Las Vegas City Commission Minutes, February 17, 1954 to September 21, 1955, lvc000009-88

Section 9. That after filing said special assessment roll with the City Clerk, she shall publish notice of the time said Board and said ex-officio City Assessor will meet to review the assessments, once a week for two weeks in the Las Vegas Sun a daily newspaper published in said City of Las Vegas. Said Notice shall be in the form prescribed by the Charter of the City of Las Vegas. Section 10. That at said time appointed for reviewing the assessment as aforesaid, the Board of Commissioners and the Ex-Officio City Assessor shall meet and then, or at some adjourned meeting, review the assessments and hear any objection to said assessments which may be made by any person deeming himself aggrieved thereby, and shall decide the same; and said Board may correct the same as to any assessment or description of the premises appearing therein, and may confirm and approve it as reported or as corrected, or said Board may refer the assessment back to said Ex-Officio City Assessor for revision, or annul it and direct a new assessment in which case the assessment shall be made anew. Section 11. That when said special assessments shall be confirmed, the City Clerk shall make an indorsement upon the roll showing the date of confirmation, which shall be in the form pre­scribed by the Charter of the City of Las Vegas. Section 12. That when the assessments shall be confirmed and approved as herein provided, it shall be final and conclusive. The City Clerk shall thereupon deliver to said County Assessor, acting Ex-Officio City Assessor, the Assessment Roll as confirmed by the Board of Commissioners, with her certificate of such confirmation, and of the date thereof. The County Assessor, acting Ex-Officio City Assessor, shall thereupon, without extra compensation, record such Assessment Roll in his office, and append thereto his certificate of the date of such recording, whereupon from said date all persons shall be deemed to have notice of the contents of such Assessment Roll, and it shall be prima facie evidence in all courts and tribunals of the regularity of all proceedings preliminary to the making thereof, and of the validity of the assessment and Assess­ment Roll. Section 13. That all special assessments, assessed as aforesaid, shall from the date of con­firmation and approval thereof constitute a lien upon the respective lots or parcels of land assessed. The special assessments thereafter shall be and remain a lien on the respective lots and parcels of land assessed until paid. Section 14. That said assessments shall be due and payable at the office of the County Treasurer of Clark County, Nevada, acting Ex-Officio City Treasurer and Ex-Officio Tax Collector of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, within two weeks after said special assessment roll is confirmed and approved, without interest and without demand; provided, that all such assessments, or any part thereof, may, at the election of the owner, be paid in installments, with interest, as herein­after provided. Failure to pay the whole assessment, or any part thereof, within said period of two weeks shall be conclusively considered and held an election on the part of all persons interested, whether under disability or otherwise, to pay in such installments. In case of such election to pay in installments, the unpaid assessments shall be payable at the office of said Ex-Officio City Treasurer in ten substantially equal annual installments of principal, the first of which installments of principal shall be due and payable on or before the 1st day of June, 1955, and the remainder of said installments shall be due and payable successively on or before the same day in each year thereafter until paid in full, with interest in all cases on the un­paid and deferred installments of principal from the 1st day of June, 1954, at the same rate of interest as that provided for in the special assessment bonds to be hereafter authorized, sold, issued and delivered, but not to exceed seven per centum (7%) per annum, payable annually at the office of said Ex-Officio City Treasurer, the first annual payment of interest being due and payable on the 1st day of June, 1955; and the remainder of said annual installments of interest being due and payable on the 1st day of June in each year thereafter. Failure to pay any installment, whether of principal or interest, when due, shall cause the whole amount of the unpaid principal and accrued interest shall thereafter bear penalty at the rate of ten per centum per annum, until the day of sale, but at any time prior to the date of the sale the owner may pay the amount of all unpaid installments, with interest thereon at ten per centum per annum, and all penalties accrued, and shall thereupon be restored to the right thereafter to pay in installments in the same manner as if default had not been suffered. The owner of any property not in default had not been suffered. The owner of any property not in default as to any installment or payment, may, at any time, pay the whole of the unpaid principal with interest accruing thereon to the next interest paying date. Each assessment, together with interest thereon, shall be placed on the tax roll of Clark County and against the several owners and premises, and the County Assessor of Clark, County, acting Ex-Officio Assessor of the City of Las Vegas, is hereby authorized and directed to enter the same on the tax roll of said County and to extend the same in a special column for special assessments on said tax roll, and the County Treasurer of said County, the Ex-Officio City Treasurer and Ex-Officio Tax Collector of the City of Las Vegas, is hereby authorized and directed to collect the same, all in the same manner and at the same time as other State and County taxes are collected. Section 15. That the special assessments, both principal and interest, when collected, shall be placed in a special fund to be known as "Street Improvement Assessment District No. 100-27 Bond Interest and Redemption Fund," and as such shall at all times constitute a sinking fund for and deemed specially appropriated to the payment of the special assessment improvement bonds and interest thereon, to be hereafter authorized, sold, issued and delivered for the purpose of paying in part the cost or expense of said improvements; and said fund shall be applied to payment for the improvements for which said assessments were made, and shall not be used for any other purpose until said bonds and the interest thereon is fully paid. Section 16. That after said assessment roll has been confirmed and approved, said Ex-officio City Treasurer immediately shall notify each person known to said Ex-officio City Assessor, whose name appears on said assessment roll, by United States of America Mail, that an assessment has been levied against said person and the designated property in said Street Improvement Assessment District No. 100-27 amd shall state therein when and where said assessment is due and payable. Section 17. That all action (not inconsistent with the provisions of this ordinance hereto­fore taken by the City of Las Vegas, and the officers of said City, directed toward the improving of a certain street by installing a complete street lighting system in the said Street Improvement Assessment District No. 100-27. toward the creation of said District, and toward levying and effecting special assessments to defray the entire cost thereof, be, and the same is, hereby ratified, approved and confirmed.