Las Vegas City Ordinances, July 18, 1911 to March 31, 1933, lvc000013-313

newspaper for the following dates to-wit: September 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 1931. That said newspaper was regularly issued and circulated on each of the dates above named. That the legal charge for publishing the name was $ Signed C. P. Squires. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 12th day of September, 1931. C. D. Breeze______________________________________ Notary Public in and for Clark County, Nevada. My Commission Expires May 26, 1935. (Notarial Seal) ORDINANCE NO. 177 An Ordinance empowering, authorizing and directing the Ex-Officio Assessor of the City of Las Vegas, County of Clark, State of Nevada, to levy a special assessment to reimburse said City for the costs of construction of a highway with federal aid from the easterly limit of the intersection of Fremont Street and Fifth Street in said City, running thence along Fremont Street as laid out and extended in an easterly direction to the easterly boundary of said City of Las Vegas; describing definitely the location of said improvements, stating the amounts of said assessment, and designating the lots, lands and premises to be assessed, abutting on the said improvement; providing for the payment thereof, and other matters relating thereto. THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS DO ORDAIN: Section 1. For the purpose of defraying the costs of making certain improvements in the City of Las Vegas in the construction of a highway with federal aid from the easterly limit of the intersection of Fremont Street and Fifth Street in said City, running thence along Fremont Street as laid out and extended in an easterly direction to the easterly boundary of said City of Las Vegas, and to reimburse said City for the cost thereof as provided in Chap. 6 of the 1931 Session Laws of the State of Nevada, the ex-officio City Assessor of the City of Las Vegas is hereby empowered, authorized and directed to forthwith levy the special assessment in the amount hereinafter specified, against the owners and upon the lots, lands and premises abutting on said improvement and hereinafter designated and described. Said special assessment shall be levied upon the taxable lots, property and premises situate in the special assessment district hereinafter described, benefitted by said improvements proportionately to the benefits received; provided, however, that in no case shall the said ex-officio Assessor levy any special assessment upon any such lots, lands or premises, exceeding fifty per cent (50%) of the value of such lots, lands or premises as last before valued and assessed for state and county taxation in the County Tax Roll; but such costs over and above the and exceeding that per cent shall be paid from the General Fund of the City of Las Vegas. Section 2. The ex-officio City Assessor shall assess the taxable lots, property and premises situate in the special assessment district, hereinafter described, benefitted by said improvements proportionately to the benefits received, that is to say, such Ex-Officio Assessor shall assess upon each lot, parcel of land or premises such relative portion of the whole sum to be levied as shall be proportionate to the estimated benefit resulting to such lot, parcel of land or premises from the said improvement. Section 3. In levying the assessments as in this Ordinance provided, the Ex-Officio Assessor shall prepare a special assessment roll therefor, and after he shall have completed the assessment as herein provided and completed the said special assessment roll, he shall report the same to the Board of City Commissioners as provided for by law and upon receiving such report and special assessment roll, the said Roll shall be numbered and filed in the office of the City Clerk, and the Board of City Commissioners shall cause notice thereof to be published for at least two weeks in some newspaper published in the City of Las Vegas, of the filing of the same with the City Clerk, and appointing a time when the Board of City Commissioners and the ex-officio Assessor will meet to review the assessment, and any person objecting thereto may be heard, or any person objecting to the assessments, may file his or her objection thereto in writing, with the City Clerk. Section 4. At the time appointed for the purpose of reviewing of said assessments and considering any objections thereto made at said time or filed in writing, the Board of City Commissioners and said Ex-officio Assessor shall meet and then, or at some adjourned meeting, review said assessments, and will hear any objections to said assessments, which have been made or filed as aforesaid by any person deeming himself aggrieved thereby, and will decide upon the same as to any assessment, or description of the premises, appearing necessary therein, and will confirm it as reported or as corrected, or will refer the assessment back to the Ex-officio Assessor for revision or annul it and direct a new assessment to be made; and when said assessment shall be confirmed, the City Clerk shall make an endorsement upon the Roll showing said confirmation and the same shall be final and conclusive; the City Clerk shall then deliver the same to the County Assessor, acting Ex-officio City Assessor, with her certificate of confirmation, and the County Assessor, acting Ex-officio City Assessor, shall thereupon record said assessment roll in his office and append thereto his certificate of the date of recording. Said Roll when so endorsed and recorded, shall be prima facie evidence in all Courts and Tribunals of the regularity of the proceedings, preliminary to the making thereof, and of the validity of said Assessment and Assessment Roll. Section 5. Upon the confirmation and recording of the said assessments and assessment roll as by "the Charter of the City of Las Vegas provided, the assessments shall be at once due and payable, and from the date of said confirmation and recording, shall constitute and be a lien upon the lot or parcel of land and premises assessed, together with the legal interest thereon, and shall be charged against the person and properties until paid. Section 6. The said special assessment district and the several lots and premises, together with their location, and name of the present owner, and the approximate amounts to be assessed thereon, are as follows: A. the amount to be assessed against the owners and upon the lots and premises, according to the benefits, in said special assessment district for the construction of said [improvement therein is Ten Thousand Three Hundred Two and 90/100 Dollars ($10,302.90), and