Las Vegas City Ordinances, November 13, 1950 to August 6, 1958, lvc000015-357

AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND ORDINANCE NO. 364 ALSO KNOWN AS CHAPTER 29, CODE OF LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, 1949, BY PRO- VIDING DEFINITIONS; AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT THEREWITH. The Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas do ordain as follows: SECTION 1. Section 1 of Chapter 29, Code of Las Vegas, Nevada, 1949, is hereby amended to read as fol­lows: Sec. 1 DEFINITIONS. The following terms, whenever used or referred to in this Chapter, shall have the following meanings, except in those instances where the context clearly indicates otherwise. (a) Family. "Family” shall mean any number of individuals living together as a single housekeeping unit. (b) One-family Residence. "One-family residence" shall mean a building used exclusively as living quarters for a family and occupied by only one family. (c) Two-family residence. "Two-family residence" shall mean a building used exclusively as living quarters for two families and occupied by not more than two families. (d) Multiple dwellings. "Multiple dwellings" (including apartments) shall mean a collection of dwellings under one roof, having one owner, and having only one sewer connection to the sewer main. (e) Charitable institution. "Charitable institution" shall mean an institution organized for benevo- lent and charitable purposes, free from any element of private or corporate gain, and which devotes its entire revenue to the payment of current expenses and the relief of the poor and needy. (f) Fixtures. "Fixtures” shall mean receptacles, devices, instrumentalities and apparatus intended to receive water, liquids, sewage, or wastes and discharge the same into a soil pipe, waste pipe, or special waste pipe with which they are connected for conveyance to and disposal in the municipal sewage disposal system. SECTION 2. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. SECTION 3. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect upon its final reading and adoption, and final publication as in the next section provided. SECTION 4. The City Clerk and Clerk of the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas shall cause this Ordinance to be published once a week for two successive weeks immediately followings its first reading and adoption in the Las Vegas Review Journal, a daily newspaper published in the City of Las Vegas. /s/ C.D. BAKER Mayor ATTEST: /s/ SHIRLEY-BALLINGER City Clerk The above and foregoing ordinance was first proposed and read by title to the Board of Commissioners on the 2nd day of February, 1955 and referred to the following committee composed of Commissioners Bunker and Sharp for recommendation; thereafter the said committee reported favorably on said ordinance on the 2nd day of March, 1955 which was the regular meeting held on the 2nd day of March, 1955 and at said regular meeting held on said day, the proposed ordinance was read in full to the Board of Commissioners as first introduced and adopted by the following vote: Voting "Aye": Commissioners Bunker, Sharp, Whipple and Mayor Baker Voting "Nay": None Absent: Commissioner Jarrett APPROVED: /s/ C.D. BAKER ATTEST: Mayor /s/ SHIRLEY BALLINGER City Clerk AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION STATE OF NEVADA, ) COUNTY OF CLARK, ) ss. A.F. SCHELLACK, being first duly sworn, deposes and says: That he is Foreman of the LAS VEGAS 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 wax continuously published in said newspaper for a period of Two (2) insertions from March 7, 1955 to March 14, 1955 inclusive, being the issues of said newspaper for the following dates, to-wit" March 7, 14, 1955. That said newspaper was regularly issued and circulated on each of the dates above named. /s/ A.F. SCHELLACK Subscribed and sworn to before me this 14th day of March, 1955. /s/ NEOLA GIERHART My Commission Expires April 14, 1957. ORDINANCE NO. 634 AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND SECTION 2 OF ORDINANCE NO. 616 BY PROVIDING FOR ADDITIONAL MEMBERS OF THE TRAFFIC AND PARKING COMMISSION; PROVIDING THEIR TERMS IN OFFICE; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CON­FLICT THEREWITH, AND PROVIDING OTHER MATTERS PROPERLY RELATED THERETO. The Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas do ordain as follows: SECTION 1. Section 2 of Ordinance No. 6l6 is hereby amended to read as follows: There is hereby created and established the Traffic and Parking Commission of the City of Las Vegas, to serve without compensation, consisting of (l) the Chief of Police, (2) the Director of Public Works, (3) the City Attorney or a member of the legal department designated by him as his representative, (4) the Fire Chief, (5) the Director of Planning, all of whom shall be ex-officio members and entitled to vote, and such number of representatives of the general public, not to exceed six as may be determined and appointed by the Board of City Commissioners. The term of each appointed member shall be four years, or until his successor takes office, except that the respective terms of three of the members first appointed shall be one, two, and three years. Appointed members may be removed, after public hearing, by a majority vote of of the Board of Commissioners, for inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance of office. The Chairman of the Commission shall be a member appointed from the general public, and the first appointment shall be for one year and shall be made by the Board of City Commissioners. The Chairman after the first year shall ORDINANCE NO. 633