Las Vegas City Ordinances, November 13, 1950 to August 6, 1958, lvc000015-78

the County of Clark,State of Nevada, and that the attached was continuously published in said newspaper for a period of 2 issues from September 25. 1951 to October 2. 1951 inclusive, being the issues of said newspaper for the following dates, to-wit: September 25 and October 2. 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 28th day of September, 1951. s/ Neola Gierhart___________________ Notary Public in and for Clark County, Nevada. My Commission Expires April 14-, 1954- ORDINANCE NO. 4.70 AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND CHAPTER 36 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, 1949, BY PROVIDING FOR THE IMPOUNDING OF VEHICLES FOR VIOLATIONS OF THE TRAFFIC CODE, AND PROVIDING FOR PAYMENT OF TOWAGE AND STOR­AGE CHARGES; BY DEFINING THE DUTIES OF DRIVERS OF COLLIDING VEHICLES, AND PROVIDING FOR REPORTS TO BE MADE TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, AND PROCEDURE TO BE FOLLOWED GENERALLY IN CASE OF ACCIDENT; BY ADDING A NEW SECTION PROVIDING THAT NO PERSON SHALL DRIVE UPON A STREET AT SUCH A SLOW SPEED AS TO IMPEDE THE NORMAL MOVEMENT OF TRAFFIC; AND BY ADDING A NEW SECTION PROVIDING THAT NO PERSON SHALL OPEN OR CLOSE VEHICLE DOORS INTO MOVING TRAFFIC, MAKING THE VIOLATION OF THIS ORDINANCE A MISDEMEANOR, AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH. THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Section 138, Chapter 36, of the Code of the City of Las Vegas is hereby amended to read as follows: (a) Members of the police department are hereby authorized to remove a vehicle from a street or highway to the nearest garage or other place of saf­ety, or to a garage designated or maintained by the police department, or otherwise maintained by this City under the circumstances hereinafter enumer­ated: (1) When any vehicle is left unattended upon any bridge, viaduct or cause- way, or in any tube or tunnel where such vehicle constitutes an obstruc­tion to traffic. (2) When a vehicle upon a street or highway is so disabled as to consti­tute an obstruction to traffic and the person in charge of the vehicle is by reason of physical injury incapacitated to such an extent as to be unable to provide for its custody or removal. (3) When any vehicle is left unattended upon a streets, or at a parking space adjacent to any parking meter while said meter is displaying a signal indicating that the vehicle occupying such parking space has al­ready been parked beyond the period prescribed for such parking space, or is so parked illegally as to constitute a definite hazard or obstruction to the normal movement of traffic. (b) Whenever am officer removes a vehicle from a street as authorized in this section and the officer knows or is able to ascertain from the registration records in the vehicle the name and address of the owner thereof, such officer shall immediate­ly give or cause to be given notice in writing to such owner of the fact of such re­moval and the reasons therefor and of the place to which such vehicle has been remov­ed. In the event any such vehicle is stored in a public garage, a copy of such no­tice shall be given to the proprietor of such garage. (c) Whenever an officer removes a vehicle from a street under this section and does not know and is not able to ascertain the name of the owner, or for any other reason is unable to give the notice to the owner as hereinbefore provided, and in the event the vehicle is not returned to the owner within a period of three days, then and in that event, the officer shall immediately send or cause to be sent written re­port of such removal by mail to the state department whose duty it is to register motor vehicles, and shall file a copy of such notice with the proprietor of any public gar­age in which the vehicle may be stored. Such notice shall include a complete descrip­tion of the vehicle, the date, time and place from which removed, the reasons for such removal and name of the garage or place where the vehicle is stored. (d) Whenever a vehicle has been removed from a public street as authorized in this section, the owner or person exercising control over said vehicle shall pay to the police department the full amount of towing and storage charges incurred, and said vehicle shall not be released until such charges have been paid in full. Section 2. Section 139, Chapter 36 of the Code of the City of Las Vegas, 1949, is hereby amend­ed to read as follows: Whenever an automobile, motorcycle, or any other vehicle whatever, regardless of the power by which the same is drawn or propelled, strikes any person or collides with any vehicle containing a person, the driver of such vehicle and all persons in such vehicle who have or assume authority over such driver shall immediately cause such vehi­cle to stop and shall render to the person struck, or the occupants of the vehicle col­lided with, all necessary assistance, including the carrying of such person or occupant to a physician or surgeon for medical or surgical treatment, if such treatment be re­quired, or if such carrying be requested by the person struck, or the occupant of the vehicle struck; and such driver and the person having or assuming authority over such driver shall further give to the occupants of such vehicle or person struck, the li­cense number of his or their said vehicle and also the name of the owner thereof, arid the name of the passenger or passengers, in each said vehicle at the time of such strik­ing or collision, and every such driver, or the owner of said vehicle, shall, as soon as possible, make a full report of such collision, with all details and circumstances thereof, to the Chief of Police, of the City of Las Vegas; and whenever an automobile,