Las Vegas City Ordinances, March 31, 1933 to October 25, 1950, lvc000014-161

Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than Ten Dollars ($10.00) nor more than Three Hundred Dollars ($300.00) for each offense, together with the costs of prosecution, and in default of payment thereof by imprisonment for not less than 5 days nor more than 150 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment, and if such person, firm or corporation is the holder of a license of either class provided for in this ordinance, such conviction shall have the effect of suspending said license until such time as it shall have been reinstated by the Board of Electrical Examiners. Section 25. Liability for Damages. This ordinance shall not be construed to relieve from or lessen the responsibility or liability of any party owning, operating, controlling or installing any electric wiring, devices, appliances or equipment for damages to person or property caused by any defect therein, nor shall the City of Las Vegas be held as assuming any such liability by reason of the inspection or the examination authorized herein or the certificate of approval or the license and certificate issued as herein provided or by reason of the approval or dis­approval of any materials, devices, appliances or equipment authorized herein. Section 26. Validity. If any section, sub-section, sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance is for any reason held to be unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance. The City Council of the City of Las Vegas hereby declares that it would have passed this ordinance and each section, sub-section, sentence, clause or phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, sub-sections, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared unconstitutional. Section 27. Repeal of Conflicting Acts. All ordinances or parts of ordinances conflicting with the provisions of this ordinance are hereby repealed. Section 28. Date to Take Effect. This ordinance shall take effect _________ days after its passage and publication. _____Howell C. Garrison Attests Helen Scott_______ Mayor City Clerk. (Seal) The above and foregoing Ordinance was proposed, read aloud in full, and adopted this 16th day of October, A.D., 1941, by the following vote: Commissioners Smith, Tinch, Clark, and Rubidoux, and His Honor the Mayor, Howell C. Garrison, voting aye. Voting no, none. This ordinance was read aloud to the Board for the first time at a regular meeting of the Board on the 16th day of October, 1941, at which time it was proposed, considered and voted upon and unanimously adopted and thereafter published in the Las Vegas Evening Review Journal, 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 Smith, Tinch, Clark, and Rubidoux, and His Honor, the Mayor Howell C. Garrison. Voting no: None. Absent and not voting: None. Attest: Helen Scott______ Howell C. Garrison_____________ City Clerk Mayor of the City of Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada 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 October 21st 1941 to October 28th, 1941 inclusive, being the issues of said newspaper for the following dates, to-wit: October 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 15th day of December, 1941 A. E. Cahlan_________________________ Notary Public in and for Clark County, Nevada (Seal) My Commission Expires Jan 12 1943