Las Vegas City Ordinances, March 31, 1933 to October 25, 1950, lvc000014-237

ORDINANCE NO. 305 AN ORDINANCE REQUIRING REGISTRATION WITH THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS POLICE DEPARTMENT AND THE FINGERPRINTING, THUMBPRINTING AND PHOTOGRAPHING OF ALL EMPLOYEES OF GAMBLING HOUSES, TAXI DRIVERS, AND EMPLOYEES OF ESTABLISHMENTS WHERE ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES ARE SOLD AT RETAIL ON THE PREMISES AND PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR A VIOLATION OF THIS ORDINANCE, AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCE AND PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH. The Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas do Ordain: Section 1. Definition. — Wherever used in the Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires: (a) "Employees of Gambling Houses" shall mean all dealers, shill, and operators of gambling and banking games as such games are defined by City of Las Vegas Ordinance No. 165, except slot machines, pin ball machines and any other mechanically operated game where no attendant is required. (b) "Employees of Establishments where Alcoholic Beverages are sold at retail on the Premises" shall mean bartenders, waiters and any other person who serves alcoholic beverages to patrons for consumption on the premises, save and excepting the employees of cafe and rest­aurants. (C) "Taxi Drivers" will include all persons who drive any motor vehicle or conveyance used in the City of Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada, for the purpose of transporting persons for hire, save and except those persons employed for hire to transport persons in interstate traffic exclusively, and those persons for hire to operate buses which operate under a City franchise, (d) "Alcoholic Beverages" shall mean and include any and all distilled or recitified spirits, potable alcohol, brandy, whiskey, rum, gin, aromatic bitters, beer, wine and every liquid or solid containing alcohol capable of being consumed by a human being. Section 2. Policy. — It is hereby declared to be the policy of the City of Las Vegas, as herein expressed by the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas, that the safety morals, good order and general welfare of the inhabitants of the City of Las Vegas will be better protected and served, by requiring the registration with the Police Department of said City and thumb, fingerprinting, and photographing of all employees of gambling houses, taxi driver, and employees of establishments where alcoholic beverages are sold at retail and served on the premises, as such employees and establishments are defined in Section 1 of this Ordinance. Section 3. It shall be unlawful for any person to accept employment in any gambling house, as a driver or operator of any taxi-cab, or in any establishment where alcoholic beverages, as defined in Section 1 hereof, are sold at retail and consumed on the premises, unless such person shall first have registered his name and address with the police Department of the City of Las Vegas and shall have had his thumb, fingerprints, and photograph taken and filed with the Bureau of Identification of the City of Las Vegas. Section 4. Upon such employee complying with the provisions of Section 3 hereof, the Chief of Police shall issue a certificate to such employee showing compliance therewith, and the Bureau of Identification shall forthwith send a copy of such imprints to the Bureau of Identification of the State of California, and one copy to the Identification Bureau of the Federal Bureau of Investigation at Washington, D.C., with the request that all information as to the previous record, if any, of such person, be forthwith transmitted to the Bureau of Identification at Las Vegas, Nevada, Upon Receipt of such information the Bureau of Identifi­cation at Las Vegas shall forthwith notify the Chief of Police. The information, if any, received as aforesaid shall be treated as confidential and shall only be made accessible to the Mayor and Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas, the employer of such person, and to law enforcement officer. Section 5. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation operating a gambling game, a taxicab or taxicabs, or an establishment where alcoholic beverages are sold at retail for consumption of the premises, to employ any person required to register with the Police Department by the terms of this Ordinance, unless such person shall have so registered with the Police Department of the City of Las Vegas and had his thumb, fingerprints and photograph taken and filed with the Bureau of Identification of the City of Las Vegas. Section 6. Any person violating any of the provisions of this Ordinance shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine of not more than Three Hundred ($300.00) Dollars, or by imprisonment in the City Jail for not more than One Hundred Fifty (150) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Section 7. Effect of invalidity. — If any part, provision or section of this Ordinance or the application thereof to any person or circumstances shall be held invalid by any Court of competent jurisdiction, the remainder of this Ordinance of the application of such par, provision or section to any other person or circumstances, shall not be affected thereby. Section 8. Effective Date. -- T his Ordinance shall be in effect on and after its pass­age, adoption and publication thereof in the Las Vegas Evening Review Journal, a daily news­paper published in the City of Las Vegas, for a period of once a week for two consecutive weeks immediately following its first reading. ATTEST: /s/ E. W. Cragin____________ Mayor /s/ Helen Scott Read________ City Clerk The above and foregoing Ordinance was first proposed and read by title to the Board of City Commissioners on the 28th day of August, 1945, and referred to the following committee composed of Commissioners Baskin, Bates, and Clark for recommendation; thereafter the said