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Las Vegas City Ordinances, March 31, 1933 to October 25, 1950, lvc000014-459

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    to carry on, conduct, and operate tywo or more slot machines, games or devices mentioned in this section, in the same room, upon the payment of the license fee herein provided for and the issuance of a license in the manner and upon the authority, and upon the conditions and restrictions in this chapter provided as on an application for an original license. Each license shall specify upon the face thereof the name of the licensee , and a com­plete description identifying the particular room or premises in which the licensee intends to carry on, conduct or operate the slot machine, game or device mentioned in this section, and shall specify the particular type and class of slot machine, or other particular game or device, by name. Section 2. Any person violating ary of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Section 3. 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 thereby. Section 4. Ordinance #401 is hereby repealed. Section 5. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect upon its final reading and adoption, and final publication as in the next section provided. 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 21st day of February____, 1950, and referred to the following committee composed of Commissioners Bunker and Peccole for recommendation; thereafter the said committee reported favorably on said Ordinance on the 7th day of March_____, 1950, which was the regular meeting of said Board of Commissioners; that at said regular meeting held on the 7th day of March______, 1950, 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, Peccole and His Honor, Mayor Pro Tem Whipple.________________________ Voting "Nay": Commissioner Moore_________________________________________________________________ Absent: Mayor Cragin APPROVED: S/ Reed Whipple Mayor Pro Tem (SEAL) ATTEST: S/ Shirley Ballinger_________________________ City Clerk AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION STATE OF NEVADA,) COUNTY OF CLARK ) 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 days from March 10, 1950 to March 17, 1950 inclusive, being the issued of said newspaper for the following dates, to-wit: March 10, 17, 1950. That said newspaper was regularly issued and circulated on each of the dates above named. S/ __________Carl Woodbury______________________________ Subscribed and sworn to before me this day of S/ A. E. Cahlan____ Notary Public in and for Clark County, Nevada. My Commission Expires January 12, 1951. ORDINANCE NO. 406 "AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND ORDINANCE NO. 297 OF THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS ENTITLED: "AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR LICEN­SING AND REGULATING THE BUSINESS OF PAWNBROKERS AND PAWNSHOPS, AND DEFINING THE SAME; FIXING AND IMPOSING THE LI­CENSE FEE TO BE PAID THEREFOR; PROVIDING REGULATIONS FOR THE CONDUCT OF SUCH BUSINESS; FIXING PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION THEREOF, DEFINING ALL DUTIES OF CERTAIN OFFICERS IN CONNECTION THEREWITH, AND TO REPEAL ALL ORDINANCES AND PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH." ALSO REFERRED TO AS CHAPTER 22 OF THE LAS VEGAS CITY CODE. The Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas do ordain as follows: Section 1. Section 4 of Ordinance #297 of the City of Las Vegas, also referred to as Chapter 22, Section 12 of the Las Vegas City Code, is hereby amended to read as follows: The pawnbroker shall retain in his possession every pledge or pawn ninety (90) days after the maturity of the loan, or ninety (90) days after the last payment of interest whichever is the greater. If the pledgor shall fail or neglect for ninety (90) days after maturity of the loan, or ninety (90) days after the last payment of interest, to redeem the pawned property, the pawnbroker may sell any such property held for redemption. Section 2. Section 16 of Ordinance #297, also referred to as Chapter 22, Section 13, is hereby amended to read as follows: