Las Vegas City Ordinances, November 13, 1950 to August 6, 1958, lvc000015-273

AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND ORDINANCE NO. 555 BY PROVIDING A NEW BASIS OF POPULATION FOR THE ISSUANCE OF TAVERN LIQUOR, RETAIL LIQUOR, AND CLUB LIQUOR LICENSES; PROVIDING OTHER MATTERS PROPERLY RELATED THERETO; AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH. The Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas do ordain as follows: SECTION 1. Section 1 of Ordinance No. 555 is hereby amended to read as follows: Hereafter, the issuance of tavern liquor, retail liquor, and club liquor licenses shall be based on population, limiting the number of licenses issued to one, whether tavern, retail, or club, to each 750 population in the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, provided, however, that hotels with 50 rooms or more and guest ranches with 50 rooms or more and occupying 40 acres or more, under one ownership and operation, are exempt from the provisions of this section for the purpose of initial application and provided, further, that liquor licenses heretofore issued by the appropriate governing body to businesses located in an area which has thereafter been annexed to the City of Las Vegas shall not be deemed prohibited by the limitation of this ordinance. Such licensee may be granted a similar license by the City as that which the said licensee had prior to the time of annexation; provided that the applicant is approved for holding a license by the City Commission. If any license provided for in this section should be revoked for any reason, no new license shall be issued until the population of the City of Las Vegas is such that the terms of this section can be complied with SECTION 2. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. SECTION 3. This ordinance shall be infull force and effect upon its final reading and adop­tion, and final publication as in the next section provided. SECTION 4. 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. APPROVED: Mayor ATTEST: City Clerk The above and foregoing Ordinance was first proposed and read by title to the Board of Commissioners on the 3rd day of February, 1954 and referred to the following committee composed of Commissioners Bunker and Jarrett for recommendation; thereafter the said committee reported favorably on said ordinance on the 17th day of February, 1954 that at said meeting held on such day, the proposed ordinance was read in full to the Board of Commissioners as first introduced and adopted by the following vote: "AYE": Commissioners Bunker, Jarrett, Sharp, Whipple and His Honor "NAY": None Absent: None APPROVED: Mayor ATTEST: 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 February 25, 1954, to March 4, 1954 inclusive, being the issues of said newspaper for the following dates, to-wit: February 25: March 4, 1954 That said newspaper was regularly issued and circulated on each of the dates above named. Signed A. F. Schellack________________________________ Subscribed and sworn to before me this 4th day of March, 1954 My Commission Expires April 14, 1954 ORDINANCE NO. 586 Neola Gierhart_________________________________ Notary Public in and for Clark County, Nevada