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V Enacts Nevada Occupational Diseases Act (46 sections) to be administered by the Nevada Industrial Commission. Section 17 of said Act excludes inter­state commerce, using same langauge as sec­tion 23 of Industrial Insurance Act (supra). Effective date ... • • July 1, 1947. S.B. 5 Becomes Chapter 100 (page 334) Advance Sheets, 1947 Statutes. Amends Nevada Insurance Act, approved March 31, 1941, as amended (3656-3656.166 N.C.L. Supp.) by adding new Article 15A to regulate rate- making agreements between insurance companies so as to offset prosecutions under the federal Clayton or Sherman Acts, within the moratorium granted by the Congress, which suspended anti­trust and anti-monopoly prosecutions of insur­ance companies within those states which regu­late rate agreements by legislation. Effective date . . .12 o’clock noon, October $f| 1947 S.B. 4 Becomes Chapter 44 (page 61) Advance Sheets, 1947 Statutes. VII MISCELLANEOUS S.B. 6 WATER—Becomes Chapter 43 (page 52 Advance Sheets, 1947 Statutes. Amends Act of March 25, 1939 (7993.10 et seq. N.C.L. Supp.) relating to conservation of undergound waters, by requiring that all ’’well drillers’’ be licensed by the state engineer, and defining certain duties of such well drill­ers; providing a method for determining vested water rights; and providing a forfeiture of any and all water rights for failure to beneficially use such water for five successive years, or for abandonment of same. The state engineer is given power to restrict well drilling, which restrict­ion order is subject to review in the district court of the county. Effective date . . . * . March 15, 1947. 1 7 -