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Las Vegas City Ordinances, March 31, 1933 to October 25, 1950, lvc000014-171

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Stewart Street; all lots fronting on Third Street from Stewart Street to Bridger Street; all lots front­ing on Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Streets from Stewart Street to Carson Street; all lots fronting on the south side of Stewart Street from Fifth Street to Twelfth Street; all lots fronting on the north side of Carson Street from Fifth Street to Twelfth Street; all lots fronting on Ogden Street from Fifth Street to Twelfth Street; all lots on Clark Avenue and Wilson Avenue in the original Town- site: all frontage on the east side of Main Street from Carson Street to Stewart Street to a depth not ex- ceeding 150 feet. Section 8. That the industrial districts are hereby created and established within the said City as described as follows: All that portion of the City of Las Vegas west of following described line, namely: com­mencing at a point on South Fifth Street where the said Street is intersected by the cen­ter line of the alley between South First Street and South Second Street, extended, thence in a northerly direction along said line until it intersects Charleston Boulevard; thence in a northeasterly direction along the center line of the alley between First Street and Second Street to the center line of Garces Street; thence westerly along the center line of Garces Street to a point where it intersects the center line of the alley between Main Street and First Street; thence in a northeasterly direction along the center line of the alley between Main Street and First Street, until it intersects the center line of Carson Street; thence westerly along the center line of Carson Street until it inter­sects the center line of Main Street; thence in a northeasterly direction along the center line of Main Street until it intersects the center line of Clark Avenue, extended; thence in a westerly direction to the southeast corner of the Original Townsite; thence in a northerly direction along the center line of First Street West, extended, and along the center line of First Street West, to the North City Limits, (except the Original Townsite; U. F. M. & M. Addition; Valley View Addition; Woodland Park; the North Half (N½) of the South Half (S½) of Section Twenty Eight (28), the North Half (Ng) of the Southeast Quarter (SE¼) of Section Twenty Nine (29), the East Half (E½) of Southeast Quarter (SE¼) of Southeast QUARTER (SE¼) of Section Thirty-two (32), the South Half (S½) of Southwest Quarter (SW¼) of Section Thirty-three (33), in Township Twenty (20) South, Range Sixty-one (61) East, M. D. B. & M.; and the North Half (Ng) of the North Half (N½) of the Northwest Quarter (NW¼) of Section Four (4), in Township Twenty-one (21) South Range Sixty-one (61) East, M. D. B. & M. All land within the following described line shall also be within the industrial district, namely: Commencing at a point in the North City Limits where the same is intersected by the center line of First Street West, thence easterly along said North City Limits to its intersection with the center line of North Fifth Street; thence southerly along the center line of North Fifth Street; to the point where North Fifth Street is intersected by the center line of Clark Avenue, extended; thence westerly along said center line of Clark Avenue, extended, to the southeast corner of the Original Townsite; thence in a northerly direction along the center line of First Street West, extended, and along the center line of First Street West to the North City Limits, to the point of beginning. Section 9. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to erect, establish, maintain, operate, or carry on within the residence districts described in Section 1 hereof, any industrial business, or commercial establishment of any kind whatsoever, except with the approval of the Board of City Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas and with the written consent of the owners of more than fifty per cent (50%) of the area of the land within a radius of 500 feet of such proposed industrial business or commercial estab­lishments, exclusive, however, of land used for public streets, highways, or alleys and land used for railroad, interurban railroad, or street railroad rights of ways; pro­vided, however, that said Board of Commissioners may not grant its approval for the erection, establishment, maintenance, or operation, within the said residential districts of any gaming house or amusement establishment, or any of the factories, works, plants, or establishments, named in Section 10 hereof; and provided, further, that the pro­visions of this Section shall not apply to any industrial business or commercial estab­lishment that is being operated, maintained or carried on within said residential dis­tricts at the time of the adoption of this Ordinance; and provided further that the Board of City Commissioners of the City shall have the power from time to time, by re­solution, to fix and regulate the location of, and to prohibit in certain portions there­of, gaming houses and places where gaming of any kind is carried on within the commer­cial and or industrial districts. Section 10. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to erect, establish, operate, carry on, or maintain any of the following named factories, plants, works, or establish­ments within the City of Las Vegas, except within the boundaries of the said industrial districts, to-wit: fireworks factories, shoe factories, rolling mills, furniture factory, planing mill, gas factory or plant, gas works, soap factory, glue factory, tallowrender­ing establishments, wholesale dye and dry cleaning establishments employing five persons or more, tannery, foundry, oil well, oil refinery, any plant for the storage of more than 5000 gallons of oil, gasoline, coal oil or other petroleum product or products, cannery, winery, fertilizer factory, public hay barn, rock crusher, lumber yard, any plant for the manufacture of shoe blackening, insect poison or exterminator, tar roofing or water proof­ing, rubber or gutta percha, creosote, mattress factory, any stone yard, monument works, stove polish, paint, shellac, varnish, vinegar, storage batteries, gelatine or sizing, lampblack peroxylin, tar asphalt, disinfectants, printing inks, sulphuric acid, nitric acid, hydrochloric acid, yeast, soda, dyestuffs, brick, steel tanks, tile or terra cotta, asphalt refinery, iceplant, ice storage house of more than five tons capacity, potash works, tar distillation, wool pulling or scouring, crematory, plant for the distillation of bones, coal or wood plating works, curing or storage of raw hides or skins, contractor's plant, or storage yard; cooperage works, oiled rubber or leather goods factory, coal, coke or wood yard, acetylene gas manufacture or storage, wholesale poultry house, bur­lap factory, or bag cleaning, ammonia, bleaching powder, chlorine manufacture, boiler works, any kind of manufacture or treatment other than the manufacture or treatment of products purely incidental to the conduct of a retail business conducted on the premises, provided such industrial use occupies more than 20 percent of the floor space of the building on such premises; any trade industry or use that is noxious or offensive by reason of the emission of odor, dust, smoke or noise; provided, however, that the pro­vision of this section shall not apply to any works, factory or establishment of any of the kinds or varieties in this Section enumerated where such works, factory or establish­ment is now being maintained, operated or carried on at the time of the adoption of this ordinance. Section 11. If any industrial business or commercial plant or establishment being operated, maintained,