Las Vegas City Ordinances, November 13, 1950 to August 6, 1958, lvc000015-350

EMERGENCY ORDINANCE NO. 629 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE TO AMEND SECTIONS 3,5,8, and l4 OF EMERGENCY ORDINANCE NO. 601 ENTITLED: "AN EMER­GENCY ORDINANCE CREATING STREET IMPROVEMENT ASSESSMENT DISTRICT NO. 100-25; PROVIDING FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF A CERTAIN STREET THEREIN; PROVIDING FOR SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS ACCORDING TO FRONTAGE TO DEFRAY THE STATED ENTIRE COST THEREOF; DIRECTING THE PREPARATION OF AN ASSESSMENT ROLL AND THE REPORTING OF THE SAME TO THE BOARD OF COM- MISSIONERS; 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 ENDORSEMENT ON SAID ROLL OF SAID CONFIRMATION AND APPROVAL; 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 HERETO- FORE TAKEN TOWARD IMPROVING THAT CERTAIN STREET IN SAID DISTRICT, TOWARDS ITS CREATION AND TOWARD LEVYING AND EFFECTING SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS; PROVIDING OTHER MATTERS RELATING THERETO; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY". WHEREAS, Street Improvement Assessment District No. 100-25 was created by Emergency Ordinance No. 601, and Whereas, the cost and expense of making said improvements have been radically reduced due to a saving ob­tained by the construction of said improvements jointly with a highway widening program of the State Highway Department of the State of Nevada, and WHEREAS, the entire cost and expense of making said improvements have now been finally set as a result of the award of contracts for said improvements, and WHEREAS, this determination having resulted in adequately lower assessments for the property owners of the land benefited by said improvement, and WHEREAS, a new public hearing must be held upon the amended assessment roll for Street Improvement Dis­trict No. 100-25, NOW, THEREFORE, the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas does obtain as follows: SECTION 1. Section 3 of Ordinance No. 601 is hereby amended to read as follows: That the entire cost and expense of making said improvements, including all incidental expenses which may be legally included in the sums assessed, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the cost of surveys, plans assessments, the costs of construction, and the fees and compensation properly charged in the work of making special assessments, shall be defrayed by special assessments made according to frontage against the owners and the assessable lots, premises and property specially benefited by such improvements and included within said District. The entire cost and expense of making said improvements are deemed to be $104,l6l.07 and the total of the special assessments so levied shall be in that amount. SECTION 2. Section 5 of Ordinance No. 601 is hereby amended to read as follows: That the County Assessor of the County of Clark and State of Nevada, the acting ex-officio City Assessor of the City of Las Vegas, Ne­vada, shall prepare, and is hereby empowered, authorized and directed to make forthwith, an amended assessment roll in the manner provided by the Charter of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, and shall assess each lot and parcel of land with such relative portion of the whole amount to be levied as the length of front of such pre­mises abutting upon the improvement bears to the whole frontage of all the lots to be assessed; unless on ac­count of the shape or size of any lot or lots an assessment for a different number of feet would be more equit­able; and the frontage of all lots to be assessed shall be. deemed to be the aggregate number of feet as deter­mined upon for assessment by the assessor. SECTION 3. Section 8 of Ordinance No. 601 is hereby amended to read as follows: That before said amended special assessment roll is adopted and confirmed by said Board, any person objecting to the assessment may file his objections thereto with the City Clerk on or before Wednesday, the l6th day of February, 1955, at 8.00 P.M. at the City Hall, in said City, and said time and place are hereby fixed the time and place where said Board and said County Assessor and ex-officio City Assessor will meet to hear and consider objections to said amended special assessment roll and to review said assessments. SECTION 4. Section l4 of Ordinance No. 601 is hereby amended bo 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 one week after said amended 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 in- terest, as hereinafter provided. Failure to pay the whole assessment, or any part thereof, within said period of one week shall be conclusively considered and held and 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 March, 1954, 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 March, 1955, 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 1st day of March, 1956, and the re­mainder of said annual installments of interest being due and payable on the 1st day of March 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 became 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 (10%) 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 (l0%) 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 5. That all action (Not inconsistent with the provisions of this ordinance) heretofore taken by the City of Las Vegas, and the officers of said City, directed toward the improving of a certain street by in­stalling a complete streetlighting system in the said Street Improvement Assessment District No. 100-25, toward the creation of said District, and toward levying and effecting special assessments to defray the entire cost thereof, be, and the same is hereby ratified, approved, and confirmed.