business in the middle of any quarter, or any part of a quarter, then said person, firm, association, or corporation shall be required to pay only for the unexpired portion of the quarter, and said licenses shall be so arranged as to have said license fall and become due on the beginning of a quarter, and the sheriff and auditor shall have the right to issue a license for a fractional quarter so as to have all licenses fall due at the beginning of a quarter as herein provided. How Provided and Distributed. provide SEC. 28. The county auditor shall cause to be printed a Auditor to sufficient number of blank licenses mentioned (except as other- license forms wise provided for in this act) for the purposes herein mentioned. Each license shall also contain a blank receipt to be signed by the sheriff on the delivery of such license to the purchaser thereof. The county auditor shall hand over to the treasurer of the county a sufficient number of blanks for the use of the county, which shall be charged to the treasurer on the auditor's books. The treasurer shall countersign the same and deliver them to the county auditor, taking his receipt therefor. Auditor to Furnish License-To Be Fully Made Out-Statement of Sheriff. deliver SEC. 29. Excepting as is herein otherwise provided the Auditor to auditor shall, from time to time, deliver to the sheriff as many licenses to of such licenses as may be required, and shall sign the same sheriff and charge them to the sheriff; provided, that before signing or delivering any license to the sheriff, the auditor shall fill out the license in full, stating therein to whom said license is issued, the kind of business authorized to be carried on under the license, the dates when said license begins and expires, and the amount of money to be paid therefor, and shall, at the same time, make proper entries upon the stubs in the license book. Whenever any license is returned by the sheriff unsold, the auditor shall cancel and file the license, and note the fact and date of such return and cancelation upon the stub thereof. No board of county commissioners shall audit or allow any claim in favor of a sheriff until there shall be filed with said board the certified statement of the auditor that all settlements required by this act have been made by said sheriff. The amount of all licenses issued to the sheriff and not accounted for shall be deducted before any claim shall be allowed to a sheriff. Sheriff to Pay-Duties of Auditor-Liability of Sheriff. license county SEC. 30. On the first Monday in each month (except as Sheriff to herein otherwise provided) the sheriff shall pay over to the pay all treasurer all moneys received by him for licenses and take money to from the treasurer duplicate receipts therefor, and he shall treasurer immediately on the same day return to the county auditor all licenses not issued or disposed of by him, and the county auditor shall credit him with the amount so returned; also, the receipts of money paid to the county treasurer, which receipts shall be filed with the county auditor. The county auditor shall charge the treasurer therefor, and open a new account with the sheriff for the next month; and it is hereby Sheriff liable made the duty of each sheriff in his county to demand that all persons required to procure licenses in accordance with this act, take out, and pay for the same, and he shall be held liable on his official bond for all moneys due for such licenses remaining uncollected by reason of his negligence. All licenses Disposition of License Moneys. SEC. 31. All moneys received from licenses under the provisions of this act shall be paid into the county treasury and county gen- credited to the general county fund, except in those cases where other specific disposition is made thereof herein. to go to eral fund; exception Bogus licenses, possession of, a felony Possession of Bogus License a Felony. SEC. 32. If either the county treasurer, county auditor, sheriff, or any other person, shall issue, have in his possession with intent to issue or put in circulation, any other licenses than those properly issued to the sheriff under the provisions of this act, the person so offending shall be guilty of a felony; and any collector who shall receive the money for a license without delivering to the person paying for the same the license paid for, or who shall insert the name of more than Certain acts one person or firm therein, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. misde meanors Incorpo rated cities And provided, that nothing in this act contained shall affect any provision of an act entitled "An act providing for the payment of a portion of the moneys collected for county licenses for the sale of liquors into the city treasury of incorporated cities within such county," approved February 17, 1893. Fee of Sheriff. SEC. 33. The sheriff, as ex officio license collector, shall Sheriff's fees receive, and is hereby authorized to retain (except when he is required to turn same into the county treasury for county purposes), as compensation for the collection of licenses, excepting sheep-grazing licenses, six per cent of the gross amount on each business license sold. Twenty per cent shall be allowed for the collection of sheep-grazing licenses according to the provisions of section 21 of this act. Insuranee licenses to state treasury No additional compensa tion Insurance Licenses To Go to State. SEC. 34. All amounts collected for fees and licenses under special "Acts to regulate insurance business in the state," shall be paid into the state treasury to the credit of the general insurance fund. No Compensation Other Than Salary. SEC. 35. For the services rendered under the provisions of this act, county assessors, auditors, and treasurers, except as specified in this act, shall receive no compensation to themselves other than the salaries fixed by law. Penalties for Violations. violation of SEC. 36. Whenever possible the civil practice act and the Penalties for criminal practice act shall be applied in the prosecution of this act all violators of the provisions of this act. Any person violating any of the provisions of this act within the degree of a felony shall, on conviction thereof, be sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison for a term not less than one nor more than four years. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this act within the degree of a misdemeanor shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than ten nor more than three hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment; provided, the penalties herein Provisos prescribed shall be in excess of any money loss or expenses incurred to or by the State of Nevada, or any county, city, town, or other municipal government within the State of Nevada, due to such violations; further provided, that any such violation on the part of any officer of the State of Nevada, or of any county, city, town, or other municipal government within the State of Nevada, shall ipso facto work a forfeiture of and vacancy in his office, such vacancy to be filled and the appointee to qualify as provided by law when vacancy occurs from other cause. In all cases of prosecutions under this act the license collector or board of county commissioners may direct suit and the district attorney shall prosecute same. In all cases of recovery by the plaintiff fifteen dollars liquidated damages shall be included in the judgment and costs, and be collected from the defendant, and five dollars thereof shall be paid to the collector of licenses and ten dollars to the district attorney prosecuting the suit. Upon the trial of any case. wherein the procurement of a proper license is in question, the defendant shall be deemed not to have procured the proper license unless he either produces it or proves that he did procure it; but he may plead in bar of a criminal action, a recovery and payment in a civil action against him, of proper license money, damages, and costs. Repealing Section. ,, repealed SEC. 37. "An act to regulate the sale of intoxicating liquors Certain acts outside the corporate limits of any incorporated city or town, approved March 25, 1913; 'An act to encourage agriculture," approved March 16, 1895; "An act defining the duties of sheriffs in relation to the filing and posting of licenses," approved March 6, 1893; "An act supplemental to an act entitled 'An act to provide revenue for the support of the government of the State of Nevada, and to repeal certain acts relating thereto,' approved March 23, 1891, and to all acts amendatory thereof, and to provide for a license upon the business of owning, raising, grazing, herding, or pasturing sheep in the several counties repealed Certain acts of the State of Nevada, and to declare a violation thereof a misdemeanor, and to provide a punishment therefor," approved March 12, 1895; "An act supplemental to an act entitled 'An act to provide revenue for the support of the government of the State of Nevada, and to repeal certain acts relating thereto,' approved March 23, 1891, and to all acts amendatory thereof, and to provide for a state license upon the business of disposing at retail or wholesale of spirituous, malt, or vinous liquors in this state, and providing penalties for violation hereof," approved March 15, 1905; "An act to amend an act entitled 'An act supplemental to an act entitled "An act to provide revenue for the support of the government of the State of Nevada, and to repeal certain acts relating thereto," approved March 23, 1891, and to all acts amendatory thereof, and to provide for a state license upon the business of disposing at retail or wholesale of spirituous, malt, or vinous liquors in this state, and providing penalties for violation hereof,' approved March 15, 1905," approved March 24, 1913; "An act empowering boards of county commissioners, town trustees, or city boards to revoke and discontinue business licenses, under certain conditions," approved March 10, 1903; "An act licensing the sale of cigarettes and cigarette paper, and other matters pertaining thereto," approved March 1, 1897; "An act fixing and regulating licenses on automobiles, and providing a penalty for a violation thereof," approved March 6, 1909; "An act forbidding the collection of licenses from drummers and traveling salesmen, from manufactories, jobbers, and wholesale houses located in the State of Nevada," approved March 29, 1907; And sections 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, and 149 of an act entitled "An act to provide revenue for the support of the government of the State of Nevada, and to repeal certain acts relating thereto," approved March 23, 1891; and All other acts or parts of acts in conflict herewith, are hereby repealed. CHAP. 179-An Act to amend section 17 of an act entitled “An act to create a state board of health, defining their duties, prescribing the manner of the appointments of its officers, fixing their compensation, making an appropriation for the support of said board, establishing county boards of health, requiring certain statements to be filed, defining certain misdemeanors, and providing penalties therefor, and other matters relating thereto," approved March 27, 1911. [Approved March 22, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section seventeen of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows: statistics managers of etc. Section 17. (a) That all superintendents or managers, or Certain other persons in charge of hospitals, almshouses, lying-in or other institutions, public or private, to which persons resort from for treatment of diseases, confinement, or are committed by hospitals, process of law, are hereby required to make a record of all the personal and statistical particulars relative to the inmates in their institutions at the date of the approval of this act, that are required in the forms of the certificates provided for by this act, as directed by the state board of health; and thereafter such record shall be, by them, made for all future inmates at the time of their admission. And in case of persons admitted or committed for medical treatment of disease, the physician in charge shall specify for entry in the record, the nature of the disease, and where, in his opinion, it was contracted. The personal, particulars and information required by this section shall be obtained from the individual himself, if it is practicable to do so; and when they cannot be so obtained, they shall be secured in as complete a manner as possible from relatives, friends, or other persons acquainted with the facts. (b) It shall be the duty of every attending physician to Doctors must forthwith report to the local health officer each and every case contagious of scarlet fever, smallpox, diphtheria, and membranous croup, diseases typhus and typhoid fever, foyer and whooping cough, measles, chickenpox, pneumonia, tuberculosis, bronchitis, acute enterior poliomyolitis, cerebro-spinal meningitis, diarrheal diseases of children, cancer, puerperal septicemia, mumps, and Rocky Mountain (tick) fever, and the local health officer shall make a record thereof. Any attending physician who shall fail or neglect to forthwith report to the local health officer any case of scarlet fever, smallpox, diphtheria, and membranous croup, typhus and typhoid fever, foyer and whooping cough, measles, chickenpox, pneumonia, tuberculosis, bronchitis, acute enterior poliomyolitis, cerebro-spinal meningitis, diarrheal diseases of children, cancer, puerperal septicemia, mumps, and Rocky Mountain (tick) fever shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by fine of not less report all |