Las Vegas City Ordinances, March 31, 1933 to October 25, 1950, lvc000014-436

Section 3. Any person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Section 4. If any part, provision or section of this ordinance or the application thereof to any person or circumstance shall be held to be invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, the remainder of this ordi­nance or the application of such part, provision or section thereof to any other person or circumstances shall not be affected there by. Section 5. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect upon its publication as in the next section provided, and final passage. Section 6. 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 first reading and adoption in the Las Vegas Review Journal, a daily newspaper published in the City of Las Vegas. The above and foregoing ordinance was first proposed and read by title to the Board of Commissioners on the 9th day of November , 1949, and referred to the following committee composed of Commissioners Bunker and Whipple for recommendation; thereafter the said committee reported favorably on said Ordinance on the 22nd day November , 1949, which was the regular meeting of said Board of Commissioners; that at said regular meeting held on the 22nd day of November , 1949, 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 Bunker, Moore, Peccole, Whipple and His Honor. Mayor Cragin Voting "Nay": None Absent: None APPROVED: S/ E. W. Cragin_______________________________ Mayor SEAL ATTEST: S/ Shirley Ballinger_______________ City Clerk AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION STATE OF NEVADA) COUNTY OF CLARK) ss. Carl Woodbury, being first duly sworn, deposes and says: That he is auditor___________of the LAS VEGAS EVENING REVIEW-JOURNAL, a daily newspaper, of general circulation, printed and published at Las Vegas, in the County of Clark, State of Nevada, and that the attached was continuously published in said newspaper for a period of 2 times from November 30, 1949, to December 7, 1949 inclusive, being the issues of said newspaper for the following dates, to-wit: November 30, December 7. 1949. That said newspaper was regularly issued and circulated on each of the dates above named. S/ Carl R. Woodbury__________________________ Subscribed and sworn to before me this 7th day of December, 1949 S/ A. E. Cahlan________________________________ Notary Public in and for Clark County, Nevada My Commission Expires January 12, 1951. ORDINANCE NO. 394 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS REQUIRING COMMITTED PRISONERS TO WORK UPON THE STREETS, PUBLIC WORKS, BUILDING AND GROUNDS OF THE CITY; PROVIDING CREDIT GIVEN FOR WORK; PUNISHMENT FOR REFUSAL TO WORK, AND OTHER MATTERS RELATING THERETO. The Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas do ordain as follows: Section 1. Every person, having physical ability to do so, when convicted of any offense in violation of the ordinances or Code of the City of Las Vegas, and committed to jail therefor, may be required to work upon the streets, public works, building and grounds of the City, not exceeding eight (8) hours each working day, and the Chief of Police, or other person having such person in charge while performing such work, may employ any reasonable humane and efficient means to prevent such prisoner from escaping from custody while being so em­ployed . Sect ion 2. For each and every day's work done by any person, he shall be allowed Two Dollars ($2.00) for each day's work on account of such fines and costs. Section 3. If any prisoner convicted under this Ordinance shall refuse to work, having physical ability so to do when required to so work as in this Ordinance so provided, may, as a punishment, be compelled to "pack sand" or carry other material from place to place, or to perform other labor not unreasonable, inhuman or too burdensome, until he declares himself willing to work, and does work as required; or in lieu thereof, he may, in the discretion of the Chief of Police, be confined in a cell and be fed upon no other food except bread and water, until he declares himself ready to work; both methods of punishment for refusing to work shall in no case be inflicted upon the same person at the same time. In either case of punishment for refusing to work as required, such person shall receive no allowance or credit upon his term of work or imprisonment for such forced labor or solitary confinement.