members but not longer than two years from the passage of this act. The governor may at any time remove any commissioner for incompetency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office. Any vacancy may be filled by the governor. SEC. 2. The members of said commission shall receive as Salaries of compensation ten ($10) dollars for each day actually employed on the work of said commission and their actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties. The commissioners shall employ such help as they deem necessary to complete the preliminary work, plans, and estimates as expeditiously as possible to present the same to Congress and the federal government as speedily as possible, and the compensation and expense of such help shall be paid out of the fund hereinafter created. State engineer, chairman of to call meeting Secretary SEC. 3. Within a reasonable time after the appointment of the members of said commission they shall meet upon the call of the state engineer of the State of Nevada, who shall be commission, chairman of said commission, and thereafter they shall meet at the call of the chairman. The commission shall elect one of their members secretary. The commission shall audit all bills for expenses and per diem of its members and for wages and expenses of its employees, and when the same shall have been certified to by the chairman and secretary, the secretary shall file the same with the state board of examiners for approval, and the same shall be paid out of any moneys appropriated for that purpose. Duties of commission; report, etc. SEC. 4. Immediately after the first meeting the commissioners shall proceed to ascertain the flow of water in said Owyhee river and its tributaries; the amount of water already appropriated, and the amount unappropriated which can be conducted onto the said lands; the sites, size, and character of dams necessary; the dimensions and courses of canals and ditches necessary to conduct water onto the said lands; the sites and character of natural and other storage reservoirs necessary for storage of such waters; a description of the land that can be covered economically by such water; a description of the unappropriated land and the land held in private ownership within said proposed system. They shall also negotiate with the Central Pacific railway company and other individual owners, owning wild and unirrigated land within said project, for options, and they shall try to obtain the same for the least possible figure, for purchase either by the federal government or by a duly organized irrigation district, or by the soldiers settling on such lands under the proposed project, with terms of payment as lenient for the settler as possible. They shall endeavor to have the unappropriated lands within such project withdrawn from entry so as to preserve the same for the soldiers settling on such lands under said proposed project. They shall also do and perform each and every other act and thing necessary or conducive to pre commission: senting said project to Congress and the federal government as a practicable and feasible irrigation project, with the sole object of preserving, holding, and obtaining the same for the benefit of honorably discharged soldiers. They shall make a detailed estimate of the entire cost of the project and a full report including maps and plats of the entire project. SEC. 5. When said report is completed, said commis- Report of sioners shall file one copy of the same in the office of the to state state engineer of the State of Nevada, and they shall present engineer other like copies to the senators and congressman from the Senators and State of Nevada and give them aid in properly presenting the proposed project to Congress and the federal government, with the object of enabling the federal government to act advisedly and expeditiously in constructing the said project. SEC. 6. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act, the sum of two thousand five hundred ($2,500) dollars is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. and U. S. congressman [Assembly Bill No. 193-Mr. Addenbrooke] CHAP. 131-An Act providing for the creation of city (or town) planning commissions for incorporated cities and towns; prescribing their powers and duties, and other matters relating thereto. [Approved March 21, 1921] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows: planning SECTION 1. The city (or town) council or governing body city or town under any other name of any incorporated city or town may, commissions by ordinance, create a city (or town) planning commission authorized for such city or town. The word "city," as hereinafter used in this act, shall be construed as meaning "town" in all cases of incorporated towns. of such SEC. 2. Such city planning commission shall consist of the Personnel mayor, the city attorney, the city engineer, ex officio, and commission seven other members to be appointed by the mayor, not more than two of whom shall be nonresidents of the city. At the first meeting of such commission, the seven appointed members shall choose their term of office by lot, as follows: One for one year; two for two years; two for three years; and two for four years. Their successors shall hold office for four years. Any vacancies shall be filled by the mayor for the unexpired term. powers: no SEC. 3. Members of the city planning commission shall Duties and receive no compensation. They shall annually elect a presi- compensadent and vice-president from the appointed members and tion may elect a secretary who need not be a member of the Secretary to rate record keep accu Further duties and civic betterment commission. Such commission may adopt by-laws and rules and regulations for its government and in connection with its duties, not inconsistent with the provisions of this act or of any ordinance creating such commission. The secretary shall keep an accurate record of all proceedings, and the commission shall prepare and file with the city council an annual report at the end of each calendar year. The city council shall assign to such commission an office, or headquarters, in the city hall, if possible, in which to hold its meetings, transact its business, and keep its records. Such commission shall not have power or authority to incur any expense other than such as may be authorized by the city council. SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the city planning commission, and they shall have power, except as otherwise provided powers as to by law, to recommend and advise the city council and all other public authorities concerning the laying out, widening, extending, paving, parking, and locating of streets, sidewalks, and boulevards; the betterment of housing and sanitary conditions, and the establishment of zones or districts within which lots or buildings may be restricted to residential use, or from which the establishment, conduct, or operation of certain business, manufacturing, or other enterprises shall be excluded, and limiting the height, area, and bulk of buildings and structures therein; to recommend to the city council and all other public authorities plans and regulations for the future growth, development, and beautification of the municipality in respect to its public and private buildings and works, streets, parks, grounds, and vacant lots; to do and perform any and all other acts and things necessary or proper to carry out the provisions of this act, and in general to study and propose such measures as may be for the municipal welfare. etc., sub mitted to commission before final action SEC. 5. All maps, plats and replats of land laid out in Maps, plats, building lots, and the streets, alleys, or other portions of the same intended to be dedicated for public use or for the use of purchasers or owners of lots fronting thereon or adjacent thereto and located within the city limits, and all plans or plats for vacating, laying out, widening, extending, paving, parking, and locating streets, or plans for public buildings, shall first be submitted to such commission for report thereon before final action shall be taken by the city council, unless in case of emergency or the report of such commission is unreasonably delayed. suburban improve ments SEC. 6. Said commission shall be authorized to represent Duties as to the city and to appear and be heard by the board of county commissioners in the matter of the approval by such board of any map or plat of land laid out in streets, alleys, and public. places when the same is situate within three miles outside the city limits of any incorporated city or town in which there is created a city planning commission, and which shall be exterior to the boundaries of any other incorporated city or town within such three-mile limit, when such map or plat is submitted to such board of county commissioners under the provisions of section three of an act entitled "An act authorizing owners of land to lay out and plat such land into lots, streets, alleys, and public places, and providing for the approval and filing of maps or plats thereof," approved March 13, 1905. may receive SEC. 7. The city planning commission may receive gifts, Commission bequests, or devises of property to carry out any of the pur- gifts for poses of this act and shall have control and distribution over the same. public benefit [Assembly Bill No. 202-Esmeralda County Delegation] CHAP. 132-An Act authorizing the board of county commissioners of Esmeralda County to provide for the maintenance of a water supply for the town of Goldfield. [Approved March 21, 1921] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and water supply SECTION 1. The board of county commissioners of Esme- To insure ralda County is hereby authorized and empowered to make for Goldfield such arrangement with the Goldfield Consolidated water company to insure the maintenance of a water supply for the town of Goldfield as in their judgment may be necessary for such maintenance. funds use; SEC. 2. Any funds in the general fund of Goldfield town- County ship or general fund of the county treasury of Esmeralda limit County not otherwise appropriated may be used for the purposes of this act, but in no instance shall the amount so used exceed the sum of four hundred ($400) dollars per month. SEC. 3. Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to Not to affect in any manner amend or repeal an act entitled "An act previous act granting to the Goldfield Consolidated water company, a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the laws of the State of Nevada, its successors in interest and assigns, a franchise to supply, for hire, the towns of Goldfield, Columbia, Jumbo, Diamondfield, and all additions thereto, with water for extinguishment of fire and for domestic and other purposes, and defining the boundaries of said towns, and other matters related thereto," approved March 14, 1907. ceases on SEC. 4. This act shall cease to be effective and the author- This act ity hereby granted shall cease on the first day of January, January 1, 1923, and said board shall not have power by virtue of this 1923 act to make any contract or any arrangement which shall bind said county for any period after said first day of January, 1923. County commissioners may purchase or erect telephone lines, upon petition of taxpayers [Senate Substitute for Assembly Bill No. 209-Committee on Mines and Mining] CHAP. 133-An Act to authorize the county commissioners of any of the counties of the State of Nevada to purchase, acquire, construct, and extend telephone lines; and extend and improve telephone lines; to authorize the issuance of bonds by the county to pay for the same, and other matters properly connected therewith. [Approved March 21, 1921] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. The board of county commissioners of any of the counties of the State of Nevada is hereby authorized and empowered to purchase or construct telephone lines within the limits of the county, if, in the judgment of the board, it would be to the interest of the county to do so; and to issue bonds of the county for the purchase, extension and improvetwo-thirds of ment thereof; provided, a petition signed by two-thirds of the taxpayers of the county, requesting any such action by the board, has been filed with the board; the bonds of the county issued pursuant to this act to extend for a period of not more than twenty years and shall bear interest at not to exceed 6% per annum, and the total of bonds to be for an amount not to exceed 2% of the assessed valuation of all property in said county for the year in which said bonds shall be issued. issued SEC. 2. The board of county commissioners shall cause Bonds to be said bonds to be prepared, and they shall be signed by the chairman of the board and its clerk and the county treasurer, and authenticated by the official seal of said county. Coupons representing the several installments of interest to fall due thereon shall be attached to each bond, so they may be removed without injury to the bonds, numbered consecutively and signed by the county treasurer or a printed facsimile of his signature. Sale of bonds: not on the $1 SEC. 3. The board of county commissioners is authorized to negotiate the sale of said bonds from time to time as the less than 95c board deems necessary to the highest responsible bidders for cash and at a price not less than ninety-five cents on the dollar, or at private sale at not less than their par value; the proceeds of such sales shall be placed in what is known as the "County Telephone Fund," which shall be used only for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act. Payments from said fund shall be made only on warrants drawn on the county treasurer of said county in payment of the obligations contracted under the provisions of this act. "County Telephone Fund" Denomina SEC. 4. The said bonds shall be of the denomination of tion of bonds; five hundred dollars each; they shall be numbered consecutively and they shall bear interest at not exceeding six per interest not over 6% |