Las Vegas City Ordinances, November 13, 1950 to August 6, 1958, lvc000015-219

Sun, 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 weeks from April 30, 1953 to May 7, 1953 inclusive, being the issues of said newspaper for the following dates, to- wit: April 30, May 7, 1953. That said newspaper was regularly issued and circulated on each of the dates above named. s/____Richard Lochrie Subscribed and sworn to before me this 19th day of May, 1953 s/_____Barbara J. Greenspun______ My commission expires March 17, 1956. Notary Public in and for Clark County, Nevada EMERGENCY ORDINANCE NO. 548 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE TO AMEND SECTION 15 OF EMERGENCY ORDINANCE NO. 542 ENTITLED: "AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE CREATING STREET IMPROVEMENT ASSESSMENT DISTRICT NO. 100-19; PROVIDING FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF DESIGNATED STREETS AND PARTS OF STREETS THEREIN, PROVIDING FOR SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS ACCORDING TO BENEFITS TO DEFRAY THE STATED ENTIRE COST THEREOF; DIRECTING THE PREPARATION OF AN ASSESSMENT ROLL AND THE REPORTING OF THE SAME TO THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS; PROVIDING FOR FILING OF SAID ROLL WITH CITY CLERK: PROVIDING A TIME AND PLACE TO REVIEW SAID ASSESSMENTS AND NOTIFICATION THEREOF; PROVIDING FOR THE CORRECTION AND/OR CONFIRMATION AND APPROVAL OF SAID ROLL THEREAT OR THEREAFTER; PROVIDING FOR THE INDORSEMENT ON SAID ROLL OF SAID CONFIRMATION AND APPROVAL; PROVIDING FOR THE DELIVERY OF SAID APPROVED ROLL TO THE EX-OFFICIO CITY ASSESSOR; PROVIDING THAT SAID ASSESSMENTS SHALL CONSTITUTE A LIEN; PRESCRIBING THE METHOD OF PAYING SAID ASSESSMENTS AND THE INTEREST THEREON; PROVIDING FOR THE DISPOSITION OF SAID ASSESSMENTS; DIRECTING THE NOTIFICATION BY MAIL WHEN AND WHERE SAID ASSESSMENT IS DUE AND PAYABLE; RATIFYING, APPROVING AND CONFIRMING ALL ACTION HERETOFORE TAKEN TOWARD IMPROVING SAID STREETS AND PARTS OF STREETS IN SAID DISTRICT, TOWARDS ITS CREATION AND TOWARD LEVYING AND EFFECTING SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS; PROVIDING OTHER MATTERS RELATING THERETO; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY"; PROVIDING OTHER MATTERS RELATING THERETO; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 15 of Emergency Ordinance No. 542 is hereby amended to read as follows: That said assessments shall be due and payable at the office of the County Treasurer of Clark County, Nevada, acting Ex-officio City Treasurer and Ex-officio Tax Collector of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, within ten days after said special assessment roll is confirmed and approved, without interest and without demand; provided, that all such assessments, or any part thereof, may, at the election of the owner be paid in installments, with interest, as hereinafter provided. Failure to pay the whole assessment, or any part thereof, within said period of ten days shall be conclusively considered and held an election on the part of all persons interested, whether under disability or otherwise, to pay in such installments. In case of such election to pay in installments, the unpaid assessments shall be payable at the office of said Ex- officio City Treasurer in ten substantially equal annual installments of principal. The first of which install­ments of principal shall be due and payable on or before the 1st day of May, 195k, and the remainder of said installments shall be due and payable successively on or before the same day in each year thereafter until paid in full, with interest in all cases on the unpaid and deferred installments of principal from the 1st day of May, 1953 at the same rate of interest as that provided for in the special assessment bond to be hereafter authorized, sold, issued and delivered, but not to exceed seven per centum (7%) per annum, payable annually at the office of said Ex-officio City Treasurer, the first annual payment of interest being due and payable on the said 1st day of May, 1954, and the remainder of said annual installments of interest being due and payable on the 1st day of May in each year thereafter. Failure to pay any installment, whether of princi­pal or interest, when due, shall cause the whole of the unpaid principal to become due and payable immediately, and the whole amount of the unpaid principal and accrued interest shall thereafter bear penalty at the rate of ten per centum per annum, until the day of sale, but at any time prior to the day of the sale, the owner may pay the amount of all unpaid installments, with interest thereon at ten per centum per annum, and all penalties accrued, and shall thereupon be restored to the right thereafter to pay in installments in the same manner as if default had not been suffered. The owner of any property not in default as to any install­ment or payment, may, at any time, pay the whole of the unpaid principal with interest accruing thereon to the next interest paying date. Each assessment, together with interest thereon, shall be placed on the tax roll of Clark County on and against the several owners and premises, and the County Assessor of Clark County, acting Ex-officio Assessor of the City of Las Vegas, is hereby authorized and directed to enter the same on the tax roll of said County and to extend the same in a special column for special assessments on said tax roll, and the County Treasurer of said County, the Ex-officio City Treasurer and Ex-officio Tax Collector of the City of Las Vegas, is hereby authorized and directed to collect the same, all in the same manner and at the same time as other State and County taxes are collected. SECTION 2. That by reason of the fact that the streets of the City of Las Vegas are inadequate to meet the present and future needs of the City and its inhabitants and that it is necessary immediately to raise funds to improve said streets, therefore, it is hereby declared that an emergency exists, and that this ordinance is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety. SECTION 3. That 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 followings its final reading and adoption, in the Las Vegas Sun, a daily newspaper published in said City, and this ordinance shall become effective immediately following the second publication hereof. PASSED, ADOPTED AND APPROVED this 27th day of April, 1953. s/ C. D. Baker____________________ Mayor (SEAL) Attest: s/ Shirley Ballinger__________ City Clerk