duties of Twenty-sixth-To require every railroad and street-railway Powers and company to keep the streets in repair between the tracks and city council along and within the distance of at least two feet upon each of Sparks side of the tracks. Twenty-seventh-To require upon such notice as the council may direct, any noxious or offensive smell, filth, or debris to be abated, removed, or otherwise destroyed, at the expense of the person or persons causing, committing, or responsible therefor, and the council, in like manner, may require or cause any lots or portion of lots covered by stagnant water for any period to be filled up to such level as will prevent the same from being so covered, and may assess the cost of filling upon such real estate, and provide that it shall be a lien thereon, in which case said lien shall be enforced as in other cases herein provided for. Twenty-eighth-To provide for and regulate the manner of weighing all food products and foodstuffs, and hay, grain, straw, and coal, and the measuring and selling of firewood and all fuel within the city, and to provide for the seizure and forfeiture of such articles offered for sale which do not comply with such regulations, and to examine, test, and provide for the inspection and sealing of all weights and measures throughout the city and enforce the keeping by traders and dealers of proper weights and measures duly tested and sealed, and by ordinance provide a penalty for the using of false weights or measures. Twenty-ninth-To restrain and punish vagrants, drunkards, disorderly persons, common prostitutes, mendicants, street beggars, and lewd persons; to suppress and abolish houses of assignation, or places resorted to by persons for the purpose of prostitution or immoral purposes; to prevent diseased, maimed, injured, or unfortunate persons from displaying their infirmities for the purpose of receiving alms, and to prevent and punish drunkenness, obscene language or conduct, indecent exposure of person, loud and threatening or lewd or obscene language, or profane language in the presence or hearing of women or children, and all obnoxious, offensive, indecent, and disorderly conduct and practices within the city; to prevent and punish the discharging of firearms in the city; the lighting of fires in yards, streets, or alleys, or other unsafe places, or anywhere within the city; to prevent and punish fast horseback riding, or the riding, or breaking to drive, of wild or unmanageable horses in the city; to require that all horses when left standing shall be hitched to posts or weight; to prescribe the length of time horses may be left tied, hitched, or otherwise, in the city. Thirtieth-To regulate the sale and use of water, gas, electric, and other lights in the city; to fix and determine the price thereof, as well as the rental price of all water, and gas, and electric-light meters in the city, and to provide for the inspection of such meters; to regulate telephone service and the use Powers and city council duties of of Sparks of telephones, and to fix and determine the charges for telephones, telephone service, and connections within the city; provided, that nothing herein contained shall be held to supersede any state law upon this subject, so long as any such state law may be in effect. Thirty-first-To regulate lodging, tenement, and apartment houses having four or more lodgers; to prevent the overcrowding of the same, and to require the same to be kept in a sanitary condition. Thirty-second-To adopt and enforce, by ordinance, all such measures and establish all such regulations, in case no express provision is in this charter made, as the council may from time to time deem expedient and necessary for the promotion and protection of health, comfort, safety, life, welfare, and property of the inhabitants of said city, the preservation of peace and good order, the promotion of public morals, and the suppression of vice in the city, and to pass ordinances upon any other subject of municipal control, or to carry into force or effect any other powers of the city, and to do and perform any, every, and all other acts and things necessary for the execution of the powers conferred or which may be necessary to fully carry out the intent, purposes, and object thereof. Thirty-third-To select, appoint, and employ an engineer, surveyor, architect, or other skilled mechanic or person, from time to time, whenever in the judgment of the council it shall be necessary or expedient, for the purpose of preparing plans for, or supervising the construction of or directing any public work; the salary or compensation, duties and responsibilities of such person to be fixed, determined, and fully defined by ordinance. Thirty-fourth-To prescribe fines, forfeitures, and penalties for the breach or violation of any ordinance, or of any provisions of this charter, but no penalty shall exceed the amount of five hundred dollars or six months' imprisonment, or both such fine and imprisonment. Thirty-fifth-To require of and prescribe the amount and conditions of official bonds from the members of the council and all officers of the city, whether elective or appointive. Thirty-sixth-To institute and maintain any suit or suits, civil or criminal, in the name of the city, in the proper courts, whenever necessary, in their judgment, to enforce or maintain any right of the city, and they may, in like manner, defend all actions against the city; to institute and maintain any suit against any property owner refusing or neglecting to pay, as assessed by the council, his ratable proportion of the cost of paving, grading, or otherwise improving any street or building any sidewalk or other improvement which benefits such property or owner thereof. Thirty-seventh-To hold, manage, use, and dispose of all real and personal property of the city, and to enforce the payment and collection of all dues and demands of every nature or kind, belonging or inuring to the city, but no sales of property shall be made until after it shall have been appraised by three appraisers, residents and taxpayers of the city, at the actual market value, nor shall it be sold for less than seventyfive per cent of such appraised value; provided, that no park or property acquired for park purposes shall be sold or in any manner disposed of. Thirty-eighth-Any property, real or personal, necessary or required for the public use of the city may be condemned and appropriated in the manner now prescribed by law and all rights of eminent domain may be exercised by the city in relation thereto. railroad exempt from Thirty-ninth-Nothing herein contained shall be construed Tract for as authorizing or permitting the opening or extension of any purposes street across or upon the lands within the boundaries of said opening for city of Sparks occupied for railroad purposes by the Central streets, etc. Pacific railway company, or the Southern Pacific company, their successors or assigns, said lands being particularly described as follows, to wit: Commencing at a point which is the section-corner common to sections Nos. 4, 5, 8, and 9, township 19 north, range 20 east, Mount Diablo base and meridian, and running thence westerly along the north boundary line of said section No. 8, a distance of two hundred and forty-three (243) feet, more or less, to the northeastern corner of the townsite of Sparks, as shown on the townsite map recorded in the office of the county recorder of Washoe County on April 25, 1904, at request of the Southern Pacific company; running thence from said corner southerly at right angles along the eastern boundary line of said townsite of Sparks a distance of four hundred and twenty (420) feet to the southeast corner of said townsite of Sparks; thence at right angles westerly along the south boundary line of the said townsite of Sparks parallel with and distant four hundred and twenty (420) feet from the north boundary line of said section No. 8, a distance of twenty-three hundred and sixty-three (2,363) feet, more or less, to a point in the west boundary of the northeast quarter of said section No. 8, said point being also the southwest corner of the said townsite of Sparks; thence south along said west boundary of the northeast quarter of said section 8, a distance of three hundred and forty-five (345) feet, more or less, to a point distant sixty-five feet at right angles northerly from the center line of the reconstructed line of the Central Pacific railway as located and constructed; thence westerly to the right with an angle of 82 degrees and 24 minutes and parallel with and distant sixty-five feet at right angles northerly from said center line, a distance of one thousand and twenty-five (1,025) feet, more or less, to a point on the east line of Elm street; thence at right angles southerly along the said easterly line of Elm street and crossing the said center line of the reconstructed Central Pacific railway at or near engineer survey station No. purposes opening for streets, etc. Tract for 66 plus 80, a distance of three hundred and five (305) feet to railroad a point; thence at right angles easterly two hundred (200) feet exempt from to a point; thence at right angles southerly one hundred and sixty (160) feet to a point which is distant four hundred (400) feet at right angles southerly from the center line of the said reconstructed Central Pacific railway; thence at right angles easterly parallel with and distant four hundred (400) feet at right angles southerly from said center line, a distance of eight hundred and eighty-eight (888) feet, more or less, to a point in the said west boundary of the southeast quarter of said section 8; thence southerly along said quarter-section line a distance of eighty-five (85) feet, more or less, to the southwest corner of the north one-half of the northeast quarter of said section 8; thence east along the south boundary of the said north one-half of the northeast quarter of section 8 and the south boundary of the north half of the northwest quarter of section 9 of said township and range, a distance of three thousand four hundred and sixty-five (3,465) feet, more or less, to a point distant fifty (50) feet, southerly at right angles from the said center line of the reconstructed Central Pacific railroad; thence southeasterly parallel with said center line and distant at right angles fifty (50) feet therefrom, a distance of eighteen hundred and twenty-five (1,825) feet, more or less, to a point on the east boundary line of northwest quarter of said section 9; thence north along said quarter-section line and crossing the said center line at engineer survey station No. 130 plus 33.15, a distance of one thousand and sixty-two (1,062) feet, more or less, to a point; thence at right angles westerly a distance of three hundred and fifty (350) feet to a point; thence northerly and parallel with the east line of said northwest quarter of section 9, four hundred and ninety-five (495) feet to a point in the north line of said section 9, township 19 north, range 20 east, M. D. M.; thence west along said north line of said section 9, a distance of twenty-three hundred and eleven (2,311) feet to the point of beginning, said parcel of land being all in said sections 8 and 9, township 19 north, range 20 east, Mount Diablo base and meridian. CHAP. 271-An Act defining and classifying transient live stock and providing for the assessment, collection, and distribution of taxes on the same, providing penalties for violation of its provisions, and repealing all acts and parts of acts in conflict herewith. [Approved March 26, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and Transient Live Stock-How Determined. SECTION 1. For the purpose of taxation, as hereinafter provided, transient stock shall be deemed to be: live stock 1. All stock brought into the state by any person or persons, Transient other than bona fide residents thereof, for the purpose of being defined grazed or fed; and 2. All stock owned by residents of the state and driven or removed from one county to another for the purpose of being grazed or fed. Certificate Required To Be Filed Upon Bringing of Live Stock into Any County. required to county SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of every person or persons Certificate within ten days after bringing transient live stock into any be filed upon county of the state for the purpose of being grazed or fed for any restock bringing of length of time, to set out in a certificate signed by such person into any or persons, or their agents, the number of live stock with the marks and brands on the same, and immediately file said certificate with the county clerk of the county in which said live stock shall be first brought, which certificate shall be substantially in the following form: county clerk receiving SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the county clerk, upon said Duty of certificate being filed, to keep an index of the same in his upon office, and if the assessment rolls are in his possession or in certificate the possession of the county treasurer, he shall, as clerk of the county, enter an abstract of such certificate upon the assessment roll for the current year; otherwise he shall deliver to the county assessor a certified copy of such certificate, and the county assessor shall enter an abstract of such certificate upon the assessment roll for the year. Bond or Cash Deposit Required. SEC. 4. Every person or persons, bringing transient live |