Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-04-09
CHAPTER CXVI.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY

C1IAI lbS SAN1
An Act amendatory and supplementary of an
Act entitled "An Act to regulate the sale
or disposal of opium, and to prohibit the
keeping of places of resort for smoking OF
otherwise using that drug. Approved
February 9th eighteen hundred and seventy
seven.
[Approved March 8, 1872
The people of the State of Nevada, repre-
sented in Senate Assembly, do enact as fol
lows:
SECTION |. Section Two of the above en-
titled Act is hereby amended SO as to read as
follows
Section Two. Any person or persons who
shall be found guilty of violating the pro-
visions of this Act shall on legal conviction
thereof be punished by a fine not exceeding
one thousand dollars or by imprisonment not
exceeding two years, or by both such fine and
Imprisonment, as the court shall sdjudge; and
if such Imprisonment shall be for period ex-
csediug six months. the same shall be In the
States Prison.
SEC g Section Four of said Act is hereby
amended SO as to read as foilsws:
Section Four. Any person or persons who
shall keep or who, being the owner thereof,
shall knowingly permit to be kept any house,
room, apartment OF other place of any kind
to be used as place of resort by any person
or persons for the purpose of indulging in the
use of opium, or any preparation containing
opium, by smoking or otherwise, shall on
legal conviction thereof be punished as pro-
vIded in this Act.
SEC 8 If any person shall knowingly
permit any honse, room, apartment or other
place owned by him or her to be used for the
purpose of resort to indulge in the use of
opium, any preparation containing opium,
by smoking or otherwise, he or she shall on
legal conviction thereof be punished as pro
yided in this Act.
SEC. 4. Any Judgment obtained under
the provisions of this Act for a fine and costs,
or either, shall be lien on the property
wherein the ofense committed, which
lien shall not be discharged until such judg
ment shall have been paid or otherwise legally
satisfied; procided, that such lien shall not
attach in cases where it shall appear that the
owner of the property was not a party to the
commission of the offense, and had no knowl-
edge thereof before its commission.
SIC. 5. If any person shall use any house,
room, apartment or other place leased to him
or her for any of the purposes forbidden by
this Act such illegal use shall, at the option of
the lessor, operate as forfeiture of such lease
and of all rights given thereby, whether the
same be expressed or not in such lease
SEC 6. 1t shall not be lawful for any per-
son to resort to any house, room or apart
ment or other place kept for any of the pur
poses forbidden by this Act for the purpose
of indulging in the of opium, any
preparation containing opium, by smoking or
otherwise, and any person who shall violate
the provisions of this section shall on legal
conviction thereof be punished as provided
by this Act.
SEC. 7. Any person leasing any house,
room, apartment or other place to be used as
place of resort to any person or persons for
the purpose of indulging i'll the use of opium,
or any preparation containing opium, know
ing the purposes for which said house, room
or apartment are to be used, any Judgment
obtained as provided in Section Four of this
Act, shall be lien upon such house, room,
apartment or other place of business SO leased. |
SEC. g. This Act shall take effect and be
in force on and after the first day of May, A |
d. eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and |
shall be, given in charge specially by all |
Judges of the District Court of this State to
grand juries when empaneled.