Schedules

of public

be open for

public inspection

Must be filed with

Joint schedules

No change except on 30

Section 11. Every public utility shall file with the commission within a time to be fixed by the commission, schedules utilities must which shall be open to public inspection, showing all rates, tolls, and charges which it has established and which are in force at the time for any service performed or product furnished in connection therewith by any public utility controlled or operated by it. In connection with such schedule, and as a part of it, shall also be filed rules and regulations that in commission any manner affect the rates charged or to be charged for any service or product. A copy or so much of said schedules as the commission shall deem necessary for the use of the public shall be printed in plain type and posted in every station or office of such public utility where payments are made by the consumers or users, open to the public, in such form and place as to be readily accessible to the public and conveniently inspected. When a schedule of joint rates or charges is, or may be, in force between two or more public utilities, such schedule shall, in like manner, be printed and filed with the commission, and so much thereof as the commission may deem necessary for the use of the public shall be posted conspicuously in every station or office as in this section above provided. No changes shall thereafter be made in any schedule, includdays notice ing schedules of joint rates, or in the rules and regulations affecting any and all rates or charges, except upon thirty days' notice to the commission, and all such changes shall be plainly indicated, or by filing new schedules in lieu thereof thirty days Proviso as to prior to the time the same are to take effect; provided, that reduction in the commission, upon application of any public utility, may prescribe a less time within which a reduction may be made. Copies of all new or amended schedules shall be filed and posted in the stations and offices of public utilities as in the case of original schedules; provided, whenever there shall be filed with the commission any schedule stating a new individual or joint rate, fare, or charge, or any new individual or joint regulation or practice affecting any rate, fare, or charge, the commission shall have, and it is hereby given, authority, either upon complaint or upon its own initiative without complaint, at once, and if it so orders, without answer or formal pleading by the interested utility or utilities, but upon reasonable notice, to enter upon a hearing concerning the propriety of such rate, fare, charge, classification, regulation, or practice; and pending such hearing and the decision thereon, the commission, upon delivering to the utility or utilities affected thereby a statement in writing of its reasons for such suspension, may suspend the operation of such schedule and defer the use of such rate, fare, charge, classification, regulation, or practice, but not for a longer period than sixty days beyond the time when such rate, fare, charge, classification, regulation, or practice would otherwise go into effect; and after full hearing, whether completed before or after the date upon which the rate, fare, charge, classification, regulation, or practice is to go into effect,

rates

Schedule suspended, when

the commission may make such order in reference to such rate, fare, charge, classification, regulation, or practice as would be proper in a proceeding initiated after the rate, fare, charge, classification, regulation, or practice had become effective; provided, that if any such hearing cannot be concluded within the period of suspension as above stated, the commission may, Suspension in its discretion, extend the time of suspension a further period may be not exceeding sixty days. In all cases where such order of days, when suspension shall have been made, the commission shall give to the hearing and decision of the question involved preference over all other questions pending before it, and decide the same as speedily as possible.

CHAP. 280-An Act to amend section 21 of an act entitled "An act making the railroad commission of Nevada ex officio a public service commission for the regulation and control of certain public utilities, prescribing the manner in which such public utilities shall be regulated and controlled, requiring such public utilities to furnish reasonably adequate service and facilities, prohibiting unjust and unreasonable charges for services rendered by such public utilities, providing penalties for violation of the provisions of this act, authorizing such public service commission to appoint an expert engineer and to employ clerks and assistants, and making an appropriation for carrying out the provisions of this act," approved March 23, 1911.

[Approved March 29, 1915]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

extended 60

public

commission

SECTION 1. Section 21 of an act entitled "An act making Amending the railroad commission of Nevada ex officio a public service service commission for the regulation and control of certain public act utilities, prescribing the manner in which such public utilities shall be regulated and controlled, requiring such public utilities to furnish reasonably adequate service and facilities, prohibiting unjust and unreasonable charges for services rendered by such public utilities, providing penalties for violation of the provisions of this act, authorizing such public service commission to appoint an expert engineer and to employ clerks and assistants, and making an appropriation for carrying out the provisions of this act, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

record of

must be

recorded

Section 21. A full and complete record shall be kept of all Complete proceedings before the commission or its representative on any all hearings formal investigation, and all testimony shall be taken down by the stenographer appointed by the commission. Whenever any complaint is served upon the commission as hereinafter provided for the bringing of actions against the commission, before the action is reached for trial, the commission shall cause a

Copies of same fur

nished at reasonable price

Amending

railroad

commission

act

Each commissioner

ister oaths

certified copy of all proceedings held and testimony taken upon such investigation to be filed with the clerk of the court in which the action is pending. A copy of such proceedings and testimony shall be furnished to any party, on payment of a reasonable amount therefor, to be fixed by the commission, which amount shall be uniform per folio to all parties. The amount so charged and collected shall be turned over by the commission to the state treasurer, and by him carried into the fund appropriated for the general expenses of the commission.

CHAP. 281-An Act to amend section 13 of an act entitled "An act to regulate railroads, telegraph and telephone companies, and other common carriers in this state, creating a railroad commission, constituting the governor, the lieutenant-governor, and the attorney-general a railroad board for the appointment and removal of the railroad commissioners, prevent the imposition of unreasonable rates, prevent unjust discrimination, insure an adequate railway service, and fixing maximum freight charges," approved March 5, 1907, and amended March 20, 1909, and amended March 27, 1911.

[Approved March 29, 1915]

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

SECTION 1. Section 13 of an act entitled "An act to regulate railroads, telegraph and telephone companies and other common carriers in this state, creating a railroad commission, constituting the governor, the lieutenant-governor, and the attorney-general a railroad board for the appointment and removal of the railroad commissioners, prevent the imposition of unreasonable rates, prevent unjust discrimination, insure an adequate railway service, and fixing maximum freight charges? approved March 5, 1907, as amended March 20, 1909, and as amended March 27, 1911, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

Section 13. Each of the commissioners, for the purpose mentioned in this act, shall have power to administer oaths, may admin- certify to official acts, issue subpenas, compel the attendance of witnesses, and the production of papers, way-bills, books, accounts, documents, and testimony. In the case of disobedience on the part of any person or persons to comply with any order of the commission or any commissioner or any subpena, or on the refusal of any witness to testify to any matter regarding which he may be lawfully interrogated, it shall be the duty of the district court of any county, or a judge thereof, on application of a commissioner, to compel obedience by attachment proceedings for contempt, as in the case of disobedience of the requirements of a subpena issued from such court, or a refusal to testify therein.

Contempt, when

to receive

of witnesses

(a) Each witness who shall appear before the commission Witness by its order shall receive for his attendance the fees and mile- regular fees age now provided for witnesses in civil cases in courts of record, which shall be audited and paid by the state in the same manner as other expenses are audited and paid, upon the pres- Expenses entation of proper vouchers, sworn to by such witnesses and paid, when approved by the chairman of the commission; provided, that no witness subpenaed at the instance of parties other than the commission shall be entitled to compensation from the state for attendance or travel unless the commission shall certify that his testimony was material to the matter investigated.

when

(b) The commission or any party may, in the investigation, Depositions, cause the deposition of witnesses residing within or without the state to be taken in the manner prescribed by the law for like depositions in civil actions in district courts.

to be kept

evidence,

(c) A full and complete record shall be kept of all proceedings Full record had before the commission or any investigation had under section 12 of this act, and all testimony shall be taken down by the stenographer appointed by the commission. Whenever any complaint is served upon the commission under the provisions of section 16 of this act the commission shall, before said action is reached for trial, cause a certified transcript of all proceedings had and testimony taken upon such investigation to be filed with the clerk of the district court of the county where the action is pending. A transcribed copy of Competent the evidence and proceedings, or any specific part thereof, or when any investigation taken by the stenographer appointed by the commission, being certified by such stenographer to be a true and correct transcript in longhand of all testimony taken at the investigation, or of a particular witness, or of other specific part thereof, carefully compared by him with his original notes, and to be a correct statement of the evidence and proceedings had on such investigation so purporting to be taken and transcribed, shall be received in evidence with the same effect as if such reporter were present and testified to the facts so certified. A copy of such transcript shall be furnished on demand Copy of to any party, on payment of a reasonable amount therefor, to reasonable be fixed by the commission, which amount shall be uniform price per folio to all parties. The amount so charged and collected shall be turned over by the commission to the state treasurer and by him carried into the fund appropriated for the general expenses of the commission.

transcript,

Superin

tendent of

to be ex

officio warden of state prison

CHAP. 282-An Act supplementary to an act entitled "An act to provide for the creation, organization, and maintenance of the Nevada state police, prescribing the powers and duties of the officers and members thereof in maintaining peace, order, and quiet in the State of Nevada, fixing their compensation, providing certain penalties, and other matters relating thereto, making an appropriation therefor, and repealing all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith," approved January 29, 1908; and making the superintendent of the Nevada state police ex officio warden of the state prison; fixing his salary; providing for an acting warden during vacancy or absence of the superintendent, and repealing all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith.

[Approved March 29, 1915]

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

SECTION 1. From and after the first day of April, A. D. 1915, the superintendent of the Nevada state police shall be ex officio state police the warden of the state prison of this state, and shall hold office until his successor is chosen and qualified. He shall, as such ex officio warden, and in addition to his bond as superintendent of the Nevada state police, execute a bond in such sum as the state board of prison commissioners shall designate, not exceeding the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, for the faithful discharge of his duties as warden, which bond shall be given to the State of Nevada, approved by the chief justice of the supreme court, and filed with the secretary of state.

Captain of

guard acting warden, when

Salary of superintendent

Repeal

SEC. 2. In the event of vacancy in the office of superintendent of Nevada state police, by death, resignation, or otherwise, such vacancy shall be filled as now provided by law, and until the filling of such vacancy, and during any absence of the warden, the captain of the guard of the state prison shall be acting warden thereof without any increase in salary.

SEC. 3. From and after the first day of April, A. D. 1915, the salary of the superintendent of Nevada state police and ex officio warden of the state prison shall be, and the same is hereby fixed, at thirty-six hundred ($3,600) dollars per annum, in full compensation for all his services as such superintendent and warden, with mileage and expense allowances as now provided by law when engaged in the discharge of his duties, said salary to be payable in monthly installments out of the general fund in the state treasury, in the same manner as other state officers are paid.

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