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Las Vegas City Ordinances, November 13, 1950 to August 6, 1958, lvc000015-409

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    months after the accident or happening. This provision, except the part concerning the name of the person injured or killed, shall likewise apply to all claims for damages to property due to the alleged negligence of the city, its agents, or employees, and all other cases in which money is claimed to be due from the city for a tort of any kind by any of the agents or employees of the City. No action shall be maintained in any court upon any cause of action in this section mentioned unless such verified written notice of claim shall have first been filed with the City Clerk. SECTION 2. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect upon its final reading and adoption, and final publication as in the next section provided. SECTION 3. 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 Sun, a daily news­paper published in the City of Las Vegas. APPROVED: /s/ C.D. BAKER ATTEST: 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 21st day of September, 1955, and referred to the fol­lowing committee composed of Commissioners Bunker and Whipple for recommendation; thereafter the said committee reported favorably on said ordinance on the 5th day of October 1955 which was the regular meeting held on the 5th day of October, 1955, and at said regular meeting held on said day, the proposed ordinance was read in full to the Board of Commissioners as first introduced and adopted by the following vote: Voting "Aye": Commissioners Bunker, Fountain, Whipple and Mayor Baker. Voting "Nay": None Absent: Commissioner Sharp APPROVED: /s/ C.D. BAKER ATTEST: Mayor /s/ SHIRLEY BALLINGER City Clerk AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION STATE OF NEVADA, ) COUNTY OF CLERK, ) ss. 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 October 12, 1955 to October 19, 1955 inclusive, being the issues of said newspaper for the following dates, to-wit: October 12, 19, 1955. That said newspaper was regularly issued and circulated on each of the dates above named. /s/ RICHARD LOCHRIE Subscribed and sworn to be fore me this 19th day of October, 1955. /s/ BARBARA J. GREENSPUN NOTARY PUBLIC IN AND FOR CLARK COUNTY, NEVADA My Commission Expires Mar. 17, 1956. ORDINANCE NO. 671 AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND CHAPTER 36, SECTION 58, CODE OF LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, 1949, BY ADDING A NEW SUBSECTION TO PREVENT VEHICLE PARKING ON SOUTH FIFTH STREET BETWEEN OAKEY BOULEVARD AND SAN FRANCISCO STREET; PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT THEREWITH; AND PROVIDING OTHER MATTERS PROPERLY RELA­TED THERETO. WHEREAS, the volume of traffic on South Fifth Street between Oakey Boulevard and San Francisco Street has the effect of congesting the streets and impeding the movement of traffic especially whan parking on the street is permitted, and WHEREAS, the practice of parking on said street tends to further impede traffic and in addition, thereto constitutes a danger to the life, limb, and property of other motorists, pedestrians and others, and; WHEREAS, the Board of Commissioners of the County of Clark have prohibited parking on Highway 91 south from San Francisco Street as a safety and traffic control measure; and, WHEREAS, it is the opinion of the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas that the public interest will be best served by prohibiting parking on South Fifth Street between Oakey Boulevard and San Francisco Street, NOW, THEREFORE, the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas do ordain as follows: SECTION 1. Chapter 36, Section 58, Code of Las Vegas, Nevada, 1949, is hereby amended by adding a new subsection to be designated (19) which shall read as follows: 19. On either side of South Fifth Street from Oakey Boulevard to San Francisco Street. SECTION 2. Any person violating the provisions of this ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than $1.00 nor more than $500, and/or 6 months in the City Jail.