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Ordinance No. 237 Continued:) AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION STATE OF NEVADA ) ( SS COUNTY OF CLARK ) Dick Lochrie, being first duly sworn, deposes and says: That he is foreman of the Las Vegas Evening Review-Journal, a daily newspaper of general circulation, printed and published at Las Vegas, in the County of Clark, State of Nevada, and that the attached was continuously published in said newspaper for a period of Two weeks from May 9th 1938 to May 16th 1938 inclusive, being the issues of said newspaper for the following dates, to-wit: May 9th-16th. That said newspaper was regularly issued and circulated on each of the dates above named. Signed Dick Lochrie Subscribed and sworn to before me this 25th day of May, 1938 A. E. CAHLAN Notary Public in and for Clark County, Nevada (NOTARIAL SEAL) My Commission Expires January 12 1939 —oooOOooo— ORDINANCE NO. 238. AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE REGISTRATION AND OPERATION OF BICYCLES IN THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS AND PROVIDING PENALTY FOR VIOLATION THEREOF. The Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas do ordain as follows: SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to operate or use a bicycle propelled wholly or in part by muscular power upon any of the streets, alleys or public highways of the City of Las Vegas, without first obtaining from the City Clerk a license therefor. SECTION 2. The City Clerk is hereby authorized and directed to issue upon written application, bicycle licenses which shall be effective from the 1st day of August, 1938, to and including December 31, 1938, and thereafter said licenses shall be issued for the calendar year, commencing on the first day of January of each of said calendar years and ending on the thirty-first day of December of said calendar year. Said licenses when issued shall entitle the licensee to operate such bicycle for which said license has been issued, upon all the streets, alleys and public highways, exclusive of sidewalks thereof, in the City of Las Vegas. SECTION 3. The City of Las Vegas shall provide each year metallic license plates and seals, together with registration cards and isinglass holders therefor, said metallic license plates and registration cards having numbers stamped thereon in numerical order, beginning with Number 1, and indicating the year for which the same are issued, and the letters LVBL stamped thereon; such metallic license plates shall be suitable for attachment upon the frames of bicycles, and it shall be the duty of the City Clerk to attach one such metallic license plate to the frame of each bicycle and to issue a corresponding registration card to the licensee upon the payment of the license fee herein provided for. Such metallic license plate shall remain attached during the existence of such license. The City Clerk shall also keep a record of the date of issue of each license, to whom issued, and the number thereof. SECTION 4. All persons engaged in the business of buying second-hand bicycles are hereby required to make monthly report to the Police Department, giving the name and address of the person from whom each bicycle is purchased, the description of each bicycle purchased, the frame number thereof, and the number of the metallic license plate found thereon, if any. All persons engaged in the business of selling new or second-hand bicycles are hereby required to make a monthly report to the Police Department giving a list of all sales made by such dealers, which shall include the name and address of each person to whom sold, the kind of bicycle sold, together with a description and frame number thereof, and the number of the metallic license plate attached thereto, if any. SECTION 5. It shall be the duty of every person who sells or transfers ownership of any bicycle, to report such sale or transfer by returning to the City Clerk the registration card issued to such person as licensee thereof, together with the name and address of the person to whom said bicycle was sold or transferred, and such report shall be made within five days of the date of said sale or transfer. It shall be the duty of the purchaser or transferee of such bicycle to apply for a transfer of registration therefor within five days of said sale or transfer. SECTION 6. It shall be unlawful for any person to wilfully or maliciously remove, destroy, mutilate or alter the number of any bicycle frame licensed pursuant to this ordinance. It shall also be unlawful for any person to remove, destroy, mutilate or alter any license plate, seal or registration card during the time in which such License plate, seal or registration card is operative. Provided, however, that nothing in this ordinance shall prohibit the Police Department from stamping numbers on the frames of bicycles on which no serial number can be found, or on which said number is illegible or insufficient for identification purposes. SECTION 7. The annual license fee to be paid for each bicycle shall be Fifty Cents ($.50), and shall be paid in advance; and pursuant to Section 5 of this ordinance, such licenses may be transferred when the ownership of said bicycle is transferred, and a fee of Fifty Cents ($.50) shall be paid for the registration of such transfer. All license fees collected under this ordinance shall be paid into the General Fund of the City of Las Vegas.