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(c) Permitting water from any water system belonging to any public utility to flow from any hose, tap, valve, hydrant, pipe or cock directly into any sewer or cesspool for thirty minutes or longer without first putting such water to a beneficial use, and each thirty minutes such water is permitted to so flow shall constitute a separate offense. Section 3. The term "public utility” as herein used shall mean and embrace all corporations, companies, individuals, asso­ciations, their lessees, trustees, or receivers, that now or may hereafter own, operate or control any plant or equipment or any part of a plant or equipment within the City of Las Vegas for the production, delivery or furnishing for or to other persons, firms, associations or corporations, partly or wholly from an artesian well or wells, water for .business, manufacturing, agricultural, domestic or household use. Section 4. Any violation of this ordinance or any of the provisions thereof shall constitute a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not to exceed fifty (|50.00) Dollars or by imprisonment in the City Jail'of Las Vegas for a period of not to exeeed twenty-five 135) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Section 5. All ordinances and parts of ordinances iSh conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Section 6. This ordinance is declared and passed as an emergency ordinance, and shall take effect immediately after its passage and publication. Section 7. The City Clerk is hereby authorized and directed to have this ordinance published in the Las Vegas Evening Review Journal, a daily newspaper published in the City of Las Vegas for a period of two weeks, that is to say: once each week. I hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was read for the first time at a recessed regular meeting of the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas held on the ______ day of __________ ,1939, and was passed as an emergency ordinance upon the second reading on said last mentioned date, on the following votd: Commissioners________? _______________________ ? ____________________', voting Aye. fioes, None. Approved this _____ day of July, 1939. Mayor ATTEST: City Clerk ((SEAL) Publish