Las Vegas City Ordinances, March 31, 1933 to October 25, 1950, lvc000014-229

All of the area bounded by the Union Pacific Railroad Main Track on the west, the City Limits on the North, the west line of Main Street on the East, and Charleston Boulevard on the south. All of the of the SW¼ of Section 27 and all of Section 34 lying west of the Union Pacific Railroad Main track; all of the E½ of the NE¼ and all of the SW¼ of Section 33 lying west of the Union Pacific Railroad main track; all in Township 20 South, Range 61 East, M.D.B.&M. All of the East ½ of the NE¼ of Section 4, Township 21 South, Range 61 East M.D.B. & M., Blocks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, and the West of Blocks 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 of the Boulder Addition; and the area bounded by the Meadows Addition on the West, the Boulder Addition on the North, and west line of South Main Street on the east, and the commer­cial district on the westerly side of South Fifth Street on the South. Section 3. This ordinance is declared to be and is hereby passed as an EMERGENCY ORDINANCE and it shall take effect immediately after its passage and publication. Section 4. The City Clerk is hereby authorized to have this Ordinance published in the Las Vegas Moring Tribune, a daily newspaper printed and published in the City of Las Vegas, County of Clark, State of Nevada, for a period of two weeks, that is to say, once each week for a period of two weeks. The foregoing ordinance was read aloud for the first time and voted upon at a regular meeting of the Board of City Commissioners on the 7th day of July , 1945. Voting Aye; Commissioners Baskin, Bates, Corradetti and His Honor, Mayor Cragin__________ Voting No : None __________________________________________________________________________ Absent : Commissioner Clark_____________________________________________________________ ATTEST: APPROVED: /s/ Helen Scott Reed________ /s/ E. W. Cragin______________ City Clerk Mayor —ooOoo— ORDINANCE NUMBER 301 AN ORDINANCE REQUIRING REGISTRATION WITH THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS POLICE DEPARTMENT AND THE FINGERPRINTING, THUMBPRINTING, AND PHOTOGRAPHING OF ALL EMPLOYEES OF GAMBLING HOUSES, TAXI DRIVERS, AND EMPLOYEES OF ESTABLISHMENTS WHERE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES ARE SOLD AT RETAIL ON THE PREMISES AND PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR A VIOLATION OF THIS ORDINANCE. The Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas Do Ordain as follows: Section 1. Definition -- Wherever used in this ordinance, unless the context other­wise requires: (A) "Employees of Gambling Houses" shall mean all dealers, shills, and operators of gambling and banking games as such games are defined by City of Las Vegas Ordinance Nos. 165 as amended and 203 as amended, except slot machines, pin ball machines and any other mechanically operated game where no attendant is required. (B) "Employees of Establishments where Alcoholic Beverages are Sold at retail on the Premises" shall mean bartenders, waiters and nay other person who serves alcoholic beve­rages to patrons for consumption on the premises, save and excepting the employees of cafe and restaurants. (C) "Taxi Drivers" will include all persons who drive any motor vehicle or convey­ance used in the City of Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada, for the purpose of transporting persons for hire, save and except those persons employed for hire to transport persons in interstate traffic exclusively, and these persons for hire to operate buses which operate under a City Franchise. (D) "Alcoholic Beverages" shall mean and include any and all distilled or rectified spirits, petable alcohol, brandy, whiskey, rum, gin, aromatic bitters, beer, wine and every liquid or solid containing alcohol capable of being consumed by a human being. Section 2. Policy -- It is hereby declared to be the policy of the City of Las Vegas, as herein expressed by the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas, that the safety morals, good order and general welfare of the inhabitants of the City of Las Vegas will be better protected and served, by requiring the registration with the Police Department of said City, the thumb, finger printing, and photographing of all employees of gambling houses taxi drivers, and employees of establishments where alcoholic beverages are sold at retail and served on the premises, as such employees and establishments are defined in Section 1 of This Ordinance. Section 3. It shall be unlawful for any person to accept employment in any gambling house, as a drive or operator of any taxicab, or in any establishment where alcoholic beverages, as defined in Section 1 hereof, are sold at retail and consumed on the premises, unless such person shall first have registered his name and address with the Police Depart­ment of the City of Las Vegas and shall have had his thumb, fingerprints, and photograph taken and filed in the Bureau of Identification of the City of Las Vegas. Section 4. Upon such employee complying with the provisions of Section 3 hereof, the Chief of Police shall issue a certificate to such employee showing compliance therewith,