may be made shall give to the Nevada industrial commission a good and sufficient surety deposit bond guaranteeing said Nevada industrial commission against any loss of said deposit by reason of 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 Members the duties of his office, shall take the oath prescribed by the official oath constitution, and shall give good and sufficient bond running to the State of Nevada, in the penal sum of ten thousand dol- Bond, $10,000 lars, conditioned that he shall faithfully 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. commission (e) The commission shall have a seal upon which shall be Seal for inscribed the words "Nevada Industrial Commission-State 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. SEC. 13. Section 41 of the said act is hereby amended to read as follows: Nevada, receives same com Section 41. If a workman or employee within the pro- Injury visions of this act, who has been hired in this state, and whose outside of usual and ordinary duties of such employment are confined when to the state, is sent out of the state on business or employment of his employer, and receives personal injury by accident pensation arising out of and in the course of such employment, he shall be entitled to receive compensation according to the provisions of this act, even though such injury was received outside of this state. SEC. 14. Section 43 of the said act is hereby amended to read as follows: and domestic Section 43. This act shall apply to all employers of labor Farm labor in the State of Nevada and their employees and dependents service of their employees, but excludes any employee engaged in excluded farm or agricultural labor, stock or poultry raising, or household domestic service; and no contract of employment, insurance, relief benefit, or indemnity, or any other device shall modify, change, or waive any liability created by this act; and such contract of employment, insurance, relief benefit, Contracts do or indemnity, or other device, having for its purpose the compensawaiver or modification of the terms or liability created by this tion act, shall be void. not vitiate Sheep inspector must be notified in advance of arrival of foreign sheep Sheep in transit on railroad excepted Repeal Commission form of gov ernment for towns and cities election-15 members constitute commission CHAP. 191-An Act to amend section 12 of an act entitled "An act regulating the sheep industry in the State of Nevada, creating a state board of sheep commissioners, defining their duties and prescribing their compensation," approved March 26, 1907, being section 4597 of the Revised Laws of Nevada, 1912. [Approved March 22, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section 12 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 12. When any owner or person in charge of sheep shall bring such sheep into this state, entering from an adjoining state or territory for the purpose of grazing, such owner or person in charge shall notify the board, or any inspector or deputy, in writing, of such fact immediately before entering the state, stating the time when and the place where such sheep shall enter; provided, however, that sheep in transit on the cars shall not be required to be noticed unless they shall remain in the state, or are unloading to feed and rest for a longer period than forty-eight hours; and provided further, that it shall be the duty of any inspector, or deputy, to forthwith notify the sheriff of the county wherein such sheep have entered, or of any sheep from any other state or territory found trespassing within the state. Such notification shall be made by registered mail, in writing, or by telephone, or telegraph, or in person. SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. CHAP. 192-An Act to provide for the commission form of government for cities and towns. [Approved March 22, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Any city or town in the State of Nevada may adopt the commission form of government and frame its own charter therefor. SEC. 2. Whenever the qualified voters of any city or town desiring to adopt a commission form of government so declare Petition for their desire by filing with the legislative authority of such city or town, if incorporated, and if not incorporated by filing with the county commissioners of the county in which such city or town is located, a petition having the signatures of one-fourth of the qualified voters, voting at the last city or precinct election, embraced in the territory to be incorporated, if not incorporated, such legislative authority or county commissioners shall, within twenty days after ascertaining that such petition contains the required number of signatures of the qualified electors therein, call an election, by ordinance or resolution, of the voters of such city or town, to be held therein, for the purpose of electing fifteen qualified electors, who shall have been residents Qualificaof said city or town for the period of at least two years preceding their election, for the purpose of framing a charter for such city or town, having for its objects the commission form of government therefor. tions by petition SEC. 3. Nominations for such electors shall be made by Nominated petition of one-fifth of the qualified voters of such city or of 20 per cent town, and such nominations must be made and filed with the of voters legislative authority of such city or town at least five days before the day of election as provided for in section 2 of this act, and the names of all candidates so filed shall be placed upon the official ballots to be voted at such election, which election shall be conducted under the general election laws of the state. returns of to frame adoption or SEC. 4. Within five days from the date of such election the Canvass of legislative authority of such city or town, if incorporated, or the election county commissioners, if unincorporated, shall meet and canvass the returns of such election and declare the result thereof and issue election certificates to the fifteen having the highest vote therefor. It shall be the duty of the persons so elected to convene within ten days after the election and frame a charter for such Commission city or town; and within thirty days thereafter they, or a charter majority of them, shall submit such character to the legislative authority of such city or town or county commissioners, who shall, within five days thereafter, cause the same to be published in a newspaper published in said city or town, or in the county, if a newspaper be published therein, and if no newspaper be published in said city or town or county, by posting copies thereof in three of the most public places of such city or Election for town, for the period of thirty days; and upon the affidavit of rejection of such publisher or of the person posting the same being filed charter with the clerk of such city or town, if incorporated, or with the county clerk, if unincorporated, showing a complete compliance with the above provision, that the same has been published or posted for the period of thirty days, which affidavit shall be made immediately after the last publication, if published and immediately after the posting, if posted, the legislative authority of such city or town, or the county commissioners in cases of unincorporated towns, shall, within five days thereafter provide for the submission thereof to the qualified voters of such city or town, giving at least ten, and not to exceed twenty, days notice in three conspicious places in said city or town or embraced in the territory to be incorporated, which notice shall specify the object for which said election is called. Said election shall be conducted under the general election laws of the state and of the city or town. The form of ballot at such election shall be: "For the proposed charter" "Against the Alternative proposition Charter becomes when proposed charter" In submitting such proposed charter, or amendments thereto, any alternative article or proposition may be presented for the choice of the voters of such city or town and may be voted on separately without prejudice to others. In submitting such amendments, article, or proposition the form of ballot shall be: "For Article No. of the charter" "Against Article No. of the charter" SEC. 5. The officers conducting such election shall make returns thereof within the time and in the manner provided organic law, by the election laws of such city or town or the state election laws, and the vote thereof shall be canvassed and the result declared as provided by such laws; and if upon such canvass it shall be found that a majority of the votes so cast at such election were cast in favor of the ratification of such charter, the same shall become the organic law of said city or town, and shall supersede any existing charter, and all amendments thereto and all special laws inconsistent therewith, when authenticated, recorded, and attested as herein provided. The mayor or the board of county commissioners of such city or town shall, thereupon, attach to said charter a certificate in substance as follows: Form of certificate I, - 9 mayor (or chairman of the board of county commissioners, as the case may be) of ----do hereby certify that in accordance with the terms and provisions of section eight of article VIII of the constitution, and the laws of the State of Nevada, the of a ---9 city or town of of the city duly caused day of fifteen quali; 19. election to be held on the___. 19, for the purpose of electing fied electors to prepare a charter for the city of that due notice of such election was given in the manner provided by law; that on the ------- day of --said election was held, and the votes cast thereat were duly canvassed by the legislative authority of said city or town, and the following-named persons were declared duly elected to prepare and propose a charter for said city or town of That thereafter, to wit, on the day of -9 19__, said board of electors duly returned a proposed charter for the city or town of signed by the following members thereof, to wit: That thereafter such proposed charter was duly published in a newspaper, or posted in three of the most public places in said city or town, to wit: For a period of thirty days, said publication in said newspaper commencing on the day day election duly 19__, or was posted on the --- called by the legislative authority of such city or town, the proposed charter was submitted to the qualified electors thereof, and the returns of such election were duly canvassed by the legislative authority thereof at a meeting held on the____ day of 19, and the result of said election Form of For said proposed charter, - votes. Majority was found to be as follows: certificate recorded Such charter shall immediately thereafter be recorded by Charter the clerk of said city or town in a book to be provided and kept for that purpose and known as the charter book of the city or town of... --, and when so recorded shall be attested by the clerk and mayor of said city or town under the corporate seal thereof, and thereafter any and all amendments to said charter shall be in a like manner recorded and attested, and when so recorded and attested all courts in Judicial this state shall take judicial notice of said charter and all notice, when amendments thereto. such charter conferred by of state SEC. 6. Any such city or town having adopted such a City with charter shall have, under said charter, all of the powers has all enumerated in the general laws of the state for the incor- powers poration of cities and towns, and such other powers necessary general laws and not in conflict with the constitution and laws of the State of Nevada to carry out the commission form of government; and such charter, when submitted, shall fix the number of commissioners, their terms of office, and their duties and compensation, and shall provide for all necessary appointive and elective officers, for the form of government therein provided, and fix their salaries and emoluments, their duties and powers, and shall fix the time for the first and subsequent elections for all elective officers, and after such first election and the qualification of the officers thereat elected the old officers, and all houses, boards, or officers shall be abolished, together with the emoluments thereof, and shall cease to exist; and if this form of government shall be adopted by any unincorporated city or town, the county commissioners shall fix the boundaries of such new city or town in accordance with the petition therefor, and shall, by resolution, declare such city or town duly incorporated under the provisions of this act. SEC. 7. Any city or town adopting a charter under the pro- Same visions of this act shall have all of the powers which are now or may hereafter be conferred upon incorporated cities and towns by the laws of the state, and all such powers as are usually exercised by municipal corporations of like character and degree, whether the same shall be specifically enumerated in this act or not. |