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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1645 ORDINANCE ~0. 1645 AN ORDINANCE amending Section 3 of Ordinance No. 1461 of the City of Bremerton, entitled, 'AN ORDINANCE P0R licensing and. regulating the opera- tion of certain amusement machines and other devices and games for use by tho public; providing penalties for the violation thereof; and fixing the evifective date of this 0rdlnance" and declaring an emergency. THE CITY OF BREMERTON DOES ORDAIN: Section 1. That Section 3 of Ordinance No. 1461 of the City of Bremer- ton, entitled as fully set forth in the title to this Ordinance, be and said Section Z is hereby amended to read as follows: Section Z. I~ shall be unlawful for any person to 8isplay, exhibit or expose, or permit to be used, played or operated, or displayed, exposed or exhibited for purposes of use, play or operation ~'or profit, any amusement devices withouh having a valid and subsisting license to be ~esi~nated as "location license". Each place of business which shall have a location license is required to and shall at all times keep said location license in a conspicuously posted place on the premises covered by said license. The City Clerk shall prescribe the form of the license and said ]dcense shall be at the rate of $~0.O0 per locatio~per year, payable yearly in ad- vance, to the City Treasurer. Beginning July l, 1946, no person, firm or corporation except the owner, manager, lessee or other person in actual charge of the location sought to be licensed, shall apply for or be issued a locstion license, an8 after the issuance of such license the licensee sh~ll have the sole ~ghh to determine which licensed operator shall furnish machines to be used and operated in such licensed premises. In any case where a valid and subsisting location license has hereto- fore been issued on the application and at the expense of an operator 1 licensed under the provisions of this Ordinance and the owner, manager, lessee or other person in charge of the premises licensed pursuant to such location license desires to discontinue the use of all or any of the amusement devices placed in his establishment by the operator who paid for sai~ license or put in a device or devices of another operator, said owner, manager, lessee or other pe~son in charge of such premises shall apply for and deposit with the City Clerk a fee for a locatlon license in his own name a hearing shall be had thereon and a second location license issued before amusement devices of any other operator may be placed in sa~d pre- mises. The said application shall be granted in full conformance with the requirements of Section ~ of this Ordinance. It shall be unlw~ful for any person to display, exhibit or expose or permit to oe used, played, or operated, or 8isplayed, exhibited or exposed for for purpose of use, play, or operation, any amusement device, ~s de- fined herein, in any place of business where minors are in the habit of congregating not accompanied by their parents or legal guardians; and no license shall be granted to any place of business coming within bhe fore- going classification; proviUed however, that whenever any applicaK~t for a location license is the holder of a Class "A" license, as defined in Remington's Revised Statutes (Supp. 7306-2~-~), or the holder of a Class 'B' license, as defined in Remington's Revised Statutes (Supp. 7306-23-N), or the holder of a Class "D" license, as defined in Remington's Revise~ Statutes (Supp. 7306-~3-P), the same being the laws of the State of Wash- ington, such license shall be prima facie evidence that the premises for which a Location License is requested does not fall within the foregoing classification. Section 2. An emergency exists affecting the public peace, health and safety and this Ordinance shall take effect immediately following passage and publication. PASSED by the City Commission of the City of Bremerton, signed by the Ma. yet, anm attested by the City Clerk in authentication of such pass- age, on this 12th day of December, 1945. C i ty C 1 e ~k ~ ~ ~ ~'' ~ ~p~ ~l O~d~q~,~ N~.~.~[ t~e City ~r~rto~ ~htl~d a~ above ~n~ that t~ amine has b~e~bti~ed according to law.