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ORDINANCE NO. 2
AN ORDINANCE relating to licenses and business regulations; requiring
a license and specifying license fees for the operation
of amusement devices; providing for the transfer of such
license; and amending Sections 5.12.020 and 5.12.070 of
• the City of Yakima Municipal Code.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF YAKIMA:
Section 1. Section 5.12.020 of the City of Yakima Municipal Code
is hereby amended to read as follows:
"5.12.020 LICENSES REQUIRED FOR CERTAIN AMUSEMENT
DEVICES - FEES. (a) It shall be unlawful for any person,
firm, corporation or association to install, maintain or
operate, in any business establishment or for the purpose
of profit, any of the following amusement devices without
first obtaining from the City Clerk a license so to do and
without first paying to the City the applicable license fee
in the following respective amounts:
(1) Pin -ball machines or games, games of skill or
amusement, and similar amusement devices, including any
automatic machine or device, except as hereinafter men-
tioned and except an automatic music machine, wherein a
person deposits a coin, disc or slug and in return therefor
• receives the opportunity of playing or operating such
machine; one hundred dollars for each such machine or
device in any location.
(2) Shuffleboards and miniature bowling machines or
bowling board and similar amusement devices; twenty -five
dollars each.
(3) Ray guns, dart throwing devices, and similar
small amusement devices; ten dollars each.
The fees specified are annual fees, and shall be paid in
full in advance of January 1 of each year, to be effective
for the following year.
(b) In the event any person, firm, corporation or
association commences or enlarges his or its activities
which are required to be licensed by this section, during
any year, the license required by this section shall be
obtained, and the entire annual license fee shall be paid,
before commencing or enlarging such activities."
• Section 2. Section 5.12.070 of the City of Yakima Municipal Code
thereby amended to read as follows:
"5.12.070 TRANSFER OF LICENSE - TRANSFER FEE. A license
issued pursuant to this chapter may be transferred to any
person, firm, corporation or association meeting the require-
ments of Section 5.12.060 of this chapter, upon application
for such transfer being made to the Yakima City Clerk by the
licensee and by the proposed transferee of such license, and
upon the payment to the City of a transfer fee in an amount
equal to ten percent of the original license fee, or the
amount of $10.00, whic ver is greater."
Section 3. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect
thirty days after its passage, approval and publication as provided
by law and by the City Charter.
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL, signed and approved this 8th day of
January, 1968.
Mayor
ATTEST:-
City Clerk