Las Vegas City Ordinances, March 31, 1933 to October 25, 1950, lvc000014-470

DESIGNATING THE LOCALITY CONSTITUTING THE DISTRICT TO BE ASSESSED ACCORDING TO THE FRONTAGE, AND OTHER MATTERS RELATING THERETO. The Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, do ordain as follows: Section 1. For the purpose of defraying the costs of making certain improvements in the City of Las Vegas by installing complete street lighting facilities with steel standards and single overhead wire on series light­ing system in, over, and along South Main Street from the intersection of 5th Street and Main Street to the in­tersection of Carson Street and Main Street. The Ex-Officio City Assessor of the City of Las Vegas is hereby empowered, authorized, and directed to make forthwith a special assessment in the total amount of Twenty Seven Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($27,500.00) and to levy such assessment according to the frontage against the owners and upon the taxable lots and premises em­braced within the special assessment district created by Ordinance No. 409 of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada. Section 2. In no case shall the amount of any special assessment upon any such lot or premises exceed 50% of the value of such lot or premises as shown upon the latest tax list or assessment roll for State and County taxation, but such cost in excess of 50% shall be borne by the City of Las Vegas and paid out of the General Fund. Section 3. The Ex-Officio City Assessor of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, shall prepare an assessment roll in the manner provided by the Charter of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, and shall assess each lot and parcel of land embraced within the aforementioned special assessment districts according to the frontage. Section 4. After the special assessment roll, as herein provided for, shall have been prepared and comple­ted, the Ex-Officio City Assessor shall report the same to the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, and thereafter it shall be filed in the office of the City Clerk, and numbered, and the Board of Commis­sioners shall cause notice thereof to the persons whose names appear upon the assessment roll, and to all others interested therein, to be published for at least two weeks in some newspaper published in the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, of the time when the Board of Commissioners and the Ex-Officio City Assessor will meet to review the as­sessments, and any person, objecting to the assessments, may file his objections thereto with the City Clerk. Section 5. At the time appointed for reviewing the assessments, the Board of Commissioners and the Ex-Offi- cio City Assessor shall meet and give all persons interested an opportunity to be heard, and shall consider any and all objections that may be filed with the City Clerk, and then, or at some adjourned meeting, shall review the assessments and correct the same, and confirm it as corrected, or confirm it as reported, or annul it, and direct a new assessment to be made. Section 6. When the assessments shall be confirmed as herein provided, it shall be final and conclusive. The City Clerk shall thereupon deliver to the County Assessor, acting Ex-Officio City Assessor, the Assessment Roll as confirmed by the Board of Commissioners, with his certificate of such confirmation, and of the date there­of. The County Assessor, acting Ex-Officio City Assessor, shall thereupon, without extra compensation, record such Assessment Roll in his office, and append thereto his certificate of the date of such recording, whereupon from said date all persons shall be deemed to have notice of the contents of such Assessment Roll, and it shall be prima facie evidence in all courts and tribunals of the regularity of all proceedings preliminary to the making thereof, and of the validity of the assessment and Assessment Roll. After the Assessment has been confirmed and recorded, the several amounts levied thereon have been confirmed and recorded, the several amounts levied thereon shall become at once due and payable, and shall constitute and be a lien upon the respective lots and parcels of land, and improvements assessed, and shall be charged against the persons and properties until paid. Section 7. All assessments, when due and payable, as in this ordinance provided, shall be paid to the City Treasurer and Tax Receiver of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, and be by that officer paid into and credited to the special fund to be known as and called "Las Vegas Street Improvement Assessment District #100-7 Fund". Section 8. All costs and expenses incurred in making the improvements shall be charged to and paid out of said fund, provided, however, that all monies drawn on the General Fund of the City of Las Vegas to defray any of the costs and expenses of making the improvements, or, if it shall become necessary to draw upon the General Fund to defray any of the costs and expenses of the improvements, except as otherwise provided by the Charter of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, the General Fund shall be reimbursed by transfer of funds from the "Las Vegas Street Improvement Assessment District #100-7 Fund" as soon as conditions of the same will permit. Section 9. This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect upon its publication as in the next section pro- vided. Section 10. The City Clerk and the Clerk of the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, is hereby authorized and directed to cause this Ordinance No. 413 to be published once a week for two consecutive weeks, immediately following its first reading and adoption, in the Las Vegas Review Journal, a daily newspaper published in the City of Las Vegas, Nevada. APPROVED S/ E. W. Cragin Mayor (SEAL) 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 25th day of April , 1950, and referred to the following committee composed of Commissioners Bunker and Peccole for recommendation; thereafter the said committee reported favorably on said Ordinance on the 5th day of May 1950, which was the regular meeting held on the 5th day of May , 1950, that at said regular meeting held on the 5th day of May 1950, 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 Bunker, Moore, Peccole, Whipple and His Honor Voting "Nay": None_____________________________________________________________________________ Absent: None______________________________________________________________________________