elections on to charter SEC. 8. Amendments to the charter adopted by any city or Referendum town under the provisions of this act may be proposed and subamendments mitted to the qualified voters by a majority of the commissioners, and shall be so submitted upon petition signed by ten per centum of the qualified voters, voting at the last regular city or town election, setting forth the proposed amendments, which submission shall be made at the next regular city or town election, and all such amendments submitted shall be placed upon the official ballot in the same manner as was the original charter. Railroads must display passenger and freight rates, etc. SEC. 9. Nothing in this act shall be construed to apply to cities or towns having a population of eight thousand persons or more. CHAP. 193-An Act to amend section 4 of an act entitled "An act to regulate railroads, telegraph and telephone companies and other common carriers in this state, creating a railroad commission, constituting the governor, the lieutenant-governor, and the attorney-general a railroad board for the appointment and removal of the railroad commissioners, prevent the imposition of unreasonable rates, prevent unjust discrimination, insure an adequate railway service, and fixing maximum freight charges,' approved March 5, 1907, and amended March 20, 1909, and amended March 27, 1911. [Approved March 22, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section 4 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 4. Every railroad shall print in plain type, and file with the commission within a time fixed by the commission, schedules of schedules which shall be open to public inspection, showing all rates, fares, and charges for the transportation of passengers and property, and any service in connection therewith, which it has established and which are in force at the time between all points in this state upon its line, or any line controlled or operated by it, and the rates, fares, and charges shown on such schedules as are in effect at the date this act takes effect. The schedule printed as aforesaid shall plainly state the charges upon its line or any line controlled or operated by it in this state between which passengers and property will be carried, and there shall be filed therewith the classifications of freight in force. Every railroad shall publish with and as a part of such schedules all rules and regulations that in any manner affect the rates charged or to be charged for the transportation of passengers or property, also its charges for delay in unloading or loading cars, for track and car service, or rental, and for demurrage, switching, terminal, or transfer service, or for on file for rendering any other service in connection with the transportation of persons or property. Two copies of said schedules Must be kept for the use of the public shall be filed and kept on file in every easy use of depot, station, and office of such railroad where passengers or public freight are received for transportation in such form and place as to be accessible to the public and where they can be conveniently inspected. When passengers or property are transported over connecting lines in this state, operated by more than one railroad, and the several railroads operating such lines establish joint rates, fares, and charges, a schedule of joint Joint-rate rates shall also in like manner be printed and filed with the commission, and in every depot, station, and office of such railroads where such passengers or property are received for transportation. schedule notice of a. No change shall thereafter be made in any schedule, Thirty days including schedule of joint rates, or in any classification, except change upon thirty days' notice to the commission, and all such changes shall be plainly indicated upon existing schedules, or by filing new schedules in lieu thereof thirty days prior to the time the same are to take effect; provided, that the commission Exception upon application of any railroad, may prescribe a less time within which a reduction may be made. Copies of all new schedules shall be filed as hereinbefore provided in every depot, station, and office of such railroad ten days prior to the time the same are to take effect, unless the commission shall prescribe a less time. for reduction change to be b. Whenever a change is made in any existing schedule, Notice of including schedule of joint rates, a notice shall be posted by posted the railroad in a conspicuous place in every depot, station, and office, stating that changes have been made in the schedule on file specifying the class or commodity affected, and the date when the same will take effect. schedule adhered to c. It shall be unlawful for any railroads to charge, demand, Printed collect, or receive a greater or less compensation for the trans- charges portation of passengers, property, or for service in connection must be therewith, than is specified in such printed schedule, including schedules of joint rates, as may at the time be in force, and the rates, fares, and charges named therein shall be the lawful rates, fares, and charges until the same are changed as herein provided. changes d. The commission may prescribe such changes in the form Form in which the schedules are issued by the railroad as may be may be prefound expedient, and such schedules shall, as far as practicable, conform to the forms prescribed by the interstate commerce commission. scribed by commission schedule e. Whenever there shall be filed with the commission any New schedule stating a new individual or joint rate, fare, or charge, may be susor any new individual or joint classification, or any new indi- pended by vidual or joint regulation or practice affecting any rate, fare, until after or charge, the commission shall have, and it is hereby given, commission hearing New schedule may be suspended Proviso authority, either upon complaint or upon its own initiative without complaint, at once, and if it so orders, without answer or other formal pleading by the interested railroad or railroads, but upon reasonable notice, to enter upon a hearing concerning the propriety of such rate, fare, charge, classification, regulation, or practice; and pending such hearing and the decision thereon the commission, upon delivering to the railroad or railroads affected thereby a statement in writing of its reasons for such suspension, may suspend the operation of such schedule and defer the use of such rate, fare, charge, classification, regulation, or practice, but not for a longer period than sixty days beyond the time when such rate, fare, charge, classification, regulation, or practice would otherwise go into effect; and after full hearing, whether completed before or after the date upon which the rate, fare, charge, classification, regulation, or practice goes into effect, the commission may make such order in reference to such rate, fare, charge, classification, regulation, or practice, as would be proper in a proceeding initiated after the rate, fare, charge, classification, regulation, or practice had become effective; provided, that if any such hearing cannot be concluded within the period of suspension, as above stated, the commission may, in its discretion, extend the time of suspension for a further period, not exceeding sixty days. county treas urer and district attorney of CHAP. 194-An Act to authorize the board of county commissioners of the county of Elko, State of Nevada, to allow the appointment of certain deputy county officers under certain circumstances and fixing their compensation. [Approved March 22, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. From and after the passage of this act, the Deputies for board of county commissioners of the county of Elko, State of Nevada, when said board deem it necessary, shall allow the county treasurer and district attorney of said county to appoint Elko County a deputy or deputies for their offices, who shall serve as long as said necessity may continue, and said deputy or deputies. shall be paid out of the general fund of said county at the rate of not to exceed the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars ($150) per month. Repeal SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. CHAP. 195-An Act making it the duty of the several county assessors of the State of Nevada to report to the secretary of state the ownership of and other information concerning motor vehicles within their respective counties. [Approved March 22, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and must report of motor SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the several county assessors Assessors of the State of Nevada to report annually, in writing, to the names of secretary of State of Nevada, not later than the third Monday all owners in January of each year, commencing in January, 1916, the vehicles, etc., name of each and every owner of any motor vehicle within his of state respective county, together with the name of the maker, factory number, style of vehicle, and motor power. to secretary vehicle" SEC. 2. By "motor vehicle" is meant such vehicles propelled "Motor by any power other than muscular power; provided, that noth- defined ing herein contained shall apply to traction engines, road-rollers. street-cars, railway motors, or railway locomotives. CHAP. 196-An Act for the relief of certain persons, firms, associations, and corporations who advanced funds for the construction of the Nevada school of industry, in the county of Elko, State of Nevada, and authorizing the repayment of the same by the county of Elko, State of Nevada. [Approved March 22, 1915] sums WHEREAS, During the twenty-sixth session of the legislature To refund of Nevada, an act entitled "An act establishing a state institu- advanced tion for delinquent boys, providing for the purchase of a site, for Nevad erection of buildings, organizing the government of said school, industry and providing for the maintenance thereof, and creating a tax levy to raise funds for such purposes, approved March 26, 1913, was passed, creating a Nevada school of industry and a commission for the construction of said school and the government thereof, and conditioned that the Nevada school of industry, therein created, should be located in the county of Elko, State of Nevada, upon land deeded to the state, without charge, and upon the payment to the commission, by the citizens of Elko, of the sum of five thousand dollars; and WHEREAS, The commission provided in said act was duly appointed, and the conditions set forth in said act were duly complied with, and said school has been constructed; and WHEREAS, No authority has been provided by which the said county of Elko could appropriate the said five thousand dollars; and WHEREAS, In order not to delay the construction of said building, the following-named persons, firms, associations, and corporations paid and advanced to the said commission the sums named said sum of five thousand dollars, as is hereafter more particuPersons and larly set forth, to wit: W. T. Smith Company, $250; Elko Lumber Company, $250; A. G. McBride, $250; R. H. Mallett, $250; Guy Saval, $250; A. W. Hesson Company, $250; Chris Eshleman, $250; Doctors Hood & West, $250; L. J. Wintermantel Company, $250; Elko Hide and Junk Company, $250; Mayer Hotel Company, $250; George Russell, $250; Elko Automobile Company, $250; E. M. Steninger, $250; Sutherland & McFarlane, $250; Engler Company, $250; E. Dotta, $250; Thomas Hunter, $250; First National Bank of Elko, $250; and Henderson Banking Company, $250; and commis sioners to allow sums as named WHEREAS, Said sums were so advanced and paid, with the understanding that the same would be a charge against the town of Elko, State of Nevada, and be repaid by said town, as soon as an enabling act should be enacted by the legislature of the State of Nevada: now, therefore, The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. That the board of county commissioners of the Elko county county of Elko, State of Nevada, be and is hereby authorized, empowered and directed, as soon as there be sufficient funds in the town government fund of the town of Elko, State of Nevada, upon presentation and proof that said sums have been paid to the commission for the establishment of the Nevada school of industry, to approve and allow on said fund, the claim of W. T. Smith Company, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of Elko Lumber Company, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of A. G. McBride, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of R. H. Mallett, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of Guy Saval, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of A. W. Hesson Company, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of Chris Eshleman, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of Doctors Hood & West, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of L. J. Wintermantel Company, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of Elko Hide and Junk Company, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of Mayer Hotel Company, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of George Russell, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of Elko Automobile Company, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of E. M. Steninger, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of Sutherland & McFarlane, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of Engler Company, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of E. Dotta, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of Thomas Hunter, for the sum of two hundred fifty dollars ($250); the claim of First National Bank of Elko, for the sum of two hundred fifty |