HomeMy WebLinkAbout3132 ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE amending Section 1 of Ordinance
No. 347 as amended by Ordinance No. 1468; and
amending Sec. 4 & 5 of Ordinance No. 2177 fixing
penalties for non-payment of license fees on
amusement and vending licenses issued in the
City of Bremerton.
THE CITY OF BREMERTON DOES ORDAIN:
SECTION 1: That Section 1 of Ordinance No. 347 as
amended by Ordinance No. 1468 is hereby amended to read as
follows:
Section 1: It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corp-
oration to open, operate, maintain or conduct any bowling alley~
box ball alley, billiard tables, pool tables, or any other table
used for a similar purpose for the use of which a compensation
is charged, without first procuring a license so to do. The
annual fee for which license shall be as follows:
Bowling alley license fee, $12.00 per year, per alley
Box ball alley license fee, $10.90 per year, per alley
Billiard or pool table license fee, $10.00 per year, per table
In the event that the license fee is not paid on or before the
1st day of July in any year there shall be levied a ten percent
(10%) penalty based on the gross license fees due.
SECTION 2: That Section 4 of Ordinance No. 2177 is
hereby amended to read as follows:
Section 4: Beginning July 1, 1956, it shall be unlawful
for any person, firm or corporation to operate any automatic
vending machine, except not more than one such machine operated
by a one-cent coin, without first having obtained from the City
Clerk a license, licensing the location at which such machine
or machines are to be operated, and without having obtained
and affixed to each machine in operation at such location a
stamp or other device issued by the City Clerk bearing the same
number as the said license. The fee for such license shall
be $5.00 per year for each location and shall be applied for
and issued in the name of the person, firm or corporation operating
the location desired to be licensed and shall be valid only
at such location. Licenses herein provided for shall be
issued only to the person, firm or corporation operating a
business at a particular location, and neither the device nor
the license may be transferred, except in the case of a bona
fide sale of such business.
In the event that the license fee is not paid on
or before the 1st day of July of any one year, there shall be
levied a ten percent (10%) penalty based on the gross license
fee due. This penalty shall also extend to machines placed
on the premises anytime during the license year, if a license
is not acquired at the time of placing the machine.
SECTION 3: Section 5 of Ordinance No. 2177 is
hereby amended to read as follows:
Section 5: Beginning July 1, 1956, it shall be unlawful
for any person, firm or corporation to operate any amusement
device, or any manually controlled or operated amusement
device, electrically powered or otherwise, in the City of
Bremerton, without first having obtained a license so to do,
obtained in the manner hereinafter set forth and without having
obtained from the City Clerk of the City of Bremerton and
affixed to each such machine a stamp or other device showing
payment of such license fee and bearing the same number as
the license hereinbefore referred to. Annual license fee shall
be as follows:
For amusement device where the price is
less than 25¢ $10.00
For amusement device where the price is
25¢ or more $25.00
Licenses herein provided for shall be issued only
to the person, firm or corporation operating a business at the
particular location where the device is installed, kept or
operated, and neither the device nor the license therefor may
be transferred except in case of a bona fide sale of such
business.
In the event that the license fee is not paid on
or before the 1st day of July of any year, there shall be levied
a ten percent (10%) penalty based on the gross license fee due.
This penalty shall also extend to machines placed on the premises
anytime during the license year, if a license is not acquired
at the time of placing the machine.
APPROVED by the City Council on the first reading
this /~day of May, 1974.
PASSED by the City Council of the City of Bremerton,
signed by the Mayor and attested by the City Clerk in authen-
tication of such passage this ~id
.day of May, 1974.
K. 'or
ATTEST:
CLINK
3