§ 6.24.100. Limit on number of licenses.

(a) There may be allowed a minimum of one pawnshop license for each established unincorporated town within Clark County, state of Nevada, outside the incorporated cities and towns. No additional pawnshop license shall be issued within an unincorporated town until the population within that unincorporated town exceeds one hundred thousand inhabitants, thereafter, there shall be no more than one pawnshop license for each fifty thousand inhabitants of an unincorporated town within the county based upon the annual population report issued by the state of Nevada, Department of Taxation as certified by the Governor.

(b)

Upon effect of the ordinance codified in this section, the department shall for a thirty-day period accept applications for consideration of pawnshop licenses allowed pursuant to this section; an applicant shall only submit one application for each available license per unincorporated town. In the event that the number of applications exceeds the number of pawnshop licenses available in an unincorporated town, then the director or his designee shall assign those applicants a number. Thereafter, at a board of county commission meeting, a drawing will take place for priority positions for consideration of the available licenses by a random drawing. Priority application positions for pawnshop licenses will then be allocated to the numbers (applicants) as drawn for available licenses. All applicants assigned priority application positions will retain their priority status for their license application until the next Department of Taxation Annual Population Report is published and Clark County comprehensive planning department updates county population figures. Upon the publishing of the next Department of Taxation Annual Population Report and issuance of a report by the Clark County comprehensive planning department as to county population (as to unincorporated towns), the department shall void the existing priority application list and for a thirty-day period again accept applications for any additional pawnshop licenses allowed pursuant to this section based upon the procedure set out above.

(c)

Nothing in this section mandates that a pawnshop license be issued; the selected applicants are only granted a priority for application consideration, and must meet all licensing and zoning requirements as well as receive board of county commissioners approval for licensing.

(d)

If an applicant, after priority application, is denied licensing by the board of county commissioners, then the next applicant on the priority list will be notified to in the application process. Applicants have six months from their selection or notification to complete the application process and have their application before the board of county commissioners for licensing or their application will be automatically denied and the next applicant on the priority list will be notified to begin the application process.

(Ord. 1192 § 3, 1990: Ord. 709 § 35, 1980: Ord. 621 § 43, 1979: Ord. 140 § 4, 1961: Ord. 133 § 10B, 1961)