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ORDINANCE NO. I6117
AN ORDINANCE•' PROVIDING FOR AND REQUIRING THE
LICENSING OF AMUSEMENT AND VENDING MACHINES,
SETTING FEES THEREFORE, AND PROVIDING FOR THE
ISSUANCE THEREOF.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PORT TOWNSEND, IN REGULAR SESSION
ASSEMBLED, DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Each and every person, firm or corporation,
having at any place of business within the City, a device or machine
which is a mechanical music machine or is for playing of games of
amusement, and which is activated by the insertion of any coin or coins,
or a machine in which coins may be dropped for the purpose of operating
the same, even though the same may be such machine as is attached to
a pool table, shuffleboard or other amusement or game device, and which
may be legally operated within the state, shall pay for each such
amusement machine an annual license fee of Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00),
which license shall be issued for each such licensed machine or device
located on any premises in the City, but provided that a license for
such machine or device shall be a license to the premises rather than
to the machine, and that machines on the premises may be changed with-
out acquisition of an additional license therefore, so long as one
license is displayed on the premises for each such machine thereon
located.
Section 2. Each and every person, having at any place of
business within the City, a device or machine in which coins may be
dropped for the purpose of activating the same to the end that any
article may be dispensed or vended from said machine by reason of the
insertion of a coin or coins, shall pay an annual license fee of Ten
Dollars ($10.00) for a license to permit each of such machines on any
premises in the City. One of such licenses must be displayed on the
premises in which such machine or device is located for each such machine
or device therein located.
Section 3. Applications for licenses as herein provided shall
be made to the Office of the City Clerk, and licenses for said machines
shall be issued by the Office of the City Clerk, and shall be in such
form as may be appropriate for display on the premises of the licensee.
Section A. The license issued by the City Clerk for amuse-
ment and vending machines, as herein provided, must at all times be
prominently displayed in the premises upon which said machines or de-
vices are located, in order that city police officers, or other proper
city personnel, may readily see and view the same in order to determine
the proper licensing of such machines at all times.
Section 5. This ordinance shall take effect on July 1, 1972,
and after passage, approval and publication in the manner and form
required by law, and for the year of 1972 only, one half of the license
fees herein provided shall apply, but shall not thereafter be prorated.
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