two jailers, each of whom shall receive the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars ($150) per month. recorder; SEC. 2. The county recorder and ex officio auditor of Deputy Washoe County is hereby authorized and empowered to copyists appoint one chief deputy who shall receive the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars ($150) per month; also two copyists who shall each receive the sum of one hundred and twenty-five ($125) per month. treasurer: SEC. 3. The county treasurer and ex officio tax receiver Deputy of Washoe County is hereby authorized and empowered to clerk appoint one deputy who shall receive the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars ($150) per month; also one clerk who shall receive the sum of one hundred and twenty-five dollars ($125) per month. deputies for officers, SEC. 4. The sheriff, county recorder, county treasurer, Additional county clerk or assessor may, in cases of emergency and various when the board of county commissioners deem it necessary, when appoint additional deputies, assistants or clerks, such deputies, assistants or clerks to serve only so long as said emergency exists, and to be paid a salary not to exceed that of other deputies, assistants or clerks in the same offices. deputy The sheriff may, when the board of county commissioners Woman deem it necessary, appoint a woman deputy at a rate of sheriff salary not to exceed $125 per month. acts repealed SEC. 5. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act Conflicting are hereby expressly repealed. [Assembly Bill No. 153-Mr. Kennedy] CHAP. 161-An Act to amend section 286 of an act entitled "An act to regulate proceedings in civil cases in this state and to repeal all other acts in relation thereto," approved March 17, 1911, being section 5228, Revised Laws of Nevada, Vol. 2. [Approved March 20, 1923] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section 286 of the above-entitled act is hereby Amending amended so as to read as follows: civil practice act Section 286. Findings of fact may be waived by the Findings of several parties to an issue of fact: 1. By failing to appear at the trial. 2. By consent in writing, filed with the clerk. fact may be waived 3. By oral consent, in open court, entered in the minutes. In all cases where the court directs a party to prepare copy of findings, a copy of said proposed findings shall be served findings. upon all the parties who have appeared in the action at least five days before findings shall be signed by the court, and when served the court shall not sign any findings therein prior to the expiration of such five days. Amending civil practice act Testimony state. requirements regarding [Assembly Bill No. 172—Mr. Houlahan] CHAP. 162-An Act to amend sections 517 and 518 of an act entitled "An act to regulate civil proceedings in this state and to repeal all other acts in relation thereto," approved March 17, 1911, being sections 5459 and 5460, Revised Laws of Nevada. [Approved March 20, 1923] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section 517 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 517. The deposition of a witness out of this state may be taken upon a commission issued by the court under taken out of the seal of the court, upon an order of the court, or of a judge or a justice thereof, on the application of either party, upon five days previous notice to the other. If the court is a justice's court, the commission must have attached to it a certificate of the clerk of the district court of the county in which such justice's court is held, under the seal of such district court, to the effect that the person issuing the same was an acting justice of the peace at the date of the commission. If issued to any place within the United States it may be directed to a person agreed upon by the parties, or, if they do not agree, to any notary public, judge or justice of the peace or commissioner selected by the court or judge or justice issuing it. If issued to any country out of the United States, it may be directed to a minister, ambassador, consul, vice-consul, or consular agent of the United States in such country, or to any person agreed upon by the parties. Interroga tories, form of, how settled Interrogatories attached to commission SEC. 2. Section 518 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 518. The party moving for the commission must, unless it is waived by the other party, attach to the notice of the motion the interrogatories upon which he desires it to be taken. On the hearing of the motion, the other party may propose such cross-interrogatories as he may desire. If the parties do not agree as to the form of the interrogatories, the court must settle their form, but such agreement or settlement does not preclude either party, when the deposition is offered in evidence, from interposing any objection to any interrogatory except as to the form thereof. The settlement of interrogatories may be had at the time of the hearing of the motion, or at any other time which the court may appoint; but the moving party must, if he resist tories it, be allowed two days within which to propose such redirect Interrogainterrogatories as the cross-interrogatories proposed render attached to proper. When agreed upon or settled, the interrogatories commission must be annexed to the commission; or, when the parties agree to that mode, or the court, on the application of either party, after hearing had upon two days notice to the opposite party, so directs, the commission must be without written interrogatories. [Assembly Bill No. 187-Mr. Whiteley] CHAP. 163-An Act to amend section 69 of an act entitled "An act providing for the incorporation of cities, their classification, the establishment and alteration of their boundaries, the government and disincorporation thereof, and repealing all acts and parts of acts in conflict therewith," approved March 27, 1907, being section 835, Revised Laws of Nevada, 1912. [Approved March 20, 1923] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section 69 of the above-entitled act is hereby Amending amended to read as follows: city incorporation act courts as justice Section 69. The said court shall be treated and considered as a justice court whenever the proceedings thereof Municipal are called into question. The court shall have power to issue treated all warrants, search warrants, writs and process necessary courts to a complete and effective exercise of its powers and jurisdiction, and may punish for contempts in like manner and with the same effect as is provided by general law for justices of the peace. The police judge shall keep a docket in which shall be entered all official business in like manner Police judge as in justice courts. He shall render monthly or oftener, monthly to as the council may require, an exact and detailed statement city council in writing, under oath, of the business done and of all fines collected, as well as fines imposed but uncollected, since his last report, and shall at the same time render and pay into the city treasury all fines collected and moneys received on behalf of the city since his last report. to report Amending [Assembly Bill No. 199-Mr. Martin] CHAP. 164-An Act to amend section 2 of an act entitled "An act regulating the practice of medicine, surgery and obstetrics in the State of Nevada; providing for the appointment of a state board of medical examiners and defining their duties; providing for the issuing of licenses to practice medicine; defining the practice of medicine; defining certain misdemeanors and providing penalties, and repealing all other acts or parts of acts in conflict therewith," approved March 4, 1905, being section 2359 of Revised Laws of Nevada, 1912. [Approved March 20, 1923] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section 2 of the above - entitled act, being section 2359 of Revised Laws of Nevada, 1912, is hereby medicine act amended to read as follows: practice of of medical examiners Section 2. It shall be the duty of the governor of the State State board of Nevada to appoint a state board consisting of five members, which shall be known as the board of medical examiners appointed by of the State of Nevada, and shall be reputable practicing physicians, duly licensed as such by some legally chartered medical institution in the United States, and who shall have been actually engaged in the practice of medicine in the State of Nevada. governor Terms of office Vacancy, how filled This board shall be selected without regard to their individual political beliefs, and they shall hold office for the time for which they were appointed, viz, two for four years, one for three years, one for two years, and one for one year from the date of their appointment, and shall serve until their successors are appointed and qualified. Hereafter one member shall be appointed annually for the term of four years. In the event of a vacancy occurring in said board, or absence from the state for a period of six months without permission, the governor shall appoint a person duly qualified under this act to fill the unexpired term. [Assembly Bill No. 212-Mr. Henderson] CHAP. 165-An Act making it unlawful to loiter in any public place while under the influence of liquor, and providing penalties therefor. [Approved March 20, 1923] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and loiterers SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to loiter Drunken in any public place, or on any public sidewalk, street, road to be or highway, while under the influence of liquor. suppressed first and offenses SEC. 2. Any person violating the provisions of section 1 Penalties for of this act shall, upon conviction for a first offense, be second punished by a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars, and upon conviction of a second offense, committed within sixty days of the commission of the first offense, shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than five days nor more than twentyfive days. [Assembly Bill No. 229—Mr. Whiteley] CHAP. 166-An Act to provide for distinctive and appropriate marking of the Nevada heroes memorial building and making an appropriation therefor, and matters properly relating thereto. [Approved March 20, 1923] WHEREAS, Many Nevada men died in the service of their country during the world war; and appropriate WHEREAS, The memory of their deeds and sacrifices should Providing be fittingly preserved forever in outward and permanent inscription form, as well as in the hearts of the people, as an inspira- heroes tion to the present and future generations; and WHEREAS, The legislature of 1919 provided for the erection in Carson City of the Nevada heroes memorial building, to be a memorial of the deeds of the men who gave their lives in the military service of their country; and WHEREAS, Though the said heroes memorial building has been erected, yet there is no distinctive marking or monument without or within to indicate to the people the purpose or the nature of said building, which lack of marking or monument lessens to a large degree the civic and patriotic value of the said building; now, therefore, The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The governor, the adjutant-general, and the state controller are hereby constituted a board to arrange for distinctive and appropriate marking of the Nevada heroes memorial building by placing on the front of said for Nevada memorial building NEVADA HEROES MEMORIAL BUILDING |