STATE BOARDS, BUREAUS, AND COMMISSIONS STATE WEATHER SERVICE BUREAU To establish a weather service station and provide for appointment of a director thereof, sections 4405-4410. CAPITOL COMMISSIONERS Providing for state board of capitol commissioners, sections 4411–4421. In relation to keeping and preservation of state capitol decorations, sections 4422, 4423. To provide a supply of water for the capitol and state orphans' home, sections 4424-4426. BOARD OF DENTAL EXAMINERS To insure the better education of practitioners of dental surgery, sections 4427-4444. EMBALMERS To establish a state board of embalmers, sections 4445-4454. BOARD OF EXAMINERS Relating to the board of examiners, to define their duties and powers, sections 4455-4464. Relating to accounts against the state, section 4465. To restrict the creation of deficiencies in funds or appropriations, sections 4466, 4467. To provide for the purchase of certain supplies for state officers and attaches of the legislature, sections 4468-4475. Prescribing duties of the various state boards and commissions as they are now constituted, sections 4476, 4477. Relating to claims of ex-soldiers of the Spanish war, sections 4478-4480. FISH COMMISSIONERS To provide for appointment of a board of fish commissioners, sections 4482, 4483. To provide for the establishment and maintenance of a state fish hatchery, sections 4484, 4485. BUREAU OF INDUSTRY, AGRICULTURE AND IRRIGATION Creating and establishing a bureau of industry, agriculture, and irrigation, providing for a commission in charge thereof; creating the office of commissioner, sections 4486-4494. BOARD OF PHARMACY To provide for creation of a state board of pharmacy and to regulate the practice of pharmacy, sections 4495-4514. PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION Making the railroad commission of Nevada ex officio a public service commission for the regulation and control of certain public utilities, sections 4515-4548. STATE RAILROAD COMMISSION To regulate railroads, telegraph and telephone companies and other common carriers in this state, and creating a railroad commission, sections 4549-4585. SHEEP COMMISSION Regulating the sheep industry in the State of Nevada, creating a state board of sheep commissioners, sections 4586-4602. Board of bank commissioners, see Banks and Banking. Board of commissioners for care of insane, see Insane. Board of orphans' home commissioners, see Orphans' Home. Board of prison commissioners, see State Prison. Directors of state agricultural society, see State Agricultural Society. State board of health, see Public Health. Board of medical examiners, see Medicine, Surgery and Obstetrics. STATE WEATHER SERVICE BUREAU An Act to establish a weather service station in Nevada and to provide for the appointment of a director thereof, and appropriating money to pay the expenses of the same. Approved February 19, 1887, 70 4405. Central weather station established. 4406. Volunteer stations. 4407. Annual report-Necessary printing and stationery. 4408. Director appointed by governor Report monthly-Salary. 4409. Instruments of volunteer stations. 4410. County auditors constituted reporters. 4405. Central weather station established. SECTION 1. The establishment of a weather service station being necessary to secure as complete a history of the weather of Nevada as possible, in order to furnish trustworthy material for a study of its climate, to acquaint the people of the state and nonresidents with the physical conditions of every locality, based upon reliable climatic data, thereby greatly benefiting agricultural, commercial, manufacturing and municipal interests, there is hereby established at Carson City, in this state, a central weather station, to be under the supervision of a competent director, to be appointed as hereinafter provided. 4406. Volunteer stations. SEC. 2. The duties of said director shall be to establish volunteer weather stations throughout the state, at least one in each county, and to supervise the same; to receive reports from said volunteer weather stations; reduce the same to tabular form, and prepare and have printed monthly reports, copies of which shall be, by said director, sent to all colleges, high schools, hospitals, public libraries, agricultural societies and newspaper proprietors, who shall in writing request the same. 4407. Annual report-Necessary printing and stationery. SEC. 3. Said director shall also prepare an annual report of his labors, and of the work done by the volunteer weather service, and present the same to the governor for publication. Fifteen hundred copies of said report shall be printed by the superintendent of state printing, of which five hundred shall be for the use of state officers, and one thousand shall be for the use of the legislature. The superintendent of state printing shall do all the printing necessary to carry out the requirements of this act, and the secretary of state is authorized to furnish to said director whatever stationery he may need in the proper performance of his duty. 4408. Director appointed by governor-Report monthly-Salary of. SEC. 4. Said director shall be appointed by the governor, and in addition to other duties required under the provisions of this act, he shall file with the state librarian monthly reports of the meteorological observations provided for in the third section of this act, and the same shall be carefully preserved by said librarian and be open to inspection during office hours to any one applying therefor. For the performance of the duties prescribed by this act, the director herein before mentioned, shall receive a salary of six hundred dollars a year, payable in monthly installments, upon the claims being allowed by the board of examiners, and said claims shall be paid as other claims against the state are paid, and shall be in full for all demands of said director, including traveling expenses. 4409. Instruments of volunteer stations, cost of-State property. SEC. 5. Said director is authorized to provide for the equipment of such volunteer weather stations as shall be established by him, of which there shall be at least one in each county, at a cost not to exceed twenty-five dollars for each station so established. Each station shall be supplied with the following instruments: One maximum thermometer, one minimum thermometer, one dry bulb thermometer, one wet bulb thermometer, one rain-gage, with overflow attachment, and such other instruments as may be necessary, of which the cost shall not exceed the sum of twenty-five dollars for each station, as herein before provided. Said director shall apply to the United States central signal office in Washington, D. C., to have the weather stations in this state recognized and registered as volunteer stations, auxiliary to the United States weather service, and shall also apply for and receive the printed blanks, franked envelopes and books of "Instruction for voluntary observers of the signal service of the United States army," and such other stationery as is usually supplied to the volunteer observers. All instruments purchased with state funds by said director for use in any department of the weather service in this state, and all charts, maps, diagrams and tabulated forms made by him in his official capacity, shall be the property of the state solely. [Secs. 6 and 7 obsolete.] 4410. County auditors constituted reporters. SEC. 8. The county auditors of the respective counties of this state are hereby constituted volunteer reporters of meteorological observations, and shall keep and record such observations and reports as are required by the provisions of this act, and report the same to the director of the Nevada weather service station, and shall perform such duty without compensation additional to that now allowed by law for the performance of other duties of their office. CAPITOL COMMISSIONERS An Act providing for a state board of capitol commissioners, defining their duties and powers, and repealing all acts in conflict therewith. SECTION 1. The governor, lieutenant-governor, secretary of state, state controller, and state treasurer shall constitute a board of capitol commissioners. 4412. Chairman-Secretary-Quorum. SEC. 2. The governor shall be chairman of said board, and in case of his absence a temporary chairman shall be chosen from among the members present. Three members of said board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of all business, and shall determine all questions that may come before said board. The governor's private secretary shall be clerk of said board and shall keep a complete and correct record of all the transactions of said board. 4413. Control over buildings and property. SEC. 3. Said board shall have supervision over and control of the state capitol building, the capitol grounds and state waterworks, the state printing office building and grounds, and all other state buildings, grounds and properties not otherwise provided for by law. 4414. To control certain expenditures. SEC. 4. Said board shall control the expenditure of all appropriations for furnishing, repairing and maintaining said buildings and grounds, offices and property connected therewith; for defraying all contingent expenses of all state and other offices about said building; for transportation of books and documents and for storage and transportation of state property. 4415. May rent additional offices. SEC. 5. Said board shall have power to lease and equip office rooms outside of state buildings for the use of state officers whenever sufficient provision for such officers cannot be provided in the capitol or other buildings. 4416. Legislative chambers may be used for public purposes. SEC. 6. Said board is authorized, in their discretion, to permit the use of the senate and assembly chambers in the capitol building, when not being used by the legislature, for any public meeting intended to promote the public welfare. 4417. May transfer personal property from one office to another. SEC. 7. Said board may authorize the transfer of any property in any of the buildings under their control or offices therein, whenever the same is no longer needed in such building or office, to any other office or state institution. whether under the control of said board or not, where such property may be needed. 4418. May sell movable property-Conditions and report. SEC. 8. Said board may sell any personal or movable state property in or about any of the buildings or offices under their control whenever the same is no longer of use to any state institution and when in the judgment of the board it will be of advantage to the state to make such sale. Such sales may only be made at a meeting when all the members of the board have been notified, and a full and complete record of all such sales shall be entered upon the minutes of such board, giving a description of the property sold, to whom. and the price obtained therefor. The clerk of said board shall, prior to the meeting of each regular session of the legislature, prepare a complete inventory of all property so sold, together with the price obtained therefor, and a copy of such inventory shall be furnished to the committees on ways and means of the senate and assembly. 4419. Annual inventory. SEC. 9. Said board shall cause one or more of the employees mentioned in the next section, once each year, to make an inventory of all property in said buildings or offices subject to the control of said board. 4420. May employ certain help-Control duties. SEC. 10. Said board is authorized to employ two night watchmen, one janitor, one fireman and one gardener at a salary of not exceeding one hundred and ten dollars per month each, providing the watchman whose duty it shall be to guard the vault of the state treasury shall be designated by the state treasurer. Said board is also empowered to employ such additional assistance as necessity may require. Said employees shall perform such duties as said board may direct and may be transferred from one branch of employment to another, and they shall take care of all the buildings, grounds and offices under the control of said board. See sec. 4401. 4421. Meetings. SEC. 11. Said board shall hold monthly meetings and may be called in special session by the chairman or by two of its members. The supreme court has the power to procure, at the expense of the state, furniture for the courtroom where the commissioners had refused to procure the same. State ex rel. Kitzmeyer v. Davis, 26 Nev. 373, 379 (68 P. 689). The supreme court possesses the inherent power to procure, at the expense of the state. suitable furniture for its courtroom. Idem. An Act in relation to the keeping and preservation of the state capitol decorations, state mineral cabinet, mineral specimens, curios, etc. Approved March 10, 1899, 69 4422. Capitol decorations, minerals, curios, not to be removed-Exception. SECTION 1. All state boards and state officers having jurisdiction in and control over any state property are specially forbidden to allow the state cap itol decorations and bunting, the state mineral cabinets, mineral specimens, curios, and all state property of such character, from being borrowed or taken out by any person or societies, or removed from the premises of the state buildings at the capital seat; provided, in case of national, international and foreign expositions of the world's arts and productions, and upon a satisfactory bond being furnished, the mineral specimens and curios may be borrowed. 4423. Idem-Duty to preserve. SEC. 2. The said boards and officers are specially instructed to use all means to preserve and keep intact all of the said named property. An Act to provide a supply of water for the capitol and the Approved March 6, 1879, 85 4424. Supply, how obtained-Joint commission. SECTION 1. That the board of state capitol commissioners and the board of commissioners of the state orphans' home be, and they are hereby, constituted a joint commission, with full powers to purchase a supply of water for the use of said buildings and grounds, and to provide for conducting the same to said buildings and grounds. [Sec. 2, carrying appropriation, omitted.] 4425. Surveys. SEC. 3. That it shall be the duty of the surveyor-general of the State of Nevada to make or cause to be made, without expense to the state, any surveys that may be requested by said joint commission in connection with said. water supply. SEC. 4. That so far as the same can be advantageously used, the labor of the prisoners in the Nevada state prison shall be used in and about any work connected with supplying water for said buildings and grounds. BOARD OF DENTAL EXAMINERS An Act to insure the better education of practitioners of dental surgery, and to regulate the practice of dentistry in the State of Nevada, providing penalties for the violation hereof, and to repeal an act now in force relating to the same and known as "An act to insure the better education of practitioners of dental surgery, and to regulate the practice of dentistry in the State of Nevada," approved March 16, 1895. Approved March 16, 1905, 242 4436. Affidavit of intention to begin appren- 4437. Application fee-Annual fee-Remis- 4439. 4444. Not to apply to physicians and sur geons. |