Las Vegas City Commission Minutes, May 26, 1952 to February 17, 1954, lvc000008-107

hereafter authorized, sold, issued and delivered, but not to exceed seven per centum (7%) per annum, payable annually at the office of said Ex-officio City Treasurer, the first annual payment of interest being due and payable on the said 1st day of June, 1953 and the remainder of said annual installments of interest being due and payable on the 1st day of June in each year there­after. Failure to pay any installment, whether of principal or interest, when due, shall cause the whole of the unpaid principal to become due and payable immeidately, and the whole amount of the unpaid principal and accrued interest shall thereafter bear penalty at the rate of ten per centum per annum, until the day of sale, but at any time prior to the day of sale, the owner may pay the amount of all unpaid installments with interest thereon, and all penalties accrued, and shall thereupon be restored to the right thereafter to pay in installments in the same manner as if default had not been suffered. The owner of any property not in default as to any installment or payment, may, at any time, pay the whole of the unpaid principal with interest accruing there­on to the next interest paying date. Each assessment, together with interest thereon, shall be placed on the tax roll of Clark County on and against the several owners and premises, and the County Assessor of Clark County, acting Ex-officio Assessor of the City of Las Vegas, is hereby authorized and directed to enter the same on the tax roll of said County and to extend the same in a special column for special assessments on said tax roll, and the County Treasurer of said County, the Ex-officio City Treasu­rer and Ex-officio Tax Collector of the City of Las Vegas is hereby authorized and directed to collect the same, all in the same manner and at the same time as other State and County Taxes are collected, except as herein specifically provided. SECTION 3. Section 21 of Emergency Ordinance No# 488 is hereby amended to read as follows: That the City Clerk and Clerk of the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas, shall cause this ordinance to be published once a week for two successive weeks immediately following its final reading and adoption, in the Las Vegas Sun, a daily newspaper published in said City, and this ordinance shall become effective immediately following the second publication hereof. SECTION 4. That all by-laws, orders, resolutions and ordinances, or parts of by-laws, orders, resolutions and ordinances, in conflict with this ordinance, are hereby repealed. SECTION 5. That if any one or more sections, sentences, clauses or parts of this ordinance shall, for any reason, be questioned or be held invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remaining provisions of this ordinance, but shall be confined in its operation to the specific sections, sentences, clauses or parts of this ordinance so held unconstitutional and invalid, and the inapplicability and invalidity of any section, sentence, clause or part of this ordinance, in any one or more instances, shall not affect or prejudice in any way the appli­cability and validity of this ordinance in any other instances. SECTION 6. That by reason of the fact that the streets of the City of Las Vegas are inade­quate to meet the present and future needs of the City and its inhabitants and that it is nec­essary immediately to raise funds to improve said streets, therefore, it is hereby declared that an emergency exists, and this ordinance is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety. SECTION 7. That the City Clerk and the Clerk of the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas, shall cause this ordinance to be published once a week for two successive weeks immed­iately following its final reading and adoption, in the Las Vegas Sun, a daily newspaper published in said City, and this ordinance shall become effective immediately following the second pub­lication thereof. PASSED, ADOPTED (SEAL) ATTEST: s/ Shirley Ballinger City Clerk Commissioner Whipple then seconded the motion to adopt the foregoing ordinance# The question being upon the adoption of said ordinance the roll was called with the following result: Those voting "Aye”: Commissioner Bunker Commissioner Whipple Mayor Baker Those voting "Nay": None Absent: Commissioner Jarrett Commissioner Peccole Thereupon, the presiding officer declared said motion carried and the ordinance duly passed and adopted. It was then moved by Commissioner Bunker and seconded by Commissioner Whipple, that all rules of this Board which might prevent, unless suspended, the final passage and adoption of this ordinance at this meeting be, and the same are hereby, suspended for the purpose of permitting the final passage and adoption of said emergency ordinance at this meeting. The question being upon the adoption of said motion and the suspension of the rules, the roll was called with the following result: Those voting "Aye": Commissioner Bunker Commissioner Whipple Mayor Baker Those voting "Nay”: None# Absent: Commissioner Jarrett Commissioner Peccole