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SECTION 9. PENALTIES. Any person who violates any provision of this Ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and may be punished by a fine of not more than Five Hundred ($500) Dollars and/or six (6) months in the City Jail, or both, and every occurrence of the doing of any act or thing prohibited, or the neglect or refusal to do any or thing required by this Ordinance shall constitute a separate offense. It shall not be necessary for the complaint to allege or for proof to be made, that the act was knowingly done; nor shall it be necessary for the complaint to negative any exception contained in this Ordinance concerning any prohibited act, but such exception made herein may be urged as a defense by any person charged by such complaint. SECTION 10. SAVING CLAUSE. If any provision of this Ordinance or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the Ordinance and the application of such provisions to others persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby. SECTION l1. REPEAL OF CONFLICTING ORDINANCES. All ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent with this Ordinance are hereby repealed. SECTION 12. This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect upon its publication as in the next section provided, and final passage. SECTION 13. 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 first reading and adoption, in the Las Vegas Review Journal, a daily newspaper published in the City of Las Vegas. /s/ C.D. BAKER, Mayor ATTEST: /s/ SHIRLEY BALLINGER, City Clerk The above and foregoing ordinance was first proposed and ready by title to the Board of Commissioners on the 2nd day of May, 1956, and referred to the following committee composed of Commissioners Fountain and Whipple for recommendation: thereafter the said committee reported favorably on said ordinance on the 20th day of June, 1956, which was the regular meeting held on the 20th day of June, 1956, and at said regular meeting held on said day, the proposed ordinance was read in full to the Board of Commissioners as first introduced, and adopted by the following voter Voting aye: Commissioners Bunker, Fountain, Sharp, Whipple and Mayor Baker Voting nay: None Absent: None APPROVED: /s/ C. D. BAKER, Mayor ATTEST: /s/ SHIRLEY BALLINGER, City Clerk AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION STATE OF NEVADA ) ) SS. COUNTY OF CLARK ) 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 8, 1956 to July 15, 1956 inclusive, being the issues of said newspaper for the following dates, to-wit: July 8, 15, 1956. 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 16th day of July, 1956. /s/ NEOLA GIERHART NOTARY PUBLIC IN AND FOR CLARK COUNTY, NEVADA My Commission Expires April l4, 1958 ORDINANCE NO. 719 AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND CHAPTER 8, CODE OF LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, 1949 DEALING WITH THE OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT OF CEMETERIES OF THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS, AND THE OPERATION OF THE MUNICIPAL CEMETERIES; CONCERNING THE SUPERVISION, MANAGEMENT, AND CONTROL OF THE MUNICIPAL CEMETERIES AND ITS AFFAIRS; PROVIDING OTHER MATTERS PROPERLY RELATED THERETO; PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION HEREOF; AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH. The Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas do ordain as follows: SECTION 1. Chapter 8, Section 1, Code of Las Vegas, Nevada, 1949, is hereby amended to read as follows: It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to bury or cause to be buried, the body of a deceased person in the municipal cemetery unless the lot wherein the burial is to be made has been paid for in full and a cemetery deed has been executed and delivered therefor; provided, however, a burial made at the request of the County of Clark or a license mortuary may be made without payment at the time of burial, provided that full payment is made within one month from billing by the City.