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Las Vegas City Ordinances, March 31, 1933 to October 25, 1950, lvc000014-183

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    Section 3. Copies of Critical List to be Kept on File. The City Clerk shall secure, mark with the words "Official Copy," and keep on file in his office at all times three copies of the latest revision of the Defense Housing Critical List, together with all amendments there­to and all codes, standards and specification referred to therein, Said documents shall be available for public use and inspection at all times that office is open to the public. Section 4. Enforcement. All duly constituted building, plumbing, electrical and other inspectors of the city are hereby authorized and other inspectors of the city are hereby authorized and directed to enforce and compel, by the use of all existing remedies, compli­ance with the requirements of the building code in the construction of all defense housing except insofar as the building code requires the use of critical materials. In construction calling for the use of critical materials, and for which building permit has been granted pursuant to Section 2 of this ordinance, the specifications thereforshall be strictly en­forced, and if any such inspector believes that the construction will create a nuisance or situation dangerous to public health, safety or welfare he shall notify the building official, who, if he makes a finding that such is the case, may suspend the building permit until he finds that the offending condition has been remedied or he may revoke the permit: Provided, That any such finding shall be reduced to writing, with a statement of the reasons therefor, signed by the building official, and filed with the City Clerk; and the same shall be subject to public inspection at all times said Clerk's office is open to the public. Section 5. Severability. All parts and provisions of this ordinance are declared to be severable, and if any part or provision hereof is held invalid, such invalidity shall not effect any other part of provision of this ordinance which can be given effect without the invalid provision. Section 6. Repeal of Conflicting Ordinances. All Ordinances or parts of ordinances in con­flict herewith are hereby repealed to the extent of the conflict. Section 7. This ordinance is declared and passed as an emergency ordinance, and shall take effect immediately after its passage and publication. Section 8. The City Clerk is hereby authorized and directed to have this ordinance pub­lished in the Las Vegas Evening Review Journal, a daily newspaper published in the City of Las Vegas for a period of two weeks, that is to say: once each week. I hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was read for the first time at a recessed regular meeting of the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas held on the 4th day of June 1942, and was passed as an emergency ordinance upon the second reading on said last mention­ed date, on the following vote: Voting Aye: Clark, Rubidoux, Smith, Tinch, Mayor Garrison. Voting No: None. Absent: None (SEAL) Howell C. Garrison Mayor Attest: Helen Scott Reed City Clerk. AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION STATE OF NEVADA ) COUNTY OF CLARK ) Dick Lochrie, being first duly sworn, deposes and says: That he is foreman of the Las Vegas Evening 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 Two weeks, from June 5th, 1942, to June 12,1942. inclusive being the issues of said newspaper for the following dates, to-wit: June 5th-12th. That said newspaper was regularly issued and circulated on each of the dates above named. Signed Dick Lochrie Subscribed and sworn to before me this 16th day of June, 1942. A. E. Cahlan (SEAL) Notary Public in and for Clark County, Nevada. My commission expires Jan 12, 1943. ORDINANCE No. 274 AN ORDINANCE TO REPEAL SECTION 14 PART 4 AND TO AMEND SECTION 14 PART 5, and SECTION 17 AND SECTION 36 AND TO ADD SECTION 26a TO ORDINANCE 170 ENTITLED "AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS REGULATING TRAVEL AND TRAFFIC UPON THE PUBLIC STREETS: ESTABLISHING A CENTRAL TRAFFIC DISTRICT AND PROVIDING A PENALTY FOR THE BREACH OF ANY OF THE RULES OR REGULATIONS REGARDING TRAFFIC IN THIS ORDINANCE PROVIDED: AND REPEALING ORDINANCES NUMBER 66, 68, 69, 86, 90, 94, 120, 124, 127, 141 and 143, THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS, AND ALL ORDINANCES AND PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH." The Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas do ordain as follows: Section 1. Section 14, part 4, of Ordinance 170 of the City of Las Vegas is hereby repealed. Section 2. Section 14, part 5, is amended to read as follows: Right hand turns may be made at any intersection at any time provided, however, that the operator of vehicles shall not