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Las Vegas City Ordinances, March 31, 1933 to October 25, 1950, lvc000014-45

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ORDINANCE NO. 214 AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND SECTION II, AND SECTION III, AS AMENDED, AND SECTION V, AS AMENDED OF ORDINANCE NO. 168, ENTITLED, "AN ORDINANCE OF THE COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS ESTABLISHING A RESIDENCE DISTRICT, INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT AND COMMERCIAL DISTRICT 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. Section 11 of Ordinance No. 168 is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 11. That the commercial districts are hereby created and established within the said City as described as follows: All frontage on Fremont Street from Main Street to the east City Limits to a depth not exceeding one hundred fifty (150) feet; all frontage on Fifth Street from the south City limits to the north property line of Stewart Street, to a depth not exceeding one hundred fifty (150) feet All frontage on the east side of Fifth Street from the north property line of Stewart Street to the north City limits to a depth not exceeding one hundred fifty (150) feet; all lots fronting on First Street from Bridger Street to Stewart Street; all lots fronting on Second Street front Stewart Street to Clark Street; all lots fronting on Third Street from Stewart Street to Bridger Street; all lots front­ing on Fourth Street from Stewart Street to Bridger Street. All lots on Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth Streets from Stewart Street to Carson Street; all lots fronting on the south side of Stewart Street from Fifth Street to Twelfth Street; all lots fronting on Ogden Street from Fifth Street to Twelfth Street. All lots on Clark Avenue and Wilson Avenue in original Townsite; All frontage on Main Street (East Bide) from south property line of Stewart Street to south City limits, not exceeding one hundred fifty (150) feet depth. Section 2. Section 111 of said Ordinance No. 168, as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows: That the industrial districts are hereby created and established within the said City as described as follows: All that portion of the City of Las Vegas west of the east property line of Main Street, north of Charleston Boulevard, (except the original Townsite; H.F.M. & M. Addit- ion; Valley View Addition: Woodlawn Park) and that portion west of the prolongation of Main Street south of Charleston Boulevard; and also that portion of the City of Las Vegas, east of the east property line of Stewart Street to the North City limits (except Parkview Addition and the Las Vegas City Park). Section 3. Section V of said Ordinance No. 168, as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows: Section V. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to erect establish, operate, carry on, or maintain any of the following named factories, plants, works, or establishments within the City of Las Vegas, except within the boundaries of the said industrial districts; to-wit: fireworks factories, shoe factories, rolling mill, furniture factory, planing mill, gas factory or plant, gas works, soap factory, glue factory, tallow rendering establishments, wholesale dye and cleaning establishments employing five persons or more, tannery, foundary, oil well, oil refinery, any plant for the storage of more than 2200 gallons of oil, gasoline, coal oil or other petroleum product or products, cannery, winery, fertilizer factory, public hay barn, rock crucher, lumber yard, any plant for the manufacture of shoe blackening, insect poison or extermin­ator, tar roofing or water proofing, rubber or gutta percha, creosote, mattress factory, any stone year, monument works, stove polish, paint, shellac, varnish, vinegar, storage batteries, gelatine or sizing, sulphuric acid, nitric acid, hydrochloric acid, yeast, soda, dye stuffs, brick, steel tanks, tile or terra cotta; asphalt, potash works, tar distillation, wool pulling or scouring, crematory, and plant of the distillation of bones, coal and wood, plating works, curing or storage of raw hides or skins, contractor's plant or storage yard; cooperage works, oiled, rubber or leather goods factory, coal, coke, or wookd yard, acetylene gas manufacture or storage, wholesale poultry house, burlap manufacture or bag cleaning, ammonia, bleaching powder, chlorine manufacture, boiler works, andy kind of manufacture or treatment other than the manufacture or treat­ment of products purely incidental to the conduct of a retail business conducted on the premises, provided such industrial use occupies more than 20 per cent of the floor space of the building on such premises; any trade industry or use that is noxious or offensive by reason of the emission of odor, dust smoke or noise; provided, however, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to any works factory or establishment of any of the kinds or varieties in this Section enumerated where such works, factory or estab­lishment is now being maintained, operated or carried on at the time of the adoption of this ordinance. Section 4. All Ordinances ar parts of Ordinance in conflict herewith, are hereby repealed. Section 5. This Ordinance is declared passed as an emergency Ordinance, and shall take effect immediately after its passage and complete publication.