Las Vegas City Ordinances, November 13, 1950 to August 6, 1958, lvc000015-381

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 read by title to the Board of Commissioners on the 29th day of June, 1955, and referred to the following committee composed of Commissioners Bunker and Sharp for recommendation; thereafter the said committee reported favorable on said ordinance on the 6th day of July, 1955, which was the regular meeting held on the 6th day of July, 1955, that at said regular meeting held on the 6th day of July, 1955, the proposed ordinance was read in full to the Board of Commissioners as first introduced and adopted by the following vote: Voting "Aye": Commissioners Fountain, Sharp, Whipple and Mayor Baker Voting "Nay": None Absent: Commissioner Bunker APPROVED: / s/ C.D. BAKER ATTEST: Mayor /s/ SHIRLEY BALLINGER City Clerk AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION STATE OF NEVADA, ) COUNTY OF CLARK, ) ss. 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 11, 1955 to July 18, 1955 inclusive, being the issues of said newspaper for the following dates, to-wit: July 11, 18, 1955. 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 19th day of July, 1955 /s/ NEOLA GIERHART NOTARY PUBLIC IN AND FOR CLARK COUNTY, NEVADA My Commission Expires April 14, 1955. ORDINANCE NO. 653 AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND ORDINANCE 559 MAKING IT UNLAWFUL FOR ANY PERSON TO DRIVE A MOTOR VESICLE UPON A PUBLIC STREET WHILE INTOXICATED OR UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF INTOXICATING LIQUORS OR STIMULATING OR STU­PEFYING DRUGS; BY PROHIBITING DRIVING A MOTOR VEHICLE WITHOUT BEING PROPERLY LICENSED; PROVIDING FOR PENALTIES UPON CONVICTION; PROVIDING OTHER MATTERS PROPERLY RELATED THERETO; 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 36, Section 42, Code of Las Vegas, Nevada, 1949, as last amended by Section 2, Ordinance 559, is hereby further amended to read as follows: It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, while either intoxicated or under the influence of intoxicating liquor , or of stimulating or stupefying drugs, to ride, drive, or conduct any vehicle or have charge or control of any vehicle, on any public street within the City. Any person who shall violate the provisions of this Section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00), nor more than five hun­dred dollars ($500.00) or by imprisonment in the City Jail for not more than six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, and in addition thereto, the person so convicted shall be deprived of his license to operate a motor vehicle within the City for a period of not less than thirty (30) days nor more than one (l) year; upon a subsequent conviction for an offense under the provisions of this section, the person so convicted shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollard ($100.00), nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00), and by imprisonment in the City Jail for not less than ten (10) days nor more than six (6) months, and he shall be deprived of his license to operate a motor ve­hicle within the City for a period of two (2) years. SECTION 2. Chapter 36, Section 126, Code of Las Vegas, Nevada, 1949 as last amended by Section 4 of Ordinance 559, is hereby amended to read as follows: It shall be unlawful for any person to operate a motor vehicle upon a public street within the City without being the holder of a valid operator's or chauffeur's license. Any person convicted of violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined in the sum of not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00) and in addition thereto, the person convicted shall be required to obtain a valid operator's or chauffeur's license or produce a notice of disqualification from the Motor Vehicle Department of the State of Nevada. Any person whose operator's or chauffeur's license has been revoked, who shall drive a motor vehicle upon a public street within the City of Las Vegas while said revocation is in effect, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00), nor more than five hundred dol­lars ($500.00), or by imprisonment in the City Jail for not less than thirty (30) days nor more than six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. SECTION 3. The Municipal Judge in imposing sentence for the violation of a provision of this ordi­nance shall not suspend the same nor any part thereof and it shall be his duty upon the revocation of the operator's or chauffeur's license, within five days, to forward a record of the conviction to the Motor Vehicle Department of the State of Nevada. SECTION 4. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect upon its publication as in the next section provided, and final passage. SECTION 5. 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