Las Vegas City Ordinances, November 13, 1950 to August 6, 1958, lvc000015-34

at said regular meeting held on the 6th day of December. 1950, the proposed ordinance was read in full to the Board of City Commissioners as first introduced and adopted by the following vote: Voting "Ave11: Commissioners Peccole and His Honor Mayor Cragin __________________________ _______ Voting"Nay" : None. _______________________________________________________________________________ Votes Passed: Commissioners Bunker. Moore and Whipple ________________________________________________ Absent: None._____________ APPROVED: __________s/ E.W. Cragin______________ Mayor (SEAL) SHIRLEY BALLINGER, City Clerk s/ Betty Funston______________________ Chief Deputy City Clerk AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION STATE OF NEVADA,) COUNTY OF CLARK ) _____Carl Woodbury being first duly sworn, deposes and says: That he is Auditor of the LAS VEGAS EVEN- ING 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 2 insertions from December 11. 1950 to December 18. 1950 inclusive, being the Issues of said news­paper for the following dates,to-wit: December 11, 18. That said newspaper was regularly issued and circu­lated on each of the dates above named. s/ Carl Woodbury______________ Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18th day of December. 1950. s/ Neola Gierhart____________ Notary Public in and for Clark County, Nevada. My Commission Expires April 15, 1954. ORDINANCE NO. 447 AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND ORDINANCE NO. 203 OF THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS AS AMENDED, ENTITLED: "AN ORDINANCE REGU­LATING THE DISTRIBUTION AND CONTROL OF INTOXICATING AND ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS AND BEVERAGES: REGULATING PLACES WHERE AND UNDER WHAT CONDITIONS SAID INTOXICATING AND ALCOHOLIC LIQUORS AND BEVERAGES MAY BE KEPT, SOLD, AND GIVEN AWAY OR OTHERWISE DISTRIBUTED, PROVIDING FOR PERMITS AND LICENSES; PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLA­TION OF THIS ORDINANCE; AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT WITH THIS ORDINANCE." ALSO REFERRED TO AS CHAPTER 16 OF THE LAS VEGAS CITY CODE. WHEREAS, the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, at a recessed regular meet­ing thereof, held on the 28th day of March, 1946, duly adopted a Resolution establishing a policy in respect to the issuance of tavern and liquor store licenses, thereby the number of such licenses issued would be based on population and limited to one liquor store license to each 1000 population, and one tavern license to each 1000 population, and WHEREAS, the number of such licenses already issued at the time of the adoption of said Resolution were in excess of the limitation established by said Resolution as based on the population at that time, and WHEREAS, investigation and experience has since disclosed that such allocation of liquor license is fair and impartial, and to the best interests of the people of Las Vegas, and WHEREAS, said Board feels justified in deviating from this rule of allocation only in respect to licenses for taverns to be operated as part of and in connection with hotels wherein substantial monetary investments are made, and will consider favorably applications for licenses in such circumstances only, and WHEREAS, said Board is conscious of its moral responsibility to so administer the liberal laws of the State of Nevada, as they pertain to the City of Las Vegas, as to justify their continued existence, and WHEREAS, it has been determined by the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas that the interests of the public would be better served by basing the number of tavern and retail liquor licenses issued on population, limiting one retail liquor license to each 1000 population and one tavern liquor li­cense to each 1000 population, NOW, THEREFORE, THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS, NEVADA DOES ORDAIN; Section 1. Ordinance No. 203 of the City of Las Vegas, as amended, also known as Chapter 16 of the Las Vegas City Code, is hereby amended by adding the following: Hereafter, tavern liquor and retail liquor licenses shall be based on population, limiting the number of licenses issued to one tavern liquor license to each 1000 population in the City of Las Vegas, and one retail liquor license to each 1000 popu­lation in the City of Las Vegas, Nevada, provided, however, that hotels with 50 rooms or more are exempt from the provisions of this section. If any license provided for in this section should be revoked for any reason, no new license shall be issued until the popu­lation of the City of Las Vegas is such that the terms of this