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    282 1. Notice of Sale on Bond Issue - $350,000.00 Sewage Disposal System 2. Proposed Sewer Rental Ordinance - 1st Reading s/ Shirley Ballinger SHirley Ballinger, City Clerk and Clerk of the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas ACCEPTANCE OF NOTICE We, the undersigned, Mayor and Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, do hereby admit due service of the foregoing Notice of Special Meeting: s/ E. W. Cragin s/ Pat Clark s/___Reed Whipple__________ s/ Robert T. Moore STATE OF NEVADA ) ) COUNTY OF CLARK ) SS ) CITY OF LAS VEGAS) The Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada, met in special session, pursuant to due legal notice and call at the regular meeting place of said Board in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Friday, the 27th day of August, 1948, at the hour of 3:30 o'clock P.M. The following members of the Board of Commissioners were present: Mayor E. W. Cragin Commissioner C. R. Clark Commissioner Robert T. Moore Commissioner Reed Whipple Also present: City Attorney C. Norman Cornwall City Clerk Shirley Ballinger Absent: Commissioner R. T. Baskin City Manager J. M. Murphy The meeting was called to order by the Mayor. Thereupon the following proceedings, among other, were had and taken to-wit: Commissioners Clark and Whipple reported favorably on the following proposed ordinance which was referred to them for report at the last regular meeting of the Board of Commissioners held August 20, 1948: ORDINANCE NO. 364 AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE IMPOSITION AND COLLECTION OF RATES, FEES AND CHARGES FOR THE USE OF THE SERVICES AND FACILITIES OF THE SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM OF THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS; AUTHORIZING AND EMPOWERING THE CITY TO REQUIRE CONNECTION WITH SANITARY SEWERS SERVED OR WHICH MAY BE SERVED BY SAID DISPOSAL SYSTEM; PROVIDING A PENALTY FOR THE FAILURE AND REFUSAL TO MAKE SUCH CONNECTION; AND PLEDGING THE NET REVENUES DERIVED FROM THE IMPOSITION OF SUCH RATES, FEES AND CHARGES AS ADDITIONAL SECURITY FOR THE PAYMENT OF THE LAS VEGAS SEWAGE DISPOSAL PLANT BONDS, SERIES OF MAY 1, 1948. WHEREAS, the City of Las Vegas now owns and operates a municipal sewage disposal system consisting of intercepting sewers, force mains, sewage pumping works and related facilities; and WHEREAS, the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas has determined and does hereby determine that said municipal sewage disposal system should be im­proved and extended by the construction of a sewage disposal plant for the treatment of sewage discharged into said system; and WHEREAS, at an election duly called and held on the 6th day of May, 1948, the qualified electors of the City of Las Vegas authorized the issuance of bonds in the sum of $350,000.00 to secure the necessary funds to finance the construction of said sewage disposal plant; and WHEREAS, Emergency Ordinance No. 353 duly adopted by the Board of Commis­sioners on the 23rd day of April, 1948, as amended and supplemented provided for the issuance and public sale of said bonds; and