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Statutes of the State of Nevada - Sixty-First Session, 1981

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AN ACT making an appropriation from the state general fund to the legislative fund. Senate Bill No. 1–Senator Lamb.  Approved January 23, 1981

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AN ACT relating to boards of equalization; permitting the enlargement of the county boards; extending the time during which business must be concluded and protests must be filed with the state board; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 27–Senators Raggio, Wilson, Wagner, Kosinski, McCorkle and Jacobsen.  Approved January 28, 1981

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AN ACT making an additional and supplemental appropriation to the welfare division of the department of human resources for aid to dependent children; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 119–Committee on Finance.  Approved January 30, 1981

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AN ACT relating to the state legislature; providing for advances of money for travel expenses; increasing the allowances for per diem and travel; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 84–Committee on Legislative Functions.  Approved February 16, 1981

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AN ACT to amend an act entitled “An Act to create a water district in the Las Vegas valley, Clark County, Nevada; to designate such district as the agency responsible for water distribution; to provide for the procurement, storage, and distribution and sale of water and rights in the use thereof from Lake Mead for industrial, irrigation, municipal, and domestic uses; to provide for the conservation of the groundwater resources of the Las Vegas valley, and to create authority to purchase, acquire and construct the necessary works to carry out the provisions of this act; to provide for the issuance of district bonds and other securities; to provide for the levy of taxes for the payment of operation and maintenance expenses and to supplement other revenues available for the payment of principal of and interest on such bonds and other securities of said district; granting said district the franchise to carry on its operations in municipal corporations within its boundaries; exempting the property and bonds of said district from taxation; validating the creation and organization of said district; and for other purposes related thereto,” approved March 27, 1947, as amended. Assembly Bill No. 163–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved February 17, 1981

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AN ACT relating to administrative procedure; removing a reference to the time for review of regulations by legislative standing committees where no time is prescribed; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 96–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved February 20, 1981

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AN ACT relating to small claims; making a technical correction concerning affidavits to be used; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 106–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved February 26, 1981

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AN ACT relating to crimes against property; reconciling differing penalties prescribed for possession of a credit card under similar circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 108–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved February 26, 1981

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AN ACT relating to crimes and punishment; removing a conflict between statutory provisions which impose different penalties for similar assaults and batteries; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 109–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved February 26, 1981

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AN ACT relating to petitions; requiring a copy of a petition for initiative or referendum to be placed on file in the office of the secretary of state before the petition is circulated; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 105–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved February 27, 1981

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AN ACT relating to land sales; providing an exemption where acreage is at least one-sixteenth of a section as described by a governmental survey; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 72–Senators Getto and Jacobsen.  Approved February 27, 1981

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AN ACT relating to casualty insurance policies; removing an obsolete statutory reference to repealed chapter 698 of NRS; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 126–Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved February 27, 1981

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AN ACT relating to the public service commission; allowing the public service commission to enter into an agreement with the Secretary of Transportation relating to enforcement of certain statutes and regulations concerning pipelines; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 130–Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved February 27, 1981

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AN ACT relating to veterans; abolishing the petty cash account of the veterans’ relief fund; repealing an obsolete provision concerning the funeral expenses of certain indigent ex-soldiers; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 35–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved February 27, 1981

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AN ACT relating to the legislative counsel bureau; removing the requirement for the signing of checks by legislative officers during a special session; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 42–Committee on Legislative Affairs.  Approved February 27, 1981

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AN ACT to amend an act entitled “An Act to create a water district in the Las Vegas valley, Clark County, Nevada; to designate such district as the agency responsible for water distribution; to provide for the procurement, storage, and distribution and sale of water and rights in the use thereof from Lake Mead for industrial, irrigation, municipal, and domestic uses; to provide for the conservation of the groundwater resources of the Las Vegas valley, and to create authority to purchase, acquire and construct the necessary works to carry out the provisions of this act; to provide for the issuance of district bonds and other securities; to provide for the levy of taxes for the payment of operation and maintenance expenses and to supplement other revenues available for the payment of principal of and interest on such bonds and other securities of said district; granting said district the franchise to carry on its operations in municipal corporations within its boundaries; exempting the property and bonds of said district from taxation; validating the creation and organization of said district; and for other purposes related thereto,” approved March 27, 1947, as amended. Senate Bill No. 92–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved February 27, 1981

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AN ACT relating to elections; repealing obsolete section regarding certification of nomination for United States Senators and preparation of the ballot; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 90–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved February 27, 1981

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AN ACT relating to elections; clarifying the disposition of filing fees; repealing a provision for proportionate distribution to counties of certain filing fees; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 91–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved February 27, 1981

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AN ACT relating to judgments in criminal actions; requiring that information concerning the effect of a crime be included in the report of presentence investigation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 12–Senator Close.  Approved March 2, 1981

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AN ACT relating to foreign corporations; allowing revocation of such a corporation’s qualification if it fails to file certain documents; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 104–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved March 2, 1981

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AN ACT relating to the recall of public officers; removing statutory provisions which conflict with or duplicate the provisions of section 9 of article 2 of the Nevada constitution; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 94–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved March 2, 1981

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AN ACT relating to juvenile courts; requiring that district judges who hear cases involving juveniles and masters attend the National College of Juvenile Justice; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 32–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved March 4, 1981

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AN ACT relating to nursing; providing an exemption from the requirement for continuing education; providing for certain fees; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 82–Senators Getto, Glaser, Faiss and Wagner.  Approved March 4, 1981

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AN ACT relating to elections; conforming statutory language to provision in NRS 293.135 for holding certain precinct meetings outside the precinct; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 95–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved March 4, 1981

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AN ACT relating to mechanics’ liens; clarifying a statutory procedure for the release of a mechanic’s lien upon the posting of a surety bond; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 110–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved March 4, 1981

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AN ACT relating to statutes; ratifying technical corrections made to various chapters of NRS; correcting the effective date of certain provisions in Statutes of Nevada 1979; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 111–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved March 4, 1981

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AN ACT relating to the property tax; changing the date on which the county assessor must perform certain duties respecting the allowance for certain residential heating or cooling systems to conform to the date on which the Nevada tax commission meets to set the tax rates; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 114–Committee on Taxation.  Approved March 4, 1981

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AN ACT relating to veterinarians; authorizing the issuance of subpenas by the board of veterinary medical examiners; authorizing the issuance of injunctions; changing membership of the board; changing the legal office of the board; providing for the biennial renewal of licenses; increasing the fee for renewal of a license; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 128–Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved March 4, 1981

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AN ACT relating to community antenna television companies; requiring companies to pay interest on deposits made by customers; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 131–Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved March 4, 1981

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AN ACT relating to the state public works board; clarifying purposes for which engineering and architectural services of the board may be used; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 172–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved March 4, 1981

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AN ACT to amend an act entitled “An Act relating to natural resources; directing the submission of a proposal to issue state general obligation bonds for park purposes and fish and game habitat acquisition to a vote of the people; providing for the use of the proceeds if such issue is approved; and providing other matters properly relating thereto,” approved May 21, 1975, as amended. Assembly Bill No. 78–Assemblymen Dini, May, Marvel, Rhoads and Redelsperger.  Approved March 4, 1981

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AN ACT amending the Airport Authority Act for Washoe County by raising the limitations upon the interest payable on its obligations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 237–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved March 6, 1981

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AN ACT relating to drugs; permitting student nurses to administer controlled substances and dangerous drugs in certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 98–Committee on Human Resources and Facilities.  Approved March 6, 1981

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AN ACT relating to savings and loan associations; raising the upper limit on the number of directors; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 63–Senator Getto.  Approved March 10, 1981

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AN ACT relating to corporations; removing the requirement of acknowledgment of the annual statement of a professional corporation before a notary public; revising the contents of the certificate issued to a corporation upon payment of the annual fee; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 103–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved March 10, 1981

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AN ACT relating to statutory liens; raising the threshold amount over which certain statutory liens become second in priority to secured transactions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 83–Committee on Transportation.  Approved March 10, 1981

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AN ACT relating to county business licenses; authorizing counties to establish license departments; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 77–Assemblymen Dini and Marvel.  Approved March 11, 1981

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AN ACT relating to public officers; removing statutory provisions which duplicate the provisions of chapter 232A of NRS concerning membership on state boards, commissions and similar bodies; removing obsolete statutory language concerning the initial terms of the members of those bodies; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 143–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved March 16, 1981

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AN ACT relating to property tax; allowing a credit for tax paid in another state on a mobile home or a slide-in camper; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 16–Senators Glaser and Keith Ashworth.  Approved March 16, 1981

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AN ACT relating to presentence investigation; revising the requirements for the preliminary evaluation of convicted felons; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 55–Senators Wagner, Faiss, Getto and Echols.  Approved March 16, 1981

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AN ACT relating to parole; providing that one member of the board may sit as a referee; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 182–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved March 16, 1981

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AN ACT relating to the department of human resources; establishing a single fund for gifts; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 102–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved March 16, 1981

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AN ACT relating to administrative procedure; clarifying the power of certain persons to administer oaths to witnesses in hearings in contested cases; removing statutory language which duplicates the provisions of chapter 233B of NRS, the Nevada Administrative Procedure Act; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 142–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved March 16, 1981

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AN ACT relating to the public employees’ retirement system; removing conflicting and duplicative statutory provisions respecting the purchase of service credit; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 113–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved March 18, 1981

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AN ACT relating to the appropriation of water; abolishing the requirement of proof of commencement of work; providing for an administrative appeal on cancellation of water permits; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 27–Assemblymen Dini, Jeffrey and Schofield.  Approved March 18, 1981

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AN ACT relating to the taxation of alcohol; establishing standards for determining whether it is used as a fuel or beverage; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 59–Assemblymen Glover, Marvel, Dini, Cafferata, Redelsperger, Rackley and Rhoads.  Approved March 18, 1981

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AN ACT relating to the registration of voters; removing the provision for reregistration by post card upon notice of cancellation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 75–Committee on Elections.  Approved March 18, 1981

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AN ACT relating to installment loans; changing the form of the chapter regulating such loans; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 127–Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved March 24, 1981

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AN ACT relating to the diction of Nevada Revised Statutes; replacing “and/or” with an appropriate term; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 150–Committee on Legislative Affairs.  Approved March 24, 1981

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AN ACT relating to telephones and telegraph; eliminating the exemption of operators, clerks and employees of telegraph and telephone companies from militia and jury duty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 221–Senator Glaser (by request).  Approved March 24, 1981

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AN ACT relating to juvenile offenders; providing specific jurisdiction to judges in certain cases involving juveniles; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 18–Assemblymen Stewart, Hayes, Malone, Horn, Bennett and Brady.  Approved March 24, 1981

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AN ACT relating to traffic laws; providing a penalty for failure to obtain a permit for mounting flashing amber warning lights and for their improper use; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 41–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved March 24, 1981

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AN ACT relating to planned unit developments; authorizing industrial and commercial planned unit developments; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 61–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved March 24, 1981

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AN ACT relating to the secretary of state; expanding the number of services for which he may charge a fee; repealing obsolete provisions regarding the photocopy room; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 89–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved March 26, 1981

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AN ACT relating to the public officers’ and employees’ retirement; exempting retired persons who serve in elective public offices from disqualification for retirement allowances; including independent contracts in the restricted employment of retired persons; increasing the limitation on the earnings of retired persons; exempting certain service during a legislative session; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 34–Assemblymen Dini, Glover, May, Mello and Schofield.  Approved March 26, 1981

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AN ACT relating to taxes; changing the procedure for locking and sealing businesses; changing the interest rates on deficiency determinations and late payments; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 45–Committee on Taxation.  Approved March 26, 1981

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AN ACT relating to public works; requiring plans for new public buildings and structures to provide, where feasible, for use of renewable sources of energy and measures for the conservation of energy; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 48–Assemblymen Dini, Mello, Glover, Rusk and Vergiels.  Approved March 26, 1981

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AN ACT relating to Carson City; making various amendments to its charter; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 92–Assemblymen Glover and Bergevin.  Approved March 26, 1981

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AN ACT making an appropriation from the state general fund to the legislative fund. Senate Bill No. 377–Committee on Finance.  Approved March 27, 1981

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AN ACT relating to the regulation of public utilities; eliminating the regulation of air carriers by the public service commission; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 133–Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved March 30, 1981

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AN ACT relating to public records; removing the requirement that county clerks and clerks of justice’s courts keep certain records at least 5 years; permitting their earlier destruction; authorizing the clerk of the supreme court, and clerks of municipal courts to destroy certain records; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 6–Assemblyman Banner.  Approved March 30, 1981

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AN ACT relating to the legislative auditor; providing for the distribution of audits during the legislative session; broadening the reporting to the legislature of any improper practices discovered during an audit; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 12–Assemblymen Barengo and Vergiels.  Approved March 30, 1981

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AN ACT relating to certain actions concerning persons; providing further restrictions on the liability of owners, lessees and occupants of premises to persons who use the premises for recreational purposes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 72–Assemblymen Rhoads, Bergevin and Glover.  Approved March 30, 1981

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AN ACT relating to punishment for attempts; revising the punishment for attempted murder and attempts of crimes which are punishable by life imprisonment to provide for imprisonment of not less than 1 year; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 203–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved March 30, 1981

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AN ACT to amend an act entitled “An Act incorporating the City of Reno, in Washoe County, Nevada, and defining the boundaries thereof, under a new charter; and providing other matters properly relating thereto,” approved May 6, 1971, as amended. Senate Bill No. 78–Senators Wilson, Raggio, Kosinski, McCorkle and Wagner.  Approved April 6, 1981

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AN ACT relating to evidence; declaring positively the admissibility of communications lawfully intercepted; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 31–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved April 6, 1981

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AN ACT making an additional and supplemental appropriation to the youth services division of the department of human resources; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 277–Committee on Finance.  Approved April 6, 1981

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AN ACT relating to planning and zoning; increasing the maximum size of zoning boards of adjustment; clarifying the provision governing extensions of time to file a final map of a subdivision; changing certain provisions concerning notice of intent to abandon a street or easement; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 141–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved April 6, 1981

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AN ACT relating watercraft; providing for the disposal of abandoned vessels and for warehouse liens; clarifying requirements for equipment; increasing the requirement of notice for regattas, marine parades and races; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 156–Committee on Economic Development and Natural Resources.  Approved April 6, 1981

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AN ACT to amend an act entitled “An Act incorporating the City of North Las Vegas, in Clark County, Nevada, and defining the boundaries thereof, under a new charter; and providing other matters properly relating thereto,” approved April 16, 1971, as amended. Assembly Bill No. 376–Assemblymen Price, Hickey and May.  Approved April 6, 1981

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AN ACT making an appropriation from the state general fund to the legislative fund for increased dues to Council of State Governments. Senate Bill No. 305–Committee on Finance.  Approved April 6, 1981

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AN ACT relating to the state legislature; adding the policies, rules and regulations of the U.S. Forest Service to those reviewed by the legislative committee for the review of federal regulations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 127–Assemblymen Rhoads, Hayes, Marvel, Bergevin and Glover.  Approved April 6, 1981

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AN ACT making an additional and supplemental appropriation to the department of the military for the cost of utilities; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 337–Committee on Finance.  Approved April 7, 1981

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AN ACT relating to constables; removing the population required for the hiring of clerks; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 280–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved April 7, 1981

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AN ACT authorizing the executive director of the employment security department to expend certain federal money to improve certain property in the City of Reno for the use of the department; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 294–Assemblymen Banner and Robinson.  Approved April 7, 1981

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AN ACT relating to courts of record; conforming certain statutory provisions to the provisions of article 6 of the Nevada constitution relating to the jurisdiction of courts of record; removing statutory provisions which conflict with or duplicate those constitutional provisions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 107–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved April 7, 1981

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AN ACT making an appropriation to the reserve for statutory contingency fund; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 271–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved April 7, 1981

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AN ACT making a supplemental appropriation to the office of the director of the department of human resources for the payment of certain claims; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 215–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved April 7, 1981

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AN ACT relating to programs for public employees; authorizing retired employees to reinstate certain insurance coverage held before retirement; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 5–Assemblyman Banner.  Approved April 7, 1981

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AN ACT relating to the sale of state lands; restoring the requirement that money be advanced for the costs of handling, appraisal and publicity by a person requesting the sale of state land; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 198–Assemblyman Marvel.  Approved April 7, 1981

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AN ACT relating to divorce; simplifying the provision for verification of a complaint; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 297–Assemblyman Hayes (by request).  Approved April 8, 1981

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AN ACT relating to liability insurance for motor vehicles; specifying the primary and excess coverages when two or more policies are in effect for the same motor vehicle in certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 111–Committee on Commerce.  Approved April 8, 1981

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AN ACT relating to the Airport Authority of Washoe County; increasing the number of trustees of the authority; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 2–Assemblymen Westall, Mello and Sader.  Approved April 8, 1981

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AN ACT relating to records of libraries; providing that records of circulation are not public records; restricting disclosure of such records; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 25–Committee on Human Resources and Facilities.  Approved April 10, 1981

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AN ACT relating to watercraft; removing statutory language which duplicates the provisions of NRS 488.105 concerning the system of identification numbering for motorboats; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 177–Committee on Natural Resources.  Approved April 10, 1981

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AN ACT relating to highways; removing a statute which authorized acceptance of certain rights of way and which was made obsolete by the repeal of a federal law concerning the public domain; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 156–Committee on Transportation.  Approved April 10, 1981

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AN ACT relating to separate maintenance; changing the provisions to permit either spouse to bring an action; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 246–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved April 10, 1981

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AN ACT relating to administrative regulations; requiring a statement of effect to be submitted with an adopted regulation; requiring the solicitation of certain comment before adoption; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 274–Senator Kosinski.  Approved April 10, 1981

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AN ACT to amend an act entitled “An Act incorporating the City of Henderson, in Clark County, Nevada, and defining the boundaries thereof, under a new charter; and providing other matters properly relating thereto,” approved April 13, 1971, as amended. Senate Bill No. 352–Senator Gibson.  Approved April 10, 1981

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AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; making nonresident manufacturers eligible for special license plates; exempting them from bonding provisions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 298–Committee on Transportation.  Approved April 10, 1981

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AN ACT relating to improvement districts; providing for the nomination of board members by primary elections; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 88–Committee on Elections.  Approved April 13, 1981

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AN ACT relating to cities; imposing a moratorium on their incorporation under general laws; clarifying the qualifications to petition for incorporation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 389–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved April 13, 1981

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AN ACT relating to governmental finance; providing a special schedule for the adoption of budgets and the collection of property taxes in the year 1981; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 430–Committee on Taxation.  Approved April 13, 1981

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AN ACT relating to the division of land; authorizing governing bodies to require a right of way for any existing irrigation ditch and its maintenance; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 8–Assemblymen Bergevin and Marvel.  Approved April 13, 1981

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AN ACT relating to traffic laws; excluding from the system of demerit points certain violations of the national maximum speed limit; adding a new penalty relating to that limit; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 196–Senators Keith Ashworth and Blakemore.  Approved April 14, 1981

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AN ACT making an appropriation to the health division of the department of human resources for a system of filing and storage for the vital statistics section; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 174–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved April 16, 1981

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AN ACT making an appropriation to the department of economic development for working capital for The Nevada Magazine; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 272–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved April 16, 1981

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AN ACT making an appropriation to the buildings and grounds division of the department of general services for electronic scales for their central mailrooms in Carson City and Las Vegas; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 316–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved April 16, 1981

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AN ACT making an additional and supplemental appropriation to the welfare division of the department of human resources for the child welfare program; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 319–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved April 16, 1981

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AN ACT making an additional and supplemental appropriation to the welfare division of the department of human resources to pay the medical bills of recipients of public welfare; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 334–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved April 16, 1981

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AN ACT relating to vehicles; increasing allowable limits on the size of buses; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 53–Committee on Transportation.  Approved April 16, 1981

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AN ACT making an appropriation to the emergency fund; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 204–Committee on Finance.  Approved April 16, 1981

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AN ACT relating to waters; limiting the transfer of certain water rights; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 64–Senator Getto.  Approved April 16, 1981

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AN ACT making an appropriation to the central data processing division of the department of general services for development of a computerized docket system for the office of the attorney general; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 205–Committee on Finance.  Approved April 16, 1981

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AN ACT making an appropriation to the central data processing division of the department of general services for the development of a computerized system of filing and retrieval for the division of water resources of the state department of conservation and natural resources; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 207–Committee on Finance.  Approved April 16, 1981

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AN ACT making an appropriation to Richard King, a former employee of the division of state parks of the state department of conservation and natural resources, for reimbursement of the expenses he incurred from the corral incident in Lincoln County; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 209–Committee on Finance.  Approved April 16, 1981

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AN ACT making an appropriation to the division of water resources of the state department of conservation and natural resources to pay for certain costs of litigation and for consulting independent experts; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 208–Committee on Finance.  Approved April 16, 1981

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AN ACT making an appropriation to the stale claims fund account; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 210–Committee on Finance.  Approved April 16, 1981

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AN ACT relating to county recorders; increasing certain fees; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 364–Senator Jacobsen.  Approved April 16, 1981

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AN ACT relating to metropolitan police departments; revising certain procedures for approval and payment of claims; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 368–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved April 16, 1981

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AN ACT relating to vehicles; providing alternative weight limits for trailers and semitrailers; providing for the expiration of those limits; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 54–Committee on Transportation.  Approved April 16, 1981

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AN ACT relating to group insurance for public officers and employees; making legislators eligible for participation in the state group insurance program at their own expense; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 248–Committee on Legislative Functions.  Approved April 17, 1981

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AN ACT relating to forest nurseries; changing the method of setting the charges for plant materials distributed by the state forester firewarden; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 50–Committee on Finance.  Approved April 17, 1981

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AN ACT relating to the state executive department; revising the criteria used in legislative review of executive agencies; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 171–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved April 17, 1981

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AN ACT relating to the fund for industrial development in certain counties; requiring the interest earned by its investment to be credited to it; authorizing the interim finance committee to allocate from it during sessions of the legislature; accelerating its termination; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 354–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved April 20, 1981

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AN ACT relating to radioactive, chemical and other hazardous materials; providing for the regulation of their transport and disposal; clarifying the respective power to adopt regulations respecting nuclear affairs of the state board of health and the health division of the department of human resources; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 86–Senators Jacobsen, Getto and Neal.  Approved April 20, 1981

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AN ACT relating to boards of county commissioners; requiring each board to elect a vice chairman; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 289–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved April 22, 1981

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AN ACT relating to county recorders; eliminating the requirement to record certificates of birth and death in county; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 290–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved April 22, 1981

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119

AN ACT relating to local government purchasing; allowing governing bodies to provide maintenance service for vehicles owned by certain agencies and organizations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 291–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved April 22, 1981

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AN ACT relating to doing business under a fictitious name; limiting the use of fictitious corporate names; permitting earlier destruction of certificates of fictitious names; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 3–Assemblyman Banner.  Approved April 22, 1981

240

121

AN ACT relating to executors of estates; enlarging the power of executors to designate substitutes, alternates and coexecutors; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 223–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved April 22, 1981

241

122

AN ACT relating to taxation; requiring the department of taxation to designate an agent for the collection of use taxes on vehicles; further limiting the designation of county assessors as agents of the department of motor vehicles; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 43–Committee on Taxation.  Approved April 22, 1981

242

123

AN ACT relating to handicapped minors; revising the classification and the terminology applied to them; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 40–Assemblyman Vergiels.  Approved April 23, 1981

245

124

AN ACT relating to court reporters; allowing the appointment of an artificial person as a court reporter; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 254–Assemblyman Barengo.  Approved April 23, 1981

245

125

AN ACT relating to public employees; broadening the eligibility requirements to retain group insurance upon retirement; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 301–Assemblyman Banner.  Approved April 23, 1981

246

126

AN ACT relating to public defenders; specifically including a public defender in the definition of “public officer,” to make clear that he is covered by the limitations on liability applicable to public officers generally; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 277–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved April 23, 1981

247

127

AN ACT relating to veterans; authorizing the labor commissioner to approve and regulate programs of training in actual employment; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 262–Assemblyman Banner.  Approved April 23, 1981

247

128

AN ACT to amend an act entitled, “An Act incorporating the City of Las Vegas, in Clark County, Nevada, and defining the boundaries thereof, under a new charter; and providing other matters properly relating thereto,” approved April 24, 1971, as amended. Assembly Bill No. 545–Committee on Elections.  Approved April 23, 1981

248

129

AN ACT relating to the public health sanitarians’ fund; transferring all of the money in it to the state general fund; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 49–Committee on Finance.  Approved April 24, 1981

249

130

AN ACT relating to public financial administration; creating and eliminating certain funds and changing certain accounting practices; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 275–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved April 24, 1981

250

131

AN ACT relating to road contracts; changing the percentage of the contract price retained pending full completion of a contract; permitting sealed bids on such contracts to be opened anywhere in the state; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 157–Committee on Transportation.  Approved April 27, 1981

265

132

AN ACT making an additional and supplemental appropriation to the department of taxation for the payment of rent; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 348–Committee on Finance.  Approved April 27, 1981

267

133

AN ACT relating to the duties of a sheriff; requiring a sheriff to investigate each applicant for a permit to operate as a locksmith or safe mechanic; repealing the provision which requires a sheriff to file certain statements with the board of county commissioners; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 276–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved April 27, 1981

268

134

AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; providing that any excess insurance or reinsurance obtained by a self-insured employer be written by a Nevada carrier; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 209–Assemblyman Banner.  Approved April 27, 1981

269

135

AN ACT relating to insurance; clarifying the definition of “adjuster”; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 206–Assemblyman Banner.  Approved April 27, 1981

270

136

AN ACT relating to federal liens; changing the procedure for filing a federal tax lien; providing a fee; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 212–Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved April 27, 1981

270

137

AN ACT to amend an act entitled “An Act relating to punchcard vote recording systems; authorizing the secretary of state to purchase and lease such systems to counties; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto,” approved May 11, 1979. Assembly Bill No. 352–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved April 28, 1981

271

138

AN ACT relating to the program to control tuberculosis; changing the name of the program and the qualifications for the supervisor; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 143–Committee on Human Resources and Facilities.  Approved April 28, 1981

271

139

AN ACT relating to pharmacy; conforming the time for registration as a hospital pharmaceutical technician and for the renewal of certain permits to the provision in NRS 639.170 for biennial registration and renewal fees; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 121–Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved April 28, 1981

272

140

AN ACT relating to the state health officer; confirming his position in the unclassified service of the state under NRS 232.340 by removing conflicting statutory provisions; removing duplicative statutory provisions respecting his appointment, salary and expenses; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 99–Committee on Human Resources and Facilities.  Approved April 28, 1981

274

141

AN ACT relating to retarded persons; correcting the division facility list; clarifying the definition for an “emotionally disturbed child”; correcting the name of the mental retardation association; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 145–Committee on Human Resources and Facilities.  Approved April 28, 1981

274

142

AN ACT relating to foster homes; providing for delegation by the welfare division of the department of human resources of the authority to issue provisional licenses for foster homes in emergencies; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 146–Committee on Human Resources and Facilities.  Approved April 28, 1981

276

143

AN ACT making an additional and supplemental appropriation to the department of prisons to pay the travel expenses of employees who commute to the southern Nevada correctional center; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 212–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved April 28, 1981

276

144

AN ACT relating to emergency medical services; providing requirements for training and authorizing the activities of intermediate emergency medical technicians; providing for a check of fingerprints for certain applicants; broadening the authority to charge fees; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 147–Committee on Human Resources and Facilities.  Approved April 28, 1981

277

145

AN ACT relating to savings and loan associations; raising the limit on individual residential loans made by those associations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 242–Committee on Commerce.  Approved April 28, 1981

281

146

AN ACT relating to public health; abolishing the state’s responsibility to control gnats and mosquitoes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 393–Senator Getto (by request).  Approved April 28, 1981

282

147

AN ACT relating to Nevada Mineral Industry Week; changing the time for its observance; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 322–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved April 28, 1981

283

148

AN ACT relating to the custody of children; revising provisions on determination of custody after parents’ separation or dissolution of marriage; enlarging provisions for joint custody; providing for access to records concerning a minor child by a noncustodial parent; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 188–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved April 29, 1981

283

149

AN ACT relating to taxation; increasing the rate of the local school support tax and the city-county relief tax and changing the distribution of the latter; requiring monthly collection of certain taxes; fixing the rate of the property tax for the operation of public schools; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 369–Committee on Taxation.  Approved April 30, 1981

285

150

AN ACT relating to governmental finance; fixing statutory limits on revenue of local governments derived from taxes ad valorem and the supplemental city-county relief tax and on the increase of fees imposed for regulation or revenue; creating a committee to oversee their application; removing statutory limits on expenditure by local governments; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 411–Committee on Taxation.  Approved April 30, 1981

305

151

AN ACT relating to juries; permitting an officer of the court other than the judge to admonish a jury; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 249–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 1, 1981

317

152

AN ACT relating to judges; revising the procedures for disqualifying judges; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 250–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 1, 1981

319

153

AN ACT relating to wildlife; creating special privileges for severely handicapped persons; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 5–Senator Raggio.  Approved May 1, 1981

320

154

AN ACT relating to zoning; limiting local control over location of housing for mentally retarded persons; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 268–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 1, 1981

321

155

AN ACT relating to compensation of legislators; increasing the daily salary of legislators who serve on the interim retirement committee; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 287–Committee on Legislative Functions.  Approved May 1, 1981

322

156

AN ACT relating to state control of public lands; adding a provision for the preservation of lands of archeological significance in the administration of public lands; adding members to the board of review; requiring the department of conservation and natural resources to submit its management plan to the board; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 175–Assemblymen Hayes, Rhoads, and Marvel.  Approved May 1, 1981

323

157

AN ACT relating to public employees’ retirement; providing for an optional program of additional retirement contributions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 26–Assemblymen Bremner, Robinson, Marvel, Dini, Hayes, Price, Barengo, May, Glover, Vergiels, Coulter and Kovacs.  Approved May 1, 1981

324

158

AN ACT relating to notaries public; making certain changes concerning their bonds and fees; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 185–Senator Keith Ashworth.  Approved May 1, 1981

325

159

AN ACT relating to jurors; revising the procedure for selecting jurors in certain counties; increasing fees for certain jurors; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 118–Senator Kosinski.  Approved May 1, 1981

326

160

AN ACT relating to property tax; removing the requirement for an oath when a declaration of personal property is made for purposes of an assessment; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 162–Assemblymen Robinson, Rusk, Barengo and Bremner.  Approved May 1, 1981

327

161

AN ACT authorizing an additional expenditure by the department of taxation for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 1980, and ending June 30, 1981; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 451–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved May 1, 1981

329

162

AN ACT relating to civil actions; specifying the number of jurors; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 225–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 1, 1981

329

163

AN ACT relating to constables; adding deputy constables to the list of peace officers; limiting the circumstances in which constables and their deputies are peace officers; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 113–Assemblyman May.  Approved May 1, 1981

330

164

AN ACT relating to grand juries; increasing the population which divides the procedures for their impaneling; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 190–Senator Glaser.  Approved May 1, 1981

332

165

AN ACT relating to weights and measures; creating an advisory council on the metric system; providing for its organization, powers and duties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 46–Senator Jacobsen.  Approved May 4, 1981

334

166

AN ACT relating to public utilities; authorizing the public service commission of Nevada to appear before hearings of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 424–Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved May 4, 1981

336

167

AN ACT relating to district libraries; providing for the addition of library trustees to represent the residents of a city receiving services under contract; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 333–Committee on Human Resources and Facilities.  Approved May 4, 1981

336

168

AN ACT relating to milk inspection; abolishing the revolving fund; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 288–Senator Getto (by request).  Approved May 4, 1981

337

169

AN ACT relating to license plates; providing special plates for former prisoners of war; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 216–Senators Wagner, McCorkle, Getto, Blakemore, Jacobsen, Kosinski and Hernstadt.  Approved May 4, 1981

338

170

AN ACT relating to trust companies; limiting regulation of certain persons and organizations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 213–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 4, 1981

339

171

AN ACT relating to state lands; requiring the state land registrar to reserve from sales of state land existing routes designated as necessary to public access to certain public lands; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 13–Assemblymen Rhoads, Glover, Bergevin and Marvel.  Approved May 5, 1981

339

172

AN ACT relating to legislators; requiring the issuance of a certificate of appointment to a person selected to fill a vacancy in the office of senator or assemblyman; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 353–Senator Keith Ashworth.  Approved May 5, 1981

340

173

AN ACT relating to prisons; relaxing the requirements for the assignment of prisoners to honor camps; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 36–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 5, 1981

341

174

AN ACT relating to the deposit of public money; revising a provision for inactive deposits of state money by the state treasurer; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 415–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 5, 1981

342

175

AN ACT relating to the state treasurer; requiring him to submit an annual report to the governor and legislative commission; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 401–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 5, 1981

343

176

AN ACT relating to the state treasurer; repealing the requirement that he cash warrants and checks; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 394–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 5, 1981

344

177

AN ACT relating to cities; simplifying the description of territory proposed to be annexed required before a public hearing on the subject; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 366–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 5, 1981

344

178

AN ACT relating to state purchasing; changing the name of the working capital and operating fund to the state purchasing fund; increasing the amount of money in the fund; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 358–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved May 5, 1981

348

179

AN ACT making an appropriation to the mental hygiene and mental retardation division of the department of human resources to replace a certain door and install psychiatric screens at the Lake’s Crossing facility for the mentally disordered offender; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 318–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved May 5, 1981

349

180

AN ACT relating to elections; reducing the time for withdrawal of candidacy; making certain technical changes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 96–Committee on Election.  Approved May 5, 1981

349

181

AN ACT relating to the Multistate Tax Compact; withdrawing the State of Nevada form the compact; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 438–Committee on Taxation.  Approved May 5, 1981

350

182

AN ACT relating to public officers and employees; requiring applications for public employment to include a place for an applicant to list any relevant volunteer work; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 174–Senators Ford, Don Ashworth, Kosinski, Neal, Hernstadt, Wagner, Glaser, McCorkle, Wilson, Jacobsen, Getto and Echols.  Approved May 6, 1981

350

183

AN ACT relating to dependent children; revising statutes relating to the program for aid to dependent children; liberalizing residency requirements to carry out federal court decisions; amending provisions relating to the duty of support and the collection of support; broadening the availability of records in the central registry on deserting responsible parents; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 158–Assemblyman Stewart.  Approved May 6, 1981

351

184

AN ACT relating to the legislative grounds; enlarging the grounds; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 293–Senator Jacobsen.  Approved May 6, 1981

354

185

AN ACT relating to wildlife; revising certain license, permit and tag fees; providing fees for certain licenses; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 220–Committee on Economic Development and Natural Resources.  Approved May 6, 1981

355

186

AN ACT relating to water; clarifying a provision regarding publication of an application to appropriate certain water; allowing the rejection of an application without publication under certain circumstances; authorizing the state engineer to plug wells drilled by unlicensed persons; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 28–Assemblymen Dini, Jeffrey and Schofield.  Approved May 6, 1981

358

187

AN ACT relating to probation; changing the awarding of a dishonorable discharge from a mandatory action to a discretionary action; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 356–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 6, 1981

361

188

AN ACT relating to the state permanent school fund; making certain other provisions of law consistent with the state treasurer’s statutory responsibility for investing the money of that fund; repealing NRS 387.010 which duplicates the provisions of section 3 of article 11 of the Nevada constitution respecting that fund; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 93–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 6, 1981

361

189

AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments; specifying the inclusion, among convicted persons required to register, of those convicted on March 15, 1955; correcting a defective double amendment of NRS 207.080 by the 60th session of the legislature; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 205–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 6, 1981

362

190

AN ACT relating to constables; increasing certain fees for their services; setting a fee for evictions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 265–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 6, 1981

365

191

AN ACT relating to witnesses; increasing their compensation; prohibiting termination of employment or a threat of termination of employment because of appearance as a witness; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 303–Assemblymen May, Dini and Foley.  Approved May 6, 1981

366

192

AN ACT relating to state purchasing; authorizing the chief of the purchasing division of the department of general services to contract for the rental or lease of equipment for using agencies; centralizing the inventory of the assets of certain state agencies; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 357–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved May 6, 1981

367

193

AN ACT relating to procedure in criminal cases; limiting the cases where presentence investigation is mandatory; prescribing maximum periods for probation; providing for disposal of weapons of probationers and certain confiscated and unclaimed property; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 247–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 6, 1981

369

194

AN ACT relating to government; granting powers to the State of Nevada, its officers and political subdivisions to accept grants of money, services and other property and acquire land from the Federal Government to provide facilities necessary for carrying on community life substantially expanded by the deployment of the MX missile project in the State of Nevada; changing the provisions for branch county jails; suspending the population requirement for the incorporation of a city; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 241–Committee on Natural Resources.  Approved May 7, 1981

372

195

AN ACT relating to gaming; prohibiting more than one licensed operation at a single establishment; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 342–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 7, 1981

374

196

AN ACT relating to public property; providing for its use in industrial development; authorizing its conveyance without charge to another political subdivision for a public purpose; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 4–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 7, 1981

374

197

AN ACT relating to the commission on judicial discipline; providing for the employment of a secretary to the commission and relieving the court administrator of the secretary’s duties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 228–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 8, 1981

378

198

AN ACT relating to victims of domestic violence; creating county advisory boards on domestic violence; providing for grants of financial assistance to organizations serving victims of domestic violence; providing for review and evaluation of their services; imposing an additional fee for the issuance of marriage licenses to finance these grants; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 371–Senators Wagner, Wilson, Raggio, Ford, Kosinski, Gibson, Neal, Faiss, Blakemore, Bilbray, Glaser, Jacobsen, Getto, Don Ashworth, Keith Ashworth, Echols, McCorkle, Hernstadt and Close.  Approved May 8, 1981

379

199

AN ACT relating to state lands; authorizing the state land registrar to exchange state lands for private land in the Tahoe basin; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 367–Assemblymen Nicholas, Mello, DuBois, Polish, Dini, Schofield, Prengaman, May, Redelsperger, Cafferata, Glover, Brady, Ham, Horn, Bennett, Sader, Malone, Beyer, Thompson, Chaney, Craddock, Kovacs, Marvel, Bergevin, Vergiels, Hayes, Hickey, Rusk, Robinson, Price, Coulter, Westall, Stewart, Foley, Rhoads, Jeffrey, Banner, Rackley, Bremner and Barengo.  Approved May 8, 1981

383

200

AN ACT relating to cities of the third class incorporated under general law; providing that unopposed candidates be declared elected without an election; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 616–Committee on Elections.  Approved May 8, 1981

383

201

AN ACT relating to corporations; clarifying the required age for directors; eliminating the requirement that one director be a citizen of the United States; clarifying the type of agent appointed by certain corporations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 232–Assemblyman Sader.  Approved May 8, 1981

384

202

AN ACT relating to economic development by local governments; adding health and care facilities and their supplemental facilities to the projects which may be financed, acquired, improved or equipped by means of revenue bonds; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 201–Assemblymen Marvel, Dini, Jeffrey, Rhoads and Polish.  Approved May 8, 1981

386

203

AN ACT authorizing additional expenditures by the University of Nevada, Reno, and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 1980, and ending June 30, 1981; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 56–Assemblymen Bremner, Mello and Barengo.  Approved May 13, 1981

392

204

AN ACT relating to the administration of welfare; changing requirements concerning meetings of the state welfare board; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 180–Committee on Human Resources and Facilities.  Approved May 13, 1981

393

205

AN ACT relating to pharmacists; authorizing a pharmacist to fill a prescription that was written by a practitioner from outside the state with a substitute for the drug which is named; permitting substitutions in prescriptions contained in certain physicians’ orders; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 192–Assemblymen Jeffrey, Schofield, Bennett, May, Mello, Prengaman, Beyer, Chaney, DuBois, Rackley, Craddock, Hickey, Price, Dini, Thompson and Foley.  Approved May 13, 1981

393

206

AN ACT relating to unemployment compensation; revising the procedure for appealing certain determinations; authorizing the destruction of certain records after they are microphotographed; abolishing the rural manpower services advisory council; repealing an obsolete provision; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 295–Assemblymen Robinson and Banner.  Approved May 13, 1981

394

207

AN ACT relating to the state board of health; deleting certain requirements for the meeting dates of the board; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 307–Assemblymen Bennett and Chaney.  Approved May 13, 1981

398

208

AN ACT relating to unemployment compensation; restricting the payment of extended benefits; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 313–Assemblymen Banner and Robinson.  Approved May 13, 1981

398

209

AN ACT making an appropriation from the state general fund to the department of administration for bill drafts for executive agencies and the judicial department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1981; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 359–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved May 13, 1981

399

210

AN ACT relating to state financial administration; requiring the separate crediting of interest earned from the investment of certain gifts; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 399–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 13, 1981

399

211

AN ACT relating to towns; providing for an informal election to choose members of citizens’ advisory councils; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 410–Assemblymen Redelsperger, Polish, DuBois, Prengaman, Rackley, Cafferata, Rusk, Rhoads, Sader and Foley.  Approved May 13, 1981

400

212

AN ACT relating to unlawful parking; extending the time for the issuance of a notice to appear on a citation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 422–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 13, 1981

401

213

AN ACT relating to cities; changing the procedure for reconveying dedicated land; removing the specific power of cities to buy, sell or exchange property to adjust streets; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 484–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 13, 1981

402

214

AN ACT making an appropriation to the department of prisons for the replacement of the floor coverings at the southern Nevada correctional center; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 498–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved May 13, 1981

404

215

AN ACT relating to district courts; increasing fees for official reporters; removing certain limitations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 4–Assemblyman Banner.  Approved May 13, 1981

404

216

AN ACT relating to drug paraphernalia; prohibiting the manufacture, sale, delivery or advertisement of drug paraphernalia; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 148–Assemblymen Stewart, Kovacs, Sader, Craddock, Bennett, Malone, Brady, Marvel, Hayes, Beyer, Schofield, Thompson, Horn, Banner and Ham.  Approved May 13, 1981

405

217

AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; removing the limit on the number of appeals officers; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 191–Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved May 13, 1981

409

218

AN ACT relating to criminal trials; revising the procedure for giving instructions to the jury; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 227–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 13, 1981

410

219

AN ACT relating to the legislature; removing an incorrect reference to the location of the press room in the provision on bill books; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 266–Senator Jacobsen.  Approved May 13, 1981

411

220

AN ACT relating to evidence; providing for the admissibility of evidence of transactions and conversations with and the actions of deceased persons; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 357–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 13, 1981

411

221

AN ACT relating to the abuse of alcohol and drugs; extending the existence of the advisory task force; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 525–Senators Raggio, Jacobsen, Blakemore, Keith Ashworth, Wilson and Close.  Approved May 13, 1981

412

222

AN ACT relating to the department of education; abolishing the state textbook commission; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 458–Committee on Education.  Approved May 14, 1981

413

223

AN ACT relating to the state treasurer; authorizing him to charge fees for investing the money in funds whose interest does not go to the state general fund; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 485–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved May 14, 1981

414

224

AN ACT relating to the Tahoe Regional Planning Compact; correcting errors made in the enactment of amendments to the Compact; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 347–Committee on Natural Resources.  Approved May 15, 1981

415

225

AN ACT making an appropriation to the department of education for a study of the financing of public education and certain characteristics of school districts; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 171–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved May 15, 1981

436

226

AN ACT making an appropriation to the state gaming control board for certain testing equipment; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 339–Committee on Finance.  Approved May 15, 1981

437

227

AN ACT relating to the importation of bees; requiring a certificate of inspection; authorizing the destruction of the bees under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 80–Committee on Agriculture.  Approved May 15, 1981

437

228

AN ACT relating to the emergency fund; broadening the definition of “emergency” in the provision governing permissible expenditures from the fund; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 506–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 15, 1981

438

229

AN ACT making an appropriation to the mental hygiene and mental retardation division of the department of human resources for repainting and certain repairs to the buildings of the Las Vegas mental health center; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 321–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved May 15, 1981

439

230

AN ACT making an appropriation to the department of the military for certain capital improvements on the headquarters building in Carson City and the armories in the cities of Henderson and Las Vegas; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 351–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved May 15, 1981

439

231

AN ACT relating to Nevada Reports; making an appropriation for their reproduction; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 474–Committee on Finance.  Approved May 15, 1981

440

232

AN ACT relating to public employees’ retirement; amending provisions for benefits for spouses of deceased retired police officers and firemen; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 417–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 15, 1981

440

233

AN ACT relating to the public employees’ retirement system; adding an option for the spouse of a deceased member; providing that an employee on leave under certain conditions may remain a member of the system; authorizing the system to withhold money from a benefit or refund; revising the procedure for applying for and receiving disability retirement allowances; authorizing the system to defray the expenses of certain litigation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 168–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 15, 1981

442

234

AN ACT relating to public officers; removing sex as a basis for eligibility for service on a posse; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 402–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 18, 1981

461

235

AN ACT relating to the attorney general; empowering him to subpena documents; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 204–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 18, 1981

462

236

AN ACT relating to estates of decedents; clarifying the time within which an appeal may be made; clarifying the effect of discharging fiduciaries to the estate from liability; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 321–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 18, 1981

463

237

AN ACT relating to criminal procedure; removing the requirement of a presentence report when sentence is fixed by a jury; permitting a defendant to waive a presentence report; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 307–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 18, 1981

464

238

AN ACT relating to vital statistics; removing the requirement of binding certificates; designating the place of birth for children born in moving conveyances; changing the requirements for filing a death certificate; specifying fees; making certain administrative changes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 144–Assemblymen Chaney and Bennett.  Approved May 18, 1981

464

239

AN ACT relating to jurisdiction of courts; raising the monetary limit for jurisdiction of municipal and justices’ courts and for actions for small claims; increasing certain fees in justices’ courts; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 440–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 18, 1981

468

240

AN ACT relating to corporations; removing restrictions on renewing the reservation of a name; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 439–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 18, 1981

472

241

AN ACT relating to county government; requiring a public hearing on the adoption of county ordinances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 41–Senator Getto.  Approved May 18, 1981

473

242

AN ACT relating to the registration of motor vehicles; requiring the registration of a motor vehicle operated for an extended period by a resident with the permission of the nonresident owner; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 108–Assemblymen Hayes, Bremner, Price and Westall.  Approved May 18, 1981

474

243

AN ACT relating to contracts for property insurance; requiring insurers which provide fire insurance to offer insurance on mobile homes to the market value of the mobile home; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 191–Assemblymen Jeffrey, Schofield, Prengaman, Hayes, Craddock, May, Coulter, Hickey, Mello, Price, Dini, Thompson and Foley.  Approved May 18, 1981

475

244

AN ACT relating to traffic laws; providing that certain violations of the national maximum speed limit shall not be deemed moving traffic violations; prohibiting insurers from imposing increased rates for motor vehicle insurance because of certain lesser violations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 635–Committee on Transportation.  Approved May 18, 1981

476

245

AN ACT relating to drivers’ licenses; authorizing the issuance of a restricted license to a person between the ages of 14 and 16 years to drive for a handicapped member of his household; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 259–Assemblymen Dini and Price.  Approved May 18, 1981

477

246

AN ACT relating to counties; broadening the purposes and means of expending public money; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 374–Assemblymen Bennett, Chaney and Thompson.  Approved May 18, 1981

478

247

AN ACT relating to parole and probation; revising provisions on the time of the inquiry on violation of probation and the consideration on violation of parole; making an exception to the allowance of credit for time spent in confinement before conviction; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 255–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 19, 1981

479

248

AN ACT relating to fire protection; granting the state forester firewarden the authority to prohibit or restrict certain activities in a fire protection district; allowing money from the budget of the division of forestry of the state department of conservation and natural resources to be used to pay expenses for emergencies which threaten human life; providing also for the payment of such expenses from the reserve for statutory contingency fund; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 165–Senator Jacobsen.  Approved May 19, 1981

481

249

AN ACT relating to judgments in criminal cases; adding supervised work for the community as an optional condition of probation or as punishment for a misdemeanor; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 13–Senator Close.  Approved May 19, 1981

486

250

AN ACT relating to foreign corporations; permitting persons to register their willingness to serve as resident agents of foreign corporations with the secretary of state; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 270–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 19, 1981

488

251

AN ACT relating to insurance; clarifying the procedure for licensing firms and corporations as agents; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 252–Assemblyman Banner.  Approved May 19, 1981

488

252

AN ACT relating to the investment of state money; broadening the permissible kinds of investments; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 393–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 19, 1981

489

253

AN ACT relating to irrigation districts; removing references to bond commissions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 510–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 19, 1981

491

254

AN ACT relating to the investment of state money; requiring the state treasurer to establish policies for investment of state money, subject to review and approval of those policies by the state board of finance; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 389–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 19, 1981

496

255

AN ACT relating to public employees; providing a procedure for the payment of normal salary to a public employee when he is eligible at the same time for sick leave and certain benefits under chapter 616 or 617 of NRS; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 527–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 19, 1981

497

256

AN ACT relating to public schools; specifying the limit placed on the amount of emergency financial assistance which may be allocated to school districts; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 326–Committee on Human Resources and Facilities.  Approved May 19, 1981

498

257

AN ACT relating to public employees’ retirement; revising the definition of “police officer”; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 511–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 19, 1981

501

258

AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; authorizing the commission to enter agreements with health care facilities to provide rehabilitative services for the public within the commission’s facilities; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 115–Assemblyman Banner.  Approved May 19, 1981

502

259

AN ACT relating to physicians; removing an inappropriate reference to the renewal of licenses; and providing other maters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 519–Assemblyman Robinson.  Approved May 19, 1981

504

260

AN ACT providing for the reversion to the state general fund of a prior appropriation made to the attorney general for the costs of legal proceedings arising from the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 457–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved May 19, 1981

504

261

AN ACT relating to savings and loan associations; eliminating a duplicate reference to judicial review; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 518–Assemblyman Robinson.  Approved May 19, 1981

505

262

AN ACT relating to the property tax; broadening the provision for acquisition of tax-delinquent property by local governments without cost; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 523–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 19, 1981

505

263

AN ACT relating to habeas corpus; clarifying the provisions for appeals from the denial of a writ; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 529–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 19, 1981

506

264

AN ACT relating to administrative regulations; authorizing the legislature to prevent an administrative regulation from becoming effective; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 146–Assemblymen Dini, Mello, May, Jeffrey, Dubois, Schofield, Nicholas, Craddock and Coulter.  Approved May 19, 1981

508

265

AN ACT relating to county hospitals; removing the provision that authorizes general obligation bonds to be issued without being authorized by an election; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 151–Committee on Commerce.  Approved May 20, 1981

510

266

AN ACT relating to county and district hospitals; empowering them to contract for emergency medical or other services and to establish a separate organization to perform the services; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 567–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 20, 1981

511

267

AN ACT relating to the state board of education; clarifying provisions on procedures for the suspension or revocation of certificates of teachers, administrators and other educational personnel; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 565–Committee on Education.  Approved May 20, 1981

512

268

AN ACT relating to savings and loan associations; enlarging the authority of those associations to manage real property; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 411–Committee on Commerce.  Approved May 20, 1981

512

269

AN ACT relating to real estate brokers, broker-salesmen and salesmen; providing that sole shareholders of professional corporations may be licensed on behalf of their corporations as real estate broker-salesmen or salesmen; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 479–Senator Blakemore.  Approved May 20, 1981

513

270

AN ACT relating to irrigation districts; reducing the number of acres needed to qualify an elector to vote in elections of such districts; providing a system of weighted voting; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 176–Assemblyman Dini.  Approved May 20, 1981

516

271

AN ACT to amend an act entitled “An Act to create a water district in the Las Vegas valley, Clark County, Nevada; to designate such district as the agency responsible for water distribution; to provide for the procurement, storage, and distribution and sale of water and rights in the use thereof from Lake Mead for industrial, irrigation, municipal, and domestic uses; to provide for the conservation of the groundwater resources of the Las Vegas valley, and to create authority to purchase, acquire and construct the necessary works to carry out the provisions of this act; to provide for the issuance of district bonds and other securities; to provide for the levy of taxes for the payment of operation and maintenance expenses and to supplement other revenues available for the payment of principal of and interest on such bonds and other securities of said district; granting said district the franchise to carry on its operations in municipal corporations within its boundaries; exempting the property and bonds of said district from taxation; validating the creation and organization of said district; and for other purposes related thereto,” approved March 27, 1947, as amended. Senate Bill No. 559–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 20, 1981

518

272

AN ACT relating to the registration of convicted felons; providing for the use of the standard of “felony” applicable in the place outside Nevada where the conviction took place; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 240–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 20, 1981

519

273

AN ACT relating to the estates of decedents; clarifying the provision pertaining to the vesting of a husband’s estate when his wife has died intestate; authorizing the delay of the accounting due from a special administrator when he is subsequently appointed executor; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 581–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 20, 1981

520

274

AN ACT relating to first degree murder; correcting the terminology of “aggravating circumstances”; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 530–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 20, 1981

521

275

AN ACT relating to the interim finance committee; providing for the selection of alternate members; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 372–Committee on Legislative Functions.  Approved May 20, 1981

522

276

AN ACT relating to the juvenile court; clarifying the law pertaining to the certification of a juvenile as an adult in cases of murder or attempted murder; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 532–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 20, 1981

523

277

AN ACT relating to nursing; removing the procedure for nominating persons to the state board of nursing; permitting graduates in professional nursing and registered nurses from other jurisdictions to apply for licensure as practical nurses in this state; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 414–Committee on Health and Welfare.  Approved May 20, 1981

525

278

AN ACT relating to public works; limiting their definition for certain purposes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 94–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 20, 1981

526

279

AN ACT relating to public officers and employees; extending the provisions for military leave for members of an Armed Forces Reserve or the Nevada National Guard; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 161–Assemblyman Robinson (by request).  Approved May 20, 1981

527

280

AN ACT relating to petroleum products; clarifying specifications and provisions for labeling for certain oils; requiring the display of the price per gallon when fuel is sold in unfamiliar units of measure; changing certain regulations of the advertisement of motor fuel; enlarging the authority of the state sealer of weights and measures to adopt regulations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 153–Senator Jacobsen.  Approved May 20, 1981

527

281

AN ACT relating to zoning for airports; requiring owners who erect certain structures to pay for warning lights as a condition of receiving permits or variances; requiring owners of certain existing structures to maintain warning lights in conformance with federal standards; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 506–Committee on Transportation.  Approved May 20, 1981

532

282

AN ACT relating to traffic laws; authorizing foresters and firewardens appointed by the state forester firewarden to halt motor vehicles; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 369–Senator Jacobsen.  Approved May 20, 1981

533

283

AN ACT relating to drivers’ licenses; making a violation of a written promise to appear for a traffic citation an offense for which a driver’s license may be suspended; providing for the use of a list of licensed drivers in selecting juries; changing certain other provisions relating to the suspension or revocation of drivers’ licenses; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 159–Committee on Transportation.  Approved May 20, 1981

533

284

AN ACT relating to government and public affairs; authorizing agencies of the state and political subdivisions to obtain information on the background of persons in matters other than criminal; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 346–Assemblymen Jeffrey and Thompson.  Approved May 20, 1981

536

285

AN ACT relating to motor carriers; providing for the revocation of a certificate of public convenience and necessity for nonuse or failing to file an annual report; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 160–Senators Blakemore, Wagner, Raggio, Neal, McCorkle, Getto, Kosinski and Don Ashworth.  Approved May 20, 1981

537

286

AN ACT to amend an act entitled “An Act relating to the district courts; providing for the addition of judges to the second judicial district; and providing other matters properly relating thereto,” approved May 27, 1979. Senate Bill No. 79–Senators Wilson, Raggio, Kosinski, McCorkle and Wagner.  Approved May 20, 1981

537

287

AN ACT relating to the state personnel system; providing for regulations to govern the filing of grievances by employees; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 521–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 19, 1981

538

288

AN ACT relating to wildlife; repealing provisions relating to state pheasant stamps; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 435–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved May 21, 1981

538

289

AN ACT relating to gaming; clarifying the limitation of the requirement to exclude or eject undesirable persons to establishments licensed for games other than slot machines only; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 341–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 21, 1981

540

290

AN ACT relating to wildlife; making various changes in the law regulating the administration and management of wildlife; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 222–Committee on Economic Development and Natural Resources.  Approved May 21, 1981

541

291

AN ACT relating to child abuse and neglect; creating the position of specialist for child abuse and neglect in the department of human resources; prescribing his powers and duties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 50–Assemblymen Coulter and Chaney.  Approved May 21, 1981

544

292

AN ACT relating to gaming; empowering the attorney general to prosecute violations of the gaming statutes if the appropriate district attorney fails to do so; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 33–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 21, 1981

545

293

AN ACT relating to juvenile correctional institutions; allowing the superintendent to transfer the amount of uncashed checks of former inmates after 1 year; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 482–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 21, 1981

547

294

AN ACT relating to gaming licensing and control; requiring the state gaming control board to provide underlying facts when it denies or objects to the issuance of work permits; revising procedures on effectiveness of work permits when holders change employment; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 385–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 21, 1981

548

295

AN ACT relating to crimes against property; forbidding probation or suspension of sentence for a person convicted of burglary; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 250–Assemblymen Ham, Stewart, Beyer, Malone and Cafferata.  Approved May 21, 1981

551

296

AN ACT relating to public works projects; providing for the payment to certain contractors of interest earned by a public body on money withheld from progress payments; requiring those contractors to pass on the interest earned proportionately to their subcontractors; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 568–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 22, 1981

551

297

AN ACT relating to sales of real property from estates of decedents; reducing the margin necessary for court to consider new sale; providing for partial release of property sold upon credit; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 448–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 22, 1981

554

298

AN ACT relating to juries; providing for random selection of jurors by computer; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 529–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 22, 1981

555

299

AN ACT relating to trusts; authorizing regulated trustees to sell certain securities in one trust to another trust; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 446–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 22, 1981

557

300

AN ACT relating to the legislative counsel bureau; providing for the chief of the administrative division to be ex officio legislative fiscal officer; transferring the accounting function from the audit division to the service division and redesignating that division as the administrative division; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 299–Committee on Legislative Affairs.  Approved May 22, 1981

558

301

AN ACT relating to the state militia; broadening the circumstances under which the Nevada National Guard may be ordered into active service; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 97–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 22, 1981

561

302

AN ACT relating to controlled substances; limiting their prescription by certain practitioners of the healing arts; limiting the filling of prescriptions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 286–Senator Hernstadt.  Approved May 22, 1981

562

303

AN ACT relating to public employees; extending to state employees a provision for the salary of a deceased employee to be released to a designated beneficiary; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 539–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 22, 1981

562

304

AN ACT relating to criminal procedure; authorizing the designation of fire chiefs to issue certain misdemeanor citations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 566–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 22, 1981

564

305

AN ACT relating to crimes and punishment; increasing the penalty for abduction of a child by a person having limited custody or a parent having no custody of the child; prohibiting interference with rights of visitation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 488–Assemblymen Jeffrey, Foley, Prengaman, Hayes, Stewart and Sader.  Approved May 22, 1981

564

306

AN ACT relating to property taxes; exempting an easement for public utility purposes from extinguishment when the property is sold for delinquent taxes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 384–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 22, 1981

565

307

AN ACT directing the state land registrar in administering, and exchanging or selling, certain real property belonging to the state and situated in Washoe County, Nevada. Assembly Bill No. 356–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved May 22, 1981

566

308

AN ACT making an appropriation to the buildings and grounds division of the department of general services for the repair of the roofs of various state buildings; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 353–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved May 22, 1981

567

309

AN ACT making an appropriation to the division of forestry of the state department of conservation and natural resources for special equipment; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 335–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved May 22, 1981

568

310

AN ACT relating to gaming; increasing the state license fee on the gross revenue of gaming and on slot machines; prohibiting local increases of those fees; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 134–Committee on Taxation.  Approved May 23, 1981

568

311

AN ACT relating to gaming; clarifying the dates of payments of certain increases in fees imposed by Assembly Bill No. 134; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 700–Committee on Taxation.  Approved May 25, 1981

572

312

AN ACT relating to the fish hatchery at Verdi; authorizing the department of wildlife to sell or lease all or part of the hatchery; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 544–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 25, 1981

573

313

AN ACT relating to the practice of medicine; providing that an osteopathic physician may supervise a physician’s assistant; providing that a physician may supervise an osteopathic physician’s assistant; clarifying terms; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 141–Committee on Human Resources and Facilities.  Approved May 25, 1981

573

314

AN ACT relating to health insurance requiring group policies and coverage provided by certain types of insurers to cover the services of a psychologist; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 347–Assemblymen Jeffrey and Thompson.  Approved May 25, 1981

575

315

AN ACT relating to public employees’ retirement; making permanent the increase provided for benefits begun before January 1, 1977; providing a cost-of-living increase for 2 years; increasing benefits to certain surviving spouses; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 154–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved May 25, 1981

576

316

AN ACT relating to personal property taxes; authorizing counties to designate the county treasurer as collector of those taxes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 595–Committee on Taxation.  Approved May 25, 1981

578

317

AN ACT making an appropriation from the state general fund to the legislative fund. Senate Bill No. 590–Committee on Finance.  Approved May 25, 1981

578

318

AN ACT relating to barbers; allowing the state barbers’ health and sanitation board to require barbers to maintain a barbershop licensed by the board as a primary base of operation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 491–Assemblymen Bennett and Chaney.  Approved May 25, 1981

578

319

AN ACT directing Clark County to make an appropriation to the “Rape Crisis Center” in Las Vegas, Nevada; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 380–Assemblymen Hayes, Horn, Westall, Vergiels and Hickey.  Approved May 25, 1981

579

320

AN ACT relating to life and health insurance; raising the ceiling for administrative fees assessed upon insurers by the Nevada Life and Health Insurance Guaranty Association; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 555–Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved May 25, 1981

579

321

AN ACT relating to planning and zoning; requiring that reconveyance of a vacated street be made without charge if the property is reconveyed to the person who dedicated it; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 560–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 25, 1981

580

322

AN ACT relating to irrigation districts; revising certain provisions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 14–Senator Getto.  Approved May 25, 1981

582

323

AN ACT relating to agricultural districts; making Eureka County a separate district; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 632–Committee on Agriculture.  Approved May 25, 1981

583

324

AN ACT relating to taxation; delaying the date on which chapter 122, Statutes of Nevada 1981, becomes effective. Senate Bill No. 7–Senator Jacobsen.  Approved May 25, 1981

584

325

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; increasing the penalty for driving without a license; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 547–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 25, 1981

585

326

AN ACT relating to occupational safety and health; making administrative changes; removing procedure for temporary variances from standards; permitting the occupational safety and health review board to engage legal counsel; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 409–Committee on Labor and Management.  Approved May 25, 1981

585

327

AN ACT relating to liability insurance; requiring insurers of providers of health care to report malpractice claims; allowing boards which license providers of health care to consider repeated claims of malpractice in determining whether the licensee is subject to disciplinary action; abolishing medical-legal screening panels; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 183–Assemblymen Robinson, Bremner and Craddock.  Approved May 25, 1981

589

328

AN ACT relating to livestock dealers; providing for the use of real property as security in lieu of a surety bond; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 9–Assemblymen Bergevin and Marvel.  Approved May 25, 1981

599

329

AN ACT relating to public records; liberalizing the provisions for destruction of records; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 495–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 25, 1981

601

330

AN ACT relating to the administration of public health; changing the qualifications of county and district health officers; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 392–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 25, 1981

603

331

AN ACT relating to food establishments; removing provisions on the system of demerits; making certain administrative changes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 293–Committee on Health and Welfare.  Approved May 26, 1981

604

332

AN ACT relating to wildlife; making various changes in the law regulating the administration and management of wildlife; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 219–Committee on Economic Development and Natural Resources.  Approved May 26, 1981

606

333

AN ACT relating to the control of pests; enlarging the definition of “pest control” to include the submission of bids and reports; removing certain exemptions regarding the application of restricted-use pesticides; providing for the revocation of licenses in certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 82–Committee on Agriculture.  Approved May 26, 1981

610

334

AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments; increasing penalties for certain false imprisonment and batteries; prohibiting sexual conduct between prisoners and persons engaged in their custody or confinement; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 87–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 26, 1981

613

335

AN ACT relating to the department of prisons; authorizing the establishment of centers for restitution; providing a procedure for determining restitution and for its payment by offenders to the victims of their crimes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 29–Senators Wagner, Faiss, Getto and Echols.  Approved May 26, 1981

615

336

AN ACT relating to animals; authorizing the state quarantine officer to adopt regulations requiring the processing of food waste before it is fed to animals; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 603–Committee on Agriculture.  Approved May 26, 1981

617

337

AN ACT relating to unemployment compensation; providing disqualifications for receipt of extended benefits; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 370–Assemblyman Banner (by request).  Approved May 26, 1981

618

338

AN ACT relating to equipment of vehicles; exempting towable tools or equipment from requirements for registration and for certain lighting fixtures; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 583–Assemblyman Glover.  Approved May 26, 1981

620

339

AN ACT relating to occupational diseases; making certain employees of the department of motor vehicles eligible for compensation for heart or lung disease; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 32–Assemblyman Banner.  Approved May 26, 1981

623

340

AN ACT relating to the Nevada state museum; placing all personnel of the Lost City museum into the classified service of the state; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 515–Committee on Finance.  Approved May 27, 1981

624

341

AN ACT relating to executions of judgments and decrees; increasing the limitations on the value of property subject to exemptions; making the optional provisions of the Bankruptcy Act of 1978 which exempt certain property inapplicable in Nevada; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 483–Assemblymen Malone, Schofield, Bergevin, Kovacs, Marvel, Hickey, Cafferata, Bremner, Nicholas, Westall, Mello, Dini, Glover, Thompson, Foley, Stewart, Craddock, Sader, Rhoads, Redelsperger, Rackley, DuBois, Bennett, Brady, Chaney, Rusk, Vergiels, Polish, May, Horn, Prengaman, Beyer, Hayes, Ham, Coulter, Banner, Price, Robinson, Jeffrey and Barengo.  Approved May 27, 1981

625

342

AN ACT relating to compulsory insurance; raising the minimum amount of coverage required for damage to property; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 223–Committee on Transportation.  Approved May 27, 1981

627

343

AN ACT relating to property taxes; removing the statutory provision which allows counties to tax certain real estate of the State of Nevada under certain conditions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 9–Senator Jacobsen.  Approved May 27, 1981

630

344

AN ACT relating to the “MX” missile project; authorizing state agencies to acquire for the state title to capital improvements constructed for the project; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 175–Senators Wilson, Gibson and Glaser.  Approved May 27, 1981

632

345

AN ACT relating to insurance; removing the prohibition against investments in agricultural or ranch property by insurers; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 474–Committee on Commerce.  Approved May 27, 1981

632

346

AN ACT relating to contractors; increasing the limits on fees for licenses; clarifying a provision relating to causes for disciplinary action; increasing the penalty for violating certain laws; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 202–Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved May 27, 1981

634

347

AN ACT relating to metropolitan police departments; making various changes to the law governing their organization, powers, duties and financing; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 386–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 27, 1981

635

348

AN ACT relating to emergency radio communications; providing penalties for interrupting those communications; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 253–Assemblyman Malone.  Approved May 27, 1981

650

349

AN ACT authorizing the state public defender to collect certain amounts from the counties for the use of his services; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 397–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved May 28, 1981

651

350

AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments; increasing the maximum fines for misdemeanors and gross misdemeanors; enlarging the jurisdiction of justices of the peace and police judges; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 418–Assemblymen Hickey, Schofield, Price, Banner, Malone, Bremner, Kovacs, Marvel, Polish, Vergiels, Rackley, Rhoads, Prengaman, Horn, Westall, Mello and Dini.  Approved May 28, 1981

651

351

AN ACT making an appropriation to the mental hygiene and mental retardation division of the department of human resources for the refurbishment of certain buildings of the Nevada mental health institute; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 499–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved May 28, 1981

653

352

AN ACT making an appropriation to the department of prisons for equipment for vocational education at the southern Nevada correctional center; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 500–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved May 28, 1981

653

353

AN ACT to amend an act entitled “An Act creating the Airport Authority of Washoe County; making legislative findings and declarations; defining certain words and terms; providing for the appointment, number, terms, compensation, duties and powers of a board of trustees; specifying the powers of the authority, including the power to levy and collect general (ad valorem) taxes, borrow money and issue securities to evidence such borrowing; requiring the transfer of airport properties, functions and outstanding obligations of the City of Reno to the authority; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto,” approved May 12, 1977, as amended. Assembly Bill No. 509–Assemblymen Westall and Mello.  Approved May 28, 1981

654

354

AN ACT relating to state officers and employees; providing broader authority for making voluntary payroll deductions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 520–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 28, 1981

655

355

AN ACT relating to the registration of vehicles; revising statutory provisions for the issuance of special license plates to Congressmen; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 636–Committee on Transportation.  Approved May 28, 1981

656

356

AN ACT making an appropriation to the Nevada racing commission for the support of the Henderson track; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 639–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved May 28, 1981

656

357

AN ACT relating to state museums; enlarging the joint board of museums and history; correcting a reference to the board of trustees of the Nevada state museum; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 647–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved May 28, 1981

657

358

AN ACT relating to the development of geothermal resources; providing for their administration and utilization; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 164–Senators Jacobsen and Getto.  Approved May 28, 1981

658

359

AN ACT relating to federal lands; enlarging the attorney general’s authority to bring an action or intervene in any court or federal agency if the Federal Government’s use of public lands or water or roads on those lands impairs the sovereignty of the State of Nevada; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 215–Senators Wilson, Glaser and Wagner.  Approved May 28, 1981

663

360

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; increasing certain fees for registration and licensing; increasing the penalty for delinquent registration; setting a flat rate per mile for certain carriers; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 262–Committee on Transportation.  Approved May 28, 1981

664

361

AN ACT making an appropriation to the central data processing division of the department of general services for the development of a computerized accounting system for the department of prisons; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 291–Committee on Finance.  Approved May 28, 1981

668

362

AN ACT making an appropriation to the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education student loan fund; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 336–Committee on Finance.  Approved May 28, 1981

669

363

AN ACT relating to blind persons; strengthening provisions for the protection of such persons in traffic; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 379–Senators Ford, Blakemore, Wagner, Don Ashworth, McCorkle and Bilbray.  Approved May 28, 1981

669

364

AN ACT relating to animals; authorizing certain officers to take possession of and care for certain animals being treated cruelly; creating a limited lien for the costs of care; authorizing judicial determination of the final disposition of those animals; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 405–Committee on Natural Resources.  Approved May 28, 1981

671

365

AN ACT relating to civil defense; making the civil defense and disaster agency a division of the department of the military; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 422–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 28, 1981

673

366

AN ACT relating to the trust fund for child welfare; requiring the investment of surplus money on behalf of the child; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 453–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 28, 1981

675

367

AN ACT relating to surplus lines insurance; requiring a notice of nonguaranty of claims against an insolvent insurer; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 493–Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved May 28, 1981

676

368

AN ACT making an additional and supplemental appropriation to the state board of parole commissioners for in-state travel expenses; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 551–Committee on Finance.  Approved May 28, 1981

677

369

AN ACT relating to the state gaming control board; removing references to former divisions and their directors; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 577–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 28, 1981

677

370

AN ACT relating to marriage; removing duplicative statutory language and supplying an omitted provision concerning evidence of consent to certain marriages; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 579–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 28, 1981

678

371

AN ACT relating to marriage licenses; requiring them to bear the seal of the county; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 580–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 28, 1981

679

372

AN ACT relating to dairy products and substitutes; repealing restrictions on the service of dairy products in places selling prepared food for human consumption; repealing the authority of the dairy commission to enforce certain restrictions relating to substitute dairy products; restoring the permanent status of the state dairy commission; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 503–Senator Jacobsen.  Approved May 28, 1981

680

373

AN ACT relating to the casino entertainment tax; requiring persons with a tax liability of at least $500 a month to pay the tax monthly; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 593–Committee on Finance.  Approved May 28, 1981

682

374

AN ACT relating to education; extending the commission on professional standards in education; removing restrictions on the scheduling of meetings; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 462–Committee on Education.  Approved May 28, 1981

683

375

AN ACT relating to brands and marks; transferring the duty of recording brands of sheep and goats from the county recorder to the state department of agriculture; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 599–Committee on Natural Resources.  Approved May 28, 1981

684

376

AN ACT relating to the state fish; designating the Lahontan cutthroat trout as the official state fish; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 341–Senators Wagner, Jacobsen, Wilson, Getto and Blakemore.  Approved May 28, 1981

684

377

AN ACT relating to county financial administration; increasing the availability of separate bank accounts; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 646–Assemblyman Glover.  Approved May 28, 1981

685

378

AN ACT relating to jurors; eliminating certain exemptions from service; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 530–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 28, 1981

687

379

AN ACT relating to unemployment compensation; changing the procedure and providing exceptions for charging benefits against employers; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 292–Assemblyman Banner (by request).  Approved May 28, 1981

688

380

AN ACT relating to gaming; providing for the better coordination of the information and documents required of applicants for gaming licenses; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 39–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 28, 1981

693

381

AN ACT relating to food; creating immunity from liability for certain persons in connection with donated food; prohibiting the sale, or distribution outside this state, of food which is salvage and has been donated to a charitable organization; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 282–Senator Ford.  Approved May 29, 1981

694

382

AN ACT relating to insurance; requiring the filing of forms to which rates apply; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 636–Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved May 29, 1981

698

383

AN ACT relating to dealers in motor vehicles; regulating the modification, termination, discontinuance, replacement and addition or relocation of franchises granted by manufacturers and distributors, and certain obligations arising under those franchises; removing certain unconstitutional provisions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 543–Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved May 29, 1981

698

384

AN ACT relating to insurance; revising requirements for countersignatures on policies of insurance; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 624–Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved May 29, 1981

704

385

AN ACT relating to insurance; making uniform the minimum age of eligibility for licensing as an insurance agent, broker or solicitor; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 626–Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved May 29, 1981

705

386

AN ACT relating to life and health insurance; removing a requirement that the commissioner of insurance give certain notices to other principals when a life or health agent adds a principal; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 627–Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved May 29, 1981

706

387

AN ACT relating to banks; authorizing the superintendent to exchange intervals of examinations with federal agencies; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 469–Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved May 29, 1981

706

388

AN ACT relating to highways; authorizing the collection of fees to cover the costs of inspecting proposed encroachments and signs, displays or devices used for outdoor advertising; permitting abandonment of portions of state highways which are not needed; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 459–Committee on Transportation.  Approved May 29, 1981

707

389

AN ACT making an appropriation to the state gaming control board for a computerized system for the management of information; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 340–Committee on Finance.  Approved May 29, 1981

709

390

AN ACT making an additional and supplemental appropriation from the state highway fund to the department of motor vehicles for the cost of its use of the computer facility; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 290–Committee on Finance.  Approved May 29, 1981

709

391

AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; making various changes in the law; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 408–Committee on Labor and Management.  Approved May 29, 1981

710

392

AN ACT relating to the property tax; exempting certain housing for elderly or handicapped persons owned or operated by nonprofit corporations from the tax; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 301–Committee on Taxation.  Approved May 29, 1981

717

393

AN ACT relating to the property tax; limiting the inclusion of insurance proceeds as income in determining the assistance to be given to elderly taxpayers; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 517–Committee on Finance.  Approved May 29, 1981

717

394

AN ACT relating to adoption; authorizing nullification by the court of a written consent to adoption; allowing payments of attorney’s fees and court costs in subsidized adoptions; clarifying the applicability of provisions governing placements for adoption and permanent free care; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 199–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 29, 1981

718

395

AN ACT making an additional and supplemental appropriation to the welfare division of the department of human resources for aid to dependent children; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 674–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved May 29, 1981

722

396

AN ACT relating to school districts; repealing local provisions for the election of trustees; providing for election districts for school trustees of certain school districts; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 559–Committee on Elections.  Approved May 29, 1981

722

397

AN ACT relating to regional networks of libraries; providing for agreements to form such regional networks for the purpose of facilitating regional cooperation, improved communications and sharing of resources among libraries; providing for the establishment of governing boards for regional networks; prescribing the powers and duties of such boards; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 21–Committee on Human Resources and Facilities.  Approved May 29, 1981

726

398

AN ACT relating to overweight vehicles; establishing minimum fines and enlarging the jurisdiction of the justices’ courts; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 52–Committee on Transportation.  Approved May 29, 1981

727

399

AN ACT relating to election campaign practices; clarifying requirements for reporting campaign contributions and expenses; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 88–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 29, 1981

730

400

AN ACT creating the Truckee Meadows committee on ditches and drainage; requiring the committee to study the problem of ditches and drainage in the Truckee Meadows and report to the legislature; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 163–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 29, 1981

732

401

AN ACT relating to the department of prisons; specifically allowing the employment of prisoners on public work projects; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 416–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 29, 1981

733

402

AN ACT relating to drugs and poisons; defining words and terms; regulating the administration, dispensing and prescribing of controlled substances and dangerous drugs; revising schedules of controlled substances; pertaining to the issuance, contents and refilling of prescriptions for controlled substances and dangerous drugs; relating to poison control centers; exempting the possession, production, manufacture and sale of certain substances from criminal penalties; repealing certain NRS sections; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 423–Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved May 29, 1981

734

403

AN ACT relating to elections; transferring to the legislative branch of government the responsibility for preparing the ballot questions and explanations for bills and resolutions proposing constitutional amendments and statewide measures; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 454–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 29, 1981

751

404

AN ACT relating to small loan companies; simplifying the annual reports made to the superintendent; abolishing the requirement that the superintendent publish a composite of the annual reports; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 464–Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved May 29, 1981

753

405

AN ACT to amend an act entitled “An Act incorporating the City of North Las Vegas, in Clark County, Nevada, and defining the boundaries thereof, under a new charter; and providing other matters properly relating thereto,” approved April 26, 1971, as amended. Senate Bill No. 65–Senators Faiss and Echols.  Approved May 29, 1981

754

406

AN ACT relating to the superintendent of banks; increasing assorted fees; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 462–Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved May 29, 1981

754

407

AN ACT relating to county fire departments; removing limitations on the boundaries of their service area; providing for the dissolution of county fire protection districts whenever they are included within the territory of the fire departments; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 518–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 29, 1981

757

408

AN ACT relating to architects; changing registration from annual to biennial and making various other administrative changes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 666–Committee on Commerce.  Approved May 29, 1981

758

409

AN ACT relating to the “MX” missile project; requiring agencies of the Federal Government which are involved with the project to share certain information with state agencies; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 383–Assemblyman Prengaman.  Approved May 29, 1981

760

410

AN ACT relating to community redevelopment; authorizing redevelopment agencies to construct buildings for governmental use; clarifying taxing provisions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 512–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 29, 1981

763

411

AN ACT relating to banks; authorizing the superintendent to set limitations on loans made by a bank to its employees, officers or directors and establish requirements for reporting these loans; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 463–Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved May 29, 1981

766

412

AN ACT relating to public borrowing and bonds; providing for a municipal bond bank in the office of the state treasurer; granting powers to and imposing duties upon the bank; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 189–Assemblymen Dini, Mello, Schofield, Jeffrey, DuBois, Redelsperger, Craddock and Polish.  Approved May 29, 1981

766

413

AN ACT relating to the financing of residential housing; enlarging the powers of the housing division of the department of commerce; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 150–Committee on Commerce.  Approved May 29, 1981

770

414

AN ACT relating to proceedings to commitment; extending the time for commencing a criminal action for a gross misdemeanor; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 306–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 29, 1981

771

415

AN ACT relating to cruelty to animals; increasing the penalty imposed for instigating, assisting in or witnessing fights between dogs; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 403–Committee on Natural Resources.  Approved May 29, 1981

772

416

AN ACT relating to county government; authorizing boards of county commissioners to convert excess county parking spaces into public parking and charge fees; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 660–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved May 29, 1981

773

417

AN ACT relating to corporations; revising requirements of disclosures for takeover bids; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 359–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 30, 1981

773

418

AN ACT relating to support; strengthening provisions for assignment of earnings when a parent is ordered to pay child support; requiring such assignments in certain cases; revising provisions relating to reciprocal enforcement of support; specifically authorizing the appointment of masters in reciprocal enforcement cases; liberalizing the rules of evidence in such cases; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 246–Assemblymen DuBois, Hayes, Redelsperger, Ham, Rusk, Westall, Malone, Prengaman, Kovacs and Banner.  Approved May 31, 1981

775

419

AN ACT relating to succession; extending the ban on succession by a murderer to include community property; making a murderer ineligible to succeed under a joint tenancy or the proceeds of life insurance; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 358–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved May 31, 1981

779

420

AN ACT relating to landscape architecture; broadening the provision which allows the board of landscape architecture to waive the examination for certification as a landscape architect; requiring the board to certify a person under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 553–Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved May 31, 1981

780

421

AN ACT relating to disclaiming interests in property; clarifying the meaning of “interest”; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 476–Senator Jacobsen.  Approved May 31, 1981

781

422

AN ACT relating to criminal procedure; requiring an investigation of certain arrested persons for devices or other identification which identify medical conditions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 563–Senators Raggio, Getto, McCorkle, Keith Ashworth, Wilson, Close, Faiss, Wagner, Blakemore, Jacobsen and Hernstadt.  Approved May 31, 1981

781

423

AN ACT relating to the appropriation of public waters; requiring the state engineer to notify certain boards of county commissioners upon receipt of a request for a permit to use water in a county other than that in which it is appropriated or currently diverted or used; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 637–Senator Jacobsen.  Approved May 31, 1981

782

424

AN ACT making an appropriation to the department of prisons for books and equipment for the southern desert correctional center; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 501–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved May 31, 1981

783

425

AN ACT relating to parking permits; providing for local issuance to meet the needs of persons having temporary handicaps; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 549–Committee on Health and Welfare.  Approved May 31, 1981

784

426

AN ACT relating to nonprofit corporations; increasing the fee charged by the secretary of state for the filing of articles of incorporation, articles of association or a certificate of organization; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 456–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved May 31, 1981

785

427

AN ACT relating to the taxation of property; revising the factors which must be used in determining its taxable value; changing the year for which taxes are levied; making special provisions for the fiscal biennium 1981–83; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 69–Committee on Taxation.  Approved June 1, 1981

786

428

AN ACT relating to statutes; ratifying technical corrections made to multiple amendments of sections of NRS; correcting the effective date of and repealing certain related provisions in Statutes of Nevada 1979; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 112–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 1, 1981

817

429

AN ACT relating to pharmacy; clarifying a statutory provision which allows the return of certain used drugs to a pharmacy; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 587–Senator Ford.  Approved June 1, 1981

840

430

AN ACT relating to public utilities; changing the manner of calculating interest to be paid on deposits made by their customers; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 616–Senator McCorkle.  Approved June 1, 1981

840

431

AN ACT relating to the health of pupils in schools; amending various provisions concerning physical examination of pupils; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 329–Assemblyman Cafferata.  Approved June 1, 1981

841

432

AN ACT relating to pupils in public schools; permitting pupils who reside on Indian reservations which are in more than one county to attend the schools closest to their residences; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 611–Committee on Human Resources and Facilities.  Approved June 1, 1981

842

433

AN ACT relating to the real property transfer tax; providing an alternate form for declaring the value of the property transferred; removing the requirement to show the amount of tax paid on the face of the deed; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 298–Committee on Taxation.  Approved June 1, 1981

844

434

AN ACT relating to the department of motor vehicles; making the organizational structure of portions of the department discretionary with the director, with the approval of the legislature or the interim finance committee; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 73–Assemblymen Bremner and Barengo.  Approved June 1, 1981

845

435

AN ACT relating to banks; permitting banks to deliver or mail statements of small savings accounts annually; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 671–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 1, 1981

846

436

AN ACT relating to savings and loan associations; broadening the assimilation of federal powers by those associations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 635–Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved June 1, 1981

847

437

AN ACT relating to deposits of public money; allowing those deposits to be secured with certain mortgages and deeds of trusts; exempting deposits covered by certain insurance; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 413–Committee on Commerce.  Approved June 2, 1981

848

438

AN ACT relating to occupational diseases; expanding certain provisions of law regarding firemen and police officers; clarifying the procedure for determining the percentage of disability; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 137–Committee on Labor and Management.  Approved June 2, 1981

850

439

AN ACT relating to taxation; providing for the submission to the registered voters at the general election in 1982 of the question whether the Sales and Use Tax Act of 1955 should be amended to provide a reduction of those taxes on new mobile homes and an exemption for used mobile homes; contingently creating similar exemptions from certain analogous taxes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 20–Assemblymen Hayes, Barengo, Robinson and Prengaman.  Approved June 2, 1981

853

440

AN ACT relating to health and care facilities; revising provisions relating to state assistance in construction projects; repealing obsolete provisions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 107–Assemblyman Price.  Approved June 2, 1981

856

441

AN ACT relating to retarded persons; requiring the mental hygiene and mental retardation division of the department of human resources to provide assistance to needy families caring for their retarded relatives at home; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 119–Assemblymen Bennett and Chaney.  Approved June 2, 1981

856

442

AN ACT relating to public health; authorizing governing bodies and health officers to designate employees to issue citations for certain violations; expanding the definition of “solid waste management system”; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 299–Committee on Health and Welfare.  Approved June 2, 1981

858

443

AN ACT relating to the property tax; dividing mobile homes into two classes for the purpose of valuation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 116–Assemblymen Stewart, Hayes and Sader.  Approved June 2, 1981

859

444

AN ACT relating to juvenile correctional institutions; authorizing the superintendent to contract with employees for further services; authorizing the superintendent to apply for and receive federal money; changing the responsibility for certain expenses to the youth parole bureau; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 481–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 2, 1981

860

445

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; changes certain provisions of law regarding vehicular traffic; authorizing the director of the department of motor vehicles to adopt a definition of “snow tire”; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 42–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 2, 1981

863

446

AN ACT making an appropriation to the mental retardation residential placement fund to establish certain facilities; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 332–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved June 2, 1981

868

447

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; removing a limitation on the kinds of motor vehicles eligible for a temporary permit; adding exceptions to prohibition against operating a motor vehicle without proof of security; extending the duration of the permit; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 327–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 2, 1981

868

448

AN ACT relating to state employees in the classified service; removing the limitation on their salaries based on the salaries of their immediate supervisors; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 355–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved June 2, 1981

870

449

AN ACT relating to public schools; revising the procedure for retention of pupils in the same grade; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 563–Committee on Education.  Approved June 2, 1981

871

450

AN ACT relating to parole; limiting parole for certain prisoners whose sentences have been commuted; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 386–Assemblyman Horn.  Approved June 2, 1981

871

451

AN ACT relating to attorneys for indigents; redesignating the approving authority for excess fees; harmonizing other references to the same authority; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 423–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 2, 1981

872

452

AN ACT relating to programs for public employees; increasing the amounts payable by the state toward group insurance for retired employees of the state; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 437–Assemblymen Glover and Dini.  Approved June 2, 1981

875

453

AN ACT relating to chiropractic; broadening the prohibition against practicing without a license; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 465–Assemblyman Polish.  Approved June 2, 1981

876

454

AN ACT relating to the housing division of the department of commerce; raising the limitation on the amount of bonds the division may issue; prohibiting certain false statements respecting loan applications; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 468–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved June 2, 1981

877

455

AN ACT relating to the state personnel system; creating a legislative committee to study the system and providing for its organization, powers and duties; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 528–Assemblymen Westall, Mello, Bremner, Brady, Barengo, Nicholas, May, Hickey, Dini, Redelsperger, Prengaman, Kovacs, Beyer, Vergiels, Hayes, Horn, Price, Coulter, Bennett, Chaney, Schofield, Jeffrey, DuBois, Rackley, Sader and Thompson.  Approved June 2, 1981

878

456

AN ACT relating to the taxation of agricultural and open-space real property; transferring certain personal liability for deferred taxes from the seller to the buyer; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 584–Committee on Taxation.  Approved June 2, 1981

879

457

AN ACT relating to hazardous waste; providing for regulation of its generation, transportation, treatment, storage and disposal; prescribing powers and duties of the state department of conservation and natural resources and the state environmental commission; providing for a system of permits; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 196–Assemblyman Schofield.  Approved June 2, 1981

880

458

AN ACT relating to the board of regents of the University of Nevada; increasing the allowances for subsistence and travel for its members; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 696–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved June 2, 1981

890

459

AN ACT relating to the supreme court and district courts; entitling retired justices and judges to accumulate credit toward the maximum pension when performing additional judicial duties upon recalls; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 546–Assemblymen Rackley, Redelsperger, DuBois, Foley, Barengo and Sader.  Approved June 2, 1981

890

460

AN ACT relating to rights of mentally ill and mentally retarded persons; providing a procedure for review by the mental hygiene and mental retardation advisory board of transfers of such persons from one facility to another who object to the transfer; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 259–Committee on Human Resources and Facilities.  Approved June 2, 1981

892

461

AN ACT relating to alcohol and drug abuse; raising the excise taxes on alcoholic beverages; providing for application of the added tax revenue to services for the prevention and treatment of alcohol abuse and alcoholism; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 247–Committee on Taxation.  Approved June 2, 1981

896

462

AN ACT relating to the University of Nevada; changing the status of the University of Nevada, Reno, to a branch of the University of Nevada System; removing references to divisions of the system; conferring the power of subpena upon the presidents of community colleges; making administrative changes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 662–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved June 2, 1981

897

463

AN ACT relating to nuclear affairs; regulating the disposal of byproduct material; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 87–Senators Jacobsen, Getto and Neal.  Approved June 2, 1981

901

464

AN ACT relating to crimes; increasing the penalty for certain assaults; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 202–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 2, 1981

903

465

AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; requiring an increase in the number of risk classifications and a corresponding adjustment of the premium rates; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 556–Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved June 2, 1981

904

466

AN ACT relating to Protestant Episcopal churches; revising the provisions governing the incorporation of those churches; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 600–Senator Wagner.  Approved June 2, 1981

904

467

AN ACT relating to group health insurance; requiring certain coverages among the insured’s choice of types of policies upon conversion of group policy to individual policy; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 592–Committee on Commerce.  Approved June 2, 1981

907

468

AN ACT making an appropriation to the insurance division of the department of commerce for an automated system of information on premium taxes from surplus lines insurers. Assembly Bill No. 602–Committee on Commerce.  Approved June 2, 1981

907

469

AN ACT relating to elections; increasing the permissible rental fee for polling places; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 652–Committee on Elections.  Approved June 2, 1981

908

470

AN ACT relating to confectioneries; revising the definition of “adulteration”; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 667–Committee on Commerce.  Approved June 2, 1981

908

471

AN ACT relating to sales and use tax; requiring quarterly collection from smaller taxpayers; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 680–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved June 2, 1981

909

472

AN ACT relating to state lands; directing the state land registrar to transfer certain real property to the University of Nevada; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 649–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved June 2, 1981

911

473

AN ACT relating to the Colorado River resources; revising provisions on the powers and duties of the administrator of the division of Colorado River resources in the department of energy; providing exceptions to the requirement of the governor’s approval for certain transactions; making procedural changes; broadening the purposes and incidents of the administrator’s permissible undertakings with the United States; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 511–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved June 2, 1981

911

474

AN ACT relating to underground water; establishing priorities among certain applicants to appropriate water; altering the method of establishing and dissolving ground water boards; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 428–Assemblymen Redelsperger, Dini, Rackley, Polish, Schofield, Jeffrey, Rhoads, Mello and DuBois.  Approved June 2, 1981

915

475

AN ACT relating to federal lands; providing for individual approval by the legislature of cessions of jurisdiction respecting certain federal lands; providing for individual approval by the governor of certain uses of those lands; providing for approval by the board of directors of the department of transportation of closures of public roads on the lands; providing for hearings and recommendations by the planning agencies of affected local governments; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 176–Committee on Natural Resources.  Approved June 2, 1981

918

476

AN ACT relating to congressional districts; defining the boundaries thereof; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 704–Committee on Elections.  Approved June 3, 1981

926

477

AN ACT relating to insurance contracts; requiring the use of simplified language and creating a standard for evaluating its use in policies; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 533–Senator Wagner.  Approved June 3, 1981

927

478

AN ACT relating to insurance; including additional lines which may be sold under an agent’s limited license; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 534–Senator Blakemore.  Approved June 3, 1981

929

479

AN ACT relating to health insurance; entitling insureds under individual and group policies to reimbursement for certain treatments by licensed chiropractors; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 381–Assemblymen Polish and Rackley.  Approved June 3, 1981

930

480

AN ACT relating to physical therapists; expanding the powers of the state board of physical therapy examiners; providing rules for its proceedings and for subpenas; providing for the issuance of temporary permits and registration without examination in certain circumstances; adding grounds for disciplinary action by the board; increasing fees; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 231–Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved June 3, 1981

931

481

AN ACT relating to public works; limiting the requirements for performance bonds for public works; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 284–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved June 3, 1981

940

482

AN ACT relating to local government; simplifying and unifying the procedures for issuing bonds and other evidences of indebtedness; providing specifically for installment purchases; limiting certain activities of financial consultants; extending the authority to advance from the general fund money for improvements to be repaid from special assessments; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 167–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved June 3, 1981

942

483

AN ACT relating to interstate education; providing for the repayment of stipends for study out of the state by employment for the state; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 173–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved June 3, 1981

984

484

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; prohibiting parking by unqualified persons in spaces marked for the handicapped; permitting removal of unauthorized vehicles parked in those spaces, providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 535–Committee on Transportation.  Approved June 3, 1981

985

485

AN ACT relating to the conveyance of real property; changing certain procedures for reconveying or otherwise disposing of surplus real property which was acquired by dedication, donation, the power of eminent domain or threat to exercise that power; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 693–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved June 3, 1981

986

486

AN ACT relating to condominiums; expanding the definition of “condominium” so that mobile home parks are not excluded; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 415–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 3, 1981

990

487

AN ACT relating to money orders; simplifying the procedure for the renewal of a license for sellers; repealing the requirement that an annual supplementary statement be made to the superintendent of banks; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 471–Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved June 3, 1981

991

488

AN ACT relating to school buses; exempting from specifications of the state board of education buses used primarily for transporting pupils to and from extracurricular activities if the buses meet certain federal standards; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 445–Senator Blakemore.  Approved June 3, 1981

991

489

AN ACT relating to libraries; revising the laws governing the establishment, administration and financing of the state library, public libraries and law libraries; providing for local and statewide master plans for public libraries; removing certain limitations on taxes and expenditures for library purposes; authorizing the issuance of bonds for county library districts; providing for greater public access to legal books and materials; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 22–Committee on Human Resources and Facilities.  Approved June 3, 1981

993

490

AN ACT making an appropriation to the University of Nevada for equipment; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 705–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved June 3, 1981

1006

491

AN ACT relating to the department of parole and probation; authorizing the establishment of centers for the housing and supervision of certain probationers; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 691–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved June 3, 1981

1007

492

AN ACT relating to counties; simplifying election districts for county commissioners; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 630–Committee on Elections.  Approved June 3, 1981

1008

493

AN ACT relating to intoxicating liquors; imposing additional requirements on importers, suppliers and wholesalers; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 598–Committee on Commerce.  Approved June 3, 1981

1009

494

AN ACT relating to cattle; creating the Nevada beef council and providing its organization, powers and duties; increasing the beef promotion fee and redistributing the proceeds; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 130–Assemblymen Bergevin, Marvel and Rhoads.  Approved June 3, 1981

1012

495

AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; authorizing coverage for persons who perform volunteer work for private organizations as a part of public programs; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 667–Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved June 3, 1981

1016

496

AN ACT relating to taxation; extending the exemption from the increase in certain taxes on retail sales to bidders on public works who were bound by prior bids; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 677–Committee on Taxation.  Approved June 3, 1981

1017

497

AN ACT relating to higher education provided outside this state; broadening the power of the commissioners to contract with educational institutions outside the region of the Western Regional Higher Education Compact; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 475–Senator Getto.  Approved June 3, 1981

1017

498

AN ACT relating to insurance; tightening the criteria of eligibility to write “surplus lines” of insurance; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 558–Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved June 3, 1981

1018

499

AN ACT relating to motor vehicle carriers; providing the department of motor vehicles with greater power to enforce certain statutes and regulations governing those carriers; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 643–Committee on Finance.  Approved June 3, 1981

1019

500

AN ACT relating to insurance; providing for the conversion of essential insurance associations into domestic stock insurers; establishing a method to distribute shares of stock to insureds; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 540–Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved June 3, 1981

1021

501

AN ACT relating to civil actions; fixing the limit of time within which actions for malpractice may be commenced against persons in certain professions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 520–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 3, 1981

1023

502

AN ACT relating to thrift companies; increasing the balance required to be maintained in a licensee’s thrift insurance guarantee fund; authorizing additional investments and loans; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 470–Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved June 3, 1981

1025

503

AN ACT relating to crimes and punishment; providing and increasing penalties for fraudulently obtaining certain public assistance; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 452–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 3, 1981

1028

504

AN ACT relating to trials; eliminating the requirement for corroboration of the testimony of a police officer or deputy sheriff in cases involving abortion or prostitution; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 450–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 3, 1981

1029

505

AN ACT relating to motor carriers; exempting certain organizations from provisions regulating brokers; permitting persons who have obtained business licenses to operate as brokers; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 444–Senator Hernstadt.  Approved June 3, 1981

1030

506

AN ACT relating to real estate brokers, broker-salesmen and salesmen; revising educational requirements for licensing; making various administrative changes; deleting the requirement for pocket cards; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 269–Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved June 3, 1981

1032

507

AN ACT relating to higher education out of state; requiring certain prior residence in Nevada for eligibility to receive higher education out of state under the program of the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 675–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved June 3, 1981

1036

508

AN ACT relating to elections; requiring of candidates for the state legislature additional information on their residency; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 597–Committee on Elections.  Approved June 3, 1981

1037

509

AN ACT relating to statutory liens; reducing the period required before certain goods in storage may be sold to satisfy a lien for storage charges; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 255–Assemblyman Barengo.  Approved June 3, 1981

1038

510

AN ACT making an appropriation to the department of prisons for the payment of accrued compensatory time of employees of the department; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 214–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved June 3, 1981

1039

511

AN ACT relating to the state personnel system; making various changes to the law governing that system; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 699–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved June 3, 1981

1039

512

AN ACT relating to the education of the handicapped; enlarging the permissible sources of money which may be used for that purpose; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 678–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved June 3, 1981

1043

513

AN ACT relating to the private investigator’s licensing board; increasing the fee for a license issued by the board; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 653–Committee on Finance.  Approved June 3, 1981

1043

514

AN ACT making an appropriation to the legislative fund for the expenses involved in serving as host to a meeting of the Western Conference of the Council of State Governments; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 692–Committee on Finance.  Approved June 3, 1981

1044

515

AN ACT relating to dealers in vehicles; exempting a short-term lessor’s branch office from the provisions regulating dealers in vehicles; making changes in the law regulating places of business; specifying additional grounds for disciplinary action and licensing; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 235–Senator Jacobsen.  Approved June 3, 1981

1044

516

AN ACT relating to emissions from motor vehicles; deferring the mandatory inspection of emissions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 284–Senators Keith Ashworth, Neal, Don Ashworth, Blakemore, Glaser, Lamb, Gibson and Close.  Approved June 3, 1981

1046

517

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; revising the provisions for the licensing of motor carriers and certain other motor vehicles; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 477–Senator Jacobsen.  Approved June 3, 1981

1048

518

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; increasing the fee for inspection for air pollution; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 546–Committee on Transportation.  Approved June 3, 1981

1059

519

AN ACT making an appropriation to the central data processing division of the department of general services for the development of a computerized tracking and accounting system for clients of the Nevada mental health institute; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 206–Committee on Finance.  Approved June 3, 1981

1060

520

AN ACT making an appropriation to the prison industry fund for working capital; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 334–Committee on Finance.  Approved June 3, 1981

1061

521

AN ACT making an appropriation to the state printing and records division of the department of general services for the purchase and installation of certain machines for the state printing office; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 335–Committee on Finance.  Approved June 3, 1981

1061

522

AN ACT making an appropriation to the University of Nevada for certain computer equipment; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 338–Committee on Finance.  Approved June 3, 1981

1062

523

AN ACT making an additional and supplemental appropriation to the labor commissioner for travel expenses; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 628–Committee on Finance.  Approved June 3, 1981

1062

524

AN ACT making an additional and supplemental appropriation to the mental hygiene and mental retardation division of the department of human resources for the Lake’s Crossing facility for the mentally disordered offender; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 630–Committee on Finance.  Approved June 3, 1981

1063

525

AN ACT making appropriations from the state general fund and the state highway fund to the buildings and grounds division of the department of general services for the purpose of paying expenses for which insufficient amounts were budgeted for the using agencies as rent of state buildings; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 676–Committee on Finance.  Approved June 3, 1981

1063

526

AN ACT relating to gaming; limiting the requirement for the termination of the employment of a person who is denied a license; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 414–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 3, 1981

1064

527

AN ACT relating to the supervision of certain gaming establishments; strengthening the discretion vested in the Nevada gaming commission; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 413–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 3, 1981

1066

528

AN ACT relating to gaming; specifying additional employees who must obtain work permits and providing for summary suspension of those permits; establishing a procedure for recording a lien for a deficiency determination; granting a privilege to licensees for communications required by law to be made to the board or commission; making various other changes to the laws regulating gaming; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 527–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 3, 1981

1067

529

AN ACT relating to gaming; establishing annual salaries for the chairman and other members of the Nevada gaming commission; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 38–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 3, 1981

1107

530

AN ACT making an additional and supplemental appropriation from the state insurance fund to the state industrial attorney; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 675–Committee on Finance.  Approved June 3, 1981

1107

531

AN ACT relating to the licensing of insurance agents, brokers and solicitors; limiting a certain exemption from the examination to applicants who have held residents’ licenses; shortening the time within which a former licensee may be licensed without examination; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 625–Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved June 3, 1981

1108

532

AN ACT relating to the state legislature; revising legislative districts to conform to the national census of 1980; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 695–Committee on Elections.  Approved June 4, 1981

1109

533

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; consolidating the reports required from the operators of motor vehicles which are involved in certain accidents; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 603–Committee on Transportation.  Approved June 4, 1981

1126

534

AN ACT relating to motor carriers; simplifying procedures for changing the rates, fares and charges of motor carriers; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 673–Committee on Transportation.  Approved June 4, 1981

1129

535

AN ACT relating to physicians; expanding the class of graduates of foreign medical schools who may obtain a limited license to practice medicine; changing certain registration requirements; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 523–Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved June 4, 1981

1131

536

AN ACT relating to involuntary court-ordered admissions to mental health facilities; providing that an order for involuntary admission of a person must be based on clear and convincing evidence; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 612–Committee on Human Resources and Facilities.  Approved June 4, 1981

1134

537

AN ACT relating to the district courts; providing for the addition of judges to the eighth judicial district; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 425–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 4, 1981

1135

538

AN ACT relating to public lands; providing for the identification and purchase of routes of access to public lands; requiring the commitment of matching money; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 60–Assemblymen Rhoads, Bergevin and Glover.  Approved June 4, 1981

1138

539

AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; making various changes to provisions concerning appeals officers and hearing officers; providing the commissioners with subpena powers; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 117–Assemblyman Banner.  Approved June 4, 1981

1139

540

AN ACT relating to credit life and health insurance; clarifying provisions relating to the terms of policies; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 581–Committee on Commerce.  Approved June 4, 1981

1140

541

AN ACT relating to insurance; authorizing the commissioner of insurance to adopt regulations allowing an insurance broker to collect a fee from his customer for certain kinds of insurance; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 590–Committee on Commerce.  Approved June 4, 1981

1141

542

AN ACT relating to data processing; creating the department of data processing; providing its powers and duties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 65–Assemblymen Banner, Mello and Bremner.  Approved June 4, 1981

1143

543

AN ACT relating to chiropractic; providing for chiropractors’ assistants; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 140–Assemblymen Rackley, Chaney, Bennett, Prengaman and Schofield.  Approved June 4, 1981

1150

544

AN ACT relating to financial support of the public school system; permitting the granting of loans to school districts which have experienced unintentional delays in construction; permitting the use of that money for furnishing of schools; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 555–Assemblyman Dini.  Approved June 4, 1981

1151

545

AN ACT relating to public utilities; providing for seasonal rates for interruptible electricity for irrigation pumps; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 580–Committee on Commerce.  Approved June 4, 1981

1152

546

AN ACT relating to public officers and employees; increasing salaries of elected county officers; removing the 95-percent limit upon salaries of certain officers and employees; prohibiting the private practice of law by district attorneys after January 1, 1983; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 705–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved June 4, 1981

1153

547

AN ACT relating to divisions of land; making certain revisions concerning certificates required on maps; relaxing the requirements for small condominiums; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 129–Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved June 4, 1981

1159

548

AN ACT relating to abortion; revising the requirements for consent and notice; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 596–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 4, 1981

1162

549

AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; making certain administrative changes relating to self-insured employers; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 375–Assemblyman Banner.  Approved June 4, 1981

1165

550

AN ACT relating to the “MX” missile project; creating a department for coordination of the “MX” missile project; providing for a director of that department and prescribing his duties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 640–Assemblymen Schofield, Vergiels, Jeffrey, Chaney, Stewart, Kovacs and Dini.  Approved June 4, 1981

1173

551

AN ACT relating to the legislative commission; creating an audit subcommittee in the legislative commission to provide audits of state agencies which have been awarded federal grants; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 427–Committee on Legislative Affairs.  Approved June 4, 1981

1176

552

AN ACT relating to the property tax; providing for a partial exemption from the property tax for residential property containing a shelter protecting against radioactive fallout; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 632–Senator Blakemore.  Approved June 5, 1981

1179

553

AN ACT relating to juvenile courts; requiring the filing of a case plan with the court concerning certain children who are placed outside their homes by the court; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 626–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 5, 1981

1180

554

AN ACT relating to subdivisions of land; revising procedures for presenting a tentative map and a final map or maps of such land to a planning commission; specifying the area on which an individual system for disposal of sewage may be installed; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 283–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved June 5, 1981

1181

555

AN ACT relating to landlords and tenants; prescribing penalties for failure to return security deposits; amending provisions for designating persons to receive process; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 554–Assemblymen Vergiels and Foley.  Approved June 5, 1981

1184

556

AN ACT relating to county hospitals; allowing their sale or lease to a corporation for profit under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 628–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved June 5, 1981

1186

557

AN ACT relating to state purchasing; making administrative changes; removing the monetary limit in the purchase of automobiles; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 274–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved June 5, 1981

1188

558

AN ACT relating to manufactured housing; making various amendments to the provisions of law governing manufactured housing; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 391–Assemblyman Jeffrey.  Approved June 5, 1981

1190

559

AN ACT relating to procedure in juvenile cases; providing that juvenile delinquents who cross state borders be treated as adults for purposes of extradition; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 542–Assemblymen Nicholas and Beyer.  Approved June 5, 1981

1195

560

AN ACT relating to labor and industrial relations; providing for various amendments to provisions of the law relating to claims under industrial insurance and occupational safety and health; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 312–Assemblyman Banner.  Approved June 5, 1981

1196

561

AN ACT relating to the state militia; increasing minimum daily compensation for active duty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 151–Senator Jacobsen.  Approved June 5, 1981

1199

562

AN ACT relating to the state public works board; authorizing the design and construction of projects of capital improvement under a single contract; authorizing the advance planning of projects of capital improvement; removing a limitation upon change orders; changing requirements concerning contracts for consulting services and for the assistance of a contractor in the design of projects; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 342–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved June 5, 1981

1200

563

AN ACT relating to lobbyists; making administrative changes in the laws requiring their registration and reporting; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 10–Senators Keith Ashworth and Jacobsen.  Approved June 5, 1981

1204

564

AN ACT relating to the judicial department; increasing the amount of benefits for surviving spouses of justices and district judges; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 594–Committee on Finance.  Approved June 5, 1981

1205

565

AN ACT relating to venereal diseases; changing the definition of “venereal disease”; removing the quarantine power of the board of health; allowing for the disclosure of information in cases of child abuse or neglect; requiring a serological test in the third trimester of pregnancy; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 142–Committee on Human Resources and Facilities.  Approved June 5, 1981

1206

566

AN ACT relating to procedure in criminal cases; adding to the scope of presentence reports and providing for their confidentiality; permitting certain use of juvenile records without a court order; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 256–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 5, 1981

1208

567

AN ACT relating to controlled substances; permitting the imposition of a fine where imprisonment is suspended for certain first offenders; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 272–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 5, 1981

1210

568

AN ACT relating to public records; broadening the methods by which the records of a local government may be destroyed; removing a time limitation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 570–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved June 5, 1981

1212

569

AN ACT relating to planning for health care; conforming certain statutes to federal law; revising certain provisions on appointments to and composition of the state health coordinating council; prohibiting members from voting if certain relationships exist; expanding the council’s duties; authorizing the department of human resources to impose fees on applicants for approval of certain projects; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 412–Committee on Human Resources and Facilities.  Approved June 5, 1981

1212

570

AN ACT relating to real property; removes requirement of marginal notation by county recorder when real property is sold on execution; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 604–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 5, 1981

1220

571

AN ACT relating to certain nonprofit corporations; transferring duty of recording certificates of incorporation from county recorders to county clerks; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 605–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 5, 1981

1221

572

AN ACT relating to jurisdiction over child custody; providing a procedure for return of the child where the petitioner for a child custody decree acts wrongfully; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 241–Assemblymen Sader, Malone, Kovacs, Beyer, Stewart, Foley, Prengaman, Jeffrey, Schofield, Price and Coulter.  Approved June 5, 1981

1222

573

AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; increasing compensation for certain claimants; reducing the amount of certain compensation by the amount of federal benefits received by a claimant under the social security system; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 433–Assemblyman Banner.  Approved June 5, 1981

1224

574

AN ACT relating to county fair and recreation boards; entitling members of certain boards to receive compensation for attendance at meetings of the boards’ committees; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 655–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved June 5, 1981

1227

575

AN ACT relating to crimes against the person; providing for referral by a district attorney of a person suspected of abusing or neglecting a child to a social agency for treatment or counseling; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 269–Assemblyman Sader.  Approved June 5, 1981

1228

576

AN ACT relating to manufactured housing; providing for the regulation of its condition and for the enforcement of laws governing the condition of manufactured housing; providing a procedure for local assumption of responsibility for that regulation and enforcement; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 412–Committee on Commerce.  Approved June 5, 1981

1229

577

AN ACT relating to the redevelopment of communities; permitting the merger of redevelopment project areas and tax increment areas; making certain related amendments to the charter of the City of Reno; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 680–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved June 5, 1981

1240

578

AN ACT relating to taxation; revising certain provisions of chapters 130, 149 and 150, Statutes of Nevada 1981, of Senate Bill No. 69, and of NRS amended thereby; providing against certain defaults by counties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 678–Committee on Taxation.  Approved June 5, 1981

1243

579

AN ACT relating to the department of prisons; creating the prison farm fund; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 617–Committee on Finance.  Approved June 5, 1981

1247

580

AN ACT relating to the higher education student loan program; creating the higher education student loan fund in the state treasury; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 668–Committee on Finance.  Approved June 5, 1981

1248

581

AN ACT making an additional and supplemental appropriation to the insurance division of the department of commerce; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 629–Committee on Finance.  Approved June 5, 1981

1248

582

AN ACT relating to gaming; clarifying the applicability of the requirement to obtain a license or a finding of suitability where an interest which is already the subject of a license or finding of suitability is placed in a trust; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 610–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 5, 1981

1249

583

AN ACT making an additional and supplemental appropriation to the department of taxation for budgeting changes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 583–Committee on Taxation.  Approved June 5, 1981

1249

584

AN ACT relating to the attorney general; providing him with power to investigate and prosecute certain crimes committed by state employees; permitting district attorneys to act in certain cases; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 482–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 5, 1981

1250

585

AN ACT to amend the title of and to amend an act entitled “An Act relating to gaming licensing and associated revenue; imposing an additional state tax on slot machines contingent upon the expiration of the federal tax on slot machines; revising the distribution of revenue from this source between the public schools and the state university; authorizing the issuance of bonds for certain projects supported in part from this revenue; and providing other matters properly relating thereto,” approved June 5, 1979. Assembly Bill No. 489–Assemblymen Mello, Price, May, Barengo, Dini, Bremner, Robinson, Polish, Hickey, Rusk, Horn, Vergiels, Westall, Malone, Marvel, Glover, Hayes, Craddock, Prengaman, Jeffrey, Bergevin, Banner, Bennett, Chaney, DuBois, Foley, Nicholas, Redelsperger, Sader, Schofield, Thompson, Rackley and Kovacs.  Approved June 5, 1981

1251

586

AN ACT making appropriations to the University of Nevada for the purchase of certain equipment for the Fallon campus of the Western Nevada Community College; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 512–Senator Getto.  Approved June 5, 1981

1254

587

AN ACT relating to governmental finance; providing specifically for the imposition or increase of service charges by local governments; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 689–Committee on Taxation.  Approved June 5, 1981

1254

588

AN ACT increasing salaries of employees of the State of Nevada in the classified service; providing for salary adjustments in the classified service; making appropriations for the increases of salaries from the state general fund and the state highway fund; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 516–Committee on Finance.  Approved June 5, 1981

1257

589

AN ACT relating to the state personnel system; providing for increases in the salaries of persons serving in the unclassified service of the state; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 714–Committee on Finance.  Approved June 5, 1981

1260

590

AN ACT relating to transportation; authorizing the department of transportation to expend certain money to conduct studies of transportation or match federal money for certain projects; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 460–Committee on Transportation.  Approved June 6, 1981

1287

591

AN ACT relating to property taxes; increasing certain allowances available to senior citizens for the payment of property taxes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 244–Senator Wagner.  Approved June 6, 1981

1288

592

AN ACT relating to the department of transportation; authorizing the board of directors to borrow money from financial institutions for short periods; providing that the loan obligation may only be secured by anticipated revenues; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 161–Committee on Transportation.  Approved June 6, 1981

1289

593

AN ACT relating to traditional Oriental medicine; clarifying certain provisions of law; authorizing a fee for the issuance of temporary certificates; prohibiting under certain circumstances representation as a practitioner; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 239–Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved June 6, 1981

1289

594

AN ACT relating to gaming; revising the definition of offenses; increasing certain penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 35–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 6, 1981

1292

595

AN ACT relating to mobile homes; requiring escrow for sales of new and used mobile homes by dealers in mobile homes; providing exemplary damages in certain actions; providing a ground for disciplinary action against those dealers; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 21–Assemblymen Hayes, Barengo, Robinson and Prengaman.  Approved June 6, 1981

1297

596

AN ACT relating to the state board of agriculture; adding one member and providing for his qualifications; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 479–Committee on Agriculture.  Approved June 6, 1981

1299

597

AN ACT making an appropriation to the University of Nevada for research on “drip” irrigation at the agricultural experiment station; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 587–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved June 6, 1981

1300

598

AN ACT relating to employment practices; limiting prohibitions against discrimination based upon age to certain ages; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 572–Assemblymen Banner, Thompson, Foley and Jeffrey.  Approved June 6, 1981

1300

599

AN ACT authorizing expenditures by various officers, departments, boards, agencies, commissions and institutions of the state government for the fiscal years commencing July 1, 1981, and ending June 30, 1982, and beginning July 1, 1982, and ending June 30, 1983; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 713–Committee on Finance.  Approved June 6, 1981

1303

600

AN ACT relating to boards of trustees of school districts; increasing the salaries of the clerk, president and other trustees in certain districts; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 324–Senator Bilbray.  Approved June 6, 1981

1312

601

AN ACT relating to financial organizations; raising the limits for certain loans; revising procedures for appeal from decisions of the commissioner of savings associations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 686–Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved June 6, 1981

1313

602

AN ACT relating to planned unit developments; providing that tentative and final maps of planned unit developments be reviewed by appropriate state agencies for water quantity, sewage disposal, water pollution, water quality and water supply facilities; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 29–Assemblymen Dini, Jeffrey and Schofield.  Approved June 6, 1981

1317

603

AN ACT relating to the state personnel system; clarifying the term “continuous” as used in the plan to encourage continuity of service; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 485–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved June 6, 1981

1319

604

AN ACT relating to insurance; providing for the regulation of insurance for home protection; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 521–Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved June 6, 1981

1319

605

AN ACT relating to insurance; distinguishing between administrators and adjusters; clarifying the status of other employees; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 539–Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved June 6, 1981

1324

606

AN ACT relating to alien insurers; increasing and prolonging the required trust fund; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 557–Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved June 6, 1981

1325

607

AN ACT relating to public high schools; requiring that instruction be given concerning the American system of free enterprise; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 396–Assemblymen Rusk, Kovacs, Redelsperger, Jeffrey, DuBois, Rackley, Craddock, Foley, Bennett, Dini, Chaney, Cafferata, Bergevin, Prengaman, Price, Nicholas, Westall, Vergiels, Brady and Barengo.  Approved June 6, 1981

1326

608

AN ACT relating to real estate brokers and salesmen; making various administrative changes to the law governing those brokers and salesmen; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 579–Committee on Commerce .  Approved June 6, 1981

1327

609

AN ACT relating to public officers and employees; providing the amounts payable by the state for group insurance coverage of officers and employees and their dependents; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 677–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved June 6, 1981

1330

610

AN ACT relating to alcohol and drug abuse; providing for civil commitment of criminal offenders before sentencing but after conviction; removing eligibility for civil commitment from persons convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, or of manslaughter or causing the death of or substantial bodily harm to another as a result of such driving; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 404–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 7, 1981

1331

611

AN ACT relating to crimes; requiring the report of the abuse, neglect or exploitation of an older person; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 157–Assemblymen Coulter, Barengo, Hayes, Foley, Thompson, Banner, Sader, Prengaman, Westall, Jeffrey, Bremner, Price, Horn, Rusk and Glover.  Approved June 7, 1981

1334

612

AN ACT relating to public works; prohibiting the naming of certain public works after certain persons; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 216–Assemblymen Coulter, Prengaman, Rusk, Sader, Beyer and Westall.  Approved June 7, 1981

1337

613

AN ACT relating to motor vehicle carriers; exempting armored trucks from certain provisions regulating other such carriers; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 238–Committee on Transportation.  Approved June 7, 1981

1337

614

AN ACT relating to public libraries; directing that a proposal to issue state general obligation bonds for building and expanding public libraries be submitted to a vote of the people; providing for construction grants to local governmental entities from the proceeds of the bonds if the issue is approved; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 23–Committee on Human Resources and Facilities.  Approved June 7, 1981

1338

615

AN ACT relating to chiropractic; authorizing unlicensed persons to practice under certain circumstances; permitting the increasing of license fees; specifying the number of hours of a seminar required for continuing education; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 240–Senator Jacobsen.  Approved June 7, 1981

1339

616

AN ACT relating to compensation for victims of crime; providing that certain money paid by offenders be applied to other victims; changing the fund from which the state board of examiners pays compensation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 257–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 7, 1981

1341

617

AN ACT relating to dispensing opticians; amending provisions on examinations, fees and discipline; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 442–Committee on Commerce.  Approved June 7, 1981

1342

618

AN ACT relating to professional engineers; prohibiting use of certain forms of the word “engineer”; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 599–Committee on Commerce.  Approved June 7, 1981

1344

619

AN ACT making an appropriation and authorizing expenditures for capital improvements to state parks and for improvement of boating and other outdoor recreational facilities associated with boating; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 276–Committee on Finance.  Approved June 7, 1981

1345

620

AN ACT relating to cosmetology; providing for the separate licensing of cosmeticians; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 366–Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved June 7, 1981

1346

621

AN ACT relating to district judges; providing a salary for their availability to serve ex officio as members of a board of law library trustees and for their availability to sit on the supreme court; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 442–Senators Raggio, Blakemore, Neal, Wagner, Jacobsen, Close, Wilson, Ford and Don Ashworth.  Approved June 7, 1981

1360

622

AN ACT relating to traffic laws; providing for chemical tests for alcohol or controlled substances on persons who have been incapacitated and not arrested; adding licensed practical nurses and paramedics to persons qualified to draw blood for blood tests; removing requirement that persons arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol or a controlled substance be taken before a magistrate if he is being treated for injuries; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 455–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 7, 1981

1361

623

AN ACT relating to fairs; creating the advisory board of trustees for the trust relating to the fairground and providing for its organization, powers and duties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 504–Senators Getto and Jacobsen.  Approved June 7, 1981

1363

624

AN ACT relating to public finance; authorizing the deposit of state money in insured credit unions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 513–Senator Neal.  Approved June 7, 1981

1364

625

AN ACT relating to district courts; providing for the continuing education of district judges; creating a special revenue fund; increasing filing fees in civil actions; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 514–Committee on Finance.  Approved June 7, 1981

1368

626

AN ACT relating to elected officials; increasing the salaries of certain elected officers; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 591–Committee on Finance.  Approved June 7, 1981

1370

627

AN ACT relating to the supreme court, increasing the salaries of the justices of the supreme court; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 592–Committee on Finance.  Approved June 7, 1981

1371

628

AN ACT relating to the public employees’ retirement system; increasing the post-retirement allowances of certain persons who are receiving disability or service retirement allowances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 618–Committee on Finance.  Approved June 7, 1981

1373

629

AN ACT relating to pharmacy; requiring the pharmacist to substitute a generic drug for a prescribed drug in certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 623–Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved June 7, 1981

1374

630

AN ACT relating to the equal rights commission; transferring its employees to the classified service of the state; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 679–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved June 7, 1981

1375

631

AN ACT relating to the Colorado River advisory commission; changing the qualifications of one member; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 696–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved June 7, 1981

1375

632

AN ACT making an additional and supplemental appropriation to the reserve for statutory contingency fund; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 706–Committee on Finance.  Approved June 7, 1981

1376

633

AN ACT relating to community property; allowing the creation of an estate in community property with a right of survivorship; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 659–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 7, 1981

1377

634

AN ACT relating to public administrators; increasing the salary of that office; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 709–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved June 7, 1981

1378

635

AN ACT relating to court costs; increasing the number and the allowances of expert witnesses; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 432–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 7, 1981

1378

636

AN ACT relating to accountants; making various changes in the law relating to the licensing of public accountants and the practice of accounting; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 661–Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved June 7, 1981

1379

637

AN ACT relating to public borrowing and bonds; amending the limits on the rates of interest governmental entities may pay to borrow; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 488–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved June 14, 1981

1399

638

AN ACT relating to banks; authorizing the superintendent to regulate bank holding companies and to approve the consolidation, conversion or merger of a state bank and a national bank; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 492–Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved June 14, 1981

1429

639

AN ACT relating to financial enterprises; permitting a collection agency and a company engaged in the business of debt adjusting to pledge certain assets in lieu of purchasing a bond; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 495–Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved June 14, 1981

1431

640

AN ACT relating to state welfare administration; providing for the immediate effectiveness of regulations, standards and policies under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 497–Committee on Finance.  Approved June 14, 1981

1433

641

AN ACT relating to water; creating the Colorado River commission; abolishing the division of Colorado River resources of the department of energy and transferring its functions to the commission; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 508–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved June 14, 1981

1434

642

AN ACT relating to industrial relations; reorganizing the system of industrial insurance; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 548–Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved June 14, 1981

1449

643

AN ACT making an appropriation to the Nevada State Fair, Inc., a nonprofit organization, for an addition to the junior livestock pavilion on the Nevada State Fairgrounds; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 562–Senators Getto, Raggio, Wagner, Wilson, Jacobsen, Kosinski and Glaser.  Approved June 14, 1981

1539

644

AN ACT relating to air pollution; extending the review of indirect sources by the state department of conservation and natural resources; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 574–Committee on Human Resources and Facilities.  Approved June 14, 1981

1539

645

AN ACT relating to state aid to the medically indigent; providing penalties for fraud commited by providers of medical care, remedial care and other services; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 576–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 14, 1981

1540

646

AN ACT relating to public schools; revising provisions on the financing of automobile driver education programs; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 315–Senator Bilbray.  Approved June 14, 1981

1542

647

AN ACT relating to gaming; revising provisions on the computations of gross revenue; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 320–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 14, 1981

1542

648

AN ACT relating to the financial support of schools; requiring that a portion of the vehicle privilege tax allocated to school districts be used for school construction or for debt service; altering the formula for allocating that tax from the motor vehicle fund to the school districts; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 328–Committee on Human Resources and Facilities.  Approved June 14, 1981

1545

649

AN ACT relating to possessory actions concerning public lands; imposing a moratorium on such actions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 343–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved June 14, 1981

1548

650

AN ACT relating to the licensing of motor vehicles; providing for decals displaying county names on license plates of passenger cars and trucks; changing the system of designation by letters and numbers; providing for the reissuance of expired code numbers to different registrants; providing special license plates for certain journalists; providing fees; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 363–Senator Jacobsen.  Approved June 14, 1981

1549

651

AN ACT relating to the governor; providing that the legislative commission may, upon the election of each new governor, contract for the painting of his portrait for display in the Capitol Building; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 390–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved June 14, 1981

1553

652

AN ACT relating to emergency medical services; revising provisions relating to such services; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 406–Senator Bilbray.  Approved June 14, 1981

1553

653

AN ACT making an appropriation from the state general fund to the division of Colorado River resources of the department of energy to pay for certain costs of litigation and for consulting independent experts; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 417–Committee on Finance.  Approved June 14, 1981

1558

654

AN ACT relating to offenders’ money; creating a new fund; providing for the disposition of interest on certain funds; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 421–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved June 14, 1981

1558

655

AN ACT relating to the interception of communications; providing for diversion, rerouting or interruption of service on telephone lines at the request of a peace officer in situations in which hostages are being held or suspects are barricaded; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 449–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 14, 1981

1561

656

AN ACT relating to county and city jails; amending requirements for detaining United States prisoners in county jails; amending various provisions relating to employment of prisoners; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 451–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 14, 1981

1562

657

AN ACT relating to property tax; extending the tax exemption for a disabled veteran to his surviving spouse; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 456–Senators Kosinski, Don Ashworth, Keith Ashworth, Raggio, Glaser, Getto, Hernstadt, Ford, Bilbray, Wagner, Close and Wilson.  Approved June 14, 1981

1565

658

AN ACT providing for the issuance of general obligation bonds of the State of Nevada to provide money necessary to acquire the Kahle property; requiring the allocation of certain other money to Douglas County; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 478–Senators Jacobsen, Wilson, Lamb, Blakemore, Gibson, Glaser, Raggio, Getto, Wagner, Ford, Neal, Echols, Faiss, Close and Don Ashworth.  Approved June 14, 1981

1567

659

AN ACT relating to fire protection; applying certain requirements relating to fire safety to certain buildings; creating a board of fire safety and providing for its organization, powers and duties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 214–Senators Neal and Hernstadt.  Approved June 14, 1981

1568

660

AN ACT relating to parentage; revising provisions for notice in actions to determine paternity; clarifying provisions establishing periods of limitation; prohibiting the assessment of costs against the state; revising provisions relating to the district attorney’s role in bringing actions to establish parentage and the obligation of support; clarifying the existence of a privilege between lawyer and client in communications relating to such actions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 251–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 14, 1981

1572

661

AN ACT relating to public lands; providing for payments to local governments in lieu of taxes if the state obtains title to or management of the public lands; creating a trust fund; making an appropriation contingent on the transfer of those lands; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 238–Committee on Natural Resources.  Approved June 14, 1981

1574

662

AN ACT relating to children; providing for the assessment of application fees and collection fees in actions to compel support and actions to determine paternity; providing for the disposition of fees collected; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 253–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 14, 1981

1575

663

AN ACT relating to facilities for the mentally retarded; revising procedures for voluntary and involuntary admission; adding procedural safeguards for persons admitted or considered for admission; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 260–Committee on Human Resources and Facilities.  Approved June 14, 1981

1577

664

AN ACT relating to discharges of pollutants into water; adding requirements for notice to affected political subdivisions; making an appropriation; imposing a special user’s fee at Lahontan Reservoir to recover the amount appropriated; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 296–Senator Getto.  Approved June 14, 1981

1581

665

AN ACT relating to bail; revising procedures for release without bail; providing that a person who fails to appear is responsible for paying the costs of returning him to stand trial; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 310–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 14, 1981

1583

666

AN ACT relating to the state fire marshal division; amending the powers and duties of the state fire marshal; amending the composition, powers and duties of the division’s board; directing the designation of a microwave channel of communication for use by fire departments; making appropriations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 74–Senator Jacobsen.  Approved June 14, 1981

1586

667

AN ACT relating to the department of motor vehicles; providing for increases in fees for service of process and licenses; providing for charging fees for publications; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 80–Committee on Finance.  Approved June 14, 1981

1590

668

AN ACT relating to interest on money; removing or increasing limitations on interest rates for consumer and other loans; overriding federal provisions on interest rates for those loans; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 101–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 14, 1981

1592

669

AN ACT relating to the regulation of public utilities; providing civil penalties for violations of the provisions of chapters 703 and 712 of NRS; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 132–Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved June 14, 1981

1597

670

AN ACT relating to public health; providing for the continuation of the bureau of community health services; authorizing the establishment of fees for programs and services of the health division; placing authority to receive financial aid in the department of human resources; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 144–Committee on Human Resources and Facilities.  Approved June 14, 1981

1599

671

AN ACT relating to aid to foster children; limiting the use of federal money in providing special services and maintenance to foster children; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 181–Committee on Human Resources and Facilities.  Approved June 14, 1981

1600

672

AN ACT relating to the Nevada racing commission; providing for its reestablishment; abolishing Nevada racing commission fund; providing compensation for commission members; changing commission membership qualifications; providing that employees of the commission be in the unclassified service of the state; reenacting and amending the Nevada Racing Act; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 183–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 14, 1981

1600

673

AN ACT relating to real estate; providing for the reestablishment of the real estate division of the department of commerce; changing the name of the advisory commission; changing qualifications for commission members; consolidating and changing procedures for examination and licensing; extending time for payment of fees and action on applications; changing fees for transcripts and licenses; imposing a duty on brokers to supervise their associates; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 193–Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved June 14, 1981

1605

674

AN ACT relating to the power of eminent domain; limiting exercise of that power to appropriate land in a historic district; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 112–Assemblyman Dini.  Approved June 14, 1981

1619

675

AN ACT relating to revenue bonds for industrial development; authorizing the director of the department of commerce to issue them for projects chosen by counties and cities; adding fire protection and commercial enterprises to the permitted purposes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 145–Assemblymen Dini, Polish, May, Jeffrey, Schofield, Nicholas and DuBois.  Approved June 14, 1981

1620

676

AN ACT relating to polygraphic examiners; regulating the administration of polygraphic examinations; providing for licensing and disciplinary actions; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 233–Assemblymen Thompson, Chaney, Jeffrey, Bennett, Banner, Coulter, Schofield and Westall.  Approved June 14, 1981

1632

677

AN ACT relating to police judges; broadening the group of persons eligible to substitute for them; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 270–Assemblymen Sader, Mello and Westall.  Approved June 14, 1981

1639

678

AN ACT relating to public employees; increasing the salaries of certain state employees; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 273–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved June 14, 1981

1639

679

AN ACT relating to weed control districts; providing that proceedings for the inclusion of land in a district may be initiated by the district or a person other than the owner of the land; making specific provision for districts which include land situated in two or more counties; providing for appeal to the state board of agriculture; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 279–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved June 14, 1981

1641

680

AN ACT making an appropriation to the state board for vocational education for allocation to school districts for purchase of equipment for vocational education; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 317–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved June 14, 1981

1645

681

AN ACT making an appropriation to the youth services division of the department of human resources for the replacement of drapes and carpeting at the southern Nevada children’s home; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 320–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved June 14, 1981

1646

682

AN ACT relating to judgments of convictions; providing for proof of a prior conviction of a felony by a certified record in various cases; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 336–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 14, 1981

1646

683

AN ACT relating to taxation; authorizing counties to impose a tax for the establishment and maintenance of a public transit system; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 338–Assemblymen Price, Schofield, Chaney, Craddock, Foley, Stewart, Thompson, Hickey, Bremner and Kovacs.  Approved June 14, 1981

1648

684

AN ACT relating to licensing fees for promoters of athletic events; providing an exemption for nonprofit promoters; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 360–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved June 14, 1981

1651

685

AN ACT relating to search warrants; authorizing magistrates to issue search warrants based on oral statements; authorizing magistrates to give oral authorization to peace officers to sign the magistrate’s name to a search warrant; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 405–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 14, 1981

1652

686

AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; setting limits on lump sum payments and increasing the rate of compensation for permanent partial disabilities; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 407–Committee on Labor and Management.  Approved June 14, 1981

1653

687

AN ACT relating to insane and incompetent persons; substantially revising procedure regarding the incompetency of criminal defendants; authorizing the court to order the evaluation and treatment of a defendant as an outpatient; placing conditions on the release of certain clients of mental health facilities; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 425–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 14, 1981

1655

688

AN ACT to amend an act entitled “An Act relating to natural resources; directing the submission of a proposal to issue state general obligation bonds for park purposes and fish and game habitat acquisition to a vote of the people; providing for the use of the proceeds if such issue is approved; and providing other matters properly relating thereto,” approved May 21, 1975, as amended; allocating a portion of the proceeds of those bonds; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 427–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved June 14, 1981

1661

689

AN ACT relating to state parks; ordering the division of state parks of the state department of conservation and natural resources to accept and maintain specified real property at Walker Lake as a state park upon the condition that Mineral County pays a part of the developing and operating costs; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 429–Assemblyman Redelsperger.  Approved June 14, 1981

1663

690

AN ACT relating to housing finance; authorizing the housing division of the department of commerce to make loans for real property to be used for rental sites for mobile homes and the conservation of energy in residential housing; adding mobile homes to the definition of residential housing; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 446–Assemblymen Rusk, Mello, Glover, Dini, Price, Vergiels, Stewart, Coulter, Cafferata, Marvel, Robinson, Hayes, Beyer, Redelsperger, Nicholas and Horn.  Approved June 14, 1981

1664

691

AN ACT relating to certain victims of crimes; revising the procedure for providing compensation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 447–Assemblymen Price, Horn, Mello, Banner, Bennett, Bergevin, Brady, Bremner, Cafferata, Chaney, Coulter, Craddock, Dini, DuBois, Foley, Glover, Ham, Hayes, Jeffrey, Kovacs, Malone, Marvel, May, Nicholas, Polish, Prengaman, Redelsperger, Rhoads, Robinson, Rusk, Sader, Schofield, Stewart, Thompson, Vergiels, Westall, Barengo, Hickey and Rackley.  Approved June 14, 1981

1665

692

AN ACT relating to public utilities; creating the office of advocate for customers of public utilities within the office of the attorney general; defining his powers and duties; imposing an annual assessment upon public utilities for the support of his office; creating the fund for the consumer’s advocate and transferring money to that fund; creating a legislative committee to review the performance of his office; providing for independent counsel for the public service commission; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 473–Assemblymen Westall, Dini, Mello, Schofield, May, Prengaman, Redelsperger, Jeffrey, Polish, DuBois, Craddock, Nicholas, Vergiels, Thompson, Price, Foley, Horn, Kovacs, Barengo, Bremner, Hayes, Hickey, Bergevin, Sader, Stewart, Robinson, Marvel, Banner, Bennett, Beyer, Chaney, Coulter, Glover and Ham.  Approved June 14, 1981

1674

693

AN ACT relating to the personnel division of the department of administration; transferring it to the department of general services; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 524–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved June 14, 1981

1681

694

AN ACT relating to obscene materials; revising procedure to obtain an injunction against certain sales, exhibitions or other use; repealing certain sections or crimes relating to exhibition and sale of obscene materials to minors; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 534–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 14, 1981

1688

695

AN ACT relating to traffic laws; extending the definition of “highway”; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 571–Committee on Transportation.  Approved June 14, 1981

1690

696

AN ACT relating to criminal procedure; providing for payment of compensation to the members of the sanity commission from the reserve for statutory contingency fund under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 586–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved June 14, 1981

1690

697

AN ACT relating to motor vehicle insurance; revising the measures for compliance with the provisions of law requiring insurance; providing a procedure for verifying motor vehicle insurance; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 600–Committee on Commerce.  Approved June 14, 1981

1691

698

AN ACT relating to medicinal substances; regulating the sale of dimethyl sulfoxide in small lots; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 642–Committee on Health and Welfare.  Approved June 14, 1981

1696

699

AN ACT relating to elections; revising certain provisions on party meetings and organization, vacancies in nominations, deposits for recounts, special boards for counting votes, and certain other provisions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 645–Committee on Elections.  Approved June 14, 1981

1697

700

AN ACT relating to racing; altering statutory provisions relating to the payment and distribution of the tax on pari-mutuel wagers; requiring an advance deposit against the payment of the tax by certain licensees; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 648–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved June 14, 1981

1703

701

AN ACT relating to contractors; requiring contractors to appoint resident agents; increasing licensing fees; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 658–Committee on Labor and Management.  Approved June 14, 1981

1704

702

AN ACT relating to appeals in criminal actions; permitting the state to appeal a pretrial order suppressing evidence; providing that an order changing or refusing to change venue is appealable only after final judgment; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 659–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 14, 1981

1705

703

AN ACT relating to planning and zoning; providing a limitation on the replacement of preexisting, nonconforming structures; revising a procedure governing the disposition of tentative maps; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 673–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved June 14, 1981

1707

704

AN ACT relating to certain employees and officers of the legislature; increasing their compensation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 684–Committee on Legislative Functions.  Approved June 14, 1981

1709

705

AN ACT relating to legal services; providing for a recoupment of attorney’s fees otherwise chargeable against the state or a county by certain organizations conducting legal aid programs which accept a certain government subsidy; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 694–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 14, 1981

1710

706

AN ACT relating to taxes on fuel; providing for increases of those taxes; exempting petroleum-ethanol mixture from those increases; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 701–Committee on Transportation.  Approved June 14, 1981

1711

707

AN ACT relating to the state analytical laboratory; providing for the charging of a fee for testing of samples; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 707–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved June 14, 1981

1715

708

AN ACT relating to records of criminal history; making an appropriation to plan for a central repository; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 708–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved June 14, 1981

1717

709

AN ACT making appropriations from the state general fund, the state highway fund and the state insurance fund for the support of the civil government of the State of Nevada for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 1981, and ending June 30, 1982, and beginning July 1, 1982, and ending June 30, 1983; making supplemental appropriations for the support of certain state officers and agencies for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1981; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 709–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved June 14, 1981

1717

710

AN ACT relating to public schools; apportioning the state distributive school fund for the biennium 1981-1983; making appropriation; authorizing certain expenditures; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 710–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved June 14, 1981

1731

711

AN ACT relating to vehicle registration; increasing the additional fee for registration of a motor vehicle which is accounted for in the highway patrol special fund; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 588–Committee on Transportation.  Approved June 14, 1981

1736

712

AN ACT relating to elections; making various changes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 597–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved June 14, 1981

1738

713

AN ACT relating to state employees; providing for certain payment for unused sick leave upon any termination of an employee through no fault of his own; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 606–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved June 14, 1981

1744

714

AN ACT relating to state employees; providing for payment for leave which would otherwise be lost under certain conditions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 613–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved June 14, 1981

1745

715

AN ACT relating to contractors; providing for notice to the contractor’s board of an action on the bond of a contractor; requiring the board to give notice to other claimants of an action on a bond or against the board for a cash deposit; providing expressly for interpleader and notice thereof; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 634–Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved June 14, 1981

1746

716

AN ACT relating to retarded persons; revising the procedure for allocating money from the community training center fund; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 644–Committee on Human Resources and Facilities.  Approved June 14, 1981

1748

717

AN ACT relating to state officers and employees; specifying allowances for meals and lodging; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 648–Committee on Finance.  Approved June 14, 1981

1749

718

AN ACT relating to termination of parental rights; revising provisions governing the grounds and procedures therefor; eliminating provisions for temporary orders terminating parental rights; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 654–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 14, 1981

1750

719

AN ACT relating to local government finances; making various changes to accounting procedures; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 662–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved June 14, 1981

1756

720

AN ACT relating to state lands; authorizing the state land registrar to exchange certain real property near Nevada youth training center; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 664–Committee on Natural Resources.  Approved June 14, 1981

1772

721

AN ACT to amend an act entitled “An Act authorizing the state land register to exchange or sell certain state real property situated in Washoe County upon direction by the director of the department of human resources; and providing other matters properly relating thereto,” approved May 6, 1975. Senate Bill No. 683–Committee on Finance.  Approved June 14, 1981

1772

722

AN ACT making an appropriation to the state public works board for planning prisons; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 685–Committee on Finance.  Approved June 14, 1981

1773

723

AN ACT relating to taxation; providing for the distribution of certain taxes from projects for the generation and transmission of electricity; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 687–Committee on Taxation.  Approved June 14, 1981

1773

724

AN ACT relating to unincorporated towns; permitting boards of county commissioners to provide by ordinance for pay for persons serving on town advisory boards; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 693–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved June 14, 1981

1784

725

AN ACT relating to mortgage companies; making various amendments to provisions of law governing those companies; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 695–Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved June 14, 1981

1784

726

AN ACT relating to fees charged by county clerks; increasing the filing fees in district courts; increasing certain other fees; removing a prohibition against fees in adoption proceedings; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 698–Committee on Finance.  Approved June 14, 1981

1792

727

AN ACT relating to insurance; amending provisions relating to fees and licensing of persons engaged in the business of insurance; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 699–Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved June 14, 1981

1796

728

AN ACT relating to boards of school trustees; requiring each board to fix the terms of its officers; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 702–Committee on Human Resources and Facilities.  Approved June 14, 1981

1813

729

AN ACT relating to credit unions; making various changes in the law relating thereto; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 704–Senator Neal (by request).  Approved June 14, 1981

1813

730

AN ACT relating to education; revising the districts from which members of the board of regents and the state board of education are elected; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 707–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved June 14, 1981

1816

731

AN ACT relating to the Tahoe Regional Planning Compact; providing for the transmittal to California of amendments made to the compact by the 61st session of the Nevada legislature and correcting their effective date to provide for their enactment by the State of California and their approval by the Congress; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 710–Committee on Natural Resources.  Approved June 14, 1981

1824

732

AN ACT making appropriations from the state general fund and the state highway fund for certain capital improvements and other expenses; authorizing certain expenditures by the state public works board; specifying certain powers, duties and requirements of the state public works board respecting those improvements and expenditures; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 712–Committee on Finance.  Approved June 14, 1981

1825

733

AN ACT relating to prisons; providing for the disposition of interest on the offenders’ employment fund; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 715–Committee on Finance.  Approved June 14, 1981

1827

734

AN ACT making technical corrections to Senate Bill No. 714 of the 61st session of the Nevada legislature; resolving conflicts with bills of the same session. Senate Bill No. 716–Committee on Finance.  Approved June 14, 1981

1828

735

AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; making technical corrections to Senate Bill No. 548 of the 61st session of the Nevada legislature; and resolving conflicts with bills of the same session. Senate Bill No. 717–Committee on Commerce and Labor.  Approved June 14, 1981

1829

736

AN ACT relating to water; revising certain provisions of law relating to the time within which appropriated water must be put to a beneficial use; clarifying the date after which a period of nonuse of water works a forfeiture of rights; requiring well drillers to furnish copies of certain records to the state engineer; providing for the registration of certain wells; requiring the plugging of wells for domestic purposes in certain circumstances; requiring access to water of wildlife in certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 16–Committee on Economic Development and Natural Resources.  Approved June 14, 1981

1837

737

AN ACT relating to landlords and tenants of mobile home lots; making provisions governing the rental of mobile home lots applicable to certain recreational vehicles; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 22–Assemblymen Robinson, Hayes and Prengaman.  Approved June 14, 1981

1845

738

AN ACT relating to mobile homes and similar vehicles; establishing a fund for education and recovery relating to mobile homes; providing additional requirements for the licensing of manufacturers, dealers, rebuilders, servicemen, installers, salesmen and responsible managing employees; amending provisions relating to the conversion of mobile homes from personal property to real property; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 25–Assemblymen Barengo, Hayes, Robinson and Prengaman.  Approved June 14, 1981

1849

739

AN ACT relating to interest on money; providing a higher rate of interest for judgments, claims against estates, liens and certain contracts that do not fix a rate of interest; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 68–Assemblymen Price, Barengo, Westall and Polish.  Approved June 14, 1981

1858

740

AN ACT relating to the business of insurance; authorizing the commissioner of insurance to adopt regulations which provide limitations on the disclosure of personal information about certain persons and prescribe procedures for obtaining information and for correcting, amending and deleting personal information; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 71–Assemblymen Price, Barengo, Westall, Polish and Bremner.  Approved June 14, 1981

1860

741

AN ACT relating to elections; providing for special polling places for certain voters; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 74–Committee on Elections.  Approved June 14, 1981

1860

742

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; providing for suspension of operating privileges and registration for failure to maintain proof of financial responsibility; making certain other changes relating to proof of financial responsibility; revising provisions for judicial review; raising the amount of damage above which an accident report is required; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 109–Assemblymen Hayes, Bremner, Price and Westall.  Approved June 14, 1981

1861

743

AN ACT relating to employees’ labor relations; revising the provisions for factfinding and mediation in labor disputes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 350–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved June 15, 1981

1867

744

AN ACT relating to presidential electors; repealing the provisions for a presidential preference primary; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 138–Assemblymen Robinson, Barengo, Bremner, Rhoads, Banner and Hayes.  Approved June 15, 1981

1871

745

AN ACT relating to health care; regulating the practice of naturopathic healing; creating the board of naturopathic healing; providing for its organization, powers and duties; providing for licensing and disciplinary actions; requiring supervision by a physician; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 444–Assemblymen Rusk, Jeffrey, Bennett and Chaney.  Approved June 15, 1981

1872

746

AN ACT relating to physicians; creating an advisory board on homeopathic medicine; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 500–Senators Gibson and Lamb.  Approved June 15, 1981

1884

747

AN ACT relating to sovereign immunity; extending the time for filing a claim against the state or a political subdivision thereof arising out of a tort; allowing the filing of an action without first filing a claim; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 658–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 15, 1981

1885

748

AN ACT relating to corporations; reducing the required number of incorporators; clarifying a provision regarding amendment of articles of incorporation; providing a fee for surrender of corporate rights before beginning business; extending the definition of “treasury shares”; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 438–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 15, 1981

1888

749

AN ACT relating to real property; clarifying the showing required in a hearing on a notice of pendency of an action; providing an alternative; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 670–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 15, 1981

1891

750

AN ACT relating to abuse and neglect of children; defining terms; extending reporting requirements; clarifying provisions relating to the jurisdiction of the juvenile court in cases involving child abuse and neglect; providing for disclosure to certain regulatory agencies of contents of reports of child abuse and neglect; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 149–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 15, 1981

1892

751

AN ACT relating to foster children; requiring annual dispositional hearings after placement; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 578–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 15, 1981

1897

752

AN ACT relating to the department of human resources; revising provisions relating to certain federally assisted programs administered by the department; stating matters to be considered in developing and revising state plans for those programs; providing greater flexibility in the administration of the programs; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 669–Committee on Finance.  Approved June 15, 1981

1898

753

AN ACT relating to public welfare; revising provisions relating to aid to dependent children, state supplementary assistance to aged and blind persons and assistance to the medically indigent; leaving the details to be set forth in the state plans for the respective programs; providing penalties; making appropriations; authorizing expenditure; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 538–Committee on Finance.  Approved June 15, 1981

1906

754

AN ACT relating to visually and aurally handicapped persons; limiting the use of guide dogs to blind persons and hearing dogs to deaf persons; prohibiting specific types of discrimination against such persons; prohibiting persons from interfering with guide dogs and hearing dogs; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 549–Senator Wagner.  Approved June 15, 1981

1915

755

AN ACT relating to traffic violations; increasing the penalties for driving under or refusing a test for the influence of intoxicants; limiting probation or the reduction of charges for so driving; authorizing treatment for alcoholism or drug abuse in lieu of punishment; imposing an additional requirement of insurance; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 83–Senators McCorkle, Don Ashworth, Keith Ashworth, Bilbray, Close, Faiss, Getto, Gibson, Glaser, Hernstadt, Jacobsen, Kosinski, Lamb, Raggio, Wagner, Wilson and Echols.  Approved June 15, 1981

1922

756

AN ACT relating to special assessments; providing for the use of certain surpluses to meet deficiencies in certain special assessments; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 489–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved June 15, 1981

1929

757

AN ACT relating to municipal airports; authorizing municipalities to incur special obligations to facilitate their expansion; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 663–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved June 15, 1981

1929

758

AN ACT relating to guardianships; establishing special guardianships for persons of limited capacity and prescribing the powers and duties of special guardians; revising the procedure for the appointment of guardians; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 674–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 15, 1981

1931

759

AN ACT to amend an act entitled “An Act incorporating the City of Las Vegas, in Clark County, Nevada, and defining the boundaries thereof, under a new charter; and providing other matters properly relating thereto,” approved April 24, 1971, as amended. Senate Bill No. 681–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved June 15, 1981

1938

760

AN ACT relating to abortions; requiring hospitals to report complications resulting from abortions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 267–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 15, 1981

1941

761

AN ACT relating to racing; reducing the number of days of horse racing required at a greyhound track; reducing the tax paid to the state on pari-mutuel wagering on horse races and establishing a minimum to be distributed as purses for horse races; vesting the entire control of licensing for the conduct of racing and of pari-mutuel wagering at racetracks in the Nevada gaming commission and state gaming control board; limiting the conduct of pari-mutuel wagering to the enclosure wherein the race is conducted; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 343–Assemblymen Jeffrey and Thompson.  Approved June 15, 1981

1942

762

AN ACT relating to the Comstock historic district; providing for an agreement concerning the placement of mobile homes within the district; authorizing a fee for issuing certificates of appropriateness; providing for an appeal to a citizens’ board of appeals upon a refusal to issue a certificate of appropriateness; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 663–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved June 15, 1981

1948

763

AN ACT relating to county boards of equalization; authorizing the board of county commissioners to provide for compensation to certain members of the board of equalization; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 596–Committee on Taxation.  Approved June 15, 1981

1951

764

AN ACT relating to the district courts; providing for the realignment of certain judicial districts; providing additional judges for certain districts; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 609–Senators Getto, Jacobsen, Blakemore and Glaser.  Approved June 15, 1981

1953

765

AN ACT relating to child abuse and neglect; providing for the establishment of a demonstration program for the treatment and rehabilitation of perpetrators and victims in severe cases; requiring evaluation of the effectiveness of the program; making an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 51–Assemblymen Coulter and Chaney.  Approved June 15, 1981

1956

766

AN ACT relating to public health; changing certain provisions relating to controlled substances, dangerous drugs and hypodermic devices; expanding the exceptions to the doctor-patient privilege; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 53–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 15, 1981

1957

767

AN ACT relating to dentistry; adding dental hygienists to the board of dental examiners of Nevada; authorizing the board to adopt regulations specifying places in which a hygienist may practice; increasing the penalty for the illegal practice of dentistry; increasing certain fees; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 344–Committee on Commerce.  Approved June 15, 1981

1969

768

AN ACT relating to boards and commissions; increasing or allowing an increase in the compensation for members of certain boards and commissions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 688–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved June 15, 1981

1977

769

AN ACT relating to county commissioners; increasing their salaries; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 706–Committee on Government Affairs.  Approved June 15, 1981

1997

770

AN ACT relating to the sealing of records of juvenile offenders; permitting a court to inspect those records under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 453–Assemblymen Foley, Vergiels, Cafferata, Craddock, Jeffrey, Ham, Banner, Malone, Rhoads, Thompson, Price, DuBois, Rackley, Hickey, Dini, Glover, Beyer, Mello, Hayes, Westall, Stewart and Horn.  Approved June 15, 1981

2002

771

AN ACT relating to state government; providing for the termination of the commission on crimes, delinquency and corrections, and the department of law enforcement assistance; establishing an investigation division in the department of motor vehicles; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 560–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 15, 1981

2003

772

AN ACT relating to crimes against property; extending the description of a cheat; increases penalties in certain cases; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 362–Assemblyman Dini.  Approved June 15, 1981

2017

773

AN ACT relating to public officers and employees; providing certain exceptions from a limitation on salaries; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 676–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved June 15, 1981

2018

774

AN ACT relating to juveniles; making various changes in their privileges and the juvenile courts; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 627–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 15, 1981

2019

775

AN ACT relating to landlords and tenants; making various revisions to the law governing mobile home parks; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 432–Assemblymen Hayes, Mello, Stewart, Sader, Horn, Prengaman, Jeffrey, Thompson, Price, Banner, Nicholas and Barengo.  Approved June 15, 1981

2028

776

AN ACT relating to the department of human resources; creating a process for competitive bidding to provide services proposed by the department of human resources; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 198–Senators McCorkle, Lamb and Gibson.  Approved June 15, 1981

2037

777

AN ACT relating to state financial administration; requiring the approval of the interim finance committee of reallocations of money received under federal block grants; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 619–Committee on Finance.  Approved June 15, 1981

2038

778

AN ACT relating to the interim finance committee; changing the procedure for considering certain matters; authorizing the components of the committee to meet separately during a legislative session; authorizing the members of the committee to call a meeting under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 153–Committee on Ways and Means.  Approved June 15, 1981

2039

779

AN ACT relating to the “MX” missile system; directing the governor to accept money granted to this state to ameliorate the effects of the “MX” missile system; creating a fund for that money; creating a state “MX” missile board to review requests for such money and to allocate to state and local governmental agencies money deposited in that fund; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 381–Senators Wilson, Gibson and Glaser.  Approved June 15, 1981

2043

780

AN ACT relating to tear gas bombs and weapons; permitting the sale, possession and use of certain small weapons for self-defense which contain “CS” tear gas; requiring sellers to record certain information concerning those sales; prohibiting convicted persons from possessing devices which use tear gas; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 561–Assemblymen Hayes, Westall, Foley, Ham, Cafferata and Sader.  Approved June 16, 1981

2050

781

AN ACT relating to taxicabs; changing the basis of the jurisdiction of the taxicab authority; providing that counties for whom regulation by the taxicab authority is not required may choose to come within the jurisdiction of that authority; making various changes to laws which regulate operators of taxicabs; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 179–Committee on Transportation .  Approved June 16, 1981

2052

782

AN ACT relating to crimes against property; prohibiting the unauthorized manufacture, distribution, sale or use of any device for the interception or decoding of the television signals of a multipoint distribution system, except a signal from a satellite; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 535–Committee on Judiciary.  Approved June 16, 1981

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