Las Vegas City Ordinances, March 31, 1933 to October 25, 1950, lvc000014-86

This ordinance was read aloud to the Board of Commissioners for the first time at a regular meeting of the Board held on the 6th day of July, 1937, at which time it was pro­posed, considered and voted upon, and unanimously adopted and thereafter published in the Las Vegas Age, a weekly newspaper printed and published in the City of Las Vegas, for a period of once a week for two consecutive weeks, immediately following its first reading. It was thereafter read aloud to the Board for a second time, adopted, approved and finally passed at a recess______ meeting of the Board held on the 1st day of August, 1937 Voting aye Commissioners Krause, Marble, Perry, Ronnow and His Honor the Mayor L. L. Arnett. Noes None Absent None Approved: L. L. Arnett ___ Mayor of the City of Las Vegas Attest: Viola Burns_____ City Clerk (City seal) EMERGENCY ORDINANCE ORDINANCE No. 228 AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND SECTION 2, SECTION 7, SECTION 8 AS AMENDED, SECTION 9, SECTION 16 AS AMENDED, SECTION 17, SECTION 18, SECTION 21 AND SECTION 23 OF ORDINANCE No. 203 OF THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS, ENTITLED: "AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE DISTRIBUTION AND CONTROL OF INTOXICATING AND ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS AND BEVERAGES; REGULATING PLACES WHERE AND UNDER WHAT CONDITIONS SAID INTOXICATING AND ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS AND BEVERAGES MAY BE KEPT, SOLD, GIVEN AWAY OR OTHERWISE DISTRIBUTED; PROVIDING FOR PERMITS AND LICENSES; PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION OF THIS ORDINANCE; AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT THEREWITH", AND REPEALING SECTION 22 OF SAID ORDINANCE No. 203. The Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas do ordain as follows: Section 1. Section 2 of Ordinance No. 203 of the City of Las Vegas is hereby amended to read as follows: DEFINITIONS: For the interpretation of this Ordinance unless context indicates a different meaning: 1. The word "alcohol" means a product of distillation of any fermented liquor, rectified either once or oftener, whatever may be the origin thereof, and includes synthetic ethyl alcohol. 2. The word "spirits" means any liquor which contains alcohol obtained by distillation, mixed with drinkable water and other substances in solution, including brandy, rum, whiskey and gin. 3. The word "Wine" means any alcoholic liquor obtained by the fermentation of natural sugar contents of fruits or other agricultural products containing sugar, including fortified wines such as port, sherry and champagne. 4. The word "beer" means any liquor obtained by the alcoholic fermentation of an infusion or decoction of malt barley and hops in drinking water. 5. The word "beverage" means any beer or wine containing not more than 30 per centum of alcohol by weight. 6. The words "alcoholic liquor" include the four varieties of liquor defined, (alcohol, spirits, wine and beer), and wine or beer, spirits and every liquid or solid, patented or not, containing alcohol and capable of being consumed by human beings. 7. The word "Hotel" means every building or other structure kept, used, maintained advertised, or held out to the public to be a place where food is served and sleeping accomodations are offered for pay to transient guests, in which thirty or more rooms are used for the sleeping accomodations of such transient guests and having one or more dining rooms where meals are served to such transient guests, such sleeping accomodations and dining rooms being conducted in the same building or buildings in connection therewith. 8. The word "Restaurant" means space in a suitable building kept, used, maintained, advertised or held out to the public to be a place where meals are served with- out sleeping accomodations, and where twenty-five persons or more may be served with meals at any one time at tables. 9. The word "club" means an association of persons, whether incorporated or un­incorporated, for the promotion of some common object (but not including associations organized for any commercial or business purpose the object of which is money profit) owning, hiring, or leasing a building or space in a building of such extent and character as may be suitable and adequate for the reasonable and comfortable use and accomodation of its members and their guests.