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Las Vegas City Ordinances, November 13, 1950 to August 6, 1958, lvc000015-198

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    AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE TO AMEND SECTION 3 OF EMERGENCY ORDINANCE NO. 512 ENTITLED: AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE CREATING STREET IMPROVEMENT ASSESSMENT DISTRICT NO. 100-18; PROVIDING FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF DESIGNATED STREETS! AND PARTS OF STREETS THEREIN; PROVIDING FOR SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS ACCORDING TO FRONTAGE TO DEFRAY THE STATED ENTIRE COST THEREOF; DIRECTING THE PREPARATION OF AN ASSESSMENT ROLL AND THE REPORTING OF THE SAME TO THE BOARD OF COMM­ISSIONERS; PROVIDING FOR FILING OF SAID ROLL WITH CITY CLERK; PROVIDING A TIME AND PLACE TO REVIEW SAID ASSESS­MENTS MENTS AND NOTIFICATION THEREOF; PROVIDING FOR THE CORRECTION AND /OR CONFIRMATION AND APPROVAL OF SAID ROLL THEREAT OR THEREAFTER; PROVIDING FOR THE INDORSEMENT ON SAID ROLL OF SAID CONFIRMATION AND APPROVAL; PRO- VIDING FOR THE DELIVERY OF SAID APPROVED ROLL TO THE EX-OFFICIO CITY ASSESSOR; PROVIDING THAT SAID ASSESSMENTS SHALL CONSTITUTE A LIEN; PRESCRIBING THE METHOD OF PAYING SAID ASSESSMENTS AND THE INTEREST THEREON; PROVIDING FOR THE DISPOSITION OF SAID ASSESSMENTS; DIRECTING THE NOTIFICATION BY MAIL WHEN AND WHERE SAID ASSESSMENT IS DUE AND PAYABLE; RATIFYING, APPROVING AND CONFIRMING ALL ACTION HERETOFORE TAKEN TOWARD IMPROVING SAID STREETS AND PARTS OF STREETS IN SAID DISTRICT, TOWARDS ITS CREATION AND TOWARD LEVYING AND EFFECTING SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS PROVIDING OTHER MATTERS RELATING THERETO; AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 3 of Emergency Ordinance No. 512 is hereby amended to read as follows: That the entire cost and expense of making said improvements, including all incidental expenses which may be legally included in the sums assessed, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the cost of surveys, plans, assessments, the costs of construction, and the fees and compensation properly charged in the work of making special assessments, shall be defrayed by special assessments made according to frontage against the owners and the assessable lots,premises and property specially benefited by such improvements and included within said district. The entire cost and expense of making said improvements are deemed to be $46,036.83 and the total of the special assessments so levied shall be in that amount. SECTION 2. That all by-laws, orders, resolutions, and ordinances, or parte of by-laws, orders, resolutions and ordinances in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed. SECTION 3. That if any one or more sections, sentences, clauses or parts of this ordinance shall, for any reason, be questioned or be held invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the re­maining provisions of this ordinance, but shall be confined in its operation to the specific sections, sentences, clauses or parts of this ordinance so held unconstitutional and invalid, and the inapplicability and invalidity of any section, sentence, clause or part of this ordinance, in any one or more instances shall not affect or pre­judice in any way the inapplicability and validity of this ordinance in any other instance. SECTION 4. That by reason of the fact that the streets of the City of Las Vegas are inadequate to meet the present and future needs of the City and its inhabitants and that it is necessary immediately to raise funds to improve said streets, therefore, it is hereby declared that an emergency exists, and that this ordin­ance is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety. SECTION 5. That 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 final reading and adoption, in the Las Vegas Sun, a daily newspaper published in said City, and this ordinance shall become effective immediately following the second publication hereof. PASSED, ADOPTED AND APPROVED this 1st day of April, 1953. s/______C. D. Baker______________ Mayor (SEAL) ATTEST: s/ Shirley Ballinger City Clerk Those voting for the adoption of the foregoing ordinance are as follows: Those voting "Aye”: Mayor C. D. Baker Commissioner Wendell Bunker Commissioner Rex A. Jarrett Commissioner William Peccole Commissioner Reed Whipple Those voting "Nay”: None Absent: None AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION STATE OF NEVADA, ) COUNTY OF CLARK ) Richard Lochrie, being first duly sworn, deposes and says: That he is Foreman of the Las Vegas Morning Sun, 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 two weeks from April 2, 1953 to April 9, 1953 inclusive, being the issues of said newspaper for the following dates to-wit: April 2, 9, 1953. That said newspaper was regularly issued and circulated on each of the dates above named. Signed Richard Lochrie Subscribed and sworn to before me this l4th day of April, 1953. ___________Barbara J. Greenspun________________ Notary Public in and for Clark County, Nevada EMERGENCY ORDINANCE NO. 539 My Commission Expires March 17, 1956.