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Mr. Wm. Reinhar Angeles - April 17, 1950 W M . R. APR 18 1950 (oc: Mr. Calvin M. Cory Mr. A.M. Folger Lan s Veitgas Last Friday I attended a meeting in Las Vegas, attended by Mayor Cragln, Mr. Canon, City Attorney, Mr. Folger, Mr. Cory and myself, to discuss the laws relating to the waste of water, outline of which I sent you with my letter of March 31st. existing laws are sufficient if they are properly enforced and the Mayor made the customary statement that they did not have sufficient police officers to enforce these water laws nor did they have the money to hire new ones. Mr. Folger stated he had authority to reimburse the City for two special officers to be put on duty sometime in May. third page of my letter of Marsh 31st was discussed. Some question was raised as to the hours now contained in that ordinance which the City Attorney advised me is still in effect, and it was suggested that sprinkling be prohibited between the hours of 9 AM and 5 PM and between the hours of 12 midnight and 6 AM. Mr. Folger is to check his records to see if those hours would be of the most benefit to the Water Company and if so, the Mayor has agreed to request the City Attorney to prepare such an ordinance to be effective during the period of June 1st to September 15th of each year. effective date of this ordinance, an advertisement be inserted in the Las Vegas paper, signed by the Mayor and Chief of Police, briefly drawing the attention of the citizens to the various restrictive ordinances relating to the waste of water. The Mayor stated that wrould be satisfactory to him if the City did not have to pay for the advertising. Mr. Folger will write you with respect to securing authority to pay for such an ad. izing the Mayor or Chief of Police to fix or change the hours for the use of water as suggested on the third page of my letter of March 31st, the Mayor intimating that such an ordinance would be "too hot" for him to handle and he suggested that the Chief of Police might feel the same way about it. It seems to be the consensus of opinion that the The restrictive sprinkling ordinance set out on the It was also suggested that a short time prior to the The City Attorney did not favor an ordinance author- E. E. Bennett