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Las Vegas City Ordinances, November 13, 1950 to August 6, 1958, lvc000015-190

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    Fremont Street to 5th Street and North; thence northerly along 5th Street North to the South Wester­ly corner of Lot 4, Block 1 of Buck's Addition to the City of Las Vegas; thence Easterly parallel with Mesquite Avenue to the center line of the alley between 5th and 6th Streets North; thence northerly to the North boundary of Buck's Addition to the City of Las Vegas; thence Easterly along the North boundary of Buck's Addition to the City of Las Vegas to the center line of the alley bet­ween 7th and 9th Streets North; thence Southerly along said center line to the Southwesterly corner of Lot 13 Block 9 of Buck's Addition to the City of Las Vegas; thence Easterly parallel with Mes­quite Avenue to 9th Street North; thence Southerly parallel with 9th Street North to the center line of Mesquite Avenue; thence Easterly with said center line to the center line of the alley between 8th and 9th Streets North; thence Southerly along said center line to the Southwesterly corner of Lot 13 Block 17 of Buck's Addition to the City of Las Vegas; thence Easterly parallel with Stewart Avenue to the center line of the alley between 9th and 10th Streets North thence Southerly along said alley to the center line of Fremont Street; thence Westerly along said center line to the center line of the alley between 8th and 9th Streets South; thence Southerly along said center line to the point of beginning. SECTION 5. That the City Clerk shall keep the Plats, Diagrams, and plans of the work and locality to be improved, together with the estimates of the expense thereof, on file in her office for public inspection and examination. SECTION 6. That the Board of Commissioners of said City will meet at the City Hall in said City on Monday,the 6th day of April, 1953, at the hour of 8:00 o'clock P.M., to hear and consider any suggestions and objections that may be made by parties in interest to the proposed improvements, or any matters relating thereto. Objections to said proposed improvements, or any matters relating thereto, may be filed in writing in the office of the City Clerk at any time prior to said meeting. SECTION 7. That the City Clerk shall give notice of the filing of said estimates, plats, diagrams, and plans with the City Clerk for examination, of the proposed improvement, or work of the location of the im­provement, of the district to be assessed, and of the time when the Board will meet and consider any suggest­ions and objections that may be made by parties in interest to the proposed improvements. Said notice shall be given by publication once a week for two successive weeks in the Las Vegas Sun, a daily newspaper published in said City of Las Vegas and by posting said notices in at least three public places near the site of said pro­posed work. SECTION 8. That all by-laws, orders, resolutions and ordinances, or parts of by-laws, orders, reso­lutions and ordinances, in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. SECTION 9. That if any one or more sections, sentences, clauses or parts of this ordinance shall, for any reason, be questioned or be held invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remaining provisions of this ordinance, but shall be confined in its operation to the specific sections, sent­ences, clauses or parts of this ordinance so held unconstitutional and invalid, and the inapplicability and in­validity of any section, sentence, clause or part of this ordinance, in any one or more instances shall not affect or prejudice in any way the applicability and validity of this ordinance in any other instances. SECTION 10. That by reason of the fact that the streets of the City of Las Vegas are inadequate to meet the present and future needs of the City and its inhabitants and that it is necessary immediately to raise funds to improve said streets, therefore, it is hereby declared that an emergency exists, and that this ordi­nance is necassary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety. SECTION 11. That the City Clerk and Clerk of the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada shall cause this ordinance to be published once a week for two successive weeks immediately following its final reading and adoption, in the Las Vegas Sun, a daily newspaper published in said City, and this ordinance shall become effective immediately following the second publication hereof. PASSED, ADOPTED AND APPROVED this 25th day of March, 1953. s/_________C. D. Baker________________ (SEAL) Mayor ATTEST: s/______Shirley Ballinger___________________ City Clerk Those voting for the adoption of the foregoing ordinance are as follows: Those voting "Aye": Mayor C. D. Baker Commissioner Wendell Bunker Commissioner Rex A. Jarrett Commissioner William Peccole Commissioner Reed Whipple Those voting "Nay": None Absent: None AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION STATE OF NEVADA, ) ss COUNTY OF CLARK ) Richard Lochrie, being first duly sworn, deposes and says: That he is Foreman of the Las Vegas Morning Sun, a daily newspaper of general circulation, printed and published at Las Vegas, in the County of Clark, State of Nevada, and that the attached was continuously published in said newspaper for a period of two weeks from March 27, 1953 to April 3, 1953 inclusive, being the issues of said newspaper for the following dates to-wit: March 27, April 3, 19530 That said newspaper was regularly issued and circulated on each of the dates above named. Signed_____Richard Lochrie_____ ________ Subscribed and sworn to before me this l4th day of April, 1953. _______Barbara J. Greenspun________________ Notary Public in and for Clark County, Nevada My Commission Expires March 17, 1956.