Las Vegas City Commission Minutes, September 21, 1955 to November 20, 1957, lvc000010-188

The owner of any property not in default as to any installment or payment, may, at any time, pay the whole of the unpaid principal with interest accruing thereon to the next interest paying date. Each assessment, together with interest thereon, shall be placed on the tax roll of Clark County on and against the several owners and premises, and the County Assessor of Clark County, Acting Ex-Officio Assessor of the City of Las Vegas, is hereby authorized and directed to enter the same on the tax roll of said County and to extend the same in a special column for special assessments on said tax roll, and the County Treasurer of said County, the Ex-Officio City Treasurer and Ex-Officio Tax Collector of the City of Las Vegas, is hereby authorized and directed to collect the same, all in the same manner and at the same time as other State and County taxes are collected. SECTION 11. That the special assessments, both principal and interest, when collected, shall be placed in a special fund to be known as "Street Improvement Assessment District No. 1OO-36 Bond Interest and Redemption Fund," and as such shall at all times constitute a sinking fund for and deemed specially appropriated to the payment of the special assessment improvement bonds and interest thereon, to be hereafter authorized, sold, issued and delivered for the pur­pose of paying in part the cost or expense of said improvements; and said fund shall be applied to payment for the improvements for which said assessments were made, and shall not be used for any other purpose until said bonds and the interest thereon is fully paid. SECTION 12. That after said amended assessment roll has been confirmed and approved, said Ex-Officio City Treasurer immediately shall notify each person known to said Ex-Officio City As­sessor, whose name appears on said amended assessment roll, by United States of America mail, that an assessment has been levied against said person and the designated property in said Street Improvement Assessment District No. 1OO-36 and shall state therein when and where said assessment is due and payable. SECTION 13. That all action (not inconsistent with the provisions of this Ordinance) heretofore taken by the City of Las Vegas, and the officers of said City, directed toward the paving, curbing and guttering, and installing concrete valey gutters on certain streets and parts of streets therein and otherwise improving certain streets and parts of streets in said Street Improvement Assessment District No. 100-36, toward the creation of said District, and toward levying and effecting special assessments to defray the entire cost thereof, be and the same is, hereby ratified, approved and confirmed. SECTION 14. That V.C. Mendenhall, Inc., the successful bidder on the contract for said district shall be and hereby is awarded the contract to do the work provided for in said dis­trict, and all proceedings heretofore taken in the award of said contract are hereby ratified, approved and confirmed. SECTION 15. That the entire cost and expense of making said improvements, including al1 incidental expenses which may be legally included in the sums assessed, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the cost of surveys, plans, assessments, the costs of construction and the fees and compensation properly charged in teh work of making special assessments, shall be defrayed by special assessments made according to the benefits against the owners and the assessable lots,premises and property specially benefited by such improve­ments and included within said District, proportionately to the benefits received. The entire cost add expense of making said improvements are deemed to be $624,446.72 and the total of the special assessments so levied shall be in that amount. SECTION l6. That all by-laws, orders, resolutions and ordinances, or parts of by-laws, orders, resolutions and ordinances, in conflict with this ordinance, are hereby repealed. SECTION 17. That if any one or more sections, sentences, clauses, or parts of this ordinance shall, for any reason, be questioned or be held invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remaining provisions of this ordinance, but shall be con­fined in its operation to the specific sections, sentences, clauses or parts of this ordi­nance so held unconstitutional and invalid, and the inapplicability and invalidity of any section, sentence, clause or part of this ordinance, in any one or more instances shall not affect or prejudice in any way the applicability and validity of this ordinance in any other instances. SECTION 18. That by reason of the fact that the streets of the City of Las Vegas are inadequate to meet the present and future needs of the City and its inhabitants and that it is necessary immediately to raise funds to improve said streets, therefore, it is hereby declared that an emergency exists, and that this ordinance is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety. SECTION 19. That 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 final reading and adoption, in the Las Vegas Review Journal, a daily newspaper published in said City, and this ordinance shall become effective immediately fol­lowing the second publication hereof. PASSED, ADOPTED AND APPROVED this 1st day of February, 1956. (SEAL) ATTEST: SHIRLEY BALLINGER, City Clerk C.D. BAKER, Mayor Those voting in favor of the foregoing ordinance: Commissioners Bunker, Fountain, Sharp,Whipple and Mayor Baker Those voting "Nay": None Absent: None ATTEST: APPROVED: ___________________________ C.D. BAKER, Mayor SHIRLEY BALLINGER, City Clerk