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Las Vegas City Ordinances, July 18, 1911 to March 31, 1933, lvc000013-326

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(69) Every person conducting, managing or carrying on the business of a cold storage or refrigerating plant, for the purpose of storing fruits, vegetables, meats, fish, eggs, or dairy products, or any other merchandise, shall pay a quarterly license fee of $1.00 for each 1000 square feet of floor area or fraction thereof, with a minimum quarterly tax of $6.25. (70) Every person engaged in the business of renting or selling outdoor advertising space, whether billboard or electric signs, shall pay a quarterly license fee of 3½ cents per square yard of the front surface, with a minimum quarterly license fee of $12.50. (71) For each locksmith $5.00 per quarter. (72) For every person conducting, managing or carrying on the business of house moving shall pay a quarterly license fee of $25.00 per quarter, and in addition thereto shall maintain on deposit with the City Clerk a bond in the penal sum of $1000.00 executed by a surety company authorized to fo business in the State of Nevada for the then current year, indemnifying the city against injury or damage to pavements or other public property and all other persons, firms or corporations against injury or damage to person or property occurring while any house is being moved on to, along or off any public street In the event of a recovery by said City or any private person, firm or corporation on said bond the said bond or a similar substitute shall be restored immediately to raid penal sum of $1000.00. (73) Every person conducting, managing or carrying on the business of house wrecking or salvaging shall pay a quarterly license fee of $12.50 per quarter. (74) Every person conducting, managing or carrying on the business of natatorium or swimming poll or tank, where a fee or charge is made for the use thereof or where rooms, lockers or bathing suits are rented in connection therewith, shall pay a quarterly license fee of $5.00 per quarter. (75) Every automobile ticket agency or transportation agency, except when conducted by the owner of the transportation agency line, shall pay a quarterly license fee of $5.00 per quarter. (76) For each public stenographer $5.00 per quarter. (77) For each insurance adjuster or insurance adjusting agency $5.00 per quarter. (78) For each automobile reclaiming agency $5.00 per quarter. (79) For each bail bond broker or bail bond brokerage business $15.00 per quarter. (80) For each painting or decorating contractor $5.00 per quarter. (81) For each amusement park charging admission to the grounds $5.00 per quarter. (82) For each private detective agency, bureau or business $25.00 per quarter. (83) For each abstract and/or title company doing business, maintaining an agency, or operating in the City of Las Vegas, $15.00 per quarter. (84) For each brick yard, pressed brick plant or adobe or concrete block manufacturing plant $10.00 per quarter. (85) For each operating creamery $6.00 per quarter. (86) For each marble and/or granite workers shop $5.00 per quarter. (87) For each planing mill allowed by law $5.00 per quarter. (88) For each automobile painting and/or sign painting establishment $5.00 per quarter. (89) For each water company $25.00 per quarter. (90) For each welding and/or iron works $5.00 per quarter. (91) For each hairdressing or beauty parlor or both, whether operated in connection with a barber shop or separately $10.00 per quarter. (92) Every person conducting managing or carrying on the business of distributing advertising samples, handbills, dodgers or printed matter of any kind, shall pay a quarterly license fee of $3.00 per quarter. (93) Every person, firm or corporation conducting managing or carrying on any business not specifically licensed by this ordinance, or any other ordinance of the City of Las Vegas, shall pay a quarterly license fee of $5.00 per quarter. (94) Nothing in this section contained shall be deemed or construed as applying to any person engaged in any of the professions or occupations hereinbefore enumerated, solely as an employee of any other person, firm or corporation conducting, managing or carrying on any such business in the City of Las Vegas, unless specifically so provided herein. Section 2. Said Ordinance No. 48 is hereby amended by adding a new section thereto to be known as Section 10a, which shall read as follows: Section 10a. Every license fee required hereunder which is not paid within a period of ten (10) days from the time the same becomes due and payable is hereby declared to be delinquent, and the City Clerk shall thereupon add to said license fee and collect a penalty of twenty-five percent (25%) of such license fee so delinquent, and such penalty may also be recovered in any civil action brought in the name of the City of Las Vegas for the recovery of the amount of the license tax imposed by this ordinance. Section 3. Said Ordinance No. 38 is hereby amended by adding a new section thereto to be known as Section 10b, which shall read as follows: Section 10b. Every person, having a license under the provisions of this ordinance and carrying on a business at a fixed place of business shall keep such license posted and exhibited, while in force, in some conspicuous place in said place of business. Every person having such license and not having a fixed place of business shall carry such license with him at all times while carrying on the business for which the same is granted. Section 4. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. Section 5. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the 31st day of December, 1931, and after the passage thereof shall be published for a period of one week (6 issues) in the Las Vegas Evening Review-Journal, a daily newspaper printed and published in the City of Las Vegas.