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Las Vegas City Commission Minutes, November 7, 1949 to May 21, 1952, lvc000007-596

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    Avenue to Bonanza Road; on Twentieth Street, from South boundary of the Amended Church Tract Addition to Stewart Avenue; on Cervantes Street, from south boundary of the Amended Church Tract Addition to Stewart Avenue; on Twenty First Street and on Twenty Third Street, from Ogden Avenue to Walnut Avenue; on Circle Drive, from Bruce Street to Lewis Avenue; on Lewis Street, from Spencer Street to Bruce Street; on Clark Avenue, from Fourteenth Street to Fifteenth Street; and on Fourteenth Street, from Charleston Boulevard to Clark Avenue. Section 4. That the special assessment district which it is proposed to create shall be designated Street Improvement Assessment District No. 100-16, and it shall include all the lots, premises and property, to the full depth of such, front­ing adjoining and abutting upon said streets and parts of streets. Section 5. That the City Clerk shall keep the plats, diagrams and plans of the work and locality to be improved, together with the estimates of the expense there­of, on file in her office for public inspection and examination. Section 6. That the Board of Commissioners of said City will meet at the City Hall in said City on Friday. the 9th day of May. 1952, at the hour of 4:30 o'clock P.M., to hear and consider any suggestions and objections that may be made try parties in interest to the proposed improvements, or any matter relating thereto. Objections to said proposed improvements, or any matters relating thereto, may be filed in writing in the office of the City Clerk at any time prior to said meeting. Section 7. That the City Clerk shall give notice of the filing of said estimates, plats, diagrams, and plans with the City Clerk for examination of the pro­posed improvements or work, of the location of the improvement, of the district to be assessed, and of the time when the Board will meet and consider any suggestions and ob­jections that may be made by the parties in interest to the proposed improvements. Said notice shall be given by publication once a week for two successive weeks in the Las Vegas Review Journal, a daily newspaper published in said City of Las Vegas, and also by posting said notice in or near said post office of said City and by posting notices in three public places near the site of said proposed work. Section 8. That all by-laws, orders, resolutions and ordinances or parts of by-laws, orders resolutions and ordinances, in Conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. Section 9. That if any one or more sections, sentences, clauses or parts of this ordinance shall, for any reason be questioned or be held invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remaining provisions of this ordinance, but shall be confined in its operation to the specific sections, sentences, clauses or parts of this ordinance so held unconstitutional and invalid, and the inapplicability and invalidity of any section, sentence, clause or part of this ordinance, in any one or more instances shall not affect or prejudice in any way the applicability and valid­ity of this ordinance in any other instances. Section 10. That by reason of the fact that the streets of the City of Las Vegas are inadequate to meet the present and future needs of the City and its inhabi­tants and that it is necessary immediately to raise funds to improve said streets, therefore, it is hereby declared that an emergency exists, and that this ordinance is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public health, peace and safety. Section 11. That the City Clerk and the Clerk of the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas, shall cause this ordinance to be published once a week for two successive weeks immediately following its final reading and adoption, in the Las Vegas Review Journal, a daily newspaper published in said City and this ordinance shall become effective immediately following the second publication hereof. PASSED, ADOPTED AND APPROVED this 29th day of April 1952. MAYOR PRO TEM (SEAL) ATTEST: s/ Shirley Ballinger_______________ CITY CLERK Commissioner then seconded the motion to adopt the foregoing ordinance. The question being upon the adoption of said ordinance, the roll was called with the fol­lowing result: Those voting "Aye": Commissioner Bunker Commissioner Jarrett Commissioner Peccole Mayor Pro Tem Whipple Those voting "Nay”: None Absent: Mayor Baker. Thereupon, the presiding officer declared said motion carried and the ordinance duly passed and adopted. It was then moved by Commissioner Peccole and seconded by Commissioner that all rules of this Board which might prevent, unless suspended, the final passage and adop­tion of this ordinance at this meeting be, and the same are hereby, suspended for the purpose of permitting the final passage and adoption of said emergency ordinance at this meeting. The question being upon the adoption of said motion and the suspension of the rules,