SEC. 3. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act Repeal are hereby repealed. CHAP. 248-An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to protect public roads and highways from damage by water, and to provide a penalty for a failure to do so," approved March 18, 1911, 96. [Approved March 25, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Water user must pro SECTION 1. Section one of an act entitled "An act to protect public roads and highways from damage by water, and to tect roads, provide a penalty for failure to do so, approved March 18, 1911, 96, is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 1. From and after the passage of this act, all persons, corporations, or associations conducting water across any public road or highway, or across any street or alley in any unincorporated town in this state, for domestic, mining, agricultural, or manufacturing purposes, shall construct, at their own expense, good and substantial culverts or bridges over such crossing, and shall in no case allow any stream of water, diverted from its natural channel for such purposes by them, to flood or wash any public road or any street or alley in any unincorporated town of this state. SEC. 2. Section two of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows: streets, etc., from dam age by water Section 2. Any person, corporation, or association violating Violation of any of the provisions of section one of this act shall be deemed act; penalty guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined not less than fifty ($50) dollars, nor more than five hundred ($500) dollars. CHAP. 249-An Act relating to and requiring the rerecording of brands upon live stock. [Approved March 25, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: brands to be periods SECTION 1. Every person, company, or corporation having Marks and horses, cattle, or other live stock and owning a brand or mark, recorded; or brands or marks, for the same, shall record such brand or rerecorde brands, or mark or marks, with the county recorder on or 5-year before the first day of January, 1916, and again within sixty days prior to the first day of January, 1921, and repeatedly within sixty days prior to the first day of January at the end of each five-year period thereafter, such record to be made in the manner provided by existing laws for the recording of marks and brands. Brands deemed abandoned unless recorded Proviso SEC. 2. On and after the first day of January, 1916, no person, company, or corporation shall claim or own any brand or mark which has not been rerecorded in accordance with the provisions of this act, and any failure to rerecord a brand or mark as required by the provisions of this act shall be deemed an abandonment of the same, and any person, company, or corporation shall be at liberty to adopt and use any brand or mark so abandoned; provided, that no person, company, or corporation shall be at liberty to claim or use any such abandoned brand or mark until after he has caused the same to be recorded in his own name, under the provisions of this act; and provided further, that before such brand or mark may be Notice must claimed or used by such person, company, or corporation, the notice specified in the following section shall have been given. SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the county recorder to notify Recorder to the owner of any recorded mark or brand, at least sixty days prior to the expiration of any time in this act provided for the rerecording of any mark or brand, of his right to rerecord the same. Such notice shall be given in writing, and shall be addressed to such owner at the postoffice address named upon the books of said county recorder, and such notice shall be complete at the expiration of sixty days from the date of its mailing by said county recorder. be given give notice of right to recorded brands published in newspaper SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the county recorder to publish Notice to be in one newspaper in the county at least once a week for six consecutive weeks, and for seven consecutive weekly insertions, within sixty days prior to the expiration of any time in this act providing for the rerecording of any mark or brand, a notice of the expiration of the time fixed by this act for the rerecording of marks and brands and of the right of all persons owning any mark or brand to rerecord the same, which notice shall not exceed two hundred words. SEC. 5. All rerecording of old brands or marks, and all recordPresent law ing of new brands or marks, shall be done and made in all respects in accordance with the provisions of existing laws for the recording of marks and brands. to govern SEC. 6. For rerecording of any old brand or mark, the fee Fees named shall be the sum of fifty cents; for recording a new brand or mark, or any old brand or mark in the name of the new owner, the fee shall be as now allowed by law. Bill of sale of brand SEC. 7. A bill of sale, duly witnessed, of any recorded mark or brand shall be prima facie evidence of ownership of such brand. CHAP. 250-An Act requiring school trustees to advertise for bids on contracts for the erection of new school buildings, or for the repairing or adding to an old school building, whenever the cost of such work is to exceed five hundred dollars. [Approved March 25, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and must adver over $500 SECTION 1. Whenever the trustees of any school district Trustees shall decide to erect any new school building that is to cost tise for bids more than five hundred dollars or to repair or add to any old on all work school building, which repair or addition is to cost more than five hundred dollars, or to purchase school furniture that is to cost more than five hundred dollars they shall advertise for bids for the contract to erect the said new building, or to make the repairs or addition. Such advertising shall be done in the following manner: If a daily newspaper is published in the In newsdistrict, the advertisement for bids shall be published in such papers, when newspaper for ten successive days previous to the opening of such bids. If there is only a weekly newspaper published in the district, the advertisement for bids shall be published in at least two weekly issues previous to the opening of such bids. If no newspaper is published in the district the trustees shall cause such advertisement to be published in some paper in the county for the same periods of time as those mentioned above in this section. bidder SEC. 2. In all cases where more than five hundred dollars Contract to go to lowest is to be expended upon the erection of any school building, and best or upon the repair or addition to any school building or upon the purchase of school furniture, the trustees shall award the contract for such work to the lowest and best bidder for the contract. SEC. 3. All acts or parts of acts in conflict with this act are Repeal hereby repealed. Amending tices act CHAP. 251-An Act to amend section six of an act entitled "An act to limit expenditures for campaign and election purposes to candidates, their political agents, and managing committees of political parties; to prescribe the manner of appointment of such agents; to limit the contributions, expenditures and liabilities of candidates, political agents and managing committees of political parties; to define, prohibit and punish corrupt and illegal practices in connection with or relative thereto at primary, special and general elections; to secure and protect the purity of the ballot; to prohibit the use of conveyances to carry voters to the polls; to prohibit the peddling or distributing of liquors and cigars by candidates for office; to prohibit and punish the making, publication and circulation of false charges and statements against candidates, the doing of any act tending to deceive or interfere with the voter; and to provide for furnishing information to electors," approved March 31, 1913. [Approved March 25, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section 6 of an act entitled "An act to limit expenditures for campaign and election purposes to candidates, Corrupt prae- their political agents, and managing committees of political parties; to prescribe the manner of appointment of such agents; to limit the contributions, expenditures and liabilities of candidates, political agents and managing committees of political parties; to define, prohibit and punish corrupt and illegal practices in connection with or relative thereto at primary, special and general elections; to secure and protect the purity of the ballot; to prohibit the use of conveyances to carry voters to the polls; to prohibit the peddling or distributing of liquors and cigars by candidates for office; to prohibit and punish the making, publication and circulation of false charges and statements against candidates, the doing of any act tending to deceive or interfere with the voter; and to provide for furnishing information to electors, approved March 31, 1913, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Political party limited to $15,000 campaign expenses Section 6. No political party in any campaign in this State through its managing committees or otherwise shall pay, distribute or expend any sum of money, or incur, authorize or permit any expenses or liabilities in excess of the sum of fifteen thousand ($15,000) dollars. CHAP. 252-An Act to amend an act entitled "An act concerning public schools, and repealing certain acts relating thereto," approved March 20, 1911. [Approved March 25, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section 23 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows: Classes of teachers' Section 23. Teachers' certificates in this state shall be: 1. High school, authorizing the holder thereof to teach in certificates any high school or elementary school in the state; provided, High school that after September 1, 1916, no one shall be entitled to teach the regular elementary school subjects unless he holds an elementary certificate; 2. Elementary, authorizing the holder thereof to teach in Elementary any elementary school in the state; provided, that no teacher shall be eligible to act as principal of an elementary school unless he or she holds an elementary certificate of the first grade; 3. Special, authorizing the holder to teach such special Special branches of learning, and in such grades, as are named in the certificate; 4. Temporary, authorizing the holder to teach such branches Temporary of learning, and in such grades and school districts, as are named in the certificate. SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are Repeal hereby repealed. |