Las Vegas City Ordinances, November 13, 1950 to August 6, 1958, lvc000015-154

SECTION 5. That the County Assessor of the County of Clark and State of Nevada, the acting Ex- officio City Assessor of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, shall prepare, and is hereby empowered, authorized and directed to make forthwith, an assessment roll in the manner provided by the Charter of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, and shall assess each lot and parcel of land embraced within the aforementioned special assessment district, such relative portion of the whole sum to be levied as the length of front of such pre­mises abutting upon the improvement bears to the whole frontage of all the lots to be assessed; unless, on account of the shapre or size of any lot or lots, an assessment for a different number of feet would be more equitable; and the frontage of all lots to be assessed shall be deemed to be the aggregate number of feet as determined upon for assessment by the assessor. SECTION 6. That when said Ex-officio City Assessor shall have completed the assessment, he shall report the same to the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas.. Such report shall be signed by him and made in the form of a certificate endorsed on the assessment roll, substantially in the manner prescribed by the Charter of said City. SECTION 7. That after said special assessment roll shall have been prepared and reported to said Board, it shall be filed in the office of the City Clerk and numbered. SECTION 8. That before said assessment roll is adopted and confirmed by said Board, any person objecting to the assessment may file his objection thereto with the City Clerk on or before Wednesday, the 21st day of January, 1953, at 8:00 o'clock, P.M., at the City Hall in said City, and said time and place are hereby fixed as the time and place when and where said Board and said County Assessor and Ex-officio City Assessor will meet to hear and consider objections to said special assessment roll and to review said assessment. SECTION 9. That after filing said special assessment roll with the City Clerk, she shall pub­lish notice of the time said Board and said Ex-officio City Assessor will meet to review the assessments, once a week for two successive weeks in the Las Vegas Sun, a daily newspaper published in said City of Las Vegas, in the manner prescribed by the Charter of the City of Las Vegas, as amended. SECTION 10.. That at said time appointed for reviewing the assessments as aforesaid, the Board of Commissioners and the Ex-officio City Assessor shall meet and then, or at some adjourned meeting, review the assessments and hear any objections to said assessments which may be made by any person deeming himself aggrieved thereby, and shall decide the same; and said Board may correct the same as to any assessment or description of the premises appearing therein, and may confirm and approve it as reported or as corrected, or said Board may refer the assessment back to said Ex-officio City Assessor for revision, or annul it and direct a new assessment, in which case the assessment shall be made anew. SECTION 11. That when said special assessments shall be confirmed, the City Clerk shall make an endorsement upon the roll showing the date of confirmation, which shall be in substantially in the manner prescribed by the Charter of said City. SECTION 12. That when the assessments shall be confirmed and approved as herein provided, it shall be final and conclusive. The City Clerk shall thereupon deliver to said County Assessor acting Ex- officio City Assessor, the Assessment Roll as confirmed by the Board of Commissioners, with her certificate of such confirmation, and of the date thereof. The County Assessor, acting Ex-officio City Assessor, shall thereupon, without extra compensation, record such Assessment Roll in his office, and append thereto his certificate of the date of such recording, whereupon from said date all persons shall be deemed to have notice of the contents of such Assessment Roll, and it shall be prima facie evidence in all courts and tri­bunals of the regularity of all proceedings preliminary to the making thereof, and of the validity of the assessment and the Assessment Roll. SECTION 13. That all special assessments, assessed as aforesaid, shall from the date of confirma­tion and approval thereof constitute a lien upon the respective lots or parcels of land assessed. The special assessments thereafter shall be and remain a lien on the Respective lots and parcels of land assessed until paid. SECTION l4. That said assessments shall be due and payable at the office of the County Treasurer of Clark County, Nevada, acting Ex-officio City Treasurer and Ex-officio Tax Collector of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, within one week after said special assessment roll is confirmed and approved, without inter­est and without demand; provided, that all such assessments, or any part thereof, may, at the election of the owner, be paid in installments, with interest, as hereinafter provided. Failure to pay the whole as­sessment, or any part thereof, within said period of one week shall be conclusively considered and held an election oh the part of all persons interested, whether under disability or otherwise, to pay in such in­stallments. In case of such election to pay in installments, the unpaid assessments shall be payable at the office of said Ex-officio City Treasurer in ten substantially equal annual installments of principal, the first of which installments of principal shall be due and payable on or before the 1st day of December, 1953, and the remainder of said installments shall be due and payable successively on or before the same day in each year thereafter until paid in full, with interest in all cases on the unpaid and deferred install­ments of principal from the 1st day of December, 1952, at the same rate of interest as that provided for in the special assessment bond to be 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 December, 1953, and the remainder of said annual installments of interest being due and payable on the 1st day of December 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 immediately, 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 the 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.