Las Vegas City Ordinances, March 31, 1933 to October 25, 1950, lvc000014-329

ordinance is, therefore, declared to be and is hereby passed as an emergency ordinance and shall take effect immediately after its passage and publication. Section 4. The City Clerk is hereby authorized and directed to have this ordinance published in the Las Vegas Evening Review Journal, a daily newspaper published in the City of Las Vegas, for a period of two weeks, that is to say: once each week. I hereby certify that, by the unanimous consent of the whole Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas, the foregoing ordinance was read in full when first introduced at the regular meeting of said Board held on the 22nd day of March, 1948, and was passed as an emergency ordinance upon said reading on said date, on the following vote: Voting "Aye" Commissioners: Baskin, Clark, Moore, Whipple and His Honor Mayor Cragin Voting "No": None Absent: None. (SEAL) ATTEST: Helen Scott Reed______ E. W. Cragin____________ City Clerk Mayor AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION STATE OF NEVADA ) ) SS: COUNTY OF CLARK ) Dick Lochrie, being first duly sworn, deposes and says: That he is foreman of the Las Vegas Evening Review-Journal, a daily newspaper, of general circulation, printed and published at Las Vegas, in the County of Clark, State of Nevada, and that the attached was continuously published in said newspaper for a period of two weeks from March 23rd 1948 to March 30th 1948 inclusive, being the issues of said newspaper for the following dates, to-wit: March 23,30 That said newspaper was regularly issued and circulated on each of the dates above named. Signed Dick Lochrie____________ Subscribed and sworn to before me this 30th day of March, 1948. A. E. Cahlan_______________________________ Notary Public in and for Clark County, Nevada My Commission Expires Jan 12, 1951 ----0O0----- ORDINANCE NO. 351 AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND SECTION XXX, SECTION XXXIII, SECTION XXXVI, AS AMENDED, AND SECTION LXXXXIV, AS AMENDED, OF ORDINANCE NUMBER 170 OF THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS ENTITLED: "AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS, REGULATING TRAVEL AND TRAFFIC UPON THE PUBLIC STREETS; ESTABLISHING A CENTRAL TRAFFIC DISTRICT; AND PROVIDING A PENALTY FOR THE BREACH OF ANY OF THE RULES OR REGULATIONS REGARDING TRAFFIC IN THIS ORDINANCE PROVIDED, AND REPEALING ORDINANCES NOS. 66, 68, 69, 86, 90, 94, 120, 124, 125, 127, 141, and 143 OF THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS, AND ALL ORDINANCES AND PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH." The Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas do ordain as follows: Section 1. Section XXX of Ordinance No. 170 of the City of Las Vegas shall be and the same is hereby amended, revised and re-enacted so that the same shall read as follows: SECTION XXX. CAREFUL RIDING AND DRIVING. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to ride, drive or propel a vehicle of any kind or character, or being in charge thereof to control the same, in a careless, reckless and imprudent manner on any street or highway within the City of Las Vegas or in such a manner as to endanger the life, limb or property of any person, and such riding, driving or propelling shall constitute reckless driving. Any person who shall violate any provision of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00), or by imprisonment in the City Jail for not more than six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment; upon a second conviction of an offense under the provisions of this section the person so convicted shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) or both such fine and imprisonment, and in addition thereto, if the person so convicted shall own a motor vehicle, the license for said motor vehicle, insofar as it effects the operation of said motor vehicle within the City of Las Vegas, shall be revoked for a period in the discretion of the Court not to exceed six (6) months; upon a third conviction of an offense under the provisions of this section, the person so convicted shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00), or by imprisonment in the City Jail for not more than six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, and in addition thereto, if the person so convicted shall own a motor vehicle, the license for said motor vehicle insofar as it effects the operation of said motor vehicle within the City of Las Vegas, shall be revoked for a period in the discretion of the Court not to exceed six (6) months, and if the three offenses, and convictions therefor, shall have occurred within a period of twelve (12) months, his license to operate a car or motor vehicle within the City of Las Vegas shall also be revoked for a period of not to exceed one (1) year.