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Las Vegas City Ordinances, March 31, 1933 to October 25, 1950, lvc000014-212

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    ORDINANCE NUMBER 295 AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND SECTION 16, AS AMENDED, OF ORDINANCE NO. 203 OF THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS, ENTITLED: "AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE DISTRIBUTION AND CONTROL OF INTOXICATING AND ALCO­HOLIC LIQUORS AND BEVERAGES: REGULATING PLACES WHERE AND UNDER WHAT CONDITIONS SAID INTOX­ICATING AND ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS AND BEVERAGES MAY BE KEPT, SOLD, AND GIVEN AWAY OR OTHERWISE DISTRIBUTED, PROVIDING FOR PERMITS AND LICENSES; PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION OF THIS ORDINANCE; AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT THEREWITH, AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT WITH THIS ORDINANCE." The Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas do ordain as follows: Section 1. Section 16 of Ordinance No. 203 of the City of Las Vegas (as amended) is hereby amended to read as follows: The rates for licenses provided for in this Ordinance shall be, and the same are fixed and established, and the same shall be paid in advance by all persons receiving such license respectively, as follows: 1. For a wholesale liquor license, which shall include the right to wholesale alco­holic liquors and beverages of all kinds, the sum of $75.00 per quarter. 2. For an importer's license the sum of $75.00 per quarter. An importer's license shall authorize the holder thereof to be the first person in possession wines, beers or other alcoholic liquors within the City of Las Vegas after completion of the act of the importation of such wines, beers or other alcoholic liquors from without the state and which have been brewed, fermented or produced outside of the State it shall not authorize the sale of any type of wines, beers, or other alcoholic liquors. 3. For a wholesale beverage license the sum of $50.00 per quarter. 4. For a tavern liquor license the sum of §375.00 per quarter. 5. For a club liquor license, the sum of $25.00 per quarter. 6. For a restaurant beverage, the sum of $50.00 per quarter. 7. For a cabaret license, selling beverages only, the sum of $125.00 per quarter. 8. For a cabaret liquor license, the sum of $300.00 per quarter. 9. For a retail liquor establishment to be maintained only in the zone designated in Section 4 of Ordinance No. 203 as amended by Section 1 of Ordinance 246, or a drug store, for the distribution of alcoholic liquors in the original containers, as received from the distiller or wholesaler, not to be consumed on the premises, in quantities not exceeding four and nine-tenths (4.9) gallons to the same person and for the same person's use at any one time, and in quantities of not less than one pint or sixteen fluid ounces to the same person and for the same person's use at any one time, the sum of $200.00 per quarter. Nor shall any liquors, except as above authorized, be sold, offered for sale, displayed or car­ried in stock; provided, however, that under this license, and without additional payment therefor, the license shall be permitted to serve alcoholic beverages containing not more than five and one-half (5½%) of alcohol by weight, to be consumed upon the premises. 10. For a retail liquor establishment to be maintained only in the zone designated in Section 4 of Ordinance No. 203, as amended by Section 1 of Ordinance No. 246, or a drug store for the distribution of alcoholic liquors in the original containers, as received from the distiller or wholesaler, not to be consumed on the premises, in quantities not ex­ceeding four and nine-tenths (4.9) gallons to the same person and for the same person's use at any one time, the sum of $270.00 per quarter; provided, however, that under this license and without additional payment therefor, the license shall be permitted to serve alcoholic beverages containing not more than five and one-half (5½%) percent of alcohol by weight, to be consumed upon the premises. 11. For a retail beverage license for the sale of beverages containing not more than five and one-half (5½%) per cent of alcohol by weight the sum of $50.00 per quarter. 12. For a cocktail room or a room adjacent to or in close proximity to a tavern, where alcoholic liquors containing more than five and on-half percent (5½%) of alcohol by weight, are served to the general public from such tavern and where music or other entertainment is furnished for the pleasure of its guests, the sum of $50.00 per quarter. In order to make such sales the licensee must first secure the appropriate license or licenses applicable to the class or classes of business in which he is engaged. Section 3. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with the provisions of this ordinance are hereby repealed. Section 4. The City Clerk is hereby authorized to have this Ordinance published in Las Vegas Evening Review Journal for a period of two weeks, that is to say, once each week for a period of two weeks. /s/ E. W. Cragin, Mayor________ ATTEST: /s/ Helen Scott Reed City Clerk The above and foregoing Ordinance was proposed, read aloud for the first time, and voted up­on at a recessed regular meeting of the Board of City Commissioners on the 11th day of