Las Vegas City Commission Minutes, June 22, 1911 to February 7, 1922, lvc000001-38

Ordinance Providing for the collection of a Dog License or Tax" The Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas, do ordain: That Ordinance No. 12. of the City of Las Vegas passed on the 6th, day of September 1911. and entitled " An Ordinance for the collection of a Dog license or Tax" be and the same is hereby amended so that the same shall read as follows: Sec. 1. That from and after the first day of October 1911. there be and is hereby levied upon and against each and every dog now in or which may hereafter come into the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, the following sum of money as license fees or taxes, viz: For each male dog, two dollars, For each female dog, five dollars. Which said sum of money shall be due and must be paid annually on the first day of October of each and every year, For each dog coming or brought into that said City after the day fixed for the payment and collection of such license fee or tax the full annual license or tax for the current year shall be immediately collected and paid. Sect. 2, That it is hereby made the duty of every person owning or Keeping, entertaining or harboring any dog, or owning or occupying the premises wherein any dog makes its home or place of residence, to call upon and pay to the City Clerk and Ex-offico license Collector of said City the license herein above provided for and fixed, and upon so paying said fee or tax to the said official he shall give to the person so paying the same a receipt therefor together with a metal tag bearing the legend " Dog Tax for—( the current year) Paid, Las Vegas, Nevada, " which tag shall be consecutively numbered and record thereof kept by the official distributing and issuing the same. And such tag shall be firmly fixed to a leathern or metal collar and constantly worn by the dog upon which the tax or license has been paid. Sec. 3. Any person who after the first day of October, 1911. shall own, keep, entertain or harbor any dog upon which the said license fee or tax has not been paid for the current year or who shall own, or keep, or occupy the premises whereon or wherein any dog upon which the said license fee or tax has not been paid for the current year shall be maintained or kept, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and fined in any sum not less than five dollars and not exceeding the sum of ten Dollars, for each and every such offence. Sec. 4. After the first day of October, 1911, it shall be the duty of the police or the member of the police force of the City of Las Vegas to immediately shoot, kill, or otherwise destroy any dog which may be owned, kept, harbored or maintained in the City of Las Vegas, Nevada. and upon which the license or tax for the current year has not been paid or which does not wear a collar and tag advertising the fact of such payment: and for each and every animal so killed or destroyed by any such police official, he shall be paid by the City of Las Vegas a fee of one Dollar in addition to any salary he may at the time of such killing or destruction be receiving and which fee shall cover all expenses of carrying away and disposing of the remains of any such canine or dog. This ordinance shall take effect immediately after its passage and advertisement. The foregoing ordinance was read aloud in full to the Board. After due consideration by the Board it was, upon motion of Commissioner W.J. Stewart seconded by Commissioner Ed Von Tobel, and duly carried ordered that the foregoing ordinance be adopted as read and as an emergency ordinance, and the Clerk instructed to have the same published as by law provided, the vote being cast as follows: Buol. Mayor, aye, Stewart aye, McGovern aye, Coughlin, aye, Von Tobel, aye, At this time an ordinance amending ordinance No. 9. as passed by the Board at its regul-