Las Vegas City Ordinances, March 31, 1933 to October 25, 1950, lvc000014-188

ORDINANCE NUMBER 277 EMERGENCY ORDINANCE AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND ORDINANCE No. 244 BY ADDING SECTION 7A and 7B TO SAID ORDINANCE N&. 244 ENTITLED: "AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS LICENSING, FOR PURPOSES OR REGULATION AND REVENUE EVERY KIND OF LAWFUL BUSINESS, HEREINAFTER SPECIFIED, TRANSACTED OR CARRIED ON WITHIN THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS, STATE OF NEVADA: FIXING THE RATES OF LICENSE TAX UPON THE SAME AND PROVIDING FOR THE COLLECTION OF SAID LICENSE TAX, AMD A PUNISHMENT FOR CARRYING ON OR CONDUCTING ANY SUCH BUSINESS WITHOUT A LICENSE, AND REPEALING ORDINANCES NUMBERED 1, 2, 4, 13, 14, 35, 48, 62, 74, 75, 81, 95, ;02, 105, 108, 112, 117, 145, 184, 192 and 243. The Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas do ordain as follows: There is hereby added to Section 7 of Ordinance No 244, Sections 7A and 7B which shall read as follows: Section 7A: Any and all persons, firms or corporations, excepting taxi cabs, operating a motor transportation service for the carriage of passengers exclusively in the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, shall pay to the City of Las Vegas a quarterly license fee of $50.00 Dollars for each buss not over 30 persons, occupancy for each bus. Before such license shall be issued the applicant must file an application designating the routes. Section 7B. Owing to the emergency existing due to the rationing of tires and other materials required for war purposes only one such license shall be granted. This ordinance is declared to be and is hereby passed as an Emergency Ordinance and it shall take effect immediately after its passage and publication. The City Clerk is hereby authorized to have this Ordinance published in the Las Vegas Evening Review-Journal a newspaper published in the City of Las Vegas, County of Clark, State of Nevada, for a period of two weeks, that is to say once each week for a period of two weeks. The foregoing Ordinance was read aloud for the first time and voted upon at a recessed regular meeting of the Board of City Commissioners on the 7th day of July, 1942. Vote for: Commissioners Clark, Rubidoux, Smith, Tinch and his Honor the Mayor, Howell C. Garrison, and was read aloud for the second time and passed by the unanimous consent of the Board as an emergency ordinance on the 7th day of July, 1942. Voting for: Commissioners: Clark, Rubidoux, Smith, Tinch, and His Honor the Mayor, Howell C. Garrison. Voting aye: Voting nos. None Absent: None. Howell C. Garrison Mayor Attest: Helen Scott Reed City Clerk. (SEAL) AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION STATE OF NEVADA ) ( ss COUNTY OF CLARK ) Dick Lochrie, being first duly sworn deposes and says: That he is Foreman 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 once a week for 2 weeks from July 9, 1942 to July 16, 1942 inclusive, being the issues of said newspaper for the following dates, to-wit: July 9, 1942 and July 16, 1942. 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 ____ day of, July 16, 1942. A. E. Cahlan Notary Public in and for Clark County, Nevada. (SEAL) My commission expires January 12, 1943. ---------- EMERGENCY ORDINANCE ORDINANCE No. 278. AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND SECTION 7 OF ORDINANCE No. 264 OF THE CITY OF IAS VEGAS ENTITLED "AN ORDINANCE OF THE COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MS VEGAS, ESTABLISHING A RESIDENCE DISTRICT, INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL DISTRICTS, WITHIN THE SAID CITY OF LAS VEGAS; DEFINING SUCH DISTRICTS; DECLARING IT UNLAWFUL TO ERECT, ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN OR OPERATE CERTAIN FACTORIES, WORKS OR ESTABLISHMENTS WITHIN SAID RESIDENCE DISTRICTS AND SAID COMMERCIAL DISTRICTS."