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Las Vegas City Ordinances, March 31, 1933 to October 25, 1950, lvc000014-331

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    The municipal judge, in imposing such sentence, shall not suspend the same or any part thereof, and it shall be his duty upon the revocation of a motor vehicle license, within ten (10) days, to forward a record of the conviction to the Motor Vehicle Department of the Office of the Secretary of State of the State of Nevada, and upon a revocation of the operators or chauffeurs license it shall be his duty, within ten (10) days, to forward a record of the conviction to the State Highway Department of the State of Nevada. Any person who shall drive a motor vehicle, within the City of Las Vegas, the license of which nas been revoked, as herein provided, while said revocation is in effect, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars ($100.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00), or by imprisonment in the City Jail for not less than thirty (30) days, nor more than six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Any person whose operator's or chauffeur's license has been revoked, as herein provided, who shall drive a motor vehicle within the City of Las Vegas, while said revocation is in effect shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00), or imprisonment in the City Jail for not more than six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Section 4. Section LXXXXIV, as amended, of Ordinance No. 170 of the City of Las Vegas shall be and the same is hereby amended, revised and re-enacted so that the same shall read as follows: Section LXXXXIV. PENALTY. Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and unless another penalty is in this ordinance provided, shall upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less than three dollars ($3.00) nor more than five hundred dollars ($500.00), or by imprisonment in the City Jail not to exceed six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, and in default of the payment of any fine, or any part thereof, may be imprisoned in the City Jail of the City of Las Vegas, one day for each two dollars of said fine remaining unpaid. Section 5. All Ordinances and parts of Ordinances in conflict with the provisions hereof are hereby repealed. Section 6. If any of the provisions of this Ordinance or their application to any persons or circumstances shall be held to be invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, it shall not be construed to invalidate the remaining provisions of this Ordinance or their application to other persons or circumstances. Section 7. This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect upon its publication as in the next section provided, and final passage. Section 8. 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 following its first reading and adoption, in the Las Vegas Evening Review Journal, a daily newspaper published in the City of Las Vegas. ATTEST: Helen Scott Reed_____ E. W. Cragin_________________ City Clerk Mayor (SEAL) The above and fore-going Ordinance was first proposed, and read by title to the Board of City Commissioners on the 22nd day of March, 1948, and referred to the following committee composed of Commissioners Clark and Baskin for recommendation; thereafter the said committee reported favorably on said Ordinance on the 7th day of April, 1948, which was the next regular meeting of said Board of City Commissioners; that at said regular meeting held on the 7th day of April, 1948, the proposed ordinance was read in full to the Board of City Commissioners as first introduced and adopted by the following vote: Voting "Aye": Commissioners Baskin, Moore, Whipple, and His Honor Mayor Cragin. Voting "Nay": None. Absent: None. ATTEST: Helen Scott Reed APPROVED: E. W. Cragin_________ City Clerk Mayor (SEAL) The above and foregoing ordinance was thereafter read aloud to the said Board of City Com­missioners for a second time at a regular meeting of the said Board held on the 22nd day of April, 1948, and passed by the following vote: Voting "Aye": Commissioners Clark, Moore, Whipple and His Honor Mayor Cragin. Voting "Nay": None Absent: Commissioner Baskin. ATTEST: Helen Scott Reed_____ APPROVED: E. W. Cragin__________ City Clerk Mayor (SEAL)