Board of regents may such terms and conditions as said board of regents may deterlease suita- mine, a farm, at or near Reno, to be used by said university as a college farm for the service of the college of agriculture and its various departments. ble college farm $10,000 appropriated Duties of controller and treasurer SEC. 2. The sum of ten thousand ($10,000) dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any funds not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act. SEC. 3. The state controller is hereby authorized to draw his warrant on the state treasury for the amount of this claim. or any part thereof, when approved by the state board of examiners and the state treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same. "Motor vehicle" defined Proviso Owners to file statement with state filings, when CHAP. 230—An Act regulating automobiles or motor vehicles on public roads, highways, parks, or parkways, streets and avenues, within the State of Nevada; providing a license for the operation thereof, and prescribing penalties for its violation; designating the manner of handling the receipts therefrom, and the purpose for which it may be expended, and in what manner, and repealing an act of the same title, approved March 24, 1913. [Approved March 24, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Defining the term "motor vehicle": The term "motor vehicle, used in this act, shall, for the purposes of this act, unless the same be contrary to or inconsistent with the context, be construed to include all vehicles propelled by any power other than muscular power; provided, that nothing herein contained shall, except the provisions of section 11 of this act, apply to traction engines, road-rollers, street cars, railway motors, or railway locomotives. SEC. 2. The owner of every automobile, motorcycle, or other similar motor vehicle shall, within ten days after the acquisi tion of the same, file with the secretary of state a statement of secretary of his name and address, with a brief description of the vehicle to be registered, including the name of the maker, factory Subsequent number, style of vehicle, and motor power. Subsequent filings shall be made by each owner of any motor vehicle on or before the first Monday in February of each year. The annual filing Annual filing fee shall be as follows: For every automobile of twenty horsepower or less, three dollars; for every automobile between twenty-one and forty horsepower, inclusive, five dollars and fifty cents; for every automobile over forty horsepower, eight dollars. The annual filing fee of motorcycles shall be three dollars. Such fee shall cover state automobile and motorcycle licenses as from January 1 to December 31 of each year; provided, that all automobiles or motorcycles purchased or fees classi fied acquired after the first day of July shall only be required to pay for one-half of year. SEC. 3. The secretary of state shall keep a record of all Record kept-license statements filed with him in accordance with section 2 of this plates act, and shall also keep a record of all license plates issued by him, as provided hereinafter. license SEC. 4. Immediately upon receipt of proper statement and Official remittance, the secretary of state shall issue and deliver to the owner of such automobile or motorcycle so registered an official license number plate. The number plates shall be of a distinctly different color or shade for each year, to be designated or selected by the secretary of state, so as to make a certain color represent a certain year, and the number assigned to said motor vehicle shall be on said official number plate, and said official number plates shall be the official state licenses. SEC. 5. Every motor vehicle shall also at all times have the Said plates number assigned to it displayed on the back of such vehicle must always be displayed in such manner as to be plainly visible, the numbers to be in Arabic numerals, light on dark background, each not less than three inches in height, and each stroke to be of a width of not less than half an inch, and also as a part of such number the abbreviated name of the state in light or dark background, such letters to be not less than one inch in height. for sale and cles SEC. 6. Upon the sale or exchange of ownership of a motor Regulations vehicle, previously registered for the year, the vendor shall exchange of immediately have this change noted on the records of the motor vehioffice of the secretary of state. In case the vendor wishes to retain the same number, then section 2 of this act shall govern. SEC. 7. No motor vehicle shall be used or operated upon Fictitious the public highways of this state after this act takes effect which shall display thereon a license plate or number belonging to another vehicle or fictitious license plate or number. license plate unlawful Nonresident 30 days; SEC. 8. Nonresident owners of motor vehicles are exempt owners from the provisions of this act for a period of thirty consecu- exempt for tive days at any time; provided, the owners have complied with proviso any law requiring the registration of owners of motor vehicles in force in the state, territory, or federal district of their residence, and the registration number and initials or abbreviation of the state, territory, or federal district shall be displayed on such vehicle substantially as provided in this act. regulated SEC. 9. No person shall operate a motor vehicle on a public Speed highway at a rate of speed greater than is reasonable and proper, having regard to the traffic and use of the highway, or so as to endanger the life or limb of any person or the safety of any property. drivers must SEC. 10. Every person having control or charge of any Motor motor vehicle upon any public highway and approaching any defer to vehicle drawn by a horse or horses, or any horse upon which horsemen any person is riding, shall operate, manage, and control such motor vehicle in such manner as to exercise every reasonable precaution to prevent the frightening of any such horse or Motor vehicles must have efficient brakes, proper lights at night, etc.; exceptions Motorcycle must carry at night horses, and to insure the safety and protection of any person riding or driving the same. And if such horse or horses appear frightened, the person in control of such motor vehicle shall reduce its speed, and if requested by a signal or otherwise by the driver of such horse or horses, shall not proceed further toward such animal or animals unless such movement be necessary to avoid accident or injury, or until such animal or animals appear to be under the control of the driver or rider. SEC. 11. Every motor vehicle while in use on a public highway shall be provided with good and efficient brakes, and also with a suitable horn or other signal. Every motor vehicle other than motorcycles must exhibit, during the period from one hour after sunset to one hour before sunrise, two lamps showing white lights, visible within a reasonable distance in the direction toward which such vehicle is proceeding, and also a red light, visible in the reverse direction; provided, excep tions noted in section 1 of this act are required to show only one white light in the direction toward which such vehicle is proceeding; and provided further, exceptions also noted in section 12 of this act. SEC. 12. Every motorcycle while in use shall carry during the period from one hour after sunset to one hour before sunproper lights rise, and whenever fog or other atmospheric conditions render the use of the highway by vehicles unusually dangerous to the traffic and use of the highway, at least one lighted lamp showing a white light, visible under normal atmospheric conditions at least two hundred feet in the direction toward which the motorcycle is proceeding, and shall also carry at the rear of such motorcycle one red light, or one red reflex mirror, plainly visible from the rear. Rule of the road in cities and towns equally applied to all vehicles SEC. 13. The driver of every motor vehicle shall turn to the right in meeting other vehicles, teams, horses, and persons moving or headed in an opposite direction, and turn to the left in passing other vehicles, teams, horses, and persons moving or headed in the same direction. SEC. 14. The local authorities of incorporated or unincorSpeed limit porated cities or towns may regulate, by ordinance, rule, or regulation hereafter adopted, the speed of motor vehicles within the limits of such cities or towns, on condition that such ordinance, rule, or regulation shall also fix the same speed limitation on all other vehicles, such speed limitation not to be in Not less than any case less than one mile in five minutes; and also on further condition that such ordinance, rule, or regulation shall fix the penalties for violation thereof similar to and no greater than those fixed by such local authorities for violation of speed limitation by any vehicle other than motor vehicles. 12 miles an hour certificate of SEC. 15. Every manufacturer of, or dealer in automobiles, Blanket motorcycles, or other similar motor vehicles, may, instead of registration registering each automobile, motorcycle, or other similar motor for dealers, vehicle owned or controlled by him, make application upon a blank furnished by the secretary of state for a general dis etc. tinguishing number, and said secretary of state shall issue to the applicant one certificate of registration, containing the name, place of business, address of the applicant, and general distinguishing number, and shall also issue and deliver to such applicant four official number plates of such design as said secretary of state shall determine. SEC. 16. All automobiles, motorcycles, or other motor General distinguishing vehicles owned or controlled by such manufacturer or dealer, number except those for his own private use, shall, until sold or let for plates hire, be regarded as registered under such general distinguishing number, which must be displayed at all times upon such automobiles, motorcycles, or other motor vehicles, while being operated on public highways of this state in the manner herein provided. ished for SEC. 17. Any manufacturer or dealer who shall knowingly Dealer punpermit the use of any such number upon any automobile, abuse of motorcycle, or any similar motor vehicle owned or controlled privilege by any other person, shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars. SEC. 18. It shall be the duty of every manufacturer or Dealer to dealer aforesaid to notify the secretary of state of any change notify in his address or firm name. registration SEC. 19. The fee for such registration, together with the Blanket four official distinguishing numbers, shall be ten dollars for fee, $10 each garage. numbers SEC. 20. Additional duplicate general distinguishing num- Duplicate bers may be obtained by any such manufacturer or dealer upon application to the secretary of state and the payment of an additional duplicate of not exceeding one dollar to cover the cost thereof. autos for SEC. 21. This act shall in no wise affect any statute now Not to affect existent or that may hereafter be enacted providing for a hire license number on automobiles for hire. act, misde SEC. 22. Excepting as in this act otherwise expressly Violations of provided, any person violating any of its provisions shall be meanor; deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, penalty unless in this act otherwise expressly provided, shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding thirty days, or both, for the first offense; and punishable by fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding thirty days, or both, for a second offense; and punishable by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more than two hundred and fifty dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding thirty days, or both, for a third or subsequent offense. enforce SEC. 23. It is hereby made the duty of the sheriff in each Sheriff must county in the state to enforce all provisions of this act relative to the operation of motor vehicles, and if he knowingly neglects or refuses to do so, for each offense, he shall be subject to a fine of twenty ($20) dollars. SEC. 24. Fees received by the secretary of state, as in this Fees under aet paid to automobile road repair fund of the several counties Actual expenses paid from said fund repealed act provided, shall be paid semiannually into the treasuries of the counties whence they were received, to be there placed in an "Automobile Road Repair Fund" to be disbursed at such times in such amounts, and in such manner as the respective boards of county commissioners may direct. SEC. 25. For the purpose of defraying actual expenses in procuring license tags and record books, and for the payment of necessary postage and incidental expenses, the "Automobile Road Fund" heretofore created shall be subject only to claims made by the secretary of state for such expenditures, said claims not to exceed the sum of eight hundred dollars in any one year. Claims for such expenditures shall be made in the same manner as other state claims, and when favorably passed upon by the state board of examiners, shall constitute legal claims against the state, for which the state controller is directed to draw his warrants and the state treasurer is instructed to pay the same. SEC. 26. An act regulating automobiles or motor vehicles Previous act on public roads, highways, parks or parkways, streets and avenues, within the State of Nevada, providing a license for the operation thereof and prescribing penalties for its violation; designating the manner of handling the receipts therefrom and the purpose for which it may be expended and in what manner, approved March 24, 1913, is hereby repealed. In effect, Text-book SEC. 27. This act shall take effect from and after January 1, 1916. CHAP. 231-An Act to amend an act entitled "An act concerning public schools, and repealing certain acts relating thereto," approved March 20, 1911. [Approved March 24, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section one hundred sixty-five of the aboveentitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 165. The text-book commission shall have power to make such contracts for the purchase and use of text-books in the name of the state as it shall deem necessary for the contracts for interests of the public schools. Such contracts shall set forth commission to make prices of text-books the introductory, exchange, and retail price of each text-book, and such prices shall not be less favorable than the prices at which such books are sold in any other state. And the contracts shall also provide that the state or any school district may purchase its books direct from the publishers of the same. In case payment for said books is delayed more than sixty days after delivery thereof, the account shall draw interest at the rate of six per cent per annum from the date of delivery until paid. |