Las Vegas City Commission Minutes, August 11, 1942 to December 30, 1946, lvc000005-438

WHEREAS, a public necessity dictates the extension of the corporate limits for the needed urban purposes of the extension of streets, sewers, drainage, electric, gas and water systems, to supply places for the abode and business of residents, and for the extension of needed police regulation, and WHEREAS, such contiguous territory by reason of its proximity is receiving benefits from the city and its facilities and will further receive enhanced benefits and advantages from its annexation to the municipal corporation, NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED this 6th day of April, 1946 by the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas, County of Clark, State of Nevada that the said Board of Commissioners deems it necessary to annex additional territory to the City of Las Vegas, and hereby declares its intention to annex the following described area contiguous to the present corporate limits. A strip of land in Clark County, Nevada, extending southwardly along both sides of the Los Angeles Highway, also designated as U.S. Highway 91 and 466, between the south corporate limit boundary line of the City of Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada, and the south boundary lines of Sections 28 and 29, Township 21 South, Range 61 East, M.D.B. & M. having for its westerly boundary a line parallel to the center line of the said Los Angeles Highway as now established, used and marked by the State Highway Department of the State of Nevada, and being distant 1500 feet westwardly from the said center line of Los Angeles Highway measured perpendicular thereto. The easterly boundary of said strip being a line parallel to the center line of the said Los Angeles Highway established as hereinbefore described and being distant 1500 feet eastwardly from the said center line of the Los Angeles Highway measured perpendicular thereto, except that there shall be included in the said strip of land at Page 31, Clark County Records, and of Country Club Addition, recorded in Book 1 of Plats at Page 87, Clark County Records, which may lie eastwardly from the easterly boundary of said strip of land as hereinbefore described. and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Engineer of the City of Las Vegas prepare a plat of the territory to be annexed as above described and cause the same to be filed in the Office of the City Clerk of the City of Las Vegas, and that the said City Engineer is hereby directed so to do, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that said Board of Commissioners shall meet on the 8th day of May, 1946, at 2 o'clock of the afternoon of that day to hear objections to the annexation of said territory on the part of the freeholders residing therein, and residents of the City of Las Vegas, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Clerk shall, and she is hereby directed to cause notice of the date and time of said hearing on objections to be published twice each week for a period of two weeks in the Las Vegas Evening Review Journal, a newspaper of general circulation in the City of Las Vegas, and to post said notice in at least three public places in the said district sought to be annexed, and to mail said notice to all known freeholders in said district sought to be annexed, citing them to appear in person or by furnishing properly executed petitions signed by a majority of the freeholders living in said district, at said hearing, and show cause why said land should not be annexed to the City of Las Vegas, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that, after said hearing, if a majority of the freeholders residing in said territory sought to be annexed do not protest, the Board of Commissioners shall pass an ordinance declaring said territory to be annexed to and be a part of the said City of Las Vegas, and shall order a plat of the annexed territory to be recorded in the office of the County Recorder of the County of Clark, whereupon said territory shall be a part of the City of Las Vegas and subject to all the taxes and laws thereof. APPROVED: s/E. W. Cragin Mayor ATTEST: s/Helen Scott Reed City Clerk The foregoing motion was seconded by Commissioner Baskin, carried by the following vote: Commissioners Baskin, Bates, Clark, Corradetti and His Honor Voting aye; noes, none.