of Douglas. Facsimile signatures may be used on the coupons. Said bonds shall bear interest in like gold coin at a rate not exceeding six per centum per annum, payable semiannually on the first day of January and the first day of July of each year. They shall be redeemed and retired consecutively in the order of their issuance annually; provided, the various annual maturities shall commence not later than the third year after the date of issue of such bonds, and all such bonds shall be redeemed in installments as fixed and determined by said board at the time of issuance; and provided further, that the said bonds and each of them shall mature and be redeemed at a time not later than twenty years from the date of issue. Subject to the foregoing, said board shall fix the various maturities of the bonds issued.

      Sec. 5.  The said bonds may be issued on the same or different dates. The said board is authorized to issue and negotiate the sale of said bonds from time to time as the said board may deem necessary, to the highest responsible bidders for cash, at a price not less than their par value and accrued interest or at private sale at not less than their par value and accrued interest. The proceeds of such sales shall be placed in a fund to be known as the “Minden Town Bond Fund,” which shall be used only for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act. Payments from said fund shall be made only on warrants drawn on the county treasurer and in payment of obligations contracted under the provisions of this act.

      Sec. 6.  To provide for the payment of the principal and interest on said bonds as the same may become due and payable the board of county commissioners of Douglas County shall levy and collect annually a tax on the assessed value of all property, both real and personal, subject to taxation within the boundaries of said town of Minden until such bonds and the interest thereon shall have been fully paid, sufficient to provide for the payment of the interest on said bonds and to pay and retire, beginning with bond number one and consecutively thereafter, the bonds falling due in each year, until all of said bonds have been redeemed and retired. Such tax shall be levied and collected in the same manner and at the same time as other taxes are assessed and collected and the proceeds thereof shall be kept by the county treasurer in a special fund to be known as the “Minden Town Bond Interest and Redemption Fund.” Said bonds and the interest shall be paid from this fund. Said bonds and the interest thereon shall be a lien upon all property subject to taxation within said town of Minden.

      Sec. 7.  It is further hereby provided and authorized that sufficient available moneys as collected for service from the water users of the town water system of the town of Minden may be transferred from time to time and deposited in the Minden town bond interest and redemption fund as additional revenue for the payment of said bonds and interest.

Rate of interest

Redemption of bonds

Proceeds of sale to go into fund

Tax levy to pay interest and redeem bonds

Proceeds from water system to go into redemption fund

Interest to cease, when

Duties of county treasurer

Legality of bond issue not open to contest

Faith of state pledged

Repeal

In effect

sufficient available moneys as collected for service from the water users of the town water system of the town of Minden may be transferred from time to time and deposited in the Minden town bond interest and redemption fund as additional revenue for the payment of said bonds and interest. If at any time there are sufficient available funds in said Minden town bond interest and redemption fund to legally care for said obligations of the current year, in full or in part, the board of county commissioners shall omit or reduce correspondingly the said tax rate for that year.

      Sec. 8.  No interest shall be allowed or paid on any of the said bonds after they have become due and payable. Any balance remaining in any fund hereby created and provided for, after the accomplishment of the said purposes, shall be converted and transferred into and become a part of the general fund of the town of Minden.

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

      Sec. 10.  When the said bonds and coupons shall have been issued and executed as herein provided, their legality shall not be open to contest by said town or by any person or corporation for or on its behalf, or for any reason whatsoever.

      Sec. 11.  The faith of the State of Nevada is hereby pledged that this act shall not be repealed nor the taxation thereby imposed be omitted until all the bonds and coupons issued hereunder and by virtue hereof shall have been paid in full, as in this act specified. This act shall be in full force and effect on and after its passage and approval, but the board of county commissioners of Douglas County, acting as a town board or otherwise, shall have no authority whatever to issue any bonds under or by virtue of this act after March 1, 1933.

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

      Sec. 13.  This act shall be in full force and effect on its passage and approval.

[Senate Bill No. 134–Senator Bush]

Chap. 190–An Act fixing the compensation of the official reporter of the supreme court of the State of Nevada.

[Approved March 25, 1931]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate

and Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  From and after the passage and approval of this act, the official reporter of the supreme court, in full for his services as court reporter, reporter of decisions and stenographic clerk, shall receive a salary of twenty-seven hundred ($2,700) dollars per annum, payable in equal monthly installments out of the general fund, the same as other state officers are paid.

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

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

Salary of official reporter of supreme court

Repeal

In effect

[Senate Bill No. 135–Senator Dolf]

Chap. 191–An Act for the relief of Nevada stock farm, Inc.

[Approved March 25, 1931]

      Whereas, It appears from the biennial report of the state board of agriculture for the State of Nevada for the years 1929-1930, made to the Honorable F. B. Balzar, governor of the State of Nevada, that the Nevada state agricultural society had, on January first, 1931, a deficit for the years 1929-1930 in the sum of $1,407.15, of which $1,272.15 was due the Nevada stock farm, Inc., and $135 to the Nevada racing commission; and

      Whereas, The Nevada racing commission has assigned its claim for $135 to the Nevada stock farm, Inc.; and

      Whereas, A claim for the total amount of $1,407.15 has been presented to and acted upon by the state board of examiners for the State of Nevada; and

      Whereas, Said claim is a just claim against the State of Nevada, but there is not now available in the Nevada state agricultural society fund any money for the payment of said claim; and

      Whereas, There is rightfully due and owing from the State of Nevada to the Nevada stock farm, Inc., the sum of $1,407.15, which was actually expended at the express direction, on behalf of and for the sole use and benefit of the Nevada state agricultural society; now, therefore,

Relief of Nevada stock farm, Inc.

Appropriation $1,407.15

In effect

direction, on behalf of and for the sole use and benefit of the Nevada state agricultural society; now, therefore,

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate

and Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  That the sum of $1,407.15 is hereby appropriated out of any moneys of the general fund of the state treasury not otherwise specifically appropriated for the payment of the above claim and the state controller is hereby directed to draw his warrant in favor of said Nevada stock farm, Inc., for said amount and the state treasurer is directed to pay the same from said appropriation.

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

Salary of county officers of Clark County

Sheriff

Expenses of sheriff; deputy

County clerk

Assessor

[Senate Bill No. 137–Senator Henderson]

Chap. 192–An Act to amend section 1 of an act entitled “An act fixing the salaries and compensation of the officers and deputy officers of Clark County, and repealing all other acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith,” approved March 3, 1931.

[Approved March 25, 1931]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate

and Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  From and after April 1, 1931, the county officers and deputy county officers of Clark County, Nevada, shall receive the following salaries and compensation, which shall be full compensation for all services rendered.

      The sheriff of Clark County shall receive a salary of twenty-seven hundred dollars ($2,700) per annum, and such commissions as are now allowed by law not to exceed the sum of three hundred ($300) per annum.

      The sheriff shall also receive his actual traveling expenses necessarily incurred in criminal cases when it becomes necessary to travel a greater distance than five miles from the county seat. He shall also receive his actual traveling expenses necessarily incurred in civil cases wherein the county of Clark or the State of Nevada are parties thereto. He shall also be allowed to appoint a chief deputy who shall act as jailer, and who shall receive a salary of twenty-four hundred dollars ($2,400) per annum.

      The county clerk and ex officio clerk of the district court and of the board of county commissioners shall receive a salary of twenty-seven hundred dollars ($2,700) per annum.

      The county assessor shall receive a salary of twenty-seven hundred dollars ($2,700) per annum.

      The district attorney shall receive a salary of three thousand dollars ($3,000) per annum.

      The county treasurer shall receive a salary of twenty-four hundred dollars ($2,400) per annum.

      The county recorder and auditor shall receive the salary of twenty-four hundred dollars ($2,400) per annum.

      The chairman of the board of county commissioners shall receive a salary of twelve hundred dollars ($1,200) per annum, and the other members of the board of county commissioners shall receive a salary of six hundred dollars ($600) per annum. Each commissioner shall be entitled to traveling expenses in the sum of ten cents per mile in traveling to and from the commissioners’ meetings. The chairman of the board of county commissioners, without additional compensation, shall be ex officio purchasing agent of the county with such powers and duties as may be prescribed by the board of county commissioners.

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

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

District attorney

Treasurer

Recorder

County commissioners

Repeal

In effect

[Senate Bill No. 140–Senator Henderson]

Chap. 193–An Act to amend section 15 of an act entitled “An act to establish a state printing office and to create the office of superintendent of state printing,” approved March 11, 1879, as amended, and being section 7479 Nevada Compiled Laws 1929.

[Approved March 25, 1931]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate

and Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 15 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 15.  The journals and appendices of the two houses of the legislature shall be printed, and there shall be 125 copies of the journals and 50 copies of the appendices bound in the same style as those of the 1927 session; and each member of the legislature of which such journals are the record shall be entitled to one copy of the same; that is to say, each senator shall have a copy of the senate and assembly journals and each assemblyman shall have a copy of the senate and assembly journals; and the journal of each house shall be bound separately.

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

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

Journals, 125 copies

Appendix, 50 copies

One copy of each journal to each member of legislature

Repeal

In effect

Prices to be charged for state law books

Repeal

In effect

[Senate Bill No. 141–Senator Henderson]

Chap. 194–An Act in relation to the sale of state law books.

[Approved March 25, 1931]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate

and Assembly, do enact as follows:

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

      For each volume of the Nevada Reports up to and including volume No. 50, $1; for each volume of the Nevada Reports published after volume No. 50, $4; for each volume of Nevada and Sawyer’s Digest (1878), 50 cents; for each volume Compiled Laws of Nevada (1861-1900), $1; Statutes of Nevada up to and including Statutes of 1929, $1; the Statutes of Nevada after 1929, $4; special session laws, fifty cents per volume; for each volume of Constitutional Debates, 1864, $1; for each set consisting of volumes 1 and 2 of Revised Laws of Nevada, 1912, $3; for volume 3, Revised Laws, $1.50.

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

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

Number of bound volumes to be printed

[Senate Bill No. 142–Senator Henderson]

Chap. 195–An Act to amend section 8 of an act entitled “An act to provide for compiling, reporting, printing and distribution of the decisions of the supreme court of the State of Nevada and repealing certain acts in conflict therewith,” approved March 22, 1915, and being section 5219 N. C. L. 1929.

[Approved March 25, 1931]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate

and Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 8 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 8.  The superintendent of printing shall cause to be printed upon good paper and in workmanlike manner 700 copies of each volume of decisions hereafter published, which shall be disposed of as follows: 500 copies shall be bound in buckram and shall be delivered to the secretary of state for the purpose hereinafter specified; and 200 copies shall be stored unbound by the superintendent of state printing subject to the order of the secretary of state.

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

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

Repeal

In effect

[Senate Bill No. 143–Senator Henderson]

Chap. 196–An Act to amend section 14 of an act entitled “An act to establish a state printing office and to create the office of superintendent of state printing,” approved March 11, 1879, as amended, and being section 7478 N. C. L. 1929.

[Approved March 25, 1931]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate

and Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 14 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 14.  There shall be printed of the statutes of each legislature eight hundred copies. Eight hundred copies shall be bound in buckram or law sheep. The bound volumes shall contain the laws, resolutions and memorials passed at each legislative session, stating the number of the bill and the person who introduced same; also the report of the state treasurer, the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of the State of Nevada. No other report or thing whatever shall be bound therewith.

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

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

What statutes to contain; number printed

Repeal

In effect

[Senate Bill No. 49–Senator Coryell]

Chap. 197–An Act to amend sections 4 and 11 of an act entitled “An act to insure the better education of practitioners of dental surgery, and to regulate the practice of dentistry in the State of Nevada, providing penalties for the violation thereof, and to repeal an act now in force relating to the same and known as ‘An act to insure the better education of practitioners of dental surgery, and to regulate the practice of dentistry in the State of Nevada,’ approved March 16, 1895,” as amended.

[Approved March 25, 1931]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate

and Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 4 of the above-entitled act, being section 2333 Nevada Compiled Laws 1929, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

Compensation of board members

Fee of $25 for license to practice

Annual fee, $2; may be reduced or remitted

Certified list of practicing dentists to be filed with county clerks

Disposition of receipts

Repeal

In effect

      Section 4.  Out of the funds coming into the possession of the board, each member of said board may receive as compensation ten ($10) dollars per each day actually spent in attending to the duties of his office, and traveling expenses going to and coming from the meetings of the board. Said expenses shall be paid out of the fund hereinafter provided by this act. The secretary shall receive a compensation of one hundred ($100) dollars per year, said compensation to be paid out of the fund provided by this act.

      Sec. 2.  Section 11 of the above-entitled act, being section 2340 Nevada Compiled Laws 1929, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 11.  Every person applying to the board of dental examiners for a license to practice dentistry shall pay to the board a fee of twenty-five ($25) dollars, which shall in no case be refunded. Every licensed dentist shall, on or before the first day of May of each year, except the one in which he is licensed, pay to the secretary of the board of dental examiners a fee of two ($2) dollars, which shall be paid into a fund to be used in carrying out the provisions of this act. The year for which a fee shall be paid shall begin the July first following the May when it becomes due and end the succeeding June thirtieth. The board may reduce or remit altogether said fee for any year, but such reduction or remission must be made alike to all liable to pay the same. In case any person defaults in paying said fee his license may be revoked by the board of dental examiners on thirty days’ notice in writing from the secretary, unless within said time said fee is paid, together with such penalty, not exceeding ten ($10) dollars, as the board may impose. Upon payment of said fee and penalty the board shall reinstate the delinquent’s license. On or before the first day of July of each year the secretary of the board shall send to the county clerk of each county in the state a certified list of all practicing dentists therein who have paid said fee, and the clerk shall enter or paste the same in the register of dentists. All moneys received under this act shall be held in a fund under the direction of the secretary, out of which shall be paid all orders drawn by the board for such expenses as are provided for in said act.

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

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

[Senate Bill No. 72–Senator Getchell]

Chap. 198–An Act to amend section 17 of chapter IV of “An act concerning public schools, and repealing certain acts relating thereto,” approved March 20, 1911, as amended, being section 5666 Nevada Compiled Laws 1929.

[Approved March 25, 1931]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate

and Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 17 of the above-entitled act, being section 5666 Nevada Compiled Laws 1929, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 17.  (1) All teachers’ certificates and life diplomas shall be granted by the state board of education, and said board shall grant only those classes and grades described in this act; provided, that all teachers’ certificates previously issued by legally constituted authorities shall remain valid for the time and under the conditions of the original issue unless revoked in accordance with law. In case of the renewal of any grammar grade certificate now in force, an elementary certificate of the first grade shall be issued instead of said grammar grade certificate.

      (2) The state board of education may issue certificates to all persons qualified to receive the same; they are hereby authorized to provide for and establish a certification bureau in the department of public instruction, and to provide for the employment of a competent assistant. The state superintendent of public instruction shall be administrator of said certification bureau, without extra compensation.

      (3) The state board is hereby authorized to fix fees for the issuance and renewal of certificates and for the issuance of life diplomas. Fees for issuing duplicate certificates or diplomas shall be the same as for issuing the originals; provided, that in no case shall these fees exceed the maximum fees now set by other states in the group known as the eleven western states.

      (4) The moneys received from fees collected under the provisions of this act shall be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the certification bureau fund and said fees shall be used for the payment of the necessary expenses for conducting said bureau, and all claims against said fund shall be audited by the state superintendent of public instruction and upon his order be allowed and paid for from the certification bureau fund as other claims against the state are allowed and paid.

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

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

Certificates of teachers

Bureau of certification established

Board to fix fees

Proceeds from fees to go into certification bureau fund

Repeal

In effect

Act repealed

[Assembly Bill No. 252–Mr. Noble]

Chap. 199–An Act to repeal an act entitled “An act authorizing, directing and empowering the board of county commissioners of Churchill County, State of Nevada, to issue bonds to provide for aid in the construction of state highways within said county,” approved March 25, 1929.

[Approved March 26, 1931]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate

and Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  That certain act of the legislature of the State of Nevada entitled “An act authorizing, directing and empowering the board of county commissioners of Churchill County, State of Nevada, to issue bonds to provide for aid in the construction of state highways within said county,” approved March 25, 1929, is hereby repealed.

State bond issue for highway purposes

Board of examiners to prepare and issue bonds

Rate of interest

[Assembly Bill No. 155–Messrs. Tobin, Dixon and Kenny]

Chap. 200–An Act authorizing the board of examiners to issue and sell bonds to provide money to pay the cost of constructing certain portions of the state highway system, and providing for the payment of said bonds.

[Approved March 26, 1931]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate

and Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  For the purpose of providing moneys to be used in paying the cost of constructing certain portions of the state highway system, as hereinafter designated, a loan of six hundred thousand dollars ($600,000) is hereby authorized to be negotiated upon the faith and credit of the State of Nevada.

      Sec. 2.  The board of examiners is hereby authorized, empowered and directed to prepare and issue bonds of the State of Nevada in the sum of six hundred thousand dollars ($600,000). Said bonds shall be in denominations of five hundred dollars ($500) each, payable in gold coin of the United States, and shall be numbered serially, and when retired shall be retired in order of issuance. Said bonds shall be signed by the governor and indorsed by the state treasurer and countersigned by the state controller, and authenticated by the great seal of the state. Said bonds shall bear interest at the rate of not to exceed six per cent per annum, payable semiannually, and shall be redeemed within ten years from the date of issuance.

      Sec. 3.  On the first day of July, 1933, and annually thereafter until and including the first day of July, 1935, one hundred of said bonds, together with the interest thereon, shall be paid and redeemed by the State of Nevada, and on the first day of July, 1936, and annually thereafter until and including the first day of July, 1941, one hundred fifty of said bonds, together with the interest thereon, shall be paid and redeemed in like manner.

      Sec. 4.  The said bonds shall be advertised for sale and sold by the said board of examiners for the purposes designated in this act. All moneys derived from the sale of such bonds shall be paid to the state treasurer and by him deposited in the state highway fund.

      Sec. 5.  The said bonds shall be issued, advertised and sold by said board of examiners at such times and in such amounts as may be requested by the board of directors of the department of highways.

      Sec. 6.  For the purpose of creating a fund for the payment of the bonds authorized by this act and the interest thereon, there is hereby levied for each of the years 1931 and 1932 a special ad valorem tax of one and one-half (1 1/2) cents on each one hundred dollars ($100) assessed valuation, including the proceeds of mines, and annually thereafter a special ad valorem tax for such amount as shall be necessary or sufficient to pay interest semiannually as it shall accrue on each and every bond issued under the provisions of this act, and also to pay and discharge the principal of such bond at par value as such bonds respectively fall due; said ad valorem tax shall be levied on the assessed value of all property, both real and personal, including proceeds of mines, within the State of Nevada, until the said bonds with interest shall have been fully paid. Such tax shall be levied and collected in the same manner and at the same time as other taxes are levied and collected, and the proceeds thereof shall be kept by the state treasurer in a special fund to be known as the “Nevada Highway Bond Redemption Fund,” and the respective amounts of such ad valorem tax are hereby appropriated for that specific purpose; provided, however, that any moneys in the “Nevada Highway Bond Redemption Fund” shall first be appropriated and used for the purpose of paying and discharging annually the principal and interest on such bonded indebtedness then due and payable; and provided further, that no such ad valorem tax shall be so levied for any year in which a sufficient amount of money from other sources of revenue has been appropriated and set apart to pay the interest as it shall accrue on said bonds for that year and also to pay and discharge the principal of any of said bonds falling due during such year.

      Sec. 7.  The faith of the State of Nevada is hereby pledged that this act shall not be repealed nor the taxation thereby imposed be omitted until all the bonds and coupons issued under and by virtue thereof shall have been paid in full as in this act provided.

Redemption of bonds

Proceeds of issue to go into state highway fund

Bonds sold as requested by highway department

Tax levy to pay interest and redeem bonds

Faith of state pledged

Surplus of tax money to go into general fund

Proceeds to be used on certain highway routes

pledged that this act shall not be repealed nor the taxation thereby imposed be omitted until all the bonds and coupons issued under and by virtue thereof shall have been paid in full as in this act provided.

      Sec. 8.  Any money collected in any year pursuant to the special ad valorem tax herein provided to be levied which is not used in the payment of the interest and principal of said indebtedness shall be paid into the general fund of the State of Nevada.

      Sec. 9.  The moneys received from the sale of said bonds shall be used solely for the purpose of constructing a portion or portions of each of the following state highway routes, and not otherwise, namely: Route 1a between Fallon and Schurz; route 2a between Leeteville and Carson City; route 5 between Goldfield and Beatty; route 7 between Ely and Glendale; and route 8 between Winnemucca and the Nevada-Oregon state line.

Commission to prescribe standards for measurement of quantity, quality, etc.

[Assembly Bill No. 4–Mr. Frohlich]

Chap. 201–An Act to amend section 13 of an act entitled “An act defining public utilities, providing for the regulation thereof, creating a public service commission, defining its duties and powers, and other matters relating thereto,” approved March 28, 1919.

[Approved March 27, 1931]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate

and Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 13 of that certain act of the legislature of the State of Nevada entitled “An act defining public utilities, providing for the regulation thereof, creating a public service commission, defining its duties and powers, and other matters relating thereto,” approved March 28, 1919, is hereby amended so as to read as follows, to wit:

      Section 13.  The commission may, when necessary, ascertain and prescribe for each kind of public utility adequate, convenient and serviceable standards for the measurement of quality, pressure, voltage or other conditions pertaining to the supply of the product or service rendered by any public utility, and prescribe reasonable regulations for the examination and testing of such products or service and for the measurement thereof. Any consumer, user or party served may have the quality or quantity of the product or the character of any service rendered by any public utility tested upon the payment of fees fixed by the commission, which fees, however, shall be paid by the public utility and repaid to the complaining party if the quality or quantity of the product or the character of the service be found by the commission defective or insufficient in a degree to justify the demand for testing; or the commission may apportion the fees between the parties as justice may require; provided, that it shall be unlawful for any public utility, for any purpose or object whatever, in any city or town containing more than four thousand five hundred inhabitants, to install, operate, or use, within such city or town, any mechanical water meter, or similar mechanical device, to measure the quantity of water delivered to water users; provided further, that nothing in the immediate foregoing proviso shall apply to cities and towns owning and operating municipal water works.

or quantity of the product or the character of the service be found by the commission defective or insufficient in a degree to justify the demand for testing; or the commission may apportion the fees between the parties as justice may require; provided, that it shall be unlawful for any public utility, for any purpose or object whatever, in any city or town containing more than four thousand five hundred inhabitants, to install, operate, or use, within such city or town, any mechanical water meter, or similar mechanical device, to measure the quantity of water delivered to water users; provided further, that nothing in the immediate foregoing proviso shall apply to cities and towns owning and operating municipal water works.

      The commission may, in its discretion, purchase such materials, apparatus and standard measuring instruments for such examination and tests as it may deem necessary. The commission shall have the right and power to enter upon any premises occupied by any public utility for the purpose of making the examination and tests provided for in this act and set up and use on such premises any necessary apparatus and appliances and occupy reasonable space therefor. Any public utility refusing to allow such examination to be made as herein provided shall be subject to the penalties prescribed in section 11 of this act.

      The public service commission of Nevada is authorized and directed to prescribe the standards for the maintenance, use and operation of electric poles, wires, cables and appliances of all public utilities within the state engaged in the business of furnishing electric power, light and energy.

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

Water meters barred in cities of 4,500 or over; exception

Right of entry to premises

Standards for electric utilities

In effect

Words and phrases defined

[Senate Bill No. 59–Senator Heidtman]

Chap. 202–An Act to require the registration of motor vehicles, trailers and semitrailers, and to require the payment of fees thereupon, imposing certain duties and obligations upon the owners of motor vehicles rented without drivers, to provide for the transfer of interest in and to motor vehicles, providing for the registration of manufacturers and dealers in motor vehicles, trailers and semitrailers, regulating the use of motor vehicles by nonresidents, making and constituting county assessors officers of the department and imposing certain duties upon them, creating a “Motor Vehicle Fund,” and providing for the disposition thereof, to prevent the taking or injury of any vehicle without the consent of the owner; to provide for the duties and powers of vehicle commissioner and for the motor vehicle department; to regulate court proceedings in certain civil actions arising under this act; to provide penalties for violations of this act and to make uniform the law relating to the subject matter of this act; and to repeal all acts in conflict or inconsistent therewith.

[Approved March 27, 1931]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate

and Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The following words and phrases when used in this act shall, for the purpose of this act, have the meanings ascribed to them in this section except in those instances where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

      (a) “Vehicle.” Every device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a public highway, excepting devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks. (b) “Motor Vehicle.” Every vehicle as herein defined which is self-propelled. (c) “Motorcycle.” Every motor vehicle designed to travel on not more than three wheels in contact with the ground, except any such vehicle as may be included within the term “tractor” as herein defined. (d) “Truck Tractor.” Every motor vehicle designed and used primarily for drawing other vehicles and not so constructed as to carry a load other than a part of the weight of the vehicle and load so drawn. (e) “Farm Tractor.” Every motor vehicle designed and used primarily as a farm implement for drawing plows, mowing machines and other implements of husbandry. (f) “Road Tractor.” Every motor vehicle designed and used for drawing other vehicles and not so constructed as to carry any load independently or any part of the weight of a vehicle or load so drawn. (g) “Trailer.” Every vehicle without motive power designed to carry property or passengers wholly on its own structure and to be drawn by a motor vehicle.

designed to carry property or passengers wholly on its own structure and to be drawn by a motor vehicle. (h) “Semitrailer.” Every vehicle of the trailer type so designed and used in conjunction with a motor vehicle that some part of its own weight and that of its own load rests upon or is carried by another vehicle. (i) “Specially Constructed Vehicle.” Any vehicle which shall not have been originally constructed under a distinctive name, make, model or type by a generally recognized manufacturer of vehicles. (j) “Essential Parts.” All integral parts and body parts, the removal, alteration or substitution of which will tend to conceal the identity or substantially alter the appearance of the vehicle. (k) “Reconstructed Vehicle.” Any vehicle which shall have been assembled or constructed largely by means of essential parts, new or used, derived from other vehicles or makes of vehicles of various names, models or types, or which, if originally otherwise constructed, shall have been materially altered by the removal of essential parts or by the addition or substitution of essential parts, new or used, derived from other vehicles or makes of vehicles. (l) “Foreign Vehicle.” Every motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer which shall be brought into this state otherwise than in the ordinary course of business by or through a manufacturer or dealer and which shall have not been registered in this state. (m) “Pneumatic Tires.” All tires inflated with compressed air. (n) “Solid Rubber Tires.” Every tire made of rubber other than a pneumatic tire. (o) “Metal Tires.” All tires the surface of which in contact with the highway is wholly or partly of metal or other hard, nonresilient material. (p) “Person.” Every natural person, firm, copartnership, association or corporation. (q) “Owner.” A person having the lawful use or control or the right to the use and control of a vehicle under a lease or otherwise for a period of ten or more successive days. (r) “Legal Owner.” A person who holds the legal title of a vehicle or a mortgage thereon. (s) “Nonresident.” Every person who is not a resident of this state, and who does not use his motor vehicle for a gainful purpose. (t) “Manufacturer.” Every person engaged in the business of manufacturing motor vehicles, trailers or semitrailers. (u) “Dealer.” Every person engaged in the business of buying, selling or exchanging motor vehicles, trailers or semitrailers in this state and having an established place of business in this state. (v) “Highway.” Every way or place of whatever nature open to the use of the public as a matter of right for purposes of vehicular travel. The term “Highway” shall not be deemed to include a roadway or driveway upon grounds owned by private persons, colleges, universities or other institutions. (w) “Department.” The motor vehicle department of the office of secretary of state.

Words and phrases defined

Secretary of state vehicle commissioner

County assessors ex officio officers

Enforcement of act; duties of commissioner

Records open to public

Record of stolen vehicles to be published

Vehicles must be registered

Requirements for registration

vehicle department of the office of secretary of state. (x) “Commissioner.” The secretary of state, who shall ex officio be the executive officer of the motor vehicle department.

      Sec. 2.  (a) The secretary of state is hereby made ex officio vehicle commissioner of this state; and he shall have all the powers and perform such duties as are herein imposed upon the vehicle commissioner.

      (b) The several county assessors of the respective counties shall be ex officio officers of the department and their respective offices shall be the offices thereof. The vehicle commissioner shall maintain an office in the state capitol and its hereby made the duty of the board of capitol commissioners to provide suitable offices for the department.

      Sec. 3.  (a) It shall be the duty of the department and all officers thereof to enforce the provisions of this act.

      (b) The vehicle commissioner is hereby authorized to adopt and enforce such administrative rules and regulations and to designate such agencies as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this act. He shall also provide suitable forms for applications, registration cards, license number plates and all other forms requisite for the purposes of this act, and to prepay all transportation charges thereon.

      Sec. 4.  All registration and license records in the offices of the department shall be public records and open to inspection by the public during business hours.

      Sec. 5.  The department, as often as practicable but at least once each month, shall either publish or post upon public bulletin boards in each of its offices a record of stolen and recovered motor vehicles, and shall furnish copies thereof to the police departments and sheriffs’ offices throughout the state, and to the vehicle commissioner of each state.

      Sec. 6.  (a) Every owner of a motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer intended to be operated upon any highway in this state shall, before the same can be operated, apply to the department for and obtain the registration thereof.

      (b) Application for the registration of a vehicle herein required to be registered shall be made in the office of the department, located in the county within the State of Nevada of which the owner shall be a resident, upon the appropriate form furnished by the department and shall be signed by the owner and contain his residence address and a brief description of the vehicle to be registered, including the name of the maker, the engine and serial number, whether new or used, and the last license number if known and the state in which issued and, upon the registration of a new vehicle, the date of sale by the manufacturer or dealer to the person first operating such vehicle. The application shall contain such other information as may be required by the department.

shall contain such other information as may be required by the department.

      (c) In the event that the vehicle to be registered shall be a specially constructed, reconstructed or foreign vehicle, such fact shall be stated in the application, and with reference to every foreign vehicle which has been registered theretofore outside of this state, the owner shall exhibit to the department the certificate of title and registration card or other evidence of such former registration as may be in the applicant’s possession or control or such other evidence as will satisfy the department that the applicant is the lawful owner or possessor of the vehicle.

      (d) In the event that the owner of a motor vehicle for which registration is applied rents or intends to rent such motor vehicle without a driver, either on a single occasion or regularly, such fact shall be stated in the application and the department shall not register such vehicle until and unless the owner shall agree to carry insurance or cause insurance to be carried as provided in section 20 of this act, or if the owner fail to make such agreement until and unless the owner shall demonstrate to the department his financial ability to respond to damages as follows:

      (1) If he apply for registration of one motor vehicle, in the sum of at least five thousand dollars for any one person injured or killed and in the sum of ten thousand dollars for any number more than one injured or killed in any one accident.

      (2) If he apply for the registration of more than one motor vehicle, then in the foregoing sums for one motor vehicle and five thousand dollars additional for each motor vehicle in excess of one; but it shall be sufficient for the owner to demonstrate his ability to respond in damages in the sum of one hundred thousand dollars for any number of motor vehicles.

      The department shall cancel the registration of any motor vehicle rented without a driver whenever the department ascertains that the owner has failed or is unable to comply with the requirements of this subdivision (d).

      (e) The provisions of this act requiring the registration of certain vehicles shall not apply to special mobile equipment nor to implements of husbandry temporarily drawn, moved or otherwise propelled upon the highways.

      (f) All motor vehicles owned by the State of Nevada, or by any board, bureau, department, or commission thereof, or any county, city, town or school district in the state shall be exempt from the payment of the license fee thereon. The department shall provide suitable distinguishing plates for said vehicles which shall be provided at cost and shall be displayed on said vehicles in the same manner as provided for privately owned vehicles.

Specially constructed vehicles

Rent service vehicles

Certain exceptions

Public owned vehicles exempt from tax

Proof of ownership may be required

Transfer of ownership in absence of certificate

New motor number may be assigned

Record of registration to be kept

      Applications for such licenses shall be made through the head of the department, board, bureau, commission or school district owning or controlling said vehicles, and no plate or plates shall be issued until a certificate shall have been filed with the department showing that the name of the department, board, bureau, commission or school district, as the case may be, and the words “For Official Use Only” have been permanently and legibly affixed to each side of said vehicle.

      Sec. 7.  (a) It shall be the duty of the department and the officers and deputies thereof to examine and to the best of their ability to determine the genuineness and regularity of every registration and transfer of registration of a vehicle as in this act provided, in order that every certificate issued for a vehicle shall contain true statements of the ownership thereof, and to prevent the registration of a vehicle by any person not entitled thereto, and the department is hereby authorized to require any applicant to furnish such information in addition to that contained in the application as may be necessary to satisfy the department of the truth and regularity of the application.

      (b) Whenever application shall be made to the department for the transfer of registration to a new owner of a vehicle previously registered hereunder and the applicant is unable to present the certificate of registration or ownership previously issued for such vehicle by reason of the same being lost or unlawfully detained by one in possession or the same is otherwise not available, the department is hereby authorized to receive such application and to examine into the circumstances of the case and may require the filing of affidavits or other information, and when the department is satisfied that the applicant is entitled thereto is hereby authorized to transfer the registration of such vehicle and issue new certificates of ownership and registration to the person or persons found to be entitled thereto.

      Sec. 8.  The department is hereby authorized to assign a distinguishing number to the motor in any motor vehicle whenever the motor number thereon shall be destroyed or obliterated, and any motor vehicle to which there shall be assigned a distinguishing motor number as authorized in this section shall be registered under such distinguishing number.

      Sec. 9.  The department shall file each application received and register the vehicle therein described and the owner thereof in suitable books or on index cards as follows:

      (1) Under a distinctive registration number assigned to the vehicle and to the owner thereof hereinafter referred to as the registration number;

      (2) Alphabetically under the name of the owner;

      (3) Numerically under the motor number of the vehicle;

      (4) The department may also register such vehicle under the serial number or otherwise in its discretion.

      Sec. 10.  Upon the registration of a vehicle the department shall issue a certificate of registration to the owner and a certificate of ownership to the legal owner, or both to a person who is both owner and legal owner, which certificates shall meet the following requirements:

      (1) Both the certificate of registration and the certificate of ownership shall contain upon the face thereof the date issued, the registration number assigned to the owner and to the vehicle, the name and address of the owner and legal owner in typewriting, also such description of the registered vehicle including the date first sold by the manufacturer or dealer to the consumer and such other statement of facts as may be determined by the department.

      (2) The reverse side of the certificate of ownership only shall contain forms for notice to the department of a transfer of the title or interest of the owner or legal owner and application for registration by the transferee.

      (3) Whenever a vehicle is first registered hereunder the department shall issue a suitable container with the certificate of registration issued for such vehicle. Every owner upon receipt of a certificate of registration shall place the same in the container furnished therewith and shall securely fasten the same in plain sight within the driver’s compartment of the vehicle for which such certificate is issued, or in the event the vehicle is a motorcycle, a trailer or semitrailer, shall fasten the certificate of registration thereto in plain sight or carry such certificate in the tool bag or other convenient receptacle attached to such vehicle.

      Sec. 11.  The department in registering a vehicle, and upon the payment of the annual license fee as provided for in this act together with the payment of the personal property tax thereon (if such vehicle be subject to taxation in the State of Nevada) basing the assessed value of the vehicle upon the schedule of values contained in the “National Used Car Market Report”; provided, that if the applicant is the owner of real estate and improvements in the county in which the application is made, payment of personal property tax may be deferred if the vehicle so owner is placed forthwith on the real property roll; and provided further, that a fair and equitable adjustment of the assessed value may be made in cases where the applicant has previously secured a license for another vehicle during the same year and has sold such other vehicle, shall issue to the applicant a temporary certificate of registration valid fifteen days only, and not renewable, together with the regular license plates. Upon the approval of the application by the commissioner he shall cause to be issued a certificate of registration and a certificate of ownership as hereinbefore provided for.

What certificate to contain

Fee and taxes must be paid prior to registration; proviso

License plates to be furnished

Form of license plate

Must be attached to vehicle

Registration to be renewed annually

shall cause to be issued a certificate of registration and a certificate of ownership as hereinbefore provided for.

      Sec. 12.  (a) The department shall furnish to every owner whose vehicle shall be registered one number plate for a motorcycle or semitrailer and two number plates for every other motor vehicle and trailer. The commissioner shall have the authority to require the return to the department of all number plates upon termination of the lawful use thereof by the owner under this act.

      (b) Every number plate shall have displayed upon it the registration number assigned to the vehicle and to the owner thereof, also the name of the state, which may be abbreviated, and the year number for which issued, and shall be of sufficient size to be plainly readable from a distance of one hundred feet during daylight.

      (c) The department shall issue for every passenger motor vehicle, rented without a driver, the same type of number plates as the type of plates issued for private passenger vehicles.

      Sec. 13.  (a) Number plates assigned to a trailer and to a motor vehicle other than a motorcycle shall be attached thereto, one in front and the other in the rear. The number plate assigned to a motorcycle or semitrailer shall be attached to the rear thereof. Number plates shall be so displayed during the current registration year.

      (b) Every number plate shall at all times be securely fastened to the vehicle to which it is assigned so as to prevent the plate from swinging and at a height not less than twelve inches from the ground, measuring from the bottom of such plate, in a place and position to be clearly visible, and shall be maintained free from foreign materials and in a condition to be clearly legible.

      Sec. 14.  (a) Every vehicle registration under this act shall expire at midnight on December thirty-first each year and shall be renewed annually upon application by the registered owner by presentation of the certificate of registration for the current year and by the payment of the same fees together with the personal property tax as provided for original registration, and such renewal shall take effect on the first day of January each year. The certificate of registration issued hereunder shall be valid during the registration year only for which it was issued, and the certificate of ownership shall remain valid until canceled by the department upon a transfer of any interest shown therein and need not be renewed annually. Upon annual renewal, whenever the legal owner of a vehicle is other than the registered owner, the department shall notify such legal owner by mail of the registration number assigned to such vehicle for the ensuing year.

      (b) An owner who has made proper application for renewal of registration previous to January first but who has not received the number plates, plate or registration card for the ensuing year shall be entitled to operate or permit the operation of such vehicle upon the highways upon displaying thereon the number plates or plate issued for the preceding year for such time as may be prescribed by the department as it may find necessary for issuance of such new plates or registration card.

      (c) Registration of a motor vehicle for a half-year may be permitted if the applicant file with the department an affidavit showing that the motor vehicle has not in fact been operated on the highways in this state prior to the first day of July.

      (d) No fee shall be required for the month of December for a new car in good faith delivered during that month, and the department shall provide such new cars with a temporary registration placard of a size which will be plainly visible for a distance of one hundred feet during daylight, such placard to be valid only during the month of December.

      Sec. 15.  (a) Upon a transfer of the title of interest of a legal owner or owner in or to a vehicle registered under the provisions of this act as hereinbefore required, the person or persons whose title or interest is to be transferred and the transferee shall write their signatures with pen and ink upon the certificate of ownership issued for such vehicle, together with the address of the transferee, in the appropriate spaces provided upon the reverse of said certificate.

      (b) Within ten days thereafter the transferee shall forward both the certificate of ownership so indorsed and the certificate of registration to the department, which shall file the same upon receipt thereof.

      (c) The provisions of subdivision (b) of this section requiring a transferee to forward the certificate of registration to the department shall not apply in the event of the transfer of a vehicle to a dealer intending to resell such vehicle and who operates the same only for demonstration purposes, but every transferee shall, upon transferring his interest or title to another, give notice of such transfer to the department and indorse the certificate of ownership as herein provided and deliver the certificate of ownership to the new legal owner and the certificate of registration to the new owner.

      (d) The department upon receipt of the certificate of ownership properly indorsed as required herein and the certificate of registration of such vehicle shall register such vehicle as hereinbefore provided with reference to an original registration, and shall issue to the owner and legal owner entitled thereto, by reason of such transfer, a new certificate of registration and certificate of ownership, respectively, in the manner and form hereinbefore provided for original registration.

May operate pending receipt of plates

Half-year registration

No fee for December

Procedure for transfer of title

Registration to expire under certain conditions

Dealers’ licenses

of registration and certificate of ownership, respectively, in the manner and form hereinbefore provided for original registration.

      (e) In the event of the transfer by operation of law of the title or interest of an owner in and to a vehicle as upon inheritance, devise or bequest, order in bankruptcy or insolvency, execution sale, repossession upon default in performing the terms of a lease or executory sales contract, or otherwise, the registration thereof shall expire and the vehicle shall not be operated upon the highways until and unless the person entitled thereto shall apply for and obtain the registration thereof, except that an administrator, executor, trustee or other representative of the owner, or a sheriff or other officer, or any person repossessing the vehicle under the terms of a conditional sales contract, lease, chattel mortgage, or other security agreement, or the assignee or legal representative of any such person may operate or cause to be operated any vehicle upon the highways for a distance of not exceeding seventy-five miles from the place of repossession or place where formerly kept by the owner to a garage, warehouse or other place of keeping or storage, either upon displaying upon such vehicle the number plates issued to the former owner or without number plates attached thereto but under written permission first obtained from the department or the local police authorities having jurisdiction over such highways, and upon displaying in plain sight a placard bearing the name and address of the person authorizing and directing such movement and plainly readable from a distance of one hundred feet during daylight.

      Sec. 16.  (a) A manufacturer of or dealer in motor vehicles, trailers or semitrailers having an established place of business in this state, owning any such new or used vehicles and operating them upon the public highways exclusively for the purpose of testing, demonstrating or selling the same, in lieu of registering each such vehicle, may make application upon an official blank provided for that purpose to the department for a general distinguishing number or symbol; provided, that vehicles ordinarily used by the dealer or manufacturer in the conduct of his business as work or service vehicles must be registered the same as any other like vehicle as provided in section 6 of this act.

      (b) The application shall be upon a blank to be furnished by the department, and the applicant shall furnish such proof as the department may deem necessary that the applicant is a manufacturer or dealer, and entitled to register vehicles under the provisions of this section. The department, upon receipt of such application and when satisfied that the applicant is entitled thereto, shall issue to the applicant a certificate of registration containing the latter’s name and business address and the general distinguishing number or symbol assigned to him in such form and containing such further information as the department may determine, and every vehicle owned or controlled by such manufacturer or dealer, and permitted to be registered under a general distinguishing number, while being operated for the purpose of testing, demonstrating or selling the same, shall be regarded as registered hereunder.

business address and the general distinguishing number or symbol assigned to him in such form and containing such further information as the department may determine, and every vehicle owned or controlled by such manufacturer or dealer, and permitted to be registered under a general distinguishing number, while being operated for the purpose of testing, demonstrating or selling the same, shall be regarded as registered hereunder.

      (c) The department shall also, upon receipt of such application, furnish to the manufacturer or dealer one or more pair of automobile plates or single plates for other vehicles registered by the applicant, and every such plate shall have displayed upon it the registration number which is assigned to the applicant, and may at the discretion of the department have a different letter or symbol on each pair of automobile plates and on each single plate for other vehicles.

      (d) No such manufacturer or dealer shall operate any motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer owned or controlled by him upon any public highway or permit it to be so operated, unless number plates assigned to him are attached thereto in the manner hereinbefore specified in this act, excepting only that it shall be permissible for such manufacturer or dealer to operate any such new vehicles without plates attached thereto from any railroad depot or warehouse or other place of storage.

      (e) The department may, at its discretion, grant a temporary permit to operate a vehicle for which registration has been applied.

      Sec. 17.  (a) A nonresident owner, except as otherwise provided in this section, owning any foreign vehicle which has been duly registered for the current year in the state, country or other place of which the owner is a resident and which at all times when operated in this state has displayed upon it the number plate or plates issued for such vehicle in the place of residence of such owner, may operate or permit the operation of such vehicle within this state without the payment of any fees to the state; provided, that the nonresident owner of such vehicle shall, within five days after commencing to operate or causing or permitting it to be operated within this state, apply to the department, or a duly appointed assistant, for the registration thereof on an appropriate official form, stating therein the name and home address of the owner and the temporary address, if any, of the owner while within this state, the registration number of said vehicle assigned thereto in the state or country in which the owner is a resident, together with such description of the motor vehicle as may be called for in the form, and such other declaration of facts as may be required by the department.

      (b) A nonresident owner of a foreign vehicle operated or designed to be operated within this state for the transportation of persons or property for compensation or for the transportation of merchandise shall within twenty-four hours after entering the state register such vehicle with the department or an officer thereof, making application for permission to operate such foreign vehicle within the state for a period of not more than five consecutive days, which permission shall be granted by the department or an officer thereof for such limited period of not to exceed five consecutive days in one calendar year without the payment of any fees to the state.

Dealers’ licenses

Operation of vehicles by nonresidents

Operation of vehicles by nonresidents

Lost plates or certificate may be duplicated

Procedure in case of theft or embezzlement

designed to be operated within this state for the transportation of persons or property for compensation or for the transportation of merchandise shall within twenty-four hours after entering the state register such vehicle with the department or an officer thereof, making application for permission to operate such foreign vehicle within the state for a period of not more than five consecutive days, which permission shall be granted by the department or an officer thereof for such limited period of not to exceed five consecutive days in one calendar year without the payment of any fees to the state.

      (c) The department, the officers thereof, or a duly appointed assistant thereof, shall file each application received under the provisions of subdivision (a) of this section and register the vehicle therein described and the owner thereof in suitable books or on index cards and shall issue without charge to the nonresident owner a registration certificate of a distinctive form containing the date it is issued, a brief description of the vehicle and a statement that the owner has procured registration of such motor vehicle as a nonresident. The department shall also issue a sticker of a distinctive form and color which shall be carried on the lower right-hand corner of the windshield of the vehicle so registered.

      (d) No nonresident owner of a motor vehicle trailer or semitrailer shall operate such vehicle or cause or permit it to be operated upon the public highways of this state either before or while it is registered under this section unless there shall at all times be displayed thereon the registration plates assigned to said vehicle for the current calendar year by the state or country of which such owner is a resident, nor unless the certificate of registration when issued thereto as in this section provided shall be carried in plain sight in or upon said motor vehicle in the manner required of resident owners with respect to registration certificates.

      Sec. 18.  In the event that any number plate or certificate of registration or certificate of ownership shall be lost, mutilated or shall have become illegible, the person to whom the same shall have been issued shall immediately make application for and obtain a duplicate or substitute therefor upon furnishing information of such fact satisfactory to the department and upon payment of the required fees.

      Sec. 19.  Whenever the owner of any motor vehicle trailer or semitrailer which is stolen or embezzled files an affidavit alleging either said fact with the department it shall immediately suspend the registration of or reregister such vehicle until such time as it shall be notified that the owner has recovered such vehicle, but notices given as hereinbefore provided shall be effective only during the current registration year in which given, but if during such year such vehicle is not recovered a new affidavit may be filed with like effect during the ensuing year.

vehicle is not recovered a new affidavit may be filed with like effect during the ensuing year. Every owner who has filed an affidavit of theft or embezzlement must immediately notify the department of the recovery of such vehicle.

      Sec. 20.  (a) The owner of a motor vehicle engaged in the business of renting motor vehicles without drivers, who rents any such vehicle without a driver to another, otherwise than as a part of a bona fide transaction involving the sale of such motor vehicle, permitting the renter to operate the vehicle upon the highways and who does not carry or cause to be carried public liability insurance in an insurance company or companies approved by the insurance commissioner of this state insuring the renter against liability arising out of his negligence in the operation of such rented vehicle in limits of not less that five thousand dollars ($5,000) for any one person injured or killed and ten thousand dollars ($10,000) for any number more than one injured or killed in any one accident, and against liability of the renter for property damage in the limit of not less than one thousand ($1,000) dollars for one accident, shall be jointly and severally liable with the renter for any damages caused by the negligence of the latter in operating the vehicle and for any damages caused by the negligence of any person operating the vehicle by or with the permission of the person so renting the vehicle from the owner, except that the foregoing provisions shall not confer any right of action upon any passenger in any such rented vehicle as against the owner, but nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent the introduction as a defense of contributory negligence to the extent to which such defense is allowed in other cases. Such policy of insurance shall inure to the benefit of any person operating the vehicle by or with the permission of the person so renting the vehicle in the same manner and under the same conditions and to the same extent as to the renter. The insurance policy or policies above referred to need not cover any liability incurred by the renter of any vehicle to any passenger in such vehicle; provided, the owner upon renting any such vehicle without driver to another shall give to the renter a written notice of the fact that such policy or policies do not cover the liability which the renter may incur on account of his negligence in the operation of such vehicle to any passenger in such vehicle.

      When any suit or action is brought against the owner under this section, it shall be the duty of the judge or court before whom the case is pending to cause a preliminary hearing to be had in the absence of the jury for the purpose of determining whether the owner has provided or caused to be provided insurance covering the renter in the limits above mentioned. Whenever it appears that the owner has provided or caused to be provided insurance covering the renter in the sums above mentioned, it shall be the duty of the judge or court to dismiss as to the owner the action brought under this section.

Owner of rent cars must provide public liability insurance

Procedure in case of suit

Certain requirements must be met

Certain record must be kept

Registration may be refused, when

Registration may be rescinded, when

the sums above mentioned, it shall be the duty of the judge or court to dismiss as to the owner the action brought under this section.

      (b) It shall be unlawful for the owner of any motor vehicle engaged in the business of renting motor vehicles without drivers to rent a motor vehicle without a driver, otherwise than as a part of a bona fide transaction involving the sale of such motor vehicle, unless he shall have previously notified the department of the intention to so rent such vehicle and shall have complied with the requirements as to the showing of his financial responsibility as provided in section 6 (d) of this act.

      Sec. 21.  Every person engaged in the business of renting motor vehicles without drivers who shall rent any such vehicle without a driver, otherwise than as a part of a bona fide transaction involving the sale of such motor vehicle, shall maintain a record of the identity of the person to whom the vehicle is rented and the exact time the vehicle is the subject of such rental or in possession of the person renting and having the use of the vehicle, and every such record shall be a public record and open to inspection by any person, and it shall be a misdemeanor for any such owner to fail to make or have in possession or to refuse an inspection of the record required in this section. If the commissioner prescribes a form for the keeping of the record provided for in this section, the owner shall use said form.

      Sec. 22.  The department shall not grant an application for the registration of a vehicle in any of the following events:

      (a) When the applicant therefor is not entitled thereto under the provisions of this act.

      (b) When the applicant has neglected or refused to furnish the department with the information required in the appropriate official form or reasonable additional information required by the department.

      (c) When the fees required therefor by law have not been paid.

      Sec. 23.  (a) The department shall rescind and cancel the registration of any vehicle which the department shall determine as unsafe or unfit to be operated or is not equipped as required by law.

      (b) The department shall rescind and cancel the registration of a vehicle whenever the person to whom the registration card or registration number plates therefor have been issued shall make or permit to be made any unlawful use of the same or permit the use thereof by a person not entitled thereto.

      Sec. 24.  It shall be unlawful for any person to commit any of the following acts:

      First-To operate or for the owner thereof knowingly to permit the operation upon a highway of any motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer which is not registered or which does not have attached thereto and displayed thereon the number of plate or plates assigned thereto by the department for the current registration year, subject to the exemption allowed in sections 15(e), 16 and 17 of this act.

permit the operation upon a highway of any motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer which is not registered or which does not have attached thereto and displayed thereon the number of plate or plates assigned thereto by the department for the current registration year, subject to the exemption allowed in sections 15(e), 16 and 17 of this act.

      Second-To display or cause or permit to be displayed or to have in possession any registration card or registration number plate knowing the same to be fictitious or to have been canceled, revoked, suspended or altered.

      Third-To lend to or knowingly permit the use by one not entitled thereto any registration card or registration number plate issued to the person so lending or permitting the use thereof.

      Fourth-To fail or to refuse to surrender to the department, upon demand, any registration card or registration number plate which has been suspended, canceled or revoked as in this act provided.

      Fifth-To use a false or fictitious name or address in any application for the registration of any vehicle for any renewal or duplicate thereof, or knowingly to make a false statement or knowingly to conceal a material fact or otherwise commit a fraud in any such application.

      Sec. 25.  There shall be paid to the department for the registration of motor vehicles, trailers and semitrailers, fees according to the following schedule.

      (a) For every stock passenger car, twenty-five cents per hundred pounds or major fraction thereof computed on the advertised factory weight, together with one hundred and twenty-five pounds for every passenger for which said vehicle is built to accommodate when loaded to capacity.

      (b) For every reconstructed or specially constructed passenger car, twenty-five cents per hundred pounds or major fraction thereof, said weight to be the actual weight of said vehicle as shown by a public weighmaster’s certificate, and in addition one hundred and twenty-five pounds for every passenger which said vehicle is built to accommodate when loaded to capacity.

      (c) For every motorcycle the sum of five dollars.

      (d) For every truck, trailer or semitrailer, twenty-five cents per hundred pounds or major fraction thereof, said weight of said vehicle as shown by a public weighmaster’s certificate, and in addition the rated load capacity.

      Sec. 26.  There shall be paid to the department for the registration of vehicles permitted by this act to be registered under a general distinguishing number assigned to a manufacturer of or dealer in motor vehicles, in lieu of any other fees specified in this act; and such fees shall be paid at the time application is made for registration and for additional plates according to the following schedule:

Certain acts unlawful

Fees for registration

Fees for dealers’ license

Transfer and duplicate fees

Fee delinquent, when

Penalty

Duties of county assessors

      (a) For the registration of motor vehicles other than motorcycles:

For the first four sets of number plates.......................................................................... $30.00

For each additional set of number plates............................................................................ 2.00

      (b) For the registration of motorcycles:

For the first plate.................................................................................................................... 5.00

For each additional number plate......................................................................................... 1.00

      (c) For the registration of trailers and semitrailers:

For the first plate.................................................................................................................... 5.00

For each additional number plate......................................................................................... 1.00

      Sec. 27.  (a) Upon the transfer of registration of a motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer requiring the writing and issuance of a new certificate of registration and ownership by the department there shall be paid a transfer fee of one dollar.

      (b) Whenever any certificate of registration or ownership or container for a registration certificate or number plate shall be lost or destroyed and a duplicate thereof shall be issued upon application the following fees shall be paid:

For a certificate of registration or ownership................................................................... $0.50

For a container for registration certificate.......................................................................... 0.25

For every number plate.......................................................................................................... 1.00

      Sec. 28.  (a) Whenever any vehicle shall be operated upon the public highways of this state without there having been paid therefor the registration or transfer fee required by this act, such fee shall be deemed delinquent; provided, that in the case of vehicles purchased at a time when it is impossible to secure registration, registered dealers shall be empowered to affix a temporary permit on a form to be provided by the department, attesting to such fact, which shall protect the purchaser of said vehicle for a period not to exceed two days from date of purchase, which date must be legibly affixed to said permit.

      (b) If such registration fee shall not be paid within thirty days after the same becomes delinquent a penalty of three dollars shall be added thereto; and if such transfer fee shall not be paid within thirty days after the same shall become delinquent a penalty equal to the fee shall be added thereto and collected.

      Sec. 29.  (a) The assessor of each and every county of the State of Nevada is hereby made and constituted an officer of the department and charged with the performance of such acts and duties as are hereby delegated to the county assessors under the provisions hereof, as well as other duties as may be delegated to such assessor by the department in connection therewith.

      (b) It shall be the duty of each and every assessor, as an officer of the department, to remit promptly to the department for every hundred registrations issued the full amount collected for licenses and penalties; provided, that remittances must be made at least weekly bearing date of Monday of each week.

collected for licenses and penalties; provided, that remittances must be made at least weekly bearing date of Monday of each week.

      (c) The department shall file with the state controller and the state treasurer during each business day a report of all transactions completed during the preceding business day, involving the collection of moneys under any provision of this act, and shall at the time of filing of such report deposit in the state treasury to the credit of the motor vehicle fund all moneys so reported and collected.

      Sec. 30.  (a) There is hereby created in the state treasury a fund which shall be known as the “Motor Vehicle Fund.” The state treasurer shall deposit all money received by him from the department or otherwise under the provisions of this act in such motor vehicle fund.

      (b) There is hereby appropriated out of such fund the sum of fifty cents for each motor vehicle registered by the department, and out of such appropriation the department shall be required to pay each and every item of expense which may be properly charged against the department, certifying the bills to the board of examiners and paid as are all other state claims.

      (c) In addition to the foregoing the department will at the end of the year certify claims to the board of examiners in favor of each and every county of the state to the amount of fifteen cents for each and every registration issued in that county; the amount to be placed in a special fund by the treasurer; said fund to be applied to the payment of expenses incurred by the assessor in carrying out the provisions of this act, to be paid as all other claims against the county are paid.

      (d) To meet the requirements of the “Nevada Highway Bond Redemption Fund,” as defined by section 6 of an act entitled “An act authorizing the board of examiners to issue and sell bonds to provide money to pay a portion of the cost of constructing a state highway system, and providing for the payment of said bonds,” approved March 28, 1919, and the state controller is hereby authorized and directed to make the necessary transfer.

      (e) When the foregoing requirements have been met the state controller shall transfer at the end of each quarter-year to the state highway fund any balance in the motor vehicle fund.

      Sec. 31.  If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this act is for any reason held to be unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this act. The legislature hereby declares that it would have passed this act and each section, subsection, sentence, clause and phrase hereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared unconstitutional.

“Motor Vehicle Fund” created

Maintenance fund for department

Portion of fees to counties

Certain funds to be transferred

Each section to be construed separately

Unlawful to drive vehicle without consent of owner

Dealing in stolen cars felony

Willful injuring of vehicle misdemeanor

Tampering with vehicle unlawful

Penalties for violation misdemeanor

the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared unconstitutional.

      Sec. 32.  Any person who shall drive a vehicle, not his own, without the consent of the owner thereof, and with intent temporarily to deprive said owner of his possession of such vehicle, without intent to steal the same, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. The consent of the owner of a vehicle to its taking or driving shall not in any case be presumed or implied because of such owner’s consent on a previous occasion to the taking or driving of such vehicle by the same or a different person. Any person who assists in, or is a party to or an accomplice in any such unauthorized taking or driving shall also be guilty of a misdemeanor.

      Sec. 33.  Any person who with intent to procure or pass title to a motor vehicle which he knows or has reason to believe has been stolen shall receive other, or who shall have in his possession any motor vehicle which he knows or has reason to believe has been stolen, and who is not an officer of the law engaged at the time in the performance of his duty as such officer, shall be guilty of a felony and upon conviction shall be punished as provided in section 36 of this act.

      Sec. 34.  Any person who shall individually, or in association with one or more others, willfully break, injure, tamper with or remove any part or parts of any vehicle for the purpose of injuring, defacing or destroying such vehicle, or temporarily or permanently preventing its useful operation, or for any purpose against the will or without the consent of the owner of such vehicle or who shall in any manner willfully or maliciously interfere with or prevent the running or operation of such vehicle, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

      Sec. 35.  Any person who shall without the consent of the owner or person in charge of a vehicle climb into or upon such vehicle with the intent to commit any crime, malicious mischief, or injury thereto, or who while a vehicle is at rest and unattended shall attempt to manipulate any of the levers, starting crank or other starting device, brakes or other mechanism thereof, or to set said vehicle in motion, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, except that the foregoing provisions shall not apply when any such act is done in an emergency in furtherance of public safety or convenience or by or under the direction of an officer in the regulation of traffic or performance of any other official duty.

      Sec. 36.  (a) It shall be unlawful and constitute a misdemeanor for any person to violate any of the provisions of this act unless such violation is by this act or other law of this state declared to be a felony.

      (b) Unless another penalty is in this act or by the laws of this state provided, every person convicted of a misdemeanor for the violation of any provision of this act shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

      Sec. 37.  Any person who shall be convicted of a violation of any of the provisions of this act herein or by the laws of this state declared to constitute a felony shall, unless a different penalty is prescribed herein or by the laws of this state, be punished by imprisonment for a term of not less than one year nor more than five years, or by a fine of not less than five hundred dollars nor more than five thousand dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

      Sec. 38.  This act shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate its general purpose and to make uniform the law of those states which enact it.

      Sec. 39.  All acts or parts of acts in conflict or inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed.

      Sec. 40.  This act shall take effect from and after midnight on the 30th day of November, A. D. 1931.

When violation a felony

Uniform act

Repeal

In effect

[Senate Bill No. 183–Committee on Public Highways]

Chap. 203–An Act to amend sections 25 and 30 of an act entitled “An act to require the registration of motor vehicles, trailers and semitrailers, and to require the payment of fees thereupon, imposing certain duties and obligations upon the owners of motor vehicles rented without drivers, to provide for the transfer of interest in and to motor vehicles, providing for the registration of manufacturers and dealers in motor vehicles, trailers and semitrailers, regulating the use of motor vehicles by nonresidents, making and constituting county assessors officers of the department and imposing certain duties upon them, creating a “Motor Vehicle Fund,” and providing for the disposition thereof, to prevent the taking or injury of any vehicle without the consent of the owner; to provide for the duties and powers of vehicle commissioner and for the motor vehicle department; to regulate court proceedings in certain civil actions arising under this act; to provide penalties for violations of this act and to make uniform the law relating to the subject matter of this act; and to repeal all acts in conflict or inconsistent therewith,” approved March ........, 1931.

[Approved March 27, 1931]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate

and Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 25 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

Fees for registration

“Motor Vehicle Fund” created

Maintenance fund for department

Portion of fees to counties

Certain funds to be transferred

      Section 25.  There shall be paid to the department for the registration of motor vehicles, trailers and semitrailers, fees according to the following schedule:

      (a) For every stock passenger car, thirty cents per hundred pounds or major fraction thereof computed on the advertised factory weight, together with one hundred and twenty-five pounds for every passenger for which said vehicle is built to accommodate when loaded to capacity.

      (b) For every reconstructed or specially constructed passenger car, thirty cents per hundred pounds or major faction thereof, said weight to be the actual weight of said vehicle as shown by a public weighmaster’s certificate, and in addition one hundred and twenty-five pounds for every passenger which said vehicle is built to accommodate when loaded to capacity.

      (c) For every motorcycle the sum of five dollars.

      (d) For every truck, trailer or semitrailer, thirty cents per hundred pounds or major faction thereof, said weight of said vehicle as shown by a public weighmaster’s certificate, and in addition the rated load capacity.

      Sec. 2.  Section 30 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 30.  (a) There is hereby created in the state treasury a fund which shall be known as the “Motor Vehicle Fund.” The state treasurer shall deposit all money received by him from the department or otherwise under the provisions of this act in such motor vehicle fund.

      (b) There is hereby appropriated out of such fund the sum of fifty cents for each motor vehicle registered by the department, and out of such appropriation the department shall be required to pay each and every item of expense which may be properly charged against the department, certifying the bills to the board of examiners and paid as are all other state claims.

      (c) In addition to the foregoing the department will at the end of the year certify claims to the board of examiners in favor of each and every county of the state to the amount of fifteen cents for each and every registration issued in that county; the amount to be placed in a special fund by the treasurer; said fund to be applied to the payment of expenses incurred by the assessor in carrying out the provisions of this act, to be paid as all other claims against the county are paid.

      (d) To meet the requirements of the “Nevada Highway Bond Redemption Fund,” as defined by section 6 of an act entitled “An act authorizing the board of examiners to issue and sell bonds to provide money to pay a portion of the cost of constructing a state highway system, and providing for the payment of said bonds,” approved March 28, 1919, and all subsequent acts relating thereto, the state controller is hereby authorized and directed to make the necessary transfer.

is hereby authorized and directed to make the necessary transfer.

      (e) When the foregoing requirements have been met the state controller shall transfer at the end of each quarter-year to the state highway fund any balance in the motor-vehicle fund.

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

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

Repeal

In effect

[Senate Bill No. 156–Senator Heidtman]

Chap. 204–An Act to amend section 11 of an act entitled “An act to license and regulate insurance business in this state,” approved February 23, 1881, as amended, being section 3550 Nevada Compiled Laws 1929, and by adding thereto a new section to follow section 3558 Nevada Compiled Laws 1929.

[Approved March 27, 1931]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate

and Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 11 of the above-entitled act, being section 3550 N. C. L. 1929, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 11.  Nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent any life insurance company having outstanding policies in this state from appointing agents to collect premiums thereon; provided, such company shall appoint an attorney, as provided in section 8 of this act, and pay five dollars for filing the power of attorney with the controller, and the controller shall issue his certificate authorizing the collection of premiums on outstanding policies only and no requirement of capital herein shall apply to mutual life insurance companies possessing assets amounting to one million dollars or more. If it shall be brought to the attention of the state controller or if written charges be filed with him showing that any agent licensed hereunder has willfully misstated any material fact in his application or that the purpose of applying for such license was to avoid or prevent the operation or enforcement of any antirebate law or any insurance law of this state, or that such agent licensed hereunder conducts his business in a dishonest manner or misrepresents the policies or contracts he sells or misrepresents the policies or contracts of other agents or companies or other insurers, or is incapable, or is conducting his business in such a manner as to cause injury to the public or those dealing with him, or if said agent or other person licensed hereunder obtained his license in an unfair manner or by concealment or misrepresentation, then the state controller shall give notice to such agent licensed hereunder and cite him to appear before the state controller and show cause why his license as an insurance agent should not be suspended or revoked.

Life insurance companies to appoint agents

License of agents may be revoked

Insurance policy must contain certain information

Rebates forbidden

public or those dealing with him, or if said agent or other person licensed hereunder obtained his license in an unfair manner or by concealment or misrepresentation, then the state controller shall give notice to such agent licensed hereunder and cite him to appear before the state controller and show cause why his license as an insurance agent should not be suspended or revoked. If at the hearing of said order to show cause it should appear that said agent or other person licensed hereunder has willfully misstated any material fact in his application to the state controller, or that the purpose in applying for such license was to avoid or prevent the operation of any antirebate law or other insurance law of this state, or that such agent or other person licensed hereunder conducts his business in a dishonest manner or misrepresents the policies or contracts of other agents or companies, or other insurers, or is incapable, or is conducting his business in such a manner as to cause injury to the public or those dealing with him, or that said agent or other person licensed hereunder has obtained his license in an unfair manner or by concealment or misrepresentation, then the controller shall revoke or suspend for a period to be fixed by the controller the license of such agent licensed hereunder, and shall notify the agent or other person licensed hereunder, and the company or other insurer such agent represents, of the revocation or suspension.

      Sec. 2.  The above-entitled act is hereby amended by adding thereto a new section to follow section 19, being section 3558 N. C. L. 1929, which said section shall be known as section 3558 1/2 and shall read as follows:

      Section 3558 1/2.  No insurance company or society or other insurer, nor any agent thereof, shall insure any risk in this state, nor shall any agent or broker assist in arranging any such insurance, the policy or contract for which does not contain a true and correct statement of the premium consideration paid or to be paid therefor, and of the risk covered for such premium consideration; provided, however, that if the insurance be of a character where the exact premium is only determinable upon the termination of the policy or contract, such policy or contract must contain a true and correct statement of the basis and rates upon which the said final premium or consideration is to be determined and paid, and of the risk covered for such premium consideration. No insurance company or society or other insurer, by itself or by any other party, and no agent, or insurance broker, or other person licensed to do business in this state, personally or by any other party, shall offer, promise, allow, give, set off or pay, directly or indirectly, as an inducement to insurance on any risk in this state, now or hereafter to be written, any rebate of or part of the premium payable on the policy or contract of insurance bond, or of the agent’s or broker’s commission thereon; nor shall any such company, or society, or other insurer, agent, or broker, or other person licensed under this title, personally or otherwise, offer, promise, allow, give, set off, or pay, directly or indirectly, as an inducement to such insurance, any earnings, profits, dividends, or other benefits, founded, arising, accruing, or to accrue, on such insurance bond, or therefrom, or any other valuable consideration which is not clearly specified, promised or provided for in the policy or contract of insurance.

or contract of insurance bond, or of the agent’s or broker’s commission thereon; nor shall any such company, or society, or other insurer, agent, or broker, or other person licensed under this title, personally or otherwise, offer, promise, allow, give, set off, or pay, directly or indirectly, as an inducement to such insurance, any earnings, profits, dividends, or other benefits, founded, arising, accruing, or to accrue, on such insurance bond, or therefrom, or any other valuable consideration which is not clearly specified, promised or provided for in the policy or contract of insurance. Any person or party who shall in any other manner knowingly receive or obtain a rebate of premium shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction, be fined not less than ten ($10) dollars nor more than five hundred ($500) dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail for a period of not exceeding three (3) months. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent an insurer issuing policies on a participating plan from returning any portion of the premium as a dividend after the expiration of the term covered by such policy; provided, that a life insurance company issuing policies on a participating plan may return any portion of the premium as a dividend at any time.

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

Penalty

Exceptions

In effect

[Senate Bill No. 120–Senator Molini]

Chap. 205–An Act to amend section 410 of an act entitled “An act to amend an act entitled ‘An act to regulate proceedings in criminal cases in this state, and to repeal all other acts in relation thereto,’ approved March 17, 1911, as amended by act approved March 24, 1913, as amended by act approved March 17, 1915,” being section 11058 Nevada Compiled Laws 1929.

[Approved March 27, 1931]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate

and Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 410 of the above-entitled act, being section 11058 N. C. L. 1929, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 410.  Whenever any person shall be convicted of any felony for which no fixed period of confinement is imposed by law and where a judgment of confinement is rendered, the court shall, in addition to any fine or forfeiture which he may impose, direct that such person be confined in the state prison for an indeterminate term limited only by the minimum and maximum term of imprisonment prescribed by law for the offense of which such person shall be convicted; and where no minimum term of imprisonment is prescribed by law, the court shall fix the minimum term in his discretion at not less than one year nor more than five years, and where no maximum term of imprisonment is prescribed by law, the court shall fix such maximum term of imprisonment.

Indeterminate sentence, how fixed

District attorney to transmit certain statement of facts

Warden to investigate prior record of prisoner

Judge to recommend fixed period of sentence

In effect

confined in the state prison for an indeterminate term limited only by the minimum and maximum term of imprisonment prescribed by law for the offense of which such person shall be convicted; and where no minimum term of imprisonment is prescribed by law, the court shall fix the minimum term in his discretion at not less than one year nor more than five years, and where no maximum term of imprisonment is prescribed by law, the court shall fix such maximum term of imprisonment. Immediately after the rendition of judgment in such case, the district attorney who prosecuted the same shall transmit to the district judge who presided at the trial, to the warden of the state prison and to the secretary of the board of pardons and parole commissioners (upon forms to be supplied by such board), a written statement of facts respecting such convicted person, and the cause in which he was convicted or plead guilty, and shall include in such statement such comments as he may deem pertinent. As soon as possible after the delivery of the prisoner to the penitentiary, and not later than ninety (90) days thereafter, the warden shall transmit to said trial judge, with copy to the secretary of the board of pardons and parole commissioners, a statement setting forth results of investigation of the prior record of said prisoner. Within ten (10) days after the receipt of the warden’s statement said trial judge shall transmit to the secretary of the board of pardons and parole commissioners, with copy to the warden of the state prison, a written statement containing facts and comments pertinent to the case, and he shall therein recommend some fixed period for confinement of the defendant within the limits of the sentence imposed.

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

[Senate Bill No. 122–Senator Bush]

Chap. 206–An Act to amend sections 4, 6, 11, 12 and 16 of an act entitled “An act regulating the practice of medicine, surgery, and obstetrics in the State of Nevada; providing for the appointment of a state board of medical examiners and defining their duties; providing for the issuing of licenses to practice medicine; defining the practice of medicine; defining certain misdemeanors and providing penalties, and repealing all other acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith,” approved March 4, 1905, as amended, Statutes 1923, as amended, Statutes 1929, and being sections 4093, 4095, 4100, 4101 and 4105 Nevada Compiled Laws 1929.

[Approved March 27, 1931]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate

and Assembly, do enact as follows:

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

      Section 4.  The said board shall meet in Carson City, Nevada, on the first Monday in May, 1905, and shall organize by electing from its number a president, vice president, secretary and treasurer, who shall hold their respective positions during the pleasure of the board. Said board shall hold its regular meetings on the first Monday of May and the first Monday of November of each year, at such time and place as shall be most convenient to the said board. Special meetings may be called at such time and place as the board may elect on the call of the president or of not less than three members of the board, a written notice of the time, place and object of such special meeting to be mailed by the secretary of said board to all members thereof not parties to the call at least fifteen days before the date of meeting. At such special meeting so called the board may perform any act or acts authorized at a regular meeting.

      Sec. 2.  Section 6 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 6.  A majority of said board shall constitute a quorum to transact all business. All certificates issued by said board shall bear its seal and the signatures of its president and secretary, and shall authorize the person to whom it is issued to practice medicine in all its branches in this state, upon complying with the requirements of this act. Said board may, in its discretion, accept and register, upon payment of the registration fee and without examination of the applicant, any certificate which shall have been issued to him by the medical examining board of the District of Columbia, or of any state or territory of the United States;

Board to meet and organize

Quorum

Board may accept certificates of other states

Proviso as to reciprocity

Certain persons barred

Compensation of members of board

Powers of board

Certificate filed with recorder

Board may refuse or revoke certificate

provided, however, that the legal requirements of such medical examining board shall have been, at the time of issuing such certificate, in no degree or particular less than those of Nevada at the time when such certificate shall be presented for registration to the board created by this act; and provided further, that the provisions in this paragraph contained shall be held to apply only to such of said medical examining boards as accept and register the certificates granted by this board without examination by them of the ones holding such certificates; and provided further, that no certificate shall be issued to any person who is not a citizen of the United States or declared his intention of becoming a citizen of the United States nor to any person who has not been engaged in the actual practice of his profession continuously for a period of one year prior to the date of filing his application in the State of Nevada.

      Sec. 3.  Section 11 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 11.  Out of the funds coming into the possession of the board, each member of said board may receive as compensation twenty dollars for each day actually spent in attending to the duties of his office and traveling expenses going to and coming from the meetings of the board. Said expenses shall be paid from the fees received by the board under the provisions of this act, and no part of the salary or expenses of the board shall ever be paid out of the general fund of the state treasurer. The secretary shall receive a salary, the amount of which shall be determined by the board. All moneys received by the board shall be paid out on its order for its expenses and the traveling expenses of the members. The board is authorized to prosecute all persons guilty of violation of the provisions of this act and may employ investigators and such other assistants as may be necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this act; provided, however, that any expense so incurred shall not be paid out of the general fund of the state treasury.

      Sec. 4.  Section 12 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 12.  Every person to whom the board shall issue a certificate shall present the same to the county recorder of the county in which he desires to practice, and have the same recorded and pay the usual fees for recording such papers. The board may refuse a certificate to any applicant guilty of unprofessional conduct, and may revoke any certificate for like cause.

      The words “unprofessional conduct,” as used in this act, are declared to mean:

      Obtaining a certificate upon fraudulent credentials, or gross misrepresentation;

      Procuring, or aiding or abetting in procuring, criminal abortion;

      Obtaining a fee on assurance that a manifestly incurable disease can be permanently cured;

      Advertising medical business in which grossly improbable statements are made;

      Any advertising of any medicine or any means whereby the monthly periods of women can be regulated, or menses reestablished if suppressed;

      Willful disobedience of the law, or of the rules and regulations of the state board of health;

      Conviction of any offense involving moral turpitude;

      Habitual intemperance, or excessive use of cocaine, morphine, codeine, opium, heroin, alpha eucaine, beta eucaine, novocaine, or chloral hydrate, or any of the salts, derivatives or compounds of the foregoing substances, or of any other habit-forming drug or substance;

      Violating, or attempting to violate, directly or indirectly, or assisting in or abetting the violation of or conspiring to violate any provision or term of this act;

      Employing directly or indirectly any suspended or unlicensed practitioner in the practice of any system or mode of treating the sick or afflicted or the aiding or abetting any unlicensed person to practice any system or mode of treating the sick or afflicted.

      Said board must refuse a certificate to any person guilty of unprofessional conduct. On the filing with the secretary of a sworn complaint, charging the applicant with having been guilty of unprofessional conduct, the secretary must forthwith issue a citation and make the same returnable at a regular or special meeting of the board to be held at least thirty days next after the filing of the complaint. Such citation shall notify the applicant when and where the charges of said unprofessional conduct will be heard, and that the applicant shall file his written answer under oath within twenty days next after the service on him of said citation, or that default will be taken against him and his application for a certificate refused. Said citation shall be served in accordance with the statutes of this state. If the applicant shall fail to file with the secretary his answer under oath within twenty days after service on him of said citation and the charges on their face shall be deemed sufficient by the board, default shall be entered against him and his application refused. If the charges on their face be deemed sufficient by the board, and issue be joined thereon by answer, the board shall proceed to determine the matter, and to that end shall hear such proper evidence as may be adduced before it, and if it appear to the satisfaction of the board that the applicant is guilty as charged, no certificate shall issue to him.

Grounds for refusal or revocation

Duties of secretary upon filing of complaint charging unprofessional conduct

Proceedings upon complaint

Person charged may be heard

District judge to review findings

      Whenever any holder of a certificate herein provided for is guilty of unprofessional conduct, as the same is defined in this act, and the said unprofessional conduct has been brought to the attention of the board granting such certificate, in the manner hereinabove provided, or whenever a certificate has been procured by fraud or misrepresentation or issued by mistake or that the certificate upon which a reciprocity certificate has been issued was procured by fraud or misrepresentation or issued by mistake, or the person holding such certificate is found to be practicing contrary to the provisions of this act, and a sworn complaint setting forth such facts has been filed with the secretary of the board, proceedings shall then be had as hereinabove provided, and a copy of said charges shall be served as described above on the party, and when such charges as aforesaid have been duly filed by the secretary of the board, the same shall be considered by the board, and if from the sworn statement or from such other official records it is made to appear that such charge or charges may be well-founded in fact, then the board shall cause to be served written notice of such charges on the person charged, and the same shall be served on the person at least twenty days before the date fixed for the hearing or examination. The person charged shall be given a full and fair trial by the board, with the right to be heard and appear in person and by counsel. If after hearing of said charges it appears to the satisfaction of the board that the person charged is guilty, the board shall revoke the certificate so issued. The secretary of the board in all cases of revocation shall enter on his register the fact of such revocation and shall certify the fact to the county recorder of the county in which the certificate of the person whose certificate has been revoked has been recorded; provided, in all cases where a certificate is revoked the decision of the board resulting in such revocation, together with a transcript of the findings, shall be filed with the clerk of the district court of the county in which the certificate to practice has been recorded. Any person whose certificate has been revoked may, within sixty days after filing of said certified copy of said decision and findings, petition said district court to review said decision or to reverse or modify, and upon such review the burden shall be upon the petitioner to show wherein such decision is erroneous or unlawful. When sixty days shall have elapsed after the filing of said decision and findings, if no petition for review has been filed, the judge of the district court shall make its order affirming the decision of the board.

      Sec. 5.  Section 16 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 16.  Any person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished with a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not less than five days nor more than six months in the county jail, or by both fine and imprisonment, who:

of not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not less than five days nor more than six months in the county jail, or by both fine and imprisonment, who:

      1.  Shall within ten days after demand made by the secretary of the board fail to furnish to said board the name and address of all persons practicing or assisting in the practice of medicine, surgery or obstetrics in the office of such person at any time within sixty days prior to said notice, together with a sworn statement showing under and by what license or authority said person or persons are and have been so practicing, but said affidavit shall not be used as evidence against such person in any proceeding under this section; or

      2.  Shall assume to act as a member of a state board of medical examiners, or who shall sign or subscribe or issue or cause to be issued or seal or cause to be sealed a certificate authorizing any person to practice medicine or surgery in this state, except the person so acting and doing shall have been appointed a member of said board of medical examiners as in this act provided; or

      3.  Shall, in an affidavit required of an applicant for examination, license or registration under this act, willfully make a false statement in a material regard.

      Sec. 6.  This act shall become effective from and after its passage and approval.

Certain acts or omissions deemed misdemeanor

In effect

[Senate Bill No. 102–Senator Henderson]

Chap. 207–An Act to amend an act entitled “An act providing for the creation of a state barbers’ health and sanitation board, defining the powers and duties of said board, defining certain terms, prescribing the terms upon which licenses or certificates of registration, health and sanitation may be issued to practitioners of barbering, creating county boards and declaring their powers and duties, prescribing penalties for the violation hereof, repealing all acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith, and other matters relating thereto,” approved March 26, 1929, being sections 760, 763, 764, 765, 771, 772, 773, 775 and 777 N. C. L. 1929, and adding two new sections to be known as sections 17a and 17b.

[Approved March 27, 1931]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate

and Assembly, do enact as follows:

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

Requirements to practice barbering

Powers of board

Examination fee

Certain salaries and expenses to be allowed

      Section 1.  From and after the passage and approval of this act it shall be unlawful for any person in this state to engage in the practice or attempt to practice barbering without a certificate of registration, health and sanitation issued pursuant to the provisions of this act by the board of barber health and sanitation, as hereinafter provided. It shall be unlawful for any owner or manager of any barber shop to employ a barber who has not such a certificate or whose shop does not meet with the sanitary requirements of the board.

      It shall be unlawful for any person to engage in the practice of barbering without a certificate of registration as a registered barber issued pursuant to the provisions of this act by the board of barber examiners hereinafter established.

      It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to serve as an apprentice under a registered barber without a certificate of registration as a registered apprentice issued by said board.

      It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to operate a barber shop unless such shop shall at all times be under the direct supervision and management of a registered barber.

      It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to hire or employ any person to engage in the practice of barbering as hereinafter defined, unless such person then hold a valid, unexpired and unrevoked certificate of registration to practice barbering or a certificate of registration as a registered apprentice, or a permit to practice as a barber, or a permit to work as an apprentice, issued under the provisions of this act.

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

      Section 4.  The state board of barber health and sanitation created under this act shall have authority to make rules and regulations for the administration of the provisions of this act. Said board shall conduct the examinations or delegate same to be conducted by any district administrative board hereinafter provided for, and said board shall prescribe sanitary requirements for barber shops and barber schools and set forth the qualifications and requirements for all barbers, apprentice barbers seeking to carry on the practice of barbering or operating a barber shop, or barber school, within the state. Said board shall annually fix the examination fee which shall not be more than ten ($10) dollars and the annual renewal license fee which shall not be more than five ($5) dollars. The board shall have the power also to fix the salary of the secretary and treasurer of the board, which shall not exceed the sum of six hundred ($600) dollars per year, and to fix the amount to be paid the other two members for each executive meeting in which the other members were in actual attendance, and actual traveling expenses.

in which the other members were in actual attendance, and actual traveling expenses. After the details of organization and the placing of this act in operation regular meetings of the board shall be held not less than four times a year. The board shall also fix the compensation of the members of the district administrative boards, which shall not exceed ten ($10) dollars per month. The board shall issue to those applicants who meet the requirements as set forth in the rules and regulations of the board a certificate of registration, health and sanitation.

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

      Section 5.  Each applicant for a license as a practitioner of barbering shall file an application duly verified by his oath for and examination before the board, which application shall be in such form and shall contain such matters as may be required by the board. Each application must be accompanied by the fees provided by this act.

      Any person is qualified to receive a license as a practitioner of barbering:

      (a) Who is qualified under the provisions of the next section of this act; and

      (b) Who is at least eighteen years of age; and

      (c) Who is of good moral character and temperate habits; and

      (d) Who has practiced as a registered apprentice for a period of eighteen months under the immediate personal supervision of a registered barber; and

      (e) Who has passed a satisfactory examination conducted by the board to determine his fitness to practice as a registered barber who fails to pass a satisfactory examination conducted by the board must continue to practice as an apprentice for an additional three months before he is again entitled to take the examination for a registered barber.

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

      Section 6.  The board shall conduct or cause to be conducted by the district administrative board examinations of applicants for certificates of registration to practice as registered barbers, and of applicants for certificates of registration to practice as registered apprentices, and applicants to enter barber schools to determine their fitness, not less than three times each year at such times and places as the board may determine.

      The examination of applicants for certificates of registration as registered barbers and as registered apprentices shall include both a practical demonstration and a written and oral test, and shall embrace the subjects usually taught in schools of barbering approved by the board.

Application must be filed

Requirements for license

Examinations to be conducted

What to include

Qualifications for registered apprentice

District advisory boards to be appointed

Duties of district boards

Duties of board when adverse action taken on application for or renewal of registration

      Any person is qualified to receive a certificate of registration as a registered apprentice:

      (a) Who is at least sixteen and one-half years of age; and

      (b) Who is of good moral character and temperate habits; and

      (c) Who has graduated from a school of barbering approved by the board; and

      (d) Who has passed a satisfactory examination conducted by the board to determine his fitness to practice as a registered apprentice.

      Any applicant for a certificate of registration to practice as an apprentice who fails to pass a satisfactory examination must complete a further study in a school of barbering approved by the board.

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

      Section 12.  The state board shall district the state and shall appoint district advisory boards consisting of three members, one of whom shall be the county physician and two who are barbers. The barber members of said administrative board shall hold office at the pleasure of the state board of barber health and sanitation.

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

      Section 13.  It shall be the duty of each district administrative board and said board shall have the power to enter barber shops and places where barbering is conducted during business hours for the purpose of making inspections, and it shall have the power to receive and investigate complaints and conduct hearings, make findings and recommendations and forward its report to the state board of barber health and sanitation for action, and the state board may either act upon the report or may take additional evidence or set aside or modify the report and hear the whole case anew, as it may elect. If the state board of barber health and sanitation shall approve of the findings in any case recommending revocation of a certificate, the certificate of registration shall be revoked.

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

      Section 14.  The board shall not refuse to issue, or renew, or suspend, or revoke any certificate of registration to any person for any of the causes referred to in section 15 of this act unless before taking such action the board shall have given written notice thereof to such person stating the specific reason for its adverse action, and such person shall have been granted the opportunity to appear before the board for a public hearing within twenty days from the date of said notice. At such hearing the accused may be represented by counsel.

counsel. The board shall have the power to summon witnesses and to require the production of books, records and papers for the purpose of such hearing. Subpenas shall be issued by the secretary of the board directed to the sheriff of the proper county to be served and returned in the same manner as subpenas in criminal cases. The fees and mileage of the sheriff and of witnesses shall be the same as allowed in criminal cases and shall be paid from the fund of the board as other expenses of the board are paid. If the accused shall prevail at such hearing, the board shall grant him the proper relief without delay. Any investigations, inquiry or hearing thus authorized may be entertained or held by or before member or members of the board and the finding or order of such member or members, when approved and confirmed by the board, shall be deemed the finding or order of the board.

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

      Section 16.  All moneys received by the state board of barber health and sanitation under this act shall be paid to the secretary-treasurer of the board who shall give a receipt for the same and shall report semiannually to the governor the total amount of money received by him on behalf of the board from all sources. Such funds shall be expended in accordance with the provisions of this act for all necessary and proper expenses in carrying out the provisions of this act and upon proper claims approved by said board.

      Sec. 9.  There is hereby added to the above-entitled act a new section to follow section seventeen of the said act, to be known and designated as section 17a, and said section shall read as follows:

      Section 17a.  The board shall elect a president and secretary-treasurer. The secretary-treasurer may or may not be a member of the board. The board shall be furnished with suitable quarters. The board shall adopt and use a common seal for the authentication of its orders and records.

      The secretary-treasurer shall keep a record of all proceedings of the board.

      The secretary-treasurer shall give to the state a bond in the sum of two thousand dollars with sufficient sureties, to be approved by the board, for the faithful performance of his duties. A majority of the board in meeting duly assembled may perform and exercise all the duties and powers devolving upon the board.

      Sec. 10.  There is hereby added to the above-entitled act a new section to follow section seventeen (a) of the said act, to be known and designated as section 17b, and said section shall read as follows:

Powers of board

Disposition of receipts; report to governor

Officers; duties of

Certain acts declared unlawful

Board may prescribe additional regulations

Board to keep record

      Section 17b.  It shall be unlawful:

      (a) For any barber or apprentice to knowingly continue the practice of barbering, or for any student knowingly to continue as a student in any school or college of barbering while such person has infectious, contagious or communicable disease;

      (b) To own, manage, operate or control any barber shop unless continuously hot and cold running water be provided for therein, if possible;

      (c) To own, manage, operate or control any barber school or college or part or portion thereof, whether connected therewith or in a separate building, wherein the practice of barbering as hereinafter defined is engaged in or carried on unless all entrances to the place wherein the practice of barbering is so engaged in or carried on shall display a sign indicating that the work therein is done by students exclusively;

      (d) To own, manage, control or operate any barber shop as hereinbefore defined unless the same display a recognized sign indicating that it is a barber shop, which said sign shall be clearly visible at the main entrance to said shop;

      (e) To use upon one patron a towel that has been used upon another patron unless and until the towel has been relaundered;

      (f) Not to provide the head rest on each chair with a relaundered towel or a sheet of clean paper for each patron;

      (g) Not to place around the patron’s neck a strip of cotton, towel or neckband so that the hair-cloth does not come in contact with the neck or skin of the patron’s body;

      (h) To use in the practice of barbering as hereinbefore defined, any styptic pencils, finger bowls, sponges, lump alum or powder puffs. Possession of a styptic pencil, finger bowl, sponge, lump alum or powder puff in a barber shop is prima facie evidence that the same is being used therein in the practice of barbering;

      (i) To use on any patron any razors, scissors, tweezers, combs, rubber discs or parts of vibrators used on another patron, unless the same be kept in a closed compartment and immersed in boiling water or in a solution of two per cent carbolic acid, or its equivalent, before each such use.

      The state board of barber examiners shall have power to make other rules and regulations and prescribe other sanitary requirements in addition to the foregoing in aid or furtherance of the provisions of this act.

      Any member of said board or its agents or assistants shall have authority to enter into and to inspect any barber shop or school or college at any time during business hours.

      The board shall keep a record of its proceedings relating to the issuance, refusal, renewal, suspension and revocation of certificates of registration. This record shall also contain the name, place of business and residence of each registered barber and registered apprentice and the date and number of his certificate of registration.

the name, place of business and residence of each registered barber and registered apprentice and the date and number of his certificate of registration. This record shall be open to public inspection at all reasonable times.

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

      Section 18.  Any person violating any of the provisions of this act, unless by general law otherwise provided, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five ($25) dollars nor more than two hundred ($200) dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than ten days nor more than ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

      Sec. 12.  This act shall become effective upon its passage and approval.

Penalty for violations of act

In effect

[Senate Bill No. 96–Committee on Judiciary]

Chap. 208–An Act making original contractors upon contracts for all works in this state liable for the wages and fulfillment of the requirements of the Nevada industrial insurance act by subcontractors upon such work, providing penalty for the violation of this act, and other matters properly relating thereto.

[Approved March 27, 1931]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate

and Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  From and after the passage and approval of this act every original contractor making or taking any contract in this state for the erection, construction, alteration or repair of any building or structure, or other work, shall assume and be held liable for the indebtedness for labor incurred by any subcontractor or any contractors acting under, by or for said original contractor in performing any labor, construction or other work included in the subject of the original contract, for labor, and for the requirements imposed by the Nevada industrial insurance act.

      Sec. 2.  It shall be unlawful for any contractor or any other person to fail to comply with the provisions of section 1 of this act, or to attempt to evade the responsibility imposed thereby, or do any other act or thing tending to render nugatory the provisions of this act. Every person violating any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be subject to a fine of not less than twenty-five ($25) dollars nor more than two hundred fifty ($250) dollars for each act, and in addition thereto the district attorney of any county in this state wherein the defendant may reside or be found shall institute civil proceedings against any such original contractor failing to comply with the provisions of this act, in a civil action for the amount of all wages and damage that may be owing or have accrued as a result of the failure of any subcontractor acting under said original contractor, and any property of said original contractor, not exempt by law, shall be subject to attachment and execution for the payment of any judgment that may be recovered in any action under the provisions of this act.

Original contractor liable for certain obligations of subcontractor

Failure to comply with provisions of act misdemeanor; penalty

District attorney to institute civil action

In effect

nor more than two hundred fifty ($250) dollars for each act, and in addition thereto the district attorney of any county in this state wherein the defendant may reside or be found shall institute civil proceedings against any such original contractor failing to comply with the provisions of this act, in a civil action for the amount of all wages and damage that may be owing or have accrued as a result of the failure of any subcontractor acting under said original contractor, and any property of said original contractor, not exempt by law, shall be subject to attachment and execution for the payment of any judgment that may be recovered in any action under the provisions of this act.

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

[Senate Bill No. 86–Committee on Irrigation]

Chap. 209–An Act to amend section 52 of an act entitled “An act to provide a water law for the State of Nevada; providing a system of state control; creating the office of the state engineer and other offices connected with the appropriation, distribution and use of water, prescribing the duties and powers of the state engineer and other officers and fixing their compensation; prescribing the duties of water users and providing penalties for failure to perform such duties; providing for the appointment of water commissioners, defining their duties and fixing their compensation, providing for a fee system, for the certification of records, and an official seal for the state engineer’s office; providing for an appropriation to carry out the provisions of this act; and other matters properly connected therewith, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act, repealing an act to provide for the appropriation, distribution and use of water, and to define and preserve existing water rights, to provide for the appointment of a state engineer, an assistant state engineer, and fixing their compensation, duties and powers, defining the duties of the state board of irrigation, providing for the appointment of water commissioners and defining their duties, approved February 26, 1907; also, repealing an act amendatory of a certain act entitled ‘An act to provide for the appropriation, distribution and use of water, and to define and preserve existing water rights, to provide for the appointment of a state engineer and assistant state engineer, and fixing their compensation, duties and powers, defining the duties of the state board of irrigation, providing for the appointment of water commissioners and defining their duties,’ approved February 26, 1907, and to provide a fee system for the certification of the records of, and an official seal for the state engineer’s office, and other matters relating thereto, approved February 20, 1909,” approved March 22, 1913, as amended by Stats. 1915, 1919 and 1921, being section 7937 Nevada Compiled Laws 1929.

[Approved March 27, 1931]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate

and Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 52 of the above-entitled act, being section 7937 Nevada Compiled Laws 1929, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 52.  There shall be appointed by the governor, on the recommendation of the state engineer, one or more water commissioners for any stream subject to regulation by the state engineer or for each district, who shall receive a salary to be fixed by the state engineer, but not to exceed five ($5) dollars per day and necessary travel expenses while actually employed in the performance of their duties; provided, however, that a sum not to exceed ten ($10) dollars per day may be paid to water commissioners whose duties require special training and experience.

Water commissioners to be appointed

Salary of water commissioners

State engineer to prepare budget

Duties of county commissioners upon receipt of budget

Proceeds of tax to go into state treasury

State board of examiners to approve all bills

to be fixed by the state engineer, but not to exceed five ($5) dollars per day and necessary travel expenses while actually employed in the performance of their duties; provided, however, that a sum not to exceed ten ($10) dollars per day may be paid to water commissioners whose duties require special training and experience. Such water commissioners shall execute the laws prescribed in sections 52 to 58, inclusive, of this act, under the direction of the state engineer. The salary of such water commissioners shall be paid by the State of Nevada out of a fund as hereinafter provided. If the stream system or water district lies in more than one county, such salary and expenses shall be apportioned ratably to the counties, in the proportion the water rights in the county bear to the aggregate rights in the stream system or district. The state engineer shall, between the first Monday of January and the first Monday of April of each year, prepare a budget of the amount of money estimated to be necessary to pay the expenses of the stream system or each water district for the then current year. Said budget shall be prepared and show the following detail: The aggregate amount estimated to be necessary to pay the expenses of said stream system or district; the aggregate water rights in the stream system or district as determined by the state engineer or the court, and the proportion that each claimant’s right bears to the aggregate rights in the stream system or district, and the charge against each water user, which shall be based upon the proportion which his water right bears to the aggregate water rights in the stream system or district; provided, however, that the minimum charge shall be one dollar. Upon receipt of such budget by the board of county commissioners, it shall be their duty to certify the respective charges contained therein to the assessor of the county or counties in which the land or property is situate, and it shall be the duty of such assessor to enter the amount of such charge or charges on the assessment roll against said claimants and the property or acreage served. It shall be the duty of the proper officers of the county to collect such special tax as other special taxes are levied and collected, and such charge shall be a lien upon the property so served, and shall be collected in the same manner as other taxes are collected. The taxes and charges hereinabove provided for, when collected, shall be deposited with the state treasurer of Nevada, in the same manner as other special taxes, in a fund in the state treasury which shall be known as “Water Distribution Funds.” All bills against said fund in the state treasury shall be certified by the state engineer or his assistant, and, when so certified and approved by the state board of examiners the state controller is authorized to draw his warrant therefor against such water distribution funds; provided, that no advances shall be made from a stream system fund that has been depleted until such advances are reimbursable from the proceeds of any tax levies levied against the particular stream system or water district for which any claims are presented.

that has been depleted until such advances are reimbursable from the proceeds of any tax levies levied against the particular stream system or water district for which any claims are presented. Any moneys remaining in the water distribution funds at the end of the current year shall remain in such fund and be available for use in the following year. The state controller shall keep separate accounts of the funds for each stream system or water district received from the various counties within which the stream system or district is located, and shall not draw warrants against a water district fund until he has been notified by the state engineer that assessments have been filed with the county commissioners, as herein required, that will return to the State of Nevada funds advanced by the state out of a fund hereinafter provided.

      It is further provided that the county treasurer of each county, having a balance in his water distribution funds which have been collected or may be collected under the provisions contained in section 52, shall, within 60 days of the passage and approval of this act, forward to the state treasurer all moneys remaining in said county water distribution fund.

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

Duties of state controller

County treasurers to transfer certain balances to state

In effect

[Senate Bill No. 48–Senator Getchell]

Chap. 210–An Act to amend sections 14 and 15 of an act entitled “An act to provide a general highway law for the State of Nevada,” approved March 23, 1917, as amended, and being sections 5337 and 5338 Nevada Compiled Laws 1929.

[Approved March 27, 1931]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate

and Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 14 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 14.  Whenever it shall appear to the state highway engineer that any work or improvements can be done in a more economical or other satisfactory manner than by contract, it shall be discretionary with the state highway engineer, with the unanimous approval of the board of state highway directors, the governor, and the board of county commissioners of the county in which the work is to be performed, to execute such work or improvements himself; otherwise it shall be the duty of the state highway engineer to advertise for bids for such work according to plans and specifications prepared by him. Publication thereof shall be made in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the proposed improvement or construction is to be made, for a period of two weeks in a weekly, semiweekly or triweekly newspaper, or for a period of ten days when in a daily newspaper, and such advertisement shall be published in one or more daily papers of general circulation throughout the state for a period of ten days.

Highway engineer may execute work or improvements

Bids to be advertised

Bidders must meet certain requirements prior to receiving plans and specifications

Disqualified person may request hearing

be made in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the proposed improvement or construction is to be made, for a period of two weeks in a weekly, semiweekly or triweekly newspaper, or for a period of ten days when in a daily newspaper, and such advertisement shall be published in one or more daily papers of general circulation throughout the state for a period of ten days. Such advertisement shall state the place where the bidders may inspect the plans and specifications, the time and place, and which said time shall not be less than fifty days from first day of publication when bids will be received, and the time and place for opening the same. Every bid shall be accompanied by a certified check of the bidder in an amount equal to five per cent of the amount of his bid, said amount to be forfeited to the state highway fund should the bidder to whom the contract is awarded fail to enter into the contract in accordance with his bid and give the bond required within fifteen days after notice of such award. The checks of all unsuccessful bidders shall be returned immediately after the contract is awarded and the bond given.

      The state highway engineer shall, before furnishing any person proposing to bid on any such duly advertised work with the plans and specifications for such work, require from such person a statement, under oath, in the form of answers to questions contained in a standard form of questionnaire and financial statement, which shall include a complete statement of the person’s financial ability and experience in performing public work of a similar nature. Such statements shall be filed with the state highway engineer in ample time to permit the department to verify the information contained therein in advance of furnishing proposal form and plans and specifications to any such person proposing to bid on any such duly advertised public work, in accordance with the department’s rules and regulations, to be adopted as hereinafter provided. Whenever the state highway engineer is not satisfied with the sufficiency of the answers contained in such questionnaire and financial statement he may refuse to furnish such person with plans and specifications and the official proposal forms on any such duly advertised project, and any bid of any person to whom plans and specifications and the official proposal forms have not been issued in accordance herewith must be disregarded, and the certified check of such bidder returned forthwith. Any person who may be disqualified by the state highway engineer, in accordance with the provisions of this section, may request, in writing, a hearing before the state highway engineer and present again his certified check and such further evidence with respect to his financial responsibility, organization, plant and equipment, or experience as might tend to justify, in his opinion, issuance to such person of the plans and specifications for such work.

and specifications for such work. Any such person shall have the further right of appeal from the decision of the state highway engineer to the board of directors of the state highway department; provided, such appeal is made not later than five days prior to the opening of bids on any such project, and if such appeal be sustained by said board such persons shall be admitted to the rights and privileges of all other bidders herein. The state highway engineer by and with the approval of the board of directors shall make such rules and regulations as are necessary to carry out the intent of this section. The work “person” as used in this section shall include individuals, copartnerships, associations, corporations, or joint stock companies and their representatives, trustees, or receivers appointed by any court of competent jurisdiction.

      All bids so submitted shall be received at the office of the department of highways and shall be publicly opened and read at the time stated in the advertisement. The department of highways shall have the right to reject any and all bids if, in the opinion of the department, the bids are unbalanced, or for any good cause. In awarding contract the department of highways shall make the award to the lowest responsible bidder, who has qualified and submitted his proposal in accordance with the procedure in this section provided. The successful bidder shall be required to furnish bond, with sureties, approved by the department of highways in a sum equal to the full or total amount of the contract awarded; two-thirds of such bond to be conditioned that such work under the contract shall be performed in accordance with the plans and specifications and the terms of contract, and one-third of such bond to be conditioned as additional protection for labor, material and supplies furnished upon or used in, upon, or about, or for the performance of said work, and otherwise conditioned as in this act provided, and no party bidding for work shall be accepted as surety on any required bond. When the contract is executed, a copy of the same, including plans and specifications and estimates of cost, shall be filed forthwith in the office of the department of highways and a like copy filed with the clerk of the board of county commissioners of the county in which the work is to be performed.

      Sec. 2.  Section 15 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 15.  The state highway engineer may authorize partial payments at the end of each calendar month, or as soon thereafter as practicable, to any contractor performing any highway improvement or construction as the work progresses. The progress estimates shall be based upon materials in place and labor expended thereon; but not more than ninety per cent of the contract price of any work shall be paid in advance of full completion and acceptance of such improvement or construction; provided, however, that the state highway engineer at any time after fifty per cent of the work has been completed, if he finds that satisfactory progress is being made, may make any of the remaining partial payments in full, based upon said progress estimates.

Right of appeal

“Person” defined

Bids publicly opened

Engineer may authorize partial repayment

Certain percentage of contract price to be retained pending acceptance

In effect

than ninety per cent of the contract price of any work shall be paid in advance of full completion and acceptance of such improvement or construction; provided, however, that the state highway engineer at any time after fifty per cent of the work has been completed, if he finds that satisfactory progress is being made, may make any of the remaining partial payments in full, based upon said progress estimates. The withheld percentage of the contract price of any such work or improvement or construction shall be retained until the same is satisfactorily completed and accepted by the state highway engineer and any authorized representative of the United States government as shall have supervision of other highways within the meaning of this act; provided, that in the event it becomes necessary for the state highway engineer to take over for completion any road contract or contracts, all of the amounts owing the contractor, including the withheld percentage, shall first be applied toward the cost of completion of said contract or contracts; any balance remaining after such completion to be payable to the contractor, or the contractor’s creditors; and provided further, that such retained percentage as may be due any contractor shall be due and payable at the expiration of the thirty-day period as hereinafter provided for filing of creditors’ claims, and such retained percentage shall be due and payable to the contractor without regard to creditors’ claims filed with the state highway department.

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

[Senate Bill No. 73–Senator Getchell]

Chap. 211–An Act to amend sections 1, 2, 3 and 4 of chapter one of “An act concerning public schools, and repealing certain acts relating thereto,” approved March 20, 1911, as amended, being sections 5650, 5651, 5652, 5653 Nevada Compiled Laws 1929, and adding a new section thereto to be known as section 5.

[Approved March 27, 1931]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate

and Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 1 of the above-entitled act, being section 5650 Nevada Compiled Laws 1929, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 1.  The state board of education shall consist of the governor, the state superintendent of public instruction and five lay members, elected one from each of the educational supervision districts of the state.

and five lay members, elected one from each of the educational supervision districts of the state. On July, 1931, the governor shall appoint the five lay members as follows:

      In the odd-numbered educational supervision districts the state board members shall be appointed and hold office until the first Monday in January, 1933, and in the even-numbered educational supervision districts the state board members shall be appointed and hold office until the first Monday in January, 1935.

      At the general election in the fall of 1932, and every four years thereafter, the secretary of state shall provide for the election of the three state board members in the odd-numbered educational supervision districts, and at the general election in the fall of 1934, and every four years thereafter, he shall provide for the election of the state board members in the even-numbered educational supervision districts.

      The elected lay members of the state board of education shall be elected as are other nonpartisan officers and hold office for a period of four years. In case a vacancy occurs in the board the governor shall appoint a member to fill the vacancy for the remainder of the unexpired term.

      Sec. 2.  Section 2 of the above-entitled act, being section 5651 Nevada Compiled Laws 1929, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 2.  The board of education at its first meeting after the appointment of the lay members shall organize by electing one of its members president, to serve during the pleasure of the board. The superintendent of public instruction shall be the secretary of the board and serve without additional salary.

      Sec. 3.  Section 3 of the above-entitled act, being section 5652 Nevada Compiled Laws 1929, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 3.  The state board of education shall meet at the call of the secretary, but shall hold at least two meetings annually at the state capitol, and may hold special meetings at such times and places as the board may direct. The secretary shall call meetings upon the written request of any three members of the board, and the majority of the board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.

      The members of the state board of education shall receive no compensation for their services, but shall be allowed their actual traveling expenses incurred on attending the meetings of the board, which expenses and all other expenses, on the approval of the state superintendent of public instruction, shall be allowed and paid from the state distributive fund as other claims against the state are allowed and paid.

      Sec. 4.  Section 4 of the above-entitled act, being section 5653 Nevada Compiled Laws 1929, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

State board of education; governor to appoint lay members

Board to be elected, how and when

Offices nonpartisan

Organization of board

Time of meeting

Board members allowed expenses

Powers and duties of board

      Section 4.  The powers and duties of the state board of education shall be as follows:

      1.  To adopt rules and regulations not inconsistent with the constitution and the laws of the state for its own government and proper and necessary for the execution of the powers and duties conferred upon it by law; provided, that any change made by the state board of education, by which the scholarship, training or experience required for any certificate or diploma is increased, shall be announced when made, and shall be effective not less than one year from the date when such change is announced.

      2.  To prescribe and cause to be enforced the courses of study for the public schools, such courses to contain in the seventh and eighth grades, among other things, business forms and elementary bookkeeping or some features of industrial work; and in the high-school grades, provision for full commercial work and industrial work suitable for boys and girls; provided, that schools of the first-class may have modified courses of study, subject to the approval of the state board of education.

      3.  To adopt lists of books for district libraries; provided, that boards of trustees in districts of the first-class may make additional adoptions; and provided further, that such books shall not contain or include stories in prose and poetry whose tendency would be to influence the minds of children in the formation of ideals not in harmony with truth and morality.

      4.  To revoke or suspend for immoral or unprofessional conduct, evident unfitness for teaching, or persistent defiance of and refusal to obey the laws of the state, or the rules and regulations of the state board, or of the state superintendent defining and governing the duties of teachers, any state diploma or any state certificate.

      5.  To have done by the state printer any printing required by the state board, such as state courses of study, the proceedings of the teachers’ institutes, blank forms, and such other matter as the state board may require; provided, that textbooks are not included in such courses of study.

      6.  To adopt and use in authentication of its acts an official seal.

      7.  To keep a record of its proceedings, which shall be published biennially in the report of the superintendent of public instruction.

      8.  To publish as the official organ of the department of education, a bulletin, which bulletin shall be printed in the state printing office.

[Senate Bill No. 60–Senator Getchell]

Chap. 212–An Act providing for the registering of public works contractors, and defining the term “public works contractors,” providing the method of obtaining licenses to engage in the business of public works contracting, and fixing the fees for such licenses; providing the method of suspensions and cancellation of such licenses; and prescribing the punishment for violation of the provisions of this act.

[Approved March 27, 1931]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate

and Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  From and after the passage of this act it shall be unlawful for any person, firm, copartnership, corporation, association or other organization, or any combination of any thereof, to engage in the business or act in the capacity of a public works contractor as herein defined within this state without having a license therefor as herein provided.

      Sec. 2.  A public works contractor within the meaning of this act is herein defined to be any person, firm, copartnership, corporation, association or other organization, or any combination of any thereof, who submits a proposal for or who enters into a contract with the State of Nevada or any board, commission or department thereof, or with any board of county commissioners of any county, or any city council of any incorporated municipality, or with any other public board, commission, or otherwise, charged with the letting of public works construction contracts, or who proposes or undertakes any other public works construction within the confines of this state, wherein the total value of such proposal or contract exceeds the value of ten thousand dollars; provided, that the term “public works constructor” shall also include any subcontractor who performs any part of any public works construction contract as in this section provided where the amount of such subcontract exceeds the sum last above mentioned.

      Sec. 3.  The state controller of the State of Nevada is hereby constituted a registrar for the purposes of this act, and is empowered to employ such assistants and procure such equipment and records as may be necessary to carry out its provisions.

      Sec. 4.  To obtain a license under this act the applicant shall submit, on such forms as the registrar shall prescribe, a duly verified application, which shall contain a statement of the applicant’s experience and qualifications as a public works contractor, the value and character of public works theretofore completed and for whom performed, together with such other information as may be required by the registrar under such rules and regulations as may be adopted by the registrar and which will assist the registrar in determining the applicant’s fitness to act in the capacity of a public works contractor as defined in this act; and containing the statement that the applicant desires the issuance of a license under the terms of this act.

Public works contractor must be licensed

Public works contractor defined

State controller to be registrar

Procedure to secure license

Fee for license; renewal

Registrar to issue license

Expiration of license

Registrar to maintain index for public inspection

with such other information as may be required by the registrar under such rules and regulations as may be adopted by the registrar and which will assist the registrar in determining the applicant’s fitness to act in the capacity of a public works contractor as defined in this act; and containing the statement that the applicant desires the issuance of a license under the terms of this act.

      Each such first application of any person, firm, copartnership, corporation, association or other organization, or any combination of any thereof, desiring to be licensed in accordance with the provisions of this act, shall be accompanied by a fee of $200, and upon the issuance of the license as herein provided shall entitle the licensee to act as a public works contractor until the expiration of the then current fiscal year. Said license may be renewed for the full term of each subsequent fiscal year by the proper filing with the registrar of an application therefor on or before June 30 of each year, accompanied by a renewal fee of $100. Any license which has not been renewed in accordance with this section shall be considered as having expired and the applicant may only secure a new license in accordance with the manner in this section provided for an original first application. The fees received under this act shall be deposited in the contractor’s license fund, which fund is hereby created. All of said fees shall be used for the sole purpose of administration and enforcement of this act, and all moneys in said fund are hereby appropriated for this purpose.

      Sec. 5.  Upon receipt of said application and of said fee, it shall be the duty of the registrar forthwith and within ten days to issue a license to the applicant permitting him to engage in business as a public works contractor under the terms of this act. The license issued under this act shall be signed by the licensee, shall be nontransferable and shall at all times be displayed in the licensee’s main office or principal place of business.

      Sec. 6.  All licenses issued under the provisions of this act shall lapse and expire on the 30th day of June next following the date thereof. An application duly made on the prescribed form by one entitled to a license, accompanied by the license or renewal fee and filed with the registrar, shall authorize operations as a public works contractor by such applicant pending actual issuance of such license.

      Sec. 7.  The registrar shall maintain in his office at Carson City, open to public instruction during office hours, a complete indexed record of all applications and all licenses issued and all renewed licenses under this act, and of all terminations, cancellations and suspensions thereof; and shall furnish a certified copy of any license issued, or of the cancellations or suspensions thereof, upon receipt of the sum of one dollar, and such certified copy shall be received in all courts and elsewhere as prima facie evidence of the facts stated therein.

in all courts and elsewhere as prima facie evidence of the facts stated therein.

      Sec. 8.  Any person, firm, corporation, association or other organization may file a duly verified complaint with the registrar charging that the licensee is guilty of one or more of the following acts or omissions:

      (1) Abandonment of any contract without legal excuse;

      (2) Diversion of funds or property received under express agreement for prosecution or completion of a specific contract under this act, or for a specified purpose in the prosecution or completion of any contract, and their application or use for any other contract, obligation or purpose with intent to defraud or deceive creditors or the owner;

      (3) The doing of any willful fraudulent act by the licensee as a public works contractor in consequence of which another is substantially injured.

      On the filing of such complaint the registrar shall investigate the charge and within sixty days after the filing of such complaint shall render and file his decision with his reasons therefor. If the registrar’s decision be that the licensee has been guilty of any of such acts or omissions, he shall suspend the public works contractor’s license. At any time within twenty days thereafter the complainant or the public works contractor may petition the registrar for a rehearing. In his order granting or denying such rehearing, the registrar shall set forth a statement of the particular grounds and reasons for his actions on such petition and shall mail a copy of such order to the parties who have appeared in support of or in opposition to the petition for rehearing. If a rehearing be granted, the registrar shall set the matter for further hearing on due notice to the parties, and within thirty days after submission of the matter serve his decision after rehearing in like manner as an original decision.

      The filing of such petition for rehearing as to the registrar’s actions in suspending or canceling such license shall suspend the operation of such action and permit the licensee to continue to do business as a public works contractor pending final determination of the controversy.

      Within thirty days after denial of rehearing or after decision on rehearing, any party aggrieved by such decision of the registrar may appeal therefrom to the district court in and for the county in which the licensee under this act resides or does business as a public works contractor, by serving upon the registrar a notice of such appeal. Upon the hearing of such appeal, the burden of proof shall lie upon the appellant, and the district court shall receive and consider any pertinent evidence, whether oral or documentary, concerning the matters in controversy.

Complaints to be filed with registrar

Duties of registrar; may suspend license

Rehearing

Licensee may appeal to district court

License may be restored

Penalties for violation of act

Each section to be construed separately

Repeal

In effect

      If the district court shall determine that the public works contractor’s license should be suspended or canceled, it shall by its judgment suspend or cancel such license.

      Sec. 9.  After suspension of a license the registrar shall restore the same upon proof of the compliance by the public works contractor with any provisions of the judgment in that behalf, or in the absence of such judgment or any provisions therein as to restoration, in the sound discretion of the registrar. After cancellation of a license such licensee shall not be relicensed within a period of one year after final determination of cancellation and then only on proper showing that all loss caused by the act or omission for which the license was canceled has been fully satisfied.

      Sec. 10.  Any person, firm, copartnership, corporation, association or other organization acting in the capacity of contractor within the meaning of this act, without a license as herein provided, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction thereof, if a person, be punished by a fine of not to exceed five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a term not to exceed six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. The same penalties shall apply, upon conviction, to any member of a copartnership, or to any construction, managing or directing officer of any corporation or other organization consenting to, participating in, or aiding or abetting any such violation of this act.

      Sec. 11.  If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this act is for any reason held to be unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this act. The legislature hereby declares that it would have passed this act and each section, subsection, sentence, clause and phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared unconstitutional.

      Sec. 12.  All laws, or parts of laws, in conflict with the provisions of this act shall be, and the same are, hereby repealed.

      Sec. 13.  This act shall become effective immediately upon its passage and approval.

[Senate Bill No. 110–Senator Friedhoff]

Chap. 213–An Act to amend an act entitled “An act relating to the compensation of injured workmen in the industries of this state and the compensation to their dependents where such injuries result in death, creating an industrial insurance commission, providing for the creation and disbursement of funds for the compensation and care of workmen injured in the course of employment, and defining and regulating the liability of employers to their employees; and repealing all acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act,” commonly known as the Nevada industrial insurance act.

[Approved March 27, 1931]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate

and Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 40 of said act is amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 40.  (a) The premiums, contributions, penalties, properties, or securities paid, collected or acquired by operation of this act shall constitute a fund to be known as the “State Insurance Fund.” All disbursements from the state insurance fund shall be paid by the state treasurer upon warrants or vouchers of the Nevada industrial commission authorized and signed by any two members of the commission. The state treasurer shall be liable on his official bond for the faithful performance of his duty as custodian of the state insurance fund. The State of Nevada shall not be liable for the payment of any compensation or any salaries or expenses in the administration of this act save and except from the state insurance fund, but shall be responsible for the safety and preservation of the state insurance fund.

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

State insurance fund

Investment of funds

Attorney-general to give opinion

State treasurer to collect interest on investments

Portion of fund may be deposited in state banks

Commission members to give bond

district, or irrigation district or drainage district under which such bonds are issued.

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

      (c) The state treasurer may, upon written authority of the Nevada industrial commission, approved by the governor, deposit twenty-five (25%) per cent of said fund in a bank or banks in the State of Nevada, fifteen (15%) per cent thereof to be deposited in open accounts bearing interest at not less than three (3%) per cent per annum, and ten (10%) per cent thereof to be deposited in time accounts, bearing interest at not less than four (4%) per cent per annum; provided, however, that such bank or banks in which deposits may be made shall give to the Nevada industrial commission a good and sufficient deposit bond guaranteeing said Nevada industrial commission against any loss of said deposits by reason of the failure, suspension or otherwise of said bank. Interest earned by such portion of the state insurance fund which may be deposited in any bank or banks, as herein provided, shall be placed to the credit of the state insurance fund.

      (d) Each member of the commission, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall give a good and sufficient bond running to the State of Nevada, and shall take the oath prescribed by the constitution, in the penal sum of ten thousand dollars, conditioned that he shall fully discharge the duties of his office; said bonds shall be signed by a surety company duly authorized to do business in this state, or by two or more individuals as surety or sureties; shall be subject to approval by the governor, and shall then be filed with the secretary of state. If surety company bonds be furnished, the premium therefor shall be paid out of the state insurance fund as other expenses of the commission are paid.

      (e) The commission shall have a seal upon which shall be inscribed the words “Nevada Industrial Commission-State of Nevada.”

of Nevada.” Its seal shall be fixed to all orders, proceedings, and copies thereof, and to such other instruments as the commission may direct. All courts shall take judicial notice of such seal, and any copy of any record or proceeding of the commission certified under such seal shall be received in all courts as evidence of the original thereof.

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

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

Seal for commission

Reinsurance provided for

In effect

[Senate Bill No. 139–Senator Miller]

Chap. 214–An Act authorizing the county commissioners of Mineral County, Nevada, to issue bonds for the purpose of constructing, installing and providing for waterworks mains for the town of Mina in said county, providing for the levy and collection of taxes for the payment thereof, providing for a board to carry out the provisions of this act, and other matters relating thereto.

[Approved March 27, 1931]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate

and Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  The board of county commissioners of the county of Mineral is authorized and directed to prepare, issue, and sell negotiable coupon bonds of the town of Mina in said county for an amount not exceeding ten thousand ($10,000) dollars, exclusive of interest, for the purpose of providing funds for the acquisition of certain public utilities for the town of Mina, to wit, a sewerage and watermain system. Said bonds shall be named “Town of Mina Watermain Bonds.”

      Sec. 2.  Said bonds shall be prepared in denominations of five hundred ($500) dollars and shall be numbered consecutively. They shall be made payable in gold coin of the United States and they shall have interest coupons attached in such manner that they can be removed upon the payment of the installments of the interest without injury to the bonds. Each coupon shall be consecutively numbered and shall bear the number of the bond to which it is attached. Said bonds and coupons shall be signed by the chairman of the board of county commissioners, and countersigned by the clerk of said board. Lithographed facsimile signatures may be used on the coupons. Said bonds shall bear interest in like gold coin at a rate not exceeding six per centum per annum, payable annually, on the first Monday in July. They shall be redeemed and retired consecutively in the order of their issuance annually beginning January 1, 1933, according to the time specified therein from the date of their issue, respectively, and in no case shall any bond run for a longer period than fifteen years.

$10,000 bond issue for Mina, Mineral County

Denomination of bonds

Rate of interest

County commissioners to negotiate sale of bonds

Proceeds to go into fund

Governor to appoint board to administer act

Tax levy to pay interest and redeem bonds

and retired consecutively in the order of their issuance annually beginning January 1, 1933, according to the time specified therein from the date of their issue, respectively, and in no case shall any bond run for a longer period than fifteen years.

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

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

      Sec. 4a.  Upon the passage of this act the governor of the State of Nevada shall appoint a board to be known as the Mina town board, whose duty it shall be to carry out the provisions of this act in the matter of the acquisition, installment, management and control of the system provided for in the appropriation made by this act. Said board shall consist of three members and appointment made by the governor shall be until the general election in 1932, at which time, and biennially thereafter, at said election in the same manner as other officers are elected, three members who shall hold office for the period of two years or until their successors are elected and qualified.

      Sec. 5.  To provide for the payment of said bonds and the interest thereon the board of county commissioners shall levy and collect annually a special tax on the assessed value of all property, both real and personal, subject to taxation, including proceeds of mines, within the boundaries of the town of Mina, Mineral County, until such bonds and interest thereon shall have been fully paid, sufficient to pay the interest on said bonds and to pay and retire, beginning with the bond number one, and consecutively thereafter, one of said bonds annually, beginning with the first Monday in January, 1933, after said bonds are issued, until all of said bonds have been redeemed and retired. Such tax shall be levied and collected in the same manner and at the same time as other taxes are assessed and collected, and the proceeds thereof shall be kept by the county treasurer in a special fund to be known as the “Town of Mina Watermain Bond Interest and Redemption Fund.” Said bonds and interest shall be paid from this fund.

and interest shall be paid from this fund. Said bonds and interest thereon shall be a lien on all property subject to taxation within said town of Mina.

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

      Sec. 7.  Whenever the county treasurer shall redeem any of the bonds issued under the provisions of this act, he shall cancel the same by writing across the face thereof “Paid,” together with the date of such payment, sign his name thereto and turn the same over to the county auditor, taking his receipt therefor, which receipt shall be filed with the clerk of the board of county commissioners, and the auditor shall credit the treasurer on his books for the amount so paid. Should the holder of said bonds, or any of them, for any cause whatever, fail to present said bonds to the said county treasurer for payment when they become due, all interest on such bonds shall thereafter immediately cease.

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

      Sec. 8.  The provisions of the existing law respecting the manner of acquisition of utilities, advertising notice of intention to issue bonds, bond elections, the duty of commissioners to act on a proper petition, the collection and enforcement of collection of rates for service, and all other provisions not expressly superseded by this act shall apply to the acquisition, management, and financing of the systems mentioned in this act. The commissioners shall act as soon as they conveniently may, and the bonds shall be prepared not later than June 1, 1931. The systems herein provided for shall be deemed public uses authorized by the legislature such as are assisted by the principle of eminent domain.

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

Tax to cease, when

County treasurer to redeem bonds

Interest to cease, when

Faith of state pledged

Provisions of existing law to govern

In effect

Police judge, qualifications

Concurrent jurisdiction with justice courts

Proviso

Fines, regulations regarding

[Senate Bill No. 109–Senator Henderson]

Chap. 215–An Act to amend sections 29, 5 and 31 of chapter II of an act entitled “An act to incorporate the town of Las Vegas, in Clark County, and defining the boundaries thereof, and to authorize the establishing of a city government therefor, and other matters relating thereto,” approved March 16, 1911, as amended.

[Approved March 27, 1931]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate

and Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 29 of chapter II of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 29.  The municipal court shall be presided over by a municipal judge who shall be a citizen of the state and resident of the said city for not less than one year and who shall be a qualified elector of said city. The municipal court shall have such powers and jurisdiction in the city as are now provided by law for justice of the peace wherein any person or persons are charged with a breach or violation of the provisions of any ordinance of said city or of this act, or of a violation of a municipal nature, and the said court shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the justice of the peace in both civil and criminal matters arising and triable within the limits of said city and be governed by the same rules and receive the same fees as are now or may be provided by law; provided, that the trial and proceedings in such cases shall be summary and without a jury. The said court shall have jurisdiction to hear, try, and determine all cases, whether civil or criminal, for the breach or violation of any city ordinance or any provision of the charter of a police nature, and shall hear, try, determine, acquit, convict, commit, fine or hold to bail in accordance with the provisions of such ordinances or of this charter. The practice and proceedings of said court shall conform, as nearly as practicable, to the practice and proceedings of the justice courts in similar cases. Fines imposed by the court may be recovered by execution against the property of the defendant, or by the payment thereof enforced by imprisonment in the city jail of said city at the rate of one day for every two dollars of such fine, or said court may, in its discretion, adjudge and enter upon the docket a supplemental order that such offender shall work on the streets or public works of said city at a rate of two dollars for each day of the sentence, which shall apply on such fine until the same shall be exhausted or otherwise satisfied. Said court shall have jurisdiction of any action for the collection of taxes or assessments levied for city purposes, when the principal sum thereof does not exceed three hundred dollars; also, actions to foreclose liens in the name of the city for the nonpayment of such taxes or assessments where the principal sum claimed does not exceed three hundred dollars;

to foreclose liens in the name of the city for the nonpayment of such taxes or assessments where the principal sum claimed does not exceed three hundred dollars; also, of any action for the collection of any money payable to the city from any person when the principal sum claimed does not exceed three hundred dollars; also, for the breach of any bond given by any officer or person to or for the use or benefit of the city, and any action for damage in which the city is a party, and upon all forfeited recognizances given to or for the use or benefit of the city, and upon all appeal bonds given on appeals from said court in any of the cases above named, when the principal sum claimed does not exceed three hundred dollars; also, for the recovery of personal property belonging to the city when the value thereof does not exceed three hundred dollars; provided, that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to give such court jurisdiction to determine any such cause when it shall be made to appear by the pleading or the verified answer that the validity of any tax, assessment or levy shall necessarily be an issue in such cause, in which case the court shall certify such cause to the district court in like manner and with the same effect as provided for by law for certification of causes by justice courts. The said court shall have jurisdiction of the following offenses committed within the city which either violate the peace and good order of the city or the peace and quietude of an individual or individuals, or which invade any of the police powers of the city, or endanger the health of the inhabitants thereof, such as breaches of the peace, drunkenness, intoxication, fighting, quarreling, dog fights, cock fights, routs, riots, affrays, violent injury to property, malicious mischief, vagrancy, indecent conduct, lewd or lascivious cohabitation or behavior, and all disorderly, offensive or opprobrious conduct and all offenses under ordinances of the city. The said court shall be treated and considered as a justice court whenever the proceedings thereof are called into question. The court shall have power to issue all warrants, writs and process necessary to a complete and effective exercise of the powers and jurisdiction of said court, and may punish for contempt in like manner and with the same effect as is provided by the general law for justice of the peace. The municipal judge shall keep a docket in which shall be entered all official business in like manner as in justice courts. He shall render monthly or oftener, as the commissioners may require, an exact and detailed statement in writing, under oath, of the business done and of all fines collected, as well as imposed and uncollected, since his last report, and shall at the same time render and pay unto the city clerk all fines collected and moneys received on behalf of the city since his last report. In all cases in which the municipal judge shall by reason of being a party, or being interested, or related to either defendant or plaintiff, or complaining witness, as the case may be, by consanguinity or affinity within the third degree, or in case of his sickness, absence or inability to act, any justice of the peace of said county, or any person who is a citizen of the state and a qualified voter and resident of the said city for not less than one year, on the written request of the mayor, may act in the place and stead of such municipal judge, and the commissioners shall have the power to apportion ratably the salary or compensation of such municipal judge to such person so serving, and deduct the sum so apportioned from the salary of such municipal judge.

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Proviso

Jurisdiction of offenses against peace of city

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Judge disqualified to act, when

Appeals, how taken

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reason of being a party, or being interested, or related to either defendant or plaintiff, or complaining witness, as the case may be, by consanguinity or affinity within the third degree, or in case of his sickness, absence or inability to act, any justice of the peace of said county, or any person who is a citizen of the state and a qualified voter and resident of the said city for not less than one year, on the written request of the mayor, may act in the place and stead of such municipal judge, and the commissioners shall have the power to apportion ratably the salary or compensation of such municipal judge to such person so serving, and deduct the sum so apportioned from the salary of such municipal judge. Appeals to the district court may be taken from any final judgment of said municipal court in the same manner and with the same effect as in cases of appeal from justice courts in civil or criminal cases, as the case may be. All warrants issued by the municipal court shall run to any sheriff or constable of the county or the marshal or policeman of the city.

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

      Section 5.  Officers, Appointive and Ex Officio-Enumeration of Compensation-Bonds.  The county treasurer and ex officio tax receiver of the county of Clark shall be ex officio treasurer and tax receiver of the city of Las Vegas; the county assessor of the county of Clark shall be ex officio assessor of the city of Las Vegas; the city clerk of the city of Las Vegas shall be ex officio license collector of said city, and the board of commissioners shall allow each of said officers such deputies, assistants or clerks as in their judgment the volume of work in each of said offices may require; such deputies, assistants or clerks to receive such compensation as may be fixed, from time to time, by said board of city commissioners. The county treasurer and ex officio tax receiver of the county of Clark as ex officio treasurer and tax receiver of the city of Las Vegas, and the county assessor of the county of Clark as ex officio assessor of the city of Las Vegas, shall each receive such compensation, not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100) a month each, as may be fixed from time to time by said board of city commissioners. The county treasurer and county assessor of the county of Clark shall be liable on their official bonds for the faithful discharge of the duties imposed on them by this act. The city clerk shall be required to furnish a good and sufficient bond in an amount specified by the board of commissioners, said bond to be approved by said board of commissioners. The board of commissioners may appoint a city attorney with a regular salary of not to exceed thirty-six hundred dollars ($3,600) per annum, payable in equal monthly installments; also a chief of police with a salary of not to exceed three thousand dollars ($3,000) per annum, payable in equal monthly installments; also, a judge of the municipal court at such salary as such board may deem proper, not exceeding, however, the sum of three hundred dollars ($300) per month.

of police with a salary of not to exceed three thousand dollars ($3,000) per annum, payable in equal monthly installments; also, a judge of the municipal court at such salary as such board may deem proper, not exceeding, however, the sum of three hundred dollars ($300) per month. Said board of commissioners may also from time to time by ordinance or resolution, or by either or both, fix and provide for the allowance and payment to said city attorney of additional compensation for the prosecution and defense of cases, for conviction in cases, and also by way of commissions on fines and forfeitures imposed and enforced, and said board may also appoint a deputy city attorney when in their judgment such appointment may be necessary, and said board shall fix the compensation to be paid such deputy city attorney. The board of commissioners may appoint such other officers as such board may, from time to time, ordain and establish, with the right to select the incumbent thereof and prescribe the duties of such office. The compensation of the appointive officers shall be fixed, allowed, and paid by the board of commissioners out of such city funds as the board may designate. Any one or more of such appointive officers may, in the discretion of the board of commissioners, be combined and the duties thereof be discharged by one person. All county officers acting as city officers ex officio, and all other officers of the city, may act in the same manner and with like effect, by their regularly appointed deputies.

      Sec. 3.  Section 31 of chapter II of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows:

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

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

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

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

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

County officers to be ex officio officers

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cause to be collected a tax not to exceed five mills on the dollar of all of the taxable property of the city of Las Vegas for publicity purposes, the same to be placed in a fund known as “Publicity Fund.”

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

shown by the last preceding registration list, and representing not less than five per cent of the taxable property of said city as shown by the last preceding tax list or assessment roll (and corporate signatures by authorized officers shall be accepted in estimating said five per cent), asking for a special election upon the question of whether or not the proposed ordinance shall be passed, then, and in that event, no such ordinance shall be enacted except pursuant to a special election called and held for such purpose and carried by a majority of the votes cast. Any ordinance thus passed providing for the issuance of bonds shall be valid (1) if passed by said board in the absence of the filing of a petition and election, or (2) if such petition be filed and election had, then if passed by said board pursuant to a majority vote in favor of said ordinance. The petition for an election herein referred to may be filed with said board at any time prior to the date of meeting set in said published notice; provided, however, that said board may submit such question to the vote of the electors at a general city election instead of a special election if the board find it convenient so to do; provided further, however, that even though no such petition be filed, or if at such election the question is carried by such majority vote, the said board may, in its discretion, abandon and discontinue all such proceedings to acquire or establish such public utility upon adoption of a resolution to the effect that such board does not at such time deem it to the best interests of said city to acquire or establish such public utility.

      In addition to the powers elsewhere conferred upon said board they shall also have the power, for the purpose of constructing sewerage systems (including disposal plants) within the said city and waste mains therefrom, and said board is hereby authorized to issue bonds therefor not to exceed in the aggregate the sum of two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000); which said bonds shall be of convenient denominations, ranging from one hundred dollars to one thousand dollars, and shall bear interest at the rate of not more than seven per cent per annum, the interest on each bond to be payable semiannually. Said bonds shall be numbered consecutively and have interest coupons attached in such manner that they can be removed upon any payment of any installment of interest on the bonds without injury to the bonds. The bonds shall be signed by the mayor and countersigned by the city clerk, and shall be distinctively known as “Las Vegas Sewerage Bonds.” Before issuing the said bonds, the said board shall publish a notice at least once a week for at least three consecutive weeks in some daily or triweekly newspaper published in the said city, calling for a special election by the regularly qualified electors of the city whether such bonds shall issue.

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electors of the city whether such bonds shall issue. Such notice shall state consecutively the amount of the proposed bond issue, the rate of interest bonds are to bear, time and manner of their payment and that they are for the construction of a sewerage system and/or sewerage disposal plant, as the case may be. The board shall cause a sufficient number of ballots to be printed which shall bear the words: “Sewerage Bonds-Yes,” and “Sewerage Bonds-No,” printed thereon in parallel lines one above the other. The voter will scratch out the word “Yes” if opposed to the bonds, and the word “No” if in favor of the issue. The election shall be conducted and the votes announced in all several particulars as in other elections. If the majority of the votes cast are in favor of the issuance of the bonds the said board of commissioners shall proceed at once to issue them as rapidly as needed in conformity with the provisions of this act. Said board may submit such question to the vote of the electors at a general city election instead of a special election if the board find it convenient so to do, in which event said notice, instead of calling for a special election, shall specify that such question shall be voted on at the next general city election and such question shall, in the form above provided, be placed upon the general ballot at such general city election. Said bonds shall be sold at not less than their par value and shall be redeemable in the order of their issuance within twenty-five years from the date of issue. The said board shall provide for the payment of said bonds and the interest thereon at the time of regular tax levy for state and county and city purposes by levying an additional tax upon the property, real and personal, within the limits of the city, sufficient in their judgment to pay the interest upon said bonds semiannually as it becomes due, and the principal at such a rate as will redeem all of the bonds within twenty-five years from the date of their issue; in which case the twenty-five years shall begin to run from the date of the particular bond to be paid. The said taxes shall be assessed and collected the same as other taxes paid to the county treasurer, and by him placed in a fund to be known as the “Las Vegas Sewerage Fund.” All sewerage systems constructed under the provisions of this act shall be constructed under the supervision and control of the said board. The material may be purchased and work caused to be done directly by the board, or it may advertise for plans and specifications and bids for construction as they may see fit.

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

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

taxation or to create districts for that purpose as occasion may require.

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

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

      10.  To fix, impose and collect a license tax on and to regulate all character of lawful trades, callings, industries, occupations, professions and businesses, conducted in whole or in part within the city, including all theaters, theatrical or melodeon performances and performances of any, every and all kinds for which an admission fee is charged; circuses, shows, billiard tables, pool tables, bowling alleys and exhibitions and amusements. To fix, impose and collect a license tax on and regulate all taverns, hotels, auto camps, restaurants, chop houses, cafes, saloons, eating houses, lunch counters, barrooms, games and gaming houses, lodging houses accommodating four or more lodgers, manufacturers, laundries, livery stables, garages, automobile and motor sales agencies, vulcanizing shops, battery service shops, sales stables, cattle or horse corrals, express companies, telegraph and telephone companies, oil wells or tanks, oil refineries, tanneries, foundries, brick yards, pressed brick yards, manufacturers of concrete blocks, street railway companies operating in whole or in part within the city. To fix and impose and collect a license tax on and regulate auctioneers, stock brokers and stock exchanges. To fix, impose and collect a license tax on, regulate, prohibit or suppress barrooms, raffles, hawkers, peddlers, except those dealing in their own agricultural products of this state. To fix, impose and collect a license tax on, regulate, prescribe the location of or suppress, all barrooms, street fakers, street peddlers, except those above stated, fortune tellers, mediums, astrologers, palmists, clairvoyants, phrenologists, pawnshops, pawn brokers, oil wells, oil tanks, oil refineries, soap manufacturers, brick yards, livery, feed, or sale stables, cattle or horse corrals, foundries and machine shops. To prohibit and suppress all dog fights, prize fights, cock fights, bear, bull or badger baits, sparring and sparring contests. Within said city and within one mile outside of the city limits to regulate, prohibit and prescribe the location of and suppress all houses of ill fame, hurdy gurdy houses, bawdy houses, and any and all places to which persons resort for lewd or lascivious purpose or purposes of lewdness or prostitution, including dance houses having special attractions, such as music or otherwise; to license and regulate gambling as allowed by law, and to prohibit gambling in all its various forms.

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as allowed by law, and to prohibit gambling in all its various forms.

      To fix, impose and collect a license tax on and regulate all lawful professions, trades, callings, and business whatsoever, including grocers, merchants of any, every and all kinds, trades and traders of all kinds, hotels, butcher shops, slaughterhouses, wood and fuel dealers, coal dealers, ice dealers, refrigerating plants, ice manufacturers, sewing machine agents, marble and stone dealers, saddle or harness makers or shops, cigar stores, stationery stores, confectionery stores, newspaper stands, plumbing shops, tin shops, when separate from hardware stores, paint or oil stores, bicycle shops, repair shops, cycleries, garages, newspapers or publications, advertising agencies, publicity agencies, ice peddlers, insurance agencies, insurance companies, building and loan associations and companies, fire, life and accident insurance companies and agents or solicitors for the same, shooting galleries, upholsterers, soap factories, barber shops, collection agencies and collectors, carpet cleaners, photographers, wagon makers, wheelwrights, blacksmith shops, horseshoeing shops, tailors and tailor shops, shoe shops, cobblers, tinkers, cloth cleaning and dyeing establishments, all billiard or pool games, or other or any table games played with cue and balls, or other mechanical device, bakeries, milliners, gunsmith shops, steam renovating works, dressmaking establishments, telephone companies, electric light, water and power companies, bankers, brokers of any, every and all kinds, electric supply houses, job printers, manufacturers of soda water or other or any soft drinks, brewing companies, brewing agencies, patent medicine agencies, agencies of any and all kinds, wholesale houses, ore purchasers or brokers, sampling works, flour mills, city express and job wagons, draymen, second-hand stores, messenger service establishments, contractors or contracting mechanics or builders, sash and door factories, planing mills, machine shops, car shops, building and loan companies and agents and solicitors for same, real estate agents, real estate solicitors, pop corn, peanut, delicatessen, fruit and lemonade stands, refreshment or coffee stands, booths and sheds, dry goods stores of every, any and all kinds, boot and shoe stores, furniture stores, drug stores, undertakers, glass and crockery stores, tamale stands or shops, abstract of title companies, title insurance companies, or persons furnishing abstract of title, iron works, notions and notion stores, pipe and tobacco stores, advertising by billboards, placards and the like, bootblacks and bootblack stands, gun stores, sporting, hunting and fishing-tackle stores, jewelry stores, resorts for amusements of all kinds, and all and singular each, every and any business, and all trades and professions, including attorneys, doctors, physicians, chiropractors, osteopaths, and dentists, and all character of lawful business or callings and not herein specifically named; provided, that in fixing license the board must make the same uniform as to each trade, calling, business, occupation or profession.

physicians, chiropractors, osteopaths, and dentists, and all character of lawful business or callings and not herein specifically named; provided, that in fixing license the board must make the same uniform as to each trade, calling, business, occupation or profession.

      11.  To fix, impose and collect an annual per capita tax on all dogs and to provide for the capture and destruction of all dogs on which said tax shall not be paid. To fix, impose and collect a license tax on and regulate hacks, hackney coaches, cabs, omnibuses, taxis, express wagons, drays, job wagons and other public vehicles, and to regulate their charges, and to require schedules of charges to be posted in or upon such public vehicles. To fix, impose and collect a license tax on, regulate, prohibit or suppress runners for hotels, taverns and other businesses.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

      30a.  To require every railroad and street railway company to keep the streets in repair between the tracks and along and within two feet upon each side of the tracks, and to require all street railway companies to sprinkle the streets between their tracks, and for a reasonable distance on each side thereof.

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

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

cattle guards, crossings of streets, alleys, avenues and public places, and to keep the same in repair within the limits of the city.

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

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

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

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

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

      38.  To construct and maintain water works, gas works, electric light works, street railways, or bath houses, or to authorize the construction and maintenance of the same by others, or to purchase or lease any or all of said works from any person or corporation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

      45.  To establish markets and market-houses, and to provide for the regulation and use thereof.

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

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

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

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

      50.  To enforce the keeping and use of proper weights and measures by vendors. To provide for and regulate the manner of weighing of all food products and foodstuffs, and hay, grain, straw, ice and coal, and the measuring and selling of firewood and all fuel within the city, and to provide for the seizure and forfeiture of such articles offered for sale which do not comply with such regulations, and to examine, test, and provide for the inspection and sealing of all weights and measures throughout the city and enforce the keeping by traders and dealers of proper weights and measures duly tested and sealed, and appoint the necessary officers therefor.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

      68.  To prohibit cruelty to animals.

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

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

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

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

      73.  To prevent intoxication, fighting, quarreling, dog fights, cock fights, prize fights, bull fights, and also all disorderly conduct which tends to violate the peace and quietude of any individual or individuals within said city, and to provide against and to prevent the offenses of assault and battery and petit larceny; restrain riots, routs, noises, disturbances, or disorderly assemblies in any street, house or place in the city; to regulate and prevent the discharge of firearms, rockets, powder, fireworks, or any other dangerous or combustible material in the streets, lots grounds, alleys, or about or in the vicinity of public buildings. To provide against or prevent the offense of obtaining money or property under false pretenses, or the offense of embezzling money or property, in all cases where the money or property embezzled or obtained by false pretense does not exceed in value the sum of fifty dollars. The provisions of this subdivision are separate and distinct from the provisions of subdivision No. 70 of this section.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

      80b.  To institute and maintain any suit or suits, civil or criminal, in the name of the city, in the proper court, whenever necessary in the judgment of the board of city commissioners to enforce or maintain any right of the city, and they may, in like manner, defend all actions against the city; to institute and maintain any suit to foreclose liens or otherwise against any property owner refusing or neglecting to pay, as assessed by the board of city commissioners, his ratable proportion of the cost of paving, grading, or otherwise improving any street or building, or any sidewalk or other improvement which benefits the property of the owner thereof.

      80c.  To regulate and control the construction and maintenance of any tubes, pipes, or pipe lines, conduits, ditches, signal bells, warning signs, and other electrical, telegraph, and mechanical appliances in, along, over, under and across the streets, alleys and public places; provided, that no such appliances shall be placed so as to interfere with the fire-alarm system, or the extinguishment of fires, or permanently with the free use of the streets, sidewalks, alleys or public places.

with the free use of the streets, sidewalks, alleys or public places.

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

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

      Sec. 4.  All acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

      Sec. 5.  This act shall become effective and be in full force from and after its passage and approval.

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[Assembly Bill No. 204–Mr. Dunseath]

Chap. 216–An Act to amend section 461 of an act entitled “An act concerning crimes and punishments, and repealing certain acts relating thereto,” approved March 17, 1911, as amended, being section 10414 Nevada Compiled Laws 1929, and repealing all acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act.

[Approved March 27, 1931]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate

and Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 461 of the above-entitled act, being section 10414 Nevada Compiled Laws 1929, is hereby amended to read as follows:

      Section 461.  Any person who shall obtain food, foodstuffs, lodging, merchandise or other accommodation at any hotel, inn, boarding, rooming, eating house, grocery store, market, or dairy, with intent to defraud the owner or keeper thereof, is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than six months.

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by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than six months. Proof that lodging, food, foodstuffs, merchandise, or other accommodations were obtained by false pretense, or by false or fictitious show or pretense of any baggage or other property, or that the person refused or willfully neglected to pay for such food, foodstuffs, lodging, merchandise, or other accommodations, or that he gave in payment for such food, foodstuffs, lodging, merchandise, or other accommodation negotiable paper on which payment was refused, or that he absconded without paying, or offering to pay for such food, foodstuffs, lodging, merchandise, or other accommodation, or that he surreptitiously removed or attempted to move his baggage, shall be prima facie evidence of the fraudulent intent mentioned herein; but this act shall not apply where there has been an agreement in writing for delay in payment for a period to exceed ten days. All acts or other parts of acts that conflict herewith are hereby repealed.

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

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

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[Assembly Bill No. 141–Mr. Alward]

Chap. 217–An Act concerning fraudulent conveyances and to make uniform the law relating thereto.

[Approved March 27, 1931]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate

and Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Definition of Terms.  In this act “Assets” of a debtor means property not exempt from liability for his debts. To the extent that any property is liable for any debts of the debtor, such property shall be included in his assets.

      “Conveyance” includes every payment of money, assignment, release, transfer, lease, mortgage or pledge of tangible or intangible property, and also the creation of any lien or incumbrance.

      “Creditor” is a person having any claim, whether matured or unmatured, liquidated or unliquidated, absolute, fixed or contingent.

      “Debt” includes any legal liability, whether matured or unmatured, liquidated or unliquidated, absolute, fixed or contingent.

      Sec. 2.  Insolvency.  (1) A person is insolvent when the present fair salable value of his assets is less than the amount that will be required to pay his probable liability on his existing debts as they become absolute and matured.

present fair salable value of his assets is less than the amount that will be required to pay his probable liability on his existing debts as they become absolute and matured.

      (2) In determining whether a partnership is insolvent there shall be added to the partnership property the present fair salable value of the separate assets of each general partner in excess of the amount probably sufficient to meet the claims of his separate creditors, and also the amount of any unpaid subscription to the partnership of each limited partner, provided the present fair salable value of the assets of such limited partner is probably sufficient to pay his debts, including such unpaid subscription.

      Sec. 3.  Fair Consideration.  Fair consideration is given for property, or obligation,

      (a) When in exchange for such property, or obligation, as a fair equivalent therefor, and in good faith, property is conveyed or an antecedent debt is satisfied, or

      (b) When such property or obligation is received in good faith to secure a present advance or antecedent debt in amount not disproportionately small as compared with the value of the property or obligation obtained.

      Sec. 4.  Conveyances by Insolvent.  Every conveyance made and every obligation incurred by a person who is or will be thereby rendered insolvent is fraudulent as to creditors without regard to his actual intent if the conveyance is made or the obligation is incurred without a fair consideration.

      Sec. 5.  Conveyances by Persons in Business.  Every conveyance made without fair consideration when the person making it is engaged or is about to engage in a business or transaction for which the property remaining in his hands after the conveyance is an unreasonably small capital is fraudulent as to creditors and as to other persons who become creditors during the continuance of such business or transaction without regard to his actual intent.

      Sec. 6.  Conveyances by a Person About to Incur Debts.  Every conveyance made and every obligation incurred without fair consideration when the person making the conveyance or entering into the obligation intends or believes that he will incur debts beyond his ability to pay as they mature is fraudulent as to both present and future creditors.

      Sec. 7.  Conveyance Made With Intent to Defraud.  Every conveyance made and every obligation incurred with actual intent, as distinguished from intent presumed in law, to hinder, delay, or defraud either present or future creditors, is fraudulent as to both present and future creditors.

      Sec. 8.  Conveyance of Partnership Property.  Every conveyance of partnership property and every partnership obligation incurred when the partnership is or will be thereby rendered insolvent, is fraudulent as to partnership creditors, if the conveyance is made or obligation is incurred,

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rendered insolvent, is fraudulent as to partnership creditors, if the conveyance is made or obligation is incurred,

      (a) To a partner, whether with or without a promise by him to pay partnership debts, or

      (b) To a person not a partner without fair consideration to the partnership as distinguished from consideration to the individual partners.

      Sec. 9.  Rights of Creditors Whose Claims Have Matured.  (1) Where a conveyance or obligation is fraudulent as to a creditor, such creditor, when his claim has matured, may, as against any person except a purchaser for fair consideration without knowledge of the fraud at the time of the purchase, or one who has derived title, immediately or mediately from such a purchaser,

      (a) Have the conveyance set aside or obligation annulled to the extent necessary to satisfy his claim, or

      (b) Disregard the conveyance and attach or levy execution upon the property conveyed.

      (2) A purchaser who without actual fraudulent intent has given less than a fair consideration for the conveyance or obligation may retain the property or obligation as security for repayment.

      Sec. 10.  Rights of Creditors Whose Claims Have Not Matured.  Where a conveyance made or obligation incurred is fraudulent as to a creditor whose claim has not matured he may proceed in a court of competent jurisdiction against any person against whom he could have proceeded had his claim matured, and the court may,

      (a) Restrain the defendant from disposing of his property,

      (b) Appoint a receiver to take charge of the property,

      (c) Set aside the conveyance or annul the obligation, or

      (d) Make any order which the circumstances of the case may require.

      Sec. 11.  Cases Not Provided for in Act.  In any case not provided for in this act the rules of law and equity including the law merchant, and in particular the rules relating to the law of principal and agent, and the effect of fraud, misrepresentation, duress or coercion, mistake, bankruptcy or other invalidating cause shall govern.

      Sec. 12.  Construction of Act.  This act shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law of those states which enact it.

      Sec. 13.  Short Title.  This act may be cited as the uniform fraudulent conveyance act.

      Sec. 14.  Repeal.  All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed.

      Sec. 15.  Time of Taking Effect.  This act shall take effect July 1, 1931.

[Senate Bill No. 77–Senator Heidtman]

Chap. 218–An Act to regulate the occupations and practices of hairdressers and cosmeticians, cosmetologists, and the branches of cosmetology; to create the state board of cosmetology, and to provide for the issuance by said board of certificates of registration and licenses entitling the holders thereof to engage in and to teach such occupations and practices; to insure the better education of hairdressers and cosmeticians; to provide for rules regulating the proper conduct and sanitation of cosmetological establishments, schools of cosmetology, and places where the occupations of hairdressers and cosmeticians are practiced; prescribing penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act.

[Approved March 27, 1931]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate

and Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  This act shall be known as the “Act Concerning Cosmetology.”

      Sec. 2.  (a) Wherever in this act the word “board” is used, it shall be construed to mean the state board of cosmetology.

      (b) The word “cosmetology,” as used in this act, is defined as the following practices, namely: Arranging, dressing, curling, waving, cleansing, singeing, bleaching, tinting, coloring, or similar work, the hair of any person with the hands or with mechanical or electrical apparatus or appliances, or by any means; massaging, cleansing or stimulating the scalp, face, neck, arms, bust, or upper part of the human body, by the use of cosmetic preparations, antiseptics, tonics, lotions or creams; cleansing or beautifying the hair by the use of cosmetic preparations, antiseptics, tonics, lotions or creams, beautifying the face, neck, arms, bust, or upper part of the human body by the use of cosmetic preparations, antiseptics, tonics, lotions or creams; removing superfluous hair from the body of any person by the use of electrolysis to remove the hair from the surface of the body where the growth is a blemish, or by the use of depilatories, or by the use of tweezers, and manicuring the nails of any person; and said word “cosmetology” shall be construed to include any branch or any combination of branches of the occupation of a hairdresser and cosmetician, and any branch or any combination of branches of the occupation of a cosmetician, or cosmetologist, or beauty culturist, which are now or may hereafter be practiced.

      (c) The words “hairdresser and cosmetician” are defined as any person who, for compensation, engages in the practice of cosmetology, or in more than a majority of the branches thereof, except the branches of electrolysis and manicuring.

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thereof, except the branches of electrolysis and manicuring.

      (d) The word “electrologist” is defined as any person who, for compensation, engages in the occupation of removing superfluous hair from the body of any person by the use of the electric needle only; and the word “manicurist” is defined as any person who, for compensation, engages only in the occupation of manicuring the nails of any person.

      (e) The term “cosmetological establishment” is defined as any premises, building, or part of a building, whereon or wherein any branch or any combination of branches of cosmetology, or the occupations of a hairdresser and cosmetician, are practiced.

      (f) The words “junior operator” are defined as any person who is engaged in learning or acquiring a knowledge of the occupations of a hairdresser and cosmetician in a hairdressing or cosmetological establishment.

      Sec. 3.  On and after the first day of July, 1931, every person, firm or corporation who shall conduct or operate a cosmetological establishment, school of cosmetology, hairdressing shop, beauty parlor, or any other place or business in which any one or any combination of the occupations of a hairdresser and cosmetician are taught or practiced, and every person who shall engage in, or attempt to engage in, the practice of cosmetology, or any branch or branches thereof, without a license therefor, issued as herein provided by the state board of cosmetology, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for a term of not less than fifty days or not more than one hundred and eighty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment; provided, however, that nothing in this act shall be construed to prohibit any junior operator from engaging in any one or any combination of the occupations of a hairdresser and cosmetician, under the immediate supervision of a licensed hairdresser and cosmetician; nor to prohibit any student in any school of cosmetology, legally established under the provisions of this act, from engaging, in said school and as such student, in work connected with any branch or any combination of branches of cosmetology taught in said school; provided further, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to any town or city with a population of two thousand or less.

      Sec. 4.  There is hereby created the state board of cosmetology, to consist of three members. Within thirty days after this act becomes effective, the governor shall appoint, as members of said board, persons who are at least twenty-five years of age, who shall have been citizens of this state for at least three years immediately prior to their appointment, and who are not ineligible as in this section.

      No person shall be eligible to appointment as one of the first three members constituting said board (a) who has not been engaged in actual practice, as a hairdresser and cosmetician, for at least six months; (b) who is connected, directly or indirectly, with any school of cosmetology.

first three members constituting said board (a) who has not been engaged in actual practice, as a hairdresser and cosmetician, for at least six months; (b) who is connected, directly or indirectly, with any school of cosmetology.

      In the matter of the appointment of succeeding members of the board, no person shall be eligible to appointment as a member (a) who is not registered as a hairdresser and cosmetician under the provisions of this act; (b) who is connected, directly or indirectly, with any school of cosmetology, or was so connected while previously serving as a member of said board; (c) who is not, at the time of appointment, either actually engaged in conducting a cosmetological establishment, or actually engaged in the practice of a branch of cosmetology.

      The personnel of the board shall, at all times, be so constituted that two graduates of the same school of cosmetology shall not be members at the same time.

      The terms of office of the members of the board first appointed shall be as follows: One of the members shall serve for two years, one for three years, and one for four years; upon the expiration of such terms, respectively, the succeeding members shall be appointed for the term of four years. In case of vacancy occurring in the board, the governor shall fill the same by appointing a member to serve for the remainder of such term only. Before entering upon the discharge of their duties each member shall make, and file with the secretary of state, the constitutional oath of office.

      The members of the board shall receive ten dollars per diem for every meeting of the board which they attend. All such compensation shall be paid by the board out of the funds received by it, and no part thereof shall be paid by the state.

      The members of the board shall, annually, elect from among their number a president, and also a treasurer; and shall, annually, appoint a secretary, who shall not be a member of the board. The compensation of the secretary shall be fixed by the board, and shall be paid out of the funds received by it, and no part of such compensation shall be paid by the state. The treasurer, before entering upon the discharge of his or her duties, shall file with the secretary of state a good and sufficient bond in the penal sum of two thousand dollars, payable to the State of Nevada, to insure the faithful performance of his or her duties; and the premium for such bond shall be paid out of the funds received by the board.

      The board shall prescribe the duties of its officers and employees, fix the compensation of such employees, and establish an office at such place in the state as the members of the board may determine, at which office all records and files of the board shall be kept; which records and files shall, at all reasonable hours, be open to public inspection.

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files of the board shall be kept; which records and files shall, at all reasonable hours, be open to public inspection. The board shall also adopt a seal.

      The board is authorized to employ, whenever in its judgment it is deemed necessary, inspectors and clerks, and secure legal services; provided, however, that the compensation of such inspectors and clerks and all reasonable expenses incurred by the board shall be paid out of funds received by the board, and no part of such compensation or expenses shall be paid by the state.

      It shall be the duty of the board to adopt reasonable rules for carrying out the provisions of this act, for conducting examinations of applicants for registration, and for governing the recognition of, and the credits to be given to, the study of cosmetology, or any branch thereof, under a hairdresser and cosmetician, or in a school of cosmetology licensed under the laws of another state or territory of the United States, or the District of Columbia, and to adopt such sanitary rules as it may deem necessary with particular reference to the precautions to be employed to prevent the creating or spreading of infectious or contagious disease in cosmetological establishments, or schools of cosmetology, or in the practice of a hairdresser and cosmetician; but no sanitary rule thus adopted shall have any force or effect unless and until the same has been approved by the state board of health. A copy of all sanitary rules thus adopted and approved shall be furnished to each person, firm or corporation to whom a certificate of registration and license is issued for the conduct of a cosmetological establishment, school of cosmetology, or for the practice of the occupations of a hairdresser and cosmetician.

      It shall be the duty of the board to hold examinations, as to their qualifications, of all applicants for registration (except as herein otherwise provided), whose applications have been submitted to it in proper form; to issue certificates of registration and licenses to such applicants as may be entitled thereto; to register cosmetological establishments, and schools of cosmetology; to report to the proper prosecuting officer all violations of this act coming within its knowledge; to make a written report, annually, to the governor concerning the condition, in this state, of cosmetology and the branches thereof; which report shall also contain a brief reference to the proceedings had by or before the board in carrying out the provisions of this act, for the year last past, and statement of all moneys received and expended by the board during such year.

      The board shall keep a record of registration, containing the names and known places of business, and the date and number of certificate of registration of every registered hairdresser and cosmetician, and those engaged in the practice of any branch of cosmetology, together with the names and addresses of all cosmetological establishments and schools of cosmetology registered under this act; which record shall also contain a specification of such facts as applicants for registration may claim, in their applications, to justify their registration.

of any branch of cosmetology, together with the names and addresses of all cosmetological establishments and schools of cosmetology registered under this act; which record shall also contain a specification of such facts as applicants for registration may claim, in their applications, to justify their registration.

      The board shall also keep a record of its proceedings, and it shall do all other things necessary to carry out the provisions of this act.

      Sec. 5.  The board shall hold meetings for the examination of applicants for registration and for the transaction of such other business as shall pertain to its duties at least twice a year, one of which meetings shall be held in the city of Reno; and the board may hold such other meetings for the examination of applicants for registration, or for the transaction of necessary business as, in its judgment, may be required, at such times and places as it may determine.

      Sec. 6.  On and after the first day of July, 1931, the board shall admit to examination for a certificate of registration as a registered hairdresser and cosmetician, at any meeting of the board duly held for the purpose of conducting examinations, any person who shall have made application to the board in proper form, and paid the required fee as provided in this act, and who shall be qualified as follows: (a) who is not less than sixteen years of age; (b) who is of good moral character and temperate habits; (c) and who has been a bona fide resident of Nevada for six months.

      On and after the first day of July, 1931, applicants for admission to examination as an electrologist who shall have made application to the board, in proper form, who has been a resident of Nevada at least six months, and paid the required fee as provided in this act, and who are not less than eighteen years of age, and are of a good moral character and temperate habits, and who shall have had a minimum training of two hundred fifty hours under the immediate supervision of an approved electrologist in an approved school in which such practice is taught, or who shall have studied such practice for at least two hundred fifty hours, extending over a period of five consecutive months, under an electrologist licensed under this act, or a hairdresser and cosmetician, so licensed, shall be admitted to examination for the practice of the occupation of electrologist.

      On and after the first day of July, 1931, applicants for admission to examination as a manicurist, who shall have made application to the board, in proper form, been a resident of the state for six months, and paid the required fee, as provided in this act, and who are not less than sixteen years of age, and are of good moral character and temperate habits shall be admitted to examination for the practice of the occupation of manicurist.

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habits shall be admitted to examination for the practice of the occupation of manicurist.

      On and after the first day of July, 1931, applicants for admission to examination in permanent waving who shall have made application to the board in proper form, been a resident of the State of Nevada at least six months, and paid the required fee as provided in this act, and who are not less than sixteen years of age, and are of good moral character and temperate habits, shall be admitted to examination for the practice of permanent waving.

      Sec. 7.  Every application for admission to examination, and every application for registration as a hairdresser and cosmetician, or in any branch of cosmetology, shall be in writing, on blanks prepared and furnished by the board. Each application shall be accompanied by the required fee, and shall contain proof of the qualifications of the applicant for examination, or for registration, as provided herein, and shall be verified by the oath of the applicant.

      Sec. 8.  All examinations of applicants shall include both practical demonstrations and written or oral tests (except where otherwise provided in this act); shall not be confined to any special system or method; shall be consistent in both practical and technical requirements, and of sufficient thoroughness to satisfy the board as to the applicant’s skill in, and knowledge of, the practice of the occupation or occupations for which a certificate of registration is sought.

      Examinations for certificates of registration as hairdressers and cosmeticians shall include practical demonstrations in shampooing the hair, hairdressing, marcel waving, water waving, hair coloring, manicuring, facial massage, and scalp massage, with the hands; written or oral tests in antisepsis, sterilization, sanitation, and the use of mechanical apparatus and electricity as applicable to the practice of the occupations of a hairdresser and cosmetician, and may include such other demonstrations and tests as the board, in its discretion, may require.

      Examinations for certificates of registration for the practice of permanent waving shall be by practical demonstration and written or oral tests.

      The scope of examinations in any other branch of cosmetology shall be such as the board, in its discretion, may require.

      Sec. 9.  Every applicant who shall pass a satisfactory examination, conducted by the board to determine his or her fitness in the practice of the occupations of a hairdresser and cosmetician shall receive from the board a certificate of registration as a hairdresser and cosmetician, which certificate shall entitle the holder thereof, without additional cost, to a license to engage in the practice of the occupations of a hairdresser and cosmetician up to and including the thirtieth day of September following the date of issue.

hairdresser and cosmetician up to and including the thirtieth day of September following the date of issue.

      Every applicant for registration to engage in the practice of permanent waving, or as an electrologist, or manicurist, who shall pass a satisfactory examination conducted by the board to determine his or her fitness in the practice of permanent waving, or electrolysis, or manicuring, shall receive from the board a certificate of registration and license to engage in the practice of permanent waving, or as an electrologist, or manicurist, as the case may be, in like manner and for a like period.

      Every certificate of registration, and every license issued by the board shall specify the occupation or occupations which said certificate and license entitle the holder thereof to practice.

      Sec. 10.  Every certificate of registration, and every license issued by the board shall be signed by the president, and attested by the secretary thereof, with the seal of the board attached; and every such certificate shall be prima facie evidence of the right of the holder thereof to a license as a registered hairdresser and cosmetician, electrologist, or manicurist, or to engage in the practice of permanent waving, as the case may be.

      Sec. 11.  All residents of this state who, at the time of the approval of this act, are engaged in actual practice as operators, and, as such, are owners or managers of cosmetological establishments; and all residents of this state who, for six months prior to the first day of July, 1931, have been in the actual and continuous practice of all of the required occupations of a hairdresser and cosmetician, as outlined in section 8 hereof, in established places of business, shall, upon application to the board as provided in this act, before the first day of July, 1931, and upon payment by each applicant of a fee of five dollars, be granted, without examination, certificates of registration and licenses to conduct cosmetological establishments, or to practice the occupations of a hairdresser and cosmetician, or one or more of the branches of cosmetology, as the case may be.

      All residents of this state, who at the time of the approval of this act, have had actual practice in permanent waving for six months in established places of business, and who, at the time of the approval of this act shall, upon application to the board as provided in this act, before the first day of July, 1931, and upon payment by each applicant of a fee of five dollars, be granted, without examination, certificates of registration and licenses to practice the occupation of permanent waving.

      All residents of this state who, at the time of the approval of this act, have had actual practice as electrologists for six months, shall, upon application to the board as provided in this act, before the first day of July, 1931, and upon payment by each applicant of a fee of five dollars, be granted, without examination, certificates of registration and licenses to practice the occupation of an electrologist.

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months, shall, upon application to the board as provided in this act, before the first day of July, 1931, and upon payment by each applicant of a fee of five dollars, be granted, without examination, certificates of registration and licenses to practice the occupation of an electrologist.

      All residents of this sate who, at the time of the approval of this act, have had actual practice as manicurists for three months, shall, upon application to the board, as provided in this act, before the first day of July, 1931, and, upon payment by each applicant of a fee of five dollars, be granted, without examination, certificates of registration and licenses to practice the occupation of a manicurist.

      Subject to the rules provided for in section 4 hereof respecting the study of cosmetology or any branch thereof, all persons who, prior to or at the time of the approval of this act, were studying any one or more of the occupations of a hairdresser and cosmetician, may, upon their examination, be granted such credits as the board may deem reasonable.

      Sec. 12.  Upon application to the board in due form, as provided in section 7 hereof, accompanied by the required fee, a person registered as a hairdresser and cosmetician, or in any branch of cosmetology, under the laws of another state or territory of the United States, or the District of Columbia, may, without examination (unless the board, in its discretion, sees fit to require examination), be granted a certificate of registration and license to practice the occupation or occupations in which such person was so previously registered, upon the following conditions: That the applicant is not less than sixteen years of age, a resident of the state for at least three months, of good moral character and temperate habits, and that the requirements for registration or licensing of hairdressers and cosmeticians, and those engaged in the practice of any branch of cosmetology, in the particular state, territory, or in the District of Columbia, were, at the date of such previous registration or licensing, substantially equal to the requirements therefor then in force in this state.

      Sec. 12a.  Nothing in this act shall authorize the use of any X-ray machine in the treating of the scalp or in the removal of superfluous hair, or permit the local application of carbolic acid (phenol) in a solution or mixture of more than ten per cent, or corrosive sublimate (mercury) or its preparation or derivatives or compounds in a stronger solution or preparation than one to five hundred. Violations of the provisions of this section shall constitute a misdemeanor, punishable as provided in section 3 hereof.

      Sec. 13.  Each applicant for examination for determining his or her fitness to receive a certificate of registration as a hairdresser and cosmetician, shall pay to the board a fee of ten dollars, and for each reexamination (other than a second examination, for which no fee shall be required) a fee of five dollars.

hairdresser and cosmetician, shall pay to the board a fee of ten dollars, and for each reexamination (other than a second examination, for which no fee shall be required) a fee of five dollars.

      The fee for examination in permanent waving shall be seven and one-half dollars, and for each reexamination (other than a second examination, for which no fee shall be required) a fee of five dollars.

      The fee for examination as an electrologist shall be ten dollars, and for each reexamination (other than a second examination, for which no fee shall be required) a fee of seven dollars and a half.

      The fee for examination as a manicurist shall be two and one-half dollars, and for each reexamination (other than a second examination, for which no fee shall be required) a fee of two dollars.

      Each applicant referred to in this section shall, in addition to the fees herein specified, pay to the board the reasonable value of all supplies necessary to be used in the examination or examinations herein provided for.

      Sec. 14.  Every licensed hairdresser and cosmetician, every licensed electrologist, every licensed manicurist, and every person licensed to practice in permanent waving, who continues in actual practice, shall, annually, on the first day of July, have his or her license renewed by the board, upon payment of the required renewal fee. Applications for renewal of licenses may be made to the board at any time during the month of September.

      The annual renewal fee for each license shall be one dollar; and every license which has not been renewed on the first day of July in each year shall expire on said last-mentioned date.

      A registered hairdresser and cosmetician, electrologist, manicurist, or permanent waver whose license has expired, may have the same renewed only upon payment of the renewal fee provided for in this section. Any registered hairdresser and cosmetician, electrologist, manicurist, or permanent waver, who retires from practice for more than one year may have his or her license restored only upon payment of all lapsed renewal fees; provided, however, that no hairdresser and cosmetician, electrologist, manicurist, or permanent waver who has retired from practice for more than three years may have his or her license restored without examination, unless the board, in its discretion, sees fit to dispense with such examination.

      Sec. 15.  Nothing in this act shall be construed to prohibit service contemplated by this act in cases of emergency or domestic administration, without compensation; and the following persons shall be exempt from the provisions hereof, namely: (a) All persons authorized by the laws of this state to practice medicine, surgery, dentistry, osteopathy, chiropractic, naturopathy or chiropody; (b) commissioned surgical and medical officers of the United States army, navy, or marine hospital service when engaged in the actual performance of their official duties, and attendants attached to same; (c) barbers, in so far as their usual and ordinary vocation and profession is concerned, when engaged in any of the following practices, namely: Arranging, dressing, curling and waving, cleansing or singeing the hair of any person; or in massaging, cleansing, stimulating, exercising, or similar work, the scalp, face or neck of any person, with the hands or with mechanical or electrical apparatus or appliances, or by use of cosmetic preparations, antiseptics, tonics, lotions, or creams.

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namely: (a) All persons authorized by the laws of this state to practice medicine, surgery, dentistry, osteopathy, chiropractic, naturopathy or chiropody; (b) commissioned surgical and medical officers of the United States army, navy, or marine hospital service when engaged in the actual performance of their official duties, and attendants attached to same; (c) barbers, in so far as their usual and ordinary vocation and profession is concerned, when engaged in any of the following practices, namely: Arranging, dressing, curling and waving, cleansing or singeing the hair of any person; or in massaging, cleansing, stimulating, exercising, or similar work, the scalp, face or neck of any person, with the hands or with mechanical or electrical apparatus or appliances, or by use of cosmetic preparations, antiseptics, tonics, lotions, or creams.

      Sec. 16.  Before the first day of July, 1931, and annually thereafter during the month of June, every person, firm or corporation conducting or operating a cosmetological establishment, at the time of the approval of this act, in compliance with the provisions thereof, in which any one, or any combination, of the occupations of a hairdresser and cosmetician are practiced; and every person, firm, or corporation conducting or operating a school of cosmetology, at the time of the approval of this act, in compliance with the provisions thereof, in which any one or any combination of the occupations of a hairdresser and cosmetician are taught, shall apply to the board for registration and license, through the owner, manager, or person in charge, in writing, upon blanks prepared and furnished by the board. Each application shall contain proof of the particular requisites for registration provided for in this act and shall be verified by the oath of the maker.

      Upon receipt by the board of the application accompanied by the required fee, the board shall issue to the person, firm or corporation so applying the required certificate of registration and license.

      The annual registration fee for a school of cosmetology shall be one hundred twenty-five dollars;

      The annual registration fee for a cosmetological establishment shall be one dollar.

      Sec. 17.  Cosmetological establishments other than those referred to in section 16 hereof may be operated as follows: Any person, firm or corporation desiring to operate a cosmetological establishment shall make application to the board for a certificate of registration and license so to do, said application to be accompanied by the annual registration fee of one dollar. Said cosmetological establishment shall, at all times, be in charge of and under the immediate supervision of a licensed hairdresser and cosmetician.

      Schools of cosmetology, other than those referred to in section 16 hereof, may be conducted as follows: Any person, firm or corporation desiring to conduct a school of cosmetology, shall make application to the board for a certificate of registration and license so to do, said application to be accompanied by the annual registration fee of one hundred twenty-five dollars.

section 16 hereof, may be conducted as follows: Any person, firm or corporation desiring to conduct a school of cosmetology, shall make application to the board for a certificate of registration and license so to do, said application to be accompanied by the annual registration fee of one hundred twenty-five dollars. Said school shall, at all times, be in charge of and under the immediate supervision of a licensed hairdresser and cosmetician who has had practical experience in the practice of a majority of the branches of cosmetology in an established place of business, and shall fulfill the following requirements: (a) it shall maintain a school term of not less than two hundred hours and shall maintain a course of practical training and technical instruction equal to the requirements for examination for a certificate of registration as a hairdresser and cosmetician, as set forth in section 8 hereof; (b) it shall possess apparatus and equipment sufficient for the ready and full teaching of all the subjects of its curriculum; (c) it shall attach to its staff of instructors a regularly licensed physician, and shall maintain registered hairdressers and cosmeticians, and other instructors competent to impart instruction in all subjects of its curriculum; (d) it shall keep a daily record of the attendance of each student, and a record devoted to the different practices, and shall establish grades and hold examinations before issuing diplomas.

      Every cosmetological establishment exacting a fee for the teaching of any branch of cosmetology (the teaching of junior operators in any branch or branches of cosmetology being excepted) shall be classed as a school of cosmetology within the meaning of this section, and shall be required to comply with all of its provisions.

      Sec. 18.  Every holder of a license issued by the board to operate a school of cosmetology, or cosmetological establishment, or to practice the occupations of a hairdresser and cosmetician, or any branch of cosmetology, shall display said license in a conspicuous place in the principal office, place of business, or place of employment of said holder.

      Every registered hairdresser and cosmetician, or electrologist, or manicurist, or permanent waver shall, within thirty days after changing his or her place of business, as designated on the books of the board, notify the secretary thereof of his or her new place of business, and, upon receipt of said notification, the secretary shall make the necessary change in the register.

      Sec. 19.  The board shall not issue, or having issued, shall not renew, or may revoke, or suspend at any time any license as required by the provisions of section 3 hereof in any one of the following cases: (a) Failure of a person, firm or corporation operating a cosmetological establishment to comply with the requirements of this act; (b) failure to comply with the santiary rules, adopted by the board and approved by the state board of health, for the regulation of cosmetological establishments, schools of cosmetology, or the practice of the occupations of a hairdresser and cosmetician;

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Hearings, how held

the santiary rules, adopted by the board and approved by the state board of health, for the regulation of cosmetological establishments, schools of cosmetology, or the practice of the occupations of a hairdresser and cosmetician; (c) obtaining practice in cosmetology, or any branch thereof, or money, or any other thing of value, by fraudulent misrepresentation; (d) gross malpractice; (e) continued practice by a person knowingly having an infectious or contagious disease; (f) habitual drunkenness, or habitual addiction to the use of morphine or any habit-forming drug; (g) advertisement by means of knowingly false or deceptive statements; (h) permitting a certificate of registration or license to be used where the holder thereof is not personally, actively and continuously engaged in business; (i) failure to display the license, as provided in section 18 of this act; (j) or for any other unfair or unjust practice, method or dealing which in the judgment of the board may justify such action; provided, however, that the said board shall not refuse to issue or renew any license as required by the provisions of section 3 hereof, or revoke or suspend any such license already issued, except upon twenty days’ notice in writing to the interested parties, which notice shall contain a brief statement of the reasons for the contemplated action of the board and designate a proper time and place for the hearing of all interested parties before any final action is taken as hereinabove provided; provided, however, that due notice within the provisions of this section shall be deemed to have been given when the board shall have placed in a United States post office a copy of the notice as hereinabove provided, addressed to the designated or last known residence of the person applying for such license or to whom such license has already been issued; provided, further, that any such person, firm or corporation whose license to do business as herein provided is revoked or suspended, or who is refused a license, or any renewal of a license already issued, or any such practitioner whose license is revoked or suspended or who is refused a license, or a renewal of a license already issued may commence an action in a court of competent jurisdiction against the state board of cosmetology for the purpose of canceling or obtaining other relief from the act of the said board. All the provisions of the civil practice act of the State of Nevada relating to pleadings, proofs, trials and appeals shall be applicable to such action.

      Sec. 20.  Any investigation, inquiry, hearing, or proceeding, which the board is empowered to hold or undertake, may be held or undertaken by or before one or more members of the board, and the finding or order of such member or members shall be deemed to be the finding or order of the board when approved or confirmed by it; provided, however, that no such investigation, inquiry, hearing, or proceeding, shall be held or undertaken by one member, only, of the board, or by members of the board less than the entire number thereof, without the previous authorization of the board, in writing, so to do.

no such investigation, inquiry, hearing, or proceeding, shall be held or undertaken by one member, only, of the board, or by members of the board less than the entire number thereof, without the previous authorization of the board, in writing, so to do.

      Sec. 21.  All fees collected on behalf of the board of cosmetology, and all receipts of every kind and nature, shall be reported at the beginning of each month, for the month preceding, to the state controller, and at the same time the entire amount of such collections shall be paid into the state treasury, and shall be credited to a fund to be known as the board of cosmetology’s contingent fund, which fund is hereby created. Such contingent fund shall be for the uses of the board of cosmetology and out of it shall be paid all salaries and all other expenses necessarily incurred in carrying into effect the provisions of this act. An amount not to exceed one thousand dollars may be drawn from the contingent fund herein created, to be used as a revolving fund where cash advances are necessary; but expenditures from such revolving fund must be substantiated by vouchers and itemized statements at the end of each fiscal year, or at any other time when demand therefor is made by the board of control.

      Sec. 22.  If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this act is for any reason held to be unconstitutional such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portion of this act. The legislature hereby declares that it would have passed this act, and each section, subsection, sentence, clause and phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared unconstitutional.

      Sec. 23.  This act shall become effective from and after its passage and approval.

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Corporations must file list of officers and resident agent

[Senate Bill No. 70–Senator Heidtman]

Chap. 219–An Act to amend the title and sections 1, 2, 3 and 4 of an act entitled “An act requiring all corporations to file annually with the secretary of state a list of their officers and directors and a designation of resident agent, providing a fee therefor, and providing a penalty for the violation of the provisions of this act, and providing for the reinstatement of corporations whose charters have been forfeited under existing or preexisting laws,” approved March 21, 1925, being, respectively, sections 1804, 1805, 1806 and 1807 Nevada Compiled Laws 1929.

[Approved March 30, 1931]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate

and Assembly, do enact as follows:

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

      An act requiring all corporations to file annually with the secretary of state a list of their officers and directors, a designation of resident agent, and a certificate of acceptance of resident agent, providing a fee therefor, and providing a penalty for the violation of the provisions of this act, and providing for the reinstatement of corporations whose charters have been forfeited under existing or preexisting laws.

      Sec. 2.  Section 1 of the above-entitled act, being section 1804 Nevada Compiled Laws 1929, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 1.  Every corporation organized under the laws of this state, and every foreign corporation doing business in this state shall, on or before the first day of July of each year, file with the secretary of state a list of the officers and directors, a designation of its resident agent in this state, and a certificate of acceptance signed by the resident agent so designated, said list of officers and designations of resident agent to be certified by the president, secretary or other officer of the corporation. Upon filing such list of officers, designation of resident agent, and certificate of acceptance of resident agent, every such corporation shall pay to the secretary of state a fee of five ($5) dollars. The secretary of state shall, thirty days prior to July 1 of each year, cause to be mailed to all corporations required to comply with the provisions of this act and which have not theretofore become delinquent, the blank forms to be filed with said secretary of state; provided, however, that failure of any corporation to receive such forms will not excuse such corporation from the penalty imposed by the provisions of the act.

      Sec. 3.  Section 2 of the above-entitled act, being section 1805 Nevada Compiled Laws 1929, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 2.  When this annual fee for filing list of officers and directors, designation of resident agent, and acceptance of resident agent has been paid, the secretary of state shall issue to each corporation paying the same a certificate authorizing it to transact and conduct its business within this state for a period of one year, and until the first day of July of the next succeeding calendar year. Such certificate shall contain the name of the corporation, the amount of the fee paid and penalties, if any, and shall recite the fact that such corporation has filed its list of officers and directors, its designation of resident agent, and a certificate of acceptance of such resident agent.

      Sec. 4.  Section 3 of the above-entitled act, being section 1806 Nevada Compiled Laws 1929, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 3.  Every corporation hereafter organized under the laws of this state, and every foreign corporation hereafter coming into this state, shall, within sixty days after the filing of its articles of incorporation with the secretary of state, file a list of its officers and directors, a designation of its resident agent, and a certificate of acceptance signed by the resident agent so designated, and pay to the secretary of state a fee therefor of five ($5) dollars, and shall make like filing and pay the fee set forth in section 1 of this act annually thereafter.

      Sec. 5.  Section 4 of the above-entitled act, being section 1807 Nevada Compiled Laws 1929, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 4.  Any corporation required to make the filings and pay the fee herein provided, which shall refuse or neglect to do so within the time herein provided, shall be deemed in default and for such default there shall be added to the amount of the fee a penalty of $2.50, and unless such filings shall be made and such fee and penalty shall be paid on or before the first Monday in August following, the defaulting corporation shall, by reason of such default, forfeit to the State of Nevada the amount of the tax and penalty aforesaid, and shall likewise forfeit its right to transact any business within this state, and the fee and penalty shall be collected as hereinafter provided.

      Sec. 6.  This act shall become effective from and after its passage and approval.

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State quarantine officer to enforce act

Appropriation for enforcement of act

[Senate Substitute for Assembly Bill No. 177–Committee on Ways and Means]

Chap. 220–An Act to amend section 6 of an act entitled “An act to promote the development of the egg industry in this state, to prohibit the sale of eggs unfit for human food, to prevent deception in the sale of eggs, to protect the consuming public in the matter of quality and weight, and to encourage greater consumption of eggs by regulating and standardizing the grading, classification and labeling of all eggs displayed for sale; providing for the enforcement of this act; providing penalties for the violation of the provisions of this act, and repealing all acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act,” approved March 28, 1927, being section 5165 Nevada Compiled Laws 1929, and making an appropriation to carry out the provisions of said act.

[Approved March 30, 1931]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate

and Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  Section 6 of the above-entitled act, being section 5165 Nevada Compiled Laws 1929, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

      Section 6.  It shall be the duty of the state quarantine officer to enforce the provisions of this act, to make and fix grades and standards for eggs, and to make such rules and regulations as may be necessary for the enforcement of this act.

      Sec. 2.  For the purpose of supporting and carrying out the provisions of the above-entitled act and paying for the enforcement thereof since the first day of January, 1931, to the first day of July, 1931, and from the first day of July, 1931, to the first day of July, 1933, there is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of $2,900, to be expended under the direction of the state quarantine officer. All claims against this appropriation shall be approved by the state quarantine officer and the state board of examiners.

[Assembly Bill No. 15–Mr. Hussman]

Chap. 221–An Act providing for the manufacture of metal automobile license plates and road signs for the use of the State of Nevada, or other states, designating the warden of the Nevada state prison to carry out the provisions of this act, providing an appropriation therefor, and other matters relating thereto.

[Approved March 30, 1931]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate

and Assembly, do enact as follows:

      Section 1.  From and after the passage of this act it shall be the duty of the warden of the Nevada state prison, under the supervision and direction of the board of prison commissioners, to purchase, or cause to be purchased, such machinery, supplies, and equipment as may be necessary to manufacture the necessary automobile license plates and road signs to be used by and for the State of Nevada, or other states, and to install the same in some suitable place or building at the Nevada state prison for the manufacture and production of said plates and signs. Said plates and signs shall be manufactured in such quantities and dimensions as may be necessary for the needs of the State of Nevada, or other states, and said warden shall deliver said plates and signs to the proper departments of the State of Nevada to be used in accordance with the laws of this state.

      Sec. 2.  For the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of section 1 of this act there is hereby appropriated out of the motor vehicle license fund the sum of $17,000.

      Sec. 3.  The said warden shall file all vouchers for expenditures in carrying out the provisions of this act with the state board of examiners who shall approve the same, and the state controller is hereby authorized and directed to draw his warrant on the state treasurer for such sums, and the state treasurer shall pay the same.

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

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

Warden to purchase machinery and supplies

Appropriation $17,000

Board of examiners to approve all claims

Repeal

In effect

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