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SECTION 13. This ordinance shall became effective July 1st, 1956. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby expressly repealed. SECTION 14. Any person violating the provisions of this ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $500.00, and/or six (6) months in jail, or by a combination of both such fine and imprisonment. SECTION 15. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect as in the next section provided, and final passage. SECTION 16. 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, Mayor ATTEST: /s/ SHIRLEY BALLING, City Clerk The above and foregoing ordinance was first proposed and read by title to the Board of Commissioners on the 23rd day of May, 1956, and referred to the following committee composed of commissioners Fountain and Whipple for recommendation; thereafter the said committee reported favorably on said ordinance on the 6th day of June, 1956, which was the regular meeting, that at said regular meeting held on said day the proposed ordinance was read in full to the Board of Commissioners as amended and adopted by the following vote: Voting "Aye": Commissioners Bunker, Fountain, Sharp, Whipple and His Honor Mayor Baker Voting "Nay": None Absent: None APPROVED: /s/ C. D. BAKER, Mayor ATTEST: /s/ SHIRLEY BALLINGER, City Clerk AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION COUNTY OF CLARK ) ) ss. STATE OF NEVADA ) 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 2 weeks, from June 9, 1956 to June 16, 1956 inclusive, being the issues of said newspaper for the following dates, to-wit: June 9, 16, 1956. That said newspaper was regularly issued and circulated on each of the dates above named. /s/ RICHARD LOCHRIE Subscribed and sworn to before me this 20th day of June, 1956. /s/ BARBARA J. GREENSPUN NOTARY PUBLIC IN AND FOR CLARK COUNTY, NEVADA Commission Expires March 17, 1960 ORDINANCE NO. 716 AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND SECTION 1 OF ORDINANCE NO. 390 PROVIDING FOR A LICENSE TAX FOR PUBLIC UTILITIES; PROVIDING OTHER MATTERS PROPERLY RELATED THERETO; AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT THEREWITH. The Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas do ordain as follows: SECTION 1. Section 1 of Ordinance No. 390 is hereby amended to read as follows: Every person, firm, association, or corporation engaged in the telephone business, or in the business of furnishing and supplying heating or illuminating gas to others through gas mains, or electrical current for power, lighting, or domestic purposes, or who supplies water for domestic purposes to others through water mains, shall pay for and obtain a quarterly license to carry on each of such businesses, as per the schedule hereinafter recited in this section. Every telephone company shall pay for such license a sum equal to one percent (l%) of its gross quarterly earnings. Every gas company shall pay for such license a sum equal to one percent (l%) of its gross quarterly earnings. Every water company shall pay for such license a sum equal to one percent (l%) of its gross quarterly earnings. Every electric light or power company shall pay a sum equal to one percent (1%) of its gross quarterly earnings. Prior to the issuance of a license hereunder, the applicant therefor shall state in writing, under oath, to the City Clerk, the probably amount of gross earnings which it is estimated will be made in the ensuing period for which the license is to be issued, and when the applicant has held a license for the next preceding period, the estimate shall be computed upon the amount of gross earnings made during such preceding period, Where the amount of gross earnings actually made in any period shall be in excess of the estimate for such period, the licensee shall be indebted to the City for any deficiency in fee paid for such period and liable therefor to the City in a civil action. (cont. on page 477)