arises or exists of condemning lands or property therefor; and what are the lands and property necessary to condemn; and may receive bequests, devises, gifts and donations of all kinds of property, within or without the city, in fee simple or in trust, for charitable or other purposes, and do any, every and all acts and things whatsoever, necessary to carry out the purposes of such bequests, devises, gifts, and donations, with full power to manage, sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of the same in accordance with the terms of such bequest, devise, gift, donation or trust.

      Sec. 2.  Section 10 of chapter II, as amended, of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 10.  Mayor, Commissioners and Clerk-Salary of.  The mayor of the city of Las Vegas shall receive as remuneration for his services the sum of one hundred eighty dollars ($180) per annum; each of the city commissioners shall receive the sum of one hundred twenty dollars ($120) per annum; the city clerk shall receive the sum of twenty-four hundred dollars ($2,400) per annum.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Ordinances

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rules of procedure

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Powers of board of commissioners

annum; the city clerk shall receive the sum of twenty-four hundred dollars ($2,400) per annum. All salaries named in this section shall be payable in equal monthly installments.

      Sec. 3.  Section 20 of chapter II of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 20.  Ordinances-Power to Enact-How Enacted-Style of.  The board of commissioners of said city shall be vested with the power and charged with the duty of making all laws or ordinances not inconsistent with the constitution of this state, touching every object, matter and subject within the local government instituted by this act, and the style of all ordinances shall be: “The Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas do ordain,” but such caption may be omitted when said ordinances are published in book form or are revised and digested under order of the board.

      Sec. 4.  Section 21 of chapter II of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 21.  Board of Commissioners-Procedure-Impeachment.  The board of commissioners shall determine its own rules of procedure insofar as the same do not conflict with this act, may punish its members for disorderly conduct, shall compel the attendance of its members, and with the concurrence of a majority of the members elected may impeach and expel any member. Any member of the board of commissioners who shall have been convicted of bribery or any other felony, or who shall violate any of the provisions of this act, shall forfeit his office and the emoluments attached thereto. The board of commissioners may, at any general election or at any special election called for that purpose, submit any question to the voters of said city for approval or rejection.

      Sec. 5.  Section 31 of chapter II, as amended, of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 31.  The said board of commissioners shall have the power 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 act, necessary for the municipal government and management of the city affairs, for the execution of all powers vested in the city, and for making effective the provisions of this act; and to enforce obedience to such ordinances with such fines or penalties as the said board may deem proper; provided, that the punishment of any offense shall be by a fine in any sum less than five hundred dollars ($500) or by imprisonment not to exceed six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

      2.  To control the finances and property of the corporation.

      3.  To appropriate the same for corporate purposes only, and to provide for the payment of all debts and expenses of the corporation.


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and to provide for the payment of all debts and expenses of the corporation.

      4.  To levy and collect taxes within the city for general and special purposes on real and personal property as provided by law.

      4a.  The board of commissioners shall each year levy and cause to be collected a tax not to exceed five mills on the dollar of all of the taxable property of the city of Las Vegas for publicity purposes, the same to be placed in a fund known as “Publicity Fund.”

      5.  To borrow money on the credit of the city for corporation purposes and to issue warrants and bonds therefor in such amounts and forms and on such conditions as the board of commissioners shall determine; and the board may secure the payment of any bonds of the city by making them a preferred lien against the real or other property of the city; provided, that said city shall not issue nor have outstanding at any time bonds to an amount in excess of 20 percent of the total valuation of the taxable property within its limits, as shown by the last preceding tax list or assessment roll; nor shall said city have issued or outstanding at any time warrants, certificates, scrip or other evidence of indebtedness, excepting the bonded indebtedness, in excess of 2 percent of said assessed valuation; and provided further, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to restrict the powers of said city as to taxation, assessment, borrowing money, contracting debts or loaning its credit for procuring supplies of water, municipal water works, municipal power plants, electrical or otherwise, or other public utility. The said board shall provide for the payment of interest on such bonds as the same shall become due, and for a sinking fund for the payment of the principal within twenty years after issuing same. The board shall have the power to acquire or establish municipal water works, municipal power plants, or any public utility, only in the manner herein provided. The board shall issue a proclamation which shall set forth briefly the supply of water, municipal water works, the municipal power plant, or other public utility proposed to be acquired or established, the estimated cost thereof as shown by the report provided by the board and mayor, or an engineer or party theretofore appointed by the board for that purpose, the proposed bonded indebtedness to be incurred therefor, the terms, amount, rate of interest, and time within which redeemable, and on what fund. Such proclamation shall be published in full at least once a week for three successive weeks in some newspaper of general circulation published in the city, and shall state the date of the meeting at which said board will pass an ordinance providing for said bond issue. At the first regular meeting of the board, or any recess or adjournment thereof, after the completion of said publication, the board shall proceed to enact an ordinance for such purposes which shall conform in all respects to the terms and conditions of the previously published proclamation, and without submitting said question to a vote of the electors of said city; provided, however, that if a petition shall be presented to said board signed by qualified electors of said city equal in number to at least 10 percent of the number of votes cast in said city for representative in Congress at the last preceding general election, as shown by the last preceding registration list, and representing not less than 5 percent of the taxable property of said city as shown by the last preceding tax list or assessment roll (and corporate signatures by authorized officers shall be accepted in estimating said 5 percent), asking for a special election upon the question of whether or not the proposed ordinance shall be passed, then, and in that event, no such ordinance shall be enacted except pursuant to a special election called and held for such purpose and carried by a majority of the votes cast.

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Further powers of board of commissioners

of the board, or any recess or adjournment thereof, after the completion of said publication, the board shall proceed to enact an ordinance for such purposes which shall conform in all respects to the terms and conditions of the previously published proclamation, and without submitting said question to a vote of the electors of said city; provided, however, that if a petition shall be presented to said board signed by qualified electors of said city equal in number to at least 10 percent of the number of votes cast in said city for representative in Congress at the last preceding general election, as shown by the last preceding registration list, and representing not less than 5 percent of the taxable property of said city as shown by the last preceding tax list or assessment roll (and corporate signatures by authorized officers shall be accepted in estimating said 5 percent), asking for a special election upon the question of whether or not the proposed ordinance shall be passed, then, and in that event, no such ordinance shall be enacted except pursuant to a special election called and held for such purpose and carried by a majority of the votes cast. Any ordinance thus passed providing for the issuance of bonds shall be valid (1) if passed by said board in the absence of the filing of a petition and election, or (2) if such petition be filed and election had, then if passed by said board by a majority vote in favor of said ordinance. The petition for an election herein referred to may be filed with said board at any time prior to the date of meeting set in said published notice; provided, however, that said board may submit such question to the vote of a special election if the board find it convenient so to do; provided further, however, that even though no such petition be filed, or if at such election the question is carried by such majority vote, the said board may, in its discretion, abandon and discontinue all such proceedings to acquire or establish such municipal water works, municipal power plant, electrical or otherwise, or other public utility, upon adoption of a resolution to the effect that such board does not at such time deem it to the best interests of said city to acquire or establish such municipal water works, municipal power plant, electrical or otherwise, or other public utility.

      In addition to the powers elsewhere conferred upon said board they shall also have the power, for the purpose of constructing sewerage systems (including disposal plants) within the said city and waste mains therefrom, and said board is hereby authorized to issue bonds therefor not to exceed in the aggregate the sum of two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000); which said bonds shall be of convenient denominations, ranging from one hundred dollars to one thousand dollars, and shall bear interest at the rate of not more than 7 percent per annum, the interest on each bond to be payable semiannually.


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each bond to be payable semiannually. Said bonds shall be numbered consecutively and have interest coupons attached in such manner that they can be removed upon any payment of any installment of interest on the bonds without injury to the bonds. The bonds shall be signed by the mayor and countersigned by the city clerk, and shall be distinctively known as “Las Vegas Sewerage Bonds.” Before issuing the said bonds, the said board shall publish a notice at least once a week for at least three consecutive weeks in some daily or triweekly newspaper published in the said city, calling for a special election by the regularly qualified electors of the city whether such bonds shall issue. Such notice shall state consecutively the amount of the proposed bond issue, the rate of interest bonds are to bear, time and manner of their payment and that they are for the construction of a sewerage system and/or sewerage disposal plant, as the case may be. The board shall cause a sufficient number of ballots to be printed which shall bear the words: “Sewerage Bonds-Yes,” and “Sewerage Bonds-No,” printed thereon in parallel lines one above the other. The voter will scratch out the word “Yes” if opposed to the bonds, and the word “No” if in favor of the issue. The election shall be conducted and the votes announced in all several particulars as in other elections. If the majority of the votes cast are in favor of the issuance of the bonds the said board of commissioners shall proceed at once to issue them as rapidly as needed in conformity with the provisions of this act. Said board may submit such questions to the vote of the electors at a general city election instead of a special election if the board find it convenient so to do, in which even said notice, instead of calling for a special election, shall specify that such question shall be voted on at the next general city election and such question shall, in the form above provided, be placed upon the general ballot at such general city election. Said bonds shall be sold at not less than their par value and shall be redeemable in the order of their issuance within twenty-five years from the date of issue. The said boards shall provide for the payment of said bonds and the interest thereon at the time of regular tax levy for state and county and city purposes by levying an additional tax upon the property, real and personal, within the limits of the city, sufficient in their judgment to pay the interest upon said bonds semiannually as it becomes due, and the principal at such rate as will redeem all of the bonds within twenty-five years from the date of their issue; in which case the twenty-five years shall begin to run from the date of the particular bond to be paid. The said taxes shall be assessed and collected the same as other taxes paid to the county treasurer, and by him placed in a fund to be known as the “Las Vegas Sewerage Fund.”

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be known as the “Las Vegas Sewerage Fund.” All sewerage systems constructed under the provisions of this act shall be constructed under the supervision and control of the said board. The material may be purchased and work caused to be done directly by the board, or it may advertise for plans and specifications and bids for construction as they may see fit.

      6.  To issue bonds in place of or to supply means to meet maturing bonds or for the consolidation of or refunding of the same.

      7.  To divide the city into districts for the purpose of local taxation or to create districts for that purpose as occasion may require.

      8.  To raise revenue by levying and collecting a license fee or tax on any private corporation or business within the limits of the city, and to regulate the same by ordinance. All such licenses, fees and taxes shall be uniform in respect to the class upon which they are imposed.

      9.  To fix the amount of licenses and the terms and manner of their issuance.

      10.  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; circuses, shows, billiard tables, pool tables, bowling alleys and exhibitions and amusements. To fix, impose and collect a license tax on and regulate all taverns, hotels, auto camps, restaurants, chophouses, cafes, saloons, eatinghouses, lunch counters, barrooms, games and gaming houses, lodginghouses, accommodating four or more lodgers, manufacturers, laundries, livery stables, garages, automobile and motor sales agencies, vulcanizing shops, battery service shops, sales stables, cattle or horse corrals, express companies, telegraph and telephone companies, oil wells or tanks, oil refineries, tanneries, foundries, brick yards, pressed-brick yards, manufacturers of concrete blocks, street railway companies operating in whole or in part within the city. To fix and impose and collect a license tax on and regulate auctioneers, stockbrokers and stock exchanges. To fix, impose and collect a license tax on, regulate, prohibit or suppress 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 barrooms, street fakers, street peddlers, except those above stated, fortune tellers, mediums, astrologers, palmists, clairvoyants, phrenologists, pawnshops, pawnbrokers, oil wells, oil tanks, oil refineries, soap manufacturers, brick yards, livery, feed, or sale stables, cattle or horse corrals, foundries and machine shops.


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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. Within said city and within one mile outside of the city limits to regulate, prohibit, and prescribe the location of and suppress all houses of ill-fame, hurdy-gurdy houses, bawdyhouses, and any and all places to which persons resort for lewd or lascivious purposes or purposes of lewdness or prostitution, including dancehouses having special attractions, such as music or otherwise; to license and regulate gambling as allowed by law, and to prohibit gambling in all its various forms. 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, slaughterhouses, wood and fuel dealers, coal dealers, ice dealers, refrigerating plants, ice manufacturers, sewing machine agents, marble and 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, paint or oil stores, bicycle shops, repair shops, cycleries, garages, newspapers or publications, advertising agencies, insurance companies, building and loan associations and companies, fire, life and accident insurance companies and agents or solicitors for the same, shooting galleries, upholsterers, soap factories, barber shops, collection agencies and collectors, carpet 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, dressmaking establishments, telephone companies, electric light, water and power companies, bankers, brokers of any, every and all kinds, electric supply houses, job printers, manufacturers of soda water or other or any soft drinks, brewing companies, brewing agencies, patent medicine agencies, agencies of any and all kinds, wholesale houses, ore purchasers or brokers, sampling works, flour mills, city express and job wagons, draymen, second-hand stores, messenger service establishments, contractors or contracting mechanics or builders, sash and door factories, planing mills, machine shops, car shops, building and loan companies and agents and solicitors for same, real estate agents, real estate solicitors, pop corn, 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, title insurance companies, or persons furnishing abstract of title, iron works, notions and notion stores, pipe and tobacco stores, advertising by billboards, placards and the like, bootblacks and bootblack stands, gun stores, spotting, hunting and fishing tackle stores, jewelry stores, resorts for amusements of all kinds, and all and singular each, every and any business, and all trades and professions, including attorneys, doctors, physicians, chiropractors, osteopaths, and dentists, and all character of lawful business or callings and not herein specifically named; provided, that in fixing licenses the board must make the same uniform as to each trade, calling, business, occupation or profession.

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stores, furniture stores, drug stores, undertakers, glass and crockery stores, tamale stands or shops, abstract of title companies, title insurance companies, or persons furnishing abstract of title, iron works, notions and notion stores, pipe and tobacco stores, advertising by billboards, placards and the like, bootblacks and bootblack stands, gun stores, spotting, hunting and fishing tackle stores, jewelry stores, resorts for amusements of all kinds, and all and singular each, every and any business, and all trades and professions, including attorneys, doctors, physicians, chiropractors, osteopaths, and dentists, and all character of lawful business or callings and not herein specifically named; provided, that in fixing licenses the board must make the same uniform as to each trade, calling, business, occupation or profession.

      11.  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, taxis, express wagons, drays, job wagons and other public vehicles, and to regulate their charges, and to require schedules of charges to be posted in or upon such public vehicles. To fix, impose and collect a license tax on, regulate, prohibit or suppress runners for hotels, taverns and other businesses.

      12.  To lay out, establish, open, alter, widen, extend, grade, narrow, vacate or otherwise improve streets, alleys, avenues, sidewalks, parks and public grounds, and by ordinance require and provide for the macadamizing, oiling, curbing, grading, graveling and regrading, paving, draining, cleaning, repairing, lighting, surfacing or resurfacing the same.

      13.  To plant or direct and regulate the planting of ornamental shade trees, in, along and upon streets, avenues, sidewalks, parks and public grounds.

      14.  To regulate and control the use of streets, alleys, avenues, sidewalks, crosswalks, parks and public grounds.

      15.  To prevent and remove obstructions and encroachments upon the same.

      16.  To provide for and regulate crosswalks, curbs and gutters.

      17.  To name streets, avenues or other public places, and to change the names thereof.

      18.  To regulate or prohibit traffic and sale upon the streets, sidewalks, and in public places.

      19.  To regulate the use of sidewalks and all structures thereunder or thereover, and to require the owner or occupant of any property to keep sidewalks in front or along the same, free from snow and other obstructions.

      20.  To regulate and prevent the throwing or disposing of ashes, offal, dirt, garbage, or any offensive matter, in, and to prevent injury or obstruction to, any street, avenue, alley, park or public ground.


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and to prevent injury or obstruction to, any street, avenue, alley, park or public ground.

      21.  To regulate or prohibit the use of streets, avenues, alleys, sidewalks, public buildings and grounds, for signs, signposts, awnings, poles for the support of wires or cables, horse troughs or racks, or for posting handbills or advertisements.

      22.  To regulate or prevent the flying of flags, banners, or signs across the street, or from buildings.

      23.  To regulate or prohibit the exhibition, distribution or carrying of placards or handbills in the streets, avenues, alleys, public grounds, or upon the sidewalks.

      24.  To regulate the speed of horses and other animals, bicycles, automobiles, and other conveyances, and vehicles, and cars and locomotives within the city limits of the corporation, and to prescribe the length of time any street may be obstructed by trains being made, or cars standing thereon; and to prevent horseracing, immoderate driving or riding in the streets, alleys, avenues, and public places.

      25.  To compel persons to fasten animals attached to vehicles standing or remaining on the streets, alleys, avenues and public places.

      26.  To regulate or prohibit any public demonstrations and processions.

      27.  To prevent or regulate the rolling of hoops, playing of ball, flying of kites, riding of bicycles or tricycles, or any other amusement or practice having a tendency to annoy persons passing in the streets, or on the sidewalks, or to frighten teams or horses.

      28.  To regulate the ringing of bells, blowing of horns and bugles, crying of goods by auctioneers and others, and the making of other noises for the purpose of business, amusements or otherwise, and to prevent all orations, harangues, loud outcries, performances and devices tending to the collection of persons on the streets or sidewalks.

      29.  To construct and keep in repair bridges, viaducts and tunnels, and to regulate the use thereof.

      30.  To permit, regulate or prohibit the location, construction or laying of the tracks of any railroad or tramway in any street, alley, avenue, or public place; and to grant franchises to persons or corporations to lay, maintain and operate in, upon, along, through, or across any street, alley, avenue, or any part or parts thereof, of said city or other public places therein, railroad tracks and connecting and terminal tracks.

      30a.  To require every railroad and street railway company to keep the streets in repair between the tracks and along and within 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.

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between their tracks, and for a reasonable distance on each side thereof.

      31.  To declare a nuisance and take up and remove, or to cause to be taken up and removed, the tracks of any railway which shall have been laid upon, in, along, through, or across any of the streets, alleys, avenues or public places of the city and which shall not have been operated with cars for public use for a period of one year after the laying thereof.

      32.  To require railroad companies to fence their respective railroads or any portion of the same, and to construct cattle guards, crossings of streets, alleys, avenues and public places, and to keep the same in repair within the limits of the city.

      33.  To require railroad companies to provide protection against injury to persons or property; to compel said companies to raise or lower their tracks to conform to any grade which may at any time be established by such city, so that such tracks may be crossed at any place on any street, alley or avenue; to compel railroad companies to make and keep open and to keep in repair ditches, drains, sewers, and culverts along and under their railroad tracks so that the natural or artificial drainage on adjacent property shall not be impaired.

      34.  To provide for the lighting, sprinkling and cleaning of the streets, alleys, avenues, sidewalks, crosswalks, parks and public grounds.

      35.  To regulate the opening and use thereof for the laying of conduits, gas or water mains, or pipes, and the building and repairing of sewers, tunnels and drains.

      36.  To contract with, authorize or grant to any person, company or association a franchise to construct, maintain, and operate gas, electric or other lighting works in the city, and to give such persons, company or association the privilege of furnishing light for the public buildings, streets, sidewalks and alleys of said city.

      37.  To provide for the lighting of streets, laying down of gas pipes and erecting of lampposts; to regulate the use of gas, natural gas and electric and other lights and electric power, and to regulate the inspection thereof.

      38.  To construct and maintain waterworks, gasworks, electric-light works, street railways, or bathhouses, or to authorize the construction and maintenance of the same by others, or to purchase or lease any or all of said works from any person or corporation.

      39.  To construct or authorize the construction of waterworks without the city limits for the supply of said city; and for the purpose of maintaining and protecting the same from injury and the water from pollution, their jurisdiction shall extend over the territory occupied by such works and over all reservoirs, streams, canals, ditches, pipes, flumes and drains used in or necessary for the construction, maintenance and operation of the same, and over the stream or source from which the water is taken, above the point from which it is taken, and to enact all ordinances and regulations necessary to carry the power herein conferred into effect.


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over all reservoirs, streams, canals, ditches, pipes, flumes and drains used in or necessary for the construction, maintenance and operation of the same, and over the stream or source from which the water is taken, above the point from which it is taken, and to enact all ordinances and regulations necessary to carry the power herein conferred into effect.

      40.  To regulate and control the water and water courses, ditches, and flumes, within or leading to the city, and to regulate and control mill privileges within the city.

      41.  To construct, purchase or lease, and maintain canals, ditches, flumes, artesian wells and reservoirs; and to purchase or lease springs, streams, or sources of water supply for the purpose of providing water for irrigation, domestic or other public purposes; and to prevent all waste of water flowing from artesian wells, and if necessary to secure said sources of water supply, to purchase or lease the land from or upon which said water has been appropriated or applied. Also, to purchase, acquire or lease stock in ditch, canal, reservoir, or water companies for the purpose of providing water for such city and the inhabitants thereof.

      42.  To fix the rate to be paid for the use of water furnished by the city.

      43.  To purchase, construct, lease, rent, manage and maintain any system or part of any system of waterworks, hydrants, and supplies of water, telegraphic fire signals, or fire apparatus, and to pass all ordinances, penal or otherwise, that shall be necessary for the full protection, maintenance, management and control of the property so leased, purchased or constructed.

      44.  To regulate the construction, repair and use of vaults, cisterns, areas, hydrants, pumps, sewers, gutters, and plumbing; to provide for a board of examiners to examine into the fitness and qualifications of persons following the plumbing trade, and to prescribe what qualifications shall be had by persons following said trade.

      45.  To establish markets and markethouses and to provide for the regulation and use thereof.

      46.  To provide for the place and manner of sale of meats, poultry, fish, butter, cheese, lard, vegetables, and all other provisions, and regulate the selling of the same.

      47.  To provide for and regulate the inspection of meats, fruits, poultry, fish, butter, cheese, lard, vegetables, flour, meal, milk and all other provisions.

      48.  To provide for the inspection, measurement or graduation of any merchandise, manufacture, or commodity, and to appoint the necessary officers therefor.

      49.  To provide for the inspection, and sealing of weights and measures.

      50.  To enforce the keeping and use of proper weights and measures by vendors.

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measures by vendors. To provide for and regulate the manner of weighing of all food products and foodstuffs, and hay, grain, straw, ice and coal, and the measuring and selling of firewood and 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 appoint the necessary officers therefor.

      51.  To declare what shall be a nuisance, and to abate the same, and to impose fines upon parties who may create, continue, or suffer nuisances to exist.

      52.  To provide for and regulate the location, management, and construction of packinghouses, tanneries, canneries, renderies, bone factories, slaughterhouses, butcher shops, soap factories, foundries, breweries, livery stables and blacksmith shops in or within one mile of the limits of the corporation.

      53.  To prohibit any offensive or unwholesome business or establishments in or within one mile of the limits of the corporation; to compel the owner of any pigsty, privy, barn, corral, sewer, or other unwholesome or nauseous house or place, to cleanse, abate or remove the same, and to regulate the location thereof.

      54.  To make regulations to secure the general health of the city, to prevent the introduction of contagious, infectious, malignant diseases into the city, and to make quarantine laws and regulations and to enforce the same within the corporate limits, and within twelve miles thereof. To create a board of health and prescribe the powers and duties of the same.

      55.  To purchase, hold and pay for lands within or without the city limits for the burial of the dead and all necessary grounds for hospitals, and to erect, maintain and manage suitable buildings thereon, and to have and exercise police jurisdiction over the same and over any cemetery used by the inhabitants of said city; and to survey, plat, map, fence, ornament, and otherwise improve all public burial and cemetery grounds; and to convey cemetery lots owned by the city, and pass rules and ordinances for the protection and government of said grounds; to vacate public burial and cemetery grounds, to prohibit subsequent burials therein and to provide for the removal therefrom of all bodies which may have been interred therein.

      56.  To regulate the burial of the dead and the registration of births and deaths; to direct the return and keeping of bills of mortality, and to impose penalties on physicians, sextons and others for default therein.


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      57.  To provide for the burial of the indigent dead and to pay the expenses thereof.

      58.  To authorize the taking and to provide for the safekeeping and education, for such periods of time as may be expedient, of all children who are destitute or without proper parental care.

      59.  To establish, maintain, and regulate free public libraries and reading rooms as is or may be provided by law, and to perpetuate free libraries and reading rooms as may have been heretofore established in said city.

      60.  To define fire limits, and prescribe limits within which no buildings shall be constructed, except if it be of brick, stone or other incombustible material, without permission, and to cause the destruction or removal of any building constructed or repaired in violation of any ordinance, and to cause all buildings or enclosures which may be in a dangerous state to be put in a safe condition or removed.

      61.  To prescribe the manner of constructing stone, brick, and other buildings and the construction of fire escapes; and to cause all buildings used for public purposes to be provided with sufficient and ample means of exit and entrance, and to be supplied with necessary and appropriate appliances for the extinguishment of fires, to prevent the overcrowding thereof and to regulate the placing and use of seats, chairs, benches, scenery, curtains, blinds, screens or other appliances therein.

      62.  To prevent the dangerous construction and condition of chimneys, fireplaces, hearths, stoves, stovepipes, heaters, ovens, furnaces, boilers, and appurtenances used in and about buildings and manufactories, and cause the same to be removed or placed in a safe condition.

      62a.  To adopt by reference and to enforce any uniform building code and/or electrical code.

      63.  To regulate and prevent the carrying on of manufacturing likely to cause fires, and to prevent the deposit of ashes in unsafe places.

      64.  To regulate and prohibit the keeping of any lumber yard and the placing or piling or selling of any lumber, timber, wood or other combustible material within the fire limits of the city.

      65.  To regulate or prevent the storage of gunpowder, tar, pitch, resin, coal oil, benzine, turpentine, nitroglycerine, petroleum, or any of the products thereof, and other combustible or explosive material, and the use of lights in stables and other places, and the building of bonfires.

      66.  Except as otherwise provided by law, to provide for the organization and support of a fire department; to procure fire engines, hooks, ladders, buckets, and other appurtenances; and to organize fire engine and hook and ladder companies and to prescribe rules, duties and government therein with such penalty as the board may deem proper, and to make all necessary appropriations therefor; and to establish regulations for the prevention and extinguishment of fires.

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the organization and support of a fire department; to procure fire engines, hooks, ladders, buckets, and other appurtenances; and to organize fire engine and hook and ladder companies and to prescribe rules, duties and government therein with such penalty as the board may deem proper, and to make all necessary appropriations therefor; and to establish regulations for the prevention and extinguishment of fires.

      67.  To provide for the inspection and to regulate the use of steam boilers; to provide for the examination, regulation and licensing of stationary engineers and others having charge or control of stationary engines, boilers, or steam-generating apparatus, or elevators within the corporate limits of the city.

      68.  To prohibit cruelty to animals.

      69.  To prevent the running at large in the city of poultry, hogs, sheep, goats, swine, horses, cows, or other 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.

      70.  To provide for the punishment of persons disturbing the peace and good order of the city or any lawful assembly by clamor or noise or by intoxication, fighting or using obscene or profane language, or otherwise violating the public peace by indecent or disorderly conduct, or by lewd or lascivious behavior, and to punish the interference with any city officer in the discharge of his duty; also, to provide for the punishment of trespass, and such other petty offenses as the board may deem proper.

      71.  To provide for the punishment of tramps, common street beggars, common prostitutes, habitual disturbers of the peace, pickpockets, gamblers, thieves, or persons who practice any game, trick or device with intent to swindle.

      72.  To arrest, fine or set to work on the street or elsewhere all vagrants, mendicants, and persons found in said city without visible means of support or some legitimate business.

      73.  To prevent intoxication, fighting, quarreling, dogfights, cockfights, prizefights, bullfights, and also all disorderly conduct which tends to violate the peace and quietude of any individual or individuals within the city, and to provide against and to prevent the offenses of assault and battery and petit larceny; restrain riots, routs, noises, disturbances, or disorderly assemblies in any street, house or place in the city; to regulate and prevent the discharge of firearms, rockets, powder, fireworks, or any other dangerous or combustible material in the streets, lots, grounds, alleys, or about or in the vicinity of public buildings. To provide against or prevent the offense of obtaining money or property under false pretenses or the offense of embezzling money or property, in all cases where the money or property embezzled or obtained by false pretense does not exceed in value the sum of fifty dollars.


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pretenses or the offense of embezzling money or property, in all cases where the money or property embezzled or obtained by false pretense does not exceed in value the sum of fifty dollars. The provisions of this subdivision are separate and distinct from the provisions of subdivision No. 70 of this section.

      74.  To regulate and prohibit the carrying of concealed weapons.

      75.  To establish, erect and maintain city jails, houses of correction and detention and workhouses for the confinement of persons convicted of violating any city ordinance, and to make rules and regulations for the government of the same, and to appoint necessary jailers and keepers; and to use the county jail for the confinement or punishment of offenders subject to such conditions as are imposed by law and with the consent of the board of county commissioners.

      76.  To punish for keeping, maintaining, or becoming an inmate of, visiting or in any way contributing to the support of any place, house or room where persons assemble for the purpose of smoking opium, or inhaling the fumes of opium, or where opium is sold for such purposes.

      77.  To provide for and regulate the numbering of houses and lots.

      78.  To purchase, receive, hold, sell, lease, convey and dispose of property, real and personal, for the benefit of the city, either as sole owner or as tenant in common, with the county of Clark, State of Nevada, both within and without the city boundaries; and as such sole owner or as such tenant in common to improve, operate, regulate, and protect such property, and to do all other things in relation thereto which natural persons might do; provided, that the board shall not have the power to mortgage, hypothecate or pledge any property of the city for any purpose.

      79.  To erect and maintain all needful buildings for the use of the city.

      80.  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.

      80a.  To authorize, by ordinance, officers of the city police department to direct all traffic in accordance with the provisions of the traffic ordinances of the city, except in times of emergency, at which times such officers may, by such ordinance, direct the traffic as public safety or public convenience may require.

      80b.  To institute and maintain any suit or suits, civil or criminal, in the name of the city, in the proper court, whenever necessary in the judgment of the board of city commissioners 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 board of city commissioners, his ratable proportion of the cost of paving, grading, or otherwise improving any street or building, or any sidewalk or other improvement which benefits the property of the owner thereof.

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commissioners 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 board of city commissioners, his ratable proportion of the cost of paving, grading, or otherwise improving any street or building, or any sidewalk or other improvement which benefits the property of the owner thereof.

      80c.  To regulate and control the construction and maintenance of any tubes, pipes, or pipe lines, conduits, ditches, signal bells, warning signs, and other electrical, telegraph, and mechanical appliances in, along, over, under and across the streets, alleys and public places; 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, alleys or public places.

      80d.  To provide punishment for and suppress the unlawful sale, storage or keeping, offering or exposing for sale or barter, manufacture, storage or keeping, or other disposal of intoxicating liquors within the said city or within one mile outside of the city limits.

      80e.  Whenever ten (10) per centum or more of the qualified voters resident within the corporate limits of the city of Las Vegas, as shown by the number of votes cast for mayor at the last preceding election at which a mayor was elected for such city, shall by petition, in writing, presented to such board, express their wish that any act be done or ordinance be passed, the board of commissioners shall cause a special election to be held as provided by law, unless the submission of such proposition or propositions, at the next general, city, county, or state election, may appear to such board more practicable and economical. At which election such proposition, or propositions, shall be submitted to the people at such general or special election, as the case may be, in a brief and concise manner so as to be readily understood by the ordinary person of common understanding, and if a special election, it shall be conducted in the manner now provided by law for the conduct of special elections; provided, however, the said board may, at its discretion, give effect to such wish by appropriate action in that behalf if within the limits of the powers granted by this charter. At the conclusion of any election at which any proposition, or propositions were so submitted to the people, the said board is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to give, by such appropriate act as may be necessary, full force and effect to each, all, and every choice or wish so expressed at such election if within the limits of powers granted by this charter.


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such election if within the limits of powers granted by this charter.

      80f.  To require the construction and repair of sidewalks by the owners of abutting lots, and to construct and repair the same at city expense; provided, however, that if the expense thereof shall be paid by the city, the same shall constitute a lien upon the property and shall be paid by direct payment, special assessment, or as other city taxes are levied and collected.

      81.  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 board of city commissioners 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 the 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 of any other subject of municipal control or to carry into force or effect any further 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 or intent thereof.

      Sec. 6.  Section 53 of chapter II of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 53.  Expenses, How Proportionately Paid.  Such part of the expenses for the installation or laying of sewers or drains or the construction of disposal plants, or improving any streets, lanes, avenues, or alleys by grading, paving, graveling, curbing, parking, constructing sidewalks or crosswalks, or otherwise improving the same, as the board shall determine, may be paid from the general fund or district street fund, from the proper street district, or the said cost of a portion thereof, as the board shall determine, may be defrayed by special assessments upon lots and premises abutting upon that part of the street or alley so improved or proposed so to be, or the lands abutting upon such improvement and such other lands as in the opinion of the board may be benefited by the improvement. When the board shall determine to make any public improvement, such as laying pavements, constructing sewers, drains, sidewalks and crosswalks, curbing, macadamizing, oiling, graveling or grading any streets, avenues, or alleys or in anyway improving the same, and shall determine to 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 proportion of the expenses thereof shall be paid by special assessments and what amount shall be paid out of the general fund, district street fund, or any other fund.

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      Sec. 7.  Section 76 of chapter II of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 76.  Special Assessment, How Enforced.  When any special assessment roll shall be confirmed by the board of commissioners 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 of the board of commissioners. The city clerk and clerk of the board of commissioners shall thereupon deliver to the county assessor, acting ex officio city assessor, the assessment roll as confirmed by the board of commissioners with his certificate of such confirmation, and of the date thereof. The county assessor, acting ex officio city assessor, 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. 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, or the entire amount thereof to be collected at once, in a manner hereinafter prescribed, with annual interest thereon at a rate not exceeding seven percent.

      All special assessments, except such installments thereof as the board of commissioners 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 Las Vegas in the same manner as any other action for money owed the city of Las Vegas; 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 the words “justice court,” “justice of the peace,” and “constable” are used in said civil practice act, the same shall be held to mean municipal court, municipal judge, and chief of police, respectively, for the purposes of said action.


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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 board of commissioners may require the city assessor to apportion the uncollected amounts upon the several parts of land 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 subdivisions. 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 board of commissioners, 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 board of commissioners 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, and 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 board of commissioners 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 board of commissioners desires to have the same paid in annual installments, or the entire amount thereof to be paid at once, as hereinbefore provided, the board of commissioners 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, or the entire amount thereof to be paid at once, 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 board of commissioners 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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New assessment may be made, when

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lien irrevocable


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Duties of city assessor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rights of city unabridged

 

 

 

 

Repeal

 

In effect

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 board of commissioners 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 assessor, acting ex officio city assessor, 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 Las Vegas from collecting any special assessment by suit in the name of the city of Las Vegas 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.

      Sec. 8.  All acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

      Sec. 9.  This act shall become effective and be in full force from and after its passage and approval.

 

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CHAPTER 37, SB 50

[Senate Bill No. 50–Committee on Livestock]

 

Chap. 37–An Act to amend section 4 of an act entitled “An act relating to cattle, horses, hogs, and other domesticated animals and poultry, excepting sheep and goats, creating a state board of stock commissioners, defining their powers and duties in regulating and controlling such stock and protecting the same against loss from disease, theft, and other injurious agencies, providing for the payment of certain indemnities on livestock condemned and destroyed, providing for the payment of bounties on certain noxious animals, providing for a tax levy to carry out the provisions of this act, providing penalties for the violation thereof, and other matters properly relating thereto,” approved March 26, 1915, as amended.

 

[Approved March 13, 1935]

 

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

 

      Section 1.  Section 4 of the above-entitled act, being paragraph 3829 N. C. L. 1929, as amended by section 2, chapter 153, Statutes of Nevada 1933, approved March 22, 1933, is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 4.  The various boards of county commissioners shall at the time of the annual levy of taxes, levy the rate of tax requested by the board, not to exceed four (4) mills on the dollar per annum, on all cattle, horses, hogs and other livestock under the jurisdiction of the board, assessed in their respective counties, according to the assessed valuation of same, the said tax to be collected as other taxes, and paid to the state treasurer, who shall keep the same in a separate fund to be known as the stock inspection fund.

      The board may, with the approval of those legally charged with the responsibility of investing other state funds, invest or deposit any surplus or reserve money accumulating in the stock inspection fund, in a manner legally approved for the deposit or investment of other state funds, all income arising from such deposit or investment to be collected by the state treasurer and deposited in the stock inspection fund.

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tax rate for support of board

 

 

 

 

 

Funds may be invested

 

 

 

 

 

In effect

 

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CHAPTER 38, AB 127

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Powers of state board of health

 

 

Permit from state board of health necessary, when

[Assembly Bill No. 127–Messrs. Gray, Shelly and Phillips]

 

Chap. 38–An Act providing for the method of supervision over the sanitation, healthfulness, cleanliness and safety of public swimming pools and bathhouses, defining the duties of certain officers and persons in relation thereto, providing for the issuance of permits for the conducting and management of public swimming pools and bathhouses, providing a penalty for the violation of this act, and other matters properly relating thereto.

 

[Approved March 13, 1935]

 

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

 

      Section 1.  The state board of health shall have supervision over the sanitation, healthfulness, cleanliness and safety of public swimming pools and bathhouses and is hereby empowered to make and enforce such rules and regulations pertaining thereto as it shall deem necessary to carry out the provisions of this act.

      Sec. 2.  It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation, institution or municipality to construct or to operate or continue to operate any public swimming pool, bathhouse, or nudist colony, or any structure within the State of Nevada without a permit to do so from the state board of health. Any person, firm, corporation, institution or municipality desiring to construct or to operate and maintain any public swimming pool, bathhouse or structures intended to be used for swimming or bathing purposes within the State of Nevada shall file application for permission to do so with the state board of health with description of the source of water supply, amount and quality of water available and intended to be used, method and manner of water purification, treatment, disinfection, heating, regulating and cleaning; life-saving apparatus, and measures to insure safety of bathers; measures to insure personal cleanliness of bather; methods and manner of washing, disinfecting, drying and storing bathing apparel and towels, and all other information and statistics that may be required by the state board of health, whereupon the state board of health shall cause an investigation to be made of the proposed or existing pool, and if it shall determine as a fact that the same is or may reasonably be expected to become unclean or insanitary or may constitute a menace to public health, it shall deny the application for permit; if it shall determine as a fact that the same is or may reasonably be expected to be conducted continuously in a clean and sanitary manner and will not constitute a menace to public health, it shall grant the application for permit under such restrictions as it shall deem proper.


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      Sec. 3.  For the purposes of this act the state board of health, county board of health, any public health officer or inspector shall at stated intervals designated by the secretary of the state board of health have full power and authority to, and shall be permitted to, enter upon any and all parts of the premises of such bathing and swimming places to make examination and investigation to determine the sanitary condition of such places and whether the provisions of this act or the rules and regulations of the state board of health pertaining thereto are being violated. The results of such inspection to be reported to the secretary of the state board of health within seven days following said inspection. The state board of health and the county boards of health may from time to time at their discretion publish the reports of such inspection.

      Sec. 4.  Any permit granted by the state board of health as provided in this act shall be revocable or subject to suspension at any time by formal action of the state board of health if it shall determine as a fact that the swimming or bathing places are being conducted in a manner insanitary, unclean or dangerous to public health.

      Sec. 5.  Any swimming pool constructed, operated or maintained contrary to the provisions of this act are hereby declared to be public nuisances, dangerous to health. Such nuisances may be abated or enjoined in an action brought by the local or state board of health.

      Sec. 6.  Any person, firm, corporation, whether as principal or agent, employer or employee, who violates any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and each day that conditions or actions, in violation of this act, shall continue, shall be deemed to be a separate and distinct offense, and for each offense, upon conviction, he shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or shall be imprisoned in the county jail for a term not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

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

      Sec. 8.  This act shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and approval.

Right of inspection

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Permit revocable

 

 

 

Public nuisances, when

 

 

 

Penalty for violation

 

 

 

 

 

 

Repeal

 

In effect

 

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CHAPTER 39, AB 151

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unlawful to use other than lawful coin in vending machine

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Penalty for violation

[Assembly Bill No. 151–Mr. Horgan]

 

Chap. 39–An Act to provide penalties for using, manufacturing, selling or giving away tokens, slugs, or spurious coins for the fraudulent operation of vending machines, coin-box telephones, or other receptacles, designed to receive lawful coins of the United States of America, in the sale, use or enjoyment of property or service.

 

[Approved March 13, 1935]

 

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

 

      Section 1.  Any person who, by means of any token, slug, false or counterfeited coin, or by any other means, method, trick or device whatsoever not lawfully authorized by the owner, lessee, or licensee of any lawful vending machine, coin-box telephone or other receptacle designed to receive or be operated by lawful coin of the United States of America in furtherance of or connection with the sale, use or enjoyment of property or service, knowingly shall operate or cause to be operated, or shall attempt to operate or attempt to cause to be operated, any vending machine, coin-box telephone or other receptacle designed to receive or be operated by lawful coin of the United States of America, or whoever shall take, obtain, accept or receive, from or by means of any such machine, coin-box telephone or other receptacle, any article of value or other facility or service, without depositing in, delivering to and payment into such machine, coin-box telephone or receptacle the amount of lawful coin of the United States of America required therefor by the owner, lessee or licensee of such machine, coin-box telephone or other receptacle, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not more than sixty days or by fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, or both.

      Sec. 2.  Any person who, with intent to cheat or defraud the owner, lessee, licensee or other person entitled to the contents of any vending machine, coin-box telephone or other receptacle designated to receive or be operated by lawful coin of the United States of America in furtherance of or connection with the sale, use or enjoyment of property or service or the use or enjoyment of any telephone, telegraph or other facilities or service, or whoever, knowingly or having cause to believe that the same is intended for fraudulent or unlawful use on the part of the purchaser, donee or user thereof, shall manufacture for sale, sell or give away any token, slug, false or counterfeited coin or any device or substance whatsoever, intended or calculated to be placed, deposited or used in any such vending machine, coin-box telephone or other receptacle, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor; and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not more than sixty days or by fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, or both.


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a misdemeanor; and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not more than sixty days or by fine not exceeding two hundred dollars, or both.

      Sec. 3.  This act shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and approval.

 

 

 

In effect

 

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CHAPTER 40, AB 142

[Assembly Bill No. 142–Mr. Goodwin]

 

Chap. 40–An Act to amend section 36 of an act entitled “An act relating to elections,” approved March 24, 1917, as amended.

 

[Approved March 13, 1935]

 

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, being section 2473 N. C. L. 1929, is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 36.  On each ballot a perforated line shall extend from top to bottom, one-half inch from the right-hand side of such ballot, and upon the half-inch strip thus formed there shall be no writing or printing except the number of the ballot, which shall be upon the back of the strip in such position that it shall appear on the outside when the ballot is folded. The number of each ballot shall be the same as that on the corresponding stub, and the ballots and stubs shall be numbered consecutively in each county. Where the names of the candidates are printed in separate columns the columns shall be separated by heavy rules, and on all ballots the names of candidates shall be separated by a rule extending to the extreme right of the column. All ballots shall contain the name of each and every candidate whose nomination for any office specified in the ballot has been certified to and filed according to the provisions of this act, and no other name; provided, that the names of candidates for president and vice president of the United States shall be printed upon such ballots when such election shall be a presidential election, the names of such candidates for president and vice president of each party to be placed directly above those of the candidates for presidential electors of the same party and separated therefrom by a light-faced rule, but with no square for marking after the names of such candidates for president and vice president. Beneath the name of each of the candidates of said candidates for vice president in each party group, in light-faced type, not larger than six-point, shall appear the words: “To vote for your choice for president and vice president mark X after the names of the presidential electors of the same political party”; provided, however, that nothing in this act shall be construed to permit the throwing out of any ballot because the elector has marked X after the names of such candidates for president and vice president, though no space has been placed for such mark; and provided further, that in the event of such latter marking and either a marking or no marking after the names of candidates for electors, such ballot shall be construed to have been cast for each of the electors of such political party and shall be so counted and tallied.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Description of ballots, how printed

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Candidates for president and vice president printed on ballots


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Intent of voter recognized

 

 

 

 

 

 

Names arranged alphabetically

 

 

 

 

 

 

Purport of any question to be stated; additional requirements

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Repeal

 

In effect

after the names of the presidential electors of the same political party”; provided, however, that nothing in this act shall be construed to permit the throwing out of any ballot because the elector has marked X after the names of such candidates for president and vice president, though no space has been placed for such mark; and provided further, that in the event of such latter marking and either a marking or no marking after the names of candidates for electors, such ballot shall be construed to have been cast for each of the electors of such political party and shall be so counted and tallied.

      The names of the candidates for each office shall be arranged, under the designation of the office, in alphabetical order, according to the surname, except that the names of candidates for presidential electors shall be arranged in groups as presented in the several certificates of nomination; the political designation of each candidate, except in the case of candidates for judicial offices and school offices, shall be printed opposite his name. There shall be a margin at the right-hand side of the names at least one-half inch wide, so that the voters may clearly indicate in the way hereinafter described the candidate or candidates for whom they wish to vote.

      Whenever any question is to be submitted to the vote of the people, it shall be printed upon the ballot in such manner as to enable the electors to vote upon the question in the manner hereinafter provided, with a brief statement of the purport of such question, in plain ordinary language which may be readily understood by the ordinary lay person. Before every question or constitutional amendment to be voted upon there shall be placed a number, to be designated by the secretary of state, in bold-face type, not smaller than twenty-four point.

      There shall be printed on the ballots opposite the designation of each office such words as will aid the voter to indicate his choice of candidate, such as “Vote for one,” “Vote for three,” and the like.

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

      Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective from and after its passage and approval.

 

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CHAPTER 41, AB 108

[Assembly Bill No. 108–Mr. Goodwin]

 

Chap. 41–An Act authorizing and directing the board of regents of the University of Nevada to deliver a deed for certain property to James Peckham of Washoe County, Nevada.

 

[Approved March 13, 1935]

 

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

 

      Section 1.  Upon the payment of one hundred fifty ($150) dollars to the board of regents of the University of Nevada by James Peckham of Washoe County, Nevada, the board of regents of the University of Nevada are hereby authorized and directed to make, execute and deliver to James Peckham of Washoe County, Nevada, a good and sufficient deed to the following-described real estate situated in Washoe County, Nevada:

      A certain parcel or strip of land which lies and is within the NE 1/4 of the SE 1/4 of section 25, T. 19 N., R. 19 E., M. D. B. & M. and more fully described as follows to wit:

      Beginning at the southwest corner of that tract of land owned by the University of Nevada and lying east of the Reno-Carson state highway, said point of beginning described as bearing N. 17° 56′ 30ʺ W. 1,727.70 feet from the southeast corner of section 25, T. 19 N., R. 19 E., M. D. B. & M., thence N. 20° 29′ 30ʺ W. along the easterly 35-foot right-of-way line of the state highway a distance of 593.94 feet to a point, thence easterly along the south boundary of the Peckham driveway a distance of 5.97 feet to a point, thence N. 20° 29′ 30ʺ W. along the easterly 40-foot right-of-way line of the state highway a distance of 24.55 feet to a point, thence easterly along the north boundary of the Peckham driveway a distance of 133.84 feet to a point, thence southerly along the westerly right-of-way line of the Virginia and Truckee railway a distance of 96.55 feet to a point, thence S. 69° 15′ 20ʺ W. a distance of 75 feet to a point, thence S. 20° 44′ 40ʺ E. a distance of 449.50 feet to a point, thence S. 69° 15′ 20ʺ W. a distance of 46 feet to the point of beginning, said parcel of land containing 0.86 of an acre, more or less.

      Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective from and after its passage and approval.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Board of regents to sell and convey certain real estate

 

 

 

 

 

 

Description of property

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In effect

 

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CHAPTER 42, SB 108

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Advertising signs not lawful

 

 

 

Exception

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Repeal

 

In effect

[Senate Bill No. 108–Senator Winters]

 

Chap. 42–An Act to amend section 25 of an act entitled “An act to provide a general highway law for the State of Nevada,” approved March 23, 1917.

 

[Approved March 13, 1935]

 

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

 

      Section 1.  Section 25 of the above-entitled act, being section 5348 Nevada Compiled Laws 1929, is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 25.  No advertising signs, signboards, or boards or other materials containing advertising matter shall be placed upon or over any state highway, nor within the highway right of way; nor upon any bridge or other structure thereon; nor so situated with respect to any public highway as to obstruct clear vision of an intersecting highway or highways or otherwise so situated as to constitute a hazard upon and/or prevent the safe use of the state highway; provided, that counties, towns or cities of the State of Nevada may, by permission of the state highway department, place at such points as may be designated by the state highway engineer suitable signboards advertising such counties, towns or municipalities. If any such sign is placed in violation of this act it is thereby declared a public nuisance and may be forthwith removed by the department of highways or its employees. Any person placing any such sign in violation of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars, and shall also be liable in damages for injury or injuries incurred and/or for injury to or loss of property sustained by any person by reason of a violation of the provisions of this section.

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

      Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective upon its passage and approval.

 

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CHAPTER 43, SB 131

[Senate Bill No. 131–Senator Robbins]

 

Chap. 43–An Act to amend section 5 of an act entitled “An act to amend section 5 of an act entitled ‘An act providing for the printing and enrolling of legislative bills and resolutions and other matters relating thereto,’ approved January 27, 1915, as amended, and adding thereto additional supplementary sections to be known as sections 5a, 5b, 5c, 5d, 5e, 5f, and 5g,” approved February 24, 1931, and to amend section 5c thereof.

 

[Approved March 13, 1935]

 

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

 

      Section 1.  Section 5 of the above-entitled act, being section 7297 N. C. L. 1929, as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 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 the 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 metal fastener in the upper left-hand corner which penetrates all the sheets and holds them securely together. All portions of sheets not covered by typewriting shall be ruled off in red ink to prevent insertion of other matter. The enacting clause of every bill shall be entirely in capitals.

      Sec. 2.  Section 5c of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 5c.  The original copy shall then be presented by the chairman of the enrollment committee of the house wherein such bill or joint resolution originated, or such person as he shall in writing designate, to the governor for his action, who may authorize his secretary or legislative counsel to receive and receipt for same in his name; provided, that joint resolutions proposing an amendment to the constitution of the State of Nevada shall not be presented to the governor for approval and signature, but shall be delivered with the engrossed copy thereof to the secretary of state or such deputy or clerk as he shall designate in writing. The secretary of state shall cause such enrolled resolution and the engrossed copy thereof to be filed in his office, and shall deliver the same to the presiding officer of the house in which such proposed amendment originated at the next ensuing session of the legislature.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Size specified for enrolled bills and resolutions

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Original copy to go to governor


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Duties of secretary of state

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Repeal

 

In effect

the house in which such proposed amendment originated at the next ensuing session of the legislature. Such enrolled resolution accompanied by the engrossed copy thereof shall thereupon be laid before the house for action, and if approved by two thirds of the members elected thereto, shall again be deposited with and filed by the secretary of state that the same may be placed upon the ballot of the next ensuing general election. The history of the joint resolution containing a notation that the same has been returned to the house of its origin by the secretary of state shall be noted on the engrossed copy of said resolution, and shall likewise appear upon the history of the enrolled copy thereof, and shall bear the original signatures, in black ink, of the presiding officers and clerk and secretary of the respective houses for both sessions of the legislature at which said proposed amendment to the constitution shall have been considered. The secretary of state shall cause said proposed amendment or amendments to the constitution to be published in the printed volume of the statutes for each year, when it or they shall have been considered by the legislature.

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

      Sec. 4.  This act shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and approval.

 

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CHAPTER 44, AB 59

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

County commissioners must prepare budget for county

[Assembly Bill No. 59–Mr. Hussman]

 

Chap. 44–An Act to amend sections 3, 9, 11, 14, and to repeal section 8 of an act entitled “An act regulating the fiscal management of counties, cities, towns, school districts, and other governmental agencies,” approved March 22, 1917, as amended April 1, 1919, March 4, 1921, March 22, 1921, February 27, 1923, February 26, 1925, March 11, 1925, March 23, 1927, and to define the word “year,” and to repeal all acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith.

 

[Approved March 13, 1935]

 

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, being section 3012 N. C. L., is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 3.  The county commissioners of each county in this state shall, between the first Monday of January and the first Monday of April of each year, prepare a budget of the amount of money estimated to be necessary to pay the expenses of conducting the public business of said county for the then current year and for the next following year. Said budget shall be prepared in such detail as to the aggregate sums and the items thereof as shall be prescribed by the Nevada tax commission and shall in any event show the following details:

 


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shall be prepared in such detail as to the aggregate sums and the items thereof as shall be prescribed by the Nevada tax commission and shall in any event show the following details:

      1.  Estimated aggregate assessments upon which the tax rates are based.

      2.  The last available valuation of real property, personal property and net proceeds of mines as shown by the county tax roll, and the assessor’s collections for the preceding year.

      3.  The unencumbered cash balance at the beginning of the then current year.

      4.  The estimated receipts from all sources for the then current year.

      5.  The estimated receipts from all sources for the next following year.

      6.  The estimated expenditures for the then current year.

      7.  The estimated expenditures for the next following year.

      8.  The amount required for the next following year from taxation and the tax rate necessary to produce it.

      The budget shall be supported by distributions in such detail as shall be prescribed by the Nevada tax commission.

      Upon the completion of said budget, the same shall be signed by the commissioners of the county approving the same and by the county clerk, and the several sums set forth in said budget under estimated expenditures for the then current year shall be thereby appropriated for the several purposes therein named for the said then current year, and the sum set forth in said budget for the next following year shall be subject to revision upon the preparation and completion of the next succeeding budget required by this act. Said budget shall be forthwith filed in the office of the auditor and recorder, and a copy of the estimated receipts and expenditures for the then current year, the total valuations, and the tax rate as shown by said budget shall then be published once in the official newspaper of the county, if there be one, or if there be no official newspaper, then in a newspaper to be designated by the board of county commissioners.

      Sec. 2.  Section 9 of the above-entitled act, being section 3018 N. C. L., is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 9.  It shall be the duty of the governing board of every city, municipality, town, school district, county high school, or high school district or educational district in this state, between the first Monday of January and the first Monday of March of each year to prepare a budget of the amount of money estimated to be necessary to pay the expenses of conducting the public business of such city, municipality, town, school district, county high school, or high school district or educational district for the then current year and for the next following year. Such budget shall be prepared in such detail as to the aggregate sums and the items thereof as shall be prescribed by the Nevada tax commission.

 

 

 

What budget shall show

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Procedure upon completion of budget

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Budgets for cities, towns, and school districts


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Detail of town or city budget

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Detail of school district budget

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Procedure upon completion of budget

and the items thereof as shall be prescribed by the Nevada tax commission. The budget of any town or city or municipality shall in any event show the following detail:

      1.  The estimated aggregate assessments upon which the tax rates are based.

      2.  The last available valuation of real and personal property as shown by the tax roll of the town or city or municipality for the preceding year.

      3.  The unencumbered cash balance at the beginning of the then current year.

      4.  The estimated receipts from all sources for the then current year.

      5.  The estimated receipts from all sources for the next following year.

      6.  The estimated expenditures for the then current year.

      7.  The estimated expenditures for the next following year.

      8.  The amount required for the next following year from taxation and the tax rate necessary to produce it.

      The budget shall be supported by distributions in such detail as shall be prescribed by the Nevada tax commission.

      The budget of any school district, county high school or high school district or educational district shall in any event show the following detail:

      1.  The estimated aggregate assessments upon which the tax rate is based.

      2.  The last available valuation of real and personal property within the district.

      3.  The unencumbered cash balance at the beginning of the then current year.

      4.  The estimated receipts for the then current year.

      5.  The estimated receipts for the next following year.

      6.  The estimated expenditures for the then current year.

      7.  The estimated expenditures for the next following year.

      8.  The amount required for the next following year from taxation and the tax rate necessary to produce it.

      Upon the preparation and completion of said budget, it shall be signed by the governing board of such city, town, municipality, school district, county high school or high school district, or educational district, and the several sums set forth in said budget under estimated expenditures for the then current year shall be thereby appropriated for the several purposes therein named for the said then current year, and the sums set forth in said budget for the next following year shall be subject to revision upon the preparation and completion of the next succeeding budget required under this act; and in cities or municipalities it shall be filed with the city clerk; and if of a town, school district, county high school, or high school district or educational district, it shall be filed with the auditor and recorder of the county wherein such town, school district, high school or high school district or educational district is situated, and the estimated receipts and expenditures for the then current year, and the aggregate valuation and tax rates as shown by said budget shall then be published once, at least fifteen days prior to the date when such budget shall become effective, in the official newspaper of the city, town, municipality, or county, if there be one, or, if there be no official newspaper, then in a newspaper to be designated by the governing board of such city, town or municipality, or by the governing board of the county wherein such school district, county high school, or high school district or educational district is situated; provided, that when the estimated receipts and expenditures of a county high school are included in the budget of the county wherein such high school is situated, no publication of such receipts and expenditures shall be required other than in section 3 of this act; provided further, that whenever the budget filed by a board of school trustees shows that the estimated receipts from the semiannual school apportionments, without any special district tax upon the property of the school district, will be sufficient to provide the funds necessary to maintain properly the work in said school district for the current year and for the next following year, as required by law, the publication of the budget of such school district shall not be required.


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such town, school district, high school or high school district or educational district is situated, and the estimated receipts and expenditures for the then current year, and the aggregate valuation and tax rates as shown by said budget shall then be published once, at least fifteen days prior to the date when such budget shall become effective, in the official newspaper of the city, town, municipality, or county, if there be one, or, if there be no official newspaper, then in a newspaper to be designated by the governing board of such city, town or municipality, or by the governing board of the county wherein such school district, county high school, or high school district or educational district is situated; provided, that when the estimated receipts and expenditures of a county high school are included in the budget of the county wherein such high school is situated, no publication of such receipts and expenditures shall be required other than in section 3 of this act; provided further, that whenever the budget filed by a board of school trustees shows that the estimated receipts from the semiannual school apportionments, without any special district tax upon the property of the school district, will be sufficient to provide the funds necessary to maintain properly the work in said school district for the current year and for the next following year, as required by law, the publication of the budget of such school district shall not be required.

      Sec. 3.  Section 11 of the above-entitled act, being section 3020 N. C. L., is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 11.  In case of great necessity or emergency the governing board of any city, town, school district, county high school, high school district, educational district, or irrigation district organized according to law, by unanimous vote, by resolution reciting the character of such necessity or emergency, may authorize a temporary loan for the purpose of meeting such necessity or emergency; provided, however, that before the adoption of any such emergency resolution the governing board shall publish notice of their intention to act thereon in a newspaper of general circulation for at least one publication, and no vote may be taken upon such emergency resolution until fifteen days after the publication of said notice; provided further, however, that in school districts having less than 100 pupils in average daily attendance the publication of such emergency resolution may be made by posting conspicuously, in three different places in said school district, notice containing in full the emergency resolution with the date upon which the board of school trustees of said district are to meet to act upon said emergency resolution, and such posting of said resolution shall be made not less than ten days previous to the date fixed in said emergency resolution for action thereon. Upon the unanimous adoption by any governing board of any emergency resolution, a certified copy thereof shall be forwarded to the state board of finance, for its approval, and no such resolution shall be effective until approved by the state board of finance, and the resolution of the said board of finance recorded in the minutes of the board.

Procedure upon completion of budget

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Action in cases of emergency or great necessity


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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 74 (CHAPTER 44, AB 59)κ

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Publication of budget proper charge against county

 

 

“Year” defined

Repeal

 

In effect

adoption by any governing board of any emergency resolution, a certified copy thereof shall be forwarded to the state board of finance, for its approval, and no such resolution shall be effective until approved by the state board of finance, and the resolution of the said board of finance recorded in the minutes of the board. Interest accounts come within the jurisdiction of the state board of finance and may be approved or disapproved in whole or in part by said board.

      Sec. 4.  Section 14 of the above-entitled act, being section 3023 N. C. L., is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 14.  The cost of publication of any budget or notice required of any school district, county high school, or high school district or educational district shall be a proper charge against the general fund of the county in which the same is situated.

      Sec. 5.  Section 8 of the above-entitled act, being section 3017 N. C. L., is hereby repealed.

      Sec. 6.  The word “year” in this act shall mean calendar year.

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

      Sec. 8.  This act shall become effective from and after its passage and approval.

 

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CHAPTER 45, SB 55

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sections repealed

[Senate Bill No. 55–Senator Friedhoff]

 

Chap. 45–An Act to repeal section 5a and section 5b of an act entitled “An act to amend section 5 of an act entitled ‘An act concerning the county officers of the county of Lyon, State of Nevada, consolidating certain offices in said county, fixing the salary and compensation of said officers, regulating the appointment of deputies and the compensation thereof, requiring the officers of said county to make report of all fees collected by them to the board of county commissioners, and other matters properly relating thereto, and repealing all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith,’ approved March 5, 1923, and adding two new sections thereto, being section 5a and section 5b,” approved March 27, 1929.

 

[Approved March 13, 1935]

 

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

 

      Section 1.  Section 5a and section 5b of that certain act entitled “An act to amend section 5 of an act entitled ‘An act concerning the county officers in the county of Lyon, State of Nevada, consolidating certain offices in said county, fixing the salary and compensation of said officers, regulating the appointment of deputies and the compensation thereof, requiring the officers of said county to make report of all fees collected by them to the board of county commissioners, and other matters properly relating thereto, and repealing all acts and parts of acts in conflict there with,’ approved March 5, 1923, and adding two new sections thereto, being section 5a and section 5b,” approved March 27, 1929, Statutes 1929, chapter 166, pages 265, 266, are hereby repealed.


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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 75 (CHAPTER 45, SB 55)κ

 

fixing the salary and compensation of said officers, regulating the appointment of deputies and the compensation thereof, requiring the officers of said county to make report of all fees collected by them to the board of county commissioners, and other matters properly relating thereto, and repealing all acts and parts of acts in conflict there with,’ approved March 5, 1923, and adding two new sections thereto, being section 5a and section 5b,” approved March 27, 1929, Statutes 1929, chapter 166, pages 265, 266, are hereby repealed.

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In effect

 

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CHAPTER 46, AB 146

[Assembly Bill No. 146–Messrs. Gray and Shelly]

 

Chap. 46–An Act to amend an act entitled “An act to incorporate the town of Sparks, in Washoe County, and defining the boundaries thereof, and to authorize the establishment of a city government therefor, and other matters relating thereto,” approved March 15, 1905, as amended.

 

[Approved March 15, 1935]

 

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

 

      Section 1.  Section 4 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 4.  The corporate powers of the city, except as hereinafter stated, shall be vested in a mayor and city council. The mayor shall be an actual and bona fide resident, elector and taxpayer in the city, and he shall be chosen by the qualified electors thereof whose names appear upon the official register as hereinafter provided, and who are actual bona fide residents of and within the limits of said city. The mayor shall serve for a term of four years from and after the date of his election and qualification, and until his successor shall have been duly elected and qualified. He shall be the chief executive of the city and must exercise a careful supervision over its general affairs. He shall vigilantly observe the official conduct of all public officers and note the fidelity and exactitude or the absence thereof with which they execute their official duties, and especially in respect to the collection, administration and disbursements of the public funds, and all books, papers, records and documents of said city shall at all times be open to his inspection, and any official misconduct or willful neglect of duty shall be reported by him to the council. He shall, from time to time, give the council information in writing relative to the state of the city, and recommend such measures as he may deem beneficial to the city.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mayor and council

 

Qualifications

 

 

Term

 

 

Duties of mayor


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Salary of mayor

 

 

 

 

 

City council

 

Qualifications

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Terms of office of councilmen

 

 

 

 

 

Quorum

to the state of the city, and recommend such measures as he may deem beneficial to the city. He shall see that all the general laws and ordinances of said city are observed and enforced, and shall take all proper measures for the preservation of public peace, order and the suppression of riots, tumults and all forms of public disturbances, for which purpose he is authorized to appoint extra policemen temporarily, and to use and command the police force, or if the same be inadequate, it shall be his duty to call upon the governor for military aid, in the manner provided by law.

      Sec. 2.  Section 9 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 9.  The mayor shall receive such salary as the council shall prescribe by ordinance, not exceeding the sum of three hundred dollars per annum; provided, that when such salary is fixed, the same shall not be changed so as to increase the same oftener than once every four years.

      Sec. 3.  Section 10 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 10.  The legislative power of the city, except as hereinafter provided, shall be vested in a city council, consisting of five members, who shall hold office for the term of four years. They shall be actual bona fide residents and taxpayers in the city and qualified electors thereof. They shall be chosen by the qualified electors of their respective wards whose names appear upon the official register as electors of such ward, and residents thereof within the corporate limits of said city; provided, that no person shall be eligible for the office of councilman who shall not be an actual bona fide resident in the ward to be represented by him and shall not have been such resident for the period of at least six months next immediately preceding the date of election.

      Sec. 4.  Section 11 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 11.  The councilmen elected under this charter shall be elected for a term of four years from and after the 1st day of May, 1935. At the next subsequent general city election to be held in the year 1935, each councilman elected from his respective ward shall serve for a term of four years from and after the date of their respective elections, and until their successors have been duly elected and qualified.

      Sec. 5.  Section 13 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 13.  A majority of all members of the 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.


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The 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 yeas and nays to be taken and entered upon its journal upon any question before it. Its deliberations, sessions, and all proceedings must be public. The councilmen shall receive only such salary as may be prescribed by ordinance, not exceeding one hundred ($100) dollars per annum; provided, that such salary, when fixed, shall not be changed so as to increase the same oftener than once every four years.

      Sec. 6.  Section 16 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 16.  The style of all ordinances shall be as follows: “The City Council of the City of Sparks do ordain,” and all proposed ordinances when first proposed shall be read aloud in full to the council, and final action thereon shall be deferred until the next regular meeting of the council, except that in cases of emergency, by unanimous consent of the whole council, such final action may be taken immediately or at a special meeting called for that purpose. All ordinances shall be signed by the mayor, attested by the city clerk, and be published in full, together with the names of the councilmen voting for or against their passage, in a newspaper published in the city of Sparks, if any there be, otherwise in some newspaper published in the county and having a general circulation in the city, for at least two publications in such newspaper, before the same shall go into effect; provided, that whenever a revision is made and the revised ordinances are published in book or pamphlet form by authority of the city council, no further publication shall be deemed necessary. The city council shall record all ordinances in a book kept for that purpose, together with the affidavits of publication by the publisher, and said book, or a certified copy of the ordinances therein recorded, under the seal of the city, shall be received as prima-facie evidence in all courts and places without further proof, or if published in book or pamphlet form, by authority of the city council, they shall be so received.

      Sec. 7.  Section 19 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 19.  The city council, among other things, shall have the 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 the State of Nevada, or to the provisions of this charter, necessary for the municipal government and the management of the city affairs, and for the execution of all the powers vested in said city, and for making effective the provisions of this charter.

Rules

 

 

Salary of councilmen

 

 

 

 

 

 

Style of ordinances

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ordinances published

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Powers of city council

 

Meetings

To pass ordinances, etc.


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Annual tax

 

 

To control city property; proviso

Public streets, bridges, sewers, sidewalks, etc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Special assessments to pay costs

or the State of Nevada, or to the provisions of this charter, necessary for the municipal government and the management of the city affairs, and for the execution of all the powers vested in said city, and for making effective the provisions of this charter.

      Third-To levy and collect, annually, a tax of not to exceed one percent upon the assessed value of all real and personal property within the limits of the city, and which is by law taxable for state and county purposes.

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

      Section 19a.  The city council, among other things, shall have the power: 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 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, awnings, posts, show windows, and other things upon and over the sidewalk, 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 street, 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 land 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 street or alley, 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.


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graveling, or grading any street or alley, 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 buildings 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 and 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 assessments, 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, enginehouses and structures for the fire department, waterworks, 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 improvement or repairs in the laying of pavements, or constructing sidewalks, or in anyway improving the streets in the city, and defray the whole or any part of the cost and expense 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, 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 made upon the property according to the frontage, it shall be sufficient in said ordinances to so state with a definite location of the improvements to be made.

Ordinance declaring special assessments

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

May pay part from general fund

 

 

 

 

Just assessment to be determined

 

 

 

 

Certain costs from general fund

 

 

 

 

 

Manner of levying assessment


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Public improvement declared by ordinance

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

General terms to be used

 

 

 

 

Estimates of costs to be made

 

 

 

 

 

Notice by publication

council shall determine to make any public improvement or repairs in the laying of pavements, or constructing sidewalks, or in anyway improving the streets in the city, and defray the whole or any part of the cost and expense 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, 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 made upon the property according to the frontage, it shall be sufficient in said ordinances 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 one week 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 post office 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 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 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.


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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 fifty percent of the value of such lands and improvements, as last before valued and assessed for state and county taxation in the county tax roll. Any cost exceeding that percent 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 the 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. 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, improvements or premises, and collected as in other cases.

Other assessments may be levied

 

 

 

What costs shall include

 

 

Costs limited

 

 

 

 

 

Notice must be given

 

 

 

 

 

Pro rata assessments


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Assessment valid against property

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Frontage assessments

 

 

 

 

 

Assessment according to benefits

 

 

 

 

 

Form of certificate

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, improvements 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 and improvements, 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 and 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 the 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 portions 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 Sparks, ss. To the city council of the city of Sparks: 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 cost of (e. g., for paving B street from First street to Fifteenth street in said city, as the case may be), (or constructing a sewer on C 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.


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charter of the city relating to such assessment. Dated, Sparks, 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 special assessment against the same, and not being of that class of special assessment required to be made pro rata upon several lots or parcels of land, on 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 the description of the lot or 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 so 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 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 one week, at least, in some newspaper of the city, of filing of the same with the city clerk, and appointing a time when the city council and the 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 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:

 

 

 

Special assessment for single lot or parcel of land

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

City council to determine expense

 

 

 

 

Assessor to make special assessment roll


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Form of notice of special assessment

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

City council and assessor to review assessment

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Duties of officers when assessment roll confirmed

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:

      To (insert the name 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 from the (e. g., paving B street to Fifteenth street in said city), (or constructing a sewer on C street between First street and Fifteenth 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 Sparks 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; provided, any person objecting to the assessment may file his objections thereto, in writing, with the city clerk at any time before the time set for said hearing.

      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 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.”

      Section 19b.  The city council, among other things, shall have the power:

      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 as ex officio city auditor, the assessment roll as confirmed by the city council, with his certificate of such confirmation, and of the date thereof.


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council shall thereupon deliver to the county auditor, acting as 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 as ex officio 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. 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 and improvements 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 or the entire amount thereof to be collected at once, in a manner hereinafter prescribed, with annual interest thereon at a rate not exceeding seven percent. 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 Sparks in the same manner as any other action for money owed the city of Sparks; 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 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 land 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 land shall be according to such subdivisions. 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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Special assessments lien

 

 

 

 

When due

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assessment apportioned if lots or lands divided


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Deficiency to be paid from general fund

 

 

 

Invalid assessment; duties of city council

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sums paid to be applied on reassessment

 

 

Lien not impaired

 

 

 

City council to determine manner of payment of assessments

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 the power to cause a new assessment to be made for the same purpose for which the former assessment was made. All the proceedings for such reassessment and for the collection thereof shall be conducted in the same manner as provided for special assessments 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, or the entire amount thereof to be paid at once, 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, or the entire amount thereof to be paid at once, 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 of land and improvements, 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 as 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 as 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 Sparks from collecting any special assessment by suit in the name of the city of Sparks in the manner in this section 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.


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roll next thereafter to be made, in a column for special assessments, and the county auditor acting as 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 as 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 Sparks from collecting any special assessment by suit in the name of the city of Sparks in the manner in this section 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.

      If in any action for the collection of any assessment it shall appear by reason of any irregularity or informality that 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 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 Sparks 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 power of section 19a and 19b, anything in this act contrary thereto shall not be deemed in conflict with the provisions of said powers.

      Section 19c.  The city council, among other things, shall have the power:

      First-To organize, regulate, maintain, and disband a fire department; to provide for the extinguishment of fire; to regulate or prohibit the storage of gunpowder or other explosives or 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.

 

 

 

 

 

Proviso

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Irregularity not bar to payment

 

 

 

 

City council may amend special assessment

 

 

 

 

 

 

Powers of council construed

 

Fire department

 

Regulating combustibles


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Nuisances

 

 

 

Public health

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Quarantine

 

 

 

 

Pesthouse

 

 

 

Salary of health officer

 

 

 

Licensing and regulating various trades, callings and business

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

      Third-To provide for safeguarding the health of the city. For this purpose, the council, with the mayor, who shall be president of the board, shall act as a city board of health, and the council may by ordinance prescribe its duties and powers. The council may elect a secretary of the board of health, who shall be the health officer of the city and have full power as such over all matters pertaining to health and sanitary matters. The board of health may be empowered, among other things, to inspect all meats, poultry, fish, game, bread, butter, cheese, milk, lard, eggs, vegetables, flour, fruits, meal, and all other food products offered for sale in the city, and to have any such products as are unsound, spoiled, unwholesome, or adulterated summarily destroyed.

      Said board shall have power to make all needful regulations for the preservation of the health and suppression of disease, and to prevent the introduction of contagious, infectious, or other diseases into the city; to make quarantine laws and regulations, and the city council shall have power to enforce the same by providing adequate penalties for violations thereof.

      The council may erect or otherwise acquire a pesthouse, temporarily or permanently, at such distance from the city limits as it shall deem practicable, and the health officer shall have the power to establish temporarily pesthouse or houses in the case of emergency or epidemics.

      The council may by ordinance prescribe a salary for the health officer, but such salary, when fixed, shall not be changed so as to increase the same oftener than once every two years, except temporarily during the period of an emergency caused by dangerous epidemic or the like.

      Fourth-To fix, impose, and collect a license tax on, and to regulate all trades, callings, professions and business, conducted in whole or in part within the city, including all theaters, theatrical or melodeon performances, and performances of any and every kind for which an admission fee is charged, or which may be held in any house, place, or enclosure where wines, spirituous, malt, and 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, saloons, eating houses, lunch counters, barrooms, lodging houses, accommodating four or more lodgers; bankers, brokers of every and all kinds, manufacturers; livery stables, express companies, telegraph and telephone companies, street railway companies, operating in whole or in part within said city.


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and all kinds, manufacturers; livery stables, express companies, telegraph and telephone companies, street railway companies, operating in whole or in part within said 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 locations of or suppress all saloons, barrooms, gambling games, places where intoxicating liquors are sold or given away, street fakers, street peddlers, except as above stated, fortune tellers, mediums, astrologers, palmists, clairvoyants, and phrenologists, pawn shops, pawn brokers, refreshment or coffee stands, booths and sheds. To prohibit and suppress all dog fights, prize fights, cock fights, bear, bull, or badger baits, sparring and sparring contests and exhibitions.

      To fix, impose, and collect a license on, regulate, prohibit or prescribe the location of gambling and gaming houses, gambling and gaming of all kinds, faro, and all games of chance; houses of ill-fame, hurdy-gurdy houses, bawdy houses, and any and all places where persons resort to for lewd or lascivious purposes, or purposes of lewdness or prostitution, including dancehouses 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 every, any, and all kinds, trades and traders, hotels, butcher shops, slaughterhouses, wood and fuel dealers, coal dealers, sewing-machine agents, marble or stone dealers, saddle and harness makers, cigar stores, cigar manufacturers, stationery stores, confectionery stores, newspaper stands, plumbing shops, tin shops when separated from hardware stores, hardware stores, paint, paper, or oil stores, bicycle repair shops, cycleries, warehouses, cold-storage plants, daily, weekly, semiweekly, monthly, and semimonthly newspapers or publications, ice peddlers, insurance companies, fire, life, accident, and agents or solicitors for the same, shooting galleries, upholsterers, barber shops, carpet cleaners, photographers, wagon makers, wheelwrights, blacksmith shops, horse-shoeing shops, tailor and tailor shops, shoe shops, cobblers, tinkers, cloth-cleaning and dyeing establishments, bootblack stands, all billiard or pool games or other table games, or games played with cue or balls or other mechanical device, bakeries, milliners, gunsmith shops, steam renovating works, dressmaking establishments, local railroad, telegraph and telephone companies, express companies, stage companies, electric-light, water, and power companies, bankers, brokers, job printers, manufacturers of soda waters or other soft drinks, or of beer, malt, spirituous, or vinous liquors, or other alcoholic beverages, brewing agencies, wholesale liquor houses, ore 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, agent or solicitors for the same, real estate agents, popcorn, peanut, and fruit stands, music stores, drygoods stores, furniture stores, drug stores, undertakers, boot and shoe stores, tamale stands or shops, abstract of title companies or persons furnishing the same, foundries, iron works, notions and notion stores, advertising by billboards, placards, and the like, gun stores, sporting, hunting and fishing-tackle stores, jewelry stores, resorts for amusements of all kinds and all and singular, all business, trades, and professions, including attorneys, doctors, physicians, and dentists, and all character of business or callings not herein specifically named; provided, that in fixing any license the council must have due regard to, and be governed as far as possible by, the amount or volume of business done by each person, firm, company, association, or corporation thus licensed and on a pro rata basis.

Licensing and regulating various trades, callings and business


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Licensing and regulating various trades, callings and business

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dog tax

 

Vehicles

 

 

 

 

 

 

Riots

 

Chain gang

telephone companies, express companies, stage companies, electric-light, water, and power companies, bankers, brokers, job printers, manufacturers of soda waters or other soft drinks, or of beer, malt, spirituous, or vinous liquors, or other alcoholic beverages, brewing agencies, wholesale liquor houses, ore 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, agent or solicitors for the same, real estate agents, popcorn, peanut, and fruit stands, music stores, drygoods stores, furniture stores, drug stores, undertakers, boot and shoe stores, tamale stands or shops, abstract of title companies or persons furnishing the same, foundries, iron works, notions and notion stores, advertising by billboards, placards, and the like, gun stores, sporting, hunting and fishing-tackle stores, jewelry stores, resorts for amusements of all kinds and all and singular, all business, trades, and professions, including attorneys, doctors, physicians, and dentists, and all character of business or callings not herein specifically named; provided, that in fixing any license the council must have due regard to, and be governed as far as possible by, the amount or volume of business done by each person, firm, company, association, or corporation thus licensed and on a pro rata basis.

      Section 19d.  The city council, among other things, shall have the power:

      First-The city council shall have power to fix, impose, and collect an annual per capita tax on all dogs and cats and to provide for the destruction of all dogs and cats upon which said tax shall not have been paid; to fix, impose, and collect a license tax on, and regulate hacks, hackney coaches, cabs, omnibuses, and all other vehicles used for hire, and to regulate the stand of all hacks, hackney coaches, cabs, omnibuses, jitney buses, express wagons, drays, job wagons, 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, regulate or suppress runners for hotels, taverns, or other business.

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

      Third-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 to prevent their escape while being so employed.

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


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except the first one hereunder, regular or special, establishing election precincts, changing the same and appointing the necessary officers of election.

      Fifth-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 cars standing thereon, and to require railroad companies either to station flagmen or place such sufficient warning signals or signal bells on street crossings as may, in the judgment of the council, be necessary, and to require street-railway cars to be provided with modern fenders, and to have warning or signal bells rung at all street crossings.

      Sixth-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 amounts and claims against the city, and to allow or reject the same, or any part thereof.

      Seventh-To provide for the issuance of all licenses in this charter authorized, and to fix the amounts thereof, and to fix the time for, manner of, and terms for which the same shall be issued.

      Eighth-To make all appropriations, examine and audit, reject or allow, the accounts of all officers or other persons having the care or the custody of any city moneys or property, and to determine the fee or salaries of such office 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 herewith to meet the same; and provided further, that if any debt is created against the city, contrary to the provisions of this charter, by the said council, such debt, claim, or obligation shall be null and void as against the city, or any of its funds, but every councilman voting in favor of the same shall be held personally liable, jointly and severally, for the entire debt so made, and shall be deemed guilty of malfeasance in office, and on conviction thereof shall be removed therefrom.

      Section 19e.  The city council, among other things, shall have the power:

      First-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 limits, and to prescribe the distance from said limits where the same may be located.

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

City elections

 

Regulating speed of vehicles

 

 

 

 

 

To examine documents

 

 

 

Issuance of licenses

 

 

To make appropriations, contracts, etc.

 

 

 

Provisos

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cemeteries

 

 

Fire limits, etc.


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Registration of city voters

 

 

 

 

 

City prison

 

Animals at large

 

 

 

Steam boilers, poles, wires, etc.

 

 

Unsafe buildings

 

Sewers

 

Fire escapes

 

 

Fire precautions

 

 

Nuisances

buildings herein; to regulate and prescribe the material to be used in the construction of buildings and sheds in such limits; and regulate, prescribe, or prohibit awnings, porches, signs, placards, or billboards over sidewalks or cross streets, and to regulate the same throughout the city.

      Third-To provide by ordinance for a supplemental registration of all persons possessing the requisite qualifications of voter in said city, and whose names do not appear on the official register of voters in said city for the last preceding general election; such registration to be held every four years before the police judge and conform as nearly as possible with the requirements of general laws governing registration of persons for general elections; provided, that no such supplemental registration shall be taken later than thirty days preceding any regular city election.

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

      Fifth-To prevent or regulate the running at large within the city, of any poultry, hogs, sheep, goats, swine, horses, cows or other animals; to establish a pound and to authorize the impounding, sale, or destruction of any animals or fowls found running at large.

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

      Section 19f.  The city council, among other things, shall have the power:

      First-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 lay out, change, and create sewer districts; to require connections with sewers; to require owners or lessees of public buildings or buildings used for public purposes, including hotels, dancing halls, theater buildings, to place in or upon same fire escapes and appliances for protection against and the extinguishment of fire; to prevent the construction and cause the removal of dangerous chimneys, stove pipes, ovens, and boilers, and to prevent the depositing of sewer filth, offal, manure, or other offensive matter within the city; to prevent the depositing of ashes, rubbish, shavings, or any combustible material in unsafe places; to regulate and compel the cleaning, at the expense of the person in possession or responsible therefor, of all nauseous matter, filth, accumulated rubbish, or debris; to compel the abating of nauseous, stinking, or foul privy vaults.


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      Second-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 obstructing the aisles, entrances or exits of such places.

      Third-To regulate and control the construction and maintenance of any tubes, pipes, or pipe lines, 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 extinguishment of fires; or permanently with the free use of the streets, sidewalks, or alleys.

      Fourth-To require every railroad and street railway company to keep the streets in repair between the tracks and along and within the distance of at least two feet upon each side of the tracks.

      Fifth-To require, upon such notice as the 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, committing, or responsible therefor, and the council, in like manner, may require or cause any lots or portion 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 costs of filling upon such real estate, and provide that it shall be a lien thereon, in which case said lien shall be enforced as in other cases herein provided for.

      Section 19g.  The city council, among other things, shall have the power:

      First-To provide for and regulate the manner of weighing all food products and foodstuffs, and hay, grain, straw, and coal, and the measuring and selling of firewood and all fuel within the city, and to provide for 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.

      Second-To restrain and punish vagrants, drunkards, disorderly persons, common prostitutes, mendicants, street 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 drunkenness, obscene language or conduct, indecent exposure of person, loud and threatening or lewd or obscene language, or profane language in the presence or hearing of women or children, and all obnoxious, offensive, indecent, and disorderly conduct and practices within the city; to prevent and punish the discharging of firearms within the city; the lighting of fires in yards, streets, or alleys, or other unsafe places, or anywhere within the city; to prevent and punish 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; to prescribe the length of time horses may be left tied, hitched, or otherwise in the city.

Public halls, etc.

 

 

 

Pipe lines, wires, etc.

 

 

 

 

 

Railways to repair streets

 

To abate nuisances

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Weights and measures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To punish vagrancy, drunkenness, prostitution, etc.


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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 94 (CHAPTER 46, AB 146)κ

 

To punish vagrancy, drunkenness, prostitution, etc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To regulate water, light, and telephone charges

 

 

 

 

Lodginghouses

 

 

To protect public health, life, comfort and property

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To employ competent supervisor; salary

their infirmities for the purpose of receiving alms, and to prevent and punish drunkenness, obscene language or conduct, indecent exposure of person, loud and threatening or lewd or obscene language, or profane language in the presence or hearing of women or children, and all obnoxious, offensive, indecent, and disorderly conduct and practices within the city; to prevent and punish the discharging of firearms within the city; the lighting of fires in yards, streets, or alleys, or other unsafe places, or anywhere within the city; to prevent and punish 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; to prescribe the length of time horses may be left tied, hitched, or otherwise in the city.

      Section 19h.  The city council, among other things, shall have the power:

      First-To regulate the sale and use of water, gas, electric, and other lights in the city; to fix and determine the price thereof, as well as the rental price of all water, and gas, and electric-light meters in 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.

      Second-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 sanitary condition.

      Third-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 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 of vice in the city, and to pass ordinances upon 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 other duty, every, and all other acts and things necessary for the execution of the powers conferred or which may be necessary to fully carry out the intent, purposes, and object thereof.

      Fourth-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 council it shall be necessary or expedient, for the purpose of preparing plans for, or supervising the construction of or directing any public work; the salary or compensation, duties and responsibilities of such person to be fixed, determined, and fully defined by ordinance.


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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 95 (CHAPTER 46, AB 146)κ

 

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

      Fifth-To prescribe fines, forfeitures, and penalties for the breach or violation of any ordinance, or of any 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.

      Sixth-To require of and prescribe the amount and conditions of official bonds from the members of the council and all officers of the city, whether elective or appointive.

      Section 19i.  The city council, among other things, shall have the power:

      First-To institute and maintain any suit or suits, civil or criminal, in the name of the city, in the proper courts, whenever necessary, in their judgment, 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 against any property owner refusing or neglecting to pay, as assessed by the council, his ratable proportion of the costs of paving, grading, or otherwise improving any street or building, any sidewalk or other improvement which benefits such property or owner thereof.

      Second-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 and demands of every nature or kind, belonging or inuring to the city, but no sales of property shall be made until after it shall have been appraised by three appraisers, residents and taxpayers of the city, at the actual market value, nor shall it be sold for less than seventy-five percent of such appraised value; provided, that no park or property acquired for park purposes shall be sold or in any manner disposed of.

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

      Fourth-Nothing herein contained shall be construed as authorizing or permitting the opening or extension of any street across or upon the lands within the boundaries of said city of Sparks occupied for railroad purposes by the Central Pacific railway company, or the Southern Pacific company, their successors or assigns, said lands being particularly described as follows, to wit: Commencing at a point which is the section corner common to sections Nos. 4, 5, 8, 9, township 19 north, range 20 east, Mount Diablo base and meridian, and running thence westerly along the north boundary line of said section No. 8,

 

 

Fines for violation of city laws

 

 

Official bonds

 

 

To maintain all suits at law

 

 

 

 

 

To manage all city property

 

 

 

 

 

Condemnation for public use

 

Special provisions as to property of C. P. and S. P. R. R.

 

Description of railroad property


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Description of railroad property

line of said section No. 8, a distance of two hundred and forty-three (243) feet, more or less, to the northeastern corner of the townsite of Sparks, as shown on the townsite map recorded in the office of the county recorder of Washoe County on April 25, 1904, at request of the Southern Pacific company; running thence from said corner southerly at right angles along the eastern boundary line of said townsite of Sparks a distance of four hundred and twenty (420) feet to the southeast corner of said townsite of Sparks; thence at right angles westerly along the south boundary line of the said townsite of Sparks parallel with and distant four hundred and twenty (420) feet from the north boundary line of said section No. 8, a distance of twenty-three hundred and sixty-three (2,363) feet, more or less, to a point in the west boundary of the northeast quarter of said section No. 8, said point being also the southwest corner of the said townsite of Sparks; thence south along west boundary of the northeast quarter of said section No. 8, a distance of three hundred and forty-five (345) feet, more or less, to a point distant sixty-five (65) feet at right angles northerly from the center line of the reconstructed line of the Central Pacific railway as located and constructed; thence westerly to the right with an angle of 82 degrees and 24 minutes and parallel with and distant sixty-five (65) feet at right angles northerly from said center line, a distance of one thousand and twenty-five (1,025) feet, more or less, to a point on the east line of Elm street; thence at right angles southerly along the said easterly line of Elm street and crossing the said center line of the reconstructed Central Pacific railway at or near engineer survey station No. 66 plus 80, a distance of three hundred and five (305) feet to a point; thence at right angles easterly two hundred (200) feet to a point; thence at right angles southerly one hundred and sixty (160) feet to a point which is distant four hundred (400) feet at right angles southerly from the center line of the said reconstructed Central Pacific railway; thence at right angles easterly parallel with and distant four hundred (400) feet at right angles southerly from said center line, a distance of eight hundred and eighty-eight (888) feet, more or less, to a point in the said west boundary of the southeast quarter of said section No. 8; thence southerly along said quarter-section line a distance of eighty-five (85) feet, more or less, to the southwest corner of the north one half of the northeast quarter of said section No. 8; thence east along the south boundary of the said north one half of the northeast quarter of section No. 8 and the south boundary of the north half of the northwest quarter of section No. 9 of said township and range, a distance of three thousand four hundred and sixty-five (3,465) feet, more or less, to a point distant fifty (50) feet, southerly at right angles from the said center line of the reconstructed Central Pacific railroad; then southeasterly parallel with said center line and distant at right angles fifty feet therefrom a distance of eighteen hundred and twenty-five (1,825) feet, more or less, to a point on the east boundary line of northwest quarter of said section No. 9;


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more or less, to a point distant fifty (50) feet, southerly at right angles from the said center line of the reconstructed Central Pacific railroad; then southeasterly parallel with said center line and distant at right angles fifty feet therefrom a distance of eighteen hundred and twenty-five (1,825) feet, more or less, to a point on the east boundary line of northwest quarter of said section No. 9; thence north along said quarter-section line and crossing the said center line at engineer survey station No. 130 plus 33.15, a distance of one thousand and sixty-two (1,062) feet, more or less, to a point; thence at right angles westerly a distance of three hundred and fifty (350) feet to a point; thence, northerly and parallel with the east line of said northwest quarter of section No. 9, four hundred and ninety-five (495) feet to a point in the north line of said section No. 9, township 19 north, range 20 east, M. D. M., thence west along said north line of said section No. 9, a distance of twenty-three hundred and eleven (2,311) feet, to the point of beginning, said parcel of land being all in said sections 8 and 9, township 19 north, range 20 east, Mount Diablo base and meridian.

      Section 19j.  The city council of the city of Sparks, among other things, shall have power:

      To provide, by ordinance, for a pension fund and for the payment of pensions to employees of the city of Sparks who have been in the employ of said municipal government for a period of years to be determined by said council in said ordinance, and in the event said city council creates said pension fund, the said city council shall in said ordinance creating said fund, set aside annually not to exceed one percent of the taxes collected annually for general purposes in said city, for the creation of said pension fund; provided, that the money so set aside for said fund and not disbursed for said purposes may be invested by the said city of Sparks in its own bonds or in an interest savings account in a bank in the city of Sparks.

      Sec. 8.  Section 20 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 20.  There shall be a city clerk who shall be ex officio treasurer and tax receiver and license collector of the city. He shall be elected by the qualified electors of said city at each general city election. As city clerk he shall have the custody of all books and records, the corporate seal, and all documents not otherwise especially provided for. He shall be clerk of the council, attend all its meetings, whether regular or special, and record all its proceedings, and shall audit all claims against the city. He shall record in a journal, all ordinances, bylaws, rules, and resolutions passed or adopted by the council, which journal, after approval at each regular meeting, shall be signed by the mayor and attested under the hand of the clerk.

Description of railroad property

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

To provide pension fund for employees

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

City clerk; duties of


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City clerk; duties of

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

City attorney

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Police judge

 

 

 

 

 

Chief of police; duties of

under the hand of the clerk. He shall countersign all licenses and permits issued to any officer for the use of the city and shall charge such officer with the same. He shall collect all license fees imposed by any ordinance. He shall countersign all warrants drawn upon the treasurer by the mayor. He shall, when required, make and certify, under the seal of the city, copies of any and all papers, documents or records in his custody, and such copies shall be prima-facie evidence of the matters therein contained, and he shall have the power to administer oaths and affirmations. All claims against the city shall be filed with the clerk, who shall report upon the same and all matters pertaining to his office, at least once each month or oftener as the council shall prescribe, which report shall be in writing and under oath. The city clerk shall receive for his services as such, as well as for the services performed ex officio, such salary as may be prescribed by the council, not exceeding eighteen hundred ($1,800) dollars per annum; provided, that such salary, when fixed, shall not be changed so as to increase the same oftener than once every four (4) years.

      Sec. 9.  Section 22 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 22.  There shall be a city attorney, who shall be elected by the qualified electors of the city at each general city election, and he shall hold office for the term of four (4) years and until his successor shall have been duly elected and qualified. No person not a licensed and practicing attorney of the supreme court of this state, in good standing at the bar, a bona fide resident of the city and a taxpayer therein, shall be eligible to the office of city attorney.

      Sec. 10.  Section 29 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 29.  The police judge shall receive such salary as may be provided by ordinance, not exceeding six hundred dollars per annum; provided, that such salary, when fixed, shall not be changed so as to increase the same oftener than once every four (4) years.

      Sec. 11.  Section 34 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 34.  The chief of police shall execute all process issuing from the police court. In his absence or inability to act a chief deputy may act. The chief of police shall, before entering upon the discharge of his duties, furnish a bond to the city, which bond shall apply in like manner to any deputy acting in his stead. Said bond shall be in a sum and conditioned as the council shall require, and be approved by the council. The duties of the chief of police and ex officio chief of the fire department may be more fully defined and provided for by such ordinances as the council may from time to time enact.


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may from time to time enact. The chief of police shall receive such salary or compensation as the council shall by ordinance prescribe; provided, that such salary when fixed shall not be changed, so as to increase the same, oftener than once every four (4) years.

      Sec. 12.  Section 37 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 37.  All taxes collected under or by virtue of this charter, or of any ordinance of the city, shall be paid to the county treasurer of the county of Washoe at the same time as payment of taxes for state and county purposes is made; provided, that nothing herein shall be so construed as to require payment of any license taxes to said county treasurer. The county treasurer of Washoe County shall receive said tax, keep the same intact and separate and apart from other tax moneys and not commingled therewith, and he shall be liable on his official bond for the correct keeping and transfer of said moneys as herein provided. The county treasurer shall render a statement to the city treasurer of the moneys and the amount thereof so received by him, as often as he shall be required so to do by resolution of the council, duly passed, certified to under the seal of the city by the clerk, and served upon the county auditor, who shall draw his warrant for the full amount, and the said county treasurer shall safely transmit and deliver into the treasury of the city all moneys so collected and received by him, or so much thereof as shall be called for by the resolution aforesaid, and shall thereupon take the receipt of said city treasurer therefor. All such moneys shall be placed in the funds of the city. After the receipt by the city treasurer of such funds as may be called for in the resolution above referred to, and at the next regular council meeting after demand has been made upon the county treasurer therefor, the council shall ascertain the amount that must be paid out of the funds thus received, for bond interest and bond retirement, prior to the due date of the next tax apportionment; whether the same be quarterly, semiannually, or annually; and out of said funds thus received the city council shall direct the payment of due bonds and interest; and when such amount has been ascertained, the city council shall order a sufficient amount of said funds to fully cover the same, to be deposited in a special fund to be known as the “Sparks Bond Redemption Fund,” and the funds thus segregated shall be used only for the purpose of paying bond interest and maturing bonds; and shall not be subject to any other use, or to any judicial process, attachment or execution. The remainder of said funds shall be deposited in the fund to be known as the “Sparks General Fund,” and shall be so kept until used for general city purposes, and paid out upon proper warrants; provided, that the city council may, in its discretion, set apart any surplus moneys in said “Sparks General Fund” to the “Sparks Bond Redemption Fund,” which shall be used for bond interest and bond principal redemptions; for bonds now issued, or for those to be issued, and which are secured by the full faith and credit of the property within the city.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Disposition of taxes upon collection


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Disposition of taxes upon collection

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Council may create bonded indebtedness

 

 

 

 

 

Publication of intention

and paid out upon proper warrants; provided, that the city council may, in its discretion, set apart any surplus moneys in said “Sparks General Fund” to the “Sparks Bond Redemption Fund,” which shall be used for bond interest and bond principal redemptions; for bonds now issued, or for those to be issued, and which are secured by the full faith and credit of the property within the city. Nothing herein contained, however, shall be construed to prevent the city council, in its discretion, from creating a sinking fund out of any surplus tax moneys, to care for any long-term public improvement, or other public work or project. When the council shall decide to set any surplus moneys aside in a public fund, they shall so declare by resolution, defining the objects and purposes of the said fund, and when once set aside said fund shall be used only for the purpose for which it was expressly and especially appropriated.

      Sec. 13.  Section 54 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 54.  The council shall have the power by ordinance to grant any franchise or create any city or municipal bonded indebtedness, but no ordinance for such purpose or purposes shall be valid or effective for any purpose unless the council shall first pass a resolution which shall set forth fully, and in detail, the purpose or purposes of the proposed bonded indebtedness, the terms, amount, rate of interest and time within which redeemable and on what fund; or the applicant for, the purpose and character of, terms, time and conditions of the proposed franchise as the case may be. Such resolution shall be published in full in some newspaper published in the city or county, for at least two publications in the two weeks succeeding its passage. On the first regular meeting of the council, after the expiration of the period of such publication, the council shall, unless a petition shall be received by it as in the next section provided, proceed to pass an ordinance for the issuing of the bonds, or the granting of the franchise as the case may be; provided, that such bonds shall be issued or municipal indebtedness created, or franchise granted, as the case may be, only on the same terms and conditions in all respects as expressed in the resolution as published, otherwise such ordinance shall be null and void; and provided further, that the council shall dispose of said bonds or franchise, as the case may be, only to the person or persons offering the best and most advantageous terms to the city.

      Sec. 14.  Section 55 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 55.  The ordinance passed, as in the preceding section provided for, shall be valid to all intents and purposes as other ordinances fully and legally passed by the council, and any municipal bonded indebtedness created, bonds issued or franchise granted thereby, shall be in all respects valid and legal; provided, that if at any time within twelve days from the date of the first publication of the resolution mentioned in the preceding section, a petition signed by not less than one hundred residents and taxpayers in said city, representing not less than one tenth of the taxable property of said city, according to the next preceding assessment roll, shall be presented to the council, praying for a special election in said city upon the question of whether or not the proposed ordinance shall be passed, then it shall be the duty of the council to call a special election as soon as practicable; and notice shall be given in some newspaper published in the city or county, which notice shall refer to the resolution hereinbefore mentioned; and the notice shall be published at least three (3) times during the period of the two weeks preceding such election.


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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 101 (CHAPTER 46, AB 146)κ

 

section provided for, shall be valid to all intents and purposes as other ordinances fully and legally passed by the council, and any municipal bonded indebtedness created, bonds issued or franchise granted thereby, shall be in all respects valid and legal; provided, that if at any time within twelve days from the date of the first publication of the resolution mentioned in the preceding section, a petition signed by not less than one hundred residents and taxpayers in said city, representing not less than one tenth of the taxable property of said city, according to the next preceding assessment roll, shall be presented to the council, praying for a special election in said city upon the question of whether or not the proposed ordinance shall be passed, then it shall be the duty of the council to call a special election as soon as practicable; and notice shall be given in some newspaper published in the city or county, which notice shall refer to the resolution hereinbefore mentioned; and the notice shall be published at least three (3) times during the period of the two weeks preceding such election. The council shall in due time make provision for holding such special election, and the city clerk shall prepare, at the expense of the city, suitably printed stationery for use as ballots which shall contain the words “For the ordinance” and the words “Against the ordinance,” and such ballots shall present the question to be voted upon to the voters in substantially the following form:

      Shall the city council of the city of Sparks pass an ordinance authorizing a bond issue in the sum of $................, for the purpose of defraying the expenses of ……………………… (stating briefly the objects of the ordinance).

      A taxpayer, for the purposes of this section, is hereby declared to be a person who pays a real property tax or a personal property tax upon property located within the city. The council shall canvass and declare the result, and if such proposed ordinance be carried as above provided, that fact shall be proclaimed by the council publishing a notice to that effect for two publications during the period of the week immediately succeeding the canvassing of the vote, and thereupon such ordinance may be passed by the council and signed by the mayor and thenceforth be in full force and effect.

      Sec. 15.  Section 56 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 56.  The first municipal election in said city shall be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in May, 1905, and on the same day every four years thereafter, at which time there shall be elected one mayor, one city clerk, and one city attorney, by the qualified electors of said city at large; and five councilmen, as hereinbefore provided, each of whom shall be elected by the qualified electors residing in their respective wards.

Provisions as to section 54

 

Petitions

 

 

Special election

 

 

 

Notice to be published

 

 

 

Ballots, what to contain

 

 

 

Form of ballot

 

 

Taxpayer defined

 

 

 

Publication of result

 

 

 

 

First municipal election; future elections


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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 102 (CHAPTER 46, AB 146)κ

 

 

 

General election laws to govern

 

 

 

Repeal

 

In effect

each of whom shall be elected by the qualified electors residing in their respective wards. All elections held under this charter shall be governed by the provisions of the general election laws of the state so far as the same can be made applicable. The conduct and carrying on of all city elections, except the first, shall be under the control of the council, and they shall, by ordinance, provide for the holding of the same, appoint the necessary officers thereof, and do all other or further things necessary to carry the same into effect.

      Sec. 16.  All acts or parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

      Sec. 17.  This act shall take effect immediately upon its passage and approval.

 

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CHAPTER 47, SB 52

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Appropriation for use of stock commission

 

 

 

 

Manner of payment

[Senate Bill No. 52–Committee on Livestock]

 

Chap. 47–An Act making an appropriation to assist the state board of stock commissioners in combating certain livestock diseases constituting a menace to the public health.

 

[Approved March 15, 1935]

 

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

 

      Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the state treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of ten thousand ($10,000) dollars, to be expended by the state board of stock commissioners, during the biennium beginning July 1, 1935, for the better control and eradication of tuberculosis, Bang’s disease, or any other disease of livestock, communicable to human beings, in cooperation with the United States bureau of animal industry, or otherwise.

      Sec. 2.  Any claims against this appropriation shall be audited and approved by the state board of stock commissioners and forwarded to the state board of examiners for approval and payment in the manner provided by law.

 

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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 103κ

CHAPTER 48, SB 113

[Senate Bill No. 113–Senator Burt]

 

Chap. 48–An Act authorizing the construction and completion of an extension to water mains for the town of Caliente, Lincoln County, Nevada, the issuance and sale of bonds therefor, the levy and collection of taxes for the payment thereof, and other matters relating thereto.

 

[Approved March 15, 1935]

 

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

 

      Section 1.  The board of county commissioners of the county of Lincoln is authorized and directed to prepare, issue, and sell negotiable coupon bonds of the town of Caliente in said county for an amount not exceeding $15,000, exclusive of interest, for the purpose of providing funds for the extension to water mains. Said bonds shall be named “Town of Caliente Water Main Extension Bonds.”

      Sec. 2.  Said bonds shall be prepared in denominations of $500 and shall be numbered consecutively. They shall be made payable in lawful money of the United States and they shall have interest coupons attached in such manner that they can be removed upon the payment of the installments of the interest without injury to the bonds. Each coupon shall be consecutively numbered and shall bear the number of the bond to which it is attached. Said bonds and coupons shall be signed by the chairman of the board of county commissioners, acting as a town board, and countersigned by the clerk of said board. Lithographed facsimile signatures may be used on the coupons. Said bonds shall bear interest in like money at a rate not exceeding 4 per centum per annum, payable annually on the first Monday in January. They shall be redeemed and retired consecutively in the order of their issuance annually thereafter, according to the time specified therein from the date of their issue, respectively, and in no case shall any bond run for a longer period than twenty years.

      Sec. 3.  The board of county commissioners is hereby authorized to negotiate the sale of said bonds, or such number thereof as they may deem necessary to the highest and best bidder, giving preference to the State of Nevada, or by private sales as they may deem best, and may reject any or all bids; provided, that no bond shall be sold for less than par value.

      Sec. 4.  The said board of county commissioners shall pay the proceeds from the sale of said bonds to the county treasurer, who shall keep a detailed record of the same, and assign the same to a fund to be known as the “Town of Caliente Water Main Extension Fund,” and who shall pay out of the same for the acquisition, installment, management, and control of any system acquired under the provisions of this act, in all respects as required for such payments by the board of county commissioners acting as a town board.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

$15,000 bond issue for extension water mains town of Caliente

 

 

 

Denomination of bonds

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rate of interest

 

 

 

 

County commissioners to negotiate sale of bonds

 

 

Proceeds to go to certain fund


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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 104 (CHAPTER 48, SB 113)κ

 

 

 

 

 

Tax levy to pay interest and redeem bonds

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tax shall cease, when

 

 

 

 

 

 

Treasurer to redeem and cancel bonds

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Faith of state pledged

out of the same for the acquisition, installment, management, and control of any system acquired under the provisions of this act, in all respects as required for such payments by the board of county commissioners acting as a town board.

      Sec. 5.  To provide for the payment of said bonds and the interest thereon, the board of county commissioners shall levy and collect annually 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 town of Caliente until such bonds and interest thereon shall have been fully paid, sufficient to pay the interest on said bonds and to pay and retire, beginning with the bond number one, and consecutively thereafter at least one-twentieth of the total number of bonds issued under this act, annually on the first Monday in January, until all of said bonds have been redeemed and retired. 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 “Town of Caliente Public Utility Bond, Interest and Redemption Fund.” Said bonds and interest shall be paid from this fund. Said bonds and interest thereon shall be a lien on all property subject to taxation within said town of Caliente.

      Sec. 6.  Whenever the bonds and interest provided for in this act shall have been fully paid, the tax authorized by this act shall cease, and all moneys remaining in said bond interest and redemption fund shall by order of the board of county commissioners of the said county be transferred to the town of Caliente public utilities fund. If at any time there are sufficient funds in the said bond interest and redemption fund to care for the obligations of the current year in full or in part, the board of county commissioners shall fix the tax rate correspondingly lower.

      Sec. 7.  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. 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.

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


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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 105 (CHAPTER 48, SB 113)κ

 

hereunder and by virtue hereof shall have been paid in full, as in this act specified.

      Sec. 8.  The provisions of the existing law respecting the manner of acquisition of utilities, advertising notice of intention to issue bonds, bond elections, the duty of commissioners to act on a proper petition, and all other provisions not expressly superseded by this act shall apply to the acquisition, management, and financing of the system mentioned in this act. The commissioners shall act as soon as they conveniently may and the bonds shall be prepared as soon as conditions will permit. The systems herein provided for shall be deemed public uses authorized by the legislature such as are assisted by the principle of eminent domain.

      Sec. 9.  This act shall become effective from and after its passage and approval.

 

Provisions of existing law to govern

 

 

 

 

 

 

In effect

 

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CHAPTER 49, SB 41

[Senate Bill No. 41–Senator Robbins]

 

Chap. 49–An Act to amend section 40 of an act entitled “An act relating to the compensation of injured workmen in the industries of this state and the compensation of their dependents where such injuries result in death, creating an industrial insurance commission, providing for the creation and disbursement of funds for the compensation and care of workmen injured in the course of employment, and defining and regulating the liability of employers to their employees; and repealing all acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act,” approved March 15, 1913, and all acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto, and being section 2721 Nevada Compiled Laws 1929.

 

[Approved March 16, 1935]

 

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

 

      Section 1.  Section 40 of an act entitled “An act relating to the compensation of injured workmen in the industries of this state and the compensation to their dependents where such injuries result in death, creating an industrial insurance commission, providing for the creation and disbursement of funds for the compensation and care of workmen injured in the course of employment, and defining and regulating the liability of employers to their employees; and repealing all acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act,” being section 2721 N. C. L., is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Workmen’s compensation act amended


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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 106 (CHAPTER 49, SB 41)κ

 

 

State insurance fund

 

 

Duties of auditor

 

 

 

State treasurer custodian

 

 

 

 

 

Commission to designate depositaries

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Revolving fund created

 

 

 

 

Trust fund created

      Section 40.  (a) The premiums, contributions, penalties, properties and securities paid, collected or acquired by the operation of this act shall constitute a fund to be known as the “State Insurance Fund.” All disbursements from the state insurance fund shall be paid by the state treasurer upon warrants or vouchers of the Nevada industrial commission authorized by the majority of the commission and signed by one member of the commission and countersigned by the auditor of said commission. The auditor of said commission shall be required to furnish a good and sufficient bond in an amount determined by the commission and which bond shall be approved by the governor and attorney-general. The state treasurer shall be liable on his official bond for the faithful performance of his duty as custodian of the state insurance fund. The State of Nevada shall not be liable for the payment of any compensation or any salaries or expenses in the administration of this act, save and except from the state insurance fund, but shall be responsible for the safety and preservation of the state insurance fund.

      The Nevada industrial commission may by resolution approved by the governor, state treasurer, and state controller, two of whom shall constitute a majority, in writing, designate a bank or banks as collection depositaries, and may deposit therewith, with or without interest, for collection all premiums, contributions, penalties, properties or securities paid to or collected or acquired by the commission, and such collection depositaries shall be required to furnish security for such deposits in the full amount thereof as hereinafter provided. All the proceeds of such collections, except as hereinafter provided, shall be transferred from such depositaries to the state treasurer by the Nevada industrial commission; provided, that the commission by resolution, approved by the governor, state treasurer, and state controller, two of whom shall constitute a majority, in writing, may establish and maintain a petty cash or revolving fund to be retained in the possession of the commission or the auditor thereof. Such revolving fund shall never exceed three thousand dollars ($3,000), and shall be used for the payment of current administrative expenses, excluding compensation. The members of the commission shall be liable on their respective official bonds for the safety of such petty cash or revolving fund. It is further provided, that a sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) in the aggregate may be regularly maintained on deposit in all the collection depositary banks, and not subject to transfer to the state treasurer. Such fund kept currently on deposit shall be used for the transaction of the ordinary business and functions of the Nevada industrial commission in administering the Nevada industrial insurance act.


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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 107 (CHAPTER 49, SB 41)κ

 

functions of the Nevada industrial commission in administering the Nevada industrial insurance act. Such fund shall be and be called a trust fund, and shall not be removed or drawn upon except on checks or drafts of the Nevada industrial commission authorized by a majority of the commission and signed by at least one member of the commission and countersigned by the auditor of the commission, and made payable to the state treasurer of Nevada for the state insurance fund.

      The security to be deposited with the state treasurer by any bank for any premiums, contributions, penalties, or securities, and for any part of the state insurance fund deposited for collection or otherwise by the commission, shall consist of the following:

      Bonds of the United States, bonds the payment of which is guaranteed by the United States, certificates issued under the authority of the United States, bonds of this state or any state in the union, bonds, notes or warrants of any county within any state, or bonds or warrants of any municipality, school district, irrigation or drainage district, or political subdivision of and in this state. Such security shall at all times be in an amount to be determined by the said industrial commission and approved by the governor, state treasurer, and state controller, two of whom shall constitute a majority, but not less than the sums secured, and shall be approved in writing by the Nevada industrial commission and the governor, state treasurer, and state controller, two of whom shall constitute a majority, and shall be deposited and kept deposited with the state treasurer of Nevada. The agreement of security made and deposited with such securities shall inure to the Nevada industrial commission, the state treasurer of Nevada, and for the use and benefit of the state insurance fund, and shall permit withdrawal, substitution, and requirement of additional security, upon written approval of the Nevada industrial commission and the state treasurer; provided, deposits must at all times be kept fully secured.

      (b) The Nevada industrial commission may, pursuant to a resolution of the commission, approved by the governor, state treasurer, and state controller, two of whom shall constitute a majority, invest any of the surplus or reserve of said fund in bonds and certificates of the United States, bonds of federal agencies where underwritten or payment guaranteed by the United States, in the bonds of this or other states, in the bonds of any county of the State of Nevada, or other states, in bonds of incorporated cities, irrigation and drainage districts, and school districts of the State of Nevada. The commission shall make due and diligent inquiry as to the financial standing of the state or states, county or counties, city or cities, school district or school districts, and irrigation or drainage district or districts, whose bonds or securities it proposes to purchase, and shall also require the attorney-general to give his legal opinion in writing as to the validity of any act or acts of any state or county or city or school district, irrigation or drainage district under which such bonds are issued.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Securities to protect fund designated

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Surplus or reserve fund to be invested


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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 108 (CHAPTER 49, SB 41)κ

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Duties of state treasurer as custodian

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Securities may be disposed of

 

 

 

May deposit funds in state banks at interest

financial standing of the state or states, county or counties, city or cities, school district or school districts, and irrigation or drainage district or districts, whose bonds or securities it proposes to purchase, and shall also require the attorney-general to give his legal opinion in writing as to the validity of any act or acts of any state or county or city or school district, irrigation or drainage district under which such bonds are issued.

      All such bonds or securities shall be placed in the hands of the state treasurer, who shall be the custodian thereof. He shall collect the principal and interest thereon when due, and pay the same into the state insurance fund. He shall notify the Nevada industrial commission of the amounts so paid into the state insurance fund, giving full details of the transaction. The state treasurer shall pay all vouchers drawn on the state insurance fund for the making of such investments, when signed by a member of the commission and countersigned by the commission auditor, upon delivery of such bonds or securities to him when there is attached to such vouchers a copy of the resolution of the commission authorizing the investment, approved by the governor, state treasurer, and state controller, two of whom shall constitute a majority, said copy to be certified by the secretary of the commission under seal of the commission. The commission may, at any time upon its resolution, approved by the governor, state treasurer, and state controller, two of whom shall constitute a majority, sell or otherwise dispose of any of the bonds or securities so purchased.

      (c) The state treasurer may, upon written authority of the Nevada industrial commission, approved by the governor, state treasurer, and state controller, two of whom shall constitute a majority, deposit not to exceed twenty-five percent (25%) of the reserve and surplus of said insurance fund in a bank or banks in the State of Nevada, upon interest at not less than the prevailing and current rate paid in Nevada upon savings accounts by banks; provided, however, that such bank or banks shall deposit with the state treasurer bonds of the United States or other securities in which funds of the state insurance fund are authorized to be invested as provided in subdivision (b) hereof, in an amount, market value, sufficient to protect and guarantee the said depositor against any loss by reason of the failure or suspension of said bank, or loss from any other cause. The amount of the security to be deposited and the fair value of the bonds deposited shall be determined and fixed by the said commission and treasurer, and approved by the governor, state treasurer, and state controller, two of whom shall constitute a majority, but in no event shall the value of the bonds deposited be less than the sum deposited in the particular bank.


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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 109 (CHAPTER 49, SB 41)κ

 

bank. Interest earned by such portion of the state insurance fund which may be so deposited in any bank or banks, as herein provided, shall be placed to the credit of the state insurance fund.

      (d) Each member of the commission, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall give a good and sufficient bond running to the State of Nevada, and shall take the oath prescribed by the constitution, in the penal sum of ten thousand dollars ($10,000), conditioned that he shall fully and faithfully discharge the duties of his office; said bonds shall be given by the state pursuant to that certain act entitled: “An act to provide against losses to the state and its respective counties through defalcation, misappropriation of funds, or other wrongful acts on the part of officials; to provide for the issuance of surety bonds for public officials, establishing a fund therefor, and other matters relating thereto, and repealing certain acts in conflict herewith,” approved March 20, 1933, or by two or more individuals as surety or sureties; shall be subject to approval by the governor, and shall then be filed with the secretary of state. The premium therefor shall be paid out of the state insurance fund as other expenses of the commission are paid.

      (e) The commission shall have a seal upon which shall be inscribed the words “Nevada Industrial Commission-State of Nevada.” Its seal shall be fixed to all orders, proceedings, and copies thereof, and to such other instruments as the commission may direct. All courts shall take judicial notice of such seal, and any copy of any record or proceeding of the commission certified under such seal shall be received in all courts as evidence of the original thereof.

      (f) Whenever any bank wherein funds are deposited as hereinbefore provided shall fail to pay on written demand the entire balance due in said deposit, within forty-eight hours after demand is made, the state treasurer, as the holder of any bonds and securities herein referred to and provided, shall within thirty days thereafter convert into cash so much of said bonds and securities, including interest, as may be necessary to pay the amount deposited, together with interest as agreed, including costs, and to disburse the proceeds according to law, returning any surplus to the depositary or its legal representative, and, if there be a deficiency, reserving right to file claim for same. At any sale under the provisions of this act the Nevada industrial commission may bid for and purchase the bonds offered for sale whenever such bonds or securities be legal investments for commission funds or whenever it be deemed necessary so to do by said commission, or the state treasurer, to purchase any such securities in order to protect the best interests of the state insurance fund.

 

 

 

Commissioners to give bond

 

 

State to furnish bond

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Seal of commission

 

 

 

 

 

Procedure if bank unable to pay


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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 110 (CHAPTER 49, SB 41)κ

 

 

Reinsurance

Repeal

 

In effect

      (g) The commission may arrange for such reinsurance as, in its opinion, will properly protect the state insurance fund in case of a catastrophe.

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

      Sec. 3.  This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval.

 

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CHAPTER 50, AB 18

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Card index to be kept

 

 

 

 

 

 

Form of registry card

[Assembly Bill No. 18–Mr. Renfro]

 

Chap. 50–An Act to amend an act entitled “An act regulating the registration of electors for general, special, and primary elections,” approved March 27, 1917, together with the acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto.

 

[Approved March 16, 1935]

 

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

 

      Section 1.  Section 9 of the above-entitled act, being section 2368 N. C. L. 1929, is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 9.  A card index of each registered elector shall be kept and the county clerk of such county shall at all times have the custody of such index and be responsible for the safe-keeping thereof. The cards shall be four by six inches in size, of white calendared stock, and shall be substantially in the following form:

(Face)

State of Nevada,

      County of...........................

}

ss.

_________________________________________________________________

                      Number.                     Date.                       Name.                          Sex.

_________________________________________________________________

                  Where born.                   Age.                  Height, ft. in.              Occupation.

_________________________________________________________________

                                Naturalized when.                                               Where.

_________________________________________________________________

                                      Residence.                                                 Post office.

_________________________________________________________________

             Length of time in precinct.                    Ward.                              School district.

_________________________________________________________________

                              State.                                    County.                                    City.

_________________________________________________________________

                       Date canceled.                       Date registered.                     Disability, if any.

Place where last registered........................................................................................................

My political affiliations are with the…………………………….party.

State of Nevada,

      County of...........................

}

ss.

…………………………….., being duly sworn, says: I am the elector whose name appears on the face of this card; the several statements thereon contained affecting my qualifications as an elector are true;


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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 111 (CHAPTER 50, AB 18)κ

 

several statements thereon contained affecting my qualifications as an elector are true; I am able to mark my ballot (or I am unable to mark my ballot by reason of the physical disabilities on this card specified), and I am not registered elsewhere within the State of Nevada, and claim no right to vote elsewhere than in the precinct on this card specified; I believe generally in the principles of the…………………….party, and intend generally to support its principles and candidates at the ensuing general election; I have not affiliated or enrolled with or participated in any primary election or convention of any other political party since the first day of January last; and I register as a……………….in good faith and not for the purpose of merely aiding in the nomination of any particular candidate or candidates; so help me God.

            .....................................................................................................................................

      Subscribed and sworn to before me this………………………..……day of………………………………………….., 19……….

(Back)

State of Nevada,

      County of..........................

}

ss.

      ……………………………………., being duly sworn on oath, says: I am the elector named on the face of this card; I am a naturalized citizen of the United States; my certificate of naturalization is lost or destroyed, or beyond my present reach, and I have no certified copy thereof; I came to the United States in the year…………..; I was admitted to citizenship in the state (or territory) of……………………., county of…………………………………….., by the ………………………………….court during the year……………, I last saw my certificate of naturalization, or certified copy thereof at…………………………….

            .....................................................................................................................................

      Subscribed and sworn to before me this………………………..……day of………………………………………….., 19……….

                   ............................................................................................... Registrar.

      Sec. 2.  Section 11 of the above-entitled act, being section 2370 N. C. L. 1929, is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 11.  Before the opening of registration for any election, the county clerk shall prepare a list of the persons whose names remain on the official register of each precinct, except the precincts at the county seat of the county, and send such list to the deputy registrar of such precinct. Said list shall consist of the name of the person registered and the political affiliation designated on his registration card then on file in the office of the county clerk, or the fact that no political affiliation is designated, as the case may be.

Form of registry card

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

County clerk to prepare list of registered voters for deputy registrars


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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 112 (CHAPTER 50, AB 18)κ

 

 

 

 

Time for registration

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Classification of registry cards

 

 

 

 

 

 

Certificate for voter engaged in transportation business

Registration offices shall be open for registration of voters for any primary or general election, Sunday and legal holidays excepted, from and after the first day of May in any general election year, except as otherwise provided in this act, up to the twentieth day next preceding such election, and between the hours of 9 a. m. and 5 p. m.; provided, that the office of the county clerk, as ex officio registrar, shall be open for registration of voters for any election, other than a primary or general election, for not more than 60 days nor less than 20 days prior to the date of such election, at such times as said office is open for the transaction of his business as county clerk; provided further, that during the ten days previous to the close of registration the registration office shall be open evenings until 9 p. m. Registry cards shall be numbered consecutively in the order of their receipt at the office of the county clerk. The county clerk shall classify registry cards according to the precinct in which the several electors reside, and shall arrange the cards in such precinct alphabetically in order. The cards for each precinct shall be kept in a separate filing case or drawer which shall be marked with the number of the precinct. Such card index shall constitute the official register.

      Sec. 3.  Section 15 of the above-entitled act, being section 2374 N. C. L. 1929, is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 15.  Any registered elector employed in moving trains, stages, or U. S. mail upon any of the transportation routes in this state may apply to the county clerk, at any time prior to the delivery of the certified copy of the register to the inspectors of election, to have his name taken off the official register and to receive from the county clerk a certificate of transfer. Such certificate shall be in form similar to the registration card, and contain all the information set forth upon such card. If it appear that he is entitled to such certificate he shall receive same. Upon presenting such certificate at any time not later than one hour prior to the closing of the polls, to the inspectors of election, in any precinct on the railroad, stage line, or transportation route on which he is employed, including the precinct in which he originally registered, the certificate mentioned above, together with his written affidavit, which shall be subscribed and sworn to before any of the inspectors of election, stating that he was so suddenly called away or detained by the transportation business in which he is employed that he did not have time to vote in the precinct in which he was originally registered, or to register under his transfer in that or any other precinct before the delivery of the certified copy of the register to the inspectors of election, the inspectors of election shall accept and file the certificate and affidavit, and shall cause the name of the elector to be entered upon the poll-list with the following remarks:  “Elector allowed to vote upon presentation of certificate and affidavit on election day,” and shall thereupon allow the elector to vote, the same as if his name had originally appeared upon the register.


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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 113 (CHAPTER 50, AB 18)κ

 

elector to be entered upon the poll-list with the following remarks:  “Elector allowed to vote upon presentation of certificate and affidavit on election day,” and shall thereupon allow the elector to vote, the same as if his name had originally appeared upon the register.

      The county clerk shall compare the signature of the elector upon such request with the signature upon the registry card of the elector indicated and may question the elector as to any information contained upon such registry card, and if the county clerk is satisfied concerning the identification of the elector and his right to have such transfer made, he shall endorse upon the registry card of such elector the date of the transfer and the precinct to which transferred, and shall file said card in the register of the precinct of the elector’s present residence, and the county clerk shall make transfers of elector’s name, together with all necessary data connected therewith, to the proper precinct in the register.

      Sec. 4.  Section 17 of the above-entitled act, being section 2376 N. C. L. 1929, is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 17.  The county clerk shall close all registration for the full period of twenty days prior to any election. Within three days after the closing of registration he shall transmit to the secretary of state a statement showing the number of voters registered in said county, approximating the number of registry cards not yet received at his office. The county clerk of each county must cause to be published in newspapers published within his county and having a general circulation therein, a notice signed by him to the effect that such registration will be closed on the day provided by law, specifying such day in such notice, and stating that electors may register for the ensuing election by appearing before the county clerk at his office or by appearing before a deputy registrar in the manner provided by law. The publication of such notice must continue for a full period of thirty days next preceding the close of registration for any election. At least fifteen days before the time when the register is closed for any election, the county clerk shall cause to be posted, in not less than five conspicuous places in each voting precinct, outside of incorporated cities, a copy of such election notice, stating the time when the official register will close for such election.

      Sec. 5.  Section 18 of the above-entitled act, being section 2377 N. C. L. 1929, is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 18.  The county clerk shall, at least ten days preceding any election, cause to be printed or written lists of all electors registered and entitled to vote in the individual precincts of such county, and shall forthwith forward to the secretary of state a full, true and correct list of all registered voters with their post-office addresses.

May vote at any one of certain precincts

 

 

Duties of county clerk

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Registration closed 20 days prior to any election

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Registry lists to be prepared by county clerk


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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 114 (CHAPTER 50, AB 18)κ

 

 

 

Printing of lists charge against county

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Limit as to cost

 

 

 

 

 

Precinct register, what to exhibit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Action when name is erroneously omitted from register

registered voters with their post-office addresses. Such lists of registered electors shall contain the names of the electors in full. The expense of printing or writing said lists shall be paid by the county in which the election is held. The county clerk shall cause to be posted, not less than eight days before any election, not less than five copies of such written or printed registry lists in not less than five conspicuous places within the proper precincts, outside of incorporated cities; provided, that the printing or writing shall cost not to exceed five cents per folio for the printed or written matter of such lists and not to exceed six dollars per thousand for printed or written copies thereof. He shall cause to be published in not to exceed two papers published in different parts of the county, for one insertion, a complete list of all the registered voters of said county, segregated by the precincts; provided, that the cost to the county shall not exceed five cents per name to each newspaper publishing such notice. He shall furnish to any qualified elector applying therefor copies of any precinct or county lists at a charge of not to exceed ten cents per folio therefor.

      Sec. 6.  Section 19 of the above-entitled act, being section 2378 N. C. L. 1929, is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 19.  During the time intervening between the closing of the official register and five days before the ensuing election, the county clerk shall prepare for each precinct, a book to be known as the “precinct register.” Said precinct register shall be arranged for the listing of the names of electors in alphabetical order, and opposite each name in ruled columns with appropriate headings shall appear the following information: Name, address, ballot number, voted, register number, politics, and sex. The precinct register so prepared shall be delivered to the judges of election prior to the opening of the polls in each precinct. Where the precincts in municipal elections or in elections in school districts of the first-class include more than one county precinct, the county clerk shall combine into one precinct register the names of all electors in the several precinct registers of the precincts of which such municipal or school district precinct is composed.

      Sec. 7.  Section 27 of the above-entitled act, being section 2386 N. C. L. 1929, is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 27.  Any elector whose name is erroneously omitted from any precinct register may apply for and secure from the county clerk a certificate of such error, stating the precinct in which such elector is entitled to vote, and upon the presentation of such certificate to the judges of election in such precinct, the said elector shall be entitled to vote in the same manner as if his name had appeared upon the precinct register. Such certificate shall be marked “Voted” by the judges and shall be returned by them with the precinct register.


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the judges and shall be returned by them with the precinct register.

      Sec. 8.  All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

      Sec. 9.  This act shall take effect from and after its passage and approval.

 

Repeal

In effect

 

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CHAPTER 51, AB 180

[Assembly Bill No. 180–Messrs. Parker and Henrichs]

 

Chap. 51–An Act to amend an act entitled “An act to incorporate the town of Yerington, in Lyon County, and defining the boundaries thereof, and to authorize the establishing of a city government therefor, and other matters relating thereto,” approved March 14, 1907, by adding thereto a new section to be known as section 54 1/2.

 

[Approved March 16, 1935]

 

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 thereto a section to be known as section 54 1/2, which said section shall read as follows:

      Section 54 1/2.  The council shall have the power, by ordinance, to take up and refund the bonds of the city of Yerington, either before or after maturity, issued for public improvements, or for any other purpose, including all accrued interest thereon; provided, however, that no refunding bond shall in anywise alter the obligation and terms of the original bond to be refunded, other than by an extension of the date of maturity thereof. The council shall have power to refund the entire issue of any bond, or any one or more series of any one issue; provided, however, that such fact or facts must appear in the ordinance herein required to be enacted by the council. The city council is authorized to exchange such refunding bonds for the bonds sought to be refunded thereby, and shall not be required to offer the same for sale nor to sell the same to the highest or the best bidder, or to any bidder therefor.

      Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective immediately after its passage and approval.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

City council may refund bonds

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In effect

 

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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 116κ

CHAPTER 52, AB 176

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Title of act amended

 

 

 

 

 

Creation of bond trust fund

 

 

 

 

 

 

State, county and irrigation districts to apply to state for surety

[Assembly Bill No. 176–Committee on Irrigation]

 

Chap. 52–An Act to amend the title and sections 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, and 11 of an act entitled “An act to provide against losses to the state and its respective counties through defalcation, misappropriation of funds, or other wrongful acts on the part of officials; to provide for the issuance of surety bonds for public officials, establishing a fund therefor, and other matters relating thereto, and repealing certain acts in conflict herewith,” approved March 20, 1933.

 

[Approved March 16, 1935]

 

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

 

      Section 1.  The title of the aforesaid act, being chapter 124, Statutes 1933, 161, is hereby amended to read as follows:

      An act to provide against losses to the state, its respective counties, and its irrigation districts through defalcation, misappropriation of funds or other wrongful acts on the part of officials; to provide for the issuance of surety bonds for state, county and irrigation district officials, establishing a fund therefor, and other matters relating thereto.

      Sec. 2.  Section 1 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 1.  There is hereby created a fund to be known as the bond trust fund. The purpose of this fund is to assure the State of Nevada, the several counties and irrigation districts thereof, against loss through defalcation, misappropriation of state funds, county funds, and irrigation district funds, or other wrongful acts of state, county, or irrigation district officials, whose official duties have to do with the handling of funds of the state, counties, or irrigation districts, and who are required by law to furnish personal or surety bonds.

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

      Section 3.  Every state, county, and irrigation district official required by law in his official capacity to furnish surety bond, shall apply to the state board of examiners for surety. If, upon investigation, the applicant is found to be of good moral character, enjoys a reputation for honesty and integrity, and has never been denied a surety bond for personal reasons, the said board shall issue to him a surety bond patterned according to instruments of this nature and to meet the provisions of this act. This bond shall have full force and effect as a surety, and shall serve all purposes of bonds required by statutes from state, county, or irrigation district officials.


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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 117 (CHAPTER 52, AB 176)κ

 

of bonds required by statutes from state, county, or irrigation district officials.

      Sec. 4.  Section 4 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 4.  In the case of county officials each county shall pay from the county general fund into the state treasury, at the rate of five dollars per thousand annually, premiums on all such surety bonds issued to its officials. In the case of state officials, the state shall pay, from the state general fund, into the state treasury, at the rate of five dollars per thousand annually, premiums on surety bonds issued to its officials. In case of irrigation district officials, the irrigation district shall pay from its general fund into the state treasury at the rate of five dollars per thousand annually premiums on all such surety bonds issued to its officials.

      Sec. 5.  Section 6 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 6.  The faith of the state is pledged to the provisions of all surety bonds which may be issued or undertaken under this act, and in cases of loss to the state, county, or irrigation district under circumstances to which its surety bonds are conditioned, the state is charged with the responsibility of making restitution to any funds suffering loss up to the full amount specified in the surety bond.

      Sec. 6.  Section 7 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section7.  Losses to counties which might occur from defalcation, misappropriation, or other wrongful act on the part of a county official, shall be reported by the district attorney of that county to the state board of examiners. In the case of the state, any losses shall be reported to said board by the attorney-general. In the case of any irrigation district, any losses shall be reported to said board by the board of directors of the irrigation district. In either case the state board of examiners shall require the state auditor to make a full investigation and render a written report, and if from such report the state board of examiners determines that the loss comes under the conditions of the surety bond, the board shall order that restitution be made in the following manner, to wit: If there be a sufficient amount in the bond trust fund to cover the loss, the state controller shall be authorized and directed to draw a warrant on that fund for the full amount of the loss as covered by the surety bond, in the manner in which claims against the state are usually paid, and the state treasurer shall pay such warrant. In case there are insufficient funds in the bond trust fund to cover the loss, then the state controller shall draw a warrant for the full amount in that fund for the purpose of making restitution in part, and he shall report the condition of the fund to the governor, who shall take the necessary steps to have it included in the budget, and report to the next succeeding legislature.

 

 

Who to pay premiums

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Faith of state pledged

 

 

 

 

 

 

Procedure in case of loss

 

 

 

 

Duties of state controller and treasurer


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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 118 (CHAPTER 52, AB 176)κ

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

State board of examiners to keep record

 

 

 

 

 

Officials civilly liable for funds committed to their care

the state controller shall draw a warrant for the full amount in that fund for the purpose of making restitution in part, and he shall report the condition of the fund to the governor, who shall take the necessary steps to have it included in the budget, and report to the next succeeding legislature. When the balance is thus secured the restitution shall be completed.

      Sec. 7.  Section 9 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 9.  The state board of examiners shall keep an accurate record of all surety bonds issued, and cause them to be filed with the county clerks of the respective counties of county officials, and with the secretary of state for state and irrigation district officials, together with a complete financial statement of applicant. These statements shall be filed by officials when application is made for surety, and shall be renewed on or about the first day of January of each year.

      Sec. 8.  Section 10 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 10.  If any official shall default, misappropriate, or otherwise be responsible for loss of funds committed to his care, he shall be civilly liable for the amount thereof in an action to be prosecuted by the district attorneys in cases of county officials, and by the attorney-general in cases of state and irrigation district officials, and the state, county, and irrigation district, as the case may be, shall have a lien on all real or personal property, not exempt from execution, of any such official against whom such an action shall be brought for default, misappropriation or other violation of the conditions of his surety bond given under the provisions of this act, and such lien shall become effective upon the execution of such surety bonds by said state, county, and irrigation district officials, and shall take precedence over any other unrecorded lien or encumbrance. Upon judgment being entered in favor of the state, county, or irrigation district, all property owned, either legally or equitably, by the state, county, or irrigation district official violating any condition of such bonds, not exempt from execution, or so much thereof as may be necessary to cover the amount of the judgment entered, may be sold as in cases of execution and the proceeds applied to payment of the judgment rendered to cover the shortage, and if there be insufficient of such property, or the judgment, or any part of it, remains unsatisfied, then a deficiency judgment may be entered by the court.

      Sec. 9.  Section 11 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 11.  The state board of examiners may revoke the surety bond of any official if, after due investigation, such official is found to be addicted to gambling, excessive drinking of intoxicants, or to the use of narcotics.


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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 119 (CHAPTER 52, AB 176)κ

 

the surety bond of any official if, after due investigation, such official is found to be addicted to gambling, excessive drinking of intoxicants, or to the use of narcotics. The surety bonds may also be revoked on the conviction of an official for gross misdemeanor or any more serious crime. They may also be revoked for legally established insanity. Any official whose bond may have been revoked shall not again be granted a surety bond under the provisions of this act, unless it shall have been established in a court of competent jurisdiction that he was wrongfully and unjustly deprived of his surety bond by the state board of examiners.

      Sec. 10.  This act shall take effect from and after its passage and approval.

State board of examiners may revoke bonds, when

 

 

 

 

 

In effect

 

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CHAPTER 53, AB 166

[Assembly Bill No. 166–Mr. Horgan]

 

Chap. 53–An Act to amend the title of an act and to amend an act entitled “An act relating to sheriffs,” approved November 28, 1861, as amended.

 

[Approved March 16, 1935]

 

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

 

      Section 1.  The title of that certain act of the legislature of the State of Nevada entitled “An act relating to sheriffs,” approved November 28, 1861, is hereby amended to read as follows: An act relating to sheriffs and constables.

      Sec. 2.  Section 17 of the above-entitled act, being section 2160 N. C. L. 1929, is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 17.  No sheriff, or constable, shall be liable for any damages for neglecting or refusing to serve any civil process, unless his legal fees (and an indemnifying bond in cases where he has doubts as to the ownership of the property sought to be levied upon or attached, if the same shall be required by him) are first tendered him.

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

      Sec. 4.  This act shall become effective from and after its passage and approval.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Title amended

 

 

 

 

Sheriff and constable not liable for damages, when

 

 

Repeal

 

In effect

 

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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 120κ

CHAPTER 54, AB 160

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

District judges to be supplied missing Statutes and Reports

 

 

 

 

 

Repeal

 

In effect

[Assembly Bill No. 160–Mr. Persson]

 

Chap. 54–An Act authorizing and directing the secretary of state of the State of Nevada to furnish certain volumes to district judges.

 

[Approved March 16, 1935]

 

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

 

      Section 1.  Upon the certification by any district judge of any judicial district of the State of Nevada to the secretary of state, or upon certification by the county clerk of any county of the State of Nevada, unto the secretary of state, certifying that certain volumes of Nevada Statutes or Reports are missing from the library of any judge of the state, the secretary of state of the State of Nevada is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to furnish, free of charge, from the supply on hand, to said district judge or judges, for each judge’s library in any judicial district, the missing volumes of the Reports or Statutes for such district judge’s library to be used by him in said library, taking the receipt of the incumbent judge therefor.

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

      Sec. 3.  This act shall be in effect from and after its passage and approval.

 

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CHAPTER 55, AB 96

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Preamble

[Assembly Bill No. 96–Mr. Newton]

 

Chap. 55–An Act authorizing the filing for record of a plat of the town of Bunkerville in Clark County, State of Nevada.

 

[Approved March 16, 1935]

 

      Whereas, The unincorporated town of Bunkerville, Clark County, State of Nevada, was surveyed and laid out into lots, blocks and streets in about the year 1875; and

      Whereas, The original map showing such survey has never been filed or recorded in the office of the county recorder of the county in which said town is located, and has been lost and cannot be found; and

      Whereas, The loss and absence of said map is a public inconvenience to said unincorporated town of Bunkerville and to the revenue and taxing authority of the county of Clark and the State of Nevada; and

      Whereas, The duly elected, qualified and acting county commissioners of the county of Clark, State of Nevada, acting as a town board for the unincorporated town of Bunkerville, did cause a resurvey of said town to be made by competent surveyors during the year 1934, and a correct map thereof to be made, which was approved by the board of county commissioners of the county of Clark, State of Nevada; that a certificate of the approval of said board of county commissioners of said map was endorsed on said map on the 23d day of July, 1934; that said map, when recorded, will, to a considerable extent, correct and relieve the inconvenience caused by the loss of said original map; now, therefore,


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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 121 (CHAPTER 55, AB 96)κ

 

map thereof to be made, which was approved by the board of county commissioners of the county of Clark, State of Nevada; that a certificate of the approval of said board of county commissioners of said map was endorsed on said map on the 23d day of July, 1934; that said map, when recorded, will, to a considerable extent, correct and relieve the inconvenience caused by the loss of said original map; now, therefore,

 

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

 

      Section 1.  The county recorder of said county of Clark, State of Nevada, is hereby authorized and directed that when the map of the town of Bunkerville, approved by the board of county commissioners of Clark County, Nevada, on the 23d day of July, 1934, is presented to said recorder by the clerk of the county of Clark, that said recorder file and record the same as other town or subdivision maps are filed and recorded.

      Sec. 2.  After filing said map, as provided in section 1 of this act, it shall from the date of said filing be a public record; provided, that nothing shown on said map shall affect any right of a bona fide purchaser, or any right acquired by operation of law prior to the recording thereof.

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

      Sec. 4.  This act shall become effective from and after its passage and approval.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Map of town of Bunkerville to be recorded

 

 

 

Public record

 

 

 

Repeal

 

In effect

 

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CHAPTER 56, SB 61

[Senate Bill No. 61–Senator Miller]

 

Chap. 56–An Act to amend section 5 of an act entitled “An act supplemental to an act entitled ‘An act relating to the state university and matters properly connected therewith,’ approved February 7, 1887, approved March 16, 1895,” as amended in 1925 and 1933.

 

[Approved March 18, 1935]

 

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

 

      Section 1.  Section 5 of the above-entitled act, being chapter 117, page 148, of the Statutes of Nevada 1933, is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 5.  For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act, there is hereby appropriated out of the general fund of the State of Nevada the sum of three thousand dollars ($3,000), for the biennium from June 30, 1935, to June 30, 1937, to be paid out upon the order of the president of the University of Nevada, and allowed as other claims against the State of Nevada.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Appropriation, $3,000


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In effect

of the University of Nevada, and allowed as other claims against the State of Nevada.

      Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective from and after its passage and approval.

 

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CHAPTER 57, SB 65

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deposit of $20,000 required prior to commencing business in state

[Senate Bill No. 65–Senator Foy]

 

Chap. 57–An Act to amend an act entitled “An act to provide for the incorporation of domestic building and loan associations and companies, and certain other domestic associations and companies, to provide for the licensing, examination and regulation of domestic and foreign building and loan associations and companies, and certain other associations and companies, authorizing the appointment of receivers in certain cases, providing for distribution of assets by sale where the same are without the State of Nevada, and the incorporation of the assets and the distribution of the stock of such corporation to the creditors, and other matters relating thereto, to prescribe penalties for a violation of the provisions hereof, to create a fund for use in carrying out the administration of this act, and to repeal certain acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith,” approved March 4, 1931.

 

[Approved March 18, 1935]

 

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

 

      Section 1.  Section 4 of the above-entitled act, as heretofore amended, is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 4.  No such company, association or corporation heretofore or hereafter organized or created under the laws of this state or the laws of any other state, territory or possession of the United States or of the District of Columbia or of any foreign country or government, shall commence or continue to do business in this state unless and until it shall have first complied with all the laws of this state authorizing it to do business therein, and shall have deposited with the state treasurer the sum of $20,000 in money or in bonds of the United States, or bonds, debentures or notes of any federal home loan bank, or federal home owner’s loan corporation, or other federal agency, or bonds of a county or municipality or school district of this state, or bonds of any other state of the United States, or a certificate of any trust company authorized to do business in this state, that it has in its possessions, subject to all of the provisions of this act relating to other deposits, first mortgage or first deeds of trust, or both, assigned to it in trust for the purpose of carrying out such provisions, and certified to it by such association, company, or corporation to be of a value of at least the amount of any other form of deposit permitted by this act, such deposit with the state treasurer, or with such trust company,


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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 123 (CHAPTER 57, SB 65)κ

 

trust, or both, assigned to it in trust for the purpose of carrying out such provisions, and certified to it by such association, company, or corporation to be of a value of at least the amount of any other form of deposit permitted by this act, such deposit with the state treasurer, or with such trust company, to constitute a guaranty fund for the protection and indemnity of the residents of this state with whom such companies, associations, or corporations shall do business, or to whom they shall become indebted; and every such company, association, or corporation which shall sell any of its securities within this state or in any manner become indebted to residents of this state shall, at all times, maintain within this state an amount aggregating at least fifty percent of its liabilities to residents of this state, which shall be invested in real property situated within this state or in notes secured by first mortgages or first deeds of trust on real property situated within this state, or in such bonds as are in this section described, which bonds shall have been deposited with the state treasurer; provided, however, that the deposit provisions of this act shall not apply to any such company, association or corporation if organized under the laws of the State of Nevada which has, within this state, as shown by its latest statement to the bank examiner, an amount not less than $20,000 and equal to at least fifty percent of its liability to residents of this state, invested in real estate situated within this state, or in notes secured by first mortgages or first deeds of trust, or both, on or to real property within this state, or in such bonds as are above described, and which company, association, or corporation has not pledged any of its assets for the protection of any other security holders, saving and excepting a federal home loan bank or other federal loan agency.

      Sec. 2.  Section 11 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 11.  No such foreign or domestic association, company, or corporation shall be permitted to sell within this state any securities, including membership shares, investment certificates, bonds, debentures, or contracts, except permanent capital stock, as distinguished therefrom, and except its permanent guaranty stock, which shall not by their terms and the terms of any contract for the purchase thereof, without reference to any other instrument, set forth the withdrawal or surrender cash value thereof after payment of each regular installment thereon, and shall further set forth that the same are redeemable in cash at any time after one (1) year from the date thereof, upon reasonable notice as determined by the state bank examiner, except as hereinafter provided, for an amount at least equal to the amount paid therefor, together with interest thereon at a rate of not less than four per centum per annum, less a reasonable entrance or membership fee which shall not exceed two dollars on each one hundred dollars, matured value, of such securities subscribed; provided, that after five years after the date of the first payment thereon such deduction shall not exceed one dollar per one hundred dollars, matured value, of such securities subscribed; and provided further, that any such securities while pledged to the issuing organization as security against any indebtedness shall not be withdrawable while such indebtedness exists; the foregoing provision for interest at the rate of not less than four per centum per annum upon the withdrawal or surrender of such securities shall not apply to any capital stock or membership shares of mutual building and loan associations, and such capital stock or membership shares may be issued without any fixed rate of interest, but the interest payable upon withdrawal or surrender may, from time to time, be fixed and determined by the board of directors; nor shall said interest provision apply to any securities issued by any domestic or foreign association, company, or corporation whose accounts are insured by the federal savings and loan insurance corporation, as provided in title IV of an act of Congress entitled “National Housing Act,” approved June 27, 1934.

 

 

 

 

Deposit to constitute guaranty fund

 

 

 

 

 

 

Exception

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Regulations regarding sale of securities


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Interest rate not less than 4 percent

 

 

 

 

 

 

Exception

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In effect

less than four per centum per annum, less a reasonable entrance or membership fee which shall not exceed two dollars on each one hundred dollars, matured value, of such securities subscribed; provided, that after five years after the date of the first payment thereon such deduction shall not exceed one dollar per one hundred dollars, matured value, of such securities subscribed; and provided further, that any such securities while pledged to the issuing organization as security against any indebtedness shall not be withdrawable while such indebtedness exists; the foregoing provision for interest at the rate of not less than four per centum per annum upon the withdrawal or surrender of such securities shall not apply to any capital stock or membership shares of mutual building and loan associations, and such capital stock or membership shares may be issued without any fixed rate of interest, but the interest payable upon withdrawal or surrender may, from time to time, be fixed and determined by the board of directors; nor shall said interest provision apply to any securities issued by any domestic or foreign association, company, or corporation whose accounts are insured by the federal savings and loan insurance corporation, as provided in title IV of an act of Congress entitled “National Housing Act,” approved June 27, 1934.

      Sec. 3.  This act shall take effect from and after its passage and approval.

 

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CHAPTER 58, SB 81

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Loans may be insured

[Senate Bill No. 81–Senator Foy]

 

Chap. 58–An Act to authorize banks, building and loan associations and other corporations to make and insure loans, advances of credit and purchases in accordance with the provisions of an act of Congress entitled “National Housing Act,” approved by the president on June twenty-seven, nineteen hundred thirty-four, to exempt such loans, advances of credit and purchases from the application of general statutes, articles of incorporation and bylaws, and to confirm and validate prior transactions.

 

[Approved March 18, 1935]

 

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

 

      Section 1.  Subject to such regulations as may be prescribed by the federal housing administrator, acting pursuant to the act of Congress entitled “National Housing Act,” approved on June twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred thirty-four, banks, building and loan associations and other corporations are authorized:


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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 125 (CHAPTER 58, SB 81)κ

 

      (a) To make such loans and advances of credit, and purchases of obligations representing loans and advances of credit, as are eligible for insurance pursuant to title one, section two, of such national housing act, and to obtain such insurance.

      (b) To make such loans secured by mortgages on real property as are eligible for insurance pursuant to title two of such national housing act, and to obtain such insurance.

      Sec. 2.  No law of this state, nor any articles of incorporation or bylaws of any such banks, building and loan associations or other corporations, prescribing the nature, amount or form of security or requiring security upon which loans or advances of credit may be made, or prescribing or limiting interest rates upon loans or advances of credit, or prescribing or limiting the period for which loans or advances of credit may be made, shall apply to loans, advances of credit or purchases made pursuant to the foregoing section 1.

      Sec. 3.  All above-described loans, advances of credit, and purchases of obligations heretofore made and insured pursuant to the terms of said national housing act are hereby validated and confirmed.

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

Laws, etc., in conflict with section 1 not applicable

 

 

 

 

Prior loans validated

 

 

In effect

 

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CHAPTER 59, SB 82

[Senate Bill No. 82–Senator Foy]

 

Chap. 59–An Act to authorize any building and loan association, company or corporation, or any savings and loan association, company or corporation, or any savings bank or any other association, company or corporation, eligible to become a member of any federal home loan bank to become a member and stockholder of the federal home loan bank, to borrow money therefrom, to invest in its bonds, and confirming and validating prior transactions.

 

[Approved March 18, 1935]

 

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

 

      Section 1.  Any building and loan association, company or corporation, or any savings and loan association, company or corporation, or savings bank or any other association, company or corporation, that may now or hereafter be eligible to become a member of any federal home loan bank according to the terms of the federal home loan bank act, as the same now exists or may be amended from time to time, is authorized and empowered to subscribe for, purchase, own and hold stock in such federal home loan bank, and become a member thereof, or to borrow money from any federal home loan bank pursuant to the said act of Congress, as the same may be amended, and also to invest in the bonds of any federal home loan bank, and also to give its obligations and pledge securities and conform to the provisions of the said federal home loan bank act, and to the rules and regulations from time to time fixed and prescribed either by the federal home loan bank board or the federal home loan bank, of which it is a member, and to perform any acts and execute any instruments authorized or required by the said act of Congress, as amended from time to time, or by said rules and regulations.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Building and loan companies may become member of federal home loan bank


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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 126 (CHAPTER 59, SB 82)κ

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Prior acts validated

 

In effect

federal home loan bank pursuant to the said act of Congress, as the same may be amended, and also to invest in the bonds of any federal home loan bank, and also to give its obligations and pledge securities and conform to the provisions of the said federal home loan bank act, and to the rules and regulations from time to time fixed and prescribed either by the federal home loan bank board or the federal home loan bank, of which it is a member, and to perform any acts and execute any instruments authorized or required by the said act of Congress, as amended from time to time, or by said rules and regulations.

      Sec. 2.  All acts authorized by section 1 hereof and heretofore performed are hereby validated and confirmed.

      Sec. 3.  This act shall take effect from and after its passage and approval.

 

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CHAPTER 60, SB 83

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Federal savings and loan associations created

 

 

 

 

Procedure

[Senate Bill No. 83–Senator Foy]

 

Chap. 60–An Act providing for the conversion into a federal savings and loan association of any building and loan company, association or corporation, or of any savings and loan company, association or corporation, or of any other company, association or corporation eligible to become a member of the federal home loan bank.

 

[Approved March 18, 1935]

 

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

 

      Section 1.  Any building and loan company, association or corporation, or any savings and loan company, association or corporation, or any other company, association or corporation eligible to become a member of the federal home loan bank, may convert itself into a federal savings and loan association pursuant to an act of Congress, approved June thirteenth, nineteen hundred thirty-three, entitled “Home Owners’ Loan Act of Nineteen Hundred Thirty-three,” with the same force and effect as though originally incorporated under such act of Congress, and the proceedings to effect such conversion shall be as follows:

      (a) A meeting of the shareholders shall be held upon not less than ten days’ written notice to each shareholder, served either personally or by mail, postage prepaid, directed to him at his last known post-office address and containing a statement of the time, place and the purpose for which such meeting is called. Proof by affidavit of due service of such notice shall be filed in the office of the corporation before or at the time of such meeting.

      (b) At a meeting of the shareholders, held as provided in subdivision (a) of this section, such shareholders may, by the affirmative vote of the majority of the shareholders present, in person or by proxy, declare, by resolution, the determination to convert said state company, association or corporation into a federal savings and loan association.


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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 127 (CHAPTER 60, SB 83)κ

 

subdivision (a) of this section, such shareholders may, by the affirmative vote of the majority of the shareholders present, in person or by proxy, declare, by resolution, the determination to convert said state company, association or corporation into a federal savings and loan association. A copy of the minutes of the proceedings of such meeting of the shareholders, verified by the affidavit of the president or vice president and the secretary of the meeting, shall be filed in the office or department having supervision of such companies, association or corporation in this state within ten days after the date of such meeting. Such sworn copy of the proceedings of such meeting, when so filed, shall be presumptive evidence of the holding and the action of such meeting.

      (c) After the holding of such meeting of shareholders, the state company, association or corporation shall take such action, in the manner prescribed or authorized by the laws of the United States or the rules and regulations promulgated pursuant thereto, as shall make it a federal savings and loan association, and there shall thereupon be filed in the office or department having supervision of such companies, associations or corporations in this state a copy of the charter of authorization issued to such company, association or corporation by the federal home loan bank board or a certificate showing the organization of such company, association or corporation as a federal savings and loan association, certified by the federal home loan bank board, and upon such filing with the department having supervision of such companies, associations or corporations in this state, the company, association or corporation shall cease to be a state building and loan association, company or corporation; provided, however, that it shall still retain all rights, privileges and exemptions of a domestic company, association or corporation of the same kind and character.

      Sec. 2.  At the time when such conversion becomes effective the said company, association or corporation shall cease to be supervised by this state, but shall continue as a body corporate converted pursuant to the provisions of the home owners’ loan act of 1933, and subject to examination and regulation pursuant to the said act, and all the property of the state company, association or corporation, including all its right, title and interest in and to all property of whatsoever kind, whether real, personal or mixed, and things in action, and every right, privilege, interest and asset of any conceivable value of benefit then existing, belonging or pertaining to it, or which would inure to it, shall immediately by act of law and without any conveyance or transfer, and without any further act or deed, be vested in and become the property of the federal savings and loan association, which shall have, hold and enjoy the same in its own right as fully and to the same extent as the same was possessed, held and enjoyed by the state company, association or corporation; and the federal savings and loan association as of the time of taking effect of such conversion shall succeed to all the rights, obligations and relations of the state company, association or corporation.

Sworn copy of proceeding to be filed within ten days

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Charter of authorization to be filed with proper state department

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Supervision by state to cease, when


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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 128 (CHAPTER 60, SB 83)κ

 

 

 

 

 

 

In effect

and loan association, which shall have, hold and enjoy the same in its own right as fully and to the same extent as the same was possessed, held and enjoyed by the state company, association or corporation; and the federal savings and loan association as of the time of taking effect of such conversion shall succeed to all the rights, obligations and relations of the state company, association or corporation.

      Sec. 3.  This act shall take effect from and after its passage and approval.

 

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CHAPTER 61, SB 84

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Funds may be invested in federal agencies

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bonds of federal agencies to be accepted

[Senate Bill No. 84–Senator Foy]

 

Chap. 61–An Act authorizing the investment in bonds of the home owners’ loan corporation and the bonds of any federal home loan bank and consolidated federal home loan bank bonds, debentures and notes, by the state and all its departments and political subdivisions and instrumentalities, and by any insurance company, building and loan association or company, or savings and loan association or company, or bank or trust company, or other financial institution, and by any executor, administrator, guardian, trustee or fiduciary, and permitting the use of such bonds, debentures and notes as security by any depositary of public funds.

 

[Approved March 18, 1935]

 

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

 

      Section 1.  It shall be legal for this state and any of its departments or political subdivisions, or any political or public corporation, or any instrumentality of the state, or any insurance company or building and loan association or company, or savings and loan association or company, or any savings bank or trust company, or any bank or other financial institution operating under the laws of this state, or for any executor, administrator, guardian, trustee, or other fiduciary to invest their funds, or moneys in their custody, in the bonds of the home owners’ loan corporation or in the bonds of any federal home loan bank, or in consolidated federal home loan bank bonds, debentures or notes.

      Sec. 2.  Wherever by the terms of any general or special law depositaries of public or other funds are required by law to give security therefor the bonds of any federal home loan bank or the bonds of the home owners’ loan corporation, or consolidated federal home loan bank bonds, debentures or notes, may be used as security for any depositary bonds or obligations wherein any kind of bonds or other security are required or may by law be deposited as security.


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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 129 (CHAPTER 61, SB 84)κ

 

or obligations wherein any kind of bonds or other security are required or may by law be deposited as security.

      Sec. 3.  This act shall take effect from and after its passage and approval.

 

 

In effect

 

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CHAPTER 62, SB 85

[Senate Bill No. 85–Senator Foy]

 

Chap. 62–An Act to authorize building and loan companies, associations and corporations and other savings and home financing corporations to subscribe for the shares of any federal savings and loan association and to pay for the same in cash or by the transfer of assets.

 

[Approved March 18, 1935]

 

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

 

      Section 1.  Any building and loan company, association or corporation, or savings and loan company, association or corporation, or savings bank, or other savings or home financing company, association or corporation, eligible to become a member of any federal home loan bank is authorized and empowered to subscribe to the shares of any federal savings and loan association domiciled within this state and may pay for such shares in cash or by the transfer of such assets of the subscriber as may be approved by the federal home loan bank board in writing.

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Funds may be invested in federal agency

 

 

 

 

 

In effect

 

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CHAPTER 63, SB 86

[Senate Bill No. 86–Senator Foy]

 

Chap. 63–An Act to authorize any association, company or corporation eligible thereto, to insure its accounts pursuant to the provisions of title IV of the “National Housing Act.”

 

[Approved March 18, 1935]

 

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

 

      Section 1.  Any association, company or corporation which may be eligible so to do, under the terms of an act of Congress entitled “National Housing Act,” approved June 27, 1934, is hereby authorized and empowered to insure, pursuant to title IV of said act, any and all of its accounts as said accounts now are or hereafter may be defined under said title IV of said act and to do and perform all things necessary or convenient to effect such insurance.

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Accounts may be insured

 

 

 

 

In effect

 

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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 130κ

CHAPTER 64, SB 92

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Power to carry on savings bank business

[Senate Bill No. 92–Committee on Banks and Banking]

 

Chap. 64–An Act to amend an act entitled “An act to provide a means of incorporating banks and trust companies; to authorize banks and trust companies to conduct certain kinds of business; to provide for the regulation and control of such business; to provide for the appointment of a superintendent of banks; to prescribe the powers and duties of the state board of finance relative to the business of banking; to conform the charters of banks and trust companies now operating under the laws of the State of Nevada to the provisions of this act; to incorporate herein the provisions of the general corporation law, as amended; to provide for the reorganization, incorporation of assets, and the liquidation of banks and trust companies in certain cases; to make the violation of the provisions hereof criminal offenses, and to prescribe the punishment therefor; to repeal certain acts and all acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith; and other matters relating to banks and trust companies,” approved March 28, 1933.

 

[Approved March 18, 1935]

 

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

 

      Section 1.  That section 6 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 6.  Any banking corporation organized under the provisions of this act shall have power to carry on a savings bank business as prescribed and limited in this act. Such deposits shall be repaid to the depositors or their lawful representatives at such time and with such interest and under such regulations, assented to by the depositors, as shall be prescribed by said bank and approved by the state board of finance, which regulations shall be printed and conspicuously posted in some place accessible and visible to all persons in the business office of said bank. The funds of any savings bank, except the reserve provided for in this act, shall be invested in bonds of the United States, or of any state of the United States, or in the public debt or bonds of any county, city or school district of any state in the United States which shall have been lawfully issued, or in obligations of national mortgage associations or similar credit institutions now or hereafter organized in accordance with the provisions of title III of the national housing act, or may be loaned on negotiable paper secured by any of the above-mentioned classes of security; or upon notes or bonds secured by mortgage lien upon unencumbered real estate; provided, that second mortgage loans may be made upon improved farm lands, but no loans shall be made upon such lands or other real estate which, including the aggregate amount of all encumbrances, shall exceed fifty percent of the cash value thereof or eighty percent of the assessed value thereof for tax purposes, whichever is the lesser amount, except that such funds may be invested in loans upon notes or bonds secured by mortgage lien which the federal housing administrator has insured or has committed himself to insure pursuant to title II of the national housing act; or upon notes secured by collateral security of known marketable value exclusive of mining stock; or held as cash; or may be deposited in good solvent banks; provided, that the deposits in any bank shall not exceed forty percent of the capital and surplus of the depositing bank; provided, also, that chattel mortgages shall not be deemed collateral security, and savings banks are prohibited from investing their funds in them.


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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 131 (CHAPTER 64, SB 92)κ

 

improved farm lands, but no loans shall be made upon such lands or other real estate which, including the aggregate amount of all encumbrances, shall exceed fifty percent of the cash value thereof or eighty percent of the assessed value thereof for tax purposes, whichever is the lesser amount, except that such funds may be invested in loans upon notes or bonds secured by mortgage lien which the federal housing administrator has insured or has committed himself to insure pursuant to title II of the national housing act; or upon notes secured by collateral security of known marketable value exclusive of mining stock; or held as cash; or may be deposited in good solvent banks; provided, that the deposits in any bank shall not exceed forty percent of the capital and surplus of the depositing bank; provided, also, that chattel mortgages shall not be deemed collateral security, and savings banks are prohibited from investing their funds in them. When the savings bank business is conducted as a part of a general banking business, and the assets of the corporation are not segregated as between departments, then the ratio of savings deposits, including time certificates of deposit, to the total deposits, shall determine the portion of the bank’s funds which shall be invested subject to the savings bank restrictions of this act.

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

Power to carry on savings bank business

 

 

 

 

 

 

Limitations to savings banks

 

 

 

 

 

 

In effect

 

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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 132κ

CHAPTER 65, SB 93

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bank may reopen on court order

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Disposition of deposits

[Senate Bill No. 93–Committee on Banks and Banking]

 

Chap. 65–An Act to amend an act entitled “An act to provide a means of incorporating banks and trust companies; to authorize banks and trust companies to conduct certain kinds of business; to provide for the regulation and control of such business; to provide for the appointment of a superintendent of banks; to prescribe the powers and duties of the state board of finance relative to the business of banking; to conform the charters of banks and trust companies now operating under the laws of the State of Nevada to the provisions of this act; to incorporate herein the provisions of the general corporation law, as amended; to provide for the reorganization, incorporation of assets, and the liquidation of banks and trust companies in certain cases; to make the violation of the provisions hereof criminal offenses, and to prescribe the punishment therefor; to repeal certain acts and all acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith; and other matters relating to banks and trust companies,” approved March 28, 1933.

 

[Approved March 18, 1935]

 

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

 

      Section 1.  That section 80 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 80.  If it appear upon said hearing that, by or through freezing of deposits of said bank, said bank may safely be permitted to reopen for business, the court may so order; but, in every such case, all transactions and business of every kind or character must be under the direct supervision of the superintendent of banks. In every such case, the bank will be permitted to receive deposits; but deposits received while the bank is under the direct control and supervision of the superintendent of banks shall not be subject to any limitation as to payments or withdrawals, and such deposits shall be segregated and shall not be used to liquidate any indebtedness of such bank existing at the time of reopening, or for the liquidation of any subsequent indebtedness incurred for the purpose of liquidating any indebtedness of such bank existing at the time such reopening is permitted.

      All deposits received after the bank reopens and while the said bank is under the direct supervision and control of the superintendent of banks must be kept on hand in cash or invested in direct obligations of the United States or deposited with a federal reserve bank, as permitted by an act of the Congress of the United States entitled “An act to provide relief in the existing national emergency in banking and for other purposes,” approved March 9, 1933; provided, however, that said deposits may be used for the purpose of making, investing in, or purchasing loans or advances of credit insured pursuant to the national housing act.


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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 133 (CHAPTER 65, SB 93)κ

 

to provide relief in the existing national emergency in banking and for other purposes,” approved March 9, 1933; provided, however, that said deposits may be used for the purpose of making, investing in, or purchasing loans or advances of credit insured pursuant to the national housing act.

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

 

Exception

 

 

In effect

 

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CHAPTER 66, AB 182

[Assembly Bill No. 182–Messrs. Parker and Henrichs]

 

Chap. 66–An Act authorizing the board of county commissioners of Lyon County to repair, improve, and enlarge the county courthouse; providing for the issuance and sale of the bonds of the county for such purpose; authorizing the county to enter into contracts with the United States; and authorizing the levy of a tax to pay such bonds.

 

[Approved March 18, 1935]

 

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

 

      Section 1.  The board of county commissioners of Lyon County shall have power and they are hereby authorized to repair, improve, and enlarge the county courthouse, located at Yerington, Lyon County, Nevada, and, for that purpose, to issue the negotiable coupon bonds of the county in an amount not to exceed $25,000, and to make contracts and execute instruments containing such terms, provisions and conditions as in the discretion of said board of county commissioners may be necessary, proper or advisable for the purpose of obtaining a grant, loan or other financial assistance from the United States of America or any agency or instrumentality thereof pursuant to or by virtue of the national industrial recovery act, approved June 16, 1933, and any acts amendatory thereof and any acts supplemental thereto, and revisions thereof, and any further acts or joint resolution of the Congress of the United States of America to reduce and relieve unemployment or to provide for the construction of public works or for work relief.

      Sec. 2.  Said bonds may be authorized by resolution of the board of county commissioners. Said bonds shall bear interest at such rate or rates not exceeding six per centum per annum, payable semiannually, may bear such date or dates, may be in such denomination or denominations, may mature at such time or times, not exceeding twenty years from their respective dates, may be payable in such medium of payment, at such place or places, may carry such registration privileges, may be subject to such terms of redemption, may be executed in such manner, may contain such terms, covenants and conditions, and may be in such form, either coupon or registered, as such resolution or subsequent resolutions may provide.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bond issue for Lyon County courthouse improvements

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

County commissioners to issue bonds


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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 134 (CHAPTER 66, AB 182)κ

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tax to redeem bonds and pay interest

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bonds not to be sold at less than par

Repeal

 

In effect

of payment, at such place or places, may carry such registration privileges, may be subject to such terms of redemption, may be executed in such manner, may contain such terms, covenants and conditions, and may be in such form, either coupon or registered, as such resolution or subsequent resolutions may provide. Said bonds bearing the signature of the officers in office at the date of the signing thereof shall be valid and binding obligations notwithstanding that before the delivery thereof and payment therefor any or all of the persons whose signatures appear thereon shall have ceased to be officers of the county.

      Sec. 3.  The board of county commissioners is hereby empowered and directed to levy and collect a tax upon all property subject to taxation by the county, sufficient to pay the interest on and principal of said bonds as the same shall become due. Said tax shall be levied annually and assessed, collected and paid in like manner with the other taxes of such county, and shall be in addition to and exclusive of all other taxes which said county is now or may hereafter be authorized or required by law to levy and assess upon property subject to taxation.

      Sec. 4.  Said bonds shall be sold at not less than par, and if sold to the United States of America or any agency or instrumentality thereof may be sold at private sale without public advertisement.

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

      Sec. 6.  This act shall take effect immediately from and after its passage and approval.

 

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CHAPTER 67, AB 185

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New section added

[Assembly Bill No. 185–Mr. Jameson]

 

Chap. 67–An Act to amend article XII of an act entitled “An act to incorporate the town of Reno, in Washoe County, and defining the boundaries thereof, and to authorize the establishment of a city government therefor, and other matters relating thereto,” as amended, by adding to said article XII of said act a new section to be known as section 9a.

 

[Approved March 18, 1935]

 

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

Assembly, do enact as follows:

 

      Section 1.  Article XII of the above-entitled act is hereby amended by adding a section thereto, to follow section 9 thereof, which additional section shall be designated as section 9a, and which section shall read as follows:


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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 135 (CHAPTER 67, AB 185)κ

 

      Section 9a.  Ordinances passed by the city of Reno, Washoe County, Nevada, must be published as provided for in this act; provided, that ordinances establishing rules and regulations for the construction of buildings, the installation of plumbing, the installation of electric wiring, or other similar work, and all or any specialized code, or codes, where such rules and regulations have been printed as a code in book form, may adopt such code or portion thereof by reference thereto; provided, however, that not less than three (3) copies of such code shall have been filed for use and examination by the public in the office of the city clerk of the city of Reno, Nevada, prior to the adoption thereof.

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

Ordinances to be published

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In effect

 

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CHAPTER 68, AB 174

[Assembly Bill No. 174–Committee on Irrigation]

 

Chap. 68–An Act to amend sections 3, 6, 29, 29 1/2, 34, and 37 of, and to add a new section, to be designated section 10e, to an act entitled “An act to provide for the organization an government of irrigation districts, for the irrigation and drainage of lands and other related undertakings thereby, and for the acquisition and distribution of water and other property, construction, operation and maintenance of works, diversion, storage, distribution, collection and carriage of water; cooperation with the United States; and matters properly connected therewith,” approved March 19, 1919, as amended.

 

[Approved March 18, 1935]

 

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, being section 8010 N. C. L. 1929, as amended Statutes 1931, 265, is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 3.  When such petition is presented, and it shall appear that the notice of the presentation of said petition has been given and that said petition has been signed by the requisite number of petitioners as required by this act, the commissioners shall hold a hearing on said petition and may adjourn such hearing from time to time not exceeding three weeks in all. Contiguous or neighboring lands susceptible of irrigation from the common source or combined sources aforesaid, not included in such district as described in the petition, may at such hearing, upon application of the holder or holders of title or evidence of title thereto, as prescribed in section 1 hereof, be included in such district, and lands described in said petition not susceptible of irrigation from such system or systems may upon similar application be excluded therefrom; provided always, that said board shall not modify the boundaries described in the petition so as to change the object of said petition or so as to exempt from the operation of this act any land which is susceptible of irrigation by the system or systems aforesaid.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

County commissioners to hold hearing on petition; may adjourn same not exceeding three weeks


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κ1935 Statutes of Nevada, Page 136 (CHAPTER 68, AB 174)κ

 

 

Board shall not modify district boundaries to defeat object

 

 

 

Informalities to be disregarded

 

 

 

 

 

Mandamus resorted to, when

 

 

 

 

 

 

Election to be called

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Notice of election to be published

from such system or systems may upon similar application be excluded therefrom; provided always, that said board shall not modify the boundaries described in the petition so as to change the object of said petition or so as to exempt from the operation of this act any land which is susceptible of irrigation by the system or systems aforesaid. In the hearing of any such petition the board of county commissioners shall disregard any informalities therein, and in case it deny the same or dismiss it for any reasons on account of the provisions of this act not having been complied with, which are the only reasons upon which it shall have the right to refuse or dismiss the same, it shall state its reasons in writing therefor in detail, which shall be entered upon its records, and in case the reasons are not well founded, a writ of mandamus shall, upon proper application therefor, issue out of the district court of the county compelling it to act in compliance with this act, which writ shall be heard within twenty days from the date of issuance, such time to be excluded from the time given the county commissioners to act upon the petition. Upon the completion of the hearing the county commissioners shall forthwith make an order denying or granting the prayer of said petition, and if the same is granted shall, in said order, define and establish the boundaries and designate the name of such proposed district and divide the same into three, five, or seven divisions, as prescribed in the petition, as nearly equal in size as may be practicable. Thereupon the said commissioners shall by further order duly entered upon their record call an election of the qualified electors of said proposed district to determine whether such district shall be organized under the provisions of this act, and by such order shall submit the names of one or more persons from each of the divisions of said district to be voted for as directors of the district. One director shall be elected from each division by the qualified electors of the district and shall be a qualified elector of the district and holder of title, or evidence of title as prescribed in section 1 of this act, to land within the division from which he is elected. Each division shall constitute an election precinct for the purposes of this act; provided, that after the organization of the district the directors may divide a division into two or more precincts and fix the polling places therein; and provided further, that the directors, by affirmative vote of all of their number or of all of their number save one, may reduce the number of election precincts to one or more within the district, establish the boundaries thereof, and fix the polling place or places therein. The board of county commissioners shall give notice of such election, which shall be published for two weeks prior to such election in a newspaper within the county where the petition is filed.


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filed. Such notice shall require the electors to cast ballots, which shall contain the words “Irrigation District-Yes,” or “Irrigation District-No,” or words equivalent thereto, and the names of persons to be voted for as directors. For the purpose of this election the board shall establish a polling place in each election precinct aforesaid, and shall also appoint three qualified electors to act as inspectors of election in each election precinct, and also appoint for each precinct two clerks of election. The record of the board of county commissioners of the proceedings had and taken by it under the provisions of this act shall be, in the absence of fraud, conclusive evidence of the matters and things therein recited.

      Sec. 2.  Section 6 of the above-entitled act, being section 8013 N. C. L. 1929, as amended Statutes 1931, 75, is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 6.  Not less than fifteen nor more than twenty days before any election held under this act subsequent to the organization of the district, the secretary shall cause notice specifying the polling places and time of holding the election to be posted in three public places in each election precinct and in the office of the board of directors. Prior to the time for posting the notice the board of directors shall appoint three qualified electors to act as inspectors of election in each election precinct, and shall also appoint two clerks of election for each precinct. If the board of directors fail to appoint a board of election or the members appointed do not attend the opening of the polls on the morning of election, the electors of the precinct present at that hour may appoint the board or supply the place of absent members thereof. The board of directors shall, in its order appointing the board of election, designate the hour and the place in each precinct where the election shall be held. The secretary shall be ex officio district registrar of the district, and may, at least four weeks before any election, appoint a deputy registrar in each election precinct, whose duty it shall be to register all electors within his precinct applying for registration, and for this purpose he or she shall have authority to demand of the elector all information, and to administer all oaths required by this act. Such registrar and deputy registrars shall be governed in the performance of their duties by the general election laws of this state as far as they are applicable, and shall be at their places of registration to receive applications for registration from, 9 o’clock a. m. until 9 o’clock p. m. on each of three Wednesdays next preceding the date of election. The registrars shall require registrants to take the following oath in substance: “I am, or have declared my intention to become, a citizen of the United States, am over the age of twenty-one years, and am, or properly represent, under the law in pursuance of which this election is to be held, the bona fide holder of title or evidence of title, as defined in said law, to at least five acres of land within the boundaries of the …………………….irrigation district, and such holding is for all purposes and not simply for this election or matters connected therewith.”

 

 

 

Polling places and election officers

 

 

 

 

 

 

Notice of election to be posted

 

 

 

 

 

Officers of election to be appointed

 

 

 

Board of directors to arrange all election details


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Oath of electors

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Registration necessary; proviso