Las Vegas City Ordinances, November 13, 1950 to August 6, 1958, lvc000015-356

AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND ORDINANCE NO. 586 BY PROVIDING A NEW BASIS OF POPULATION FOR THE ISSUANCE OF TAVERN LIQUOR AND RETAIL LIQUOR AND RETAIL LIQUOR LICENSES; PROVIDING OTHER MATTERS PROPERLY RELATED THERETO; AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT THEREWITH. The Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas do ordain as follows: SECTION 1. Section 1 of Ordinance No. 586 is hereby amended to read as follows: Hereafter, the is­suance of tavern liquor and retail liquor licenses shall be based on population, limiting the number of licenses issued to one, whether tavern or retail, to each 750 population in the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, provided, however, that hotels with 50 rooms or more and guest ranches with 50 rooms or more and occupying 40 acres or more, under one ownership and operation, are exempt from the provisions of this section for the purpose of initial application and provided, further, that liquor licenses heretofore issued by the appropriate governing body to businesses located in an area which has thereafter been annexed to the City of Las Vegas shall not be deemed prohibited by the limitation of this ordinance. Such licenses may be granted a similar license by the City as that which the said licensee had prior to the time of annexation; provided that the applicant is approved for holding a license by the City Commission. If any license provided for in this section should be revoked for any reason, no new license shall be issued until the population of the City of Las Vegas is such that the terms of this section can be com­plied with. SECTION 2. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. SECTION 3. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect upon its final reading and adoption, and final publication as in the next section provided. SECTION 4. 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 Review Journal, a daily newspaper published in the City of Las Vegas. APPROVED: /s/ C.D. BAKER Mayor 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 2nd day of February, 1955, and referred to the following committee composed of Commissioners Jarrett and Whipple for recommendation; thereafter the said committee reported favorably on Section 1 and the title as amended above of said ordinance on the l6th day of February, 1955, that at said meeting held on such day, the proposed ordinance as amended was read in full to the Board of Commissioners and adopted by the following vote: Voting "Aye": Commissioners Bunker, Jarrett, Sharp, Whipple & Mayor Baker. Voting "Nay": None Absent: None APPROVED: /s/ C.D. BAKER Mayor ATTEST: /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 , ofgeneral 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 Two (2) insertions from February 24, 1955 to March 3, 1955 inclusive, being the issues of said newspaper for the following dates, to-wit: February 24; March 3, 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 3rd day of March, 1955. /s/ NEOLA GIERHART NOTARY PUBLIC IN AND FOR CLARK COUNTY, NEVADA My Commission Expires April 14, 1957. ORDINANCE NO. 633 AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND ORDINANCE NO. 364 ALSO KNOWN AS CHAPTER 29, CODE OF LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, 1949, BY PRO­VIDING DEFINITIONS; AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT THEREWITH. The Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas do ordain as follows: SECTION 1. Section 1 of Chapter 29, Code of Las Vegas, Nevada, 1949, is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 1. DEFINITIONS. The following terms, whenever used or referred to in this Chapter, shall have the following meanings, ex­cept in those instances where the context clearly indicates otherwise. (a) Family. "Family" shall mean any number of individuals living together as a single housekeep­ing unit. (b) One-family residence. "One-family residence" shall mean a building used exclusively as liv­ing quarters for a family and occupied by only one family. (c) Two-family residence. "Two-family residence" shall mean a building used exclusively as living quarters for two families and occupied by not more than two families. ORDINANCE NO. 632