CHAP. 97-An Act to establish at the University of Nevada a publicservice department, known as the Department of Engineering Experimentation, to provide ways and means for aiding settlers, farmers, and other persons in the development of the underground waters of the State by giving expert advice regarding the most probable location, the best method of developing the underground water systems by the testing of, and the recommendation of, the most efficient machinery and power for pumping, and providing an appropriation therefor.

Approved March 11, 1915

SECTION 1. There shall be established at the University of Nevada. a public-service department known as the Department of Engineering Experimentation, which department shall devote its efforts to the aiding of settlers, farmers, and other persons desiring to develop or who have already developed the underground waters of the State of Nevada, and for the support of which the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000) is hereby appropriated out of the moneys of the State not otherwise appropriated.

SEC. 2. The Board of Regents of the University of Nevada, upon the recommendation of the President, shall designate and appoint a qualified individual who shall be known as the Director of Engineering Experimentation, and who, subject to the approval of the President and the Board of Regents, shall plan, supervise, and execute the work contemplated by this Act.

SEC. 3. Any person, farmer, corporation or association may request expert advice or assistance relating to the most probable location, method of developing, the most feasible machinery and power for pumping or the testing of the developed flow of the underground waters of the State, and it shall be the duty of the Director appointed as herein provided, if in his opinion conditions justify it, to offer such aid as he shall deem proper to the end that the underground waters of the State may be developed, utilized, and conserved in a degree commensurate with the results of scientific investigations.

SEC. 4. The expenses thereof shall be allowed and paid out of the moneys appropriated under this Act upon certificate of the Director of Engineering Experimentation as other state claims are allowed and paid.

SEC. 5. The Board of Regents of the University of Nevada shall require that the Director of Engineering Experimentation keep an accurate record of all investigations and results thereof, and shall require reports to be filed at the completion of each unit of experimentation, which reports shall be transmitted to the Governor, and a concise statement of their results shall be prepared and shall be printed at the State Printing Office, and it shall be the duty of the Treasurer of the county in which the experimentation has taken place to attach such concise report to the tax statement when it is mailed to the taxpayer.

SEC. 6. This Act shall take effect upon its passage and approval.

CHAP. 280-An Act providing for interstate and intrastate quarantine with respect to domestic animals and other live stock, poultry, bees, and agricultural and horticultural crops, products, seeds, plants, trees or shrubs, or any article infected with, or which may have been exposed to, infectious, contagious, or destructive diseases, or infested with parasites, or insect pests, or the eggs or larva thereof, dangerous to any industry in the State; and other matters relating thereto. Approved March 31, 1913

SECTION 1. The Governor is hereby authorized and empowered to proclaim and enforce quarantine against any State, or any portion of any State, with respect to the importation into Nevada; or against any county or portion of any county, farm, nursery, or apiary within the State, with respect to the exportation therefrom to any other part of the State, of any domestic animals or other live stock, poultry, bees, or agricultural or horticultural crops, products, seeds, plants, trees or shrubs, or any article (hereinafter for convenience referred to as commodities) infected with, or which may have been exposed to, infectious, contagious or destructive diseases, or infested with parasites, or insect pests, or the eggs or larva thereof, dangerous to any industry in the State. In any criminal proceedings arising under this Act proof that any commodity, interdicted by proclamation of quarantine from import or export, was imported or exported in violation of quarantine, shall be deemed proof, within the meaning of this Act, that the same was diseased, exposed to disease, or infested as aforesaid. The words "importation" and "exportation, as herein used, shall be construed to mean and include the transportation of any such commodity by any railroad, express company, or other common carrier, or by any person or persons as baggage or by vehicle or automobile, or the driving, leading or permitting to run at large of the same. The word "farm, as herein used, shall be held and construed to mean and include any farm, stock range, stockyards, dairy, lot, or other premises not otherwise enumerated.

SEC. 2. Whenever it shall appear to the State Quarantine Officer, by petition of any three citizens, or otherwise, that any industry in the State is endangered by importations from any other State of any commodity mentioned in section 1 of this Act; or by exportations from any county, portion of any county, farm, nursery, or apiary within the State, to other parts of the State, of any such commodity, he shall at once take steps to ascertain the facts thereof, as hereinafter provided, and if in his opinion the facts so warrant, he shall by proclamation declare such State, or any portion of such State, in the first instance, quarantined from further importations into Nevada of any such commodity; or any such county, or portion of such county, farm, nursery, or apiary, in the second instance, quarantined from exportations of any such commodity to other parts of the State; which quarantine shall remain effective unless vacated by order of the Governor of the State within forty-eight (48) hours, or until said quarantine is raised by proper authority. As amended, Stats. 1915, p. 332.

[Section 3 repealed. Stats. 1915, p. 332.]

SEC. 4. When quarantine is so declared against importations from any State, or any portion of a State, of any commodity referred to in section 1 of this Act, a certified copy of such proclamation shall be mailed by

registered mail to each of the following: To the Governor of such State; the United States quarantine officer having federal jurisdiction over the same character of quarantine; and to the state agent of any interstate railroad, express company, or other common carrier over which, or by which, such commodity might be transported.

SEC. 5. When quarantine is declared against any county, or portion of any county, farm, nursery, or apiary within the State, forbidding exportations therefrom of any commodity mentioned in section 1 of this Act, a certified copy of such proclamation shall be mailed by registered mail to each of the following: To the Sheriff; Chairman of the Board of County Commissioners; and County Clerk of such county; and if a single farm, nursery, or apiary be quarantined, to the owner or resident manager thereof. The Governor may, in his discretion, cause a copy of such proclamation to be published in some newspaper of general circulation published within the county, once a week for four consecutive weeks, unless said quarantine is sooner raised, as notice to all concerned.

SEC. 6. Any person, or any officer, agent, or employee of any corporation, who shall import or export, or who shall assist in importing or exporting, as a principal or accessory, any commodity mentioned in section 1 of this Act, forbidden to be imported or exported by any proclamation of quarantine, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished as prescribed in section 6285, Revised Laws of Nevada. Any railroad company, any express company, or other common carrier, which shall carry, haul, or transport into Nevada from any State, or portion of any State, quarantined against, or from any county, portion of any county, farm, nursery, or apiary within the State, under quarantine, to any other part of the State, any commodity mentioned in section 1 of this Act, forbidden to be so imported or exported, shall be liable for any and all damages occurring by reason of such importation or exportation, and which may be recovered by action against such railroad company, express company, or common carrier brought in any court of competent jurisdiction within two years after the date of such offense or offenses, if more than one. Such action shall be instituted in the name of the State, for and on behalf of the person or persons, firms or corporations suffering injury, and the Attorney-General shall prosecute the same.

SEC. 7. In so far as practicable, the Governor, or State Quarantine Officer, in directing the enforcement of quarantine, shall cooperate with the federal authorities. The State Quarantine Officer is hereby authorized and empowered to exercise all needful authority required for the proper and efficient enforcement of quarantine; to make arrests of persons violating the same, or suspected of such violation, and to examine any premises or any shipment or consignment suspected of containing any interdicted commodity within the meaning of this Act, and may open any container thereof and inspect the same. If such shipment or consignment prove to be an interdicted commodity as aforesaid, he shall have power to require any railroad, express company, or other common carrier immediately to reship such consignment back to point of origin, if the same has not yet been delivered to the consignee, and the failure or refusal of any railroad company, express company, or other common carrier promptly so to do shall render such company so offending liable to fine in any sum not less than five hundred dollars nor more than

five thousand dollars, and which may be collected by proceedings instituted by the State and prosecuted by the Attorney-General in any court of competent jurisdiction, and any property of the defendant within the State may be levied on and sold in satisfaction of the judgment. amended, Stats. 1915, p. 332.

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SEC. 8. Any commodity mentioned in section 1 of this Act forbidden to be imported or exported by any proclamation of quarantine, wherever the same may be located, if in the opinion of the Quarantine Officer endangering any industry of the State, may be fumigated, disinfected, treated or destroyed, as the Governor may authorize such Quarantine Officer so to do; provided, that any property so ordered to be destroyed, if acquired by the owner and the same came into his possession prior to the date of the proclamation of quarantine, before being destroyed shall be appraised as to its value by two disinterested appraisers, one to be appointed by the owner thereof, or if he be absent, by his agent, manager or foreman; one by said Quarantine Officer, and if the two so chosen cannot agree, they shall name a third appraiser, and if unable to agree upon such third appraiser, said Quarantine Officer may name some disinterested person to name a third appraiser, and two of the three so named as appraisers, agreeing upon the valuation of the property destroyed, the same shall be final. Said valuation so appraised shall be divided into three equal parts; one part of which the owner shall lose, one part shall be paid to him by the county wherein the property is situated, by order of the Board of County Commissioners from the general fund of the county, on a certified copy of such appraisement, the same as other bills are paid; and one-third by the State, on a certified copy of such appraisement, attested by the Quarantine Officer and approved by the State Board of Examiners, when the State Controller shall draw his warrant and the State Treasurer pay the same from the General Fund in the State Treasury. But no property destroyed under the provisions of this section, if acquired, or the same came into possession of the owner, after the date of such proclamation of quarantine, shall be subject to such part payment by the county or by the State. All costs of fumigation, disinfection, or treatment ordered to be performed by said Quarantine Officer shall be borne by the owner of such commodity, and he, or in his absence, his agent, manager, or foreman, shall perform the same promptly and exactly as instructed and not otherwise, and the refusal or neglect so to do shall constitute a misdemeanor, and such owner, agent, manager, or foreman, so delinquent, on conviction thereof, shall be punished as provided in section 6285, Revised Laws of Nevada. In such case said Quarantine Officer, or any person deputized by him, may enter upon such premises and perform such fumigation, disinfection, or treatment, and all the costs thereof shall attach as a lien against any property of such owner within the State. On neglect or refusal of such owner promptly to pay the same on presentation of an itemized bill certified to by said Quarantine Officer or his deputy, the District Attorney of the county shall forthwith proceed to levy an attachment against any property of such owner within the State for the amount due plus the costs of legal procedure, and proceed to collect the same by foreclosure proceedings.

SEC. 9. The Sheriff and all peace officers of any county when called upon by said Quarantine Officer, and the State Police likewise, shall aid and assist him in the enforcement of quarantine and in the arrest of any

person accused of violating the same, and the District Attorney of any county in which any person is charged with a misdemeanor under this Act shall prosecute the same.

[Sections 10 and 11 repealed. Stats. 1915, p. 333.]

SEC. 12. Each section of this Act and every part of each section is hereby declared to be independent sections and parts of sections, and the holding of any section or part thereof to be void or ineffective for any cause shall not be deemed to affect any other section or any part thereof. [Section 13 repealed. Stats. 1915, p. 333.]

SEC. 14. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.

SEC. 15. The President and Board of Regents of the University of Nevada are hereby designated the authority to administer this Act. They shall have power to designate the State Quarantine Officer, who shall be in charge of the laboratory of the University, known as the State Veterinary Control Service. They shall appoint a properly qualified entomologist to advise with the State Quarantine Officer in all matters in which the scientific knowledge of an entomologist is essential. appointment of the State Quarantine Officer shall be effective when approved by the Governor. Added, Stats. 1915, p. 333.

CHAP. 279-An Act providing for the better prevention, control, and extermination of infectious, contagious, and destructive diseases, parasites, and insect pests, affecting animals, poultry, bees, or agricultural, or horticultural plants, trees or shrubs, injurious to any industry in the State, and other matters relating thereto; and to repeal an Act entitled "An Act providing for the appointment of a State Veterinarian, defining his duties and fixing his compensation-Governor to appoint," approved March 15, 1905, and all Acts and parts of Acts in conflict with the provisions of this Act.

Approved March 31, 1913

SECTION 1. For the better prevention, control and extermination of infectious, contagious, or destructive diseases, parasites or insect pests, affecting poultry, bees, or agricultural or horticultural plants, trees, or shrubs, injurious to any industry in the State, the Governor, with the advice of the State Quarantine Officer, or otherwise, is hereby empowered to proclaim and enforce quarantine against any State or any portion of any State, with respect to the importation into Nevada, or against any county or any portion of any county, farm, nursery, or apiary within the State, with respect to the exportation therefrom to any other part of the State, of any poultry, bees, or agricultural or horticultural crops, products, seeds, plants, trees or shrubs, or any article (hereinafter for convenience referred to as commodity) infected with, or which may have been exposed to, infectious, contagious, or destructive diseases, or infected with parasites or insect pests, or the eggs or larva thereof, dangerous to any industry in the State; and to formulate and enforce such rules and regulations as may be necessary for the proper carrying out of the provisions of this Act. The word "plants, as herein used, shall be construed to mean and include any and all farm, field, and garden crops grown in the State. The word "trees, as herein used, shall be construed to mean