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Las Vegas City Ordinances, March 31, 1933 to October 25, 1950, lvc000014-238

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    committee reported favorably on the said Ordinance on the 7th day of September, 1945 which was the next regular meeting of said Board of City Commissioners, that at said regular meeting the proposed Ordinance war readin full to the Board of City commissioners as first introduced and adopted by the following voter Voting Aye: Commissioners Baskin, Bates, Corradetti and His Honor, Mayor Cragin_____________ Voting No : None Absent : Commissioner Clark ATTEST: /s/ Helen Scott Reed APPROVED: E. W. Cragin City Clerk Mayor This Ordinance was first proposed and read by title to the Board of City Commissioners on the 28th day of August, 1945, and referred to the following committee for consideration, namely, to-wit: To Commissioners Ba skin_____,_____Bates______ and Clark_______________; that thereafter and on the 7th day of September, 1945, which was the next regular meeting of said Board of Commissioners, the Committee reported favorably on the said Ordinance, that at said regular meeting this Ordinance was read in full to the Board of City Commissioners for the first time at a regular meeting of the said Board and adopted as first introduced by the unanimous vote of said Board and thereafter published in the Las Vegas Evening Review-Journal, a newspaper printed and published in the City of Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada, for a period of once a week for two (2) consecutive weeks immediately following its first reading and it was thereafter read aloud to the second time at a regular meeting of the said Board held on the 22nd day of September, 1945, and passed by the following vote: Voting Aye: Commissioners Baskin, Bates, Clark, Corradetti and His Honor Mayor Cragin. Voting Nay: None Absent : None Mayor ATTEST: /s/ Helen Scott Reed City Clerk AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION STATE OF NEVADA) )SS. COUNTY OF CLARK) Dick Lochrie, being first duly sworn, deposes and says: That he is foreman of Las Vegas Evening Review Journal, a daily newspaper, of general circulation, printed and published in 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 times from September 8, 1945 to September 15, 1945 inclusive, being the issues of said newspaper for the following dates, to-wit: September 8 and 15. That said newspaper was regularly issued and circulated on each of the dates above names. Signed: /s/ Dick Lochrie________ Subscribed and sworn to before me this 15th day of September, 1945. ____/s/ A. E. Cahlan______________ Notary Public-Commissioner Expires Jan. 12, 1947 ORDINANCE NO. 306 AN ORDINANCE TO SAFEGUARD LIFE AND PROPERTY BY REGULATING AND PROVIDING FOR THE INSPECTION OF ELECTRIC WIRING, DEVICES, APPLIANCES AND EQUIPMENT: CREATING THE OFFICE OF CITY ELECTRICIAN AND PRESCRIBING HIS AUTHORITY AND DUTIES REQUIRING THAT NO ELECTRIC WIRING DEVICE APPLIANCES OR EQUIPMENT SHALL BE INSTALLED WITHOUT FIRST SECURING A PERMIT THEREFOR: CRATING A BOARD OF ELECTRICAL EXAMINERS: PROVIDING FOR THE LICENSING OF PERSON, FIRMS AND CORPORATIONS ENGAGING IN THE BUSINESS OF ELECTRICAL CONTRACTING OR EMPLOYING ELECTRICIANS TO OBTAIN ELECTRICAL WORK MAKING IT UNLAWFUL TO ENGAGE IN THE BUSINESS OF ELECTRICAL CONTRACT­ING OR TO UNDERTAKE THE EXECUTION OF ELECTRICAL WORK WITHOUT A LICENSE, EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE PROVIDED: MAKING IT UNLAWFUL TO SELL AT RETAIL CERTAIN ELECTRICAL PRODUCTS UNLESS SUCH PRO­DUCTS HAVE BEEN APPROVED BY THE CITY ELECTRICIAN, AND NATIONAL BOARD OF UNDERWRITERS, PRO- vidinG PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES AND PARTS OF ORDIN­ANCES IN CONFLICT THEREWITH. The Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas do ordain as follows: Section 1. That a certain document, three (3) copies of which are on file in the Office of the City Clark, of the City of Las Vegas, being marked and designated as Specialized Electrical Code, 1945 addition, printed September, 1945, by Las Vegas, Nevada Board of Electrical Examiners and the same is hereby referred to and adopted by the Electrical Code of the City of Las vegas, and by said reference and adoption made a part of this ordinance the same as if it were fully set forth herein. Section 2. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are repealed, but it is specifically provided that neither this ordinance or any repeal hereby provided