(REPRINTED WITH ADOPTED AMENDMENTS)

 

Assembly Bill No. 59–Assemblyman Collins

 

Prefiled January 31, 2001

 

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Referred to Committee on Government Affairs

 

SUMMARY—Amends charter of City of Las Vegas to provide that office of additional councilman created as result of increase in number of wards must be filled initially by election. (BDR S‑71)

 

FISCAL NOTE:            Effect on Local Government: Yes.

                                    Effect on the State: No.

 

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EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.

 

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:

 

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

1-2  being chapter 517, Statutes of Nevada 1983, as last amended by chapter

1-3  187, Statutes of Nevada 1999, at page 914, is hereby amended to read as

1-4  follows:

1-5    Sec. 1.130  Wards: Creation; boundaries.

1-6    1.  The city must be divided into six wards upon the approval of

1-7  the voters. Thereafter, the wards may be increased:

1-8    (a) By the city council if it determines that an increase is

1-9  necessary; or

1-10    (b) Upon approval of a question proposing an increase to a specific

1-11  number of wards by a majority of the voters voting on the question.

1-12  Such a question must be submitted to the voters on the ballot at a

1-13  general election [or general city election] if the city council votes for

1-14  the submission of the question on its own motion or if a petition

1-15  signed by a number of registered voters of the city equal to 15 percent

1-16  or more of the number of voters who voted at the last preceding

1-17  general election is submitted to the city council requesting an increase

1-18  to a specific number of wards.

2-1  The wards must be as nearly equal in population as can conveniently

2-2  be provided, and the territory which comprises each ward must be

2-3  contiguous.

2-4    2.  The boundaries of the wards must be established and changed

2-5  by ordinance. The boundaries of the wards must be changed whenever

2-6  the population, as determined by the last preceding national census of

2-7  the Bureau of the Census of the United States Department of

2-8  Commerce, in any ward exceeds the population in any other ward by

2-9  more than 5 percent. The boundaries of the wards may be changed to

2-10  include territory which has been annexed and whenever the

2-11  population in any ward exceeds the population in any other ward by

2-12  more than 5 percent by any measure which is found reliable by the

2-13  city council.

2-14    3.  The office of an additional councilman created as a result of

2-15  an increase in the number of wards pursuant to subsection 1 must

2-16  be filled initially at the general city election immediately following:

2-17    (a) The date on which the city council determined that an

2-18  increase in the number of wards was necessary pursuant to

2-19  paragraph (a) of subsection 1; or

2-20    (b) The general election at which the question proposing the

2-21  increase in wards is approved by the voters pursuant to paragraph

2-22  (b) of subsection 1.

2-23  Such an office must not be filled initially by appointment.

 

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