Las Vegas City Ordinances, July 18, 1911 to March 31, 1933, lvc000013-74

I hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was read for the first time at a regular meeting of the Board of City commissioners, held on the 1st day of October, 1913, and read for the second time and passed at its meeting on the 3rd day of December, 1913, upon the following vote to-wit:- commissioners, Griffith, Curtiss, Smith, Sullivan and His Honor the Mayor, W.E. Hawkins, aye, Noes None. Approved this 3rd, day of December A.D. 1913. (SEAL) W.E. Hawkins, Mayor. Harley A. Harmon, City Clerk. Affidavit of Publication. State of Nevada) ss. County of Clark) Chas. P. Squires, being first duly sworn, deposes and says; that he is publisher of the Las Vegas Age, a weekly newspaper, of general circulation, printed and published at Las Vegas in the County of Clark, State of Nevada, and that the attached Ordinance No. 48, of the City of Las Vegas was continuously published in said newspaper for the period of one week on the 6th, day of December 1913. inclusive, being the issue of said newspaper for the following dates, to-wit- December 6th, 1913. That said newspaper was regularly issued and circulated on each of t he dates above named, that the charge for publishing the same was___________________ Signed. C.P. Squires. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 2nd, day of January A.D. 1914. (SEAL) Henry M. Lillis. Notary Public Ordinance No. 49. An ordinance for Police regulation, and prohibiting public dance halls in the City of Las Vegas. The Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas do ordain as follows: Section l. It shall be and is hereby made unlawful for any person or persons, firm or corporation to establish, open, keep, conduct or carry on a public dance hall, or a public ball room in the City of Las Vegas; and any person or persons, firm or corporation, opening, keeping, conducting or carrying on any such public dance hall or public ball room in the City of Las Vegas shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not to exceed Three Hundred Dollars, or by imprisonment in the City Jail for a term not to exceed ninety (90) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Section 2. Nothing contained in this ordinance shall be construed or understood to apply to any dance or ball given in any hotel for its guests by the owner, manager or lessee any such hotel, universally recognized as a hotel, and using a general register for guests; or to any charitable exhibition or entertainment given by an amateur dramatic association or society; or to any dance or ball op entertainment given by any bona fide beneficial, or bona fide benevolent association; or to any dance or ball given by any social organization formed for the purpose of holding, from time to time, private dances or entertainments; or to any dancing school maintained solely for the teaching of the art of dancing; provided, however, that if any dance or ball or entertainment is given for the purpose of evading the provisions of this ordinance, then section 1 of this ordinance snail be construed to apply thereto. Section 3. This ordinance snail take effect and be in force immediately on and after its passage and publication for one week (one issue) in the Las Vegas Age, a weekly newspaper published in the City of Las Vegas. The foregoing Ordinance was read for the first time at a regular meeting of the Board of Commissioners held on the first day of October, 1913, and passed upon the second reading at a regular meeting of said Board held on December 3rd, 1913 upon the following vote: Commissioners