Las Vegas City Ordinances, November 13, 1950 to August 6, 1958, lvc000015-395

The above and foregoing ordinance was first proposed and read by title to the Board of Commissioners on the 3rd day of August, 1955, and referred to the following committee composed of Commissioners Sharp and Whipple for recommendation; thereafter the said committee reported favorably on said ordinance on the 8th day of September, 1955 which was the recessed regular meeting held on the 8th day of September, 1955, and at said recessed 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, Fountain,Sharp, Whipple and Mayor Baker Voting "Nay”: None Absent: None 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 was continuously published in said newspaper for a period of five (5) insertions from September 16, 1955 to October l4, 1955 inclusive, being the issues of said newspaper for the following dates, to-wit: September 16,23, 30, October 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 l4th day of October, 1955. /s/ NEOLA GIERHART NOTARY PUBLIC IN AND FOR CLARK COUNTY, NEVADA My Commission Expires April l4, 1958. EMERGENCY ORDINANCE NO. 664 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE GIVING OF NOTICE OF THE SALE OF BONDS AUTHORIZED BY THE VOTERS OF THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS AT THE GENERAL ELECTION OF MAY 3, 1955; PROVIDING FOR NOTICE OF THE SALE OF GEN­ERAL OBLIGATION SEWER BONDS IN THE AMOUNT OF $2,000,000.00; PROVIDING FOR NOTICE OF THE SALE OF GENERAL OBLIGATION POLICE DETENTION BONDS IN THE AMOUNT OF $275,000; PROVIDING FOR NOTICE OF THE SALE OF GENERAL OBLIGATION FIRE EXTINGUISHING SYSTEM BONDS IN THE AMOUNT OF $400,000; PROVIDING FOR NOTICE OF THE SALE OF GENERAL OBLIGATION FIRE ALARM SYSTEM BONDS IN THE AMOUNT OF $200,000; RATIFYING ACTION PREVIOUSLY TAKEN IN CONNECTION THEREWITH; PROVIDING OTHER MATTERS PROPERLY RELATED THERETO; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. WHEREAS, at the general city election duly called and held on the 3rd day of May, 1955, the regularly qualified electors of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, authorized the issuance of General Obligation Sewer Bonds in the aggregate principal amount of $2,000,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary for the pur­pose of defraying in part, the cost of improving the existing sanitary sewer system, by acquiring sites and rights-of-way therefor and acquiring, constructing and establishing additional sanitary sewer lines, an additional sanitary sewerage disposal plant, a sanitary sewer effluent disposal system; and other appur­tenances to said system; and WHEREAS, at the said election the regularly qualified electors of said city authorized the issuance of General Obligation Police Detention Bonds in the aggregate principal amount of $275,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the purpose of defraying, in part, the cost of improving the police de­tention facilities, by establishing, construction, and otherwise acquiring Las Vegas Police Prison Buildings and a suitable site and grounds therefor and extending and bettering the present Las Vegas Police Station Building in order to increase the jail facilities therefor; and WHEREAS, at the said election, the regularly qualified electors of said city authorized the issuance of General Obligation Fire Extinguishing System Bonds in the aggregate principal amount of $400,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the purpose of defraying, in part, the cost of improving the munici­pal Fire Extinguishing System, by acquiring additional fire extinguishing equipment, and buildings there­for, together with such additional sites and grounds as may be necessary, and by improving existing fire department buildings and fire extinguishing equipment; and WHEREAS, at said election, the regularly qualified electors of said city authorized the issuance of General Obligation Fire Alarm System Bonds in the aggregate principal amount of $200,000, or so much there­of as may be necessary for the purpose of defraying, in part, the cost of improving the Municipal Fire Ex­tinguishing System, by acquiring, constructing, and establishing an automatic fire alarm system complete with headquarters building and controls and panels; and WHEREAS, the Board of Commissioners of said City has determined, and does hereby determine, that said bonds should be offered at public sale, and WHEREAS, due to the necessity of immediately placing orders for material, and purchasing and acquiring sites and rights-of-way in order to make such necessary improvements, the Board of Commissioners has deter­mined, and does hereby declare, that an emergency exists, requiring this ordinance to take effect from and after its passage and publication in accordance with law. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS, AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. That the Clerk of the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas be, and she hereby is authorized and instructed to have published a notice of sale of said bonds in the Las Vegas Review Jour­nal, the official newspaper of said City, being of general circulation and published therein, once a week for four consecutive weeks by five insertions at weekly intervals. SECTION 2. That a copy of said notice, or notices, shall, at least three weeks prior to the date fixed for the sale, be mailed to the State Board of Finance, Carson City, Nevada, and the City Clerk, shall be, and she hereby is, authorized and directed to effectuate such mailing. SECTION 3. That all action heretofore taken by the Board of Commissioners and officers of the City of Las Vegas, directed toward the making of the improvements hereinabove mentioned, and the issuance of bonds therefor, be, and the same hereby is ratified, approved and confirmed. SECTION 4. That the Board of Commissioners has expressed in the preamble of this ordinance the exis­tence of an emergency, and does hereby find and declare that such emergency does exist and therefore this ordinance shall take effect as in the next section provided. SECTION 5. The City Clerk and Clerk of the Board of Commissioners shall cause this ordinance to be published once a week for two successive weeks in the Las Vegas Review Journal, a daily newspaper pub­lished in said City immediately upon its passage and adoption. PASSED, ADOPTED AND APPROVED this 21st day of September, 1955.