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Las Vegas City Ordinances, March 31, 1933 to October 25, 1950, lvc000014-126

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    (Ordinance No. 244 Continued) (43) For each designer or decorator, $10.00 per quarter. (44) For each building contractor, $60.00 per annum, paid annually. (45) For each person, firm or corporation conducting, managing or carrying on the business of paving or macadamizing contractor, $50.00 per quarter. (46) For each cabinet shop, carpenter shop or upholstery shop, $5.00 per quarter. (47) Any other contractor not specifically licensed by this or any other ordin­ance of the City of Las Vegas, $60.00 per annum, paid annually. (48) For each nursery where plants, flowers, ferns, trees or other plants are cultivated, grown or propagated for the purpose of sale, $3.00 per quarter. (49) Every person conducting, managing or carrying on the business of a cold stor­age or refrigeration plant for the purpose of storing fruits, vegetables, meats, fish, eggs or dairy products, or any other merchandise, shall pay a quarterly license fee of $1.00 for each 1,000 square feet of floor area, or fraction thereof, with a minimum quarterly tax of $10.00. (50) Every person with a fixed place of business within the City of Las Vegas, who engages in the business of renting or selling outdoor advertising space, whether bill board or electrical signs, shall pay a quarterly license fee of three and one-half cents ($.03½) per square yard of front surface with a minimum quarterly license of $12.50. Every person who comes into the City of Las Vegas to lease or distribute electrical signs or place them in use by any local business person, whether by lease, sale, or conditional sale contract, shall pay a quarterly license fee therefor in the sum of $20.00. (51) For each locksmith, $6.00 per quarter, which license fee shall be paid in addition to the license tax upon any other business operated by such person, if he operates any other business. (52) For each person conducting, managing or carrying on the business of house moving a quarterly license fee of $25.00 shall be paid, and in addition thereto, he shall maintain on deposit with the City Clerk a bond in the penal sum of $1,000 executed by a surety company authorized to do business in the State of Nevada for the then current year, indemnifying the City against injury or damage to pavements or other public property, and all other persons, firms or corporations, against injury or damage to per­son or property occurring while any house is being moved into, along or off any public street. In the event of a recovery by said City or any private person, firm or cor­poration on said bond, the said bond or a similar substitute shall be restored immedi­ately to said penal sum of $1,000. (53) Every person conducting, managing or carrying on the business of house wrecking or salvaging, shall pay a quarterly license fee of $12.50 per quarter. (54) Every person conducting, managing or carrying on the business of a natatorium or swimming pool or tank, where a fee or charge is made for the use thereof, or where rooms, lockers or bathing suits are rented in connection therewith, shall pay an annual license fee of $25.00. (55) Every automobile ticket agency or transportation agency, except when con­ducted by the owner of the transportation agency line, shall pay a quarterly license fee of $7.50 per quarter. And such license fee shall be paid for such business even though the person conducting such business or paying such license fee may at the same time and in the same place, operate another business. (56) For every public stenographer, $5.00 per quarter. For the purpose of this subdivision, a public stenographer is defined to be a person who makes a business of typing for the general public or for persons other than himself or his immediate permanent employer. (57) For each insurance adjuster or insurance adjusting agency, $10.00 per quarter, except that this subdivision shall not apply to regular insurance agents adjusting losses for their own companies. (58) For each automobile reclaiming agency, $5.00 per quarter. (59) For each bail bond broker or bail bond brokerage business, $25.00 per quarter. (60) For each painting or decorating contractor, $50.00 per annum. (61) For each amusement park charging admission to the grounds, $5.00 per quarter. (62) For each private detective agency, bureau or business, $25.00 per quarter. (63) For each abstract and/or title company doing business, maintaining an agency, or operating in the City of Las Vegas, $25.00 per quarter. (64) For each brick yard, pressed brick plant, or adobe or concrete block manu­facturing plant, $40.00 per annum. (65) For each marble and/or granite workers' shop, $5.00 per quarter. (66) For each planing mill allowed by law, $5.00 per quarter. (67) For each automobile painting and/or sign painting establishment, $25.00 per annum.