SEC. 14. misfeasance punished Section thirty-one of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Section 31. Any officer in whose office any nomination Neglect or paper has been properly filed who shall wrongfully either of filing suppress, neglect or fail to cause the filing thereof to be noted officer at the proper time and in the proper place shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon trial and conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars or more than five hundred dollars or imprisonment in the county jail for not less than thirty days nor more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. to govern Any act or omission declared to be an offense by the general General law laws of this state concerning primaries and elections shall also primaries in like case be an offense concerning primary elections as provided for by this act, and shall be punished in the same manner and form as therein provided, and all penalties and provisions of the law governing elections, except as herein otherwise provided shall apply in equal force to primary elections as provided for by this act. SEC. 15. Section thirty-two of said act is hereby amended so as to read as follows: to prepare Section 32. It shall be the duty of the secretary of state State officers and attorney-general to prepare all necessary forms to carry necessary out the provisions of this act within sufficient time for the forms use of such forms. CHAP. 168-An act to authorize the issuance of interestbearing school warrants in emergencies, to repeal all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith, and other matters properly connected therewith. [Approved March 23, 1911] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: school may be SECTION 1. Whenever the county school fund of any school When interdistrict is exhausted and there is not available money to meet est-bearing the necessary expenses involved in maintaining the public warrants schools of the district, the board of trustees of such district may, issued by unanimous vote, by resolution setting forth the character of the emergency, authorize the clerk of the board to issue orders, for the payment of current bills of the schools of the district, to the county auditor, and said county auditor shall draw warrants for the same on the county treasurer in the usual manner. Such orders shall be in the hands of the county auditor valid vouchers for warrants so drawn. endorsed SEC. 2. When such warrants are presented to the county How treasurer he shall endorse thereon the date and "Not Paid for Want of Funds, and such warrants shall draw interest from date at the rate of seven per cent per annum. Order in which paid Amount of warrants limited Preliminaries as to issue Repeal In effect rated towns SEC. 3. The county treasurer shall keep a list of all warrants so endorsed and shall pay them in the order of endorsement whenever there is sufficient money in the fund upon which such warrants are drawn. The interest on such warrants shall stop when the county treasurer shall give notice that he has funds with which to pay the same. SEC. 4. It shall not be lawful for the clerk of the board of trustees of such district to draw orders on the county auditor in such amount that the total amount of such interest-bearing warrants of the district, outstanding and unpaid, shall exceed the total cost of maintaining the schools of the district for the current year, nor exceed one per cent of the total assessed valuation of the district. SEC. 5. Before the issuance of the first of such interestbearing warrants the clerk of the board of trustees shall submit to the county commissioners of said county a copy of the resolution of the board of trustees authorizing the same, and said county commissioners shall levy and cause to be collected a special tax upon the taxable property of the school district, sufficient to pay such warrants within three years. SEC. 6. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. SEC. 7. This act shall take effect immediately upon passage and approval. CHAP. 169-An act to enable the unincorporated cities and towns of the State of Nevada to acquire by construction, purchase or otherwise, sewerage systems, light systems, water systems, or combined water and light systems, or combined water, light and sewerage systems, and to issue bonds for the construction or purchase of the same, and to provide for the firing and collections of rates for the service thereof and other matters relating thereto. [Approved March 23, 1911] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Full power and authority is hereby granted to Unincorpo- the county commissioners of the several counties in this state may acquire acting with regard to the management of the affairs and busior construct ness of any unincorporated town or city within their respective systems counties, subject to the provisions of this act, to acquire by public utility Bonds construction, purchase or otherwise, sewerage systems, light systems, water systems, combined light and water systems and combined light, water and sewerage systems, and all such other personal or real property as may be necessary for the installment, use and management thereof, and to issue bonds in payment therefor in the amount and manner herein set forth and prescribed. bonds SEC. 2. The bonds herein provided for and hereby author- Amount of ized to be issued of any such city or town shall not at any limited time exceed the sum or amount designated by the authority authorizing the issuance thereof, as in this act hereinafter provided; said bonds shall be of convenient denominations, not less than fifty dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, and shall bear interest at the rate of not more than six per cent per annum, interest on each bond to be payable annually, beginning on the third Monday of January on the second year after such bonds shall have been issued, and upon the same date in each succeeding year during the life of such bond. The bonds shall be numbered consecutively and have interest coupons attached in such manner that they can be removed upon the payment of the installments of interest without injury to the bonds. The bonds shall be signed by the chairman of the board of county commissioners, acting as a city or town board, and countersigned by the clerk of said board. The bonds shall be distinctly known as sewerage bonds, light bonds, water bonds, water and light bonds, or water, light and sewerage bonds as appropriate, and the name of the town or city issuing said bonds shall be inserted before the word as designating the character thereof. election advertised SEC. 3. Before issuing said bonds, the board of county Special commissioners, acting as such city or town board, shall pub- for bonds lish notice for at least three consecutive weeks in some daily newspaper, published in said city or town, calling for a special election by the legally qualified electors of such city or town, to determine whether such bonds shall issue. If there be no daily newspapers published in such city or town, the said notice shall be posted in at least three conspicuous places within the limits of such city or town for three consecutive weeks, and if there be in said town or city a weekly newspaper, or any other newspaper published in said city or town not being a daily newspaper, such notice shall also be published in each issue of said newspaper during the period prescribed herein for the posting of such notice. The notice shall state specifically the amount of the proposed bond issue, the rate of interest the bonds are to bear, time and manner of their payment, and that they are for the construction or purchase, as the case may be, of sewerage system, light system, water system, combined light and water system, or combined sewerage, light and water system, as the case may be. SEC. 4. The board shall cause a sufficient number of ballots Ballots, how to be printed which shall bear the words "Sewerage bonds-printed Yes, "Sewerage bonds-No" or "Light bonds-Yes," "Light bonds-No" or "Water bonds-Yes," "Water bonds-No" or "Water and light bonds-Yes" "Water and light bonds-No" or "Sewerage, light and water bonds-Yes" "Sewerage, light and water bonds-No, as the case may require, printed thereon in parallel lines, one above the other. The voter will scratch out the word "yes" if opposed to the bonds, or the word "no" if Election,how in favor of their issue. The election shall be conducted and the conducted votes canvassed, in all essential particulars as in other city and Fund for payment of bonds and interest All systems constructed under supervision of county commissioners town elections. If a majority of all the votes cast are in favor of the issue of the bonds, the board of county commissioners, acting as such city or town board, shall proceed at once to issue them as rapidly as needed, in conformity with the provisions of this act. Said board of county commissioners are hereby authorized to sell such bonds or any part thereof as may be necessary, to be sold at not less than their par value; bonds hereby authorized to be issued and sold shall be redeemable in the order of their issuance annually thereafter, according to the time specified therein from the date of their issue respectively. SEC. 5. To provide for the payment of the said bonds and the interest thereon, whenever the revenues from the sale of service hereinafter provided for shall be insufficient for that purpose, the board of county commissioners shall at the time of the regular tax levy for the state and county purposes, levy an additional tax upon all real and personal property within the limits of such town or city, sufficient in their judgment to pay the interest upon such bonds annually, as such interest shall become due, and to pay the principal of such bonds as the same shall mature, according to the time designated in such bonds as the maturity thereof respectively. Said taxes shall be assessed and collected the same as other taxes, paid to the county treasurer, and by him placed in a fund to be known Sewerage Fund, "Light Fund, "Water and Light Fund" or "Sewerage, Light and Water Fund, with the name of the city or town as the case may be, with the name of the city or town preceding the word designating the character of the bond. The principal upon said bonds shall become due and the said bonds shall mature and be payable in years from the date of the issuance thereof respectively. as SEC. 6. All sewerage systems, light systems, water systems, light and water systems, or sewerage, light and water systems, or purchased constructed, purchased or otherwise acquired under the provisions of this act, shall be so constructed, purchased or otherwise acquired under the supervision and control of the board of county commissioners, acting as such city or town board. The board of commissioners acting as such town or city board may purchase any sewerage system, light system, water system, water and light system, or sewerage, light and water system theretofore established, or in use, or they may purchase the franchises, rights, privileges and plants thereof from the owners thereof, corporate or private, and improve or extend the same. Or they may advertise for plans and specifications and bids for the construction of any or all of such systems hereby authorized to be acquired, as in cases of other public work. SEC. 7. In all cases wherein such sewerage systems, light systems, water systems, water and light systems, or sewerage, board to light and water systems, are constructed, or acquired, under When town the provisions of this act in such unincorporated cities and rated towns, and such cities and towns are afterwards incorporated, municipal the control and management of such systems shall at once be govern vested in the municipal governments of such cities and towns. In case such cities and towns shall be incorporated while the work of construction is in progress, the work shall nevertheless be carried on to completion by the board of county commissioners and when completed such system shall be turned over to the city or town government as soon as it shall have been organized and it shall have control and management thereof. In such case it shall then be the duty of such city or town government to provide for the payment of the principal and interest on said bonds, when the revenues from the service of such systems shall be insufficient therefor, by the levy and collection of taxes as herein provided. It shall be the duty of the county treasurer to have the custody of the sewerage, light, water, light and water, or sewerage, light and water funds and to turn such funds over to the city treasurer, immediately upon the qualification of the city treasurer, and the bonds, principal and interest shall then be paid by the city government in all respects as prescribed for their payment by the board of county commissioners acting as city or town boards, as herein provided, and whatever may be the designation of the board of control of such incorporated city or town, it shall succeed to all the powers and privileges heretofore conferred on the board of county commissioners by the provisions of this act. visions for principal of SEC. 8. For the purpose of further providing for the pay- Further proment of the principal and interest upon the bonds hereby payment of authorized to be issued at the time and in the manner specified interest and in this act and in such bonds respectively, the board of county bonds" commissioners, acting as a town or city board, and the successors of such commissioners, by which it is intended to mean any municipal government of such towns or cities, which may succeed to the control and management of the systems or any of the systems in this act to be acquired, shall have the power and it shall be their duty to fix the rates of service of the or any of the systems acquired under the provisions of this act, to the inhabitants of such towns or cities and to adopt ordinances regulating the manner and use by such inhabitants of the system or any of the systems so acquired, collect the rates so fixed in the manner prescribed by the law of the city for the collection of delinquent taxes or by proceeding in the nature of a civil action, brought in the name of the county commissioners of the county wherein the cause of action arises and to enforce the collections of such rates from the delinquents in the manner provided by the code of civil procedure of this state. SEC. 9. All moneys acquired by the sale of services herein Moneys provided for shall be paid to the county treasurer and by him assigned to a fund to be known as the " Contingent Light, "Contingent Water" "Contingent Sewerage, received from systems to go to certain funds |