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Las Vegas City Ordinances, July 18, 1911 to March 31, 1933, lvc000013-283

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    AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION. STATE OF NEVADA ) SS County of Clark) C. P. Squires, being first duly sworn, deposes and says: That he is publisher of Las Vegas Age, a tri-weekly newspaper of general circulation, printed and published at Las Vegas in the County of Clark, State of Nevada, and that the attached Ordinance No. 164, was continuously published in said newspaper for a period of three issues from Sept. 9 to Sept. 9 to Sept. 13, inclusive, being the issues of said newspaper for the following dates, to-wit: Sept. 9, 11, and 15th 1930. That said newspaper was regularly issued and circulated on each of the dates above named. That the charge for publishing the same was $33.35. Signed C. P. Squires. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 27th day of Sept. 1930. C. D. Breeze Notary Public in and for Clark County Nevada. My Commission Expires May 26, 1931. (Notarial Seal) ORDINANCE NO. 165. AN ORDINANCE TO PROHIBIT GAMING AND OPERATION OF SLOT MACHINES IN THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS, WITHOUT FIRST OBTAINING A LICENSE THEREFOR, REGULATING THE SAME, FIXING THE AMOUNT OF SUCH LICENSES, PROVIDING A PENALTY THEREFOR, REPEALING ORDINANCES NOS. 77, 82, 88, 103, and 115, and ALL ORDINANCES AND PARTS OF ORDINANCES INCONFLICT THEREWITH. The Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas do ordain as follows: Section l. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association or corporation either, as owner, lessee, or employee, whether for hire or not, to deal, operate, carry on, conduct, maintain, or expose for play, within the City of Las Vegas, any game of faro, monte, roulette, keno, fan-tan, twenty-one, stud poker, draw poker, or any banking or percentage game played with cards, dice, or any mechanical device or machines, for money, property, checks, credit, or any representation of value; or any gambling game in which any person, firm, association or corporation keeping, conducting, managing, or permitting the same to be carried on, receives, directly or indirectly, any compensation or reward, or any percentage or share of the money or property played, for keeping, running, carrying on, or permitting the said game to be carried on; or to play, maintain, or keep any slot machine played for money, for checks or tokens redeemable in money or property, without having first procured a license for the same as hereinafter provided; and provided further, that no alien, or any person except a citizen of the United States, shall be issued a license, or shall directly or indirectly own, operate or control any game or device so licensed. Section 2. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association or corporation to knowingly permit any of the slot machines, games or devices mentioned in section one of this Ordinance to be conducted, operated, dealt or carried on in any house or building owned by him, her or it, in whole or in part, except by a person, firm, association or corporation who has received a license as herein provided, or by his employee. Section 3. For the purposes of this Ordinance, the term game or games shall be construed to mean and include all games and devices herein mentioned and any slot machine or slot machines played for money or for checks or tokens redeemable in money or property. Section 4. Nothing in this Ordinance shall be construed to prohibit social games played solely for drinks or cigars served individually, or games played in private homes or residences fir prizes or nickel-in-the-slot machines operated solely for cigars or drinks. Section 5. All applications for licenses or renewels thereof, shall be made by petition to the Board of City Commissioners by the filing, of same with the City Clerk, which City Clerk shall immediately refer each such application to the Board of City Commissioners at or before the next meeting thereof after receipt of such petition by him. The same may be acted upon by said Board at any regular or recessed regular meeting of such Board of City Commissioners. A Majority vote of the members present shall be necessary to authorize the issuance or renewal of any license at such meeting. Section 6. All applications for licenses as in this Ordinance provided shall state the business and place of business of the applicant, a complete description of the particular room and premises in which the licensee desires to carry on or conduct such slot machine, device or together with the location of the building, its street number, if such there be, and any other information by which it may be definitely and readily located and recognized, the name in full of the applicant, and in case of a corporation, copartnership or association shall state the name in full of each and all the copartners or associates, and in the case of a corporation, the officers and managers thereof. The person, firm, association or corporation so applying