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EMERGENCY ORDINANCE ORDINANCE NO. 217 An Ordinance to prohibit the removal from without the City of Las Vegas to points within the City of Las Vegas and to prohibit the maintenance with the City of houses and structures constructed or reconstructed elsewhere, and to prevent the removal of houses and structures from one place within the City of Las Vegas and to prohibit the maintenance thereof within the City of Las Vegas and providing penalties for the violations of this ordinance, and other matters relating thereto: The Board of City Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas do ordain: Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or association to remove or cause to be removed from without the City of Las Vegas to any place or point with in the exterior boundaries of the City of Las Vegas, any house or structure or part of a house or structure theretofore constructed or reconstructed without the City of Las Vegas, without first obtaining the written permission of the City Engineer of the City of Las Vegas so to do. Section 2. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or association responsible therefor, or owner of any such house or structure or part of a house or structure constructed or reconstructed in any place without the exterior boundaries of the City of Las Vegas and which has been removed to the City of Las Vegas without the permission aforesaid, and every day that such house or structure shall be permitted to remain in the City limits of the City of Las Vegas, without the permission aforesaid, shall be deemed a separate offense. Section 3. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or association to remove from one place within the City limits of the City of Las Vegas to another place within the City of Las Vegas any house or structure without first having obtained the written permission of the City Engineer of the City of Las Vegas so to do. Section 4. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or association to maintain in any place within the City of Las Vegas any house or structure removed from one place within the City to any other place within the City without the written permission of the City Engineer so first had and obtained, and each and every day that the owner, person, firm, or association, or the party responsible for the same, shall cause or permit such house, or structure, to so remain at a place to which it has been removed, without permission as aforesaid, shall be deemed a separate offence for the purpose of this ordinance. Section 5. Provided, however, this ordinance is not intended to apply to houses, or structures brought within the City, or moved from one place to another within the City prior to the passage of this ordinance. Section 6. Every person, firm, corporation or association of persons violating the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not less than One Hundred (100.00) Dollars and not exceeding Five Hundred ($500.00) Dollars or by imprisonment in the City Jail for a period not exceeding sixty (60) days or in the discretion of the Court by both such fine and imprisonment. Section 7. This ordinance is declared to be and is hereby passed as and emergency ordinance, and it 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 two weeks, that is to say, it shall be published in said newspaper once a week for two consecutive weeks. The foregoing ordinance was read aloud for the first time and voted upon at a regular meeting of the Board on the fourth day of March, 1936. Vote for Commissioners Down Farnsworth, Marble and Ward and His Honor the Mayor L.L. Arnett, and was read aloud for the second time and was passed by the unanimous consent of the Board as an emergency ordinance of the fourth day of March, 1936. Voting for Commissioners Down, Farnsworth, Marble and Ward, and His Honor the Mayor L.L. Arnett. Approved this fourth day of March, 1936. L.L. Arnett Mayor. Attest: Viola Burns City Clerk ( City Seal) AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION STATE OF NEVADA ) ss 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 March 5th to March 12th inclusive, being the issues of s id newspaper for the following dates to-wit: March 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 12th day of March, 1936. A.E. Cahlan, My Commission Expires Jan 12 1939 Notary Public in and for Clark County, Nevada.