Las Vegas City Ordinances, March 31, 1933 to October 25, 1950, lvc000014-375

ORDINANCE NO. 375 AN ORDINANCE DECLARING THE DEFRAUDING OF AN INNKEEPER AND OTHER PERSONS TO BE A CRIME; PROVIDING FOR THE PUNISHMENT OF VIOLATIONS THEREOF; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT THEREWITH; AND OTHER MATTERS PROPERLY RELATED THERETO. The Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas do ordain as follows: Section 1. Any person who shall obtain food, lodging, or other accommodation at any hotel, inn, lodging, boarding, rooming, or eating house, furnished apartment house, furnished bungalow court, or furnished auto camp, without paying therefor, with intent to defraud the owner or keeper thereof, is deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. Proof that lodging, food, or other accommodations were obtained by false pretense, or by false or fictitious show or pretense of any baggage or other property, or that the person refused or neglected to pay for such food, lodging, or other accommodations, or that he gave in payment for such food, lodging, or other accommodation negotiable paper on which payment was refused, or that he absconded without paying, or offering to pay for such food, lodging, or other accommodations, or that he surreptitiously removed or at­tempted to remove his baggage, shall be prima facie evidence of the fraudulent intent mentioned herein. Section 2. Any person violating the provisions of this ordinance shall upon conviction thereof be punished by a fine of not more than Five Hundred ($500.00) Dollars or by imprisonment in the City Jail not to exceed six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Section 3. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. Section The provisions of this ordinance shall be severable, and if any of said provisions, or the application thereof to any person, body or circumstances, shall be held to be invalid or unconstitutional, the remainder of this ordinance, or the application of such provision to persons, bodies or circumstances other than those as to which it shall have been held invalid or unconstitutional, shall not be affected thereby. It is hereby declared as the intent of the Board of Commissioners that this ordinance would have been adopted had such invalid or unconstitutional provision, or the application thereof to persons, bodies or circumstances as to which it shall have been held invalid and unconstitutional, not been included therein. Section 5. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect upon its publication, as in the next section provided, and final passage. Section 6. 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 Evening Review Journal, a daily newspaper published in the City of Las Vegas. ATTEST: /s/ E. W. Cragin _______ Mayor /s/ Shirley Ballinger City Clerk The above and foregoing Ordinance was first proposed and read by title to the Board of City Commis­sioners on the 22nd day of October, 1948, and referred to the following committee, composed of Commissioners Moore and Whipple for recommendation; thereafter the said committee reported favorably on said Ordinance on the 5th day of November, 1948, which was the next regular meeting of said Board of City Commissioners; that at said regular meeting held on the 5th day of November, 1948, 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 Baskin, Clark, Whipple and His Honor Mayor Cragin. Voting "Nay": None Absent: Commissioner Moore. APPROVED: ATTEST: /s/ E. W. Cragin________________ /s/ Shirley Ballinger Mayor City Clerk The above and foregoing Ordinance was thereafter read aloud to the said Board of City Commissioners for a second time at a regular meeting of the said Board held on the 22nd day of November, 1948, and passed by the following vote: Voting "Aye": Commissioners Baskin, Clark and His Honor Mayor Cragin Voting "Nay": None Absent: Commissioners Moore and Whipple APPROVED: ATTEST: /s/ E. W. Cragin Mayor /s/ Shirley Ballinger____________ City Clerk AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION STATE OF NEVADA) 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 November 9, 1948 to November 16, 1948 inclusive, being the issues of said newspaper for the following dates, to-wit: Nov. 9-16 That said newspaper was regularly issued and circulated on each of the dates above names. /s/ Dick Lochrie Subscribed and sworn to before me this 16th day of November, 1948 /s/ A. E. Cahlan__________ Notary Public in and for Clark County, Nevada My Commission Expires Jan 12, 1951