committee. or more counties shall nominate the district judge and other district officers, which nominations shall be certified by the state convention as other nominations. Such convention shall also proceed to elect a state central State central committee, to consist of at least three members from each how selected county, who shall hold office until a new state central committee shall have been elected. Such state central committee shall meet and organize at a time and place to be designated by the body selecting such state central committee, and such committee may then or thereafter select an executive committee. state can didates Proxies allowed only Such convention shall also proceed to nominate candidates To nominate for all offices to be filled by the electors of the entire state. SEC. 24. Delegates to state and county conventions may be represented by proxies duly appointed; provided, that a delein case of gate shall not be entitled to appoint a proxy except in case of unavoidable inability to attend in person the convention; provided further, that no person shall be entitled to act as a proxy in a convention unless he or she be a qualified elector and bona fide resident of the county or precinct he represents. absences Party nominations certified to SEC. 25. The chairman and secretary of state, district, and county conventions, respectively, shall make a certified list, duly verified, of all party nominations. The certificate of proper public state and district nominations shall be filed with the secretary of state, and that of county and township nominations shall be filed with the county clerk. officials SEC. 26. Vacancies in nominations occurring for any Vacancies in cause after the holding of any party convention shall be filled how filled by the party committee of the county, or state, as the case may be. nominations, SEC. 27. The general election laws, in so far as they are General elec- applicable and not in conflict with the provisions of this act, tion laws to shall apply to primary elections. govern No fees for filing certificates SEC. 28. No fee shall be charged for filing certificates of nominations made by a convention. Candidates for delegates to conventions shall at the time of filing their certificate of candidacy pay to the clerk a filing fee of one dollar and the clerk shall issue to him a receipt therefor. SEC. 29. This act shall be liberally construed to the end Act liberally that the real intent of the electors shall prevail. construed Act not to apply to delegates to national conventions SEC. 30. The provisions of this act with reference to delegates to state conventions shall not apply to conventions held for the selection of delegates to national conventions and in such conventions the state central committee of the party may prescribe such rules and regulations as it may deem best. NOMINATIONS BY PETITION A candidate for public office may be nominated otherwise than by convention in the manner following: A certificate of nomination shall be signed by electors within the state, district, or political subdivision for which the candi for public office by per cent of required dates are to be presented, equal in number to at least ten per Nominations cent of the entire vote cast at the last preceding general election in the state, district, or political subdivision for which petition; 10 the nomination is made; provided, that such certificate shall last vote contain the signatures of at least five electors. Said signatures need not all be appended to one paper but each signer shall add to his signature his place of residence. One of the signers of each such certificate shall swear that the statements therein made and the signatures therein set forth are true to the best of his knowledge and belief. The certificate of nomination herein provided shall state the name of the principle, if any, which the person nominated by petition represents, but in so doing the name of no political party as defined by this act existing at the last preceding general election shall be used. Such certificates of nomination for officers to be voted for by Regulations the electors of the entire state or by districts composed of two filing cerregarding or more counties shall be filed with the secretary of state; all tificates of others shall be filed with the clerk of the county wherein the officers are to be voted for. Such certificates of nomination as provided in this section shall be filed on or before the first Tuesday in September preceding the election, and no person shall be nominated by such certificate or petition who has been a candidate before any convention of any political party as herein defined. nomination No certificate of nomination shall contain the name of more than one candidate for each office to be filled, and no person shall sign such certificate or petition who has voted in any convention, either in person or by proxy, for or against any candidate for office. No fees shall be charged for filing such No fees certificate or petition. declared by act SEC. 31. Any act or omission declared to be an offense by All offenses the general laws of this state concerning general elections shall also, in like case, be an offense concerning elections as provided for by this act, and shall be punished in the same under this manner and form as therein provided, and all penalties and provisions of the law governing elections, except as herein otherwise provided, shall apply in equal force to elections as provided for by this act. Wilful failure or refusal of any officer to perform the duties prescribed in this act shall be a gross misdemeanor, and in addition to the punishment prescribed by law, shall subject such officer to removal from office. SEC. 32. The pronoun "he," used herein, shall be construed "He" and intended to mean "he" or "she." includes "she" SEC. 33. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act Repeal are hereby expressly repealed. Amending CHAP. 284—An Act to amend section 253 of an act entitled The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and SECTION 1. Section 253 of an act entitled "An act concerning.crimes and punishments, and repealing certain acts relatcrimes and ing thereto," approved March 17, 1911, and all acts and parts of acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, is hereby amended so as to read as follows: punishments act Gambling games and slotmachines played for money prohibited horse, five hundred, solo, and whist excepted Section 253. It shall be unlawful for any person to deal, play or carry on, open or conduct, in any capacity whatever, any game of faro, monte, roulette, lansquenet, rouge et noir, rondo, tan, fan-tan, seven-and-a-half, twenty-one, hokey-pokey, craps, klondyke, or any banking or percentage game played with cards, dice, or any device, for money, property, checks, credit, or any representative of value; or any gambling game in which any person keeping, conducting, managing or permitting the same to be carried on receives, directly or indirectly, any compensation or reward, or any percentage or share of the money or property played, for keeping, running, carrying on or permitting the said game to be carried on; or to play, maintain or keep, any slot machine played for money or for checks or tokens redeemable in money, or to buy, sell or deal in pools, or make books on horse-races, save and Poker, stud- except the playing of poker, stud-horse poker, five hundred, solo and whist, when the deal alternates and no percentage taken and that any and all racing associations and corporations which shall obtain license to conduct race meetings in the State of Nevada, pursuant to law, may carry on and permit within the inclosure where horse-racing is held, betting horse-racing upon the races conducted within said inclosure by and through the paris mutual system of betting; and any person who violates any of the above provisions shall be guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be imprisoned in the state prison for a period of not less than one year nor more than five years. Every person who shall play at any game whatsoever, other than those hereinabove excepted, for money, property or gain, with cards, dice or any other device which may be adapted to or used in playing any game of chance, or in which chance is a material element, or who shall bet or wager on the hands or cards or sides of such as do play as aforesaid, shall be deemed guilty of a felony; provided, however, that nothing in this paragraph shall be construed as prohibitSocial games ing social games played, only for drinks and cigars served individually, or for prizes of a value not to exceed two dollars, nor nickel-in-the-slot machines for the sale of cigars and drinks and no playback allowed. Licensed excepted Felony and mer chandise machines excepted CHAP. 285-An Act relating to elections. [Approved March 29, 1915] The People of the State of Nevada, represented in Senate and defined SECTION 1. Every citizen of the United States, twenty- Residence one years of age or over, who will have continuously resided in this state six months and in the county or precinct thirty days next preceding the day of the next ensuing election, shall be entitled to vote at such election, provided he or she is duly registered as hereinafter provided. Residence Gained or Lost. gained or SEC. 2. No person shall be deemed to have gained or lost Residence such a residence by reason of his presence or absence while lost employed in the military, naval, or civil service of the United States, or of the State of Nevada; nor while engaged in the navigation of the waters of the United States or of the high seas; nor while a student at any seminary or other institution of learning, nor while kept at any almshouse, or other asylum, at public expense, nor while confined in any public prison or jail. Residence Not Lost. not lost SEC. 3. A person removing from one county, within this Residence state, to another, or from one precinct to another of the same county, within thirty days prior to any election, shall not be deemed to have lost his residence in the county or precinct removed from; provided, he was an elector in such county or precinct on the thirtieth day prior to such election. Residence Lost. SEC. 4. If a person remove to another state, territory, or Residence foreign country, with the intention of establishing his domicile lost there, and making it his home, he shall lose his residence in this state. Burden of Proof. proof SEC. 5. If a person having a fixed and permanent home in Burden of this state, break up such home and remove to another state, territory, or foreign country, the intent to abandon his residence in this state shall be presumed, and the burden shall be upon him to prove the contrary; and the same rule shall obtain when a person, in like circumstances, and in like manner, shall remove from one county or precinct to another within the state. Residence of Family Place of Residence. SEC. 6. If a man have a family residing in one place and he Residence of does business in another, the former must be considered his family place place of residence, unless his family be located there for tem of residence Residence lost, when porary purposes only; but if his family reside without the state, and he be permanently located within the same, with no intention of removing therefrom, he shall be deemed a resident. SEC. 7. If a person remove to another state, territory, or foreign country, with the intention of remaining there for an indefinite time, and as a place of present residence, he shall lose his residence in this state, notwithstanding that he may entertain the intention of returning at some uncertain future period; and an occasional return, either for business purposes or pleasure, to the place of his former abode in this state, shall not be sufficient to preserve his residence therein. CHAPTER 2 REGISTRATION SEC. 8. A new registration of the electors of this state shall Concerning be made in the year 1916, within the dates hereinafter speciregistration fied, and every two years thereafter. tion only SEC. 9. After being once registered in any precinct in this One registra- state, no elector shall be permitted to reregister in any other precinct until the following biennial registration as herein provided. If any elector loses his residence in the precinct in which he is registered, by reason of removal therefrom, he shall acquire the right to vote in his new precinct by a transfer of registration only, as hereinafter provided. try agent other than peace may When Registry Agent Other than Justice of the Peace May SEC. 10. The justices of the peace of the several counties of When regis- the state shall be ex officio the registry agents of their respective townships, and, as such, their powers and duties shall justice of the be as hereinafter provided in this act; provided, that in any be appointed townships where, from any cause, there shall be no justice of the peace duly commissioned and qualified, or where an election district may be situated too distant from the office of the justice of the peace of said township, the commissioners of the county in which said election district is located may appoint some other competent person to perform the duties of registry agent, who shall be clothed with the same power and governed by the same restrictions as justices of the peace in the registration of the names of electors under the provisions of this act. All registry agents shall have power to administer oaths or affirmations, and do such other acts as may be necessary to fully carry out the provisions of this act. Any registry agent or ex officio registry agent may appoint a deputy registry agent who, upon the filing of his appointment and oath of office with the county clerk, shall have power to register voters, administer oaths or affirmations, and do all such other acts as may be done by a registry agent in carrying out the provisions of this act. Any registry agent or ex officio registry agent appointing any deputy shall be responsible for the compensation and acts of such deputy. |