Las Vegas City Commission Minutes, September 21, 1955 to November 20, 1957, lvc000010-187

WHEREAS, The Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas, in the County of Clark, and State of Nevada have created Street Improvement Assessment District No. 100-36 and have taken certain steps toward the completion of said district; and WHEREAS, it has "been found necessary to file an amended assessment roll and take the nec­essary steps in conjunction therewith as provided by the Charter of the City of Las Vegas. NOW, THEREFORE, the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas does ordain as follows: SECTION 1. That the County Assessor of the County of Clark and State of Nevada, the Acting Ex-Officio City Assessor of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, shall prepare, and is hereby em­powered, authorized and directed to make forthwith, and amended Assessment roll for Street Im­provement Assessment District No. 100-36 in the manner provided by the Charter of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, and shall assess each lot and parcel of land embraced within the aforementioned Special Assessment District, such relative portion of the whole sum to be levied in said District, as shall be proportionate to the estimated benefit resulting to such lot or parcel of land from the improvement. SECTION 2. That when said Ex-Officio City Assessor shall have completed the assessment, he shall report the same to the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas. Such report shall be signed by him and made in the form of a certificate endorsed on the amended assessment roll, which certificate shall be in the form prescribed by the Charter of the City of Las Vegas. SECTION 3. That after said amended special assessment roll shall have been prepared and reported to said Board, it shall be filed in the office of the City Clerk, and numbered. SECTION 4. That before said amended special assessment roll is adopted and confirmed by said Board, any person objecting to the assessment may file his objection thereto with the City Clerk on or before Wednesday, the 15th day of February, 1956, at 8.00 o'clock P.M., at the City Hall in said City, and said time and place are hereby fixed as the time and place when and where said Board and said County Assessor and Ex-Officio City Assessor will meet to hear and consider objections to said amended special assessment roll and to review said assessment. SECTION 5. That after filing said amended 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 at least once a week for two weeks in the Las Vegas Review Journal, 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 6. That at said time appointed for reviewing the assessments 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 7. That when said special assessments shall be confirmed, the City Clerk shall make an indorsement upon the amended roll showing the date of confirmation, which shall be in the form prescribed by the Charter of the City of Las Vegas. SECTION 8. 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 amended 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 amended 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 amended 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 amended assessment roll. SECTION 9- 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 10. 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 amended 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 installments of principal, the first of which installments of principal shall be due and pay­able on or before the 1st day of March, 1957, 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 March, 1956, at the same rate of interest as that provided for in the special assess­ment bond 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 said 1st day of March, 1957, and the remainder of said annual installments of interest being due and payable on the 1st day of March in each year thereafter. Failure to pay any installment whether of principal or interest, when due, shall cause the whole of the unpaid principal to become due and pay­able immediately, and 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 day 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.