HomeMy WebLinkAbout01350ORDINANCE NO. /O f l
AN ORDINANCE of the City of Port 'Townsend, relating to and
regulating, and requiring license for the operation of "Public
Card Rooms", within said City and providing a penalty.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PORT TOWNSEND DO ORDAIN
AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The term
1Public Card Room", as used in this
ordinance, shall be held and constued to mean any place where
card games are played and the public is admitted.
Section 2. It shall be unlawful for any person to conduct
a public card room within the City of Port Townsend, without
having first obtained a license'so to do, to be known as a"Public
Card Room License", Which license shall be.publicly displayed
in a conspiciou#lace within the licensed premises. The fee for
such public card room license shall be, and the name is hereby,
fixed in the sum of Five Dollars, per annum, for each table
maintained or used for playing cards. All licenses issued under
the provision(;of this ordinance shall expire at twelve o'clock
midnight on the 31st day of December following the date of issue:
PROVIDED,HOVIEVER, that the fee for licenses to be issued for the
remainder of 1935 for card rooms now being operated and conducted
shall be the sum of Three Dollars, for each table: PROVIDED, FUR*
THER, that whenever a license is issued on or after the first
day of July of any year for a public card room not being conduct-
ed as such before said date of the current year, the fee therefor
shall be one-half of the annual fee: PROVIDED, FURTHER, that where
cards are played under the auspices of any recognized charitable,
benevolent, fraternal, labor organization or society and the
total net proceeds will be donated for,the sole purpose of such
orginization or society, no license shall be required.
Section 3. It shall be unlawful for the proprietor,
manager or other person in charge of a public card room to allow
or permit any minor to play cards or to remain i+r about any
public card room licensed under the provisions of this ordinance.