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0 C O P Y / AN ACT to amend an act entitled, rtAn Act defining public utilities, providing fop the regulation thereof, ©renting a Public Service Commission, defining its duties and powers and other matters relating thereto,* approved March 28, 1919, as amended, Stats* 1931. THE PEOPLE OP THE STATE OP NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 13 of the above entitled acting being section 6112 of 1929 N.C.L., 1931-1941 Supp*, is hereby amended to read as follows:. Section 10* The commission may, when necessary, ascertain and prescribe for each kind of public utility adequate, conven­ient and serviceable standards for the measurement of quality, pressure, voltage or other conditions pertaining to the supply of the product or service rendered by any public utility, and prescrloe reasonable regulations fir the examination and test­ing of such products or service and for the measurement thereof. Any consumer, user or party served may have the quality or quantity of the product or the character of any service rendred by any public utility tested upon the payment of fees fixed by the commission, which fees, however, shall be paid by the public utility and repaid to the complaining party if the quality or quantity of the product or the character of the service be found by the commission defective or insufficient In a degree to jus­tify the demand for testing; or the commission may apportion the fees between the parties as Justice may require; 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 city or town, any mechanical water meter, or similar mechanical device, to measure the 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 or upon com­plaint filed by the stateengineer, the state health department, or any city official Including city water Inspector, or by any 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 users resulting in unnecessary wasting of water, or that the use made of said water is to the detriment of the water reserves of the State of Nevada or to the detriment of the health and safety of its inhabitants, the said Public Service Commission, if it then determines it to be in the public Interest and welfare so to do, may permit the installation and use of mechanical water meters or similar mechanical devices to measure the quantity of water so delivered and to establish the proper