Las Vegas City Commission Legal Documents, February 29, 1944 to February 21, 1945, lvc000016-11

3 Limitation of Minimum Cost and Minimum Area: No dwelling costing less than Five Thousand ($5000.00) Dollars shall be permitted on any residential plot. The ground floor area of the main structure, exclusive of one-story open porches and garages, shall be not less than twelve hundred (1200) square feet. Building Height Limit: The maximum building height shall be two and one-half (2 1/2) stories or thirty-five (35) feet for any dwelling structure. Accessory or out-buildings incidental to each dwelling shall not be more than one story in height. 3. LIMITATION OF USE AND OCCUPANCY: No portion of said tract of land and no interest in any of said tract shall be conveyed, transferred, leased or demised to, occupied by, or held by any person unless he be of the Caucasian or white race. Neither said tract of land nor any part thereof nor any of the plots shown on said map shall be used in any manner whatsoever or occupied by any negro, Chinese, Japanese, hindu, armenian, asiatic or native of the turkish empire, or any descendants thereof. The covenants in this paragraph numbered 3 shall not prevent the employment of a person not of the Caucasian race by a resident upon any of said plots as a servant or employee of such resident. 4. SEWAGE DISPOSAL: All sewage disposal shall be by means of connection to the Las Vegas City sanitary sewer system, or if such sanitary sewer is not existant or available for use at the time any dwelling is constructed, by a sewage disposal system or individual septic tank for each separate dwelling within the tract. The type, construction, and location on respective plots of any such septic tank and the disposal field in connection therewith shall prior to construction of such tank, be approved in writing by the appropriate health authorities of the County of Clark, State of Nevada. No cesspools or outside toilets or privy shall be constructed, maintained or permitted on any of said plots or parcels in said tract. 5. UTILITIES EASEMENTS: There are hereby reserved, created, imposed and retained, certain easements, servitudes and rights of way over, along, upon and under the plots in this tract, for the erection, construction and maintenance of (A) poles, wires, and conduits for transmission of electricity for light, telephone and other purposes and for the necessary attachments in connection therewith; (B) Public and private sewers, public and private septic tanks, storm water drains, land drains and pipes, water and gas mains and pipes; and (C) any other method of conducting and performing any public or quasi-public utility or function over or beneath the surface of the ground. The right to use, enjoyment, supervision, direction, control and maintenance of said ease­ments for the purposes aforesaid is hereby reserved and vested in the undersigned, their grantees, successors and assigns, who shall have the right of ingress and egress thereto and therefrom, and the right, privilege and easement of using the lands charged with said easements for the purposes aforesaid, and of doing whatever may be necessary or in their judgment convenient for the carrying out of any of the purposes for which said easements are reserved, with the right to remove trees or overhanging branches of trees thereon, and the right to construct, install and maintain all things contemplated or reasonably included within the purposes hereinbefore specified, with the power to grant to or delegate to any public or municipal or other corporation or individual, the right to exercise said rights, or to erect, construct or maintain any thereof. The owner or owners of plots upon which said easements are located are hereby given the right to use, at their own risk, that portion of the easements within the limits of their plots for garden purposes, but not for the placing or construction of any portion of said easements or improvements of a permanent character or any that may interfere with the use or maintenance of