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Statutes of the State of Nevada - Sixty-Second Session, 1983

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AN ACT making an appropriation from the fund for additional post-retirement increases to the state general fund; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 1–Senators Gibson and Lamb. Approved January 18, 1983

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AN ACT relating to bill books; increasing the fee to be charged for a set of the books; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 4–Assemblymen Dini and Vergiels. Approved January 21, 1983

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AN ACT relating to matter printed for the legislature; making changes in the distribution of bills and other publications; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 3–Assemblymen Dini and Vergiels. Approved January 24, 1983

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AN ACT relating to boards of equalization; permitting the enlargement of the county boards; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 67–Senators Raggio, Wagner, Wilson, Mello and Glover. Approved January 31, 1983

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AN ACT relating to county officers; requiring the governor to fill vacancies among certain county commissioners with persons from the same political party as the most recent holder of the office; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 541–Committee on Elections. Vetoed 61st session. Veto overridden. Approved February 2, 1983

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AN ACT relating to state lands; requiring legislative approval of leases which extend beyond 1 year; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 619–Committee on Ways and Means. Vetoed 61st session. Veto overridden. Approved February 2, 1983

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AN ACT relating to taxation; imposing the local school support tax and city-county relief tax on occasional sales of motor vehicles; providing a credit for the exchange of a used vehicle in a purchase of an automobile; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 665–Committee on Taxation. Vetoed 61st session. Veto overridden. Approved February 2, 1983

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AN ACT making an appropriation from the state general fund to the legislative fund. Senate Bill No. 94–Committee on Finance. Approved February 4, 1983

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AN ACT making an appropriation from the state general fund to the legislative fund. Senate Bill No. 31–Senator Lamb. Approved February 4, 1983

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AN ACT relating to gifts to minors; broadening the scope of the Nevada Uniform Gifts to Minors Act to include real property and tangible personal property; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 25–Committee on Judiciary. Approved February 18, 1983

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AN ACT relating to minors; allowing payment of judgments in favor of a minor to be made to his parents or guardian; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 20–Committee on Judiciary. Approved February 21, 1983

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AN ACT relating to powers of attorney; allowing a power of attorney to remain in effect when the principal is disabled; requiring a notice of death or disability before revocation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 22–Committee on Judiciary. Approved February 21, 1983

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AN ACT relating to judgment debtors; providing for an examination of a judgment debtor before issuance of a writ of execution; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 23–Committee on Judiciary. Approved February 21, 1983

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AN ACT relating to traffic laws; eliminating a conflict between NRS 483.383 and 484.385 concerning the duration of the penalty imposed against an arrested driver for his refusal to submit to required chemical tests; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 49–Committee on Judiciary. Approved February 21, 1983

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AN ACT relating to statutes; ratifying technical corrections made to various chapters of NRS and to multiple amendments of sections of NRS; correcting the effective date of and repealing certain related provisions in Statutes of Nevada 1981; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 66–Committee on Judiciary. Approved February 22, 1983

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AN ACT relating to delinquent taxes; requiring a notice of delinquent taxes to be mailed to the holder of a recorded security interest upon his request; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 30–Committee on Judiciary. Approved February 23, 1983

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AN ACT relating to motor carriers; removing the requirement that motor carriers of interstate commerce submit certain information to the public service commission of Nevada; providing opportunity for a hearing before the suspension of a certificate, permit or license; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 14–Committee on Judiciary. Approved February 23, 1983

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AN ACT making an appropriation from the state highway fund to the state general fund for the repayment of the current value of advances made for capital improvements and equipment to maintain roads; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 32–Committee on Ways and Means. Approved February 24, 1983

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AN ACT relating to executions; correcting references to the minimum wage; removing the specified rate of interest from the form for a writ of execution on a judgment for money; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 8–Committee on Judiciary. Approved February 28, 1983

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AN ACT relating to exemptions from service as jurors; removing an exemption which conflicts with the general limitation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 7–Committee on Judiciary. Approved February 28, 1983

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AN ACT relating to takeover bids for private corporations; repealing requirement to disclose the intent to make a public offer for the shares of a corporation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 10–Committee on Judiciary. Approved February 28, 1983

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AN ACT relating to tort claims against local governments; relaxing requirements of notice; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 9–Committee on Judiciary. Approved February 28, 1983

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AN ACT relating to homesteads; clarifying ambiguities in certain statutory provisions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 11–Committee on Judiciary. Approved February 28, 1983

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AN ACT relating to the duties of the secretary of state; permitting display of the enrolled copy of the state constitution in the legislative building; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 262–Committee on Legislative Functions. Approved March 1, 1983

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AN ACT relating to corporations not for profit; eliminating a conflict with NRS 81.007 concerning the payment of filing fees; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 104–Committee on Commerce. Approved March 1, 1983

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AN ACT relating to statutes; making technical corrections to certain inappropriate or inaccurate statutory terms; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 47–Committee on Judiciary. Approved March 1, 1983

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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. 152–Committee on Ways and Means. Approved March 1, 1983

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AN ACT making an appropriation from the state general fund to the legislative fund. Senate Bill No. 142–Committee on Finance. Approved March 1, 1983

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AN ACT relating to the legislative auditor; revising the procedures of arranging for audits and presenting and distributing audit reports; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 6–Assemblymen Dini and Vergiels. Approved March 1, 1983

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AN ACT relating to real estate brokers and salesmen; removing conflicting, redundant or obsolete provisions concerning brokers and salesmen; clarifying the requirements for experience; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 62–Assemblyman Jeffrey. Approved March 1, 1983

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AN ACT relating to emergency management; changing the name of the division of civil defense and disaster assistance to the division of emergency management; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 16–Senator Jacobsen. Approved March 4, 1983

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AN ACT relating to pharmacy; removing the limitation on the number of times an applicant for a certificate as a registered pharmacist may take the examination; removing the requirement that examinations be conducted at meetings of the board; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 108–Assemblyman Sedway. Approved March 4, 1983

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AN ACT relating to pharmacists; providing that an application for registration as a pharmacist is only valid for 1 year; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 107–Assemblyman Sedway. Approved March 4, 1983

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AN ACT relating to the legislative counsel bureau; removing a limitation upon the authority of the legislative commission to prescribe the duration of leaves of absence for the personnel of the bureau; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 66–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved March 4, 1983

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AN ACT relating to local governments; correcting the definition of “mediation” in relation to local governments and their employees; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 67–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved March 4, 1983

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AN ACT relating to the state board of examiners; makes various changes in the handling of the money in the stale claims account and the reserve for statutory contingency fund; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 18–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved March 4, 1983

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AN ACT relating to boards of county commissioners; removing a conflict between NRS 244.014 and 244.016 concerning the number and terms of county commissioners in certain counties by correcting an obsolete classification by population; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 71–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved March 4, 1983

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AN ACT relating to the public employees’ retirement system; removing inappropriate references to the applicability of the State Budget Act; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 68–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved March 4, 1983

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AN ACT relating to the Nevada Indian commission; eliminating a conflict between NRS 233A.050 and subsection 3 of NRS 233A.065 which requires the executive director, who is appointed by the governor, to act as secretary; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 69–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved March 4, 1983

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AN ACT relating to the “MX” missile project; repealing and removing provisions of law concerning the project; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 70–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved March 4, 1983

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AN ACT making an appropriation to the emergency fund; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 133–Committee on Finance. Approved March 8, 1983

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AN ACT relating to county codes; reducing the number of copies required to be reproduced when the code is adopted; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 50–Senator Jacobsen. Approved March 8, 1983

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AN ACT relating to secured transactions; requiring the filing of financial statements covering movable farm products or equipment used in farming operations with the secretary of state; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 1–Assemblymen Getto, Redelsperger, Bergevin and Marvel. Approved March 8, 1983

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AN ACT relating to public health; modernizing the Nevada Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 77–Committee on Health and Welfare. Approved March 8, 1983

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AN ACT relating to mobile homes; changing the requirements for the conversion of mobile homes to real property; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 41–Committee on Commerce. Approved March 8, 1983

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AN ACT relating to vocational boards and commissions; authorizing certain boards and commissions to audit their fiscal records biennially instead of annually; requiring that audits and financial statements conform to generally accepted standards; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 119–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved March 10, 1983

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AN ACT relating to estates of decedents; providing for the deduction of encumbrances in determining the value of an estate for release without administration; increasing the maximum value of such an estate; expanding the procedures to reopen an estate; increasing the maximum value of personal property which may be transferred without administration; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 24–Committee on Judiciary. Approved March 10, 1983

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AN ACT relating to audiology and speech pathology; entitling members of the board of examiners for audiology and speech pathology to receive salaries; clarifying the qualifications for licensing without examination; providing for annual licenses; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 34–Senators Hickey and Blakemore. Approved March 10, 1983

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AN ACT relating to the estates of deceased persons; allowing a separate statement to dispose of tangible personalty; allowing the requirement of a bond to be in the court’s discretion; removal of the requirement of residency to prove a will by copy when the original cannot be produced in this state; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 21–Committee on Judiciary. Approved March 10, 1983

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AN ACT relating to local government budgets; deferring the dates for certain actions as they relate to budgets for the fiscal year 1983-1984 only; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 208–Senator Gibson. Approved March 10, 1983

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AN ACT relating to the public service commission; clarifying the duties of the division of consumer relations concerning complaints and investigations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 74–Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved March 10, 1983

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AN ACT relating to children’s homes; removing the board for youth services from their administration; requiring the approval of the administrator of the youth services division in the department of human resources for a child’s discharge; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 58–Committee on Human Resources and Facilities. Approved March 14, 1983

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AN ACT making an appropriation from the state general fund to the legislative fund. Senate Bill No. 165–Committee on Finance. Approved March 15, 1983

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AN ACT relating to offenders released from imprisonment; providing a fee to defray the cost of supervision of parolees and probationers; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 42–Senators Wagner, Horn and Mello. Approved March 16, 1983

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AN ACT relating to parole and probation; allowing the director of the department of prisons to designate a substitute for the psychiatric examination of offenders; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 113–Committee on Judiciary. Approved March 16, 1983

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AN ACT relating to the state legislature; revising provisions governing the legislative committee for the review of federal regulations; renaming the committee; expanding its membership; adding to its powers and duties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 33–Committee on Natural Resources. Approved March 16, 1983

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AN ACT relating to bail; increasing the amount of money deposited instead of bail bond that may be forfeited without notice to sureties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 45–Committee on Judiciary. Approved March 16, 1983

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AN ACT relating to the Nevada historical society; creating a dedicated trust fund for the society; allocating the interest earned thereon to the society; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 141–Senators Mello and Neal. Approved March 16, 1983

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AN ACT relating to milk; allowing additional methods of testing for butterfat; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 79–Committee on Health and Welfare. Approved March 16, 1983

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AN ACT relating to gaming; requiring that license fees be paid monthly instead of quarterly and 3 months in advance; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 64–Committee on Judiciary. Approved March 18, 1983

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AN ACT relating to zoning; limiting local control over location of housing for mentally retarded persons; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 34–Committee on Health and Welfare. Approved March 19, 1983

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AN ACT relating to data processing; removing an obsolete reference to data processing under the department of general services; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 110–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved March 19, 1983

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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. 158–Committee on Finance. Approved March 19, 1983

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AN ACT relating to real estate; providing grounds for disciplinary action for owner-developers; authorizing the real estate commission to impose administrative fines; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 64–Assemblyman Jeffrey. Approved March 21, 1983

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AN ACT relating to laetrile and Gerovital H3; providing definitions for taxation of gross receipts from manufacturers’ sales; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 205–Committee on Taxation. Approved March 22, 1983

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AN ACT relating to the appraisal of property for taxation; removing an obsolete provision which provided an exception to the requirement that appraisers be certified; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 201–Committee on Taxation. Approved March 22, 1983

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AN ACT relating to pharmacy; increasing the time that prescriptions must be retained on file; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 154–Assemblyman Sedway. Approved March 22, 1983

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AN ACT making an additional and supplemental appropriation to the health division of the department of human resources for the support of the vital statistics section; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 129–Committee on Finance. Approved March 22, 1983

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AN ACT relating to airports; removing a conflict within NRS 494.046 concerning the apportionment of money in a county airport fund to cities; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 51–Committee on Transportation. Approved March 22, 1983

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AN ACT relating to real estate brokers and salesmen; removing obsolete and duplicative provisions regarding their qualifications; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 63–Assemblyman Jeffrey. Approved March 22, 1983

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AN ACT relating to pesticides; exempting some applications of pesticides from regulation; extending certificates for applying pesticides; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 147–Committee on Natural Resources, Environment and Agriculture. Approved March 22, 1983

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AN ACT relating to optometry; changing the fees for licensing which are chargeable by the Nevada state board of optometry; increasing the amount of the administrative fine that may be imposed by the board; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 101–Committee on Commerce. Approved March 22, 1983

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AN ACT relating to public utilities; correcting the duplication and misplacement of certain provisions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 102–Committee on Commerce. Approved March 22, 1983

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AN ACT relating to domestic animals; providing a penalty for allowing a dog to harass them on the open range or on private property; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 39–Committee on Natural Resources. Approved March 24, 1983

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AN ACT relating to banks; repealing the provision limiting the rate of interest on small loans; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 103–Committee on Commerce. Approved March 24, 1983

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AN ACT relating to the legislative commission, creating a special account for intergovernmental activities; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 44–Committee on Legislative Affairs. Approved March 24, 1983

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AN ACT relating to violators of parole or probation; making the expenses of returning a person arrested for violating a condition of his parole or probation a charge upon the state; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 182–Committee on Judiciary. Approved March 24, 1983

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AN ACT relating to payments in lieu of taxes; apportioning the costs of the audits required for such payments between the funds to which the payments are distributed; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 84–Senator Ashworth. Approved March 24, 1983

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AN ACT relating to the state personnel system; adding to the circumstances under which the requirements of competitive examination may be suspended; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 24–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved March 25, 1983

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AN ACT relating to public utilities; requiring the public service commission of Nevada to consider the increased revenues and certain depreciation costs of utilities at hearings on the propriety of new rates; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 69–Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved March 25, 1983

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AN ACT relating to toluene; prohibiting the sale or gift to any person who is less than 18 years of age of aerosol paint, glue or cement which contains toluene; specifying exceptions to this prohibition; prohibiting the possession of certain drugs or chemicals with the intent to use them contrary to directions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 119–Senators Horn, Bilbray, Blakemore, Faiss, Foley, Mello, Neal and Ryan. Approved March 25, 1983

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AN ACT relating to gaming; providing that the state gaming control board may not charge investigative costs to certain applicants for findings of suitability to be associated with a gaming enterprise; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 160–Committee on Judiciary. Approved March 25, 1983

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AN ACT relating to arrests; enumerating additional places where forcible entry or exit may be made; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 219–Committee on Judiciary. Approved March 25, 1983

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AN ACT relating to the department of parole and probation; providing an additional use of the restitution trust fund; transferring certain expenses to the department; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 183–Committee on Judiciary. Approved March 25, 1983

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AN ACT relating to the state personnel system; requiring that the chief of the personnel division of the department of general services establish objectives and policies for the division; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 25–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved March 25, 1983

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AN ACT relating to the state personnel system; revising provisions governing disciplinary proceedings; eliminating review by the advisory personnel commission of the hearing officer’s decisions; providing for appointment of hearing officers by a majority of the commission; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 29–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved March 25, 1983

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AN ACT relating to children’s homes; adding to the requirements for admission; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 57–Committee on Human Resources and Facilities. Approved March 25, 1983

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AN ACT relating to the reporting of wages; requiring employers to report additional details; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 128–Committee on Labor and Management. Approved March 27, 1983

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AN ACT relating to parcel maps; exempting the department of transportation from filing parcel maps; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 107–Committee on Transportation. Approved March 27, 1983

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AN ACT relating to local governmental finances; requiring the department to compel the submission of proposed plans of correction for violations which were reported in annual audits; extending the time for a hearing by the Nevada tax commission on those plans; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 200–Committee on Taxation. Approved March 30, 1983

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AN ACT relating to local governmental finance; increasing limit on annual expenditures by special districts which may petition for an exemption from the Local Government Budget Act; requiring such districts to file quarterly reports; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 203–Committee on Taxation. Approved March 30, 1983

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AN ACT making an appropriation from the state general fund to the legislative fund. Senate Bill No. 190–Committee on Finance. Approved March 30, 1983

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AN ACT relating to the taxation of the net proceeds of mines; broadening the meaning of gross yield; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 29–Committee on Taxation. Approved March 30, 1983

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AN ACT relating to nursing; enlarging the functions of the “public” member and changing the title of the executive secretary of the state board of nursing; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 82–Assemblyman Getto. Approved March 31, 1983

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AN ACT relating to dairy products; allowing a retailer to give a discount to the elderly; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 141–Assemblymen Stone, Nevin, Price, Bogaert, Malone, Nicholas, Sader, Sedway, Schofield, Kovacs, Bremner, Redelsperger, Kerns, Beyer, Brady, Francis, Marvel, Bilyeu, Humke, Thomas, Collins, Thompson, Joerg, Fay, Zimmer, Ham, Bourne, Berkley, Swain and Perry. Approved March 31, 1983

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AN ACT relating to county clerks; changing the duties of the clerks relating to the satisfaction of judgments, trustees of trusts, executors or administrators of estates, bail bond registers and actions for child support; authorizing the charging of fees to resident agents and persons filing actions for child support; providing a penalty for offenses concerning their records; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 180–Assemblyman Banner. Approved March 31, 1983

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AN ACT relating to certain businesses which sell or issue checks or receive for transmission or transmit money or credit; authorizing the superintendent of banks to accept reports of audits in lieu of conducting annual examinations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 126–Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved March 31, 1983

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AN ACT relating to state property; requiring the custodian of any such property to submit monthly reports to the purchasing division of the department of general services and the department of administration listing all equipment which has been lost, stolen or exchanged or is deemed excess; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 38–Senator Jacobsen. Approved March 31, 1983

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AN ACT relating to paroles; revising the requirements for an inquiry and hearing to determine probable cause for the violation of a condition of parole; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 185–Committee on Judiciary. Approved March 31, 1983

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AN ACT relating to probation; limiting the preliminary inquiry into a violation of a condition of probation to probationers who are held in custody and limiting the persons they may confront and question; transferring responsibility for certain duties respecting the inquiry; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 181–Committee on Judiciary. Approved April 1, 1983

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AN ACT relating to banks; requiring banks to submit reports at the same time and in the same form as federal reports; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 125–Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved April 1, 1983

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AN ACT relating to the subdivision of land; authorizing the real estate division of the department of commerce to establish fees for inspecting proposed advertising of subdivisions for sale and for inspecting the subdivisions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 241–Committee on Commerce. Approved April 1, 1983

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AN ACT relating to dentistry; prohibiting licensed dentists from administering general anesthesia without a permit; requiring the board of dental examiners of Nevada to regulate the use of general anesthesia by licensed dentists; prescribing fees; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 125–Committee on Commerce. Approved April 2, 1983

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AN ACT relating to medical laboratories; authorizing certain nurses to perform laboratory procedures prescribed by the state board of health under supervision; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 80–Committee on Health and Welfare. Approved April 2, 1983

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105

AN ACT providing for offices for the department of agriculture; authorizing the executive director to select locations for the offices; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 150–Committee on Natural Resources, Environment and Agriculture. Approved April 2, 1983

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AN ACT relating to the collection of taxes; empowering the department of taxation to lock and seal a place of business if the proprietor lacks the appropriate permit or license and to seize and sell property of a person who has failed, over specified period, to pay excises due for his business; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 204–Committee on Taxation. Approved April 2, 1983

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107

AN ACT relating to the state industrial insurance system; providing for the management of real property owned by the system; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 264–Committee on Government. Approved April 2, 1983

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AN ACT relating to probation; tolling the running of the period of probation during the time when a warrant for violating a condition of probation is in effect; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 186–Committee on Judiciary. Approved April 2, 1983

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AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; permitting chiropractors to certify applications for an increase or rearrangement of compensation or to reopen a claim because of changed circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 286–Committee on Labor and Management. Approved April 2, 1983

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AN ACT relating to murder; limiting the circumstances under which the death penalty may be imposed for its commission in the course of another felony; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 15–Committee on Judiciary. Approved April 2, 1983

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AN ACT relating to controlled substances; providing penalties for trafficking; restricting the suspension of sentences for these offenses to persons who render substantial assistance in the conviction of others; expanding the list of property subject to forfeiture to include money exchanged for controlled substances and the proceeds of an exchange; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 7–Senator Raggio. Approved April 2, 1983

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112

AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; expanding the circumstances under which certain persons may be admitted to the facilities of the state industrial insurance system for rehabilitative services; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 111–Assemblyman Banner. Approved April 5, 1983

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113

AN ACT relating to employment agencies; increasing the annual fee for a license; providing that fees are not refundable; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 160–Committee on Labor and Management. Approved April 8, 1983

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114

AN ACT relating to summary administration of estates; raising the limit for such administration; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 123–Committee on Judiciary. Approved April 8, 1983

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115

AN ACT relating to banks; conforming the reserve requirements of this state with federal reserve requirements; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 121–Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved April 8, 1983

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116

AN ACT relating to nursing; revising the provision on renewal of a license; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 84–Assemblyman Getto. Approved April 8, 1983

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AN ACT relating to prisons; providing for a deduction from an offender’s personal money to pay for certain costs; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 114–Committee on Judiciary. Approved April 8, 1983

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118

AN ACT relating to blind persons; authorizing the bureau of services to the blind to adopt penalties for late payments or the late filing of reports concerning vending stands; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 139–Committee on Human Resources and Facilities. Approved April 9, 1983

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119

AN ACT relating to trust companies; specifying authorized investments by trust companies; specifying minimum amount of fidelity bonds for officers and employees of trust companies; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 123–Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved April 9, 1983

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120

AN ACT relating to physicians; making assorted changes in the law relating thereto; providing a penalty for willful failure or refusal to make health care records available; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 53–Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved April 9, 1983

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121

AN ACT relating to notaries public; setting requirements for certain advertisements in a language other than English; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 39–Assemblyman Berkley. Approved April 11, 1983

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122

AN ACT relating to gaming; changing the effective date of statutory provisions which reduce the state license fee on the gross revenue of gaming and on slot machines; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 88–Committee on Taxation. Approved April 11, 1983

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123

AN ACT relating to school finance; broadening provisions for acceptance of federal assistance for purposes of elementary and secondary education; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 171–Committee on Education. Approved April 11, 1983

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124

AN ACT relating to legislators; limiting compensation for attendance of certain meetings; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 215–Assemblymen Dini, Sader, Thompson, Getto, Schofield, Brady, Sedway, Bremner, Beyer, Coffin, Chaney and Jeffrey. Approved April 11, 1983

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125

AN ACT relating to radioactive materials; revising the financial provisions for their disposal; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 41–Senator Neal. Approved April 11, 1983

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126

AN ACT relating to contractors; expanding the injunctive relief available to the state contractors’ board; clarifying certain classifications of the contracting business; repealing statutory provisions relating to resident agents; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 165–Committee on Commerce. Approved April 11, 1983

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127

AN ACT relating to the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education; changing certain accounting procedures; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 169–Committee on Education. Approved April 11, 1983

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128

AN ACT relating to programs of nutrition for children; expanding the powers and duties of the department of education with respect to such programs; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 170–Committee on Education. Approved April 11, 1983

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129

AN ACT relating to taxation; providing for closed sessions for appeals to the Nevada tax commission at the taxpayer’s request; removing penalties for the release of information in other appeals; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 198–Committee on Taxation. Approved April 11, 1983

316

130

AN ACT relating to contractors; changing the exception to the requirement of a bond or deposit before renewal of a contractor’s license; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 117–Assemblyman Jeffrey. Approved April 13, 1983

318

131

AN ACT making an appropriation to the health division of the department of human resources for the improvement of the tuberculosis testing area in the state health laboratory; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 157–Committee on Finance. Approved April 14, 1983

319

132

AN ACT relating to traffic; allowing courts to order a person convicted of violating a traffic law to attend a drivers’ training school; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 50–Committee on Transportation. Approved April 14, 1983

319

133

AN ACT relating to cigarette taxes; authorizing the department of taxation to deduct from the proceeds the actual costs of revenue stamps; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 199–Committee on Taxation. Approved April 14, 1983

320

134

AN ACT relating to the department of parole and probation; making centers for the housing and supervision of certain probationers permanent; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 198–Senators Wagner, Horn and Mello. Approved April 14, 1983

321

135

AN ACT making an appropriation from the state general fund to the legislative fund. Senate Bill No. 252–Committee on Finance. Approved April 14, 1983

322

136

AN ACT relating to the program of work release for offenders; transferring the program of work release to the department of prisons; abolishing the prisoner’s work release revolving loan account; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 173–Senators Wagner, Horn and Mello. Approved April 14, 1983

322

137

AN ACT relating to insurance; prohibiting discrimination between chiropractors and other persons legally qualified to perform particular services, in fees for those services payable as benefits under policies or contracts of industrial, health and casualty insurance; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 289–Committee on Commerce. Approved April 14, 1983

325

138

AN ACT relating to the disposal of sewage; requiring the state board of health to adopt regulations to control the use of individual systems; authorizing district boards of health to adopt similar regulations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 216–Assemblymen Dini, Getto, Redelsperger and Thompson. Approved April 14, 1983

328

139

AN ACT relating to the requirement for open and public meetings; providing an exception for all judicial proceedings; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 13–Committee on Judiciary. Approved April 15, 1983

331

140

AN ACT relating to the real estate division of the department of commerce; providing for the deposit in the state general fund of fees received by the division for certain examinations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 267–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved April 18, 1983

332

141

AN ACT relating to law libraries; increasing the support from certain fees; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 312–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved April 18, 1983

332

142

AN ACT relating to watercraft; increasing the fees charged for certificates of number for motorboats; raising the threshold of property damage in the requirement that an operator report a casualty involving his vessel; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 225–Committee on Natural Resources, Environment and Agriculture. Approved April 18, 1983

333

143

AN ACT relating to civil actions; increasing the fee for commencing a civil action; exempting proceedings for adoptions from such a fee; increasing the fee for filing a complaint in an action for divorce or annulment of marriage; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 235–Committee on Judiciary. Approved April 19, 1983

335

144

AN ACT making an appropriation to the office of the lieutenant governor for hosting a meeting of the National Lieutenant Governor’s Conference; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 196–Committee on Ways and Means. Approved April 19, 1983

336

145

AN ACT relating to substances; relaxing restrictions relating to Gerovital H3; allowing oral doses of that substance without a prescription; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 216–Senators Faiss, Robinson, Ashworth, Jacobsen, Blakemore, Townsend, Neal and Glaser. Approved April 19, 1983

336

146

AN ACT relating to highways; permitting the department of transportation to relinquish unused portions of highways to counties and cities; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 98–Committee on Transportation. Approved April 20, 1983

338

147

AN ACT relating to law libraries; staggering and increasing the terms of the trustees; making various other changes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 311–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved April 20, 1983

339

148

AN ACT relating to the county airport funds; requiring the allocation of the money in a county airport fund to include an airport authority if one has been created; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 236–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved April 20, 1983

343

149

AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments; prohibiting necrophilia; providing a penalty; limiting the grant of probation or parole; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 287–Assemblymen Stone, Nevin, Stewart, Berkley, Thomas, Marvel, Bourne, Fay, Malone, Perry, Redelsperger, Humke, Kerns, Collins, Thompson, May, Ham, Banner, Beyer, Bogaert, Jeffrey, Kovacs, Sedway, Joerg, Brady and Nicholas. Approved April 20, 1983

344

150

AN ACT relating to the program for forest nurseries; making an appropriation for working capital; preventing the transfer of the balance in the fund for forest nurseries; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 195–Committee on Finance. Approved April 20, 1983

344

151

AN ACT relating to campaign practices; extending the periods required to be covered by the first and second reports of contributions and expenses; requiring separate identification of cumulative contributions which exceed a specified amount; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 35–Senators Wagner, Wilson and Mello. Approved April 21, 1983

346

152

AN ACT relating to county recorders; reducing the time allowed for recording the certificate of marriage; allowing documents to be indexed by an optical scanner or magnetic tapes produced by a computer and reducing the fees; clarifying the fees charged for the relocation of an abandoned lode claim; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 250–Assemblyman Banner. Approved April 20, 1983

348

153

AN ACT relating to the property tax; extending the time to commence an action to recover an overpayment of the tax under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 353–Committee on Taxation. Approved April 20, 1983

350

154

AN ACT relating to water; permitting the irrigation of unimproved pasture; raising the threshold for holding elections on certain proposals of irrigation districts; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 330–Assemblyman Dini. Approved April 21, 1983

352

155

AN ACT relating to savings and loan associations; reducing the number of meetings required for their directors; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 284–Assemblymen Perry, Schofield, Collins, Malone, Bourne, Sader, Nevin, Swain, Joerg, Price, Marvel, Banner, Fay, May, Bogaert, Stewart, Bilyeu, Redelsperger, Nicholas, DuBois, Getto, Chaney, Bremner, Coffin, Berkley, Thompson, Jeffrey, Kovacs, Dini, Humke, Vergiels, Francis and Sedway. Approved April 21, 1983

354

156

AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; authorizing the state industrial insurance system to hear appeals concerning employers’ accounts; authorizing the system to impose penalties upon employers failing to comply with requirements for reporting payrolls and premiums; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 255–Committee on Labor and Management. Approved April 21, 1983

355

157

AN ACT relating to grand juries; setting the time when the transcript of the proceedings becomes public; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 228–Committee on Judiciary. Approved April 21, 1983

359

158

AN ACT relating to parole; excluding statutes which specify a minimum sentence which must be served before parole from application of credits for good time; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 324–Assemblymen Stewart, Stone, Jeffrey, Redelsperger, Humke, DuBois, Bilyeu, Berkley, Brady, Nicholas, Malone, Ham, Fay, Nevin, Schofield, Thomas, Beyer, Price, Coffin, Thompson and Zimmer. Approved April 21, 1983

360

159

AN ACT relating to the state personnel system; creating an employee-management committee; providing its powers and duties; revising provisions governing the adjustment of grievances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 282–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved April 21, 1983

361

160

AN ACT relating to ordinances; lengthening the time required for publishing the notice of filing proposed ordinances; amending the city charters in that regard; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 221–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved April 21, 1983

362

161

AN ACT relating to podiatry; making various administrative changes; expanding the causes for disciplinary action; clarifying and expanding the authorized actions of a podiatrist; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 85–Assemblyman Vergiels. Approved April 22, 1983

377

162

AN ACT relating to mobile homes; requiring the separate accounting of certain money received by dealers in mobile homes; providing a ground for disciplinary action against those dealers; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 329–Assemblymen Berkley, Bourne, Zimmer, Malone, Banner, Ham, Craddock, Schofield and Thompson. Approved April 22, 1983

379

163

AN ACT relating to prisons; clarifying the places near which the sale of certain intoxicating beverages is prohibited; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 116–Committee on Judiciary. Approved April 26, 1983

381

164

AN ACT relating to grand juries; changing the number of names for initial selection in certain counties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 219–Committee on Judiciary. Approved April 26, 1983

382

165

AN ACT relating to probation; making restitution a condition of probation or the suspension of a sentence; providing an exception; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 244–Committee on Judiciary. Approved April 26, 1983

383

166

AN ACT relating to the retention of public records; authorizing the supreme court to provide by rule for destruction of certain documents without prior microfilming; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 139–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved April 26, 1983

384

167

AN ACT relating to the department of prisons; adding parolees to the persons who are eligible to enter a center for restitution; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 174–Senators Wagner, Horn and Mello. Approved April 26, 1983

385

168

AN ACT relating to the Nevada state library; abolishing the division for cooperative services; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 19–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved April 26, 1983

386

169

AN ACT relating to state finance; creating and abolishing various funds and accounts; revising the accounting practices for the funds; consolidating the provisions regarding the governor’s certification of population for tax purposes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 322–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved April 26, 1983

386

170

AN ACT relating to the state department of agriculture; increasing the fees for registering pesticides, fertilizers, agricultural minerals and antifreeze; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 222–Committee on Natural Resources. Approved April 26, 1983

405

171

AN ACT relating to well drillers; increasing the fees for issuance and renewal of licenses; authorizing the use of license fees to pay costs relating to the adoption of regulations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 135–Committee on Natural Resources . Approved April 26, 1983

407

172

AN ACT relating to cities; restoring the power to incorporate to owners of property; requiring a public hearing and notice of the hearing before petitioning for incorporation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 308–Assemblymen Redelsperger, Dini, Bilyeu, Marvel and Getto. Approved April 26, 1983

408

173

AN ACT relating to employment security; allowing certain data to be disclosed to department of economic development; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 269–Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved April 26, 1983

409

174

AN ACT relating to the subdivision of land; limiting the exemption of land located outside of Nevada by requiring inspection of certain lots before sale; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 242–Committee on Commerce. Approved April 26, 1983

410

175

AN ACT relating to divorce; providing a summary procedure for certain uncontested divorces; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 193–Committee on Judiciary. Approved April 26, 1983

415

176

AN ACT relating to highways; requiring the lease or rental of property not used for highways and the space above and below highways at fair market value; abolishing the requirement of notice in certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 99–Committee on Transportation. Approved April 26, 1983

416

177

AN ACT relating to chiropractic; changing provisions of law relating to the members of the Nevada state board of chiropractic examiners and the qualifications, examination, licensing and discipline of chiropractors; providing for the enforcement of subpenas; requiring the confidentiality of certain records and proceedings; providing immunity from civil actions; providing injunctive relief; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 80–Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved April 26, 1983

418

178

AN ACT relating to contractors; specifying the date on which money retained during the construction or remodeling of a building becomes payable; requiring the payment of subcontractors and suppliers within 15 days after the contractor is paid; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 105–Assemblyman Jeffrey. Approved April 26, 1983

425

179

AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; removing under certain circumstances the employer’s option to provide accident benefits for his employees; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 251–Assemblyman Banner. Approved April 26, 1983

426

180

AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; extending gradually the limit on the duration of payments for permanent partial disabilities; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 278–Assemblyman Banner. Approved April 26, 1983

428

181

AN ACT relating to insurance; allowing reinsurance of all risks; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 81–Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved April 26, 1983

431

182

AN ACT relating to criminal procedure; shortening the time of imprisonment required for an unpaid fine; increasing the rate credited for public work against a fine; deleting or repealing the corresponding sections in the city charters; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 358–Committee on Judiciary. Approved April 26, 1983

434

183

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; exempting certain conveyances for wheelchairs from registration; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 95–Senator Wagner. Approved April 26, 1983

436

184

AN ACT relating to justices’ courts; changing the number of justices of the peace in certain townships; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 204–Senators Raggio, Wagner, Wilson, Mello and Glover. Approved April 26, 1983

437

185

AN ACT relating to justices of the peace; providing that counties are exempt from the payment of filing fees; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 267–Senators Raggio, Mello, Wagner, Wilson, Townsend, Glover and Glaser. Approved April 26, 1983

438

186

AN ACT relating to controlled substances; expanding the list of property subject to forfeiture to include money exchanged for controlled substances and the proceeds of an exchange; providing for the distribution of the forfeited property and its proceeds; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 162–Assemblymen Humke, Nevin, Stone, Ham, Stewart, Malone, Bilyeu and Sader. Approved April 26, 1983

439

187

AN ACT relating to taxation; providing for the submission to the registered voters at the special election in 1983 of the question whether the Sales and Use Tax Act of 1955 should be amended to impose those taxes on governmental contractors and impose the use tax whenever an out-of-state sale would have been taxable if made in Nevada; amending certain analogous taxes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 469–Committee on Taxation. Approved April 27, 1983

443

188

AN ACT relating to criminal procedure; allowing criminal complaints and citations to be made upon declaration under the penalty for perjury; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 191–Committee on Judiciary. Approved April 29, 1983

446

189

AN ACT relating to taxes on motor vehicle fuel; authorizing the use of specified proceeds of the taxes for the operation and maintenance of certain outdoor recreational facilities associated with boating; increasing the proceeds allocated for that purpose; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 144–Committee on Ways and Means. Approved April 29, 1983

447

190

AN ACT relating to restitution from offenders’ wages; broadening the class of victims eligible for restitution; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 111–Committee on Judiciary. Approved April 29, 1983

449

191

AN ACT relating to public schools; reducing the basic support guarantees for the year 1982-83; making a supplemental appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 287–Committee on Finance. Approved April 29, 1983

450

192

AN ACT relating to governmental finance; deferring the dates for hearing and adoption of local government budgets and for the setting of tax rates on property; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 576–Committee on Taxation. Approved April 29, 1983

451

193

AN ACT relating to dairy products; adding and defining a new category of frozen desserts; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 253–Senator Hernstadt. Approved April 30, 1983

452

194

AN ACT relating to public health; authorizing the sale of supplies of controlled substances by pharmacies to practitioners; authorizing the sale of controlled substances, dangerous drugs and hypodermic devices to stock ambulances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 156–Assemblyman Sedway. Approved April 30, 1983

453

195

AN ACT relating to the Nevada Magazine; creating an enterprise fund in which the financial activities of the magazine must be accounted for; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 263–Committee on Finance. Approved May 2, 1983

455

196

AN ACT relating to Nevada Reports; making an appropriation for their reproduction; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 214–Committee on Finance. Approved May 2, 1983

455

197

AN ACT relating to occupational diseases; making assorted changes in the law relating thereto; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 252–Committee on Labor and Management. Approved May 2, 1983

456

198

AN ACT relating to employment security; including wages paid in another state for computation of maximum taxes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 264–Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved May 2, 1983

461

199

AN ACT relating to insurance; limiting the period for which an administrator must retain books and records of transactions with insurers and insureds to 5 years after the transaction rather than 5 years after terminating his agreement with the insurer; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 328–Assemblyman Bourne. Approved May 2, 1983

462

200

AN ACT relating to employment security; changing the effective date for regulations; changing the date for the executive director to establish rate schedules for taxes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 265–Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved May 2, 1983

462

201

AN ACT relating to trust companies; prohibiting the use of the word “trust” in the names of businesses which are not supervised by the superintendent of banks, the commissioner of insurance or the commissioner of savings associations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 127–Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved May 2, 1983

466

202

AN ACT relating to metropolitan police departments; authorizing the issuance of general obligation bonds for the acquisition of certain property; requiring a tax ad valorem to retire those bonds; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 289–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 2, 1983

468

203

AN ACT relating to the supreme court; increasing the fees for filing appeals and other proceedings and for receiving decisions in pamphlet form; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 206–Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 3, 1983

469

204

AN ACT making an appropriation from the state general fund to the legislative fund. Senate Bill No. 348–Committee on Finance. Approved May 3, 1983

471

205

AN ACT relating to the property tax; changing the date on or before which claims for exemptions and for the allowance for certain residential heating or cooling systems must be filed; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 294–Committee on Taxation. Approved May 3, 1983

471

206

AN ACT relating to taxation; extending the period for a refund of taxes covered by any audit; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 285–Senator Gibson. Approved May 3, 1983

474

207

AN ACT relating to taxation; imposing a tax on lodging to support the department of economic development; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 170–Committee on Taxation. Approved May 4, 1983

476

208

AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; removing requirement of indigency for representation by the state industrial attorney; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 432–Assemblymen Banner and Thompson. Approved May 5, 1983

478

209

AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; prohibiting an employer from requiring an employee to waive the confidentiality of his medical records; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 433–Assemblymen Banner and Thompson. Approved May 5, 1983

478

210

AN ACT relating to the public employees’ retirement system; making various administrative changes; changing the maximum amount which may be earned by retired employees; requiring contributions on any award of back pay; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 402–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 5, 1983

479

211

AN ACT relating to community redevelopment; specifying the authority of the legislative body of a community to add certain areas to a redevelopment project; exempting redevelopment agencies from limitations on certain revenues placed on local governments; specifying the method of computing taxes allocated to a redevelopment agency and a community after the merger of a redevelopment project area and a tax increment area; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 229–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 5, 1983

492

212

AN ACT relating to the property tax; requiring the repossessor of a mobile home or slide-in camper to pay any tax owing upon repossession; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 425–Committee on Taxation. Approved May 5, 1983

499

213

AN ACT relating to drivers’ licenses; providing for flexibility in the time to renew a driver’s license; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 249–Committee on Transportation. Approved May 5, 1983

500

214

AN ACT relating to programs of special education for handicapped persons; simplifying the process of applying for benefits under certain such programs; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 173–Committee on Education. Approved May 4, 1983

504

215

AN ACT relating to disposal of radioactive waste; increasing the permissible penalty for transportation without the proper packaging and labeling; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 140–Senator Jacobsen. Approved May 5, 1983

504

216

AN ACT relating to mental health and mental retardation; designating certain registered nurses as persons professionally qualified in the field of psychiatric mental health; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 151–Senator Robinson (by request). Approved May 6, 1983

506

217

AN ACT relating to contractors; authorizing the state contractors’ board to issue a cease and desist order to a person acting as a contractor without a license; removing bankruptcy as a ground for disciplinary action; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 261–Committee on Commerce. Approved May 6, 1983

509

218

AN ACT relating to controlled substances; increasing the penalty for selling controlled substances to minors and for proximately causing the death of a minor by such a sale; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 389–Assemblymen Ham, Berkley, Zimmer and Swain. Approved May 6, 1983

510

219

AN ACT relating to nurses; increasing the maximum fees which may be charged by the state board of nursing; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 421–Assemblyman Getto. Approved May 6, 1983

512

220

AN ACT relating to the taxes on liquor; temporarily increasing the rates of the excise taxes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 183–Committee on Taxation. Approved May 6, 1983

514

221

AN ACT relating to the tax on slot machines; transferring part of the tax to the University of Nevada System for its general operations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 385–Committee on Ways and Means. Approved May 6, 1983

515

222

AN ACT relating to discrimination in employment; restricting the procedure for resorting to district court; removing certain powers of the labor commissioner; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 96–Assemblymen Swain, Collins, Chaney and Craddock. Approved May 9, 1983

518

223

AN ACT relating to the justification of inflicting death or injury; enlarging and further defining the circumstances which constitute justification; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 190–Assemblymen DuBois, Malone, Berkley, Sedway, Bilyeu, Nicholas, Marvel, Nevin, Beyer, Craddock, Zimmer, Joerg and Swain. Approved May 9, 1983

518

224

AN ACT relating to the property tax; extending the statement of personal property made for the purposes of assessment to include property possessed, controlled or managed by the person making the statement; excluding certain property from the report of property in transit which is reconsigned to a final destination in Nevada; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 292–Senators Raggio, Mello, Wagner, Townsend, Wilson, Glover and Glaser. Approved May 10, 1983

519

225

AN ACT relating to the state communications system; removing the requirement for quarterly meetings of the state communications board; changing the duties of the board; requiring equipment for microwave channels not used or paid for to be used to replace obsolete equipment; changing the duties of the coordinator of communications; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 228–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 10, 1983

520

226

AN ACT relating to taxation; requiring businesses to report the value of any construction in progress or recently completed on certain property; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 28–Committee on Taxation. Approved May 10, 1983

523

227

AN ACT relating to public utilities; authorizing the sale or lease of certain interests of the state and local governments to public utilities without public bidding; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 92–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 10, 1983

524

228

AN ACT relating to vocational rehabilitation; decreasing the amount in the vocational rehabilitation revolving fund; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 386–Committee on Ways and Means. Approved May 10, 1983

527

229

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. 347–Committee on Ways and Means. Approved May 10, 1983

528

230

AN ACT relating to the Nevada athletic commission; revising provisions relating to the handling of certain money received by the commission; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 326–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 10, 1983

529

231

AN ACT relating to the advocate for customers of public utilities; providing for the reduction of the assessment on public utilities to support that office; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 540–Committee on Ways and Means. Approved May 10, 1983

531

232

AN ACT making an appropriation to the reserve for statutory contingency fund for any special elections to be held on June 7, 1983; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 280–Committee on Finance. Approved May 10, 1983

532

233

AN ACT relating to highways; authorizing the director of the department of transportation to designate scenic routes; specifying the requirements for a highway to be designated a scenic route; requiring the department of transportation to put up and maintain signs indicating scenic routes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 291–Assemblymen Redelsperger, Getto, Humke, Swain, Joerg, Stone, Zimmer, Thompson, Price, Fay, Dini and Coffin. Approved May 10, 1983

532

234

AN ACT relating to ground water basins; allowing a hearing on administration of a basin to be held outside the basin if adequate meeting facilities are not available within the basin; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 509–Committee on Natural Resources, Environment and Agriculture. Approved May 10, 1983

534

235

AN ACT relating to medical records; including medical bills in the definition of medical records for the purpose of authenticating medical records; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 334–Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 10, 1983

535

236

AN ACT relating to the Nevada National Guard; authorizing a reduction in the percentage of the consolidated fee which may be paid as a benefit for certain members; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 346–Committee on Ways and Means. Approved May 10, 1983

537

237

AN ACT relating to mass transportation; exempting subsidized common motor carriers from the requirement of obtaining a certificate of public convenience and necessity; expanding authority of regional transportation commissions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 317–Committee on Transportation. Approved May 10, 1983

538

238

AN ACT relating to extradition; removing the requirement that the governor affirmatively approve or disapprove compliance with certain requests from other jurisdictions; directing that any application for a writ of habeas corpus challenging extradition be filed in district court; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 299–Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 10, 1983

539

239

AN ACT relating to county recorders; clarifying provisions governing the payment of fees by governmental entities; increasing certain fees; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 268–Senators Raggio, Mello, Wagner, Townsend, Wilson, Glover and Glaser. Approved May 10, 1983

540

240

AN ACT relating to contractors; requiring proof of industrial insurance for the issuance or renewal of a contractor’s license; requiring notice to state contractors’ board of lapse, cancellation or withdrawal of a contractor’s industrial insurance; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 8–Senator Raggio. Approved May 10, 1983

541

241

AN ACT relating to taxation; providing for the imposition of a certain tax on lodgings on a certain date notwithstanding any defect, failure or informality of local actions; providing for related regulations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 256–Committee on Taxation. Approved May 10, 1983

542

242

AN ACT relating to services to aging persons; creating the Nevada commission on aging and providing for its organization, powers and duties; abolishing the state advisory committee on older Americans; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 251–Committee on Finance. Approved May 9, 1983

543

243

AN ACT relating to public utilities; fixing the interest on deposits made by customers at rates existing in the month before the period of interest begins; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 304–Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved May 10, 1983

546

244

AN ACT relating to grand larceny of livestock; providing a minimum fine; providing for the forfeiture of certain property; authorizing restitution; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 148–Committee on Natural Resources, Environment and Agriculture. Approved May 11, 1983

546

245

AN ACT relating to taxation; changing the distribution of certain taxes from projects for the generation and transmission of electricity; providing an exception to a limitation on the rates of the taxes ad valorem of local governments; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 27–Committee on Taxation. Approved May 11, 1983

548

246

AN ACT relating to larceny; including the use of a card or other device for automatically withdrawing or transferring money in a financial institution to obtain money to which the user is not entitled; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 429–Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 11, 1983

562

247

AN ACT relating to the Nevada gaming commission; changing the definition of a “regulation” which may be adopted by the commission; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 329–Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 11, 1983

562

248

AN ACT relating to the casino entertainment tax; requiring monthly payment; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 332–Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 11, 1983

563

249

AN ACT relating to gaming establishments; broadening the immunity of gaming licensees from liability for taking action against suspected cheaters; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 337–Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 11, 1983

564

250

AN ACT relating to county boundaries; conforming the boundaries of Churchill, Pershing and Washoe counties to the section, township and range lines; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 512–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 12, 1983

565

251

AN ACT relating to the justices’ courts; authorizing a justice of the peace to provide for a substitute from any county; authorizing the temporary addition of another justice of the peace when work so requires; providing for traveling expenses for justices of the peace who fill temporary vacancies outside their counties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 46–Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 12, 1983

569

252

AN ACT relating to public securities; replacing obsolete references to the Dow Jones Municipal Bond Index with references to the Weekly Bond Buyer’s Index of Twenty Bonds and the Index of Revenue Bonds in provisions limiting interest on public securities; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 451–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 12, 1983

570

253

AN ACT relating to the casino entertainment tax; increasing the number of games for which an establishment may be licensed and be exempt from the tax; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 514–Assemblymen Jeffrey, Thompson, Thomas and Getto. Approved May 12, 1983

592

254

AN ACT relating to gaming; requiring a provision for the payment of any deficiency in prior fees or taxes in certain contracts for the sale or lease of property; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 515–Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 12, 1983

593

255

AN ACT relating to local government securities; permitting their disposition at public or private sale; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 403–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 12, 1983

593

256

AN ACT relating to the filing of documents; increasing fees for filing security agreements and certain other documents under the Uniform Commercial Code; increasing the fee for searching for certain federal liens; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 417–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 12, 1983

594

257

AN ACT relating to civil actions; imposing an additional filing fee to support legal aid programs for indigent or elderly persons; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 339–Assemblymen Berkley, Stone, Nevin, Malone, Collins, Jeffrey, Stewart, Humke, Swain, Ham, Bourne, Vergiels and May. Approved May 12, 1983

598

258

AN ACT relating to blood; providing standards for the storage and distribution of blood; establishing the minimum age to donate blood without consent; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 493–Committee on Health and Welfare. Approved May 12, 1983

599

259

AN ACT relating to unemployment compensation; excluding certain employment from coverage; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 238–Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved May 12, 1983

600

260

AN ACT relating to public securities; providing the form and the manner of their issuance, payment and transfer by or on the behalf of the state, the University of Nevada, or a city or town, incorporated or unincorporated, county, school district, other public educational institution, other district, authority or other body corporate and politic comprising a political subdivision of the state; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 309–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 12, 1983

602

261

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; requiring manufacturers, their agents or their authorized dealers under specified circumstances to make repairs necessary to conform certain motor vehicles to the express warranties covering them; providing remedies for repeated failures to repair or correct the nonconformities; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 59–Assemblyman Berkley. Approved May 10, 1983

610

262

AN ACT relating to boxing; authorizing longer rest periods between rounds; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 210–Senators Hickey, Neal and Robinson. Approved May 12, 1983

613

263

AN ACT relating to insurance; requiring policies which provide coverage for a mastectomy to provide coverage for reconstructive surgery and prosthetic devices incident thereto; requiring insurance provided for workers’ compensation and health benefits provided by employers to include such coverage; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 61–Senators Foley, Wagner, Hernstadt, Townsend, Horn, Lamb, Robinson and Hickey. Approved May 12, 1983

614

264

AN ACT relating to state government; abolishing the personnel division of the department of general services; creating the department of personnel; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 232–Senators Glover, Mello, Ashworth, Wagner, Robinson, Hickey, Townsend, Horn, Neal, Bilbray and Hernstadt. Approved May 12, 1983

618

265

AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; permitting a hearing officer to request a medical examination of the claimant; clarifying the provisions on awards for permanent partial disabilities; changing the criteria for an award for a permanent partial disability in a lump sum; terminating certain benefits of a claimant if a lump sum is awarded; requiring payment by a claimant of the costs to investigate a false claim; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 226–Assemblymen Banner, Thompson, Jeffrey, Collins and Fay. Approved May 12, 1983

645

266

AN ACT relating to taxicabs; authorizing the use of money in the taxicab authority fund to subsidize transportation for the elderly under certain circumstances; authorizing expenditures therefor by the taxicab authority for the fiscal years beginning July 1, 1983, and July 1, 1984; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 57–Assemblymen Schofield, Price, Getto and Stewart. Approved May 12, 1983

648

267

AN ACT relating to hospitals; requiring hospitals to itemize certain charges on their billings and describe those charges specifically and in understandable language; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 392–Assemblymen Sedway, Schofield, Jeffrey, Stewart, Sader, Dini, Bremner, Nevin, Marvel, Coffin, Thomas, Thompson, Vergiels and Bourne. Approved May 12, 1983

649

268

AN ACT relating to hunting; prohibiting interference with hunting or trapping by people acting as a group; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 48–Assemblymen Getto, Bogaert, May, Thompson and Dini. Approved May 13, 1983

649

269

AN ACT relating to savings and loan associations; making regulatory statutes on investments, profits, reserves and types of loans more flexible; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 288–Committee on Commerce. Approved May 13, 1983

650

270

AN ACT relating to discrimination; limiting a certain prohibition against filing a complaint with the Nevada equal rights commission; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 94–Assemblymen Swain, Collins and Craddock. Approved May 13, 1983

661

271

AN ACT relating to property; increasing the amount exempt as a homestead; increasing the value of a dwelling exempt from execution; providing that certain conveyances do not extinguish the homestead; clarifying provisions relating to the right of survivorship and the disposition of the property in case of death; providing an alternative method of establishing the termination of an interest in community property with right of survivorship and establishing a related presumption; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 110–Senators Horn, Wilson, Ashworth, Mello, Wagner, Blakemore, Jacobsen, Hickey, Robinson, Raggio, Bilbray, Foley and Hernstadt. Approved May 13, 1983

662

272

AN ACT relating to state officers and employees; requiring the continued payment by the state of certain insurance premiums for certain persons who are temporarily totally disabled; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 132–Committee on Finance. Approved May 13, 1983

668

273

AN ACT relating to estates of decedents; making various changes to provisions on the administration of those estates; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 163–Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 13, 1983

668

274

AN ACT relating to capital improvements; amending the authorization for the department of wildlife; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 411–Committee on Finance. Approved May 13, 1983

671

275

AN ACT relating to motor vehicle carriers; raising certain administrative and inspection fees to support increased enforcement by the motor carrier division of the department of motor vehicles and the transportation division of the public service commission of Nevada; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 379–Committee on Finance. Approved May 13, 1983

672

276

AN ACT authorizing the state gaming control board to expend money from the investigative fund for the purchase of certain testing equipment; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 240–Committee on Finance. Approved May 13, 1983

673

277

AN ACT relating to battery; including jailers and other correctional officers of city or county jails as officers as to whom the penalty is enhanced; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 314–Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 13, 1983

673

278

AN ACT relating to barbers; providing for biennial renewal of certificates of registration; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 319–Senator Robinson (by request). Approved May 13, 1983

674

279

AN ACT making an appropriation from the state general fund to the legislative fund. Senate Bill No. 398–Committee on Finance. Approved May 13, 1983

675

280

AN ACT relating to arbitration; providing for the use of discovery in arbitration proceedings; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 400–Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 13, 1983

675

281

AN ACT relating to the commission on professional standards in education; extending the existence of the commission and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 175–Committee on Education. Approved May 13, 1983

676

282

AN ACT relating to the department of education; providing for the disposition of money received from fees for the issuance of certificates; making an appropriation to the department for the processing of accumulated fingerprint cards by the Federal Bureau of Investigation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 176–Committee on Education. Approved May 13, 1983

676

283

AN ACT making a supplemental appropriation to the department of economic development for support of The Nevada Magazine; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 197–Committee on Ways and Means. Approved May 13, 1983

677

284

AN ACT relating to counties; authorizing the acquisition and operation of cemeteries; providing for the conveyance of property used as a cemetery; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 583–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 13, 1983

677

285

AN ACT relating to public administrators; allowing public administrators in small counties to secure execution of their duties with their official bonds to the extent of the bond; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 551–Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 13, 1983

678

286

AN ACT relating to collection agencies; authorizing the superintendent of banks to require additional information from an applicant for a license; increasing the amount of the bond required of applicants; changing the experience required for a manager’s certificate; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 182–Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved May 13, 1983

679

287

AN ACT relating to prisons; allowing employees of the department of prisons to intercept telephone calls of offenders in an institution; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 117–Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 13, 1983

681

288

AN ACT relating to insurers; providing a procedure for a foreign insurer to become a domestic insurer and for a domestic insurer to become a foreign insurer; specifying the consequences of a transfer of domicile; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 305–Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved May 13, 1983

683

289

AN ACT relating to property tax; allowing an assessment of overlooked real property as personal property without the consent of the taxpayer; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 295–Committee on Taxation. Approved May 13, 1983

684

290

AN ACT relating to the state multiple use advisory committee on federal lands; clarifying that its members serve for fixed terms; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 105–Committee on Natural Resources. Approved May 13, 1983

686

291

AN ACT relating to easements for conservation; adopting the substance of the Uniform Conservation Easement Act; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 189–Senators Wagner, Glaser, Wilson, Gibson and Townsend. Approved May 13, 1983

687

292

AN ACT relating to the secretary of state; increasing fees for filing certain documents with the secretary of state; removing prohibitions against charging fees for certain filings; requiring nonprofit corporations to file annual lists of their officers, directors and resident agent; authorizing the collection of fees for the filing of those lists; removing references to commodity options in the law relating to securities; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 261–Committee on Finance. Approved May 14, 1983

689

293

AN ACT relating to taxation; imposing a tax on certain products made from tobacco; increasing the rate of tax on cigarettes; requiring quarterly payments of the tax on the net premiums and net considerations of insurers under certain circumstances; increasing the rate of tax on those premiums and considerations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 97–Senators Lamb, Glaser, Jacobsen, Glover, Blakemore and Horn. Approved May 14, 1983

707

294

AN ACT relating to crimes against property; converting certain presumptions to inferences; expending the definition of certain crimes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 315–Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 14, 1983

717

295

AN ACT relating to the department of prisons; changing the designation of certain of its facilities and officers; authorizing the director to assume the cost of safekeeping of local prisoners; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 118–Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 14, 1983

719

296

AN ACT relating to metropolitan police departments; authorizing contracts between counties or cities and a metropolitan police department for the operation and maintenance of jails by the department; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 345–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 14, 1983

731

297

AN ACT relating to optometry; eliminating licensing of optometrists by reciprocity; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 564–Committee on Commerce. Approved May 14, 1983

731

298

AN ACT relating to municipal obligations; requiring that the notice of election contain an estimate of the tax rate necessary for debt service if the obligations are issued or incurred; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 17–Senators Gibson, Ashworth, Robinson and Glover. Approved May 14, 1983

733

299

AN ACT relating to the private investigator’s licensing board; removing its authority to license trainers of watchdogs; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 199–Senator Glover. Approved May 14, 1983

734

300

AN ACT relating to cities; making various changes in the law governing annexation by cities in certain counties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 522–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 15, 1983

737

301

AN ACT relating to divorce; providing for the modification of decrees of divorce to divide military pensions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 437–Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 15, 1983

740

302

AN ACT relating to veteran affairs; modifying the terms for the commissioner and deputy commissioner; requiring the members of the advisory commission to be from a national veterans’ organization; authorizing the governor to remove members from the commission; changing the dates for the meetings of the commission; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 401–Assemblyman Malone. Approved May 15, 1983

741

303

AN ACT relating to sheriffs; requiring that deputy sheriffs in certain counties be appointed and removed in accordance with the county’s merit personnel system; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 573–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 15, 1983

742

304

AN ACT relating to gaming; prohibiting the granting of an option to purchase an interest in a gaming licensee without the prior approval of the Nevada gaming commission; providing that any disposition of such an interest or granting of such an option is void without the commission’s approval; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 403–Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 15, 1983

743

305

AN ACT relating to certain businesses; reducing the reporting required of pawnbrokers, junk dealers and secondhand dealers; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 58–Assemblyman Berkley. Approved May 15, 1983

744

306

AN ACT relating to the attorney general; making various changes regarding his representation of governmental agencies; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 370–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 15, 1983

748

307

AN ACT relating to juries; extending the time for demanding a jury trial; reducing the size of trial juries in criminal actions before justices’ courts; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 211–Senators Raggio, Wagner, Mello, Townsend, Wilson, Glaser and Glover. Approved May 16, 1983

749

308

AN ACT relating to depositories of public money; allowing the state treasurer to negotiate the rate of interest for time certificates of deposit; requiring the depositories to send periodic reports only to the state treasurer; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 507–Assemblymen Bogaert, May, Brady and Jeffrey. Approved May 16, 1983

750

309

AN ACT relating to electric utilities; providing for the adjustment in rates to fund the conversion of a generating facility to make it capable of being fired by coal; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 104–Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved May 16, 1983

751

310

AN ACT relating to property taxes; providing an exemption from such taxes for the Nathan Adelson Hospice; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 435–Committee on Taxation. Approved May 16, 1983

753

311

AN ACT relating to traveling merchants; repealing the special restrictions on their licensing in favor of the general law on business licenses; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 400–Assemblyman Joerg. Approved May 16, 1983

754

312

AN ACT relating to metropolitan police departments; requiring certain appointments to positions as executive officers of a department to be made from persons within the civil service; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 413–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 16, 1983

754

313

AN ACT relating to Carson City; making various amendments to its charter; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 258–Assemblymen Joerg and Thomas. Approved May 16, 1983

755

314

AN ACT making an appropriation from the state general fund to the department of administration of bill drafts for executive agencies and the judicial department for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1983; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 2–Assemblymen Dini and Vergiels. Approved May 16, 1983

759

315

AN ACT relating to the taxation of business enterprises; requiring certain evidence from the state as a prerequisite to the issuance of a local license; authorizing the exchange of information between the department of taxation and local governments; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 318–Assemblyman Malone. Approved May 16, 1983

759

316

AN ACT relating to independent contractors; authorizing the state board of examiners to delegate prior approval of contracts with such contractors and to waive the requirement of writing in certain cases; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 542–Committee on Ways and Means. Approved May 16, 1983

765

317

AN ACT relating to the State Budget Act; making the act fully applicable to the state industrial insurance system; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 262–Committee on Finance. Approved May 16, 1983

766

318

AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; increasing the wages deemed earned by volunteer peace officers; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 472–Assemblyman Banner. Approved May 16, 1983

768

319

AN ACT relating to education; providing for confidentiality of records concerning tests of general educational development, examinations of pupils’ proficiency, and applications for certification as teachers or other educational personnel; providing penalties for unlawful disclosure; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 174–Committee on Education. Approved May 16, 1983

768

320

AN ACT relating to water; simplifying transfers to local governments of rights to water; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 241–Committee on Natural Resources. Approved May 16, 1983

770

321

AN ACT relating to discrimination in employment; providing for interest on back pay awarded; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 95–Assemblymen Swain, Collins, Chaney and Craddock. Approved May 16, 1983

771

322

AN ACT relating to transportation of pupils; requiring schools to practice evacuating pupils from school buses; limiting the number of hours a person is allowed to drive a bus without stopping to rest; imposing new requirements on drivers of school buses and other vehicles; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 457–Assemblymen Redelsperger, Dini, Getto, Coffin, Sedway, Bilyeu, Humke, Joerg, Thompson, Swain and Zimmer. Approved May 16, 1983

772

323

AN ACT relating to the advisory personnel commission; providing requirements for the composition of the commission; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 28–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 15, 1983

774

324

AN ACT relating to school buses; authorizing certain boards of trustees to allow resident children attending certain private schools to ride buses furnished for children attending public schools on established bus routes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 179–Senators Glover, Bilbray, Ashworth, Townsend, Blakemore, Hernstadt, Hickey, Raggio, Mello, Horn, Faiss, Gibson and Lamb. Approved May 16, 1983

774

325

AN ACT relating to manufactured homes and mobile homes and similar vehicles; providing for the regulation of the construction, sale and installation of manufactured homes; providing for certificates of ownership and trip permits for manufactured homes; substantially revising certain provisions of law governing the regulation of mobile homes, travel trailers and commercial coaches; providing additional grounds for disciplinary action; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 43–Committee on Commerce. Approved May 13, 1983

775

326

AN ACT relating to trade districts; enabling the governor and certain local governments to take action required under any federal law providing for the establishment and administration of such a district in Nevada; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 275–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 14, 1983

799

327

AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments; prohibiting the manufacture and sale of metal-penetrating bullets; enhancing the penalty for crimes committed while using such bullets; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 423–Assemblymen Francis, Stewart, Bilyeu, Banner, Kerns, Joerg, Coffin, Bourne, Malone, Berkley, Nevin, May, Ham, Beyer, Nicholas, Thompson, Craddock, Dini, Stone, Sedway, Jeffrey, Vergiels, Zimmer, Fay, Brady, DuBois, Bergevin, Price, Sader, Redelsperger, Bogaert, Bremner, Collins, Humke, Kovacs, Swain, Thomas, Marvel, Getto, Schofield and Perry. Approved May 16, 1983

800

328

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. 359–Committee on Human Resources and Facilities. Approved May 17, 1983

801

329

AN ACT relating to taxation; exempting the value of a qualified system for conserving energy for the purposes of property tax; removing the former allowance; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 292–Assemblymen Bourne, Schofield, Nevin, Stone, Kovacs, Joerg, Francis, Jeffrey, Bergevin, Zimmer, Craddock, Getto, Price, Malone, Bogaert, Thomas, Thompson, Redelsperger, Humke and Beyer. Approved May 17, 1983

802

330

AN ACT relating to professional engineers; changing the limit on the allowance for subsistence and lodging for members of the board; removing the requirement for oral examination of persons registered in another state or country; increasing and removing certain fees; adding to the documents which must be prepared by professional engineers for public works; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 424–Assemblyman Beyer. Approved May 17, 1983

804

331

AN ACT relating to fire protection districts; extending the nature of harm for which liability may be incurred; extending the class of districts which may recover for the harm; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 552–Assemblymen Beyer and Nevin. Approved May 17, 1983

808

332

AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; increasing the wages deemed earned by volunteer firemen; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 5–Assemblymen Dini, Getto, Bergevin, Marvel, Redelsperger and Bilyeu. Approved May 17, 1983

808

333

AN ACT relating to holidays; establishing a day to memorialize the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 265–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 17, 1983

809

334

AN ACT relating to required changes in existing structures to enhance fire safety; allowing the board of fire safety to consider the historical value of a building in granting variances; making various other changes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 192–Assemblymen Dini, Getto, Bergevin, Redelsperger, Marvel, Malone and Bilyeu. Approved May 17, 1983

809

335

AN ACT relating to vehicles; requiring the preparation and authorizing use of smaller license plates for small trailers; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 410–Assemblyman Price. Approved May 17, 1983

812

336

AN ACT relating to registration of motor vehicles; authorizing special license plates for honorary foreign consuls; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 362–Assemblyman Coffin. Approved May 17, 1983

813

337

AN ACT relating to pornography; providing additional penalties and forfeiture for the involvement of minors therein; providing a penalty for the possession of pornographic material involving a minor; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 189–Assemblymen Stewart, Chaney, Nevin, Stone, Fay, Bogaert, Ham, Malone, Bilyeu, Banner, Joerg, Francis, Kerns, Nicholas, Jeffrey, Vergiels, Brady, Berkley, Perry, Collins, Sader, Dini, Thompson, Beyer, Thomas, Swain, Zimmer, DuBois and Schofield. Approved May 17, 1983

814

338

AN ACT relating to the department of industrial relations; directing the allowance of a credit against assessments for its support equal to an amount initially transferred from the state insurance fund; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 527–Committee on Labor and Management. Approved May 17, 1983

820

339

AN ACT relating to health and care facilities; providing certain rights to patients in those facilities; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 277–Assemblymen Dini, Thompson, Getto, Schofield, Nicholas, Chaney, Jeffrey and Bremner. Approved May 17, 1983

820

340

AN ACT relating to an appropriation from the state general fund to the legislative fund for the final payment on the purchase of a computer; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 381–Committee on Finance. Approved May 17, 1983

822

341

AN ACT relating to traffic; requiring slower drivers to drive to the extreme right-hand side or to use an alternate route; prohibiting stopping on a roadway unless it is necessary; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 407–Committee on Transportation. Approved May 17, 1983

822

342

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; authorizing persons who transport handicapped persons to obtain special parking permits; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 611–Committee on Transportation. Approved May 17, 1983

823

343

AN ACT relating to insurance; increasing the fees charged by the commissioner of insurance for issuing certificates and licenses and performing other services; setting a fee for the filing of an affidavit by the broker of a surplus line; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 375–Committee on Commerce. Approved May 17, 1983

824

344

AN ACT relating to gambling; making gaming debts collectible by licensed gaming establishments; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 335–Senator Glover. Approved May 17, 1983

828

345

AN ACT relating to nurses; providing additional grounds for disciplinary action; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 554–Committee on Commerce. Approved May 17, 1983

830

346

AN ACT relating to the health division; separating the administrative duties from those relating to health; authorizing the director to appoint an administrator for the division; establishing the administrator’s duties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 428–Committee on Finance. Approved May 17, 1983

832

347

AN ACT relating to vehicle dealers; adding the sale of new motorcycles to provisions concerning franchises; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 599–Committee on Commerce. Approved May 17, 1983

838

348

AN ACT relating to judicial retirement; authorizing justices of the supreme court and district judges to retire before they reach the required age; reducing the benefits of a judge or justice who so retires; reducing the number of years of service a judge or justice must have to continue accruing credit after being recalled from retirement; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 503–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 17, 1983

839

349

AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; adding chiropractors and psychiatrists to the medical panels and the medical boards; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 571–Committee on Labor and Management. Approved May 17, 1983

841

350

AN ACT relating to contempt of court; adding abuse of process and pretense of authority; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 385–Senators Foley and Wagner. Approved May 17, 1983

843

351

AN ACT relating to state lands; authorizing the state land registrar to convey certain land to Dwan Gallery, Incorporated, in exchange for certain other land; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 431–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 17, 1983

844

352

AN ACT relating to public purchasing; excluding from the requirement for competitive bidding any purchase by a local government of merchandise left after an exhibition; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 396–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 17, 1983

845

353

AN ACT relating to the property tax; authorizing the board of county commissioners to designate certain small amounts of delinquent taxes as uncollectible; absolving the county assessor and the county treasurer of liability for taxes so designated; eliminating a procedure for examining delinquent taxpayers in court for assets to pay the taxes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 525–Assemblyman Beyer. Approved May 17, 1983

845

354

AN ACT relating to prescriptions; allowing an agent of a pharmacist to receive authorization to refill a prescription; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 391–Committee on Human Resources and Facilities. Approved May 17, 1983

847

355

AN ACT relating to county fire protection districts; making certain changes in the procedures for election of directors for those districts and in filling any vacancy on the board of directors; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 511–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 18, 1983

848

356

AN ACT relating to vehicles; providing additional circumstances under which they may be removed from highways; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 638–Committee on Transportation (by request). Approved May 18, 1983

849

357

AN ACT relating to wildlife; expanding the power of game wardens; authorizing the establishment of a separate price for expired duck stamps; expanding the requirements for courses in safety for hunters; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 305–Committee on Natural Resources, Environment and Agriculture. Approved May 18, 1983

850

358

AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments; prohibiting the issuance of a check or draft to obtain services, the use of property or credit from a gaming establishment if the drawer has insufficient money, property or credit with the drawee to pay it; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 408–Assemblymen Getto and Dini. Approved May 18, 1983

856

359

AN ACT relating to employment security; adjusting the rate for extended benefits; providing for enforcement of obligations for child support; providing for a test after disqualification for unemployment; clarifying provisions on disqualification after a suitable offer of a job; clarifying provisions on benefits; increasing employer’s tax rates; removing solvency assessments; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 340–Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved May 18, 1983

857

360

AN ACT relating to motor carriers; changing the procedure for the transfer of various certificates, permits and licenses; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 71–Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved May 18, 1983

869

361

AN ACT relating to local improvements; empowering local governments to erect walls around residential subdivisions to secure them against vandalism and to defray the cost by means of special improvement districts; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 550–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 18, 1983

870

362

AN ACT relating to property tax; requiring each county to prepare and mail individual tax bills which include an itemized list explaining the distribution of those taxes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 230–Senators Ashworth and Gibson. Approved May 18, 1983

877

363

AN ACT relating to the taxation of the net proceeds of mines; removing the requirement for payment of estimated tax; removing the penalty for a deficiency in the estimate; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 240–Assemblymen Marvel and Bergevin. Approved May 18, 1983

878

364

AN ACT relating to insurance; requiring an insurer to pay benefits to the assignee under a policy for health insurance or for group or blanket health insurance; requiring an insurer to pay the assignee if a payment is made erroneously to an insured; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 399–Assemblyman Bourne. Approved May 18, 1983

879

365

AN ACT relating to deceptive trade practices; expanding the authority of the director of the department of commerce; including misrepresentations concerning investments in the definition of deceptive trade practices; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 318–Senator Wilson. Approved May 18, 1983

881

366

AN ACT relating to public utilities; requiring certain utilities which supply electricity to submit plans containing predictions of future demands for their services and appropriate measures for acquiring resources to meet or reduce those demands; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 161–Senators Mello, Townsend, Wilson, Horn, Foley, Robinson and Raggio. Approved May 18, 1983

886

367

AN ACT relating to compensation for victims of crime; providing for a preliminary award and specifying limitations on the award; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 369–Senators Robinson, Hickey, Foley and Wagner. Approved May 18, 1983

888

368

AN ACT relating to criminal procedure; requiring certain assistance be provided for victims of crime and witnesses who cooperate with the prosecuting attorney; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 145–Senators Wagner, Raggio, Mello, Townsend, Foley, Horn, Hickey, Robinson, Neal, Ashworth, Glaser, Faiss, Hernstadt, Bilbray, Jacobsen, Ryan, Blakemore, Gibson, Glover, Wilson and Lamb. Approved May 18, 1983

889

369

AN ACT relating to procedure in criminal cases; permitting the attendance of a person to support the prosecuting witness at the preliminary hearing and trial in a case involving sexual assault, statutory sexual seduction, incest, lewdness or indecent exposure; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 386–Senators Foley, Wagner, Horn and Mello. Approved May 18, 1983

891

370

AN ACT relating to the University of Nevada; authorizing the construction of a center for fine arts and the issuance of revenue bonds to pay a portion of the cost thereof; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 410–Committee on Finance. Approved May 19, 1983

892

371

AN ACT relating to vital statistics; requiring the state board of health to charge a fee for blank certificates of birth, stillbirth and death; imposing a charge for the privilege of providing certified or official copies; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 78–Committee on Health and Welfare. Approved May 19, 1983

894

372

AN ACT relating to mopeds; revising the definition of “moped” to depend only on performance; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 248–Committee on Transportation. Approved May 19, 1983

895

373

AN ACT relating to bees; changing the requirements for the importation of bees, beehives and appliances into this state; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 224–Committee on Natural Resources. Approved May 19, 1983

896

374

AN ACT relating to police judges; redesignating such judges as municipal judges; allowing cities to provide that a justice of the peace is ex officio the municipal judge of the city; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 387–Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 19, 1983

899

375

AN ACT relating to criminal actions; imposing and apportioning costs and providing for relief therefrom; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 44–Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 19, 1983

907

376

AN ACT relating to assistance to victims of domestic violence; requiring the approval of certain budgets of organizations providing that assistance in certain counties; substantially revising the procedure for granting money to organizations providing that assistance; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 426–Senators Wagner, Foley, Raggio, Wilson, Mello and Townsend. Approved May 19, 1983

909

377

AN ACT relating to property taxes; exempting the Sierra Arts Foundation from property taxes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 194–Senators Wagner, Mello, Raggio, Townsend and Wilson. Approved May 19, 1983

913

378

AN ACT relating to public works; requiring a valid contractor’s license for a valid bid; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 134–Assemblyman Jeffrey. Approved May 19, 1983

913

379

AN ACT relating to elections; authorizing the consolidation of certain election precincts into single voting districts for particular elections; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 523–Committee on Elections. Approved May 19, 1983

914

380

AN ACT relating to insurance; providing that a resident firm or corporation having several offices is a single licensee; prohibiting a resident from being named on the license of a nonresident firm or corporation; clarifying a provision relating to fictitious names; providing that an agent’s license expires if his appointment by an insurer lapses; prohibiting issuance of a license as an associate adjuster to a person holding another license; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 303–Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved May 19, 1983

915

381

AN ACT relating to volunteer firemen; prohibiting their discharge from employment as a result of their service as volunteer firemen; authorizing a civil action against an employer under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 116–Assemblyman Fay (by request). Approved May 19, 1983

919

382

AN ACT relating to libraries; strengthening requirements for the deposit of copies of certain official publications with the state center for the distribution of publications within the Nevada state library; revising the numbers of copies to be furnished; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 427–Committee on Human Resources and Facilities. Approved May 19, 1983

920

383

AN ACT relating to public health; prohibiting the manufacture, distribution, sale, possession and use of imitation controlled substances; providing an exception; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 388–Assemblyman Sedway. Approved May 19, 1983

920

384

AN ACT relating to petitions for initiative or referendum; requiring documents of a petition which are circulated within a county to be submitted to the county clerk for verification of signatures; providing in certain cases for examination of a percentage of signatures selected at random; establishing the date when the secretary of state receives verification of sufficient signatures as the filing date of the petition; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 354–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 19, 1983

923

385

AN ACT making an appropriation from the state general fund to the legislative fund. Senate Bill No. 465–Committee on Finance. Approved May 19, 1983

925

386

AN ACT relating to concealed weapons; removing the prohibition against aliens possessing concealable firearms; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 259–Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 19, 1983

926

387

AN ACT relating to sports; requiring the filing of a promoter’s contract concerning television rights for a contest, match or exhibition; requiring a promoter to keep certain records; authorizing the Nevada athletic commission to assess a portion of the promoter’s license fee if no contract is filed; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 355–Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 19, 1983

927

388

AN ACT relating to estates in property; abolishing the Rule in Shelley’s Case and the doctrine of the destructibility of contingent remainders; modifying the rule against perpetuities; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 438–Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 19, 1983

927

389

AN ACT relating to bank holding companies; requiring the approval of the superintendent of banks to form a bank holding company, to acquire a bank and to transfer control of the company; authorizing the superintendent to issue orders which prohibit certain conduct by bank holding companies; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 122–Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved May 19, 1983

928

390

AN ACT relating to mental health; increasing the penalties for abusing clients of the division; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 420–Assemblymen Jeffrey, Stewart, Stone, Berkley and Schofield. Approved May 19, 1983

933

391

AN ACT relating to insurance; revising the provisions of law on standard valuations and the prevention of forfeitures under certain policies; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 529–Committee on Commerce. Approved May 19, 1983

934

392

AN ACT relating to osteopathy; amending the provision governing the expenses of members of the state board of osteopathic medicine to conform to provisions governing state employees; establishing fees for osteopathic physicians’ assistants; increasing the minimum requirement for continuing education of osteopathic physicians; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 301–Senator Mello (by request). Approved May 19, 1983

957

393

AN ACT relating to motor vehicle carriers; exempting the transportation of livestock from certain regulatory provisions of law; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 346–Committee on Natural Resources. Approved May 19, 1983

959

394

AN ACT relating to group insurance; requiring certain persons to provide proof of their compliance with the Nevada Insurance Code or regulation by the Federal Government; requiring notification of certain persons of the lack of regulation; imposing administrative fine for violation of the code; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 461–Committee on Commerce. Approved May 19, 1983

959

395

AN ACT relating to public investments; allowing the pooling of securities to secure deposits of public money; adding to the list of permissible investments; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 383–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 19, 1983

961

396

AN ACT relating to the public service commission; simplifying the procedures for the judicial review of decisions of the commission which concern public utilities or motor carriers; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 177–Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved May 19, 1983

965

397

AN ACT relating to housing; permitting the acquisition of mobile home parks by rural housing authorities; authorizing the housing division of the department of commerce to provide mortgages for mobile home parks and manufactured homes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 298–Senators Robinson and Townsend. Approved May 19, 1983

971

398

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. 399–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 19, 1983

972

399

AN ACT relating to apprentices; changing provisions governing indentures with respect to the maximum number of hours of employment in a period of probation and the hours of related instruction; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 530–Assemblymen Thompson, Banner and Jeffrey. Approved May 19, 1983

974

400

AN ACT relating to interest on money; limiting the methods of computing interest on certain loans; allowing the compounding of interest; allowing the imposition of a penalty for the prepayment of retail installment transactions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 164–Assemblymen Zimmer, Getto, Thomas, Ham, Brady, Bilyeu, Banner, Sedway, Francis, Malone, DuBois, Redelsperger and Bourne. Approved May 19, 1983

975

401

AN ACT relating to property; providing for regulation of the sale of time shares; providing for the rights of developers and purchasers; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 176–Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 19, 1983

977

402

AN ACT relating to gaming; clarifying the fines which may be imposed by the Nevada gaming commission; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 330–Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 19, 1983

998

403

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; giving the director authority to delegate duties; requiring attachment of all license plates; limiting the persons who may operate motor vehicles with special plates; providing for the licensing of distributors and the issuance of license plates thereto; increasing the amount of bonds; increasing the fees for certain licenses; adding suspension to the administrative punishments for violations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 270–Committee on Transportation. Approved May 19, 1983

1000

404

AN ACT relating to livestock; allowing certain transportation of animals by common carrier out of a brand inspection district without an inspection; providing additional restrictions on their entry into this state; providing an additional penalty for unlawfully moving an animal across the boundaries of a brand inspection district; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 149–Committee on Natural Resources, Environment and Agriculture. Approved May 19, 1983

1008

405

AN ACT relating to coroners’ juries; increasing the compensation for the jurors; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 429–Senator Blakemore. Approved May 19, 1983

1010

406

AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; reducing the term of appeals officers; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 555–Committee on Labor and Management. Approved May 19, 1983

1010

407

AN ACT relating to the department of motor vehicles; requiring that the expenses of administering the drivers’ license division of the department of motor vehicles be paid from and its revenues paid into the state highway fund; increasing the fees for certain licenses and endorsements; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 442–Committee on Ways and Means. Approved May 19, 1983

1011

408

AN ACT relating to meetings of public bodies; providing that actions taken in violation of statutory requirements for public meetings are void; authorizing the attorney general to maintain a suit to have such actions enjoined or declared void; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 378–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 19, 1983

1012

409

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; providing penalties for the accidental death of or injury to a person which is caused by a driver who is fleeing from a peace officer; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 409–Assemblymen Price, Bourne, Malone, Nevin, Marvel, Collins, Kovacs, Banner, Ham, Getto, Vergiels, Beyer, Thomas, Zimmer, Swain, Francis, Bilyeu, Joerg, Kerns, Sedway, Craddock, DuBois, Berkley, Humke, Chaney, Thompson, Redelsperger, Nicholas, Dini, Stewart, Bogaert, Fay and Stone. Approved May 19, 1983

1014

410

AN ACT relating to taxation; enacting an excise tax on fuel for jet or turbine-powered aircraft; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 191–Assemblymen Redelsperger, Vergiels, Price, Brady, Zimmer, Joerg, Swain, Getto, Francis, Malone, May, Dini, Bremner, Marvel, Bergevin and Nicholas. Approved May 19, 1983

1015

411

AN ACT relating to care of the elderly and disabled; providing for the appointment of an advocate for residents of facilities for long-term care; providing his powers and duties; providing for the investigation of complaints about facilities; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 273–Senators Robinson, Hickey, Wagner, Faiss and Ashworth. Approved May 20, 1983

1026

412

AN ACT relating to the City of Sparks; amending the charter of the City of Sparks to allow an additional department of the municipal court, and to provide for staggering the terms of the elective officers; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 366–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 20, 1983

1028

413

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; requiring the owner of a motor vehicle to keep his certificate of registration in the vehicle; requiring the operator of the vehicle to surrender the certificate to certain officers upon demand; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 490–Assemblyman Malone. Approved May 20, 1983

1030

414

AN ACT relating to the University of Nevada; authorizing the establishment of student governments; authorizing the collection of a fee to support student government; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 411–Assemblymen Stone, Francis, Sedway, Nevin, Fay, Marvel, Bourne, Banner, Bergevin, Malone, Bogaert, Berkley, Swain, Kerns, Dini, Ham, Getto, Zimmer, Thomas, Joerg, Humke, Thompson, Vergiels, Jeffrey, DuBois, Schofield, Beyer, Nicholas, Perry, Collins and Brady. Approved May 20, 1983

1030

415

AN ACT relating to taxicabs; providing additional factors for the determination of the allocation of the number of taxicabs by the taxicab authority; increasing the fees for driver’s permits; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 505–Committee on Transportation. Approved May 20, 1983

1031

416

AN ACT relating to public securities; providing for the issuance of refunding securities for the state bond bank; revising the requirements for public sales of state securities; revising the limitations on refunding securities of the state and the university; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 404–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 20, 1983

1033

417

AN ACT relating to horse racing; further defining information for whose dissemination a license is required; requiring licensees to obtain prior approval from the Nevada gaming commission for broadcasting such information for purposes of entertainment; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 356–Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 20, 1983

1035

418

AN ACT relating to aircraft; adding separate provisions for liens for repairs and storage; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 469–Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved May 20, 1983

1037

419

AN ACT relating to wages; requiring employers to promptly deposit any money withheld from the wages or compensation of an employee for deposit in a financial institution; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 350–Senator Mello. Approved May 20, 1983

1042

420

AN ACT relating to the nonresident tuition for the universities and colleges of the University of Nevada System; authorizing reciprocal agreements with other states for the waiver of the tuition; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 5–Senator Bilbray. Approved May 20, 1983

1043

421

AN ACT relating to state employees; providing for a quarterly allowance for uniforms; providing for an initial reimbursement for the cost of one uniform and accessories under certain circumstances; requiring the prior approval of the budget division of the department of administration before a uniform is required; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 131–Committee on Finance. Approved May 20, 1983

1044

422

AN ACT relating to the collective bargaining of local governments; requiring financial information on metropolitan police departments to be furnished by the local government employers; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 504–Assemblyman Banner. Approved May 20, 1983

1044

423

AN ACT relating to audiology and speech pathology; increasing the educational requirements for a license as an audiologist or speech pathologist; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 373–Senator Hickey. Approved May 21, 1983

1045

424

AN ACT relating to fiscal notes; requiring the preparation of a fiscal note for any bill which increases or newly provides for a term of imprisonment or makes release on parole or probation less likely; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 380–Senators Wagner, Gibson, Mello, Raggio, Lamb, Wilson, Jacobsen, Ryan, Foley, Townsend, Robinson, Ashworth and Horn. Approved May 21, 1983

1046

425

AN ACT relating to governmental finance; providing for certain powers of the Nevada tax commission; revising certain limitations on local governmental revenue; repealing provisions for lowering the rate of certain taxes on retail sales; amending the charter of Carson City to provide for a single taxing district; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 449–Committee on Taxation. Approved May 21, 1983

1047

426

AN ACT relating to traffic violations; revising the provisions concerning driving while intoxicated; providing preliminary tests for intoxication; providing for summary revocation of drivers’ licenses; providing a penalty for driving with a certain percentage of alcohol in the blood; increasing certain other penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 167–Assemblymen Sader, Beyer, Stewart, Berkley, Malone, Kovacs, Price, Sedway, Collins, Perry, Nicholas, Bremner, Thompson, DuBois, Stone, Banner, Coffin, Marvel, Brady, Redelsperger, Nevin, Humke, Ham, Bourne, Swain, Bergevin, Francis, Schofield, Thomas and Zimmer. Approved May 21, 1983

1065

427

AN ACT relating to the travel advance fund; authorizing the repayment of unpaid advances from the reserve for statutory contingency fund; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 633–Committee on Ways and Means. Approved May 22, 1983

1090

428

AN ACT relating to escheated estates; creating the fund for escheated estates; providing for the retention and disposition of the interest and other income from escheated estates; authorizing the state treasurer to sell personal property which has escheated to the state; requiring executors and administrators to sell escheated property and transmit money to the state; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 112–Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 22, 1983

1091

429

AN ACT relating to attorneys at law; amending provisions governing payment of fees to attorneys appointed by the court to defend indigent defendants; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 453–Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 22, 1983

1095

430

AN ACT relating to abandoned vehicles; revising various notices; expanding the grounds for the denial, suspension, revocation or refusal to renew a license to act as an automobile wrecker; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 277–Committee on Transportation. Approved May 22, 1983

1097

431

AN ACT relating to insurance; removing the exemption of certain insurance agents of fraternal benefit societies from examination for an insurance agent’s license; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 363–Senator Townsend. Approved May 22, 1983

1099

432

AN ACT relating to group insurance; allowing legislators who have served for 8 years or more to retain membership in the state’s program without retiring; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 383–Committee on Legislative Functions. Approved May 22, 1983

1100

433

AN ACT relating to nurseries; increasing the fees charged by the state department of agriculture; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 618–Committee on Ways and Means. Approved May 22, 1983

1101

434

AN ACT relating to insurance; authorizing the commissioner of insurance to investigate any person suspected of engaging in the business of insurance; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 306–Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved May 22, 1983

1102

435

AN ACT relating to elections; clarifying the requirement of residence for candidates; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 291–Senators Raggio, Mello, Wagner, Townsend, Wilson, Glover and Glaser. Approved May 22, 1983

1103

436

AN ACT relating to wages; requiring the agreement by an employee for other than immediate payment to be in writing; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 483–Assemblymen Banner, Thompson and Jeffrey. Approved May 22, 1983

1104

437

AN ACT relating to prescriptions; providing that a physician or other practitioner is liable for prescriptions transmitted orally by his agent; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 598–Committee on Commerce. Approved May 22, 1983

1104

438

AN ACT relating to insurance for motor vehicles; amending provisions relating to underinsured drivers; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 533–Committee on Transportation. Approved May 22, 1983

1105

439

AN ACT relating to dentists; making certain administrative and procedural changes for the board of dental examiners; authorizing informal hearings by an investigator for the board; authorizing the board to issue subpenas and obtain search warrants; expanding the definitions of malpractice, professional incompetence and dishonorable or unprofessional conduct; increasing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 341–Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved May 22, 1983

1106

440

AN ACT relating to elections, changing the date of the primary election; changing certain other dates accordingly; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 382–Assemblymen Coffin, Ham, Bourne, Zimmer, Schofield, Dini, Jeffrey, Thompson, Malone, Sedway, Price, Perry, Nevin, Vergiels, Bogaert and Bergevin. Approved May 22, 1983

1116

441

AN ACT relating to insurance; establishing requirements for binders and policies issued pursuant to binders; specifying the effect of a binder; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 374–Committee on Commerce. Approved May 22, 1983

1120

442

AN ACT relating to hazardous waste; revising provisions relating to the disclosure of information obtained by the department of conservation and natural resources in regulating the management of hazardous waste; providing and increasing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 315–Assemblyman Schofield. Approved May 22, 1983

1121

443

AN ACT relating to fingerprinting; providing a procedure to enable a parent or guardian of a minor child to obtain a card containing the child’s fingerprints to help identify the child if he is lost, kidnaped or killed; prohibiting law enforcement agencies from retaining a copy of the fingerprints; prohibiting the use of the fingerprint card in any juvenile or criminal investigation or proceeding against the child; requiring persons who fingerprint such children to do so in a certain manner; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 582–Assemblymen Humke, Stone, Ham, Malone, Bilyeu, Fay, Nevin, Swain, Stewart, Berkley and Collins. Approved May 22, 1983

1122

444

AN ACT relating to administrative regulations; dispensing with notice and hearing upon the conversion of a temporary to a permanent regulation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 83–Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved May 22, 1983

1123

445

AN ACT relating to insurance; requiring the commissioner of insurance to hire or contract with a person who is a specialist in containing the costs of health care; requiring that employee to administer the program for the accounting and financial reports for health and care facilities; authorizing the commissioner to impose fees on health and care facilities and health insurers to cover the costs of administering the program; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 273–Assemblymen Bourne, Kovacs, Nevin, Stone, Fay, Swain, Zimmer, Bogaert, Schofield, Thomas, Beyer, Sader, Banner, Ham, Getto, Bilyeu, Kerns, Joerg, Sedway, DuBois, Humke, Collins, Thompson, Vergiels, Berkley, Malone, Bergevin, Jeffrey, Craddock, Marvel, May, Dini, Brady, Redelsperger, Stewart, Bremner and Coffin. Approved May 22, 1983

1126

446

AN ACT relating to unincorporated towns; providing staggered terms for members of town advisory boards in certain counties; authorizing the election of those boards; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 468–Assemblymen Redelsperger and Dini. Approved May 22, 1983

1127

447

AN ACT relating to local boards of health; requiring that regulations be filed with the county or city clerk; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 660–Assemblyman Beyer (by request). Approved May 22, 1983

1129

448

AN ACT relating to motor vehicle insurance; requiring an applicant for original registration to furnish proof of having the required insurance or other security; providing a fee for the reinstatement of certain registrations and providing specifically for its use; continuing the procedure for verification of certain insurance by sampling a percentage of owners of registered vehicles and continuing the requirement that insurers provide evidence of insurance to their insureds; providing an exception to the procedure for reinstatement of registration; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 304–Assemblymen Berkley, Stewart, Vergiels, May, Sader and Sedway. Approved May 22, 1983

1131

449

AN ACT relating to crimes; providing for the forfeiture of certain property used in certain crimes; requiring that all proceeds from the sale of such property, after the payment of expenses, be used to assist certain victims of crimes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 275–Assemblymen Malone, Stewart, Humke, Berkley, Ham, Stone, Nevin, Fay, Getto, Bogaert and Bergevin. Approved May 22, 1983

1135

450

AN ACT relating to the Tahoe transportation district; conferring additional powers on that district; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 441–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 22, 1983

1137

451

AN ACT relating to revenue bonds for economic development; authorizing their issue at variable rates of interest; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 653–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 23, 1983

1159

452

AN ACT relating to the organization of state government; replacing the department of economic development with a commission on economic development and assigning its functions; establishing a commission on tourism and assigning its functions; creating an interagency committee and assigning its duties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 391–Committee on Economic Development, Tourism and Mining. Approved May 23, 1983

1161

453

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, 1983, and ending June 30, 1984, and beginning July 1, 1984, and ending June 30, 1985; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 672–Committee on Ways and Means. Approved May 23, 1983

1174

454

AN ACT relating to the Colorado River commission; authorizing it to issue additional bonds pursuant to chapter 482, Statutes of Nevada 1975, as amended; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 274–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 24, 1983

1188

455

AN ACT relating to property tax; clarifying the exemption for household goods and furniture; providing an exemption for bees and livestock; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 371–Committee on Taxation. Approved May 24, 1983

1191

456

AN ACT relating to crimes and punishment; making illegal certain acts regarding computers; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 133–Assemblymen Stewart, Malone, Stone and DuBois. Approved May 24, 1983

1203

457

AN ACT relating to gaming devices; authorizing the Nevada gaming commission to regulate manufacturers and distributors located outside the state; limiting the rights of a manufacturer found unsuitable to hold a license; authorizing the commission to determine the suitability of manufacturers and distributors of components therefor; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 342–Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 24, 1983

1205

458

AN ACT creating the Airport Authority of Lander 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 Lander County to the authority; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 549–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 23, 1983

1208

459

AN ACT relating to registered nurses; authorizing the state board of pharmacy to permit certain registered nurses to prescribe poisons, dangerous drugs and devices under certain circumstances; authorizing the state board of pharmacy to set different fees for the collective registration of certain registered nurses; authorizes the possessing and administering of controlled substances and dangerous drugs without certain certificates; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 575–Committee on Health and Welfare. Approved May 24, 1983

1218

460

AN ACT relating to motor carriers; providing for the protection of existing motor carriers from detrimental competition; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 468–Committee on Transportation. Approved May 24, 1983

1222

461

AN ACT relating to fire; expanding the types of buildings which are exempted from the requirement of automatic sprinklers; deferring related changes in state buildings except where there are permanent accommodations for sleeping; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 320–Assemblymen Kerns, Bilyeu, Humke, Fay, Joerg, Bergevin, Malone, Jeffrey, Bourne, Stone, Ham, Bogaert, Stewart, Getto, Zimmer, Swain, Francis, Vergiels, Craddock, Thompson, Schofield, Brady, Dini, Nicholas, Marvel, Nevin, DuBois, Collins, Coffin, Sedway, Thomas, May, Redelsperger, Chaney, Banner and Perry. Approved May 24, 1983

1225

462

AN ACT relating to the regulation of public utilities; reducing the conditions which must be imposed on a permit to construct a plant for generating electrical energy from geothermal sources for export; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 592–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 24, 1983

1227

463

AN ACT relating to license plates for motor vehicles; authorizing the issuance of decals to identify persons with licenses for amateur radio; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 454–Senator Jacobsen. Approved May 24, 1983

1229

464

AN ACT relating to bees; requiring beekeepers to pay annual registration fees; requiring certain beekeepers to pay an annual assessment fee; providing penalties; removing the annual special tax on each colony; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 579–Committee on Natural Resources, Environment and Agriculture. Approved May 24, 1983

1231

465

AN ACT relating to civil actions; authorizing the supreme court to adopt rules for the establishment of programs of arbitration by district courts; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 401–Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 24, 1983

1232

466

AN ACT relating to liquefied petroleum gas; revising the classification of businesses engaged in activities relating thereto; providing an exemption; authorizing the establishment of fees by regulation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 162–Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved May 24, 1983

1233

467

AN ACT relating to state employees; clarifying a provision exempting contracts of employment dealing with wages, hours and working conditions from the requirements relating to state employees; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 377–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 24, 1983

1235

468

AN ACT relating to limitation of actions; expanding the period of limitation for an action for damages for injury caused by deficiency in improvement to real property; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 236–Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 24, 1983

1237

469

AN ACT relating to dairy products; eliminating the delay between the filing of prices and their effectiveness; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 462–Senator Jacobsen. Approved May 24, 1983

1239

470

AN ACT relating to the department of motor vehicles; changing titles of certain positions; increasing the charge for dishonored checks; raising the amount of money in the motor vehicle revolving account; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 207–Committee on Transportation. Approved May 24, 1983

1241

471

AN ACT relating to administrative regulations; making various changes in the procedure for proposing and adopting temporary administrative regulations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 436–Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 24, 1983

1244

472

AN ACT relating to the use of land; providing a procedure for the granting of variances, special use permits and other special exemptions by agencies; allowing a local government to pay compensation to members of its planning commission; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 48–Senator Jacobsen. Approved May 24, 1983

1246

473

AN ACT relating to public purchasing; authorizing public bodies to enter into contracts to lease property in return for the right to purchase energy at reduced rates or to provide for certain improvements to be made thereon without competitive bidding; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 449–Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved May 24, 1983

1248

474

AN ACT relating to the disposal of radioactive waste; adopting the Rocky Mountain compact for the disposal of low-level radioactive waste; providing civil penalties; containing an appropriation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 184–Senator Jacobsen. Approved May 24, 1983

1251

475

AN ACT relating to public lands; allowing the state land registrar to acquire and lease land for private development; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 248–Assemblymen Schofield, Jeffrey, Vergiels, Dini, Nevin, Price, Coffin, Bourne, Stewart, Sedway, Malone, Joerg and Thomas. Approved May 24, 1983

1260

476

AN ACT relating to garbage; authorizing the regulation of the disposal of garbage generated outside the area of disposal; authorizing the state environmental commission to establish fees for importing garbage into the state; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 544–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 24, 1983

1261

477

AN ACT to create the Moapa Valley Water District in Clark County, Nevada; providing for the storage, conservation, distribution and sale of water within the district; authorizing the district to purchase, acquire and construct the facilities necessary to serve water to consumers within the district; authorizing the issuance of general obligation and revenue bonds; providing the power to tax; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 278–Senator Gibson. Approved May 24, 1983

1262

478

AN ACT relating to the protection and preservation of state property and natural resources; directing the state board of examiners to issue state general obligation bonds to finance the state’s share of costs for projects to conserve water associated with the Truckee River and the Newlands Federal Reclamation Project; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 451–Senators Wilson, Raggio, Wagner, Mello and Townsend. Approved May 24, 1983

1269

479

AN ACT relating to natural resources; authorizing the director of the state department of conservation and natural resources to enter into a contract with the Elko County Recreation Board for the construction of a dam and a park on the South Fork of the Humboldt River in Elko County; specifying certain provisions of the contract; requiring the state board of examiners to issue bonds to provide money for the project up to a specified limit; allocating the remaining proceeds of other authorized bonds; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 153–Senators Glaser, Gibson, Wilson, Ashworth, Blakemore, Bilbray, Glover, Faiss, Hernstadt, Hickey, Robinson, Neal, Foley, Townsend, Wagner, Horn, Ryan, Lamb and Mello. Approved May 24, 1983

1270

480

AN ACT relating to economic development; providing for the organization, powers and functions of corporations for economic revitalization and diversification; providing for their regulation; authorizing certain financial institutions and Nevada corporations to become members of, lend money to and invest in those corporations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 635–Committee on Economic Development, Tourism and Mining. Approved May 24, 1983

1271

481

AN ACT relating to general improvement districts; permitting the board of county commissioners to designate the district’s name and authorizing certain uses of the name; modifying the powers of the board of trustees concerning certain contracts; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 623–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 25, 1983

1282

482

AN ACT relating to elections; providing for voting for President and Vice President by new residents; prescribing a fee; making certain technical changes to the election laws; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 412–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 25, 1983

1287

483

AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; making assorted changes in the law relating thereto; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 254–Committee on Labor and Management. Approved May 25, 1983

1291

484

AN ACT relating to state records; vesting the state librarian with rights concerning records submitted by state agencies and accepted for the archives; providing for limited access to certain records donated by constitutional officers; clarifying provisions on destruction of certain records held at the archives; renaming the division of archives of the Nevada state library; providing for the establishment of programs for the efficient and economical management of records; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 321–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 25, 1983

1298

485

AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; providing for the payment of dividends based on the experience of employers; amending provisions on the rating system and the failure of an employer to provide coverage; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 253–Committee on Labor and Management. Approved May 25, 1983

1305

486

AN ACT relating to the public service commission of Nevada; enlarging its membership; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 283–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 25, 1983

1308

487

AN ACT designated as the Washoe County Metropolitan Water Authority Law; relating to the use of water for domestic, commercial and industrial purposes; creating the Washoe County Metropolitan Water Authority; defining the boundaries of its jurisdiction; providing for its governing body, officers and employees; empowering the authority to plan for the use of water resources, study its future functions and prepare and recommend legislation concerning the future of the authority; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 417–Senators Wilson, Raggio, Mello, Wagner, Townsend, Glaser and Glover. Approved May 25, 1983

1309

488

AN ACT relating to small loans; requiring persons who engage in the business of making small loans to be licensed without reference to the rate of interest; repealing provisions which are premised upon limited rates of interest; expanding the exemption from regulation; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 124–Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved May 25, 1983

1312

489

AN ACT relating to mortgage brokers; amending a provision which exempts certain brokers subject to the Federal National Mortgage Association from control by the commissioner of savings associations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 446–Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved May 25, 1983

1314

490

AN ACT relating to financial institutions; revising provisions governing fees; creating an investigative fund for financial institutions; making various administrative changes; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 361–Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved May 25, 1983

1315

491

AN ACT relating to victims of crimes; requiring notice to victims of an application for parole or clemency or a grant of clemency if requested; authorizing a victim to respond to an application for parole or clemency; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 404–Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 25, 1983

1330

492

AN ACT relating to gaming; increasing fees for issuance or renewal of licenses for manufacturers, sellers and distributors of gaming devices; increasing certain license fees for a restricted operation; imposing an added fee for licensing operators of slot machine routes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 445–Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 25, 1983

1332

493

AN ACT relating to descriptions of land; revising the systems of coordinates used in describing land; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 616–Assemblyman Beyer. Approved May 25, 1983

1338

494

AN ACT relating to insurance coverage of state employees; pro-viding for self-insurance of certain risks; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 370–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 25, 1983

1342

495

AN ACT relating to the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education; reducing the residency requirement for eligibility for contract places; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 670–Committee on Ways and Means. Approved May 25, 1983

1345

496

AN ACT making an appropriation from the state general fund to the legislative fund. Senate Bill No. 477–Committee on Finance. Approved May 25, 1983

1345

497

AN ACT relating to criminal procedure; authorizing the granting of immunity in preliminary examinations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 246–Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 25, 1983

1346

498

AN ACT making an additional and supplemental appropriation to the department of taxation for data processing; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 541–Committee on Ways and Means. Approved May 25, 1983

1346

499

AN ACT relating to state symbols; designating the state colors as silver and blue; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 666–Assemblyman Bogaert. Approved May 25, 1983

1347

500

AN ACT relating to department of general services; placing the chief of the motor pool division in the unclassified service of the state; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 668–Committee on Ways and Means. Approved May 25, 1983

1347

501

AN ACT relating to computers; providing protection for proprietary computer programs and data from unfair practices; providing for civil remedies and damages; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 395–Senators Robinson, Ashworth, Gibson and Wilson. Approved May 25, 1983

1348

502

AN ACT relating to contractors; requiring the employment security department and the state industrial insurance system to make available a list of those subcontractors who are delinquent in paying premiums for industrial insurance or payments for unemployment compensation; reducing the time for suits against a contractor for wages, benefits or contributions or premiums on account of a subcontractor’s employee; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 452–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 25, 1983

1350

503

AN ACT relating to searches and rescues; establishing a board of search and rescue, a committee on training in search and rescue and the position of coordinator of search and rescue and specifying their powers and duties; authorizing industrial insurance for certain members of the Civil Air Patrol; authorizing sheriffs to conduct searches and rescues; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 271–Senator Jacobsen. Approved May 25, 1983

1351

504

AN ACT relating to mobile home parks; requiring landlords to meet with tenants to hear complaints and suggestions; making various other changes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 426–Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 25, 1983

1354

505

AN ACT relating to older persons; lowering the threshold of age for protection under statutes which prohibit abuse and neglect of older persons and require reporting of such abuse and neglect; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 380–Assemblymen Dini, Schofield, May and Thomas. Approved May 26, 1983

1359

506

AN ACT relating to juries; exempting physicians, optometrists and dentists licensed in this state from service as jurors; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 473–Senators Mello, Wagner, Horn, Hickey, Bilbray, Townsend, Raggio, Ashworth and Jacobsen. Approved May 26, 1983

1360

507

AN ACT relating to public works; reconciling the definitions of “public body” and “contracting body” as those terms are used in provisions relating to public works; authorizing the labor commissioner to adopt regulations to carry out his duties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 126–Committee on Labor and Management. Approved May 26, 1983

1361

508

AN ACT relating to commissioners on uniform state laws; authorizing former commissioners to continue or resume service; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 569–Committee on Legislative Functions. Approved May 26, 1983

1361

509

AN ACT relating to corporations; increasing the amount of an employee’s lien when a corporation becomes insolvent or is dissolved; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 538–Assemblymen Bourne and Nevin. Approved May 26, 1983

1362

510

AN ACT relating to motor vehicle emissions; requiring used motor vehicles in designated areas to have evidence of compliance with compulsory motor vehicles emission inspection programs by certain date; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 677–Committee on Natural Resources, Environment and Agriculture. Approved May 26, 1983

1363

511

AN ACT relating to the refunding of certain securities issued by the board of regents of the University of Nevada; providing for the disposition in that case of revenues appropriated for their payment; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 476–Committee on Finance. Approved May 26, 1983

1364

512

AN ACT relating to the preparation of legislative measures; extending the services of the legislative counsel to local governments; requiring the earlier submission of requests; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 414–Committee on Legislative Affairs. Approved May 26, 1983

1370

513

AN ACT relating to elections; requiring disclosure of campaign expenditures made by persons other than candidates; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 91–Senators Wilson, Wagner, Blakemore, Hernstadt, Neal, Hickey, Bilbray, Foley and Townsend. Approved May 26, 1983

1373

514

AN ACT relating to mortgage companies; requiring posting of licenses; requiring approval of commissioner of savings association for changes of control; expanding the definition of mortgage companies; establishing a fund to pay claims against mortgage companies; expanding the duties of the commissioner of savings associations; expanding the grounds for suspension of licenses; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 138–Committee on Commerce. Approved May 26, 1983

1376

515

AN ACT relating to sports; creating the medical advisory board and providing for its organization and duties; increasing the amount and reducing the scope of insurance covering licensed boxers and wrestlers; providing for its payment to physicians or hospitals; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 358–Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 26, 1983

1383

516

AN ACT relating to insurance; authorizing the commissioner of insurance to investigate fraud relating to insurance; providing for assessments of insurers to support the commissioner’s investigations; providing for an exchange of information on fraud; designating the commissioner and his chief deputy as peace officers; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 303–Assemblymen Banner, Thompson and Bremner. Approved May 26, 1983

1384

517

AN ACT incorporating the City of Las Vegas in Clark County, Nevada, under a new charter; defining the boundaries thereof; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 531–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 26, 1983

1391

518

AN ACT relating to the state government; removing the requirements for a minimum or specific number of meetings by state boards, commissions, committees or councils which receive money from the state general fund; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 667–Committee on Ways and Means. Approved May 26, 1983

1437

519

AN ACT relating to unclassified salaries; changing such salaries in accordance with the executive budget; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 675–Committee on Ways and Means. Approved May 26, 1983

1449

520

AN ACT relating to unclaimed property; creating division of unclaimed property; continuing program for unclaimed property; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 86–Senators Robinson, Ashworth and Glover. Approved May 26, 1983

1461

521

AN ACT relating to libraries; specially requiring the creation of a county library district for the town of Pahrump; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 567–Committee on Taxation. Approved May 26, 1983

1476

522

AN ACT relating to public works; directing the state board of examiners to issue state general obligation bonds for the purpose of certain capital improvements; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 682–Committee on Ways and Means. Approved May 26, 1983

1477

523

AN ACT making an appropriation from the state general fund to the legislative commission for the support of interim studies; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 681–Committee on Ways and Means. Approved May 26, 1983

1478

524

AN ACT relating to the healing arts; regulating the practice of homeopathic medicine; creating the board of homeopathic medical examiners; providing for its organization, powers and duties; providing for licensing and disciplinary actions; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 237–Senators Gibson, Lamb, Foley and Hernstadt. Approved May 26, 1983

1478

525

AN ACT relating to crimes and punishment; providing punishment for participation in a criminal syndicate; providing punishment for the collection of debts by extortion; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 124–Assemblymen Stewart, Jeffrey, Thompson, Sader, DuBois, Brady, Stone, Nevin, Berkley, Ham, Malone, Bilyeu, Collins, Humke and Fay. Approved May 26, 1983

1494

526

AN ACT relating to the financing of school construction; repealing NRS 387.334 which provided for state loans; providing for the reversion of money appropriated for that purpose to the state general fund; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 146–Committee on Ways and Means. Approved May 26, 1983

1504

527

AN ACT relating to pharmacy; making various administrative changes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 445–Assemblyman Sedway. Approved May 26, 1983

1504

528

AN ACT relating to planned unit development; repealing special requirement concerning resistance of common walls to fire; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 595–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 26, 1983

1517

529

AN ACT relating to the Colorado River commission; making certain administrative changes; modifying the terms of the commissioners; authorizing certain loans from the Fort Mohave Valley development fund; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 444–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 26, 1983

1518

530

AN ACT relating to health facilities; making various changes to the law governing planning for the provision of health care; altering the membership of the state health coordinating council; exempting the department of human resources from certain provisions of the Nevada Administrative Procedure Act in the adjudication of contested cases involving the issuance of letters of approval; providing civil penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 585–Committee on Health and Welfare. Approved May 26, 1983

1523

531

AN ACT relating to regulatory penalties; removing the limitation on claims by the Nevada gaming commission and the state gaming control board; allowing regulatory boards and commissions to apply for assistance from the contingency fund if the proceeds of their penalties are deposited in the state general fund; allowing certain boards and commissions to delegate their authority to take disciplinary action; removing provisions which authorize boards and commissions to charge persons who are subject to disciplinary action with cost of the investigation or hearing; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 65–Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 26, 1983

1530

532

AN ACT relating to the use of land; making substantial changes to statutory provisions which empower cities and counties to require the dedication of land or the imposition of a residential construction tax for parks and playgrounds; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 151–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 26, 1983

1548

533

AN ACT relating to gaming; providing for a responsive pleading after a complaint is filed with the Nevada gaming commission; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 331–Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 26, 1983

1552

534

AN ACT relating to public works; raising the threshold for the definition of “public works”; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 197–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 26, 1983

1573

535

AN ACT relating to rented dwellings; increasing the time within which notice must be given for an increase of rent; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 441–Assemblyman Francis. Approved May 26, 1983

1574

536

AN ACT relating to the conservation of energy; requiring the department of energy to limit the use of electric resistance in new buildings as a means of heating spaces; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 415–Senators Lamb, Jacobsen and Horn. Approved May 26, 1983

1575

537

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. Assembly Bill No. 195–Committee on Ways and Means. Approved May 26, 1983

1576

538

AN ACT relating to the legislative building; specifying the responsibility of the administrative division of the legislative counsel bureau for security; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 460–Senator Jacobsen. Approved May 26, 1983

1576

539

AN ACT relating to the state engineer; limiting fees for permits to appropriate water to generate power; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 392–Senator Jacobsen. Approved May 26, 1983

1577

540

AN ACT relating to the motor vehicle fuel tax; allowing a county and the incorporated cities in it to increase that tax by ordinances approved by the voters; basing the rate of that tax on the proportion of the population of the governmental entities in a county which are participating in the tax; apportioning the receipts of that tax according to the population of participating entities; requiring the receipts of the tax to be expended on the repair or restoration of existing paved streets; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 662–Committee on Taxation. Approved May 26, 1983

1579

541

AN ACT relating to interest earned on deposits of state money; making technical changes to provisions crediting interest to individual funds and accounts; allowing the interest earned on money in the livestock inspection fund to be credited to the fund; requiring agencies to notify the state treasurer of deposits whose interest must be credited to the agency; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 93–Senator Ashworth. Approved May 26, 1983

1581

542

AN ACT relating to contractors on public works projects; deferring payment of small amounts of interest due on money withheld by public body; specifying the time when an amount withheld must be paid to a subcontractor; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 517–Assemblymen Bogaert, Nevin, Stone, Price and Joerg. Approved May 26, 1983

1591

543

AN ACT relating to the refunding of public securities; removing certain limitations in the issuance of refunding obligations by the state and its political subdivisions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 418–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 26, 1983

1594

544

AN ACT relating to public administrators and guardians; authorizing the appointment of deputy public administrators; modifying certain administrative provisions concerning letters of administration and the release of information to public administrators; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 625–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 26, 1983

1596

545

AN ACT relating to taxes on retail sales; authorizing certain counties to impose a tax to be used to promote tourism within the county; limiting the amount of the tax to one-quarter of 1 percent; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 596–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 26, 1983

1598

546

AN ACT relating to the licensing of private investigators and polygraphic examiners; increasing fees for licenses and certain other fees; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 669–Committee on Ways and Means. Approved May 26, 1983

1601

547

AN ACT relating to thrift companies; increasing the amount of the bond or letter of credit required for licensing; authorizing the investigation of companies affiliated with a licensee; changing the name and the amount of money in the fund required to be established upon beginning business; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 136–Committee on Commerce. Approved May 26, 1983

1605

548

AN ACT relating to mining claims; making various changes regarding recording and the applicable fees; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 448–Assemblymen Dini and Getto. Approved May 26, 1983

1609

549

AN ACT relating to the cooperative acquisition of unused water rights for municipal purposes; directing the use of the water thus made available; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 323–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 26, 1983

1612

550

AN ACT relating to governmental finance; providing for the regular assessment of real property as of July 1 and the entry of subsequently constructed improvements on the unsecured roll; fixing July 1 as the date of the lien for taxes on certain personal property; deferring the normal collection of tax on migratory property; providing information for the legislature concerning local government budgets; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 419–Committee on Taxation. Approved May 26, 1983

1613

551

AN ACT relating to the registration of motor vehicles; authorizing the county assessor to transfer specified duties to the department of motor vehicles under certain circumstances; requiring the registration of vehicles on the basis of anniversary rather than calendar year; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 321–Senator Blakemore. Approved May 26, 1983

1618

552

AN ACT relating to local government; limiting the subjects which are subject to mandatory bargaining; restricting the withdrawal by a local government of the recognition of an employee organization; permitting a factfinder to consider whether a party has bargained in bad faith; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 416–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 26, 1983

1622

553

AN ACT relating to motor carriers; clarifying the requirements for identification of vehicles for the special fuel tax; requiring notice by a licensee who pays mileage fees of the termination of his business; clarifying the identification required for a combination of vehicles; exempting vehicles used in the production of motion pictures from certain provisions; providing a penalty for the failure to pay mileage license fees; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 276–Committee on Transportation. Approved May 26, 1983

1627

554

AN ACT relating to taxation; providing for the submission to the registered voters at the general election in 1984 of the question whether the Sales and Use Tax Act of 1955 should be amended to provide a reduction of those taxes paid on certain mobile and manufactured homes; contingently creating similar exemptions from certain analogous taxes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 155–Assemblymen Redelsperger, Dini, Brady, Nicholas, Humke, Price, Thompson, Bilyeu, Zimmer, Francis, Craddock, Bergevin, Getto and Schofield. Approved May 26, 1983

1631

555

AN ACT relating to schools; authorizing a tax for school construction to be levied on certain property; requiring the deposit of that money into the district’s fund for capital projects; requiring the revenue from the tax levied for the support of school districts and any interest earned from the investment of the proceeds of that tax to be credited to the county’s school district fund; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 496–Committee on Education. Approved May 26, 1983

1634

556

AN ACT relating to financial institutions; making technical corrections to Senate Bill No. 418 of this session; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 481–Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved May 26, 1983

1637

557

AN ACT relating to public employees’ retirement; exempting elective officials from the requirement that contributions paid by employers for employees be offset by reductions in salary; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 604–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 26, 1983

1647

558

AN ACT relating to public administrators; providing payment for longevity; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 613–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 26, 1983

1649

559

AN ACT relating to underground water; requiring a notice of intent to declare a forfeiture where center-pivot irrigation is used; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 597–Committee on Natural Resources, Environment and Agriculture. Approved May 26, 1983

1650

560

AN ACT relating to peace officers; authorizing arrests outside their respective jurisdictions under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 258–Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 26, 1983

1651

561

AN ACT relating to abuse and neglect of older persons; extending the prohibition on neglect to persons who voluntarily assume responsibility for the care of an older person; requiring certain persons to report incidents of abuse, neglect or exploitation; requiring an investigation of reported abuse, neglect or exploitation within 3 working days after the report; expanding the duties of the aging services division of the department of human resources; requiring that day care facilities be licensed; adding day care facilities for adults to the projects which may be undertaken pursuant to the County Economic Development Revenue Bond Law; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 300–Assemblymen Schofield, Zimmer, Bourne, Jeffrey, Banner, Nevin, Kovacs, Fay, Bogaert, Sader, Coffin, Perry, Collins, Bremner, Dini, Thompson, Price, DuBois, Sedway, Craddock, Chaney, Thomas and Berkley. Approved May 26, 1983

1652

562

AN ACT relating to executive boards and commissions; resolving conflicts with Assembly Bill No. 667; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 678–Committee on Ways and Means. Approved May 26, 1983

1658

563

AN ACT relating to local government purchasing; raising the threshold for competitive bidding; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 455–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 26, 1983

1659

564

AN ACT relating to Washoe County; requiring negotiations between the local governments and the ditch companies concerning maintenance of ditches; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 612–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 26, 1983

1660

565

AN ACT relating to towns; limiting the option to establish a town board form of government to towns in smaller counties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 631–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 26, 1983

1661

566

AN ACT relating to the department of transportation; changing the qualifications of the director and deputy director; establishing the qualifications of the chief engineer; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 369–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 26, 1983

1662

567

AN ACT relating to county fair and recreation boards; changing the composition of the boards for certain counties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 548–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 26, 1983

1663

568

AN ACT relating to public works; directing the state board of examiners to issue state general obligation bonds for the purpose of providing fire protection in and about buildings of the University of Nevada System and other state buildings; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 683–Committee on Ways and Means. Approved May 26, 1983

1664

569

AN ACT relating to the rental of individual spaces for the storage of personal property; providing for the attachment of a lien for the rent or other charges on those spaces; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 636–Committee on Commerce. Approved May 26, 1983

1665

570

AN ACT relating to county hospitals; expanding the class of counties authorized to issue, without an election, special obligation securities for hospital projects; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 467–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 26, 1983

1670

571

AN ACT relating to criminal procedure; giving the state the right to demand a trial within 60 days after the arraignment unless a delay is required; providing that a 2-year limit for a motion for a new trial on the ground of newly discovered evidence commences with the verdict or finding of guilt instead of with final judgment; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 220–Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 26, 1983

1670

572

AN ACT relating to parole; creating a legislative committee to study the function of parole in the system of criminal justice and providing for its organization, powers and duties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 375–Senators Foley, Ashworth, Blakemore, Faiss, Gibson, Glaser, Glover, Hernstadt, Horn, Jacobsen, Lamb, Mello, Raggio, Robinson, Ryan, Townsend and Wilson. Approved May 26, 1983

1672

573

AN ACT relating to water; requiring the state engineer to grant certain requests for waiver of certain requirements regarding permits for wells; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 475–Assemblymen Getto, Dini, Redelsperger, Thompson, Bergevin, Marvel, Bilyeu, Jeffrey, Craddock, Joerg and Thomas. Approved May 26, 1983

1674

574

AN ACT relating to veterinary medicine; authorizes the director of the division of animal industry of the state department of agriculture to certify persons as lay teachers; allowing certified lay teachers to instruct stockmen in practical veterinary skills; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 553–Committee on Natural Resources, Environment and Agriculture. Approved May 26, 1983

1674

575

AN ACT relating to missing persons; transferring records of missing persons and unidentifiable dead bodies to the investigation division of the department of motor vehicles; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 642–Committee on Transportation (by request). Approved May 26, 1983

1675

576

AN ACT relating to cancer; requiring hospitals to report certain information concerning cases of cancer to the health division of the department of human resources; providing for use of the information to advance research, education and treatment; providing for confidentiality; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 475–Senators Wagner, Mello, Wilson, Foley, Horn, Neal and Raggio. Approved May 26, 1983

1677

577

AN ACT relating to sales of land; requiring disclosure of any agricultural activities or conditions which would adversely affect residents on the land; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 43–Senators Jacobsen, Lamb, Glaser and Blakemore. Approved May 26, 1983

1679

578

AN ACT relating to testamentary trusts; excluding corporate trustees from the requirement that trustees file intermediate accounts; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 562–Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 26, 1983

1680

579

AN ACT relating to crimes against public justice; providing penalties for the commission of certain acts against victims of crime, witnesses and public justice; providing for an affirmative defense; providing for injunctions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 163–Assemblymen Getto, Bilyeu, May, Schofield and Stone. Approved May 26, 1983

1682

580

AN ACT authorizing expenditures by various officers, departments, boards, agencies, commissions and institutions of the state government for the fiscal years commencing July 1, 1983, and ending June 30, 1984, and beginning July 1, 1984, and ending June 30, 1985; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 478–Committee on Finance. Approved May 26, 1983

1684

581

AN ACT relating to the department of commerce; creating a division of financial institutions and providing for its organization, powers and duties; abolishing the banking division, the credit union division and the savings and loan division; transferring the regulation of thrift companies from the director to the administrator of financial institutions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 418–Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved May 26, 1983

1696

582

AN ACT relating to gaming; providing for administrative resolution of certain gaming disputes; providing for judicial review; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 536–Assemblymen Vergiels, Jeffrey, Stewart and Kovacs. Approved May 26, 1983

1846

583

AN ACT relating to liens; requiring notice of lis pendens to be filed under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 543–Committee on Commerce. Approved May 26, 1983

1848

584

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. Assembly Bill No. 570–Assemblymen Collins, Price, Chaney, Schofield, Joerg, Bergevin, Stone, Perry, Nevin, Marvel, Brady, Fay, Bogaert, Nicholas, DuBois, Sedway, Francis, Bilyeu, Kerns, Craddock, Berkley, Humke, Redelsperger, Thompson, Sader, Thomas, Zimmer, Coffin, Beyer, Jeffrey, Stewart, Getto, Ham, Banner, Bourne, Kovacs, Dini and Vergiels. Approved May 26, 1983

1850

585

AN ACT relating to children; clarifying and revising various provisions relating to the establishment of the relationship of parent and child and the obligation of support; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 472–Senator Wagner. Approved May 26, 1983

1866

586

AN ACT relating to counties; allowing county commissioners to enter into contracts extending beyond their terms of office; providing that such contracts are binding beyond those terms only to the extent that money is appropriated therefor; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 406–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 26, 1983

1881

587

AN ACT relating to lands in Nevada which are under federal management; providing for the preparation of plans or policy statements concerning the use of those lands; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 40–Committee on Natural Resources. Approved May 26, 1983

1882

588

AN ACT relating to property taxes; revising the methods of valuing property in and between appraisals; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 232–Committee on Taxation. Approved May 26, 1983

1884

589

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; requiring the restraint of children; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 307–Assemblymen Swain, Nevin, Stewart, Berkley, Beyer, Zimmer, Ham, Coffin, Banner, Nicholas, Jeffrey, Francis, Sader, Humke, Thompson, Redelsperger, Bergevin, Fay, Kovacs, Price, Vergiels, Dini, Collins, Sedway, Malone, Bourne, DuBois and Perry. Approved May 27, 1983

1888

590

AN ACT relating to public employees’ retirement; providing an additional post-retirement increase to certain persons who are receiving small benefits; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 458–Committee on Finance. Approved May 27, 1983

1889

591

AN ACT relating to labor; requiring an employer to give notice to his employees before he stops paying premiums for policies of group life or health insurance; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 431–Assemblymen Swain, Banner, Bourne, Coffin, Sader and Zimmer. Approved May 27, 1983

1890

592

AN ACT relating to sporting events; authorizing the issuance of licenses permitting the conduct of off-track pari-mutuel wagering on races or events which take place in another state; excluding certain persons from regulation as disseminators of information; imposing certain conditions on applicants for licensing or approval in connection with horse racing and pari-mutuel wagering in this state; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 535–Assemblymen Vergiels, Jeffrey and Kovacs. Approved May 25, 1983

1891

593

AN ACT relating to the Civil Air Patrol; changing the permitted uses of the tax derived from aviation fuel; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 440–Committee on Taxation. Approved May 29, 1983

1898

594

AN ACT relating to the property tax; permitting the state board of equalization to remand cases to the county board of equalization where the record on appeal is inadequate and to hear cases anew or contract to have them heard where the record is still inadequate after remand; charging certain costs to the county; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 433–Committee on Taxation. Approved May 29, 1983

1901

595

AN ACT relating to governmental finance; continuing the existence of the Nevada beef council; crediting the interest earned on the Nevada beef promotion fund to the fund; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 223–Committee on Natural Resources. Approved May 29, 1983

1903

596

AN ACT relating to public schools; increasing the county’s tax for the support of public schools; modifying the calculations for the basic support of pupils; apportioning the state distributive school fund for the biennium 1983-1985; making an appropriation; authorizing certain expenditures; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 479–Committee on Finance. Approved May 29, 1983

1906

597

AN ACT relating to driving while intoxicated; providing for certification of the devices used to determine the amount of alcohol in a person’s blood; providing for the certification of operators of those devices; requiring periodic calibration of those devices; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 390–Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 29, 1983

1911

598

AN ACT relating to architecture; making various changes to the law governing that practice; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 361–Committee on Commerce. Approved May 29, 1983

1918

599

AN ACT relating to public employees’ retirement; increasing post-retirement increases in benefits; requiring all employers to pay the contributions of certain employees; authorizing certain employees to require their employers to pay their contributions; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 456–Committee on Finance. Approved May 29, 1983

1925

600

AN ACT relating to health insurance; requiring coverage for care in a hospice; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 615–Committee on Commerce. Approved May 29, 1983

1933

601

AN ACT relating to execution of criminals; changing the method of inflicting the death penalty to lethal injection; authorizing the director of the department of prisons to designate a person to administer the injection; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 109–Senators Glaser, Ashworth and Robinson. Approved May 29, 1983

1937

602

AN ACT relating to indigent persons; providing for reimbursement of certain costs of hospital care furnished to certain indigent persons injured in motor vehicle accidents; prescribing procedures; creating a fund for hospital care to indigent persons and providing for its administration; providing for the levy of a tax ad valorem to support the fund; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 218–Assemblymen Dini, Getto, Stewart, Redelsperger, Schofield, Sedway and Bergevin. Approved May 29, 1983

1939

603

AN ACT relating to public transportation; exempting buses used for certain public transportation from special fuel and privilege taxes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 367–Committee on Transportation. Approved May 29, 1983

1944

604

AN ACT relating to public revenue; imposing a tax on soft drinks; increasing the property tax levied for the support of the public schools and levying a state tax on property; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 371–Committee on Taxation. Approved May 29, 1983

1946

605

AN ACT relating to unemployment compensation; authorizing a limited amount of employees’ tips to be included in wages; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 466–Committee on Commerce and Labor. Approved May 29, 1983

1954

606

AN ACT relating to group insurance for public employees; increasing the amounts payable by the state for group insurance for the retired employees of the state; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 474–Committee on Finance. Approved May 29, 1983

1957

607

AN ACT relating to compensation for victims of crime; eliminating the minimum hourly wage for a compensation officer; increasing the compensation awarded to those victims; providing for the closure of certain claims; providing for the payment of the expenses of the hearings division of the department of administration; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 577–Committee on Judiciary. Approved May 29, 1983

1957

608

AN ACT relating to the construction of state buildings; making various changes regarding the state public works board and its employees; requiring the state public works board to consult with the interim finance committee; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 168–Senators Wagner, Horn and Mello. Approved May 29, 1983

1959

609

AN ACT relating to assistance for victims of rape; requiring certain counties to appropriate a percentage of the fees from marriage licenses to organizations which aid victims of rape; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 557–Assemblymen Coffin, Sedway, Bremner, Thompson, Zimmer, Berkley, Swain, Ham, Kovacs, Vergiels, Perry, Dini, Marvel, Chaney, Humke, Stewart, Jeffrey, Malone, Fay, Francis, May, Craddock, Price, Schofield and Brady. Approved May 29, 1983

1963

610

AN ACT relating to property taxes; revising certain allowances which are available to senior citizens for the payment of property tax; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 233–Committee on Taxation. Approved May 29, 1983

1964

611

AN ACT relating to the Tahoe Basin; requiring that a proposal to issue state general obligation bonds for the purchase of land in the Tahoe Basin be submitted to a vote of the people; providing for a commission on land acquisition; providing for administration by the state land registrar if the bonds are approved; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 534–Assemblymen Nicholas, Dini and Bergevin. Approved May 30, 1983

1965

612

AN ACT authorizing contribution toward improvements, replacements and increases of rating of certain facilities of the powerplant at Hoover Dam and the issuance of bonds and other securities by the State of Nevada through the Colorado River commission; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 470–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved May 30, 1983

1967

613

AN ACT relating to education; subjecting to regulation as private schools certain institutions and individual persons offering elementary and secondary instruction to small numbers of pupils; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 497–Committee on Education. Approved May 31, 1983

1969

614

AN ACT relating to economic development; providing for the designation, approval and management of specially benefited zones in certain depressed areas of the state; providing for or authorizing various measures to stimulate economic development within the zones, including the elimination or modification of certain regulations, the development of programs for local improvements and training for employment, the sale or lease of unused governmental property, financing by tax increment, the deposit of public money in certain local financial institutions, a credit or refund for qualified businesses of certain taxes paid on retail sales of property purchased to conduct business; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 508–Assemblymen Chaney, Price, Collins, May, Nicholas, Joerg, Sedway, DuBois, Brady, Redelsperger, Thompson, Banner, Ham, Getto, Craddock, Kerns, Kovacs, Thomas, Berkley, Bilyeu, Francis, Swain, Jeffrey, Vergiels, Schofield, Stewart, Fay, Stone, Bergevin, Nevin, Marvel, Malone, Perry, Dini, Beyer and Coffin. Approved May 31, 1983

1970

615

AN ACT relating to racing; removing, for a specified period, the minimum number of days of horse racing as a condition for a license to conduct greyhound racing; providing for the capital improvement and maintenance of Las Vegas Downs; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 558–Committee on Commerce. Approved May 31, 1983

1997

616

AN ACT relating to community antenna television companies; transferring their regulation from the public service commission to certain cities and counties; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 412–Committee on Commerce. Approved May 31, 1983

2003

617

AN ACT relating to public officers and employees; increasing the amount which public agencies may pay for monthly premiums on group insurance; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 227–Committee on Finance. Approved May 26, 1983

2013

618

AN ACT relating to credit unions; requiring the certification of foreign credit unions and providing standards therefor; authorizing the commissioner of credit unions to order certain mergers with other credit unions; revising other provisions relating to mergers; making changes in provisions relating to incorporation, reserves, examinations and the disposition of fees; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 281–Senator Ashworth (by request). Approved May 31, 1983

2014

619

AN ACT relating to organizations for dental care; requiring approval and regulation of those organizations by the commissioner of insurance; limiting their rates for dental care; broadening the choice of dentist by an insured or member; regulating prior approval of such care by an insurer or organization; establishing standards for payment of fees for dental care by insurers or organizations; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 364–Senator Horn. Approved May 31, 1983

2021

620

AN ACT relating to mobile home parks; providing for additional regulation of charges for utility services in those parks; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 366–Senator Townsend. Approved May 31, 1983

2030

621

AN ACT relating to insurance; requiring coverage for treatment of abuse of alcohol or drugs in certain policies; requiring employers who provide health benefits for their employees to provide similar coverage; creating an advisory committee; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 166–Senator Raggio. Approved May 31, 1983

2034

622

AN ACT relating to securities; increasing the rate of interest which may be recovered if securities or commodity options are fraudulently sold or offered for sale; exempting certain securities from the requirements of a public intrastate offering; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 339–Senator Glover. Approved May 31, 1983

2045

623

AN ACT directing certain counties to appropriate money for a program to provide transportation for the elderly in taxicabs; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 661–Assemblymen Vergiels and Bremner. Approved June 1, 1983

2048

624

AN ACT relating to public employees’ retirement; requiring the State of Nevada to pay the employees’ contribution for certain police officers and firemen; extending the benefits for spouses of deceased retired police officers and firemen to the spouses of deceased retired highway patrolmen, inspectors and field agents of the department of motor vehicles and certain firemen of the state department of conservation and natural resources; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 446–Assemblymen Nevin, Schofield, Thomas, Stone, Berkley, Bourne, Nicholas, Malone, Bogaert, Collins, Kerns, Vergiels, Jeffrey, Stewart, Fay, Bergevin, Banner, Ham, Getto, Beyer, Coffin, Zimmer, Swain, Francis, Bilyeu, Sader, Perry, Marvel, Kovacs, Dini, Redelsperger, Humke, Sedway, Thompson, Price, Joerg, Craddock, Brady, DuBois and Chaney. Approved June 1, 1983

2048

625

AN ACT relating to airports; authorizing local governments operating airports to enter into exclusive agreements for facilities and services; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Senate Bill No. 423–Committee on Government Affairs. Approved June 1, 1983

2051

626

AN ACT relating to taxation; providing for the submission to the registered voters at the general election in 1984 of the question whether the Sales and Use Tax Act of 1955 should be amended to provide for exclusion from the taxes of the value of a used vehicle taken in trade on sale of another vehicle and to provide for partial removal of the exemption for occasional sales of vehicles; correspondingly amending the Local School Support Tax Law; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 140–Committee on Taxation. Approved June 1, 1983

2052

627

AN ACT relating to minerals; changing the regulatory authority for natural resources; creating the commission on mineral resources and providing for its organization, powers and duties; abolishing the oil, gas and mining board; creating the department of minerals and providing for its organization, powers and duties; abolishing the division of mineral resources of the state department of conservation and natural resources; abolishing the department of energy; creating the office of community services; creating and increasing fees; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 335–Assemblymen Bogaert, Getto, Kerns, Redelsperger, Bergevin, Dini, Marvel and Bilyeu. Approved June 2, 1983

2067

628

AN ACT relating to peace officers; enumerating certain rights in employment; establishing standards for the conduct of certain investigations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 458–Committee on Judiciary. Approved June 2, 1983

2096

629

AN ACT relating to regulation of the use of land; providing a cause of action for damages caused by certain actions taken by a state or local agency upon an application for a permit; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Assembly Bill No. 345–Assemblymen Getto, Redelsperger, Banner, Bergevin, Marvel, Nicholas, Joerg, Thomas, Sedway, Stone, Beyer, Bogaert, Collins, DuBois, Kerns, Nevin, Bourne, Ham, Zimmer, Francis, Malone, Fay, Bilyeu, Berkley, Bremner, Price, Collins, Dini, Thompson, Humke, Craddock, Kovacs, Coffin, Chaney and Perry. Approved June 2, 1983

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