§ 244.3501 — Sale of intoxicating liquors: Enactment, style and recording of liquor board’s ordinances

Nevada § 244.3501

• Jurisdiction: Nevada
• Title 20: COUNTIES AND TOWNSHIPS: FORMATION, GOVERNMENT
• Ch. 244: Counties:

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1. An ordinance of the liquor board shall not be passed except by bill. When any ordinance is amended, the section or sections thereof shall be reenacted as amended, and an ordinance shall not be revised or amended by reference only to its title.
2. Every liquor board ordinance shall:
(a) Bear a summary, which shall appear before the title and which shall state in brief the subject matter of the ordinance.
(b) Embrace but one subject and matters necessarily connected therewith and pertaining thereto. The subject shall be clearly indicated in the title. In all cases where the subject of the ordinance is not so expressed in the title, the ordinance shall be void as to the matter not expressed in the title.
3. All proposed liquor board ordinances, when first proposed, shall be read aloud in full to the liquor board, and final action thereon shall be deferred until the next regular meeting of the board; but in cases of emergency, by unanimous consent of the whole board, final action may be taken immediately or at a special meeting called for that purpose.
4. All ordinances shall be:
(a) Signed by the chair of the liquor board.
(b) Attested by the county clerk.
(c) Published by title only, together with the names of the liquor board members voting for or against their passage, in a newspaper published in and having a general circulation in the county, at least once a week for a period of 2 weeks before the same shall go into effect. Publication by title shall also contain a statement to the effect that typewritten copies of the ordinance are available for inspection at the office of the county clerk by all interested persons.
5. The style of liquor board ordinances shall be as follows:
The Liquor Board of the
County of................Does Ordain:
(Body of ordinance)
(Last section of ordinance)
Proposed on ........... (month) ........... (day) ........... (year)
Proposed by Member.............................................................................................
Passed .................. (month) ............... (day) ........... (year)
Vote:
Ayes: Members......................................................................
Nays: Members......................................................................
Absent: Members......................................................................
Attest:
...................................................... .......................................................................
County Clerk Chair of the Liquor Board
This ordinance shall be in force and effect from and after the ............ day of the month of ...... of the year .......
6. The county clerk shall record all liquor board ordinances in a book kept for that purpose, together with the affidavits of publication by the publisher. The book, or a certified copy of an ordinance therein recorded and under the seal of the county, shall be received as prima facie evidence in all courts and places without further proof.

Legislative History

(Added to NRS by 1977, 625 ; A 2001, 45 )