Las Vegas City Ordinances, March 31, 1933 to October 25, 1950, lvc000014-169

other and further rules and regulations, by resolution or resolutions, from time to time as they see fit, for the purpose of safe-guarding the public health. SECTION 3. In prosecutions under this ordinance, common fame or reputation shall be competent evidence to prove that the defendant is a prostitute, solicitor or procurer, or that the house or place mentioned in the complaint is a house of prostitution. Any house or place used or occupied for the purpose of prostitution, or where prostitution is practised or car­ried on, is taken and deemed to be a house of prostitution. It shall not be necessary in a prosecution in which defendant is charged with being a prostitute, to prove an overt act of sexual intercourse against said defendant. SECTION 4. In the trial of any person charged with a violation of the provisions of Section 1 of this ordinance, testimony of a prior conviction, or testimony concerning the re­putation of any place, structure, or building or of the person or persons who reside in or frequent the same, or of the defendant shall be admissible in evidence in support of the charge. SECTION 5. Any person violating any of the provisions of Sections 1 and 2 of this or­dinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine not to exceed Five Hundred ($500.00) Dollars, or imprisonment in the City Jail for a period of not to exceed 180 days, or by both fine and imprisonment, and in default Of the payment of any fine, or any part thereof, shall be imprisoned in the City Jail of the City of Las Vegas one (1) day for each two (2) dollars of such fine remaining unpaid. SECTION 6. All Ordinances and parts of Ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby re­pealed. SECTION 7. This Ordinance shall be in effect from and after its passage, adoption and publication in the Las Vegas Age, a weekly newspaper published in the City of Las Vegas for two successive issues. SECTION 8. The City Clerk is hereby authorized to have this ordinance published in the Las Vegas Age, a weekly newspaper printed and published in the City of Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada, for a period of two weeks, that is to say, once each week for a period of two weeks. ATTEST: HELEN SCOTT (SIGNED) HOWELL C. GARRISON City Clerk. Mayor (SEAL) The above and foregoing ordinance was proposed, read aloud in full and approved this 21st day of November, A.D., 1941, by the following vote: Voting Aye: Commissioners Tinch, Clark, Rubidoux. Voting No: Smith, Hon. Garrison Absent: None. This Ordinance was read aloud to the Board for the first time at a recessed regular meeting of the Board on the 21st day of November, 1941, at which time it was proposed, con­sidered and voted upon and adopted and thereafter published in the Las Vegas Age for a period of once each week for two consecutive weeks immediately following its first reading. And it was thereafter read aloud to the Board for a second time at a regular meeting of the Board held on the 16th day of December, 1941. Voting Aye: Commissioners Tinch, Clark, and Rubidoux. Mayor, Howell C. Garrison, voted no. Voting No: Commissioner Smith. (SIGNED) HOWELL C. GARRISON ATTEST: HELEN SCOTT Mayor of the City of Las Vegas, City Clerk. Clark County, Nevada. (SEAL) AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION STATE OF NEVADA ) ) ss. County of Clark ) DOROTHY D. BRIMACOMBE, being duly sworn, deposes and says: That she is General Man­ager of Las Vegas Age, a weekly newspaper of general circulation, printed and published at Las Vegas, in the County of Clark, State of Nevada, and that the attached Ordinance No. 263 was published in said newspaper for a period of two weeks from Nov. 28, 1941 to December 5, 1941 inclusive, being the issues of said newspaper for the following dates, to-wit: Nov. 28, Dec. 5, 1941. That said newspaper was regularly issued and circulated on each of the dates above named. That the legal charge for publishing said legal notice was $58.20. (SIGNED) DOROTHY D. BRIMACOMBE Subscribed and sworn to before me this 16th day of December, 1941. (SIGNED) JOE HUFFORD My Commission Expires: May 8, 1943. Notary Public in and for (SEAL) Clark County, Nevada ORDINANCE NO. 264 "AN ORDINANCE OF THE COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS, ESTABLISHING A RESIDENCE DISTRICT, INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL DISTRICTS, WITHIN THE SAID CITY OF LAS VEGAS: DEFINING SUCH DIS­TRICTS: DECLARING IT UNLAWFUL TO ERECT, ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN OR OPERATE CERTAIN FACTORIES, WORKS OR ESTABLISHMENTS WITHIN SAID RESIDENCE DISTRICTS AND SAID COMMERCIAL DISTRICTS: REG­ULATING THE ERECTION, ESTABLISHMENT, MAINTENANCE, OPERATION AND REBUILDING OF CERTAIN WORKS OR ESTABLISHMENTS IN SAID DISTRICTS: PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION OF SAID ORDINANCE, AND REPEALING ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH" The Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas, do ordain as follows: Section 1. That all of the City of Las Vegas is hereby established as, and declared to be, a re­sidence district, excepting therefrom those portions of the City included within the bound­aries of the hereinafter described commercial districts and industrial districts, and said re­sidence districts are divided into five zones, bounded and restricted as set forth in Sections 2 thru 6 of this ordinance. Section 2. RESIDENCE ZONE NO. 1 (a)