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AN ACT An^&cfc to amend an act entitled, **An Act defining public utilities, providing for the regulation thereof, creating a Public Service Commission, defining its duties and powers and other matters relating thereto,” approved March 28, 1919 as amended, Stats. 1931. I ^ ^ 0PS-wQQ??ra?vAT? 0F M A D A > REPRESENTED ? AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: IN SENATE SECTION 1. Section 13 of the above entitled act being section 6112 in 1929 N.C.L., 1941 Supp., is hereby amended to read as follows: (omitted) bEC. 13. The commission may............... , provided that it shall be unlawful for any public utility, for any purpose or object whatever, in any.city or town containing more than 4500 inhabitants, to install, operate, or use, within such x city or town, any mechanical water meter, or similar mechanical device to measure tjie quantity of water delivered to water users; provided, that if the Public Service Commission of Nevada!, after investigation and public hearing on its own motion ?2£, uPon .complaint filed by the state engineer, the state health ? °r any city official including city water inspector, ££ fry aliy other party, shall determine that there has not been made or that there is reasonable cause to believe that there will not in the future be made a reasonable and beneficial use of water _by said water user resulting in unnecessary wasting of water. or that the use made of said water is to the detriment of the reserves of the State of Nevada or to the detriment of the