may be used in road work; and no machinery, implements, material or thing, save and except such as cost less than fifty Exception dollars ($50) and is usually kept in stock and sold at usual prices, shall be purchased in any manner whatsoever from any manufactory or store or any concern of any kind in which any member of the board or the supervisor is interested directly or indirectly. Nor shall any such officer receive any gift or reward or other thing for recommending or suggesting or in any manner influencing the expenditure of money for anything. Nor shall any member of the board be interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract made by the board, or work ordered done by the board. Every contract made in Punishments violation of this section shall be null and void, and any officer violating this section shall, upon conviction, be punished as provided in the penal code of the State of Nevada, and shall be removed from office and forfeit his bond. ARTICLE 7 be sworn to SECTION 1. All claims against the county in relation to the Claims must county roads and bridges shall be presented to the clerk of the board of county highway commissioners on a prepared form at least one day before the regular meeting day of the board. There shall be printed on said form an oath that the amount claimed is just and correct, which must be subscribed to by the claimant. Said claim shall also be certified by the supervisor. regularly SEC. 2. Upon the approval of any claim by the board of Claims paid county highway commissioners, the county auditor is hereby authorized, empowered and required to draw a warrant for the amount named in said claim, and to the person or persons named therein as claimants, in the manner usually provided by law; provided, that nothing in this section shall interfere veto power with or prevent said auditor from exercising his veto power provided by law. of auditor distinct SEC. 3. The county treasurer shall and it is hereby made Treasurer to his duty to keep the county road and bridge fund, provided keep fund for in this act, in a separate and distinct fund. He shall pay out of this fund all warrants drawn on him by the auditor for road purposes, but under no conditions shall he pay out of this fund for other purposes. ARTICLE 8 July 1, 1913 All acts, and parts of acts, in conflict with the provisions of In effect this act are hereby repealed. This act shall take and be in effect on and after July 1, 1913. CHAP. 258—An Act to provide for the recall of public officers in the State of Nevada. [Approved March 26, 1913] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Every public officer in the State of Nevada is Providing subject, as in this act provided, to recall from office, by the public officer qualified electors of the state or of the county, district or municipality from which he was elected. for recall of Method of procedure Petition to contain 25 SEC. 2. For the purpose of recalling any public officer there shall be first filed with the officer with whom the petition for nomination to such office is required by law to be filed, a petition, signed by the qualified electors who voted in the state, or in the county, district or municipality electing such officer, per cent of equal in number to twenty-five per cent of the votes cast in said state, or in the county, district or municipality for the office of justice of the supreme court, at the last preceding election; said petition shall also contain the residence of the signer, and set forth in not to exceed two hundred words, the reason why said recall is demanded. electors' names regarding petition SEC. 3. Such petition shall consist of any number of copies Regulations thereof, identical in form with the original, except for the signatures; every such copy shall be verified by at least one of the signers thereof, who shall make oath before any officer authorized by law to administer oaths, that the statements and signatures contained in the petition are true. Upon filing such petition the officer with whom the same shall be filed, shall not sooner than ten days nor more than twenty days thereafter issue a call for a special election to be held within twenty days after the issuance of the call therefor, in the state, or in the county, district or municipality electing such officer, to determine whether the people shall recall such officer; proresigns provided, however, that if such officer shall offer his resignation within five days after the filing of the petition aforesaid, such resignation shall be accepted, and the vacancy thereby caused shall be filled in the manner provided by law; if such officer shall not resign he shall continue to perform the duties of his office until the result of said special election shall be finally declared. If officer ceedings quashed Reason for recall printed on ballot; SEC. 4. On the ballot at said election there shall be printed verbatim, as set forth in the recall petition, the reason for demanding the recall of said officer, and in not more than also officer's two hundred words, the officer's justification of his course in office, if furnished by him. justification Vote for or recall, when against SEC. 5. If there be no other candidate nominated to be voted for at said special election, there shall be printed on the ballot the name of the officer sought to be recalled, the office which he holds and the words "For Recall" and "Against Recall"; if there be other candidates nominated for the office candidates to be voted for at said special election, there shall be printed When other upon the ballot the name of the officer sought to be recalled, and the office which he holds, and the name or names of such other candidates as may be nominated to be voted for at said special election, and the words "For Recall" and "Against Recall" shall be omitted; in other respects the ballot shall Election laws conform with the requirements of the general election laws of the State of Nevada. to govern receiving remainder of SEC. 6. If there be other candidates nominated to be voted Candidate for at the special election, the candidate who shall receive the highest vote highest number of votes at said special election, shall be elected for deemed elected for the remainder of the term, whether it be term the person against whom the recall petition was filed or another. SEC. 7. If any officer be recalled upon such special elec- Vacancy tion, and other candidates are not nominated to be voted for by recall at such special election, the vacancy thereby created shall be filled regufilled in the manner provided by law. occasioned larly until officer least six months; to state sen assembly men SEC. 8. No petition for the recall of any public officer shall No recall be circulated or filed against any such officer until he has has served at actually held his office six months, save and except, that it may be filed against a senator or assemblyman in the legisla- exception as ture at any time after ten days from the beginning of the first ators and session after his election; after one such petition and special me election, no further recall petition shall be filed against the same officer during the term for which he was elected, unless said further petitioners shall pay into the public treasury, from which the expenses of said special election have been paid, the whole amount paid out of said public treasury as expenses for the preceding special election. candidates SEC. 9. Other candidates for the office may be nominated Opposing to be voted for at said special election by petition, which said nominated by petition petition shall be signed by the qualified electors of the state, or in the county, district or municipality holding such election, equal in number to twenty-five per cent of the number of votes cast for the justice of the supreme court in the state, or in the county, district or municipality holding such election at the last preceding general election; provided, however, that no elector No recall shall be qualified to sign any such nominating petition who sign nomishall have signed any petition for the recall of such officer for nating said special election. signer can petition 15 days SEC. 10. Said nominating petition shall be filed with the Petition filed officer with whom the said recall petition is filed, at least before elecfifteen days prior to date of said special election. tion SEC. 11. The general election laws of this state, so far as General elecapplicable, shall apply to all elections held under this act. tion laws to apply 26 Certain pub lic moneys dedicated to support of university CHAP. 259-An Act setting aside and appropriating certain The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The interest derived from the investment of all moneys arising from the sale of the 90,000 acres of land granted to the State of Nevada by act of congress approved July 2, 1862; exclusively the interest derived from the investment of all moneys arising from the sale of the seventy-two sections of land granted to the State of Nevada by act of congress approved July 4, 1866, for the establishment and maintenance of a university; all money paid as interest on deferred installments on purchase of lands named in this act which may be sold under contract as provided in section 9 of an act entitled "An act to provide for the selection and sale of lands, etc., approved March 4, 1871; and all money arising from the ad valorem tax on taxable property in the State of Nevada, including net proceeds of mines and mining claims, for university purposes, is hereby set aside and inviolably appropriated for the support and maintenance of the University of Nevada, and shall be paid out for the purposes designated in the acts creating the several funds without further appropriation. Board of trustees of said funds SEC. 2. The board of regents of said university and agricultural and mechanical college, as provided in section 4 of regents sole article 11 of the constitution of Nevada, are the sole trustees to receive and disburse all funds of said university and agricultural and mechanical college for the purposes provided in section 1 of this act; provided, that all claims, before payment, of every name and nature involving the payment of money by examiners to or under the direction of the board of regents from the funds so set aside and appropriated, shall be passed upon by the board of examiners. Board of pass on all claims State controller to report in detail to regents SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the state controller to report to the board of regents of said university and agricultural and mechanical college, on or before the last day of each and every month, the detail of all income received for university purposes from whatsoever source. CHAP. 260-An Act compelling attendance of children at schools where tuition, lodging, food and clothing are furnished at the expense of the United States. [Approved March 26, 1913] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: attendance government SECTION 1. That whenever the government of the United Compelling States, erects, or causes to be erected and maintained, a school of pupils on for general educational purposes, within the State of Nevada, ge and the expense of the tuition, lodging, food and clothing of the pupils therein is borne by the United States, it shall be compulsory on the part of every parent, guardian, or other person in the State of Nevada, having control of a child or children between the ages of eight and eighteen years, eligible to attend said school, to send such child or children to said school for a period of nine months in each year, or during the entire annual term; provided, that in case the government of Exception the United States does not make provision for the free transportation of said child from their homes to said school, then he, she, or they shall not be liable to the provisions of this act, unless they reside less than ten miles from such school. superintend give personal parents or SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of all principals or superin- Principals or tendents of the school or schools mentioned in this act, before ents of said attempting to enforce the provisions of this act, hereinafter schools to mentioned, to serve, or cause to be served, a demand for the notice to attendance of certain children, naming or otherwise identify- guardians ing them, and also designating the school to which their attendance is required, upon the parent, guardian or other person having charge of said child or children as may be eligible to attend said school over which he has charge, and a copy of this act; and such parent, guardian or other person having charge of said child or children shall have ten days to either deliver said child or children at said school, or to the accredited representative of said school if more than ten miles distant from the residence of said child or children, or to furnish satisfactory proof that the bodily or mental condition of such child or children is such as to prevent his attendance or cause him or them to be ineligible for enrollment. for collection SEC. 3. If, at the expiration of ten days after such notice said officers or demand, the parents, guardian, or other person having to bring suit charge of said child or children shall have failed or refused to of fine comply with this act, the principal or superintendent shall cause a demand to be made upon such parent, guardian, or other person for the amount of the penalty hereinafter provided; and if such parent, guardian, or other person shall neglect or refuse to pay the same within five days after making such demand, the superintendent or principal shall commence proceedings in the name of the state for the recovery of the fine hereinafter provided before any court having jurisdiction. |