articles of incorporation, one hundred dollars, where such shares do not exceed one hundred thousand shares, and ten cents for each one thousand shares or fraction thereof in addition thereto; and for filing other papers relative to incorporation, such further fees and taxes shall be charged and paid as are now or may hereafter be provided by law; proInapplicable vided, however, that the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to corporations not for profit, for which it is desired to have no capital stock; in case any such corporation desires to have no capital stock it shall be so stated, and the conditions of membership shall be also stated. to corporations not for profit of incorporation shall show 5. The names of each of the original subscribers to the capital stock and the amount subscribed by each, or if there be no stock, of the original incorporators. 6. The period, if any, limited for the duration of its existence. 7. Whether the members of the governing board shall be styled directors or trustees of the corporation and the number of such trustees or directors, which shall not be less than three. 8. Whether or not capital stock, after the amount of the What articles subscription price or par value has been paid in, shall be subject to assessment to pay debts of the corporation, and, unless provision is made in such original certificates or articles of incorporation for assessment upon paid-up stock, no paid-up stock and no stock issued as fully paid up shall ever be assessable or assessed, and the articles of incorporation shall not be amended in this particular. 9. The certificate or articles of incorporation may also contain any provision which the incorporators may choose to insert for the regulation of the business and for the conduct of the affairs of the corporation, and any provisions creating, defining, limiting, and regulating the powers of the corporation and the rights, powers or duties of the directors, the stockholders, or any classes of the stockholders, or holders of the bonds or other obligations of the corporation, or providing for governing the distribution or division. of the profits of the said corporation; provided, such provisions are not contrary to the laws of this state. [Senate Bill No. 124-Senator Getchell] CHAP. 207 An Act to provide the method of voting at any general, special or primary election by qualified voters who reside in an election precinct where there were not more than twenty voters registered for the last preceding general election or in a precinct where it shall appear to the satisfaction of the board of county commissioners that there are not more than twenty qualified electors, providing penalties for the violation thereof, and other matters properly connected therewith. [Approved March 26, 1923] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and regulations than 20 SECTION 1. Any qualified elector of the State of Nevada, Election having duly registered, who resides in an election precinct for precincts where there were not more than twenty voters registered for of not more the last preceding general election, or in a precinct where it voters shall appear to the satisfaction of the board of county commissioners that there are not more than twenty qualified electors, may vote at any such election only as hereinafter provided. by mail SEC. 2. Any elector, as designated in section 1 of this act, Voting done who resides in an election precinct where there are not more than twenty voters, may, not more than thirty days and not less than fifteen days prior to the date of such election, make application in person or by mail to the county clerk of the county in which his precinct is situated for an official mailing ballot to be voted by him at such election. for mailing SEC. 3. Application for mailing ballot shall be made in Application person or by mail on a blank to be furnished by the county ballot clerk of the county in which the applicant is a qualified elector. Such blank shall, upon request, be sent to the applicant by mail by such clerk or delivered to such applicant in person upon his appearance at the office of such county clerk. Application for mailing ballot shall be substantially in the following form and shall be signed by the applicant: application I, hereby certify that I am now and Form of have been a resident of the State of Nevada for six months, and of.. ..county for thirty days, and of... precinct for ten days next preceding this election; that I am duly registered, as provided by law, and am a duly qualified elector entitled to vote in such precinct, county and state at such election; that the precinct in which I reside has been designated as a mailing precinct and I hereby make application for an official mailing ballot to be voted by me at such election; that I will comply with all the requirements of this act, and that I will return such ballot to the officer issuing it at least ten days before the day of such election; that I have not made any other application for a mailing ballot, Duties of county clerk of voter or for an absent voter's ballot. (If application is made for a primary ballot, the applicant shall designate the political party with which he desires to affiliate and whose candidates he expects to vote for, and if having previously voted shall also state that at the last preceding general election he voted for a majority of the candidates of such party.) Postoffice address to which ballot is to be sent... SEC. 4. The county clerk, upon receipt of the application, shall satisfy himself that the applicant is duly qualified to vote in the precinct in which such application is made, and shall enroll the name and address of the applicant, if found eligible, in a book to be provided for such purpose, and mark on the envelope as described in paragraph (b) of this section the number of the ballot enclosed, and forward the same to the applicant by registered mail, together with the following: (a) An envelope containing the ballot, sealed and marked "Ballot within." (b) An identification envelope for enclosing marked ballot, which envelope shall have printed thereon: Number of ballot....... Voted by.. Not to be opened until day of election, and to be voted by the central election board of.. Also, County, Nevada. CERTIFICATION OF THE VOTER 19........, I received a I hereby certify that on....... Certification mailing voter's ballot; that to the best of my knowledge I complied with the requirements of the law, and did seal the same in the envelope provided and mail the same. Also, (Signature of voter.) CERTIFICATE OF COUNTY CLERK I hereby certify that the elector whose signature appears Certificate of above is registered; that I have compared the signatures as required by law, and that I am satisfied he is entitled to vote at the election to be held on.. county clerk Duties of voter 19......... .....County Clerk. (c) A stamp and stamp-pad, if marking by stamp is required by law. (d) A properly addressed envelope for the return of said ballot. (e) A printed slip giving full instruction regarding the manner of marking the ballot, how prepared, and how returned. SEC. 5. Upon receipt of a mailing voter's ballot from the county clerk, the applicant shall not open the sealed envelope marked "Ballot within" until it is practicable for him to vote, at which time he shall mark and fold the ballot without assistance and without making known the manner of marking the same. He shall then and there place the ballot within The the envelope provided in paragraph (b), section 4. identification envelope with "Certification of the Voter" properly filled out shall be enclosed within the envelope directed to the county clerk, which shall then and there be sealed and mailed or delivered to said clerk. precincts by county missioners SEC. 6. It shall be the duty of the boards of county com- Mailing missioners, at their regular meeting in the month preceding to be any election, to establish mailing precincts in accordance established with this act and forthwith mail notification to the regis- comtration agent in each precinct so designated. It shall also be the duty of such board at said meeting to designate an election board in each county at its county-seat for the purpose of receiving from the county clerk and counting such ballots in the manner hereinafter provided, which board Central shall, for the purposes of this act, be known as the central board election board. election county clerk SEC. 7. Upon receipt of the return ballot from the elec- Duties of tor, the county clerk shall compare the signature on the certification as provided in section 5 with the signature on the application for ballot and registration card, and, if found identical, shall, opposite the name of the voter in the book hereinafter mentioned, write in ink the words "Received.......... 19...., and delivered to... inspector of election of the central election board. County, Nevada," and shall fill out certificate on identification envelope and shall deliver the envelope containing the ballot, unopened, to one of the duly appointed inspectors of election where such ballot is to be voted. applicants SEC. 8. Six days prior to the election in which the bal- List of lots are designated to be cast, the county clerk shall make for mailinga list of the voters, showing their precincts, who have applied ballots for ballots in accordance with the provisions of this act, and those whose ballots have been returned. A copy of said list shall be posted in a conspicuous place in the county courthouse, a copy mailed to the registration agents of the several mailing precincts established under the provisions of this act, who shall post the same in a conspicuous public place, and a copy delivered with the mailing ballots to the inspector of the central election board, with the ballots, as provided in section 7 of this act; provided, that no ballot Proviso may be listed, opened or counted under the provisions of this act unless same is received by the clerk more than six days prior to the election. appearance SEC. 9. In case applicant shall appear in person before Personal the county clerk he shall mark and reseal the ballot in the of applicant same manner as provided in section 5 and shall forthwith deliver the ballot to the county clerk, who shall treat said ballot in the same way as ballots received by mail by him. to deposit SEC. 10. On the day of election, the inspector of election Inspector who received the mailing ballot from the county clerk shall, mailingin the presence of a majority of the election officers, proceed ballots Method of depositing to deposit the ballots in the ballot-box of the central election board in the following manner: The name of the voter, as shown on the carrier and identification envelope, is to be called and checked as if the voter were voting in person. If found entitled to cast his vote, the envelope is then, but not until then, opened, the number torn off the ballot, and if the number on said envelope agrees with the number of the ballot taken from said envelope, the ballot shall then be deposited in the regular ballot-box, without examining or unfolding it, and the clerk of election shall mark opposite the name of the voter the word "voted." If an envelope containing a mailing voter's ballot has not been opened for any reason, such envelope shall not be opened without an order of a court of competent jurisdiction. SEC. 11. When all the ballots have been accounted for, and either voted or rejected, the empty envelopes that precounty clerk viously contained said ballots are to be returned to the county clerk, together with the rejected envelopes, if any, on which shall be plainly written the cause of rejection, signed by a majority of the inspectors of election. Envelopes returned to Applicant person: procedure SEC. 12. Any qualified elector registered in a precinct which has been designated as within the purview of this act, may vote in who has not made application for a mailing voter's ballot, or who, after making application, has either failed to receive and return the same, or having received the same has failed to return same within the time limit set herein, or whose mailing voter's ballot has been for any reason improperly rejected, may appear before the central election board of his county at any time on election day while the polls are open, and vote in person. In all such cases, an inspector of the board shall tender him the following oath: "You do swear (or affirm) that you are the person whose name is entered upon the registry list of...... ..precinct, and that you have a legal right to cast this ballot in person.' In case such person refuse to take the oath so tendered, he shall not be allowed to vote, and the clerks of the election shall write the word "Challenged" opposite his name on the list. Oath violation SEC. 13. Any person attempting to aid or abet fraud in Penalties for connection with any vote cast, or to be cast, or attempted to be cast, under the provisions of this act, shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to the penitentiary for not less than one nor more than five years. Any person attempting to vote by fraudulently signing the name of a regularly qualified voter shall be guilty of forgery. Any public official who knowingly violates any of the provisions of this act and thereby aids in any way the illegal casting or attempting to cast or counting a vote, or who shall connive to nullify any provisions of this act in order that fraud may be perpetrated, |