by inspector, when

SEC. 8. Each inspector must inspect all the horses, cattle, Bill of health and hogs, within the district assigned to him, when so ordered by the board, and must make and issue certificate or bill of health for all of said stock whose owners have complied with the law and the orders, rules, and regulations made and adopted by the board, describing the stock with the marks and brands thereon, which shall entitle the owner or agent in charge to pass with such stock from one district to another in the state. The inspector shall immediately file with the board a duplicate of all certificates issued by him. The term "stock" shall include horses, cattle, and hogs.

"Stock" defined

Board may be notified of disease in stock

regulations

must be promptly made

SEC. 9. Whenever any stock shall become infected with any infectious or contagious disease, the owner or agent in charge, the inspector appointed as herein provided, or any practicing veterinary, must immediately notify the board and the state quarantine officer.

SEC. 10. When stock is found diseased, regulation for their Quarantine quarantine must be made at once by the state quarantine officer, upon notification by the inspector of the district where such stock is found, who must define the place and limits within which such stock may be grazed, herded, or driven, and such stock must be held in quarantine until pronounced cured from Expense of disease by the state quarantine officer. The expense of treat

treatment

paid by

Owner

Stock vaccinated

on order of board

Entry of foreign stock into state; board must be notified

Exception

Infected

ing, feeding, and taking care of all stock quarantined under the provisions of this act must be paid for by the owner or agent in charge of such stock; and such expense shall be a lien upon such stock until paid.

SEC. 11. All stock must be vaccinated when necessary at such time as may be ordered by the board. Any person, firm, company or corporation refusing to comply with and observe the provisions of this act or the orders, rules and regulations of said stock board shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and liable to the fines and punishment hereinafter provided.

SEC. 12. When any owner or person in charge of stock shall bring such stock into this state, before entering from an adjoining state or territory, for the purpose of grazing, or feeding, they shall notify the board and state quarantine officer, in writing, of such fact immediately before entering the state, stating the time when and the place where such stock shall enter; provided, however, that stock in transit on the cars shall not be required to give notice unless they shall remain in the state, or are unloading to feed and rest for a longer period than forty-eight hours.

SEC. 13. In no case shall any stock suffering from contagious or infectious diseases be removed from one point to another stock not to within any district, or from one district to another without a written permit from the board and state quarantine officer.

be moved

Secretary

of board; salary

SEC. 14. The said board shall appoint a secretary, prescribe his duties, and fix his salary at a sum not to exceed eight hundred ($800) dollars the year, payable as the salaries of other

state officers are paid.

Said secretary to hold his position

during the pleasure of the board.

how paid

SEC. 15. Whenever any inspector files in the office of the Inspectors, state controller proper vouchers, duly approved by the board setting forth:

1. The name of such inspector;

2. The kind and nature of service rendered;

3. The particular locality where the work was done;

4. The length of time employed;

5. The number of stock inspected and the name of the owner or person in charge of such stock;

6. The disease or diseases treated, and the number treated for each disease, and the length of time of such treatment; 7. The amount claimed for such services;

Then and in such case, the state controller must draw a warrant in favor of such inspector, payable out of the moneys in the stock inspection fund.

SEC. 16. That the sum of ten thousand dollars is hereby $10,000 appropriated; to appropriated, out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated, be repaid from the general fund, for the purpose of carrying this act into effect. All moneys so appropriated to be returned into the general fund from such taxes as may be levied upon the stock as herein provided.

violation of

SEC. 17. Any person who violates any provision of this act, Penalty for or who disregards any order or direction made by the board or act inspectors in accordance therewith, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine not exceeding three hundred dollars ($300), or by imprisonment not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

cooperate

veterinary

SEC. 18. The state board of stock commissioners shall act Board to in conjunction with the state veterinary control service of the with state University of Nevada in the general enforcement of rules and control regulations looking to the diagnosis, control, eradication, and service of university prevention of infectious, contagious or communicable diseases of domesticated animals, as included in this act. In so far as the duty imposed by the board of stock commissioners requires a regulation of interstate and intrastate movement of domesticated animals infected with, or which have been exposed to, infectious, contagious, or communicable diseases, the board shall act in conjunction with the state veterinary control service department of the University of Nevada; and the laboratory of the said state veterinary control service department of the University of Nevada shall be at the service of the said state board of stock commissioners, to render such scientific assistance as it can, in order to accomplish the purposes contemplated in this act. Whenever any of the employees in the department of the state veterinary control service of the University of Nevada are employed upon duty required of them by the said state board University of stock commissioners, they shall be paid, from the stock paid from inspection fund, for their services, pro rata as to the time which stock fund

employees

Board may

summon

witnesses, employ

has been spent in this service, and at a rate which shall compensate them on the same basis of salary or wages paid to them regularly by the board of regents of the University of Nevada.

SEC. 19. The board may take all necessary and lawful steps, procure all necessary and lawful process for the attendance of witnesses, and employ counsel to assist in the prosecution of counsel, etc. any person guilty of any offense against the laws of this state in feloniously branding or stealing any stock, or any other crime, or misdemeanor, under any of the laws of the state for the protection of the rights and interests of stock owners, and it is the duty of the board to make rules and regulations governing the recording and use of livestock brands.

to appoint inspectors and detectives

SEC. 20.

The state board of stock cominissioners may State board appoint such stock inspectors and detectives as are necessary for the protection of the livestock interests of the state, and the inspectors and detectives have the same power as sheriffs to summon a posse when necessary, and to make arrests. The stock inspectors and detectives may, when deputized by the sheriff, exercise the powers of deputy sheriff, but must not receive any fee or emolument therefor from the state or any county.

Duties of

stock inspectors and

detectives

SEC. 21.

It is the duty of the stock inspectors and detectives to arrest all persons who in their presence violate the stock laws of the state, and every stock inspector and detective, upon information that any person has committed any offense against the laws of the state in feloniously branding or stealing any stock or any offense against the laws of the state, for the protection of the rights and interests of stock owners, must make the necessary affidavit for the arrest and examination of such person, and, upon warrant issued therefor, immediately arrest such person, and bring him before the proper officer, and notify the board of his acts. Said inspectors shall also inspect all stock or cattle about to be shipped from the state, and the consignor, upon demand, shall establish fully his title to such stock.

CHAP. 269-An Act to amend section 139 of "An act concerning public schools, and repealing certain acts relating thereto," approved March 20, 1911.

[Approved March 26, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Section 139 of an act entitled "An act concerning public schools, and repealing certain acts relating thereto, approved March 20, 1911, is hereby amended to read as follows:

Section 139. The board of county commissioners of each

missioners

school tax

county shall, annually, at the time of levying other county County comtaxes, levy a county school tax, not to exceed fifty cents on must levy each one hundred dollars valuation of taxable property, which county tax shall be added to the county tax and collected in the same manner, and paid into the county treasury as a special deposit, to be drawn in the same manner, as other public-school moneys; and should said county commissioners fail or neglect to levy said tax as required it shall be the duty of the county auditor Auditor to add such tax as the superintendent of public instruction when may deem sufficient, not exceeding fifty cents on each one hundred dollars valuation of taxable property in the county, to the assessment roll, to be collected as specified in this section.

to add tax,

CHAP. 270-An Act to amend section nineteen of an act entitled "An Act to incorporate the town of Sparks, in Washoe County, and defining the boundaries thereof, and to authorize the establishing the boundaries thereof, and to authorize the establishing of a city government therefor, and other matters relating thereto."

[Approved March 26, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

charter of

SECTION 1. Section nineteen of the act entitled "An act to Amending incorporate the town of Sparks, in Washoe County; and defin- town of ing the boundaries thereof, approved March 15, 1905, is hereby Sparks amended to read as follows:

Section 19. The city council shall have power:

First-To fix the place of its meetings and the time for Powers and calling same to order, and to judge of the qualifications and duties of election of its own members.

Second-To make and pass all ordinances, resolutions, and orders not repugnant to the constitution of the United States or the State of Nevada, or to the provisions of this charter, necessary for the municipal government and the management of the city affairs, for the execution of all the powers vested in said city, and for making effective the provisions of this charter. Third-To levy and collect, annually, a tax of not to exceed one per cent upon the assessed value of all real and personal property within the city, and which is by law taxable for state and county purposes.

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

Fifth-To lay out and extend, change the grade, open, vacate, and alter the streets and alleys within the city, and

city council of Sparks

Powers and city council

duties of

of Sparks

may order, require, and provide for macadamizing, oiling, curbing, graveling, grading and regrading, paving, draining, cleaning, repairing, lighting, surfacing, and widening of any highway, street, or alley, or in any way improving such highway, street, or alley; also to provide for the improvement and preservation of the city parks, and the construction, repair, and preservation of all sidewalks, crossings, bridges, drains, curbs, gutters, and sewers; to prevent and remove any nuisance or obstruction or unlawful or unauthorized use of any street, alley, or sidewalk, crossing, bridge, drain, gutter, or sewer in the said city, and to provide for the numbering of the houses therein.

Whenever the city council shall determine to make any public construction, improvement, or repairs in the laying of pavements, sidewalks, courts, parks, ditches, drains, sewers, or rights of way, or any portions thereof, and defray the whole or any part of the expense thereof by special assessment upon the lands and premises fronting on or benefited by such improvement, the city council shall first pass a resolution of intention so to do, referring to the street by its official name, or the name by which it is commonly known, and briefly describing the work or improvements proposed. Said resolution of intention shall be published twice in some daily, semiweekly, or weekly newspaper published and circulated in the city and designated by said council for that purpose.

The city council may include in one proceeding, under one resolution of intention, and in one contract, any of the different kinds of work mentioned in this act, and any number of streets and rights of way or portions thereof, and it may except therefrom any of the said work already done upon a street to be the official grade. The lots and portions of lots fronting upon said excepted work already done shall not be included in the frontage assessment for the class of work from which the exception is made.

Within one day after the adoption of the resolution of intention the city clerk shall cause to be posted along the line of the contemplated work or improvement at least three notices headed "Notice of Improvement, in letters of not less than one inch in length; the said notices shall state the fact of the passage of the resolution of intention, its date, and briefly describe the work or improvement proposed, and refer to the resolution of intention for further particulars, and record and proof of such posting shall be made a part of the record of the proceedings.

At any time within ten days from the date of the second publication of the resolution of intention any owner of or person having any interest in property liable to be assessed for said work or improvement may make written protest against the proposed work or improvement being done. Such protest must be in writing and delivered to the city clerk, who shall immediately mark the date of the filing thereon.