Las Vegas City Ordinances, July 18, 1911 to March 31, 1933, lvc000013-86

or owning or occupying the premises wherein any dog makes its home to call upon and pay to the City Clerk the license or tax hereinbefore provided for and fixed, and upon so paying said fee or tax to the said official, the latter shall give to the person so paying the same a receipt therefor, together with a metal tag bearing the legend: "Dog Tax for __ __ __ __ __ __ __ _ (the current year) Paid, Las Vegas, Nevada" which tags shall be consecutively numbered and a record thereof kept by the official distributing and issuing the same, such tag shall be firmly fixed to a leathern or metal collar and constantly worn by the dog upon which the tax or license has been paid. The moneys so received by the said Clerk shall be paid over to the City Treasurer at the end of every month. Section 3. Any person who after the first day of January, 1915, shall own, keep, entertain, harbor or feed any dog upon which the said license fee or tax has not been paid for the current year, or who shall own or keep or occupy the premises whereon or wherein any dog upon which the said license fee or tax has not been paid for the current year shall be maintained or kept, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and fined in any sum not less than one dollar and not exceeding the sum of 20 dollars ($20.00) for each and every such offence. Section 4. After the first day of January, 1915, it shall be the duty of the police and every member of the police of said City to immediately shoot, kill or destroy any dog which may be owned kept, harbored or maintained within the City of Las Vegas upon which the license or tax for the current year has not been paid, or which does not wear a collar and tag advertising the fact of such payment, and make a report thereof to the City Clerk. Section 3. This ordinance shall take effect from and after its passage, approval and publication as by law provided. Section 6. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. I hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was read for the first time at a regular meeting of the City Board of Commissioners held on the 2nd day of September 1914, and read for the second time and passed at its meeting on the 7th day of October, 1914, by the following vote, to-wit:- Commissioners Griffith, aye; Curtiss, aye; Smith, aye; Sullivan, aye; and his Honor the Mayor, aye. Noes, None. Approved this 7th, day of October, 1914. Attest:- Harley A. Harmon, City Clerk. W.B. Hawkins, Mayor. Affidavit of Publication. State of Nevada) ss. County of Clark) Chas. P. Squires, being first duly sworn, deposes and says: That he is the publisher of the Las Vegas Age, a weekly newspaper, of general circulation, printed and published at Las Vegas, in the County of Clark, State of Nevada, and that the attached Ordinance No. 58. of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, was continuously published in said newspaper for the period of one week on the 28th day of November 1914 inclusive, being the issues of said newspapers for the following dates, to-wit:— November 28th, 1914. That said newspaper was regularly issued and circulated on each of the dates above named, That the charge for publishing the same was____________________ Signed Chas. P. Squires. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 1st, day of December, A.D. 1914. (SEAL) Harley A. Harmon, City Clerk.