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Las Vegas City Ordinances, March 31, 1933 to October 25, 1950, lvc000014-353

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    changed address or voluntarily cancelling his license in accordance with the Rules and Regulations of the Nevada State Real Estate Board shall automatically cancel the license theretofore issued. Section 8. Real estate brokers who share space with another real estate broker, and engage in the real estate business in the capacity of an independent broker, and not as a real estate salesman em­ployed by another broker shall be subject to all of the terms, conditions, provisions, requirements and fees applicable to a "real estate broker" under the provisions of this ordinance. Section 9. Every person, copartnership, association or corporation licensed as a real estate broker under the provisions of this ordinance shall be required to have and maintain a definite place of business within the City of Las Vegas, which shall be a room or rooms used for the transaction of real estate business, and which will serve as his, their or its office for the transaction of business under the authority of said license, and where said license shall be prominently displayed. When a real estate office is conducted in a private home, a room or rooms shall be set apart to be used for the transaction of such real estate business. The location of all places of business conducted by a real estate broker, including main and branch offices, shall be in accordance with the Zoning Ordinance of the City of Las Vegas and/or all other City Ordinances and Regulations pertaining to the conduct and maintenance of such a business for commercial enterprise. Section 10. Any person, copartnership, association or corporation violating the provisions of this Ordinance shall, upon conviction thereof, if a person, be punished by a fine of not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or by imprisonment in the City Jail not to exceed six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, and, if a copartnership, association, or corporation, be punished by a fine not to exceed Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00). Any officer or agent of a corporation, or member or agent of a copartnership, or association, who shall personally participate in, or be accessory to any violation of the provisions of this ordinance by such copartnership, association, or corporation, shall be subject to the penalty herein prescribed for individuals. Section 11. Subsection 2 of Section 8 of Ordinance No. entitled: "AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF IAS VEGAS LICENSING, FOR PURPOSES OF REGULATION AND REVENUE EVERY KIND OF LAWFUL BUSINESS HEREINAFTER SPECIFIED, TRANSACTED OR CARRIED ON WITHIN THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE CITY OF IAS VEGAS, STATE OF NEVADA; FIXING THE RATES OF LICENSE TAX UPON THE SAME AND PROVIDING FOR THE COLLECTION OF SAID LICENSE TAX, AND A PUNISHMENT FOR CARRYING ON OR CONDUCTING ANY SUCH BUSINESS WITHOUT A LICENSE, AND REPEALING ORDINANCES NUMBERS 1, 2, 4, 13, 14, 35, 48, 62, 74, 75, 81, 95, 102, 105, 108, 112, 117, 145, 184, 192 and 243," and all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict with the provisions of this ordinance are hereby repealed. Section 12. The provisions of this ordinance shall be severable, and if any of said provisions, or the application thereof to any person, body or circumstances, shall be held to be invalid or unconsti­tutional, the remainder of this ordinance, or the application of such provision to persons, bodies or cir­cumstances other than those as to which it shall have been held invalid or unconstitutional, shall not be affected thereby. It is hereby declared as the intent of the Board of Commissioners that this ordinance would have been adopted had such invalid or unconstitutional provision, or the application thereof to persons, bodies or circumstances as to which it shall have been held invalid and unconstitutional pro­vision, or the application thereof to persons, bodies or circumstances as to which it shall have been held invalid and unconstitutional, not been included therein. Section 13. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect upon its publication, as in the next section provided, and final passage. Section 14. The City Clerk and 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 first reading and adoption, in the Las Vegas Evening Review Journal, a daily newspaper published in the City of Las Vegas. ATTEST: /s/ E. W. Cragin_________ Mayor / s/ Shirley Ballinger City Clerk The above and foregoing Ordinance was first proposed and read by title to the Board of City Commissioners on the 20th day of August, 1948, and referred to the following committee composed of Com­missioners Moore and Whipple for recommendation; thereafter the said committee reported favorably on said Ordinance on the 22nd day of September, 1948 which was the regular meeting of said Board of City Commissioners; that at said regular meeting held on the 22nd day of September, 1948, the proposed ordin­ance was read in full to the Board of City Commissioners as first introduced and adopted by the following vote: Voting "Aye": Commissioners Baskin, Moore and Whipple Voting "Nay": None Absent: Mayor Cragin and Commissioner Clark APPROVED: ATTEST: /s/ Reed Whipple___________ /s/ Shirley Ballinger Acting Mayor Pro Tem City Clerk The above and foregoing ordinance was thereafter read aloud to the said Board of City Commissioners for a second time at a regular meeting of the said Board held on the 7th day of October, 1948, and passed by the following vote: Voting "Aye": Commissioners Baskin, Clark, Moore, Whipple and His Honor Mayor Cragin Voting "Nay": None APPROVED: Absent: None ATTEST: /s/ E. W. Cragin /s/ Shirley Ballinger Mayor City Clerk