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CC to Land and Water Company Oi'TICKRS AND DIRECTORS THOMAS A. CAMPBELL l PRESIDENT SPENDER L. BUTTERFIELD VICE PRESIDENT WILLIAM COULTHARD SECY.-TREAS, HARRY E. MILLER E. OTTO UNDERHILL JAMES CASHMAN JOHN BUNCH LAS VEGAS VALLEY WATER DISTRICT 900 SOUTH 5th STREET LAS VEGAS, NEVADA Telephone 5920 June II, 1951* HOWARD F. CLARK CHIEF ENGINEER AND MANAGER P. O. BOX 1448 YOU FILE 8-2805. O’Melveay & Hyers, 433 South Spring Street, Los Angeles 13» California. Attention Mr. Frank Hamilton: Dear Mr, Hamilton: O3 Me are sending you a printed copy of the Las Vegas Code under separate cover, taken from the files of the office, The City Charter is embodied therein. the County (Clark. County) has no charter, but has a eerie# of Grdlr-tanoes which constitute their rules of government, la the index of these Ordinances there is nothing concerning utilities, sales of utilities, etc. Therefore, the County seems not to be involved in the sale of the local water utility. X had a conference with. Mayor Baker this morning, and after relating the conversation to President Campbell of the District, he has asked me to cover the same comment in a letter to you. It appears that the former Mayor Cragln left a list of unfinished business for the new .Mayor, and on this was a note that the City of Las Vegas was in actuality a party to the sale of the utility; that there was nothing in the City Charter concerning a transfer of a local water utility, but that in the Permit under which the Land and Water Company operates in Las Vegas, there is a clause stating that the Land and Water Company may not dispose of its holdings without the approval of the City commissioners (or whatever governing body exists). This reference to a Permit caused ae to slater Company, finding the Acting- lednesday, June 13; the officer tipple, immediately contacted call at the local office of the Land and Manager Johnson was in Los Angeles until in charge of the office temporarily-; Mr. ... , ^ Mr. Johnson at the Los Angeles office, and reported to me by telephone that Mr. Johnson had not so far run across any such a clause in the Permit, but was still in search of any references in the Permit that covered the approval of the City Commissioners to any proposed sale ( in behalf of assuring the eitisena that service, etc., would not be impaired by the proposed sale). Since most of the vital records of the Lana and water Company are presumably in the Los Angelos office, & telephone call from you would no doubt hasten the clearing of this sudden introduction of the City into the approaching negotiation®. lours very truly, Howard F, Clark