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Las Vegas City Ordinances, March 31, 1933 to October 25, 1950, lvc000014-28

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    AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION. STATE OF NEVADA ) ss County of Clark ) J.W. Squires, being duly sworn, deposes and says: That he is managing Editor of the Las Vegas Age, a daily newspaper of general circulation, printed and published at Las Vegas, in the County of Clark, State of Nevada, and that the attached Ordinance No. 201 was published in said newspaper for a period of two weeks from September 12 to September 19, inclusvie, being the issues of said newspaper for the following dates, to-wit: September 12 and 19, 1933 That said newspaper was regularly issued and circulated on each of the dates above named. That the legal charge for publishing the same was $117.00 Signed J.W. Squires Subscribed and sworn to before me this twenty second day of September, 1933. C.D. Breeze, Notary Public in and for Clark County Nevada. My Commission Expries May 26, 1935. (Notaral Seal) ORDINANCE NO. 202 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS TO AMEND SECTION 3 OF ORDINANCE NO. 201 OF THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS, ENTITLED: "AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE SLAUGHTERING OF ANIMALS AND SANITARY CONDITIONS OF ALL PLACES DISPENSING FOOD AND REFRESHMENTS TO THE PUBLIC; PROVIDING FOR THE INSPECTION OF MEATS AND MEAT PRODUCTS TO BE POSSESSED AND SOLD IN THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS; PROHIBITING THE SALE AND POSSESSION OF UNINSPECTED MEATS FOR HUMAN FOOD; AUTHORIZING THE APPOINTMENT OF MEAT INSPECTORS; PROHIBITING THE SALE OF HEAT AND MEAT PRODUCTS BY UNLICENSED ESTABLISHMENTS; AND PROVIDING A PENALTY FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF." The Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas do ordain as follows: Section 1. Section 3 of said Ordinance No. 201 is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 3. No carcass of any animal mentioned in Section 1 hereof, which has not been in­spected and passed as herein provided, shall be possessed in the City of Las Vegas for sale or other disposition as human food; provided, that during the months of November, December, January, February, and March of each year carcasses of cattle, sheep, swine, and goats, slaughtered by a farmer on his farm, to which the head and all viscera other than the stomach, bladder and intestines, may be held by the natural attachments, or if detached must be pre­sented with the carcass together with a certificate signed by the farmer certifying the de­tached head and Viscera to be those removed from the slaughtered carcass, may be presented for inspection as hereinafter provided; provided, further, that during all times of the year except the months hereinabove mentioned, all carcasses of animals herein mentioned, except carcasses of calves weighing less than two hundred fifty pounds, shall be slaughtered and inspected at a regularly designated slaughterhouse as in this Act provided. Animals so presented may be received for inspection to be stamped as herein provided at official meat inspection establishments within the City of Las Vegas where t ere is on duty a veterinary inspector appointed under the Department of Agriculture of the United States or a regular veterinarian inspector appointed under the provisions of this Act; provided, that all persons presenting said animals for inspection as herein provided, shall also comply with all laws of the State of Nevada providing for the inspection of hides or the slaughtering of bovine animals, as provided in Chapter 58 of the Statutes of Nevada 1931. The Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas is hereby empowered to designate one or more official establishments within or adjacent to the City of Las Vegas where such carcasses may be inspected, provided such establishments comply with the sanitary require­ments established from time to time by the City Board of Health, either by an inspector appointed under the provisions of this act, or by a regular veterinary inspector acting for the United States under its Meat Inspection Laws. After receipt in an official establishment every such animal or the carcass thereof shall be inspected, and unless found to be free from disease, and otherwise sound, healthful and wholesome and fit for human food, it shall be marked: "L.V.H.D. Insp'd & Condemned", and destroyed for food purposes as herein provided in the regulations referred to in Section 1 hereof. If found to be free from disease and otherwise sound, healthful and wholesome and fit for human food, it shall be marked: "L.V.H.D. Insp'd. & Pas'd." If in­spection takes place in an official establishment where a regular United States Inspector is maintained, then the rules and regulations of the United States meat inspection laws shall apply. Section 2. This Ordinance shall take effect immediately upon its publication and passage. Proposed, read aloud in full, and adopted this 20th day of October, 1933, by the following vote: Commissioners Mundy, German, Down and his Honor, the Mayor, voting aye. Noes None. Published in the Las Vegas Review Journal, a daily newspaper (except Sunday), pub­lished in the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, once a week for two weeks, to wit: November 8