County licenses for billiard halls, theaters. gambling, etc. [Assembly Bill No. 5-Mr. Swanson] CHAP. 50-An Act to create a county license board; to provide for the fixing and imposing of license fees and the issuance and revocation of licenses thereby for billiard or pool halls, dancing-halls, bowling alleys, theaters, softdrink establishments, gambling games or devices permitted by law, and other places of amusement, entertainment, or recreation; defining its powers and duties; and other matters relating thereto. [Approved March 3, 1923] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Every person, firm, association of persons or corporation wishing to engage in the business of conducting a billiard or pool hall, dancing-hall, bowling alley, theater, soft-drink establishment, gambling game or device permitted dance halls, by law, or other place of amusement, entertainment, or recreation, outside of an incorporated city or incorporated town, shall first make application, by petition, to the license board, as provided in section 2 of this act, of the county in which any such business is to be engaged in, for a county license of the kind desired, and file the same, with the required license fee, with the county license collector, who shall present the same to said license board at its next regular meeting, and said board may refer the petition to Sheriff may the sheriff, who shall report upon the same at the following regular meeting of the board, which board shall then and there grant or refuse the license prayed for; provided, that the sheriff may, in his discretion, grant a temporary permit. to such applicant, valid only until the next regular meeting of said board; provided, however, that in unincorporated towns and cities governed under the provisions of that certain act of the legislature of this state entitled “An act providing for the government of the towns and cities of this state," approved February 26, 1881, and acts amendatory thereof, the license board herein provided for shall have the exclusive power to license and regulate the businesses herein set forth. grant temporary permit SEC. 2. The board of county commissioners, the sheriff, Personnel of and the district attorney of the county shall constitute such license board, and the county clerk shall be the clerk thereof, in the respective counties of this state. license board Powers of license board SEC. 3. Such board is hereby authorized, empowered, and commissioned to act, for the purposes of this act (without further compensation to said board or the clerk thereof) as a license board to fix and impose license fees and to grant or refuse licenses upon the businesses herein mentioned, and to revoke the same whenever there is, in the judgment of the board, sufficient reason for such revocation. A majority vote of the members of the license board present shall govern in the transaction of all business, and three members thereof shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. SEC. 4. Any person, firm, association of persons, or cor- Penalty poration who shall engage in any of the businesses herein mentioned without first having obtained the license and paid the license fee therefor as herein provided shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. [Assembly Bill No. 76-Mr. Garaventa] CHAP. 51-An Act to amend section 3 of an act entitled "An act to fix the fees and mileage of witnesses and jurors, proriding the manner of payment thereof, and to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith," approved March 26, 1919. [Approved March 3, 1923] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section 3 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows: jurors and Section 3. The county clerk in cases in the district court Pay-roll of shall keep a pay-roll, enrolling thereon all names of witnesses witnesses in criminal cases and of all jurors, the number of days in attendance and the actual number of miles traveled by the shortest and most practical route in going to and returning from the place where the court is held, and at the conclusion of said trial or term of court shall forthwith give a statement of the amounts due to such witnesses or jurors, after the same has been duly approved by the district judge, to the county auditor, who shall draw warrants upon the county treasurer for the payment thereof; and provided, that in Proviso criminal cases, where witnesses are subpenaed from without the county, or who, being residents of another state, voluntarily appear as witnesses, at the request of the district attorney and the board of county commissioners of the county in which the court is held, they shall be allowed their actual and necessary traveling expenses incurred by them in going to and returning from the place where the court is held, and such sum per diem, not exceeding four dollars, as may be fixed by the district judge, who shall certify the same to the county clerk for entry upon the pay-roll hereinbefore required. fees, when Where criminal or quasi-criminal cases originating in the Cities pay municipal court of an incorporated town or city are brought before the district court, the county clerk shall give said statement of the amounts due to witnesses or jurors, in the manner and form as hereinbefore provided, to the district judge, who shall, upon approval thereof, by an order subscribed by him, direct the treasurer of said town or city to Cities pay fines, when pay the same. Upon the production of the order, or a certified copy thereof, the treasurer of said town or city shall pay the sum specified therein out of any fund in the town or city treasury not otherwise specially appropriated or set apart. It shall not be necessary for such order to be otherwise audited or approved. Appropria tion of $3,000 for state [Assembly Bill No. 72—Mr. Long] CHAP. 52—An Act granting aid to the state agricultural society for the purpose of holding state fairs, the payment of premiums, and other purposes; and other matters connected therewith. [Approved March 5, 1923] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The sum of three thousand dollars for each of the years 1923 and 1924 is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the general fund of the state treasury not agricultural otherwise specifically appropriated, to aid the state agricultural society in holding annual fairs in each of said years. society labor com SEC. 2. The moneys hereby appropriated shall be used for the payment of such premiums as may be awarded, and for such purposes as said society may, through its board of directors, deem just and proper; provided, none of the moneys herein appropriated shall be used by said board of directors, either directly or indirectly, to pay any purse or purses for racing. [Senate Bill No. 54-Senator Bulmer] CHAP. 53-An Act to amend section two and to repeal section three of an act entitled "An act creating the office of labor commissioner of this state, providing for the appointment of such commissioner and other employees, defining their duties and fixing their compensation and providing a penalty for the violation of its provisions, and other matters relating thereto," approved March 24, 1915. [Approved March 5, 1923] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section two of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 2. Said commissioner shall collect and systemaConcerning tize and present in biennial reports to the governor and legislature, such statistical details relating to labor in the state as said commissioner may deem essential to further the objects of this act. missioner section SEC. 2. Section three of an act entitled "An act creating Certain the office of labor commissioner of this state, providing repealed for the appointment of such commissioner and other employees, defining their duties and fixing their compensation, and providing a penalty for the violation of its provisions, and other matters relating thereto," approved March 24, 1915, is hereby repealed. [Senate Bill No. 61--Senator Fairchild] CHAP. 54—An Act to repeal an act entitled "An act creating the Northeastern Nevada agricultural board; defining its purpose, and prescribing its duties; providing for cooperation with the agricultural extension division, University of Nevada, and other matters relating thereto, and making an appropriation therefor," approved March 24, 1917, and providing for the disposition of the records, property and effects of the said board. [Approved March 5, 1923] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and eastern SECTION 1. "An act creating the Northeastern Nevada Act creating agricultural board; defining its purpose, and prescribing its Northduties; providing for cooperation with the agricultural Nevada extension division, University of Nevada, and other matters board relating thereto, and making an appropriation therefor," repealed approved March 24, 1917, is hereby repealed. agricultural said board SEC. 2. Upon the taking effect of this act, the North- Disposal of eastern Nevada agricultural board shall deliver to the property of Elko County Farm Bureau, Inc., all records, property and effects belonging to or theretofore in any manner acquired by said board. SEC. 3. Any and all other acts or parts of acts in conflict Repeal with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. [Senate Bill No. 64-Senator Sheehan] CHAP. 55-An Act to amend section 1 of an act entitled "An act to provide a fee bill for the office of secretary of state," approved March 24, 1913, as amended March 22, 1921. [Approved March 5, 1923] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and fee-bill act SECTION 1. That section one of an act entitled "An act Amending to provide a fee bill for the office of secretary of state," for secretary approved March 24, 1913, and amended March 22, 1921, is of state hereby amended to read as follows: Fees of secretary of state Section 1. The secretary of state of the State of Nevada shall be allowed to charge and to collect the following fees; provided, however, that said secretary of state shall neither charge, nor collect, any fees for services by him rendered to the State of Nevada, or any county, city, or town thereof, or any officer thereof in his official capacity, or for attesting extradition papers for other states: On filing any certificate or articles or other paper relative to corporations in the office of the secretary of state, the following fees and taxes shall be paid to the secretary of state for the use of the state: For certificate of articles of incorporation, twenty (20) cents for each thousand dollars of the total amount of capital stock authorized, but in no case less than fifty ($50) dollars; consolidation and merger of corporations, twenty (20) cents for each thousand dollars capital authorized, beyond the total authorized capital of the corporations merged or consolidated, but in no case less than twenty ($20) dollars; increase of capital stock, twenty (20) cents for each thousand dollars of the total increase authorized, but in no case less than twenty ($20) dollars; extension or renewal of corporate existence of any corporation, one-half that required for the original certificate of articles of incorporation by this act; dissolution of corporation, change of nature of business, amended articles or certificate of incorporation or organization (other than those authorizing increase of capital stock), decrease of capital stock, the increase or decrease of par value of or number of shares, twenty ($20) dollars; for filing list of officers and directors or trustees and name of agent in charge of principal office, two ($2) dollars; notice of removal of principal place of business, other than by amendment, two dollars ($2); for comparing any document to be certified when copy thereof is furnished, if any corrections are required to be made therein before certifying thereto, forty (40) cents for each folio of one hundred words of said document so compared; for certifying to copy of articles of incorporation, where copy is furnished, ten ($10) dollars; for certifying to copy of amendment to articles of incorporation, where copy is furnished, ten ($10) dollars; for certifying to authorized printed copy of the general corporation laws, as compiled by the secretary of state, ten ($10) dollars; for all certificates not hereby provided for, ten ($10) dollars; provided, that no fees shall be required to be paid by any religious or charitable society or educational association having no capital stock; and provided further, that foreign incorporations shall pay the same fees to the secretary of state as are required to be paid by corporations organized under the laws of this state, except that, where a foreign corporation is organized without fixing or stating a par value to its authorized capital stock, or where its articles or charter, or the legislative, executive, or other governmental |