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to kill or have in his possession a greater number than twenty ducks, fifteen mountain quail, ten sage birds, six grouse, fifteen valley quail, five plover, ten geese, three swan or fifteen snipe in any one day, within this state.

2093. Deer and antelope.

SEC. 9. The open season for deer and antelope in this state shall be from September 15th, and until October 15th, of each and every year, and during that time it shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm, company, corporation or association, within this state, to kill, catch, trap, wound or pursue, with an attempt to catch, capture, injure or destroy, any number of deer or antelope exceeding two for any one open season or year. It shall be unlawful to kill, catch, trap, wound or pursue, with attempt to catch, injure, kill or destroy, any antelope or any spotted fawn at any time.

2094. Idem-Number limited.

SEC. 10. It shall be unlawful in this state for any person or persons to have in their possession any deer or antelope from and after November 1st of each year and until September 15th of the year next succeeding, and it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to sell or offer for sale or to trade or barter or offer to trade or barter any number of deer or antelope in excess of two during the time intervening between the 15th day of September and the 1st day of November of any year.

2095. Possession of game unlawful.

SEC. 11. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm, company, corporation, or association, to have in his or their possession, or to sell, buy, transport, or give away, or offer or expose for sale, or purchase from any person, whomsoever, either Indian or other person, any of the birds, animals, or wild game mentioned in this act during the season within the killing, injuring, pursuing, trapping, pounding, weiring, caging, selling, buying, transporting, giving away, offering or exposing for sale, or having in his or their possession is herein prohibited; provided, however, that nothing in this act shall be so construed as to prohibit any resident person or persons, firm, company, corporation or association, from taking (upon a written permit from the state board of fish and game commissioners) any bird, animal, or fowl or the nest or eggs of any bird or fowl for the purpose of propagation or domestication or for scientific purposes.

2096. Catch limited-Night fishing prohibited.

SEC. 12. Catch of trout or black bass not to exceed twenty (20) fish in any one day by any one person. Night fishing or night hunting prohibited. Fishing season March 30th to September 15th.

This section not covered by title, and probably repealed by acts 1911, 61, secs. 2059 2075. except as to "night hunting."

2097. Penalties for violation.

SEC. 13. Any person or persons, firm, company, corporation, or association, or common carrier, violating any of the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than twenty-five (25) dollars, nor more than five hundred (500) dollars, or imprisoned in the county jail in the county where the conviction is had for any term not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. It shall be no defense in the prosecution for the violation of any of the provisions of this act, that the animals or birds were taken or killed outside of the State of Nevada; nor shall it be any defense in the prosecution for the violation of any of the provisions of this act that the animals or birds were taken or killed by one other than he in whose possession said animals or birds were found; nor shall it be any defense in the

prosecution for the violation of any of the provisions of this act that the person did not know that hunting was not allowed upon the premises on which he was trespassing.

2098. County commissioners to pass ordinance, when.

SEC. 14. It shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners of any county within this state, when petitioned by fifty taxpayers within their county, for the protection of any variety of birds, fowls or animals, to draw and pass an ordinance protecting said birds, fowls or animals for the length of time as prayed for in the petition and to fix a penalty for the violation of said ordinance; said penalty to be in conformity with section 13 of this act. When said ordinance is properly drawn and signed by the chairman of the board of county commissioners it shall be published in some newspaper published in the county for the period of four issues, and thereafter it shall be in full force and effect.

2099. Repeal-Transportation companies liable.

SEC. 15. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed. Every railroad company, express company, transportation company, or other common carrier, their officers, agents, and servants, and every other person who shall transport, carry, or take out of the state, or who shall receive for the purpose of transporting, or carrying from this state, any deer, buck, doe or fawn, or any mountain sheep or antelope, or any quail, sage chicken, prairie chicken, grouse, wild ducks, or goose, or any other bird or animal mentioned in this act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

2100. Beaver.

SEC. 16. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, firm, company, corporation or association, to catch, kill, destroy, trap, net, weir or cage any beaver within this state before the first day of April, A. D. 1920.

An Act to regulate and license the hunting of game birds and animals, and the taking or catching of fish, and to provide revenue therefrom for game and fish preservation and protection, and to prescribe a penalty for the violation thereof, and to make an appropriation for the purpose of carrying out the objects of this act.

2101. May procure license. 2102. Officers to issue license.

2103. Price of licenses.

Approved February 26, 1909, 38

2104. County clerks to keep record. 2105. License good for one year.

2106. Disposition of money from licenses.

2101. Must procure license.

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SECTION 1. Every person in the State of Nevada, who hunts, pursues or kills any of the wild birds or animals, or who takes or catches any of the fishes that are protected by the laws of this state, without first procuring a license therefor, as provided in this act, is guilty of a misdemeanor.

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SEC. 2. Licenses granting the privilege to hunt, pursue or kill wild birds or animals, or to take or catch fish during the open season as fixed by law, shall be issued and delivered, upon application, by the county clerk of any of the counties of this state, or by the fish and game warden of any of the counties of this state, which license shall have stamped thereon the words "Hunting License No, State of Nevada. Expires February 28, 19 with the registration number and appropriate year stamped therein. Said licenses shall be prepared and furnished to the county clerk by the board of

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county commissioners, which board shall take receipt therefor by number and quantity from the county clerk, and the county clerk shall be responsible therefor and shall account for the same to the auditor of said county every three months after receipt thereof.

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SEC. 3. The license herein provided for shall be issued as follows: First-To any citizen of the United States who is a bona fide resident of the State of Nevada, upon the payment of one dollar.

Second-To any citizen of the United States, not a bona fide resident of the State of Nevada, upon the payment of ten dollars.

Third-To any person not a citizen of the United States, upon the payment of twenty-five dollars.

2104. County clerk to keep record.

SEC. 4. Every person applying for and procuring a license as herein provided, shall give to the county clerk his name and resident address, which information shall be by the clerk or board entered in a book kept for that purpose, and provided by said board of county commissioners, together with a statement of the date of issuance, the number of license issued to such person and description of such person, by age, height, race, and color of the eyes and hair.

2105. License good for one year.

SEC. 5. All licenses issued as herein provided shall be valid, and shall authorize the person to whom issued, to hunt, pursue and kill game birds and animals and to take or catch fish during the open season fixed therefor by law, on and from the first day of March, 1909, until the date of expiration stamped thereon, but no license shall continue in force for a period longer than one year.

2106. Disposition of money from licenses.

SEC. 6. All moneys collected for licenses as provided herein, shall be paid into the county treasury to the credit of the game and fish preservation fund, which fund is hereby created, and the moneys in said fund shall be applied to the payment of the expenses incurred in the prosecution of offenders, and for the revenue to pay fish and game wardens and deputies when necessary to hire deputy fish and game warden or wardens.

2107. Lost license, how restored.

SEC. 7. Not more than one license shall be issued to any one person for the same fiscal year, except upon an affidavit by the applicant that the one issued has been lost or destroyed, and no license issued as herein provided shall be transferable, or used by any other person than the one to whom it was issued.

2108. Must exhibit license; penalty for failure.

SEC. 8. Every person having a license as provided herein, who while hunting or fishing refuses to exhibit such license upon the demand of any officer authorized to enforce the fish and game laws of the state, or any other peace officer of the state, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and every person lawfully having said license, who transfers or disposes of the same to another person to be used as a hunting or fishing license, shall forfeit the same. 2109. Punishment.

SEC. 9. Every person violating any of the provisions of this act shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than $10, nor more than $100, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a term of not less than five, nor more than fifty days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

2110. County money appropriated.

SEC. 10. There is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the county treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sum of seventy-five dollars for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this act, to be used by the board of county commissioners for the printing and binding of suitable books and blanks required herein, and for the purchase of metal licenses. The county auditor is hereby directed to draw his warrant for said amount in favor of said board of county commissioners at such times and in such amounts as may be needed from time to time, and the treasurer is hereby directed to pay the same. 2111. Exceptions.

SEC. 11. The provisions of this act shall not apply to any person who, on his own land, during the open season, hunts, pursues or kills any of the wild birds or animals, or takes or catches any of the fish protected by the laws of this state, nor to women or to boys under fourteen years of age.

2112. Where license shall be procured.

SEC. 12. The license herein provided for shall be procured from the county of which the applicant is a resident, and may be used in any county in the State of Nevada. Nonresidents of the state may procure a license in any county.

An Act to prevent the shipment of wild game from this state.

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SECTION 1. Every railroad company, express company, transportation company, or other common carrier, their officers, agents and servants, and every other person who shall transport, carry or take out of this state, or who shall receive for the purpose of transporting from the state, any deer, buck, doe or fawn or any mountain sheep or antelope, or any quail, sage chicken, prairie chicken, grouse, dove, wild duck or goose, except for purposes of propagation. shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Any person found guilty of a violation of any of the provisions of this section, shall be fined in a sum not less than twenty ($20) dollars nor more than five hundred ($500) dollars or be imprisoned in the county jail not less than ten nor more than ninety days or by both such fine and imprisonment.

FORESTRY

To provide for protection of timbered lands, sections 2114–2117.

To preserve young forest trees, sections 2118-2120.

An Act to provide for the protection of timbered lands.

Approved March 3, 1871, 113

2114. Unlawful to cut or remove timber.

SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person or corporation to cut down or remove, or cause to be cut down or removed, any wood, timber, or trees on or from any land in this state, to which land this state, or any person or corporation has or may have an inchoate title, or any title less than fee simple, and the provisions of this section shall apply to the owner of such inchoate title, or title less than fee simple, the same as to other persons and corporations.

2115. Cutting timber, misdemeanor.

SEC. 2. If any owner of an inchoate title to land in this state, or title to such land less than fee simple, or any other person or corporation, shall violate the provisions of the first section of this act, such person or corporation shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars.

2116. Cutting timber on state land, penalty.

SEC. 3. If any person shall cut down or remove any tree, wood, or timber from any land in this state, to which this state has a fee simple title, or an inchoate title, by reason of grant from the United States, such person shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by fine as provided in section 2 of this act.

2117. Issue of fact as to title to real estate-Timber for domestic purposes. SEC. 4. If an issue of fact be joined, as to the title to real estate, in any action under the provisions of this act, such action shall thereupon be certified by the justice of the peace in whose court it may be pending to the district court of the same county, and therein tried and finally determined as if the same had been originally commenced therein; provided, that nothing in this act shall be so construed as to affect or impair the provisions of an act entitled "An act prescribing the mode of maintaining and defending possessory actions on public lands in this state," approved March ninth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five [see sec. 5849, et seq.]; and provided further, that nothing in this act contained shall be so construed as to prevent the cutting and using by actual settlers upon such lands as are herein specified of such wood as may be necessary for domestic uses, or of such timber as may be necessary for making permanent improvements upon such lands.

An Act to preserve young forest trees.

Approved March 16, 1903, 176

2118. Misdemeanor to sell certain kinds of wood.

SECTION 1. It shall be a misdemeanor to sell or offer for sale any live or growing wood obtained from any common, white, yellow, or sugar-pine tree, or any fir, tamarack, spruce, or flat-leaved cedar tree less than one foot in diameter two feet from the ground.

2119. Object, to protect water supply.

SEC. 2. The object of this act is to protect the second or later growth of wood and timber on lands in this state, and it shall be [so] construed, in order that the natural water supply of the state may be preserved and its young forests saved from wanton destruction.

2120. Penalty.

SEC. 3. Any person convicted of the violation of any provision of this act shall be punished by a fine of not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500), or imprisonment in the county jail for a period of not to exceed six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

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