Las Vegas City Ordinances, March 31, 1933 to October 25, 1950, lvc000014-41

Section 14. When to take Effect - This ordinance shall take effect October 1st, 1934 Section 15. The City Clerk is hereby authorized and directed to have this ordinance published in Las Vegas Review-Journal, a daily newspaper published in the City of Las Vegas, for a period of two weeks, that is to say: once each week. Proposed, read aloud in full, and adopted this 6th day of July, 1934, by the follow­ing vote: Commissioners Arnett, Marble and Down, and His Honor the Mayor Pro Tem voting aye. Noes none. Published in the Las Vegas Review-Journal a daily newspaper, published in the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, once a week for two weeks, to-wit July 10th and July 17th 1934. Read the second time and passed this 5th day of September, 1934 by the following vote: Commissioners Arnett, and Marble and His Honor the Mayor voting aye. Noes none. Approved this 5th day of September, 1934. E.W. Cragin Mayor Attest: Viola Burns, City Clerk ( City Seal) AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION STATE OF NEVADA )ss County of Clark ) Dick Lochrie, being first duly sworn, deposes and says: That he is foreman 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 two weeks from July 10th to July 17th inclusive, being the issues of said newspaper for the following dates, to-wit: July 10-17. That said newspaper was regularly issued and circulated on each of the dates above named. Signed Dick Lochrie Subscribed and sworn to before me this 26th day of July 1934. A.E. Cahlan Notary Public in and for Clark County, Nevada. My Commission Expires Dec 28 1934 (Notarial Seal) ORDINANCE NO. 211 EMERGENCY ORDINANCE. AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE TO PROHIBIT THE WASTE OF WATER: DEFINING WASTE OF WATER: REGULATING THE USE THEREOF: LIMITING THE TIME DURING WHICH WATER MAY BE USED FOR SPRINKL- ING OR IRRIGATION, AND PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION OF THIS ORDINANCE, AND REPEAL- ING ALL ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT THEREWITH. 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 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 to prevent the waste thereof, NOW, THEREFORE, Section 1. The Waste of water in the City of Las Vegas is hereby prohibited and de­clared unlawful. Section 2. Any one of the following acts shall constitute waste of water, as the term is used in the ordinance: (a) Permitting a hydrant, tap, cock or value 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 cesspool, after the person has been notified to remedy such leak whether by a police officer or an officer of any public utility as here after de­fined. (b) Using water from any system belonging to any public utility for the purpose of cooling the rook of any building. (c) Permitting water from any water system belonging to any public utility to flow from ny hose, tap, valve, hydrant, pipe or cock directly into any sewer or cesspool for thirty minutes of ponger without first putting such water to a beneficial use.