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Las Vegas City Ordinances, March 31, 1933 to October 25, 1950, lvc000014-297

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    Section 5. At the time appointed for reviewing the assessment, the Board of Commissioners and the Ex-Officio City Assessor shall meet and give all persons interested an opportunity to be heard, and shall consider any and all objections that may be filed with the City Clerk, and then, or at some adjourned meeting, shall review the assessments and correct the same and confirm its as corrected, or confirm it as reported, or annul it and direct a new assessment to be made. Section 6. When the assessments shall be confirmed as herein provided it shall be final and conclusive. The City Clerk shall thereupon deliver to the County Assessor, acting Ex-Officio City Assessor, the assessment Roll as confirmed by the Board of Commissioners, with his certificate of such con­firmation and of the date thereof. The County Assessor, acting Ex-Officio City Assessor, shall thereupon, without extra compensation, record such assessment roll in his office and append thereto his certificate of the date of such recording, whereupon from said date all persons shall be deemed to have notice of the contents of such assessment roll, and it shall be prima facia evidence in all courts and tribunals of the regularity of all proceedings preliminary to the making thereof, and of the validity of the assessments and assessment roll. After the assessment roll has been confirmed and recorded, the several amounts levied thereon shall become at once due and payable and shall constitute and be a lien upon the respective lots and parcels of land and improvements assessed and shall be charged against the persons and properties until paid. Section 7. All assessments when due and payable, as in this ordinance provided, shall be paid to the County Treasurer and Ex-Officio Tax Receiver, County of Clark, State of Nevada, and Ex-Officio Treasurer and Tax Receiver of the City of Las Vegas, and be by that officer paid into and credited to the special fund to be known as and called "Las Vegas 1947 North Main Street Lighting Fund." Section 8. All costs and expensed incurred in making the improvements shall be charged to and paid out of said fund, provided, however, that all monies drawn on the General Fund of the City of Las Vegas to defray any of the costs and expenses of making the improvements or, if it shall become necessary to draw upon the General Fund to defray any of the costs and expenses of the improvements, except as otherwise provided by! the Charter of the City of Las Vegas, the General Fund shall be reimbursed by transfer of funds from the "Las Vegas 1947 North Main Street Lighting Fund" as soon as conditions of the same will permit, and provided further that where there shall be lands belonging to the City of public grounds not taxable, abutting on such improvements, or such improvements, shall be made upon interior spaces opposite alleys, and squares and spaces formed by the intersection of streets, such part of the expense of the improvements as estimated by the assessor to be justly apportionable to such public ground, the City property, and to any interior spaces opposite alleys, and squares and spaces formed by the intersection of streets shall be paid from the General Fund and borne by the City of Las Vegas, and the balance of such expense shall be assessed upon the taxable lots abutting upon such improvements and included in such special assessment districts in proportion to their number of feet of frontage. Section 9. This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect upon its pub­lication as in the next section provided, and final passage. Section 10. The City Clerk and the Clerk of the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas is hereby authorized and directed to cause this Ordinance No 333 to be published once a week for two consecutive weeks immediately following its first reading and adoption, in the Las Vegas Evening Review-Journal____ a daily newspaper published in the City of Las Vegas. /s/ E. W. Cragin_________ Mayor ATTEST: s/ Helen Scott Reed______ City Clerk (Seal) The above and foregoing Ordinance was first proposed and read by title to the Board of City Commissioners on the 22nd day of May , 1947, and referred to the following committee composed of Commissioners Clark and Baskin_______ for recommendation thereafter the said Committee reported favorably on the said Ordinance on the 6th day of June____, 1947, which was the next regular meeting of said Board of City Commissioners that at said regular meeting held on the 6th day of June_____ , 1947, the proposed Ordinance was read in full to the Board of City Commissioners as first introduced and adopted by the following vote: Voting "Aye": Commissioners ____Baskin, Clark, Whipple & His Honor Mayor Cragin . Voting "Nay": Commissioners _______________None_________________________________ Absent: _____________________Commissioner Moore__________________________________ APPROVED: s/ E. W. Cragin________ Mayor ATTEST: s/ Helen Scott Reed______ City Clerk (Seal) The above and foregoing Ordinance was thereafter read aloud to the said Board of City Commissioners for a second time at a regular meeting of the said Board held on the 20th day of June____________, 1947, and passed by the following vote; Voting "Aye": Commissioners Baskin, Clark, Moore, Whipple and His Honor____________