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E M E R G E N C Y O R D I N A N C E O rd in a n c e No. 211 A N E M E R G E N C Y O R D I N A N C E T O * ' P R O H I B I T . T H E W A S T E O F W A T ­E R ; D E F I N I N G W A S T E O F W A T ­E R ; R E G U L A T I N G T H E U S E T H E R E O F ; L I M I T I N G T H E T I M E D U R I N G W H I C H W A T E R M A Y B E U S E D F O R S P R I N K L I N G O R I R ­R I G A T I O N , A N D P R O V I D I N G P E N A L T I E S F O R T H E V I O L A ­T I O N O F T H I S O R D I N A N C E , A N D R E P E A L I N G A L L O R D I N A N C E S IN C O N F L I C T T H E R E W I T H . The Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas do ordain as fol­lows.; "WHEREAS, the City of Las Vegas is threatened with a water shortage! on account of the diminishing supply flowing from the artesian wells in said City and on account of the present waste -thereof by the inhabitants of said City; -and Nr WHEREAS, the . Board of City Commissioners deem it expedient and necessary for the protection of health, comfort, safety, life, welfare and prop­erty of the inhabitants of said City to regulate the use of water therein and tp preventa the waste the>eof, NOW, THEREFORE, Section 1. Waste of - water in the City of Las Vegas is hereby prohibited and declared unlawful. Section 2. Anyone of the following acts shall'’ constitute waste of water, as the term is used in this ordinance: (a) Permitting a hydrant, tap, cock or valve connected with any water system belonging to any public Utility, to leak onto the ground or into any sink, bowl, toilet or tub connected, with a sewer or cess-pool, after the person has been notified to remedy such leak whether by a police officer or an officer of any public utility as hereafter defined. (b) Using water front any water system belonging to any public utility for the purpose of cooling the roof of any building; , (c) Permitting water from any water system belonging to any public utility to flow from any hose, tap, valve, hydrant, pipe or cock directly into any sewer or cess-pool for thirty minutes or longer without^ first put­ting such water to a beneficial use. Section 3. The use of water from any water system belonging to any public utility for the purpose of sprinkling of irrigating or watering lawns,;-trees, hedges,, gardens or the ground, is-hereby prohibited between the hours of 8 o’clock A. M. and 5 o'clock P. M. and between the hours of 8 ,P. M. apd the following day at 5 A-. M. Section 4. The provisions of this ordinance shall be effective after its adoption hnd complete publication and until September 15, 1934. Section 5. The term “ Public Util­ity1’ as herein used shall mean and embrace all corporations, companies, individuals, associations; "their lessees, trustees, or receivers, that now or may hereafter own, operate or control any plant or equipment or any part o f a plant or equipment within the City of Las Vegas for the production, de­livery, or furnishing for or to other persons, firms, associations or cor­porations, partly or wholly from an-artesian well or wells, water for busi­ness, - manufacturing, agricultural or household use. Section 6. Any violation of this ordinandi or any of the provisions thereof shall constitute a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not to exceed Fifty ( $50)''Dollars ;or by im­prisonment in fhe city jail of Las Ve­gas for a period of nbt to exceed twenty-five (25) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. - Section 7. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with this or­dinance are hereby repealed. Section 8; This ordinance is de­clared And passed as an emergency ordinance, and shall take effect im­mediately after its passage and com­plete publication, and be effective on and after August 2, 1934. Section 9; The City Clerk is hereby authorized and directed to have this ordinance published in the Las Vegas Evening Re view-Journal a daily news-.. paper published in the City of Las Vegas fort a period of two weeks, that is to say: once each week. I hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance Was read for the first time at a special called meeting, of the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas held on the 17th day “of July, 1934, and was passed as an emergency ordinance upon the second reading on said last mentioned date, on the following vote:/ Commissioners Arnett, Marble, and Down and the Mayor pro tern, voting- Aye. Noes, none. Approved this i7th day of July 1934. (SEAL) W. C. GERMAN, Mayor Pro Tern. - ATTEST: Vi o l a b u r n s , City Clerk., (CITY SEAL)