and directing any public work; the salary or compensation, duties, and responsibilities of such person to be fixed, determined, and fully defined by ordinance. fines, etc. Forty-second-To prescribe fines, forfeitures, and penalties To prescribe for the breach or violation of any ordinance, or the provisions of this charter, but no penalty shall exceed the amount of five hundred dollars or six months imprisonment, or both such fine and imprisonment. bonds suits at law Forty-third To require of and prescribe the amount of Official official bonds from its members and all officers of the city, whether elective or appointive. Forty-fourth-To institute and maintain any suit or suits, To maintain civil or criminal, in the name of the city, in the proper court, whenever necessary, in the judgment of the city council to enforce or maintain any right of the city, and they may, in like manner, defend all actions against the city; to institute and maintain any suit to foreclose liens or otherwise, against any property owner refusing or neglecting to pay as assessed by the city council, his ratable proportion of the cost of paving, grading or otherwise improving any street, or building any sidewalk or other improvement, which benefits the property or owner thereof. sell city under Forty-fifth-To hold, manage, use and dispose of all real To buy and and personal property of the city, and to enforce the payment property and collection of all dues, assessments, or demands of every restrictions nature or kind, belonging or inuring to the city, but no sales of property belonging to the city shall be made until after it shall have been appraised by three disinterested appraisers, residents and taxpayers of the city, at the actual market value, nor shall it be sold for less than seventy-five per cent of such appraised value; provided, that no park or property acquired for park or public purposes shall be sold or in any manner disposed of. shrubbery Forty-sixth-To prohibit the injury to or interference with To protect the ornamental trees and shrubbery in the streets and public places of the city, and to prescribe the punishment for such injury and interference. condemn Forty-seventh-Any property, real or personal, necessary May or required for the public use of the city, may be condemned propertyand appropriated in the manner prescribed by general law eminent and all rights of eminent domain may be exercised by the city in relation thereto. domain wards Forty-eighth-To change or enlarge the boundaries of any To change ward, by ordinance, so as to annex or include therein additional lands, with the tenements, property and inhabitants thereof; provided, the city council shall be first petitioned so Provisos to do by a majority of the persons of the district proposed to be so annexed; and provided further, that no change in the boundaries of any ward, except for the purpose of enlarging the same, shall be made within sixty days next preceding any To tax parades Fund for publicity purposes ordinance at general city election, and in no event oftener than once every two years. Forty-ninth-To suppress or regulate and collect a license tax on circus or other public parades through the streets of the city. Fiftieth-In its discretion, to provide and set aside yearly a reasonable fund, which once so provided and set aside shall not be increased, but may be diminished, during the year, for purposes of publicity. Section 13. The city council may, at such general or special Alternative election, submit an alternative ordinance for the choice of the referendum electors, and any number of proposed ordinances may be voted elections on at the same election. The style of all ordinances voted on at any general or special election shall be as follows: "The People of the City of Reno do ordain." Enacting clause SEC. 6. Section 2 of article 14 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 2. The municipal court shall be presided over by a police judge, who shall be a citizen of the state, a bona fide police judge resident of the city for a period of at least one year next pre Municipal court, and Term. 4 years Bond Municipal election in May, 1915, and every four years Council to provide for election Vacancies, certain, how filled ceding his election, and he shall be an elector and taxpayer in the city. He shall be elected by the qualified electors of the city at each general city election and shall hold office for the term of four years, and until his successor shall have been duly elected and qualified. He shall, before entering upon the discharge of his duties, make and execute to the city a good and sufficient bond in such sum and condition as the city council may prescribe, and the sureties thereon shall be subject to the approval of the city council. SEC. 7. Sections 1 and 7 of article 17 of the above-entitled act are hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 1. The first municipal election hereunder shall be held in said city on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in May, 1915, and on the same day every four years thereafter, at which time there shall be elected one mayor, councilmen as herein before provided, one city attorney, one city clerk, and one police judge. All elections held under this charter shall be governed by the provisions of the general election laws of the state, so far as the same can be made applicable and which are not inconsistent herewith. The conduct and carrying on of all city elections shall be under the control of the city council, and they shall by ordinance provide for the holding of the same, appoint the necessary officers thereof, and do all other or further things required to carry the same into effect. Section 7. If a vacancy occurs in the office of any officer, acting ex officio or otherwise, or in the event any officer acting ex officio as city officer shall refuse to act as ex officio city officer, and in all other cases of vacancy not otherwise provided for, the mayor shall, subject to confirmation by the city council, appoint some person possessing the requisite qualifications to fill such vacancy, and in case the person so nominated is not confirmed by a majority vote of all the members elected, the mayor shall nominate another, and so on until the place is filled. CHAP. 185-An Act prescribing the official oath of the State of Nevada, and repealing a certain act. [Approved March 22, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Members of the legislature, and all officers, executive, judicial, and ministerial, shall, before they enter upon the duties of their respective offices, take and subscribe to the following oath: official oath I, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will Form of support, protect, and defend the constitution and government of the United States, and the constitution and government of the State of Nevada, against all enemies, whether domestic or foreign, and that I will bear true faith, allegiance, and loyalty to the same, any ordinance, resolution, or law of any state notwithstanding, and that I will well and faithfully perform all the duties of the office of on which I am about to enter; (if an oath) so help me God; (if an affirmation) under the pains and penalties of perjury. SEC. 2. An act entitled "An act prescribing the official oath Repeal of the State of Nevada, approved January 16, 1865, is hereby repealed. CHAP. 186-An Act to amend section 517 of an act entitled "An act concerning crimes and punishments, and repealing certain acts relating thereto," approved March 17, 1911. [Approved March 22, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section 517 of "An act concerning crimes and punishments, and repealing certain acts relating thereto," approved March 17, 1911, is hereby amended to read as follows: statement of be given Section 517. The two preceding sections shall not be con- Truthful strued as prohibiting any corporation, company, organization, discharge or or individual from giving in writing, at the time said employee leaving may leaves or is discharged from the service of said employer, a employee truthful statement of the reason for such leaving of the service or discharge of such employee, nor shall the foregoing sections be construed to prevent any employer from giving any employee or former employee any statement with reference to any merito- Recommenrious services which said employee may have rendered to such be given employer, and it shall be the duty of the employer to supply dation may construed upon demand from employee, statements as provided in this "Employee" section. The word "employee" as used in this act, shall be construed to mean every person who shall have entered upon service or employment of an employer, and such employment shall be deemed to commence from the date of the entry or performance of any service, and any contract of employment, rule, regulation, or device to the contrary shall be void; provided, that no such statement shall be required unless the employee shall have been in service for a period of not less than sixty days and that only one such statement shall be issued to such employee. Proviso CHAP. 187-An Act to provide for the compiling, reporting, printing, and distribution of the decisions of the supreme court of the State of Nevada, and repealing certain acts in conflict herewith. [Approved March 22, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The clerk of the supreme court and the official Reporters of court reporter shall be ex officio reporters of decisions. supreme court decisions, duties of Duties of reporters regarding printed volumes to be fur nished When ever any case is finally determined by the supreme court it shall be the duty of the reporters of decisions to make a synopsis of the opinion and decision of the supreme court in such case, together with a brief abstract of the briefs filed in the case, in so far as such briefs bear upon the points considered in the opinion of the court. A copy of the opinion, together with the synopsis of the same and the abstract of the briefs, shall be filed by the reporters of decisions with the superintendent of state printing. SEC. 2. The reporters of decisions shall have such decisions, synopses, and abstracts of briefs, together with an index, table of cases, and of statutes and provisions of constitutions cited, printed and bound in volumes of the size, as nearly as may be, of the volumes heretofore published, and containing not less than five hundred pages each. SEC. 3. The superintendent of state printing shall furnish Proof sheets the reporters of decisions with proof sheets for their verification and correction before publication in permanent form. It shall be in the discretion of the superintendent of state printing, whenever the material furnished by the reporters of decisions will make a folio of sixteen pages, to print a sufficient number of such folios for the permanent volume hereinafter provided for. He may also print, on cheap paper, not for binding, a number of such folios, which may be sold by the superintendent of state printing, at a price sufficient to cover the cost of the same, to subscribers for the permanent volumes. Advance sheets, when "Nevada SEC. 4. The title of each of the above-mentioned volumes Title, shall be "Nevada Reports, which title, together with the name Reports" of the clerk of the supreme court and the number of the volume, shall be printed on the back of each book. vision of raphers to SEC. 5. The work of the reporters of decisions in preparing Under superthe material for the "Nevada Reports" shall be under the supreme direction and supervision of the justices of the supreme court. justices SEC. 6. It shall be the duty of the stenographic clerks of Stenog the supreme court, without additional compensation, to assist assist the reporters of decisions in the preparation of the material for such "Nevada Reports" Immediately upon the filing of any decision by the supreme court it shall be the duty of the official court reporter to mail a copy of such decision to counsel upon each side of the case, which copy shall bear the certificate of the official court reporter to be a full, true, and correct copy of such decision. official court SEC. 7. The official court reporter, for his services as a Additional reporter of decisions, shall receive a salary of three hundred salary for dollars per annum, payable in equal monthly installments, reporter which shall be in addition to his salary as official court reporter, now prescribed by law. size of volumes-num distribution SEC. 8. The superintendent of state printing shall cause to Style and be printed upon good paper and in workmanlike manner eleven hundred copies of each volume of decisions hereafter published, ber printed which shall be disposed of as follows: Six hundred copies shall be bound in buckram and shall be delivered to the secretary of state, for the purposes hereinafter specified, and five hundred copies shall be stored unbound by the superintendent of state printing, subject to the order of the secretary of state. SEC. 9. On the receipt of each volume of said reports from How free the superintendent of state printing, the secretary of state shall made distribute them in the following manner: To each state and territory, one copy; to each of the heads of departments at Washington, one copy; to the library of Congress, two copies; to each of the judges of the United States circuit and district courts in the states of Nevada, California, and Oregon, one copy; to the Nevada state library, two copies; to each state officer, justice of the supreme court, clerk of the supreme court, district judge, district attorney, county clerk, and justice of the peace in this state, one copy; and to each public library within this state, one copy. He shall distribute to literary and scientific institutions, publishers, and authors as in his opinion may secure an interchange of works which may properly be placed in the state library. The remaining copies shall be Price $2 per held for sale at the price of two dollars per volume. volume SEC. 10. Those certain acts entitled respectively "An act to Certain acts provide for the publication and distribution of Nevada repealed Reports, approved March 1, 1883, and "An act to provide for compiling and reporting the decisions of the supreme court of the State of Nevada, approved March 26, 1909, and all other acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act, |