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such personal property, unless the owner thereof shall be the owner of real estate, situate within his county, sufficient, in the judgment of the county assessor, to amply secure the payment of the entire tax on both such sale as might become a lien thereon, by reason of such taxes becoming delinquent.

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An Act empowering boards of county commissioners, town trustees or city boards to revoke and discontinue business licenses, under certain conditions,

Approved March 10, 1903, 80

3867. Licenses may be revoked for cause. 3868. Complaint-Proceedings.

3869. Applicable to cities and towns.
3870. Penalty.

3871. Failure of duty-Forfeiture of office.

3867. Licenses may be revoked for cause.

SECTION 1. The boards of county commissioners of the several counties of this state are hereby empowered and authorized to revoke, withdraw and discontinue any business license granted or issued by the sheriff or other proper officer of their respective counties, where there is reason to believe that such business is a nuisance, a menace to public health or detrimental to the peace or morals of any community in the county in which such business may be conducted; provided, that such revocation, withdrawal or discontinuance of such license shall, when the action is taken on motion of or at the instance of a member of the board, be by unanimous consent of the members of such board.

This section is not repugnant to any provision of our state or federal constitutions, and under it, at the instance of a member and by unanimous consent of the board, a license may be revoked without notice to

3868. Complaint-Proceedings.

the licensee where there is reason to believe that the business is a nuisance, a menace to public health, or detrimental to peace or morals. Wallace v. Reno, 27 Nev. 71, 76 (103 A. S. 747, 63 L. R. A. 337, 73 P. 528).

SEC. 2. Any resident taxpayer of any school district in the State of Nevada may file a complaint with the board of county commissioners, or with any board having control and direction of the county, city or other municipal government, praying against the continuance of any business which has been previously licensed by the sheriff or any other proper officer, reciting that such business is a nuisance, a menace to the public health or detrimental to the peace or morals of the community, and reciting such further facts as may be pertinent in the premises, said complaint to be accompanied by a petition or protest signed by not less than ten per cent of the resident freeholders of such school district, and any board of county commissioners, or other county, town, city or municipal board, with which such complaint and petition or protest is so filed, shall, at its first meeting thereafter, or at any special meeting in the interim, thoroughly investigate the charges and, if found justifiable, instruct the sheriff, or other proper officer to revoke, withdraw and discontinue such license. The delivery of such complaint and petition or protest to the chairman or any member of said board, or to the clerk or secretary of said board, shall be considered a filing of the same sufficient to cover the provisions of this section, and the failure or refusal of such board to, within thirty (30) days after the filing of such complaint and petition or protest, if said charges are justified, to instruct the sheriff or other proper officer to revoke, withdraw and discontinue the license of any business so complained and petitioned and protested against, shall ipso facto work a forfeiture of office and create a vacancy in the entire membership of said board, which such vacancy shall thereupon and within ten (10) days thereafter be filled by the proper appointing power, and said appointees shall otherwise qualify, all as is by law now provided or as may hereafter be provided.

3869. Applicable to cities and towns.

SEC. 3. This act is hereby made applicable to all licensing officers, town boards and city trustees and to the city council or board of aldermen of any incorporated city, town or municipal government within this state.

See Wallace v. Reno, under sec. 1 of this act.

3870. Penalty.

SEC. 4. Any failure or evasion on the part of the person holding and operating under such license in complying immediately with the' instruction of the sheriff or other proper officer, shall be punishable, as by law provided, in the same manner as where no license has been previously granted, and it is hereby made the duty of the district or city attorney, as the case may be, to institute proceedings, upon such failure or evasion, to carry out the provisions of this act and to punish the offender.

Vending without license, see sec. 6810.

3871. Failure of duty-Forfeiture of office.

SEC. 5. The failure or refusal of the sheriff or other proper officer to carry out the orders and instructions of the board with reference to the revocation, withdrawal and discontinuance of licenses complained against under the provisions of section 2 of this act, and the failure of the district or city attorney to perform his duty as in section 4 provided, within ten (10) days after such order is made, shall ipso facto work a forfeiture of and vacancy in his office, such vacancy to be filled and the appointee to qualify as provided by law.

An Act licensing the sale of cigarettes and cigarette paper, and other matters relating thereto.

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SECTION 1. From and after the passage of this act the quarterly license for the sale of cigarettes or cigarette paper shall be fifteen dollars.

3873. Idem-Must take out license.

SEC. 2. Any person, firm, association or corporation engaged in dealing, in selling, giving away or offering to sell cigarettes or cigarette paper after the passage of this act, shall take out a quarterly license provided for in section 1 of this act.

3874. Must not sell or give to person under twenty-one years.

SEC. 3. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm, association, corporation or managing agent of any person, firm, association or corporation to sell, give away or offer to sell cigarettes or cigarette paper to any person or persons under the age of twenty-one years.

3875. Penalty.

SEC. 4. Any person, firm, association or corporation or the managing agent of any person, firm, association or corporation violating the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined for each and every offense in any sum not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars.

3876. Collected and accounted for.

SEC. 5. The license provided for in this act shall be collected and accounted

for in the same manner as other licenses for state and county purposes are now collected.

This act supersedes an act on the same subject, Stats. 1893, 33.

An Act fixing and regulating licenses on automobiles and providing a penalty for a violation thereof.

Approved March 6, 1909, 77

3877. Automobiles, license of.

SECTION 1. From and after the passage of this act, any person or persons, firm, company, corporation or association who keeps or uses automobiles of any description for hire or rent, shall obtain from the sheriff of the county in which such business is transacted, a license for the transaction of such business and pay therefor the sum of two dollars and fifty cents ($2.50) per month.

3878. Failure to procure license misdemeanor-Penalty.

SEC. 2. Any person violating the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punished by a fine of not less than twenty dollars ($20) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100), or by imprisonment in the county jail for a term not exceeding sixty days.

An Act forbidding the collection of licenses from drummers and traveling salesmen from manufactories, jobbers and wholesale houses located in the State of Nevada.

Approved March 29, 1907, 374

3879. License-Salesmen exempt.

SECTION 1. On an after the first day of April, 1907, it shall be unlawful for any county, city or town to impose or collect any licenses or tax upon or from any drummer or traveling salesman employed by, and selling the goods of, any manufacturer, compounder, wholesaler or jobber whose factory or store is located in Nevada.

See sec. 3893.

3880. Not applicable to peddlers or hucksters.

SEC. 2. The provisions of section 1 of this act shall not apply to peddlers or hucksters.

See secs. 3890-3895.

An Act to restrict and license glove contests, or exhibitions between man and man, and to repeal all other acts in conflict therewith.

Approved January 29, 1897, 11

3881. Who may procure license.
3882. Sheriff to issue license-Cost thereof.
3883. County auditor to prepare license.
3884. Physicians to certify condition of con-
testants.

3881. Who may procure license.

3885. Contest to be within enclosure.
3886. Regulation by municipal corporations
prohibited.

3887. Division of license money.
3888. Admission fee allowed.
3889. Penalty for violation.

SECTION 1. Any male person over the age of twenty-one years may procure a license for an exhibition in a public place for any contest or exhibition with gloves between man and man for a wager or reward, and the weight of the gloves shall not be less than four ounces used in said contest or exhibition. 3882. Sheriff to issue license-Cost thereof.

SEC. 2. The sheriff of any county in which the exhibition named in sec

tion 1 of this act is to be held, shall issue a license for such exhibition or contest upon payment to him of the sum of one thousand ($1,000) dollars. 3883. County auditor to prepare license.

SEC. 3. Blank licenses shall be prepared by the county auditor of the county in which the exhibition or contest named in section 1 of this act is to be held, which license shall be issued and accounted for as is by law provided for in respect to other county licenses. Each license delivered by the sheriff under the provisions of this act shall contain the name of the licensee and the name of the contestants for the reward or wager offered for such exhibition or contest.

3884. Physicians to certify condition of contestants.

SEC. 4. The licensee shall ten hours before any proposed contest or exhibition under the provisions of this act, file with the county clerk where such contest or exhibition is to be held, a certificate in writing executed by two regular practicing physicians of this state, showing that the contestants named in the license are in sound physical health and condition.

3885. Contest to be within enclosure.

SEC. 5. That such exhibition or contest shall be within an enclosure sufficient to exclude the view of the public not in attendance thereat, and no intoxicating liquors of any kind shall be sold or given away at or during the contest or exhibition as aforesaid upon the grounds or within the enclosure where said exhibition or contest is held.

3886. Regulation by municipal corporations prohibited.

SEC. 6. No town, city or municipal corporation in this state shall have power to prohibit, suppress or regulate any such glove exhibition or contest, or the license therefor as provided by this act, and no such exhibition or contest shall take place on Sunday.

3887. Division of license money.

SEC. 7. All moneys received for licenses under the provisions of this act shall be paid one-tenth (1-10) into the county treasury and nine-tenths (9-10) into the state treasury for general county and state purposes.

3888. Admission fee allowed.

SEC. 8. Any person procuring said license is hereby authorized to charge an admission fee to such exhibition or contest.

3889. Penalty for violation.

SEC. 9. Any person or persons who shall participate in, conduct, or manage any glove contest or exhibition contrary to the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof be punished by a fine of not less than two hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed six months.

An Act to provide for licensing itinerant and unsettled merchants,
traders, peddlers and auctioneers.

Approved March 24, 1905, 260

3890. License-Peddlers-Auctioneers.

3891. Idem-Definition.

3892. Idem-$300 per month.

3890. License-Peddlers, auctioneers.

3893. Not applicable to drummers.
3894. Method of collection-Farm and range
products exempt.

3895. Penalty.

SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any itinerant or unsettled merchant, trader, peddler or auctioneer to sell or offer for sale any goods, wares or mer

chandise at any place in the State of Nevada, without first obtaining and paying for a license, as hereinafter provided; and all sales or contracts of sale made without such license shall be null and void.

See secs. 3735, 3880.

See soldiers' and sailors' exemption, secs. 3896, 3897.
Cited, Chapin v. Justice Court, 29 Nev. 157 (86 P. 552).

3891. Idem-Definition.

SEC. 2. An itinerant or unsettled merchant, trader, peddler or auctioneer, within the meaning of this act, shall include every person, firm, or corporation, selling or offering for sale any goods, wares or merchandise, which has no permanent store or other place of business at some point or points within this state, and which is not permanently located and regularly taxed therein. 3892. Idem-$300 per month.

SEC. 3. Each and every itinerant and unsettled merchant, trader, auctioneer or peddler shall, before selling or offering for sale any goods, wares or merchandise within this state, procure a license for each and every county in which such person shall attempt to sell or offer for sale any goods, wares or merchandise, which license shall not be granted for more than one month and shall cost the applicant three hundred dollars ($300).

3893. Not applicable to drummers.

SEC. 4. This act shall not apply to drummers and commercial travelers representing and acting for wholesale houses in this and other states so long as they do not attempt the sale of goods, wares and merchandise at retail in competition with established retail dealers, nor shall it in any sense alter or change the present existing laws governing merchants, traders, peddlers and auctioneers permanently established and doing business in this state; provided, however, that its provisions shall apply to and be enforced against any peddler or auctioneer acting for or on behalf of any itinerant merchant or trader.

See sec. 3879.

3894. Method of collection-Farm and range products exempt.

SEC. 5. The licenses provided for under this act shall be issued and collected as other city and county licenses are issued and collected. The provisions of this act shall not apply to the sale, or offering for sale, of the products of any farm, ranch or range situated within this state.

3895. Penalty.

SEC. 6. Any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than twenty dollars ($20) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500), or imprisoned not less than ten (10) days, nor more than six (6) months. Any sheriff who fails to enforce the provisions of this act and exact the license required thereunder after his attention has been called by any citizen of this state to a violation or attempted violation of its provisions, shall himself be liable to prosecution and punishment under this act.

An Act to provide for the issuance of license to honorably discharged soldiers, sailors and marines of the military and naval service of the United States in the late war of the rebellion who desire to carry on the business of peddler or auctioneer.

Approved March 25, 1909, 314

3896. Soldiers and sailors, exemption.

SECTION 1. Every honorably discharged soldier, sailor or marine of the military or naval service of the United States, who is a resident of this state

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