Las Vegas City Ordinances, March 31, 1933 to October 25, 1950, lvc000014-135

ORDINANCE NO. 249 AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND SECTION 8 OF ORDINANCE NO. 244 of THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS, ENTITLED: "AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS LICENSING, FOR PURPOSES OF REGULATION AND REVENUE EVERY KIND OF LAWFUL BUSINESS HEREINAFTER SPECIFIED, TRANSACTED OR CARRIED ON WITHIN THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS, STATE OF NEVADA: FIXING THE RATES OF LICENSE TAX UPON THE SAME AND PROVIDING FOR THE COLLECTION OF SAID LICENSE TAX, AND A PUNISHMENT FOR CARRYING ON OR CON­DUCTING ANY SUCH BUSINESS WITHOUT A LICENSE, AND REPEALING ORDINANCES NUMBERED 1, 2, 4, 13, 14, 35, 48, 62, 74, 75, 81, 95, 102, 105, 108, 112, 117, 145, 184, 192 and 243." The Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas do ordain as follows: Section 1. Section 8 of Ordinance No. 244 of the City of Las Vegas is hereby amended to read as follows: The rates of license tax for businesses, trades, occupations and employ­ments hereinafter named are hereby fixed in and for the City of Las Vegas and the same shall be paid by any person engaged in or carrying on the same in said City, as follows: (1) For each hand laundry employing one or more persons, $2.50 per quarter. (2) For each insurance agent, or real estate broker, or both, $10.00 per quarter. (3) For each chooting gallery, $25.00 per quarter. (4) For each brokerage establishment, $30.00 per quarter. (5) For every banker and bank with a capital of $100,000 or over (except National Banks), $30.00 per quarter. For every banker or bank with a capital of less than $100,000 (except National Banks), $15.00 per quarter. (6) For each skating rink, $20.00 per quarter. (7) For each pawn shop, $50.00 per quarter. (8) For each employment or intelligence office, $25.00 per quarter. (9) Every person who operates a wrecking yard, junk yard, or out-of-door yard or lot where used furniture, plumbing or other second hand materials or mer­chandise are stored for sale, shall pay a license fee of $25.00 per quarter. This section shall include all out-of-door lots or yards upon which two or more used cars not incondition to operate under their own power are permitted to remain for a period of thirty days or longer. (10) Every person who operates a used car lot, containing only cars capable of being moved under their own power, shall pay a license fee of $10.00 per quarter, provided, that without paying such license fee, one such lot may be maintained by each person or firm who holds a State license as a new or used car dealer. The word "car" as used in this section shall mean any automobile or gasoline propelled vehicle. (11) For each astrologer, palmist, seer, phrenologist, fortune teller, clairvoyant, or spiritualist, who demands and receives a fee for his or her services, $100.00 per day. (12) For each merry-go-round or carrousel, $5.00 per day. (13) Any proprietor, lessee or manager of any traveling show, traveling skating rink, circus, hippodrome, menagerie, or carnival intending to exhibit in the open air or under a tent or in any public hall, club room, assembly hall or theatre, where movable scenery and theatrical applicances are used, any performance or exhibition in the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, shall pay to the City Clerk of the said City of Las Vegas, the sum of $100.00 as a license fee for the privilege of showing and exhibiting such traveling show, traveling skating rink, circus, hippo­drome, menagerie or carnival for each day; and upon payment therefor said City Clerk shall issue license for the day or number of days so paid for. Provided that nothing in this section contained shall be deemed or construed to require the holder of a theatre license to procure any additional license to con­duct, maintain or carry on any theatrical or vaudeville performance when such per­formance is conducted at any such theatre so licensed. (14) For each patent medicine agency, $25.00 per quarter. (15) For each lawyer, whether connected with or as a member of a firm, or practicing by himself, $10.00 per quarter. (16) For each physician and/or surgeon, whether connected with a firm or hospital, or practicing by himself, $10.00 per quarter. (17) For each dentist whether connected with or as a member of a firm, or practicing by. himself, $10.00 per quarter. (18) For each hotel, lodging house, rooming house, auto court or tourist camp, as defined hereunder, $5.00 per quarter for from four to eight guest rooms; from eight to eighteen guest rooms, $10.00 per quarter; from eighteen to thirty guest rooms, $20.00 per quarter; from thirty to fifty guess rooms, $30.00 per quarter; from fifty to eighty guest rooms $40.00 per quarter; above eighty guest rooms, $50.00 per quarter. Every person, firm or association or corporation engaged in the business of keeping or conducting an apartment house in the City of Las Vegas, shall pay for and obtain a quarterly license to carry on such business as per schedule hereinafter recited in this subdivision, namely: Those who have four (4) apartments and not exceeding eight (8) apartments shall pay for such license the sum of $5.00 per quarter And those who have nine apartments and not exceeding eighteen apartments, shall pay for such license the sum of $15.00 per quarter; and those who have nineteen apart­ments and not exceeding thirty-eight apartments, shall pay for such license the sum of $30.00 per quarter; those who have thirty-nine apartments and over shall pay for such license the sum of $60.00 per quarter. For the purpose of this ordinance, an auto court or tourist camp is defined as a place, other than a regular hotel or apartment house, where sleeping accommo­dations in small buildings are rented to the general public, and whenever more than three cabins or small buildings are situated in close proximity to each other and are owned or operated by the same person and are rented to the general public, either by the day week, month or year, and whether to transients or permanent residents of the City of Las Vegas, the same shall be considered to be a tourist camp or auto court.