Las Vegas City Ordinances, March 31, 1933 to October 25, 1950, lvc000014-370

Section 12. EXPIRATION OF LICENSE. The City Clerk shall not issue any license hereunder nor accept any license fee for less than a full quarterly period, and shall issue such licenses only for the current quarterly periods commencing January, April, July and October. All licenses issued hereunder shall expire upon the termination of the current quarterly period during which they shall have been issued. Section 13. It shall be unlawful for any Solicitor or Canvasser, selling or pretending to sell, or offering for sale, or demonstrating goods, wares or merchandise of any kind or character, or any article, material or substance, to ring the bell, or knock on the door of any residence, dwelling, flat or apartment whereon a sign bearing the words "No Peddlers," or other words of similar import is painted or affixed or exposed to public view, or to attempt to gain admittance thereto, provided, however, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to any solicitor or canvasser who knocks at any door, or rings any bell at the invitation or with the consent of some member of the household at which he so applies for admission. Section 14. PENALTY. Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall, upon conviction thereof be punished by a fine not to exceed 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. Section 15. REPEAL OF CONFLICTING ORDINANCES. All ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent with the provisions of this ordinance, be and the same are hereby repealed. Section 16. 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 valid or unconstitu­tional, the remainder of this ordinance, 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, not been included therein. Section 17. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect upon its publication, as in the next section provided, and final passage. Section 18. 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 Commissioners on the 16th day of September, 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 7th day of October, 1948, which was the regular meeting of said Board of Commissioners; that at said regular meet­ing held on the 7th day of October, 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, Clark, Moore, Whipple and His Honor Mayor Cragin. Voting "Nay": None Absent: None APPROVED: ATTEST: /s/ E. W. Cragin Mayor /s/ Shirley Ballinger City Clerk The above and foregoing Ordinance was thereafter read aloud to the said Board of Commissioners for a second time at a regular meeting of the said Board held on the 22nd day of October, 1948, and passed by the follow­ing vote: Voting "Aye": Commissioners Baskin, Moore, Whipple and His Honor Mayor Cragin. Voting "Nay": None Absent: Commissioner Clark APPROVED: ATTEST: /s/ E. W. Cragin Mayor /s/ Shirley Ballinger______ City Clerk AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION STATE OF NEVADA) COUNTY OF CLARK) Dick Lochrie, being first duly sworn, deposes and says: That he is foreman of the LAS VEGAS EVENING REVIEW-JOURNAL, 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 Oct 11, 1948 to Oct 18, 1948 inclusive, being the issues of said newspaper for the following dates, to-wit: Oct 11 - 18th That said newspaper was regularly issued and circulated on each of the dates above named. /s/ Dick Lochrie_______ Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18th day of October, 1948 /s/ A. E. Cahlan_______________ My Commission Expires Jan 12, 1951 Notary Public in and for Clark County, Nevada