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Las Vegas City Ordinances, March 31, 1933 to October 25, 1950, lvc000014-437

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    Section 4. It shell be the duty of the Chief of Police during fair and reasonable weather, when the same can be done without extra expense to the City, to procure employment for and set at work such convicted prison­ers who are confined and serving out their term of imprisonment, and to this end, upon the application of the Commissioners of said City having charge and supervision of the Streets and Alleys therein, and of the public property therein, or upon request of the Sheriff of Clark County, he shall deliver into the custody and charge of such person so making such application or request, and such prisoner as he may have in his custody, and any such prisoner shall be returned by the person so receiving him in custody to the City Jail or other place of de­tention to the police or other officer in charge thereof before the hour of 6 o'clock P.M. for safe keeping until again required for labor. Section 5. But persons having such prisoners in charge during the time they are so employed by any public work in the City, shall receive no extra compensation by reason of any work or service rendered or accomplished by such prisoners. Section 6. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect upon its publication as in the next section provided, and final passage. Section 7. 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 first reading and adoption, in the Las Vegas Review Journal, a daily newspaper published in the City of Las Vegas. The above and foregoing Ordinance was first proposed and read by title to the Board of Commissioners on the 9th day of November , 1949, and referred to the following committee composed of Commissioners Bunker and Whipple for recommendation; thereafter the said committee reported favorably on said Ordinance on the 22nd day of November____, 1949, which was the regular meeting of said Board of Commissioners; that at said regular meeting held on the 22nd day of November , 1949, the proposed ordinance was read in full to the Board of City Commis­sioners as first introduced and adopted by the following vote: Voting "Aye": Commissioners Bunker. Moore, Peccole, Whipple and His Honor, Mayor Cragin_________________ Voting "Nay": None____________________________________________________________________________ Absent: None___________________________________________________________________________ APPROVED: S/ E. W. Cragin_______________________________ Mayor SEAL ATTEST: S/ Shirley Ballinger______________ City Clerk AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION STATE OF NEVADA,) COUNTY OF CLARK )ss. Carl Woodbury________being first duly sworn, deposes and says: That he is auditor______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 2 times from November 30, 1949 to December 7, 1949 inclusive, being the issues of said newspaper for the following dates, to-wit: November 30; December 7. 1949. That said newspaper was regularly issued and cir­culated on each of the dates above named. S/ Carl R. Woodbury_______________________ Subscribed and sworn to before me this 7th day of December, 1949. S/ A. E. Cahlan_____ Notary Public in and for Clark County, Nevada My Commission Expires January 12, 1951. ORDINANCE NO. 395 AN ORDINANCE RELATING TO THE AUTHORIZATION AND ISSUANCE OF THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS BILTMORE STREET LIGHTING IM­PROVEMENT BONDS IN THE AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF $12,528.56 TO COVER CERTAIN UNPAID ASSESSMENTS HERETOFORE LEVIED AND CONFIRMED BY THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS, FOR THE PURPOSE OF PAYING FOR THE WORK OF MAKING IMPROVEMENTS IN THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS BY INSTALLING COMPLETE STREET LIGHTING UNITS WITH PARKWAY CABLE AND ORNAMENTAL STANDARDS ALONG CERTAIN STREETS AND PORTIONS OF STREETS IN SAID CITY AND MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN THE SPECIAL ASSESSMENT DISTRICT AS CREATED BY ORDINANCE NO. 318, AND TO ISSUE AND SELL THE BONDS OF THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS THEREFOR, SAID BONDS TO BE KNOWN AS BILTMORE STREET LIGHTING IMPROVEMENT BONDS AND PROVI­DING FOR THE COLLECTION OF THE SAID UNPAID ASSESSMENTS BY DIVIDING THE SAME INTO TEN (10) ANNUAL INSTALLMENTS AND PLACING SAID INSTALLMENTS ON THE TAX ROLL OF CLARK COUNTY AND COLLECTING THE SAME IN THE SAME MANNER AS STATE AND COUNTY TAXES ARE COLLECTED BY LAW, AND OTHER MATTERS RELATING THERETO. The Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas do ordain as follows: Section 1. That for the purpose of paying for the installation of complete street lighting units with parkway cable and ornamental standards in, over, and along all the streets embraced within those subdivisions in the City of Las Vegas known as the Biltmore Addition, Biltmore Addition Annex No. 1, and Biltmore Addition Annex No. 2, the particular lots and parcels of land & the persons to whom assessed being particularly described and set forth in the assessment roll on file in the City Clerk's office, for which special assessments have here- tofore been levied and confirmed by the Board of Commissioners, and not paid in full by said owners of property on said streets heretofore named and in compliance with and by virtue and authority of the Legislature of the State of Nevada, approved March 16, 1911, entitled "An Act to incorporate the town of Las Vegas in Clark County, and defining the boundaries thereof, and to authorize the establishing of a City Government therefor, and other matters relating thereto, as amended."