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order reaches them, the insurance commissioner shall have the power to order the required work done and the required fireextinguishing and safety appliances installed at the expense of the commission or board having charge of said property, and payment for the same shall be a valid claim against the state. SEC. 7. When twenty-five per cent of the taxpayers of any To make fire city or town in the state desire a survey of the water-works and fire appliances of the town or city, with a view of asking for a reduction of fire insurance rates, the insurance commissioner shall deputize some suitable person to make such survey and file a full report in his office, said report to be placed with the San Francisco board of underwriters, before which board the state insurance commissioner or deputy shall appear to argue a reduction of insurance rates, should said report warrant it. All the expense of such proceeding shall be borne by the town or city upon whose behalf the proceedings are had, and shall be deposited with the insurance commissioner before action is taken. The compensation allowed such deputy while actually in the employ of the state shall be five dollars per diem. and actual expenses while traveling.

condition of

any insurance company

SEC. 8. The insurance commissioner shall have the right to To examine make an examination of the condition of any insurance company doing business in the state, either upon his own volition or the sworn statement alleging irregularity or insolvency of the company from five bona fide policy holders, stockholders, or creditors thereof, and may withdraw or withhold his certificate of authority to do business in this state, pending or subsequent to such an investigation.

General insurance fund

Over $5,000 goes to general fund

Attorneygeneral to prosecute suits

Special

deputy to examine nonresident companies

SEC. 9. The state insurance commissioner is hereby empowered to direct all insurance transactions between the state and the insurance companies, and all the moneys collected for licenses, penalties, or other moneys paid by the insurance companies or solicitors to the state to enable them to transact business in the state shall be paid into the state treasury, there to be set aside in the fund to be known as the general insurance fund, and from which all claims in behalf of the insurance commissioner shall be paid after being duly passed upon and approved by the state board of examiners; provided, however, that on January 1 of each year any balance exceeding five thousand dollars in such fund shall be transferred to the general fund of the state.

SEC. 10. Where it shall become necessary for the state to sue a delinquent insurance company for moneys due the state, the attorney-general shall conduct the proceedings, and where it becomes necessary to employ additional counsel in the city where the home office of the defendant corporation is located, compensation for such services shall be subject to the approval of the state board of examiners.

SEC. 11. The insurance commissioner may appoint as deputy any competent person to make an examination of a nonresident insurance corporation, and the expenses of said examination shall be wholly borne by the company examined, but shall in

no case be higher than the compensation allowed by the local laws of the state for such services where such examination is made.

SEC. 12. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the pro- Repeal visions of this act are hereby repealed.

CHAP. 100-An Act to amend an act entitled "An act concerning crimes and punishments, and repealing certain acts relating thereto," approved March 17, 1911; effective January 1, 1912.

[Approved March 12, 1915]

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

SECTION 1. Section 373 of the above-entitled act, being section 6638 of the Revised Laws of Nevada, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

larceny

sentence

Section 373. Every person who shall feloniously steal, take, Grand and carry away, lead or drive away, the personal goods or defined; property of another, of the value of fifty dollars or more, minimum shall be deemed guilty of grand larceny, and upon conviction raised thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for any term not less than two years nor more than fourteen years.

SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act Repeal are hereby repealed.

CHAP. 101-An Act to amend sections six and eight of an act entitled "An act to regulate the sale and use of poisons in the State of Nevada, and providing a penalty for the violation thereof," approved March 24, 1913.

[Approved March 12, 1915]

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

SECTION 1. Sections six and eight of said act are hereby amended to read as follows:

traffic in

drugs

Section 6. It is hereby made the duty of the district Regulating attorney of the county wherein any violation of this act is poisons committed, to conduct all actions and prosecutions for the and narcotic same, at the request of the board of pharmacy; and provided further, that any narcotic or narcotics, or their derivatives, may be seized by the judge of the court in which final conviction was had, that the judge shall turn all such evidence over to the Nevada state board of pharmacy; and provided further, that the said board of pharmacy may dispose of all narcotics now on hand or hereafter coming into their possession, either by gift to the medical director of the Nevada state prison, or the

Certain drugs

named and prohibited

Doctors' prescriptions excepted

not refilled

written order of prescriber

state hospital, or by sale to wholesale druggists, the funds received from such sale to be applied by the board of pharmacy to the carrying out of the provisions of this act, creating such Nevada state board of pharmacy.

Section 8. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to sell, furnish or give away, or offer to sell, furnish or give away, or to have in their or his possession any cocaine, opium, yen shee, morphine, codeine, heroin, alpha eucaine, beta eucaine, nova caine, or chloral hydrate, or any of the salts, derivatives, or compounds of the foregoing substances, or any preparation or compound containing any of the foregoing substances or their salts, derivatives, or compounds excepting upon the written order or prescription of a physician, dentist, or veterinary surgeon licensed to practice in this state, which order or prescription shall be dated and shall contain the name of the person for whom prescribed, written in by the person writing said prescription, or if ordered by a veterinary surgeon it shall state the kind of animal for which ordered and shall be by the person giving the Prescription prescription or order. Such order or prescription shall be except upon permanently retained on file by the person, firm, or corporation who shall compound or dispense the articles ordered or prescribed, and it shall not be again compounded or dispensed if each fluid or avoirdupois ounce contains more than eight grains of opium, or one grain of morphine, or two grains of codeine, or one-half grain of heroin, or one grain of cocaine, orone grain of alpha eucaine, or one grain of nova caine, or sixty grains of chloral hydrate, excepting upon the written order of the prescriber for each and every subsequent compounding or dispensing. No copy or duplicate of such written order or prescription shall be made or delivered to any person, but the original shall be at all times open to inspection by the subscriber and properly authorized officer of the law, and shall be preserved for at least three years from the date of Exceptions the filing thereof; provided, that the above provisions shall not apply to sales at wholesale by jobbers, wholesalers, and manufacturers to pharmacies legally licensed and doing business under the laws of the State of Nevada, or physicians, nor to each other, nor to the sale at retail by pharmacies to physicians, dentists, or veterinary surgeons duly licensed to practice in this state; provided further, that all such wholesale jobbers, Wholesalers Wholesalers, and manufacturers, in this section mentioned, shall, before delivery to any person, firm, or corporation of any of the articles in this section enumerated, make or cause to be made in a book kept for that purpose only, an entry of the sale of any such article, stating the date of such sale and quantity and name of the article and form in which sold, the true name and true address of the purchaser, the name of the person by whom such entry and sale was made, also a statement showing how delivery was had, whether delivered per

to keep record

sonally or forwarded by mail, express, or by freight, which book shall be substantially as follows:

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citizens

prescribe

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And said books shall always be opened for inspection by any Open to peace officer or citizen, or any member of the board of phar- inspection macy, or any inspector by them authorized, and such book and shall be preserved for at least five years after the date of the last entry therein. It shall be unlawful for any practi- Practitiontioner of medicine, dentistry, or veterinary surgeon to fur- retor nish to, or prescribe for the use of, any habitual user of the certain drugs same, any cocaine, opium, morphine, codeine, heroin, or good faith chloral hydrate, or any salt, derivative, or compounds, and it shall be unlawful for any practitioner of dentistry to prescribe any of the foregoing substances for any person not under his treatment in the regular practice of his profession, or of any veterinary surgeon to prescribe any of the foregoing substances for the use of any human being; provided, however, that the provisions of this section shall not be construed to prevent any duly licensed physician from furnishing or prescribing in good faith as their physician by them employed as such, for any habitual user of any narcotic drugs who is under his professional care, such substances as he may deem necessary for their treatment, when such prescriptions are not for substances furnished for the purpose of evading the purposes of this act; provided, that the above provisions shall not apply to prescriptions sold or dispensed without a Preparaphysician's prescription containing less than two grains of tions of opium, or one-fourth grain of morphine, or one-half grain of strength not codeine, or one-sixth grain of nova caine, or one-sixth grain beta eucaine, or ten grains chloral hydrate in one fluid ounce, or if a solid preparation in one ounce avoirdupois ounce, or to the sale of strychnine or other poisons for the purpose of destroying noxious wild animals. And it is further provided, that it shall be the duty of every proprietor or manager of a Drug-store pharmacy or drug store, within the State of Nevada, to keep keep record a true and correct record of all orders forwarded to whole- of orders on salers, jobbers or manufacturers or traveling salesmen for the purchase of, in any manner, any cocaine, opium, yen shee, morphine, codeine, heroin or chloral hydrate, or any salt, derivative or compound thereof, within the meaning of the provisions of this act; provided further, that a true and cor- Copy of rect copy of all orders, forwarded by U. S. mail or otherwise, be sent state or given personally any traveling salesman, for narcotic board of drugs as specified in this section, shall be forwarded by regis- within 24 tered mail to the secretary of the Nevada state board of pharmacy, within twenty-four hours after the forwarding of such order direct or through a representative or traveling salesman; and provided further, the taking of any order, or Order making of any contract or agreement, by any salesman or

certain

prohibited

owners to

wholesalers

order must

pharmacy

hours

deemed sale

Drummer must forward

representative, or any employee or person, firm or corporation, for future delivery in this state, for any of the articles or drugs mentioned in this section shall be deemed a sale of said articles or drugs by said traveling representative or employee within the meaning of the provisions of this act; provided further, that a true and correct copy of all orders, contracts or agreements taken for narcotic drugs specified in this section by any traveling representative or employee shall likewise be forwarded by such traveling representative or state board employee by registered mail to the secretary of the Nevada state board of pharmacy within twenty-four hours after the taking of such order, contract or agreement, unless such order, contract or agreement is recorded by entry in a book used for that purpose only by some wholesale jobber, wholesaler or manufacturer permanently located in this state, as provided for in this section.

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Exception as to Nevada

wholesaler

$50,000 for support of Nevada school of industry

Providing for printing

CHAP. 102-An Act to provide for the maintenance and support of the Nevada school of industry for the years 1915 and 1916.

[Approved March 12, 1915]

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

SECTION 1. There is hereby appropriated, out of the general fund of the state or moneys not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $50,000 for the support and maintenance of the Nevada school of industry for the years 1915 and 1916. All expenditures made out of said fund shall be approved by a majority of the permanent board of government of the Nevada school of industry, allowed by the state board of examiners, and audited by the state controller, as other claims against the state.

CHAP. 103-An Act to provide for the preparation, printing, and distribution of a schedule showing the changes in the "Revised Laws of Nevada, 1912," wrought by the laws enacted at the special session of 1912 and regular sessions of 1913 and 1915 of the legislature of the State of Nevada.

[Approved March 12, 1915]

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

SECTION 1. The attorney-general is hereby authorized and directed to prepare, or have prepared under his supervision, a schedule of schedule showing the changes in the Revised Laws of Nevada, 1912, wrought by the laws enacted at the special session of 1912 and regular sessions of 1913 and 1915 of the legislature of the State of Nevada, and have the same printed in suitable

changes in Revised Laws

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