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Notice of same published in newspaper

officer or member of the governing board resides, upon the request of the attorney-general or upon the complaint of any interested party.

SEC. 4.

Section 11 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows:

Section 11. In case of great necessity or emergency the govTemporary erning board of any city, town, school district, county high emergencies, school, high-school district, educational district, or irrigation district organized according to law, by unanimous vote, by resolution reciting the character of such necessity or emergency, may authorize a temporary loan for the purpose of meeting such necessity or emergency; provided, however, that before the adoption of any such emergency resolution the governing board shall publish notice of their intention to act thereon in a newspaper of general circulation for at least two publications, one week apart, and no vote may be taken upon such emergency resolution until fifteen days after the first publication of said notice. Upon the unanimous adoption of any governing board of any emergency resolution, a certified copy thereof shall be forwarded to the state board of finance, for its approval, and no such resolution shall be effective until approved by the state board of finance, and the resolution of the said board of finance recorded in the minutes of the board. Interest accounts come within the jurisdiction of the state board of finance and may be approved or disapproved in whole or in part by said board. SEC. 5. Section 12 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows:

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short-time

Section 12. Whenever any governing board of any city, town, school district, county high school, or high-school disbonds, when trict or educational district shall be authorized to make an emergency loan as provided for in this act, they may issue as evidence thereof negotiable notes or short-time negotiable bonds. Said negotiable notes or bonds shall mature not later than two and one-half years from the date of issuance, and shall bear interest not to exceed eight per cent per annum and be redeemable at the option of such city, town, school district, county high school, or high-school district or educational district at any time when money is available in the emergency tax fund hereinafter provided.

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loans

SEC. 6. Section 13 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows:

Section 13. It shall be the duty of every governing board Tax to pay of any town, city, school district, county high school, or highschool district or educational district, at the first tax levy following the creation of any emergency indebtedness, to levy a tax sufficient to pay the same, which shall be designated City of...Emergency Tax," "Town of............... Emergency Tax," "School District. Emergency Tax," High-School Emergency Tax," as the case may be; the proceeds of which shall be authorized in an emer

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gency fund in the treasury of the city or in an emergency fund in the county, in the cases of towns, school districts, county high schools and high-school districts, or educational districts, and shall be used solely for the purpose of redeeming the emergency loan for which the same is levied.

SEC. 7. Section 14 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows:

publication

Section 14. The cost of publication of any budget or Cost of notice required of any town, school district, county high school, or high-school district or educational district shall be a proper charge against the county in which the same is situated.

SEC. 8. Section 14 of the above-entitled act is hereby amended to read as follows:

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Section 14. The provisions of this act with reference to Does not school districts, county high schools, high-school districts tracts with and educational districts shall not be effective until Feb- teachers, ruary 1, 1919; provided, however, that, when any special existing laws school tax be levied, a budget showing the expenditures requiring such tax shall be filed with the board of county commissioners, and said tax shall be subject to equalization to conform to any increase or decrease in assessed valuation. But this act shall not be construed to prevent contracts under existing laws with teachers, principals, city superintendents or other school supervisors.

CHAP. 218

[Senate Bill No. 78-Senator Sheehan]

An Act to amend an act entitled "An act relating to the compensation of injured workmen in the industries of this state and the compensation of their dependents where such injuries result in death, creating an industrial insurance commission, providing for the creation and disbursement of funds for the compensation and care of workmen injured in the course of employment, and defining and regulating the liability of employers to their employees; and repealing all acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act," approved March 15, 1913, and as amended by an act approved March 22, 1915, and as amended by an act approved March 27, 1917, and as amended by an act approved March 28, 1919.

[Approved March 22, 1921]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Section 7 of the above-entitled act is hereby Industrial amended to read as follows:

commission

Section 7. (a) The term "employer," as used in this act, "Employer" shall be construed to mean: The state, and each county, defined city and county, city, school district and all public corpora

tions and quasi - public corporations therein, and every
person, firm, voluntary association, and private corporation,
including any public-service corporation, which has any
person in service under any appointment or contract of hire
or apprenticeship, expressed or implied, oral or written, and
the legal representative of any deceased employer.

(b) The term "employee," as used in this act, shall be "Employee" construed to mean: Every person in the service of an defined employer as defined in subdivision (a) of this section under

"Casual" defined

Volunteer firemen included in act

partnerships

any appoinment or contract of hire or apprenticeship,
expressed or implied, oral or written, including aliens, and
also including minors, whether lawfully or unlawfully
employed, and all elected and appointed paid public officers,
and all officers and members of boards of directors of quasi-
public or private corporations while rendering actual service
for such corporation for pay, and a working member of a
partnership receiving wages irrespective of profits from such
partnership, but excluding any person whose employment is
both casual and not in the course of the trade, business, pro-
fession, or occupation of his employer; provided, that the
term "casual," as used herein, shall be taken to refer only to
employments where the work contemplated is to be com-
pleted in not exceeding ten working days, without regard to
the number of men employed and where the total labor cost
of such work is less than one hundred dollars; and provided
further, that volunteer firemen, while engaged in their duties.
as such, belonging to a regularly organized and recognized
volunteer fire department, shall be deemed, for the purpose of
this act, employees of the city or town so recognizing them at
the wage of one hundred and fifty dollars per month, and
shall be entitled to the benefits of this act upon such city or
town complying therewith.

(e) Workmen associating themselves under a partnership Workmen in agreement, the principal purpose of which is the performance of the labor on a particular piece of work, shall be deemed employees of the person having such work executed, and, in the event that the average monthly wages are not otherwise ascertainable, shall be deemed to be employed at the average monthly wages of workmen engaged in like work in the same locality.

Leasers, when deemed

employees

(d) Workmen commonly called "leasers," engaged individually or in association with other workmen in performing manual labor upon the mining property of another in the expectation of finding, developing, or extracting ore or mineral of value under an agreement, oral or written, to share in whole or in part the value of the ore or minerals found, developed, or extracted with the lessor, shall be deemed employees of such lessor, and for the purposes of this act shall be deemed to be employed at the average wage paid to regularly employed miners in the locality.

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[Senate Bill No. 102-Senator Kenney]

CHAP. 219-An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to prohibit the manufacture, sale, keeping for sale, and gift, of malt, vinous and spirituous liquors and other intoxicating drinks, mixtures or preparations; making the superintendent of the Nevada state police ex officio commissioner of prohibition, and defining his duties; and providing for the enforcement of this act, and prescribing penalties for the violation thereof," enacted by the people of the State of Nevada at the general election in the year 1918.

[Approved March 22, 1921]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and
Assembly, do enact as follows:

SECTION 1. Section 4 of the above-entitled act is hereby Amending amended to read as follows:

state prohibition act

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products

liquor for

Section 4. The provisions of this act shall not be con- Wine or strued to prevent any one from manufacturing, for his own be made domestic consumption, when the federal prohibition law from local permits, wine or cider; or to prevent the manufacture, from fruit grown exclusively within this state, of vinegar and nonintoxicating cider for use or sale; or to prevent the manufacture and sale at wholesale to druggists, or to such hospitals as may be approved and designated by Alcohol and certificate of the state board of health, or to such educational hospitals, institutions as may be approved and designated by certificate etc. of the state board of education or by the board of regents of the University of Nevada, of pure grain alcohol and liquors for medicinal, pharmaceutical, scientific and mechanical purposes, or to prevent the sale and keeping and storing for sale, as hereinafter provided, by druggists, of pure grain alcohol or liquors, exclusively for mechanical, pharmaceutical, scientific, and medicinal purposes, or any United States pharmacopoeia or national formulary preparation in conformity with the Nevada pharmacy law, or any preparation which is exempted by the provisions of the national pure-food law. But no druggist shall sell any such grain alcohol, or Restrictions liquors, except for medicinal, scientific, pharmaceutical and upon mechanical purposes, except as hereinafter provided, and the same shall not be sold by such druggist for medicinal purposes, except upon a written prescription of a physician of Physician's good standing in his profession and not of intemperate habits prescription or addicted to the use of any narcotic drug, prescribing the amount of alcohol or liquors, the disease or malady for which it is prescribed, and how it is to be used, the name of the person for whom prescribed, the number of previous prescriptions given by such physician to such person within the year next preceding the date of such prescription, and stating that the same is absolutely necessary for medicine, and not to be used as a beverage, and that such physician, at the time such

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Affidavit required

prescription was given, made a personal examination of such person, and that such person is known to such physician to be of temperate habits and not addicted to the use of any narcotic drug, and only one sale shall be made upon such prescription, and such prescription shall be at all times kept on file by such druggist, and open to the inspection of all state, county and municipal officers. It shall be the duty Druggists to of such druggist to register in a book kept for that purpose keep register all prescriptions from physicians mentioned in this section, stating the name of the party for whom prescribed, the date of prescription, the name of the physician by whom the prescription is issued, the quantity of such alcohol or liquors, and the use for which prescribed, and such record shall at all times be open to the same inspection as such prescriptions. It shall be lawful for a druggist to sell such grain alcohol for pharmaceutical, scientific, and mechanical purposes to a person, not a minor, and who is not of intemperate habits or addicted to the use of narcotic drugs, who shall, at the time and place of such sale, make an affidavit in writing, signed by himself before such druggist or a registered pharmacist, at the time and place in the employ of such druggist, stating the quantity and the time and place, and fully for what purpose and by whom such alcohol or liquor is to be used; that affiant is not of intemperate habits or addicted to the use of any narcotic drug, and that such alcohol or wine is not to be used as a beverage, or for any purpose other than that stated in such affidavit. Such affidavit shall be filed and preserved by such druggist, and be subject to inspection at all times by any state, county or municipal officer, and a record thereof made by such druggist in the record-book mentioned in this section, showing the date of the affidavit, by whom made, the quantity of such alcohol or wine, and when, where, for what purpose and by Only one sale whom to be used. Only one sale shall be made upon such on affidavit affidavit, and only in the county where the same is made, and no greater quantity than is therein specified. For the Druggist to purpose of this act, any druggist or registered pharmacist, making such sale, shall have authority to administer such oath.

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liquors

It shall be lawful for a druggist to sell grain alcohol or liquors for pharmaceutical, scientific and medicinal purposes under a physician's prescription to any duly licensed and practicing dentist under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the state board of dental examiners, or to any such hospitals and educational institutions as have been approved and designated as hereinabove provided, but only under the rules and regulations promulgated and adopted from time to time for the enforcement of the federal prohibition act. If any physician shall prescribe the use of liquor prescription; for a patient, such prescription shall be limited to not more than one pint of such liquor, to be taken internally, for the

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in 10 days

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