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Bills Passed in the 17th Special Session: Effective January 1, 2004
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Bills Passed in the 18th Special Session: Effective January 1, 2004
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Bills Passed in the 72nd Regular Session: Effective January 1, 2004
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AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; making various changes to the provisions governing the registration of motor vehicles by new residents of this state; revising the provision which directs the issuance of certain pro rata refunds for registrations transferred or cancelled under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. |
1. This section and sections 1 to 4, inclusive, 6, 7 and 8 of this act become effective upon passage and approval. 2. Section 5 of this act becomes effective on January 1, 2004. |
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AN ACT relating to health care; requiring an external review organization to be certified by the Commissioner of Insurance before conducting an external review of a final adverse determination of a managed care organization, health maintenance organization or certain insurers; authorizing an insured under certain health care plans to submit to a managed care organization, health maintenance organization or certain insurers a request for such a review under certain circumstances; requiring an external review organization to approve, modify or reverse a final adverse determination within a certain period; providing that an external review organization is not liable in a civil action for damages relating to a determination issued by the external review organization under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. |
1. This section becomes effective upon passage and approval. 2. Sections 1 to 36, inclusive, of this act become effective: (a) Upon passage and approval for the purposes of: (1) Adopting regulations by the Commissioner of Insurance to carry out the provisions of this act; and (2) Certifying external review organizations pursuant to section 2 of this act; (b) On January 1, 2004, for the purposes of filing notice of and approving any material modifications to operations as required pursuant to NRS 695C.140; and (c) On July 1, 2004, for all other purposes. |
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AN ACT relating to pesticides; providing for the registration of brands of pesticides; expanding the authorized uses of the fees currently deposited in an account for the disposal of pesticides to include the monitoring of ground water and surface water from contamination by pesticides; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. |
This act becomes effective upon passage and approval for the purpose of adopting regulations and on January 1, 2004, for all other purposes. |
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AN ACT relating to parole; providing additional credits against the sentence of a parolee under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. |
This act becomes effective on January 1, 2004. |
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AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; revising provisions relating to the issuance to certain disabled persons of special license plates, placards and stickers; revising the period within which the holder of a valid registration must notify the Department of Motor Vehicles of a change of name or residence address; revising provisions relating to the issuance of duplicate number plates and substitute number plates; revising provisions relating to submission to the Department, at the time of registering a vehicle, of evidence of automobile liability insurance; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. |
1. This section and sections 1, 3, 7, 8, 11 and 14 of this act become effective on July 1, 2003. 2. Sections 9 and 10 of this act become effective on October 1, 2003. 3. Sections 2, 4, 5, 6, 12, 13 and 15 to 21, inclusive, of this act become effective on January 1, 2004. |
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AN ACT relating to agriculture; revising the provisions governing commercial fertilizers and agricultural minerals; requiring the Director of the State Department of Agriculture to adopt regulations concerning the application, distribution and classification for restricted use of certain commercial fertilizers and agricultural minerals; prohibiting a person who is not registered with the Director from selling or offering to sell at retail, or distributing or delivering for transportation for delivery to the consumer or user, a commercial fertilizer or agricultural mineral that is classified for restricted use; requiring the State Board of Agriculture to adopt regulations establishing fees for such registration; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. |
1. This section and section 6 of this act become effective upon passage and approval. 2. Sections 2 and 7 of this act become
effective upon passage and approval for the purpose of adopting regulations
and on 3. Sections 1, 3, 4 and 5, and 8 to 12, inclusive, of this act become effective on January 1, 2004. |
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AN ACT relating to trade practices; requiring the establishment of a registry of certain telephone numbers or the use of a similar federal list; requiring the publication of a list of certain telephone numbers or the use of a similar federal list; prohibiting a telephone solicitor from making an unsolicited telephone call for the sale of goods or services to a telephone number included in the currently effective version of the list under certain circumstances; providing that the making of an unsolicited telephone call for the sale of goods and services is a deceptive trade practice under certain circumstances; providing that a seller of travel may maintain a trust account or post security; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. |
1. This section becomes effective upon passage and approval. 2. Sections 1, 2, 3 and 3.5 to 19, inclusive, of this act become effective upon passage and approval for the purposes of adopting regulations and entering into contracts or otherwise preparing to carry out the provisions of this act. 3. Sections 3.3 and 20 to 28, inclusive, of this act become effective on October 1, 2003. 4. Sections 1, 2, 3 and 3.5 to 19, inclusive, of this act become effective on January 1, 2004, for the purpose of the Attorney General making the determination described in subsection 1 of section 9 of this act. 5. If the Attorney General makes the determination described in subsection 1 of section 9 of this act on or before April 1, 2004, sections 1, 2, 3 and 3.5 to 19, inclusive, of this act become effective on May 1, 2004, for all other purposes. 6. If the Attorney General does not make the
determination described in subsection 1 of section 9 of this act on or before
(a) On May 1, 2004, for the purposes of the Attorney General receiving and accepting requests to include telephone numbers in the registry established pursuant to section 10 of this act. (b) On June 1, 2004, for the purpose of publishing the first list of telephone numbers in the registry; and (c) On July 1, 2004, for all other purposes. |
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AN ACT relating to energy; providing a multiplier for electricity generated by certain renewable energy systems for the purpose of calculating compliance with a portfolio standard for renewable energy; deeming electricity generated by certain processes to be electricity not generated by a renewable energy system; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. |
This act becomes effective on January 1, 2004. |
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AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; requiring an annual increase in the amount of compensation that a claimant or a dependent of a claimant is entitled to receive for a permanent total disability under industrial insurance; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. |
This act becomes effective on January 1, 2004. |
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AN ACT relating to homeland security; creating the Nevada Commission on Homeland Security; setting forth the membership and duties of the Commission; providing certain exceptions to the open meeting law; requiring certain political subdivisions to adopt and maintain a response plan; establishing a plan for the continuation of state and local governmental operations; requiring certain utilities to conduct vulnerability assessments and to prepare emergency response plans; revising provisions relating to certain unlawful acts committed against utilities; requiring the Director of the Department of Information Technology to determine the confidentiality of certain records relating to the security of the State; providing for the confidentiality of certain documents, records and other information; imposing certain requirements for interoperability with respect to information and communication systems purchased by this state and local governments; requiring certain governmental entities to place automated external defibrillators in certain buildings and facilities; making various changes with respect to the authority of the Department of Motor Vehicles to accept and reject certain documents; increasing certain criminal penalties with respect to the fraudulent use of drivers' licenses and identification cards; making an appropriation; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. |
1. This section and sections 1 to 33, inclusive, 38, 38.5 and 39 of this act become effective on July 1, 2003. 2. Sections 34 to 37, inclusive, of this act become effective on January 1, 2004. 3. The provisions of sections 21 to 24, inclusive, and 27.5 of this act expire by limitation on June 30, 2007. |
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AN ACT relating to insurance; requiring certain policies of insurance and health plans to provide coverage for certain medical treatment provided in a clinical trial or study; providing immunity from liability for insurers, medical services corporations, health maintenance organizations and managed care organizations for injury and other adverse outcomes occurring in connection with treatment provided in a clinical trial or study for which coverage is required to be provided; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. |
This act becomes effective on January 1, 2004. |
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AN ACT relating to education; requiring the State Board of Education to prescribe a course of study to prepare pupils to pass the high school proficiency examination; authorizing the boards of trustees of school districts to offer the course of study to pupils enrolled in high school; revising provisions governing the informational pamphlet concerning the high school proficiency examination to include certain information regarding preparation for the college entrance examinations; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. |
1. This section and section 2 of this act become effective on July 1, 2003. 2. Section 1 of this act becomes effective on July 1, 2003, for the purpose of adopting regulations and on January 1, 2004, for all other purposes. |
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AN ACT relating to elections; restricting the information that may be requested in the form used for reporting campaign contributions and expenditures; eliminating the requirement to report campaign expenses and expenditures that have been contracted for but not paid during a reporting period; eliminating the requirement to report campaign contributions of $100 or less under certain circumstances; revising the dates for filing reports for campaign contributions and expenditures; revising the reporting periods included in those reports; requiring certain candidates for public office and public officers to file statements of financial disclosure with the Secretary of State instead of the Commission on Ethics; providing a civil penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. |
This act becomes effective on January 1, 2004. |
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AN ACT relating to property; making various changes relating to common-interest communities; creating and prescribing the powers and duties of the Commission for Common-Interest Communities; revising provisions relating to the powers and duties of the Ombudsman for Owners in Common-Interest Communities and the Real Estate Division of the Department of Business and Industry; revising provisions governing the regulation of persons who manage common-interest communities; authorizing the Commission to adjudicate certain violations relating to common-interest communities and to impose fines and take other action with regard to such violations; providing that a unit's owner has the right to display the flag of the United States under certain circumstances; enacting and revising provisions governing the conduct and activities of unit-owners' associations, the members of executive boards and declarants; enacting provisions relating to the transient commercial use of a unit; authorizing the use of delegates or representatives to exercise voting rights in certain common-interest communities; authorizing an association to impose construction penalties under certain circumstances and to place and foreclose a lien on a unit for failure to pay such penalties; revising provisions relating to the imposition of fines; making various changes relating to meetings, quorums, voting and the election and removal of members of the executive board; authorizing certain common-interest communities to expend money received as a credit against the residential construction tax for certain purposes; revising provisions relating to the foreclosure of certain liens; making various changes relating to the books, records, reports, studies and other papers of an association; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. |
1. This section and section 88 of this act become effective on July 1, 2003. 2. Sections 1 to 23, inclusive, 38 to 69, inclusive, 72 to 87, inclusive, and 89 to 92, inclusive, of this act become effective on October 1, 2003. 3. Sections 24 to 37, inclusive, 70 and 71 of this act become effective on October 1, 2003, for the purpose of adopting regulations and on January 1, 2004, for all other purposes. 4. Sections 25 and 26 of this act expire by limitation on the date on which the provisions of 42 U.S.C. § 666 requiring each state to establish procedures under which the state has authority to withhold or suspend, or to restrict the use of professional, occupational and recreational licenses of persons who: (a) Have failed to comply with a subpoena or warrant relating to a proceeding to determine the paternity of a child or to establish or enforce an obligation for the support of a child; or (b) Are in arrears in the payment for the support of one or more children, are repealed by the Congress of the United States, whichever is earlier. |
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AN ACT relating to juvenile justice; repealing, reenacting, reorganizing and revising certain provisions relating to juvenile justice; reenacting certain penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. |
1. This section and sections 1 to 324, inclusive, and 326 to 383, inclusive, of this act become effective on January 1, 2004. 2. Section 164 of this act expires by limitation on October 1, 2005. 3. Section 324 of this act expires by limitation on June 30, 2009. 4. Section 325 of this act becomes effective on July 1, 2009. |
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AN ACT relating to professions; declaring the practice of counseling problem gamblers to be a learned profession; changing the name of the Board of Examiners for Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors to the Board of Examiners for Alcohol, Drug and Gambling Counselors; increasing the number of members on the Board; requiring persons who counsel problem gamblers to be certified by the Board; imposing certain fees; authorizing the Board to adopt certain regulations; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. |
1. This section becomes effective upon passage and approval. 2. Sections 18 and 19 of this act become effective upon passage and approval for the purpose of adopting regulations and on January 1, 2004, for all other purposes. 3. Sections 1 to 17, inclusive, 20 to 23, inclusive, 26 and 27 of this at become effective on January 1, 2004. 4. Sections 24 and 25 of this act become effective on the date on which the provisions of 42 U.S.C. § 666 requiring each state to establish procedures under which the state has authority to withhold or suspend, or to restrict the use of professional, occupational and recreational licenses of persons who: (a) Have failed to comply with a subpoena or warrant relating to a procedure to determine the paternity of a child or to establish or enforce an obligation for the support of a child; or (b) Are in arrears in the payment for the support of one or more children, are repealed by the Congress of the United States. 5. Sections 7, 9 and 20 of this act expire by limitation on the date on which the provisions of 42 U.S.C. § 666 requiring each state to establish procedures under which the state has authority to withhold or suspend, or to restrict the use of professional, occupational and recreational licenses of persons who: (a) Have failed to comply with a subpoena or warrant relating to a procedure to determine the paternity of a child or to establish or enforce an obligation for the support of a child; or (b) Are in arrears in the payment for the support of one or more children, are repealed by the Congress of the United States. |
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AN ACT relating to wildlife; revising provisions relating to the qualifications of members of the Board of Wildlife Commissioners; revising provisions governing the killing or possessing of certain animals; authorizing the Division of Wildlife of the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources under certain circumstances to suspend, revoke, or refuse to issue or renew any license, tag, permit, certificate or other document of a person who fails to pay a civil penalty timely; prohibiting certain persons from hunting certain upland game birds under certain circumstances; imposing and revising certain fees; creating the Wildlife Obligated Reserve Account in the State General Fund; requiring the Commission to adopt certain regulations; providing penalties; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. |
1. This section becomes effective on July 1, 2003. 2. Sections 1, 2 and 3 of this act become effective on July 1, 2003, for the purpose of adopting regulations and on January 1, 2004, for all other purposes. 3. Sections 12 and 37 of this act become effective on July 1, 2003, for the purpose of adopting regulations and on March 1, 2004, for all other purposes. 4. Sections 3.3, 3.7, 4.7 and 5.5 of this act become effective on October 1, 2003. 5. Sections 4, 5, 15 to 20, inclusive, and 39 to 44, inclusive, of this act become effective on January 1, 2004. 6. Sections 4.3, 6 to 11, inclusive, 13, 14, 21 to 36, inclusive, and 38 of this act become effective on March 1, 2004. 7. Section 38 of this act expires by limitation on the date on which the provisions of 42 U.S.C. § 666 requiring each state to establish procedures under which the state has authority to withhold or suspend, or to restrict the use of professional, occupational and recreational licenses of persons who: (a) Have failed to comply with a subpoena or warrant relating to a procedure to determine the paternity of a child or to establish or enforce an obligation for the support of a child; or (b) Are in arrears in the payment for the support of one or more children, are repealed by the Congress of the United States. |
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AN ACT relating to public retirement systems; changing the term “fireman” to “firefighter”; requiring certain educational qualifications for certain persons employed by the Public Employees' Retirement Board; limiting the length of designations of certain positions in government as being positions for which a monthly service retirement allowance may be paid when a previously retired employee fills the position during a critical labor shortage; providing for an adjustment to the total contribution rate that is actuarially determined for members of the Judicial Retirement Plan; authorizing certain justices of the Supreme Court and district judges to receive benefits for retirement, benefits for disability and survivor benefits pursuant to the Judicial Retirement Plan; eliminating the restriction relating to eligibility for service credit in the calculation of the monthly retirement allowance of a member of the Judicial Retirement Plan; authorizing members of the Public Employees' Retirement System and the Judicial Retirement System to designate additional payees to receive survivor benefits; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. |
1. This section and sections 1 to 26, inclusive, and 32 to 37, inclusive, and 44 of this act become effective on July 1, 2003. 2. Sections 27 to 31, inclusive, and 38 to 43, inclusive, of this act become effective on January 1, 2004. 3. Sections 20, 21, 35 and 36 of this act expire by limitation on June 30, 2005. |
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AN ACT relating to elections; requiring the Secretary of State to establish a statewide voter registration list; establishing certain standards for voting systems; establishing the use of provisional ballots for elections for federal offices held in this state; changing the types of acceptable identification for certain persons voting for the first time; requiring the posting of certain information at each polling place; requiring county and city clerks to take certain actions to assist elderly persons and persons with disabilities in voting; changing the type of identification required to register to vote; making various changes concerning voting by persons who are in the Armed Forces of the United States or overseas; requiring the county clerk to cancel the registration of a voter under certain circumstances; extending the period for registering to vote; exempting the Secretary of State from the State Purchasing Act for awarding certain contracts concerning the statewide voter registration list and certain contracts concerning voting systems throughout this state; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. |
1. This section and sections 43 and 44 of this act become effective upon passage and approval. 2. Section 3 of this act becomes effective on passage and approval for purposes of awarding contracts to establish and maintain a statewide voter registration list pursuant to section 3 of this act, and: (a) If the State of Nevada obtains a waiver in the manner set forth in 42 U.S.C. § 15483(d)(1)(B), on January 1, 2006, for all other purposes; or (b) If the State of Nevada does not obtain such a waiver, on January 1, 2004, for all other purposes. 3. Sections 10, 15.5 and 32.5 of this act
become effective 4. Sections 1, 2, 4 to 9, inclusive, 11 to 19, inclusive, 21 to 37, inclusive, and 39 to 42, inclusive, of this act become effective on January 1, 2004. 5. Sections 20 and 38 of this act become
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AN ACT relating to vessels; revising the provisions governing the administration of the exemption from certain taxes on the sale of tangible personal property to be shipped outside this state to include the sale of a vessel to a nonresident under certain circumstances; excluding the value of a vessel taken in trade from the sales price of a vessel for the purposes of certain taxes; exempting a motorboat that has been documented pursuant to federal law from the requirement of obtaining a title pursuant to the provisions governing watercraft; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. |
1. This section and sections 9, 10 and 11 of this act become effective on January 1, 2004. 2. Sections 1 to 8, inclusive, and 12 of this act become effective on January 1, 2005. |
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AN ACT relating to measurement standards; making various changes to provisions governing weights and measures; authorizing the State Sealer of Weights and Measures to adopt measurement standards by regulation; creating a Division of Measurement Standards within the State Department of Agriculture and prescribing its duties; providing for the licensure of public weighmasters; providing for the establishment of certain fees; authorizing the State Sealer of Weights and Measures to establish civil penalties for certain violations; prohibiting certain acts; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. |
1. This act becomes effective upon passage and approval for the purpose of adopting regulations necessary to carry out the provisions of this act and on January 1, 2004, for all other purposes. 2. Sections 34, 60, 61 and 63 of this act expire by limitation on the date on which the provisions of 42 U.S.C. § 666 requiring each state to establish procedures under which the state has authority to withhold or suspend, or to restrict the use of, professional, occupational and recreational licenses of persons who: (a) Have failed to comply with a subpoena or warrant relating to a procedure to determine the paternity of a child or to establish or enforce an obligation for the support of a child; or (b) Are in arrears in the payment for the support of one or more children, are repealed by the Congress of the United States. |
Bills Passed in the 19th Special Session: Effective January 1, 2004
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Bills Passed in the 20th Special Session: Effective January 1, 2004
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AN ACT relating to business; providing for the implementation, modification and standardization of certain filing requirements for business entities; requiring a defaulting business entity that wants to reinstate its right to transact business in this state to file with the Secretary of State a certificate of acceptance of appointment signed by its resident agent; changing the exclusive remedy by which a judgment creditor of a member of a limited-liability company or a limited partnership may satisfy a judgment; allowing a limited partnership to register as a limited-liability limited partnership; increasing certain fees and establishing new fees; requiring a resident agent to file with the Secretary of State a certificate of name change of resident agent under certain circumstances; making various other changes to provisions pertaining to business entities; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. |
1. This section and sections 189 to 195, inclusive, and 203 of this act become effective on September 1, 2003. 2. Sections 1 to 188, inclusive, 196 to 202, inclusive, and 204 to 207, inclusive, of this act become effective: (a) Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (b) or (c), on November 1, 2003. (b) On January 1, 2004, for the purpose of requiring a resident agent who desires to resign to file a statement of resignation for each artificial person formed, organized, registered or qualified pursuant to the provisions of title 7 of NRS for which the resident agent is unwilling to continue to act as the resident agent for the service of process. (c) On January 1, 2004, for the purpose of requiring a resident agent to file a certificate of name change of resident agent if the name of the resident agent is changed as a result of a merger, conversion, exchange, sale, reorganization or amendment. |
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AN ACT relating to gaming; revising the provisions pertaining to the acquisition or disposition of an interest in a business entity that holds a state gaming license or the option to purchase such an interest; authorizing the Nevada Gaming Commission to adopt regulations prescribing the manner for submission of payments by licensees; requiring a person employed as a gaming employee to be registered as a gaming employee by the State Gaming Control Board; requiring the Board to investigate each person applying for registration or renewal of registration as a gaming employee; providing for a fee for processing an application for registration as a gaming employee; authorizing the Commission to adopt regulations allowing a person who owns antique gaming devices to sell such devices without procuring a license; authorizing a gaming licensee or his officers, employees or agents who have reasonable cause to believe that a person has committed a felony to take into custody and detain such a person; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. |
1. This section and section 21 of this act become effective upon passage and approval. 2. Section 9 of this act becomes effective upon passage and approval for purposes related to the adoption and dissemination of regulations by the Nevada Gaming Commission and on January 1, 2004, for all other purposes. 3. Sections 1, 4, 5, 6 and 17 to 20, inclusive, of this act become effective on July 1, 2003. 4. Sections 8 and 22 of this act become effective on October 1, 2003. 5. Sections 2, 3, 7, 10 to 16, inclusive, and 23 to 26, inclusive, of this act become effective on January 1, 2004. 6. Sections 10, 11 and 12 of this act expire by limitation on the date on which the provisions of 42 U.S.C. § 666 requiring each state to establish procedure under which the state has authority to withhold or suspend, or to restrict the use of professional, occupational and recreational licenses of persons who: (a) Have failed to comply with a subpoena or warrant relating to a procedure to determine the paternity of a child or to establish or enforce an obligation for the support of achild; or (b) Are in arrears in the payment for the support of one or more children, are repealed by the Congress of the United States. |
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