Las Vegas City Ordinances, November 13, 1950 to August 6, 1958, lvc000015-530

AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND ORDINANCE NO. 462 DEALING WITH REGISTRATION WITH CITY OF LAS VEGAS POLICE DEPARTMENT OF EMPLOYEES OF GAMBLING HOUSE, TAXI DRIVERS, AND EMPLOYEES OF ESTABLISHMENTS WHERE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES ARE SOLD AT RETAIL ON THE PREMISES; BY AMENDING SECTION 6 TO PROVIDE FOR A THREE YEAR CERTIFICATE; BY REQUIRING THAT SAID CERTIFICATE BE IN THE POSSESSION OF THE EMPLOYEE AT ALL TIMES WHILE WORKING; REPEALING ALL CONFLICTING ORDINANCES; PROVIDING OTHER MATTERS PROPERLY RELATED THERETO; AND PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF. The Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas do ordain as follows: SECTION 1. Section 6 of Ordinance 462 is hereby amended to read as follows: "SECTION 6. (a) Upon such employee complying with the provisions of Section 4 of Ordinance 462, and after the Chief of Police shall receive the information provided in Section 5 of Ordinance 462( the Chief of Police shall issue a certificate valid for one year from the date of issue, showing compliance there­with and immediately invalidate the temporary certificate issued under Section 5 of Ordinance 462; pro­vided, however, that the Chief of Police Shall have power and authority to refuse a certificate to any person who has been convicted of a felony, if in his opinion, he deems that such person is not a fit and proper person to have such certificate. (b) Upon the expiration of such certificate, each employee required to be registered under the terms of this Ordinance shall have reissued to him or her a new certificate valid for three years, upon payment of of fee of $2.00. Upon the expiration of a three-year certificate, each employee registered hereunder shall apply for a new three-year certificate which shall be re-issued at a cost of fifty cents ($.50). (c) When the Chief of Police shall have issued any certificate to any individual as a gambling house employee, employee of an establishment where alcoholic beverages are sold, or taxi driver, as defined in Section 2 of Ordinance 462, the same may be revoked at any time thereafter by the Chief of Police if it shall appear that such individual has been convicted of a felony, or have been convicted of two or more misdemeanors involving moral turpitude." SECTION 2. Every person licensed under the provisions of Ordinance 462, and this ordinance, shall upon a change of employment to another place of business of the same character, apply for the re-issuance of his certificate to his new place of employment. The cost of such reissued certificate shall be fifty cents ($.50). SECTION 3. Every person licensed under the provisions of Ordinance 462, and this ordinance, shall have in his possession at all times while working, the certificate provided for by this Ordinance and Ordinance 462. SECTION 4. Any person violating any of the provisions of this Ordinance, shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or by imprisonment in the City Jail for not more than six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. SECTION 5. Effect of Invalidity. If any part, provision or section of this Ordinance or the application thereof to any person or circumstances shall be held invalid by any Court of competent jurisdiction, the remainder of this Ordinance or the application of such part, provision or section to any other person or circumstances shall not be affected thereby. SECTION 6. Effective Date. This Ordinance shall be in effect on any after its passage, adoption and publication thereof in the Las Vegas Review Journal, a daily newspaper published in the City of Las Vegas, for a period of once a week for two consecutive weeks immediately following its first reading. ATTEST: APPROVED: s/ Shirley Lodwick s/ Reed Whipple SHIRLEY LODWICK, City Clerk REED WHIPPLE, Mayor Pro Tem The above and foregoing Ordinance was first proposed and read by title to the Board of Commis­sioners on the 19th day of June, 1957, and referred to Commissioner Fountain for recommendation; there­after it was favorably reported upon by said Commissioner, as amended, on the 17th day of July, 1957, which was the regular meeting; that at said regular meeting held on said day the proposed Ordinance was read in full to the Board of Commissioners and adopted by the following vote: Voting "AYE": Commissioners Bunker, Fountain, Sharp and Mayor Pro Tem Whipple Voting "NAY": None Absent: Mayor Baker ATTEST: APPROVED: s/ Shirley Lodwick s/ Reed Whipple SHIRLEY LODWICK, City Clerk REED WHIPPLB, Mayor Pro Tem Effective - July 31, 1957 AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION STATE OF NEVADA,) COUNTY OF CLARK ) ss. A. F. SCHELLACK, being first duly sworn, deposes and says: That he is Foreman of the LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL, 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 (2) insertions from July 24, 1957 to July 31, 1957 inclusive, being the issues of said newspaper for the following dates, to-wit: July 24, 31, 1957. That said newspaper was regularly issued and circulated on each of the dates above named. s/ A. F. Schellack Subscribed and sworn to before me this 31st day of July, 1957. s/ Neola Gierhart NOTARY PUBLIC IN AND FOR CLARK COUNTY, NEVADA My Commission Expires April 14, 1958. ORDINANCE NO. 745