by this Act shall be punishable by a fine in any sum not ex- Fine and imceeding five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county prisonment. jail for any term not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. 4867. SEC. 10. This Act shall take effect and be in force Take effect. from and after the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four. State ex rel. Murphy v. Overton, 16 Nev. 136. An Act to prevent the spread of contagious diseases. Approved February 20, 1869, 67. misdemeanor. 4868. SECTION 1. Any person who shall knowingly have Spreading of, or use about his premises, or who shall convey, or cause to be conveyed, into any neighborhood, any clothing, bedding, or other substance, used by or in taking care of any person afflicted by small-pox or other infections or contagious disease, or infected thereby, or shall do any other act with the intent to, or necessarily tending to the spread of such disease into any neighborhood or locality; every person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof before any court of competent jurisdiction, shall be fined in any sum not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment; and the court trying any such offender, may also include in any judgment rendered an order to the effect that the clothing or other property infected be burned or otherwise destroyed, and shall have power to carry such order into effect. violation. 4869. SEC. 2. Any person guilty of violating the pro- Penalty of visions of section one of this Act, in addition to the penalties herein prescribed, shall be liable in a civil action, in damages, to any and all persons who may from that cause become infected with such contagious disease; said damages shall be so assessed as to include, in addition to other damages, all expenses incurred by reason of such sickness, loss of time, and burial expenses; and such action may also be maintained by the representative of any deceased person. An Act to prevent the propagation and spread of contagious 4870. diseases. Approved February 24, 1879, 47. SECTION 1. Any person or persons, company, association or corporation in this state who shall exhume or disinter, Sec. 4871. Removal of deceased person. To issue permits. Proviso. or who shall cause to be exhumed or disinterred, any human 4871. SEC. 2. The County Commissioners of the several Certificate of An Act relating to the burial of the dead of incorporated cities in Approved March 8, 1879, 119. It shall be unlawful for any undertaker 4872. SECTION 1. or other person within the State of Nevada to bury any deceased person who has died within the limits of any incorporated town or city in said state without first having procured a certificate from the physician who attended the said deceased person during his or her last illness, setting forth the name, nativity, sex, age, time of death, place of death and cause of death of said deceased person, as near as can be ascertained by said physician; provided, that in cases where no physician has attended said deceased person during his or her last illness, no such certificate shall be required, but the Coroner's permit mentioned in the next succeeding section of this Act shall be obtained, and shall be sufficient authority for the burial of such deceased person. It shall be the duty of any undertaker or 4873. SEC. 2. other person obtaining the certificate mentioned in the first section of this Act, before burying such deceased person, to present such certificate to the Coroner of the county within which such deceased person shall have died. The said Coroner, after issue permit. being satisfied of the truth of the facts set forth in said certificate, shall issue a permit to the person presenting such certificate Coroner's To present Coroner to 1082 to bury the deceased person named in said certificate, or shall take such action under the law as the facts set forth in said certificate shall warrant. Said permit shall be in writing, Style of signed by the Coroner, and shall set forth the facts under which permit. it was issued. Said Coroner shall file in his office all physicians' Coroner to certificates so presented to him, and shall keep a record of the file. sume and a memorandum of all permits so issued by him, which records and memoranda he shall turn over to his successor in office as a part of the public records of his office.- Ás amended, Stats. 1881, 28. charge and 4874. SEC. 3. Any physician who shall willfully issue or offense, sign, or cause to be issued or signed, any certificate, as provided violation. for in this Act, knowing the facts set forth in said certificate to be false, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be imprisoned in the state prison for a term not less than one year and not more than five years. violation. 4875. SEC. 4. Any person willfully and unlawfully violat- Penalty for ing any of the provisions of sections one and two of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than one month nor more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. 4876. SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect from and after To take effect. the first day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine. Sec. 4877. CHAPTER XXIII. CERTAIN MISCELLANEOUS ENACTMENTS. When to SECTION. 4877. Laws and joint resolutions, when to take effect. 4879. Legal holidays and days of grace. 4880. Same. 4881. Bills of exchange and promissory notes. 4900. Money of account and interest. 4905. Limited partnership, formation of 4918. Trade marks and names. 4931. Joint debtors, liabilities and release of. 4934. Accounts and claims against state. 4936. Claims against state, not to be presented second time. 4937. Seal for territory of Nevada. 4938. Seal of state for State of Nevada. 4939. Great seal of the State of Nevada. 4942. Seals of County Clerks. 4943. Majority, fixing age of. 4944. Names of individuals, changing. 4947. Chinese and mongolians, employment of prohibited. 4950. Capital of state, located at Carson City, 4952. Distribution of statutes and reports, biennial report of. 4954. County seats, removal and location of. 4960. Hotel and lodging house proprietors, protected. 4964. Common carriers and warehousemen, protected. 4970. Jewelers and watchmakers, protected. 4974. Medicine and surgery, practice of by unqualified persons. 4981. Charcoal, measurement of regulated. 4986. Mineral and other specimens, encouragement of collection. 4989. Artesian wells, to encourage the sinking of. 4994. Advertising, official, fixing rates of 4995. Mexican and civil war veterans, granting aid to. 5004. Compilation of laws of state, providing for. An Act fixing the time when laws and joint resolutions shall take effect. Approved January 10, 1865, 90. 4877. SECTION 1. Every law and joint resolution hereafter passed by the legislature of the State of Nevada shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage, unless such law or joint resolution shall prescribe a different time. An Act to designate the holidays to be observed in the acceptance and payment of bills of exchange and promissory notes. Approved October 30, 1861, 1. designated. 4879. SECTION 1. The following days, namely: The first Holidays day of January, Washington's birthday, or the twenty-second day of February, the fourth day of July, thanksgiving day on the proclamation of the Governor, the twenty-fifth day of December, commonly called Christmas day, shall for all purposes whatsoever as regards the presenting for payment, or acceptance, and of the protesting, and giving notice of the dishonor of bills of exchange, checks, and promissory notes, made after the passage of this Act, be treated and considered as is the first day of the week, usually called Sunday. Three days, commonly called days of grace, shall be allowed, except on sight bills or drafts; and any one of the holidays specified in this Act coming within the three days of grace shall be counted as one of such days. An Act in relation to bills of exchange and other negotiable in struments. Approved December 19, 1862, 80. 4880. SECTION 1. All bills of exchange, checks, promis- Negotiable sory notes, or other negotiable instruments, which, by the terms instruments, thereof, are payable with or without grace, if the day for the payment thereof shall fall on any Sunday, or on any of the holidays designated in that certain Act entitled "An Act to designate the holidays to be observed in the acceptance and payment of bills of exchange and promissory notes," approved October thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, the same shall become due and payable on the day previous to any of the days aforesaid. An Act relative to bills of exchange and promissory notes. Approved October 31, 1861, 4. 4881. SECTION 1. All notes in writing, made and signed when by any person, whereby he shall promise to pay to any other negotiable. person, or to his order, or to the order of any other person, or unto the bearer, any sum of money therein mentioned, shall be due and payable as therein expressed, and shall have the same effect and be negotiable in like manner as inland bills of exchange, according to the custom of merchants. 4882. SEC. 2. Every such note, signed by the agent of When valid. any person, under a general or special authority, shall bind such person, and shall have the same effect and be negotiable, as above provided. |