Nevada, and that has no outstanding bonded indebtedness, may be dissolved or disorganized as hereinafter provided. dissolution SEC. 2. A majority of the voters who are qualified to vote Petition for at school elections of any consolidated school district may file to be filed a petition with the board of county commissioners of the county in which said consolidated school district is situated, asking that said consolidated school district be dissolved or disorganized; said petition shall also state into how many and what school districts said consolidated school district shall be divided, and shall give the names and boundaries of said proposed school districts. missioners Upon the receipt of such petition the board of county County comcommissioners shall cause a notice to be published at least to act once a week for three consecutive weeks in some newspaper of general circulation in the county, which notice shall set forth clearly the facts alleged in said petition as to the request for the dissolution of the said consolidated school district, the names and boundaries of the proposed new districts, and shall likewise set forth a day and an hour at the next regular meeting of the board of county commissioners when said board will canvass the signatures on such petition and hear any person interested in or affected by such petition. signatures At the time set forth in said notice the board of county To canvass commissioners shall proceed to canvass the signatures to to petition said petition, and if the majority of the board is satisfied that a majority of the voters who are entitled to vote at school elections of said consolidated school district have signed said petition and that the petition is otherwise regular, the board of county commissioners shall grant the petition and make the order or orders necessary to dissolve or disorganize such district, and shall cause the clerk of said board to file a certified copy of such order or orders with the superintendent of public instruction and with the treasurer and the auditor of the county. SEC. 3. Said order or orders shall be effective from the orders effective. date of issuance thereof by the board of county commission- when ers as provided in section 2 above, and thenceforth said. consolidated school district, dissolved and disorganized thereby, shall cease to exist, and the trustees thereof shall have no further powers nor duties except to pay the current expenses and existing debts of the said consolidated district and perform all other acts necessary to close the affairs of the consolidated district as hereinafter provided. As soon as all the expenses and debts of the consolidated districts dissolved and disorganized under the provisions of this act have been paid and all other acts necessary to close the affairs of such district have been performed by the board of school trustees thereof, the said board shall immediately certify such fact or facts to the superintendent of public instruction and the county treasurer and the county auditor. SEC. 4. Upon receipt of the certified copy of the order or Duty of superin tendent of public instruction Proviso Manner of disposing of funds of dissolved district Proviso compensa tion in orders of the board of county commissioners as provided in section 2 of this act, the superintendent of public instruction, or his duly authorized deputy, shall forthwith call in each district formed or created by said order or orders, and in the manner now provided by law, an election for the election of three trustees for each of such newly organized districts, such trustees to serve until the next regular election of school trustees as now provided by law; provided, however, if such districts or any of them fail to hold such election, that the deputy superintendent of public instruction may appoint such trustees to serve as aforesaid. SEC. 5. When the superintendent of public instruction has received the properly certified copy of the order or orders of the board of county commissioners dissolving or disorganizing any consolidated district, and when he has received from the board of school trustees of such dissolved or disorganized district their statement, as provided in section 3 above, he shall ascertain from the county treasurer the amount of money in the state and county school funds remaining to the credit of the said district, and he shall apportion such money, as shown by the report of the county treasurer, to the several districts organized out of the consolidated district in proportion to the number of census children residing in each of the respective new districts; and to determine such number of children he is hereby authorized to have a special census taken, if necessary, in each district, and at the expense of each district wherein taken; provided, however, that if there is to the credit of said consolidated school district any money that has been collected by reason of a special tax upon the property within said consolidated school district, then and in that event the county treasurer of the county will apportion such fund to the several newly organized districts according to the property situate within such districts and upon which said fund was assessed and collected. The county treasurer and auditor are hereby authorized and directed to make such transfers of said funds as may be necessary in the premises. SEC. 6. If any of the districts created out of said conReasonable solidated school districts contributed any specific property to said consolidated school district when the same was formed, certain cases such property shall be returned to such district, at the expense of said consolidated district, or if such return cannot be had, reasonable compensation therefor shall be made out of the sale of the property of said consolidated school district as hereinafter provided. School board may sell property of dissolved district SEC. 7. The board of school trustees of any consolidated school district dissolved under the terms of this act are hereby given power and authority to sell or dispose of, in a manner now provided by law for the sale of school property, the property of such consolidated district, and place the pro ceeds thereof to the credit of said consolidated school district in the county treasury, to be apportioned by the superintendent of public instruction as hereinbefore provided. to govern SEC. 8. All school districts created or formed as provided School law in this act shall be governed by and shall have all of the privileges of all of the general laws governing public schools in the State of Nevada. SEC. 9. All acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith are Repeal hereby repealed. [Assembly Bill No. 115-Mr. Cross] CHAP. 75—An Act to amend section 61 of an act entitled "An act to incorporate the town of Sparks, in Washoe County, and defining the boundaries thereof, and to authorize the establishing of a city government therefor, and other matters relating thereto," approved March 15, The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section 61 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows: council may assign addi to them Section 61. Nothing herein contained shall be construed Sparks city to limit the authority of the city council in the exercise of combine city its sound discretion, by resolution duly passed, from combin- offices and ing or consolidating the appointive officers herein provided tional duties for, from assigning new duties to the appointive officers and employees herein mentioned, nor prohibit the city council from fixing the salaries or compensation provided for such officers and employees, in payment for such service as may be assigned them. Nor shall anything herein contained be construed to limit the powers of the city council, by resolution duly passed, from assigning any additional duties to the elective officers herein mentioned, and fixing a compensation therefor. [Assembly Bill No. 118-Mr. Heward] CHAP. 76—An Act concerning the taking of depositions in this state to be used in any foreign jurisdiction, and to make uniform the law with reference thereto. [Approved March 8, 1921] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and other states SECTION 1. (Authority to Act.) Whenever any mandate, Depositions writ or commission is issued out of any court of record in for use in any other state, territory, district or foreign jurisdiction, or countries or whenever upon notice or agreement it is required to take Uniformity of interpretation Short title Repeal the testimony of a witness or witnesses in this state, witnesses may be compelled to appear and testify in the same manner and by the same process and proceeding as may be employed for the purpose of taking testimony in proceedings pending in this state. SEC. 2. (Uniformity of Interpretation.) This act shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate its general purposes to make uniform the law of those states which enact it. ·SEC. 3. (Short Title.) This act may be cited as the uniform foreign depositions act. SEC. 4. (Repeal.) All acts or parts of acts which are inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. prima facie evidence [Assembly Bill No.119-Mr. Heward] CHAP. 77-An Act concerning the proof of statutes of other jurisdictions and to make uniform the law with reference thereto. [Approved March 8, 1921] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. (Publications Covered by this Act.) Printed Printed laws books or pamphlets purporting on their face to be the session or other statutes of any of the United States, or the territories thereof, or of any foreign jurisdiction, and to have been printed and published by the authority of any such state, territory, or foreign jurisdiction or proved to be commonly recognized in its courts, shall be received in the courts of this state as prima facie evidence of such statutes. Uniformity of interpretation Short title Repeal SEC. 2. (Uniformity of Interpretation.) This act shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate its general purposes to make uniform the law of those states which enact it. SEC. 3. (Short Title.) This act may be cited as the uniform proof of statutes act. SEC. 4. (Repeal.) All acts or parts of acts which are inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. [Assembly Bill No. 169-Elko County Delegation] CHAP. 78-An Act to authorize the board of county commissioners of the county of Elko to levy a special tax for the years 1921 and 1922 for the support of the Elko county fair. [Approved March 8, 1921] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Annually at the time provided for the levying County tax of taxes by the county commissioners during the years 1921 for Elko fair and 1922 the board of county commissioners is hereby authorized and directed to levy a special tax upon all the property of Elko County, real and personal, including the net proceeds of mines, sufficient to raise thereby annually the sum of seven thousand five hundred ($7,500) dollars. of funds from SEC. 2. The proceeds derived from such special tax levy Application shall be placed in the treasury of the said county of Elko said tax in a special fund to be known as "The Elko County Fair Fund," and shall be used for the payment of premiums, purchase of building material and equipment, and payment of current expenses of the Elko county fair. by fair SEC. 3. All claims against said fund for the purposes Claims mentioned in section 2 of this act, shall be approved by the approved trustees of said Elko county fair, and after such approval, trustees shall be allowed and paid out of the fund hereby created as other county claims are allowed and paid. not to exceed SEC 4. The county of Elko shall never be liable for any Fair expense claims against the fund hereby created in excess of the tax amount realized from the special tax herein provided for. balance SEC. 5. All money remaining in said Elko county fair Reversion of fund, after the payment of all claims against it for each annual fair, shall revert to and become a portion of the general fund of Elko County. |