Assembly Bill No. 59–Assemblyman Collins

 

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AN ACT relating to the charter of the City of Las Vegas; providing that the office of an additional councilman created as the result of an increase in the number of wards must be filled initially by election; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN

SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

    Section 1. Section 1.130 of the charter of the City of Las Vegas,

 being chapter 517, Statutes of Nevada 1983, as last amended by chapter

 187, Statutes of Nevada 1999, at page 914, is hereby amended to read as

 follows:

   Sec. 1.130  Wards: Creation; boundaries.

   1.  The city must be divided into six wards upon the approval of

 the voters. Thereafter, the wards may be increased:

   (a) By the city council if it determines that an increase is

 necessary; or

   (b) Upon approval of a question proposing an increase to a specific

 number of wards by a majority of the voters voting on the question.

 Such a question must be submitted to the voters on the ballot at a

 general election [or general city election] if the city council votes for

 the submission of the question on its own motion or if a petition

 signed by a number of registered voters of the city equal to 15

 percent or more of the number of voters who voted at the last

 preceding general election is submitted to the city council requesting

 an increase to a specific number of wards.

The wards must be as nearly equal in population as can conveniently

 be provided, and the territory which comprises each ward must be

 contiguous.

   2.  The boundaries of the wards must be established and changed

 by ordinance. The boundaries of the wards must be changed

 whenever the population, as determined by the last preceding national

 census of the Bureau of the Census of the United States Department

 of Commerce, in any ward exceeds the population in any other ward

 by more than 5 percent. The boundaries of the wards may be changed

 to include territory which has been annexed and whenever the

 population in any ward exceeds the population in any other ward by

 more than 5 percent by any measure which is found reliable by the

 city council.

   3.  The office of an additional councilman created as a result of

 an increase in the number of wards pursuant to subsection 1 must

 be filled initially at the general city election immediately following:

   (a) The date on which the city council determined that an

 increase in the number of wards was necessary pursuant to

 paragraph (a) of subsection 1; or

 

 

   (b) The general election at which the question proposing the

increase in wards is approved by the voters pursuant to paragraph

 (b) of subsection 1.

Such an office must not be filled initially by appointment.

 

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