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Las Vegas, Nevada March l6th, 1950. MrJB.1. Bennett: ( cc -Mr. Wm. Reinhardt ^ Mr. A.M. Folger. I '/£. '• v'* . '/A * ? ’A fe; Sfe 'C MAR ( 20 V 1950 Answering your letter of February 2kth, 1950, wish to state that paragraph 1 of your letter can be answered in the affirmative. The City has made the annexations referred to by you. r Replying to paragraph 2 , wish to state that when the city annexed the property in question, through inadvertence or oversight, they did leave a strip some kO* in width between View Street and Stewart Street. However, the City Planning Engineer and the City Attorney advise me that when they have the next annexation of property which will be in August of this year, that they will include this kO* strip, which of course is contiguous and adjoining their property. In searching the law on the question as to the legality of a municipality annexing non-contiguous property, I find the matter covered in Section 1205 of Nevada Compiled Laws, and the only reference made therein is to the effect that the property must lie contiguous to the corporate limits of any city. The rest of the section relates to the meothod of procedure. The subject is also covered in Section 2 of Chapter 1 of the Code of Las Vegas Nevada (19U9). The language used there is as follows: "Territory adjoining and contiguous to the corporate limits of the City of Las Vegas may be annexed to said city, etc...." The opinion of the city attorney and the City Planning engineer is that the city cannot annex any property