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Any pawnbroker or keeper of a pawnshop shall furnish to the pledgor what is known as a pawn ticket, plainly numbered, containing a description of the article or thing pawned or received, date of receipt thereof, the amount loaned thereon, time for redemption, and name of the pledgee, and shall affix to each article or thing, a tag upon which shall be inscribed a number of legible characters which shall correspond to the number on the pawn ticket, and be entered in the book required to be kept by Chapter 22, Section 14 of the Las Vegas City Code. Section 3. Chapter 22, Section 21 of the Las Vegas City Code is hereby amended to read as follows: No property received in pledge by any pawnbroker shall be removed from his place of business, except when redeemed by the owner thereof, within four (4) days after the receipt thereof shall have been reported to the Chief of Police as herein provided. Section 4. Chapter 22, Section 22, of the Las Vegas City Code is hereby repealed. Section 5. Chapter 22, Section 23, of the Las Vegas City Code is hereby amended to read as follows: No licensed pawnbroker shall buy, sell or take for pledge, pawn or security, any brass knucks. Section 6. Chapter 22, Section 24 of the Las Vegas City Code is hereby amended to read as follows: The following information shall be printed on the back of each pawn ticket required to be given the pledgor: "In the event you fail to pay the loan within ninety (90) days after maturity or within ninety (90) days after payment of any monthly interest when due, you shall thereby forfeit all right and title unto said pledged and pawned property to the pawnbroker who shall thereby acquire an absolute title to the same." Section 7. Chapter 22, Section 25 of the Las Vegas City Code is hereby amended to read as follows: No pawnbroker, loan broker or keeper of a loan office shall, in the conduct of such business, under any pretense whatever, purchase or buy any personal property whatsoever without first obtaining a secondhand dealers license as provided by Chapter 17, Section 12 of the Las Vegas City Code. Section 8. The area for which a license may be issued for a pawnbroking business is confined to the district bounded by the east side of Main Street, the south side of Stewart. Avenue, the west side of Second Street, and the north side of Carson Avenue, and also on both sides of West Jackson Avenue between North D Street and North F Street. Section 9. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect upon its final reading and adoption, and final publication as in the next section provided. Section 10. 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 7th day of March 1950, and referred to the following committee composed of Commissioners Bunker and Peccole for recommendation; thereafter the said committee reported favorably on said ordinance on the 7th day of August, 1950. which was the regular meeting of said Board of Commissioners; that at said regular meeting held on the 7th day of August , 1950, the proposed Ordinance was read in full to the Board of City Commissioners as first introduced and amended, 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 insertions from August 11, 1950 to August 18, 1950 inclusive, being the issues of said newspaper for the following dates, to-wit: August 11, 18, 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 18th day of August, 1950. S/ Neola Gierhart________________________________________ Notary Public in and for Clark County, Nevada. My Commission Expires April 14, 1954.