Las Vegas City Ordinances, July 18, 1911 to March 31, 1933, lvc000013-69

Affidavit of Publication State of Nevada) ) ss County of Clark) Chas. P. Squires, being first duly sworn, deposes and says: That he is 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 number 46 of the City of Las Vegas, was continuously published in said newspaper for the period of one week on the 4th day of October, 1913* inclusive, being the issues of said newspaper for the following dates, to-wit: October 4th, A. D. 1913. That said newspaper was regularly issued and circulated on each of the dates above named. Signed: Chas. P. Squires Subscribed and sworn to before me this 5th day of December, A. D. 1913. My commission expires March 8th, 1915. Henry M. Lillis, Notary Public. (Notarial seal) @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ Ordinance No. 47. @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @@@ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ An ordinance establishing official grades of the lots, streets, alleys, avenues, public places, sewers, and other grades in Clark's Las Vegas Townsite and City of Las Vegas, and regulating the construction of sidewalks therein and other matters relating thereto. The Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas do ordain as follows: Section. 1. That for the purpose of establishing and designating the official grades of the lots, streets, alleys, avenues, public places, sewers, and other grades in Clark's Las Vegas Town­site and the City of Las Vegas, sea level is hereby declared to be the datum plane of said City, and as a permanent bench mark within said city, whose altitude above sea level has been ascertained, the top of the foundation of the erecting shop of the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad Company, in said City, is hereby adopted and designated as a permanent bench mark within said City of Las Vegas, and the elevation of the top of said foundation and bench mark is 2,029.00 feet above said datum plane. Section 2. The grade of all lots within Clark's Las Vegas Townsite is hereby established at the elevations shown upon that certain map of Clark's Las Vegas Townsite filed in the office of the City Clerk of said City on September 3, 1913. For example the elevation of the corner lot in block 8 at corner of main and Garces Streets as shown by said map is 2,024.45 feet, the elevation of the corner lot of said block at corner of Main and Bonneville streets as shown by said map is 2,024. 05 ft. showing a fall of 0.40 feet. The elevation at the corner lot in said Block at the corner of Bonneville street and First street is 2,022.0 ft., showing a fall from the corner last before ment­ioned of 2.05 feet. In interpreting said map the same system shall be followed throughout as to all streets, alleys, avenues and public places within the said Clark's Las Vegas Townsite. Attached to said map is a pencil sketch marked "Exhibit A" which is hereby made a part thereof, showing plan of construction for grading of streets and sidewalks to be followed in the construction or reconstruction of streets and sidewalks pursuant to the provisions of this ordinance. Sec. 3. The grade of all side walks in said City is hereby established so that if continued to the curb line on the same slop it will be even with the top of the curb. The slope shall be at the rate of a fall of four inches in the fifteen feet from the property line to the top of the curb, And that top of the curb shall be four inches below the lot grade as shown by the map above referred to.