Las Vegas City Ordinances, March 31, 1933 to October 25, 1950, lvc000014-177

EMERGENCY ORDINANCE ORDINANCE NO. 268 AN ORDINANCE REPEALING ORDINANCE No. 263 OF THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS, ENTITLED AS FOLLOWS: "AN ORDINANCE PROHIBITING PROSTITUTION IN THE CITY OF IAS VEGAS AND WITHIN ONE MILE OUT- SIDE OF THE CITY LIMITS THEREOF; TO SUPPRESS, PROHIBIT, REGULATE AND PRESCRIBE THE LOCATION OF HOUSES OF PROSTITUTION, AND PLACES RESORTED TO FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROSTITUTION, AND OTHER MATTERS RELATING THERETO, AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES AND PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT THEREWITH." The Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas, do ordain as follows: Section 1. Each and every part of Ordinance 263 of the City of Las Vegas is hereby repealed. Section 2. This ordinance is declared to be and is hereby passed as an EMERGENCY ORDINANCE and it shall take effect immediately after its passage and publication. Section 3. The city Clerk is hereby authorized to have this Ordinance published in the Las Vegas Evening Review-Journal a daily newspaper published in the City of Las Vegas, County of Clark, State of Nevada, for a period of two weeks, that is to say once each week for a period of two weeks. The foregoing Ordinance was read aloud for the first time and voted upon at a recessed regular meeting of the Board of City Commissioners on the 20th day of January, 1942. Vote for: Commissioners Smith, Tinch, Rubidoux, Clark and his honor the Mayor, Howell C. Garrison, and was read aloud for the second time and passed by the unanimous consent of the Board as an emergency ordinance on the 20th day of January, 1942. Voting for: Commissioners: Smith, Tinch, Clark, Rubidoux and his Honor the Mayor, Howell C Garrison. Voting aye, Noes none, Absent, none. Howell C. Garrison Mayor Attest: Helen Scott City Clerk (SEAL) AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION STATE OF NEVADA ) ( ss COUNTY OF CLARK ) Dick Lochrie, being first duly sworn, deposes and says: That he is foreman of the Las Vegas Evening 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 weeks, from January 21st 1942 to January 28th, 1942, inclusive, being the issues of said newspaper for the following dates, to-wit: January 21st- 28th. That said newspaper was regularly issued and circulated on each of the dates above named. Signed: Dick Lochrie Subscribed and sworn to before me this 29th day of January 1942. A.H. Cahlan (SEAL) Notary Public in and for Clark County, Nevada. My Commission expires Jan 12, 1943. ORDINANCE NO. 269 AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING BLACKOUTS AND AIR RAID PROTECTION MEASURES, ORDERS, RULES AND REG­ULATIONS, AND PROVIDING A PENALTY FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF. The Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas do ordain as follows: SECTION 1. Definitions. As used in this ordinance the following words and phrases shall mean: BLACK-OUT SIGNAL: A Fluctuating or undulating signal of varying pitch for a per­iod of two minutes duration sounded on a siren, or if such a siren be not available, then such other signal as may be available, published, and designated for that purpose. ALL-CLEAR SIGNAL: A continuous signal of two minutes duration at a steady pitch sounded on such siren; or if such siren be not available, then such other signal as may be available, published and designated for that purpose. BLACK-OUT STRUCTURE: Any area so enclosed that any illumination maintained or exist­ing therein is not visible from ary point outside such enclosure. Section 2. No person shall at any time subsequent to a black-out signal and prior to the all-clear signal next thereafter, effect or maintain any illumination or permit any illumina­tion under his control to be effected or maintained, at any place within the City of Las Vegas save within a black-out structure.