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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1890 /~~W-b~I AN ORDINANCE repealing Section 2 of Ordinance No. 1461, amending Sec- tion 3 of Article 1481, as amended by Ordinances 164B and 1784, and amend- ing Section 4 of Ordinance No. 1461 as amen~e~ by Ordinance No. 1080, and declaring an emergency. THE CITY Ok' BREN~ERTON DOES ORDAIN: Section 1. Section 2 of Ordinance No. 1461 is hereby repealed. Section 2. Section 3 of Ordinance No. 1461 as amended by Ordinances 1645 and 1784 be, and the same hereby is, amended to ream as follows: It shall be unlawful for any person to display exhibit or expose or permit to be used, played or operated, or displayed, exposed or exhi0ited for purposes oL use, play ov operation for profit, any amusement devices without having a valid and subsisting license to be designated as "location license". Each place or business which shall have a "location license" im required to and at all times keep said "location license" in a conspicuous place on' the premises covered,~by said license. The City Clerk shall prescribe the fo'tm of the license ano saim license shall be at the rate of $2o.00 per location per year, payable ~5.00 quarterly in advance to the City Treasurer, anm such "location license" shall be valid only for a period of three months. Beginning July l; 1~50, the City Clerk shall issue such "location license" valim for a period of three months and no person, firm or corporation except the owner, manager, lessee, or other person in actual charge of the location sought to be licensem small apply for or be issued a "loc- ation license" and alter the issuance or such license the licensee shall have the sole right to metermine which licensem operator shall furnish machines to be used and operated in such licensed premises. It shall be unlawful for any person to display, exhibit, expose or permit to~ be used any amusement device, as derinem herein, in any place or business ~h ere minors are in the ha0it o~' congregating not accompanied by their parents or legal guardian and no license shall be graated to any place oz' business coming within the foregoing classii'ication; provlmem, however, that whenever any applicant for a location license is the holder of a Class "B" license as defined in ~.~emin~ton's, Revised .Statutes. Suoolement . - ~r~s ~-~.~.,~ ~.~-~.' V306-S3-~, ~r t~He ~ol~r oi ~ ~2ass O ~c~se as dei~ined in Remington's Revised Statu~es, Supplement 7306-23-P, the same being the laws or the State of Washington, such license shall be prima facie evimence that the premises for which a location license is re- quested does not fall within the foregoing classifica- rich. Section 3. Section 4 of ~rdinance No. 1461 as amended by Ordinance 1680 be, anm the same hereby is, amended to read as follows: Operator's License. It shall be unlawful for any person to become an operator of amusement devices as herein ~efined without having a valid and subsisting license, to be known as "operator's amusement device ~ license". An operator's license saall be grmted only to a person who is a citizen or the United States, of good moral character and reputation, and who, in the opinion of the City Council, is a fit and proper person to be granted a license, or such license may be granted to a corporation or a partnershiP. The City Council for the purposes or effectively controlling the operation of amusemen~O devices and knowing the requirements of proper supervision of the operators or such devices, hereby expressly reserves the right and power to grant or re- fuse the same, and the decision or the City Council thereon shall be final anm conclusive. After approval by the ~ayor anm the City Council each operator shall be issued an "operator's license" by the City Clerk 0RDIN~NCE NO. 1890 (Con't) upon the payment of an operator's license fee of $500.00, payable quarterly in advance to the City Treasurer, and said license shall be valid for a three months~ period beginning with the quarter starting July l, 1950. Section 4. An emergency exists and this ordinance is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, property, health and safety ok' the people oi' Bremerton and this ordinance shall be in full force and effect following its passage and pu01ication. PASSED ~ANIMOUSLY by the City Council of the City of Bremerton, signed by the Mayor and attested by the City Cler~ in authentication of such passage this 28th day of June, 1950. Co,,!¥ o! r,~ ap~ S.~. Cfly cf L,em~c~on l. the u;~d~:~g~ed do here bY certify thit co~ ~ O~d,,:am:e ~ .~t the same has ~ee~ pubh~.e~ according i0 laW, ....................