Las Vegas City Ordinances, July 18, 1911 to March 31, 1933, lvc000013-120

Approved this 7th day of April, 1920 W. E. FERRON Mayor. AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION. Chas. Corkhill, being first duly sworn, deposes and says: That he is a citizen of the United States, over the age of eighteen years; that he is the publisher of the Clark County Review, a weekly newspaper of general circulation printed and published at Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada, and that the Ordinance No. 78 of the City of Las Vegas of which the attached is a true and correct copy, was published in said paper one consecutive issues, on the following dates, to wit: April 10, 1920. Chas. C. Corkhill Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 12th day of April, A. D. 1920. Harley A. Harmon City Clerk Las Vegas, Nevada. ORDINANCE NO. 79 An Ordinance of the City of Las Vegas, providing for the Improvement of Third Street by Constructing Cement and Concrete Sidewalk on the West Side of said Street, and Providing for the Payment Therefor by Special Assessment. The Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas do ordain as follows: SEC. 1. - It is hereby ordered that a cement, concrete sidewalk shall be constructed along the west side of Third Street in Clark's Las Vegas Townsite, commencing at the north side of the east front of Lot (24) twenty-four, in Block (18) eighteen of said Townsite, and running thence southerly the west side of Third street to its intersection with Clark street, excepting Block (20) twenty. Said sidewalk shall be constructed in accordance with the provisions of Ordinance No. 47 of the City of Las Vegas and in accordance with the plats and diagrams of said work on file in the office of the City Clerk SBC. 2.- Said work shall be done at the exclusive cost of the owners of ground fronting on the west side of said Third street and abutting upon said improvement, and the cost thereof shall be collected by special assessment and shall be assessed upon the taxable lots and premises abutting upon such improvement in proportion to their number of feet frontage. The cost and expense of such improvement shall include the cost of surveys, plans, assessment, cost of construction and all fees and compensation properly chargeable in the work of making such special assessment. In case the amount of any special assessment upon any lot or preraises shall exceed twenty (20%) per cent of the value of such lot or premises as shown upon the latest tax list or assessment roll for the State and County taxation, such cost exceeding said twenty (20%) per cent shall be paid from the general fund of the City. SBC. 5- The assessment district for said improvement shall includes the lots and premises, as follows: Lots 24, 23 and 22 in Block number eighteen; lots 23 to 152 both numbers inclusive, and lot 12, in Block number nineteen; lots 17 to 32 both number inclusive, in Block number twenty-one; lots 17 to 32 both numbers inclusive in Block number twenty-two. There is excepted from said district Block number 20 SBC. 4 -The said work shall be done under contract to be let by this Board to the lowest responsible bidder and upon such conditions as the Board of City Commissioners may prescribe in the letting of such contract. SBC. 5- A Special assessment is hereby required to be made pro rata upon the lots in the above described special assessment district, according to frontage; and the City Assessor is hereby directed immediately upon the passage of this Ordinance to make such special assessment according to frontage and he is hereby directed to assess the sum of One Thousand Bight Hundred Thirty-Seven ($1,837.00) Dollars, the sum being the amount hereby determined necessary to cover the cost of such improvement. From the date of the approval of the assessment roll the special assessment shall constitute a lien upon the respective lots or premises or parcels of ground assessed. This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication for one week (one issue) in the Las Vegas Age, a weekly newspaper published in the City of Las Vegas.