City of North Las Vegas v. Cluff

OPINION

By the Court,

Zenoff, J. :

Respondents, residents of the City of North Las Vegas, initiated a petition to submit a proposed ordinance to the voters of North Las Vegas. The ordinance would provide minimum wages and fringe benefits and maximum hours for the city’s firemen and was to be retroactive to November 1, 1968 as to the wages. All procedural requirements for initiating the petition were met. The city and respondents sought by a declaratory judgment action a determination of the proposed ordinance’s validity.

The district court ordered that the proposal be submitted to the people thus…