Las Vegas City Commission Minutes, May 26, 1952 to February 17, 1954, lvc000008-373

ASSESSMENT DISTRICT NO. 100-20 Emergency Ordinance NO. 549 Motion seconded by Commissioner Peccole and carried by the following voter Commissioners Bunker, Jarrett, Peccole, Whipple and His Honor voting aye; noes, none. Absent: none. Commissioner Whipple introduced and moved the adoption of the following emergency ordinance, which was thereupon read in full, and at length, and is as follows: EMERGENCY ORDINANCE NO. 549 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE TO AMEND SECTION 15 OF EMERGENCY ORDINANCE NO. 544 ENTITLED: "AN EMER­GENCY ORDINANCE CREATING STREET IMPROVEMENT ASSESSMENT DISTRICT NO. 100-20; PROVIDING FOR THE IM­PROVEMENT OF DESIGNATED STREETS AND PARTS OF STREETS THEREIN; PROVIDING FOR SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS ACCORDING TO BENEFITS TO DEFRAY THE STATED ENTIRE COST THEREOF; DIRECTING THE PREPARATION OF AN ASSESSMENT ROLL AND THE REPORTING OF THE SAME TO THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS; PROVIDING FOR FILING OF SAID ROLL WITH THE CITY CLERK; PROVIDING A TIME AND PLACE TO REVIEW SAID ASSESSMENTS AND NOT­IFICATION THEREOF; PROVIDING FOR THE CORRECTION AND/OR CONFIRMATION AND APPROVAL OF SAID ROLL THEREAT OR THEREAFTER; PROVIDING FOR THE INDORSEMENT ON SAID ROLL OF SAID CONFIRMATION AND AP­PROVAL; PROVIDING FOR THE DELIVERY OF SAID APPROVED ROLL TO THE EX-OFFICIO CITY ASSESSOR; PROVID­ING THAT SAID ASSESSMENTS SHALL CONSTITUTE A LIEN; PRESCRIBING THE METHOD OF PAYING SAID ASSESS­MENTS AND THE INTEREST THEREON; PROVIDING FOR THE DISPOSITION OF SAID ASSESSMENTS; DIRECTING THE NOTIFICATION BY MAIL WHEN AND WHERE SAID ASSESSMENT IS DUE AND PAYABLE; RATIFYING, APPROVING AND CONFIRMING ALL ACTION HERETOFORE TAKEN TOWARD IMPROVING SAID STREETS AND PARTS OF STREETS IN SAID DISTRICT, TOWARDS ITS CREATION AND TOWARD LEVYING AND EFFECTING SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS; PROVIDING OTHER MATTERS RELATING THERETO; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY"; PROVIDING OTHER MATTERS RELATING THERETO; AND DECURING AN EMERGENCY. THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF U S VEGAS DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Section 15 of Emergency Ordinance No. 544 is hereby amended to read as follows: That said assessments shall be due and payable at the office of the County Treasurer of Clark County, Nevada, acting Ex-Officio City Treasurer and Ex-Officio Tax Collector of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, within ten days after said special assessment roll is confirmed and approved, with-out interest and without demand; provided, that all such assessments, or any part thereof, may, at the election of the owner, be paid in installments, with interest, as hereinafter provided. Failure to pay the whole assessment, or any part thereof, within said period of ten days shall be conclusively considered and held an election on the part of all persons interested, whether under disability or otherwise, to pay in such installments. In case of such election to pay in install-ments, the unpaid assessments shall be payable at the office of said Ex-Officio City Treasurer in ten substantially equal annual installments of principal, the first of which installments of principal shall be due and payable on or before the 1st day of June, 1954} and the remainder of said installments shall be due and payable successively on or before the same day in each year thereafter until paid in full, with interest in all cases on the unpaid and deferred installments of principal from the 1st day of June, 1953, at the same rate of interest as that provided for in the special assessment bond to be hereafter authorized, sold, issued and delivered, but no to exceed seven per centum (7%) per annum, payable annually at the office of said Ex-Officio City Treasurer, the first annual payment of interest being due and payable on the said 1st day of June, 1954, and the remainder of said annual installments of interest being due and payable on the 1st day of June in each year thereafter. Failure to pay any installments, whether of principal or interest, when due, shall cause the whole of the unpaid principal to become due and payable im­mediately, and the whole amount of the unpaid principal and accrued interest shall thereafter bear penalty at the rate of ten per centum per annum, until the day of sale, but at any time prior to the day of the sale, the owner may pay the amount of all unpaid installments, with inter-est thereon at ten per centum per annum, and all penalties accrued, and shall thereupon be re­stored to the right thereafter to pay in installments in the same manner as if default had not been suffered. The owner of any property not in decault as to any installment or payment, may, at any time, pay the whole of the unpaid principal with interest accruing thereon to the next interest paying date. Each assessment, together with interest thereon, shall be placed on the tax roll of Clark County on and against the several owners and premises, and the County Assessor of Clark County, acting Ex-Officio Assessor of the City of Las Vegas, is hereby authorized and directed to enter the same on the tax roll of said County and to extend the same in a special column for special assessments on said tax roll, and the County Treasurer of said County, Ex-Officio City Treasurer and Ex-Officio Tax Collector of the City of Las Vegas, is hereby authorized and directed to col­lect the same, all in the same manner and at the same time as other State and County taxes are collected. Section 2. That by reason of the fact that the streets of the City of Las Vegas are inade-quate 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 necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety. Section 3. That the City Clerk and Clerk of the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas 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 publica-tion hereof. PASSED, ADOPTED AND APPROVED this 27th day of April, 1953. Commissioner Jarrett seconded the motion to adopt the foregoing ordinance. The question being upon the adoption of said ordinance, the roll was called with the following result: Those voting "Aye": Commissioner Wendell Bunker Commissioner Rex A. Jarrett Commissioner William Peccole Commissioner Reed Whipple Mayor C.D. Baker Those voting "Nay": None. Absent: None.