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given him by the inspector in accord with the provisions of section 11, or if any inspector finds a diseased condition so severe that treatment is inadvisable or impracticable, making the destruction of the disease-infected property imperative for the protection of the apiary industry, he shall immediately report same to the state quarantine officer, who shall proceed in the manner provided in the general quarantine laws of the State of Nevada, more particularly cited in section 22 of this act; provided, that in case the diseaseinfected property is ordered destroyed under the provisions of the general quarantine laws cited solely and entirely for the protection of the apiary industry, the indemnity therefor, as set forth in said general quarantine laws, shall be Payment for paid out of the state apiary inspection fund and not out of destroyed the general fund of any county or the state.

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SEC. 13. For the enforcement of the provisions of this Inspectors to act, the chief inspector or his deputies shall have access to have access all apiaries, appliances, structures, and premises where bees or their products are kept.

must disin

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After inspecting infected hives or fixtures, or handling Inspectors diseased bees, the chief inspector or his deputy, and their assistant or assistants, shall, before leaving said premises clothing, etc. or proceeding to any other apiary, thoroughly disinfect any portion of his own person and clothing, and any tools or appliances used by him which have come in contact with disease-infected material, and shall see that any other assis tant or assistants with him have likewise disinfected their person and clothing and all tools and appliances used by them.

be moved

SEC. 14. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons Bees not to to transport or move in any manner whatsoever from any without point within the State of Nevada, or otherwise, any estab- permit lished apiary, bees, hives, combs or any other used apiary supplies, and set up, establish or deposit same at any point in the State of Nevada within a five-mile radius of any already existing apiary in the State of Nevada without first obtaining a temporary or seasonal written permission from the chief inspector or his deputy so to do. The chief inspector or his deputy shall issue a temporary or seasonal permit only after satisfying himself by inspection or otherwise that the apiary, bees, hives, combs or other used apiary supplies to be moved are free from any disease liable to injure any already established apiary.

imported;

SEC. 15. It shall be unlawful for any transportation com- Not to be pany, person or persons to import, transport or bring in any exception manner whatsoever into the State of Nevada any bees on comb, any comb for use in extraction or for rearing brood or any previously used apiary supplies of any description; provided, that nothing in this section shall prohibit the importation or transportation of queens or bees in screened cages without comb, the bees to be fed in transit only on

Mailing regulations

Only mov

able frame hives used

Queenrearing apiaries inspected

twice each summer

bees moved

candy or syrup made from sugar or honey which has been boiled not less than thirty minutes, unless same is prohibited by quarantine proclamation issued under the quarantine laws of the State of Nevada or the federal government.

SEC. 16. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to ship or transport queen bees in mailing cages or other containers containing any food for use during transit other than candy or syrup made from sugar, or honey which has been boiled not less than thirty minutes.

SEC. 17. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to have in his or their possession any bees kept in other than movable frame hives.

SEC. 18. Any person or persons engaged in the rearing and distribution of queen bees shall have their queen-rearing apiary or apiaries inspected at least twice during each summer season, and on discovery of any disease which is infectious or contagious in its nature and injurious to bees in their egg, larval, pupal, or adult stages, said person or persons shall at once cease to distribute queen bees from such diseased apiary until the chief inspector or his deputy shall declare the said apiary or apiaries free from all disease by the issuance of a certificate of inspection.

SEC. 19. It shall be unlawful for the owner, owners, No diseased lessee, lessees, agent or caretaker of any apiary, including appliances, structures, buildings and honey wherein disease exists, to move or distribute any diseased bees, be they queens or workers, colonies, honey, combs, appliances, or structures beyond the already established boundaries of such apiary wherein disease exists without written permission from the chief inspector or his deputies so to do, except in such cases where colonies are moved to hospital yards for treatment.

Penalty

Duty of district

attorney

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SEC. 20. Any person or persons violating any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof be punished accordingly, and in addition shall be liable for penal damages for any injury done in twice the amount of the actual damage.

SEC. 21. It shall be the duty of any district attorney to whom the state quarantine officer, the chief inspector or any deputy inspector shall present satisfactory evidence of the violation of any of the provisions of this act, to prosecute without delay the person or persons so violating any of the provisions of this act. The commission may at its discretion employ counsel to assist in the prosecution of any person or persons charged with the violation of any of the provisions of this act and compensate the counsel so employed out of the apiary inspection fund.

SEC. 22. Except as hereinbefore provided nothing in this Not to affect act shall be construed as in any way affecting the provisions of "An act providing for interstate and intrastate quarantine with respect to domestic animals and other live stock, poultry, bees, and agricultural and horticultural crops, prod

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ucts, seeds, plants, trees or shrubs, or any article infected Supple with, or which may have been exposed to, infectious, con- previous acts tagious, or destructive diseases, or infested with parasites, or insect pests, or the eggs or larvæ thereof, dangerous to any industry in the state; and other matters relating thereto,' approved March 31, 1913; or the act entitled "An act providing for the better prevention, control and extermination of infectious, contagious, and destructive diseases, parasites and insect pests, affecting animals, poultry, bees or agricultural or horticultural plants, trees or shrubs, injurious to any industry in the state, and other matters relating thereto; and to repeal an act entitled 'An act providing for the appointment of a state veterinarian, defining his duties and fixing his compensation-governor to appoint,' approved March 15, 1905, and all acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act," approved March 31, 1913, or any amendments thereto, but shall be considered as supplementary thereto.

certain act

SEC. 23. An act to create the office of state inspector of Repeal of apiaries, to provide for the appointment of state inspector of apiaries, and to define his duties and compensation; to prevent the dissemination of diseases among apiaries, and to provide for a system of inspection of apiaries by the state inspector of apiaries, and the treatment and extermination of diseases therein; making appropriations for the expense of the office of state inspector of apiaries; and providing penalties for the violation thereof, and repealing all other acts or parts of acts in relation thereto, approved March 15. 1917, and all other acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed.

SEC. 24. Each section of this act and every part of each section is hereby declared to be independent sections and parts of sections, and the holding of any section or part thereof to be void or ineffective for any cause shall not be deemed to affect nor shall it affect any other section or any part thereof.

[Assembly Bill No. 187-Mr. Tannahill]

CHAP. 226-An Act to amend an act entitled "An act to provide for the government of the state prison of the State of Nevada," approved March 7, 1873.

[Approved March 23, 1921]

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

SECTION 1.

Section 9 of the above-entitled act, being section 7569, Revised Laws, 1912, shall be amended to read as follows:

convicts to

in mechan

ical pursuits

and at hard

labor

Only on state work

Section 9. The board of commissioners may, in their State prison discretion, cause the prisoners, or any number of them, to be be employed employed in any mechanical pursuits, and at hard labor, and furnish such convicts thus employed with any material that may be deemed necessary, in the same manner as is provided for the furnishing of supplies and stores to the state prison, and they shall, in all respects, have the exclusive control of the employment of the convicts, and may from time to time employ them in such manner as, in their opinion, will best subserve the interest of the state and welfare of the prisoners; provided, that the commissioners shall not permit or allow the employment of any prisoner or prisoners, except in the manner provided for in subsection A of this act, on any other than public work of general advantage to the state, including road work, work on the prison farm, or on any state property, or in any industry adopted by said board for the general employment of the inmates in whole or in part, provided such industry is for the benefit of the state and not for the benefit of said prisoner or prisoners. The Compensa said board may elect to compensate prisoners for labor supplied in any such industry. On the application of any prisoner, whose record for the preceding six months shall be reported by the warden as excellent, the board may on application in such form as it may prescribe, issue a written permit to such prisoner to employ his own time not within the working hours of the day in the manufacturing for sale by the state as his agent and for his account, of such goods and material as, when fabricated, shall not enter into competition with any free labor or any manufactories in the State of Nevada.

tion, when

Privileges for good behavior

Subsection A. On the application of any prisoner who has committed no breach of the prison rules for a period of three months preceding the date of said application, and whose application is endorsed by the warden, the state board of prison commissioners may issue a permit, revocable at any time, permitting said prisoner and none other to employ his own time not within the working hours of the day in the manufacture and the sale by the state on his account, of such goods and materials as when fabricated shall not enter into competition with any free labor or any manufactures in the State of Nevada.

Subsection B. The purpose of this act is to prevent comNot to competition of prisoners with free labor and industry in the State of Nevada, except where such labor and industry inures to the direct benefit of the State of Nevada.

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free labor

[Assembly Bill No. 204—Mr. Gummow]

CHAP. 227-An Act declaring pipe-lines for the transportation of crude oil or petroleum to be common carriers and providing for the regulation thereof; declaring purchasers of crude oil or petroleum within the State of Nevada and operating pipe-lines for the transportation of such crude oil or petroleum to be common purchasers, and providing for the regulation thereof; providing penalties for the violation of this act, and providing an appropriation for the enforcement thereof.

[Approved March 23, 1921]

The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and

Assembly, do enact as follows:

declared

carriers

SECTION 1. Every person, firm, corporation, partnership, Oil pipe-lines joint-stock association, or association of any kind whatever: common (a) Owning, operating or managing any pipe-line or any part of any pipe-line within the State of Nevada for the transportation of crude oil or petroleum to or for the public for hire, or engaged in the business of transporting crude oil or petroleum by pipe-line; or

(b) Owning, operating or managing any pipe-line or any part of any pipe-line for the transportation of crude oil or petroleum to or for the public for hire, and which said pipeline is constructed or maintained upon, along, over or under any public road or highway, or in favor of whom the right of eminent domain exists; or

(c) Owning, operating or managing any pipe-line or any part of any pipe-line or lines for transportation to or for the public for hire, of crude oil or petroleum, and which said pipeline or pipe-lines is or may be constructed, operated or maintained across, upon, along, over or under the right of way of any railroad corporation or other common carrier required by law to transport crude oil or petroleum as a common carrier; or

(d) Owning, operating or managing or participating in ownership, operation or management, under lease, contract of purchase, agreement to buy or sell, or other agreement or arrangement of any kind whatsoever, any pipe-line or pipelines, or part of any pipe-line, for the transportation from any oil field or place of production within the State of Nevada to any distributing, refining or marketing center or reshipping point thereof, within this state, of crude oil or petroleum bought of others or owned by others;

apply

Is hereby declared to be a common carrier and subject to when act
the provisions hereof. But the provisions of this act shall does not
not apply to those pipe-lines which are limited in their use
to the wells, stations, plants and refineries of their owner

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