Las Vegas City Ordinances, July 18, 1911 to March 31, 1933, lvc000013-322

AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION. STATE OF NEVADA )ss County of Clark ) C. P. Squires, being duly sworn, deposes and says: That he is publisher of the Las Vegas Age, a daily newspaper of general circulation, printed and published at Las Vegas, in the County of Clark, State of Nevada, and that the attached Ordinance No. 181 of the City of Las Vegas, was published in said newspaper for a period of one week, from Oct. 22, 1931 to Oct. 29, 1931 inclusive being the issues of said newspaper for the following dates to-wit: Oct. 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 1931. That said newspaper was regularly issued and circulated on each of the dates above named. That the legal charge for publishing the same was $ Signed C. P. Squires Subscribed and sworn to before me this 29th day of October, 1931. C. D. Breeze Notary Public in and for Clark County Nevada. My Commission expires May 26, 1935. (Notarial Seal) ORDINANCE NO. 182. An Ordinance to amend, revise, and re-enact Section 4 of Ordinance No. 129 of the City of Las Vegas, entitled "An Ordinance to amend, revise, and re-enact Sections 2 and 19 of Ordinance No. 36, entitled "An Ordinance providing for the issuance of plumbing and sewer connection permits, for the inspection of plumbing and sewer connections and for the regulation and construction of of plumbing work in the City of Las Vegas," and further amending said ordinance by adding thereto two sections to be knows as 2a and 2b respectively, and to repeal all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict therewith." The Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas Do Ordain: Section 1. Section 4 of said Ordinance No. 129 is hereby amended, revised, and re-enacted so that the same shall read as follows: Section 4. Said Ordinance is hereby amended, revised, and re-enacted by adding thereto a new section to be knows as 2b to read as follows: Section 2b. It shall be unlawful to install any gas piping in the City of Las Vegas without first securing a permit to do the same, except where gas is supplied to a consumer from individual tanks. The fee for such permit shall be One Dollar ($1.00), which will include the inspection of said installation. All piping shall be uniformly graded to the meter and shall be securely strapped, no piping shall be less than one-half inch. Stove outlets shall be not less than three-quarters of an inch. No gas water heaters shall be located in any bath room, nor shall one be placed nearer than six inches to any wood, or lath and plaster partition or wall, nor nearer than three inches to any asbestos or metal covered lath and plaster or wood partition or wall. All gas water heaters shall be vented to and above the roof. Where such vent is of sheet iron it shall be not less than six inches from any wood work. Gas piping shall be of the following sizes and runs: For each gas grate, gas log, or gas heating stove, combination boiler and water heater, or non automatic water heater, allow three burners and for each gas cook stove or hot plate, allow ten burners. For each automatic or automatic thermal gas water heater allow eight burners for each one half inch opening of heater; twenty-five burners for each three-quarters inch opening; forty-five burners for each one inch opening; eighty burners for each one and one-quarter inch opening; two hundred burners for each one and one-half inch opening. Size of pipe Length allowed Number of burners, ½ in. 40 ft. 8 ¼ in. 80 ft. 25 1 in. 100 ft. 45 It in. 150 ft. 80 1½ in. 250 ft. 250 2 in. 400 ft. 500 No union joints permitted in any gas mains. All gas piping shall be tested under pressure of Five pounds or more by a mercury column equal to said pressure. There shall be an inspection before any of the piping is covered and a final inspection and test after a first coat of plaster has been applied. Said above-mentioned fee shall be paid into the office of the Plumbing Inspector, and such Plumbing Inspector shall, be virtue of his office, have charge of the inspection of the installation of gas piping under the regulations set forth in this ordinance. When upon examination by the Plumbing Inspector it appears that any gas fitting work is defective, either in construction or material, the same shall be altered or repaired to conform to the regulations of this ordinance. When any gas piping or gas fitting for the installation or alteration of which a permit has been issued shall be found on inspection to conform to the regulations of this Ordinance, the Plumbing Inspector shall issue a certificate of inspection certifying that such piping or fittings have been inspected and found to comply with the terms of this Ordinance, but no such certificate shall be granted until such piping or fittings, respectively, are found to conform to said regulations. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm