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    104 ASSESSMENT DISTRICT NO. 100-17 Emergency Ordinance No. 495 The presiding officer declared said motion carried and the rules suspended. Commissioner Bunker then moved that said ordinance heretofore introduced and read in full at this meeting be now placed upon its passage. Commissioner Whipple seconded the motion, and the question being upon the placing of said ordinance upon its passage, the roll was called with the following results Those voting "Aye": Those voting "Nay": Absent: Commissioner Bunker Commissioner Whipple Mayor Baker None Commissioner Jarrett Commissioner Peccole The presiding officer declared the motion carried and the ordinance placed upon its final pas­sage. Commissioner Bunker them moved that said ordinance be passed and adopted as read and as an emergency ordinance, Commissioner Whipple seconded the motion. The question being upon the passage and adoption of said ordinance, the roll was called with the following results Those voting "Aye": Those voting "Nay": Absent: Commissioner Bunker Commissioner Whipple Mayor Baker None Commissioner Jarrett Commissioner Peccole The presiding officer thereupon declared that all commissioners present having voted in favor thereof, said motion was carried and said ordinance was duly passed and adopted as an emergency ordinance. Commissioner Bunker moved the foregoing emergency ordinance be numbered 494. Motion seconded by Commissioner Whipple and carried by the following vote: Commissioners Bunker, Whipple and His Honor voting aye; noes, none. Absent: Commissioners Jarrett and Peccole. Commissioner Bunker introduced and moved the adoption of the following emergency ordinance, which was thereupon read in full, and at length, and is as follows: EMERGENCY ORDINANCE NO. 495 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE TO AMEND SECTIONS 9, Hi and 21 OF EMERGENCY ORDINANCE NO. 489 ENTITLED: "AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE CREATING STREET IMPROVEMENTS ASSESSMENT DISTRICT NO. 100-17; PROVID­ING FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF DESIGNATED STREETS AND PARTS OF STREETS THEREIN; PROVIDING FOR SPE­CIAL ASSESSMENTS ACCORDING TO FRONTAGE TO DEFRAY THE STATED ENTIRE COST THEREOF; DIRECTING THE PREPARATION OF AN ASSESSMENT ROLL AND THE REPORTING OF THE SAME TO THE BOARD OF COMMISS­IONERS; PROVIDING FOR FILING OF SAID ROLL WITH CITY CLERK; PROVIDING A TIME AND PLACE TO RE­VIEW SAID ASSESSMENTS AND NOTIFICATION THEREOF; PROVIDING FOR THE CORRECTION, AND/OR CONFIRMA­TION AND APPROVAL OF SAID ROLL THEREAT OR THEREAFTER; PROVIDING FOR THE INDORSEMENT ON SAID ROLL OF SAID CONFIRMATION AND APPROVAL; PROVIDING FOR THE DELIVERY OF SAID APPROVED ROLL TO THE EX-OFFICIO CITY ASSESSOR; PROVIDING THAT SAID ASSESSMENTS SHALL CONSTITUTE A LIEN; PRESCRI­BING THE METHOD OF PAYING SAID ASSESSMENTS AND THE INTEREST THEREON; PROVIDING FOR THE DIS­POSITION OF SAID ASSESSMENTS; DIRECTING THE NOTIFICATION BY MAIL WHEN AND WHERE SAID ASSESS­MENT IS DUE AND PAYABLE; RATIFYING, APPROVING AND CONFIRMING ALL ACTION HERETOFORE TAKEN TOWARD IMPROVING SAID STREETS AND PARTS OF STREETS IN SAID DISTRICT, TOWARDS ITS CREATION AND TOWARD LEVYING AND EFFECTING SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS; PROVIDING OTHER MATTERS RELATING THERETO; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY." The Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas do ordain as follows: SECTION 1. Section 9 of Emergency Ordinance No. 489 is hereby amended to read as fol­lows: That after filing said special assessment roll with the City Clerk, she shall publish notice of the time said Board and said Ex-officio City Assessor will meet to review the assess­ments once a week for two successive weeks in the Las Vegas Review Journal, a daily newspaper published in said City of Las Vegas, in the manner prescribed by the Charter of the City of Las Vegas, as amended. SECTION 2. Section 14 of Emergency Ordinance No. 489 is hereby amended to read as fol­lows: That said assessments shall be due and payable at the office of the County Treasurer of Clark County, Nevada, acting Ex-officio City Treasurer and Ex-officio Tax Collector of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, within one week after said special assessment roll is confirmed and ap­proved, without interest and without demand; provided, that all such assessments, or any part thereof, may, at the election of the owner, be paid in installments, with interest, as herein­after provided. Failure to pay the whole assessment, or any part thereof, within said period of one week shall be conclusively considered and held an election on the part of all persons interested, whether under disability or otherwise, to pay in such installments. In case of such election to pay in installments, the unpaid assessments shall be payable at the office of said Ex-officio City Treasurer in ten substantially equal annual installments of principal, the first of which installments of principal shall be due and payable on or before the 1st day of June, 1953, and the remainder of said installments shall be due and payable successively on or before the same day in each year thereafter until paid in full, with interest in all cases on the unpaid and deferred installments or principal from the 1st day of June, 1952, at the same rate of interest as that provided for in the special assessment bond to be hereafter authorized, sold, issued and delivered, but not to exceed seven per centum (7%) per annum, payable annually at the office of said Ex-officio City Treasurer, the first annual payment of interest being due and payable on the said 1st day of June, 1953, and the remainder of said annual install-