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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1959-B-2306 229 ORDINANCE NO B -2306 AN ORDINANCE relating to, regulating and licensing the business of mer- chant patrolmen, defining such business, providing penalties and repealing Ordinance No. B -1190, as amended by Ordinance No. B -163. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF YAKIMA: Section 1. For the purposes of this ordinance, the term "merchant patrolman" is defined to mean any person or corporation who, for hire or reggrd, as a business, and as an independent contractor;; guards or protects persons or persons' property, or patrols streets, districts or territories for such pruposes, and includes any person who is employed as a guard or patrolman for any such person or corporation. Section 2. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to be or to become a merchant patrolman or solicit business as a merchant patrolman without being the holder of a valid and subsisting license issued underthe provisions of this ordinance, such license to be designated as "Merchant Patrolman's License." The fee for such license shall be 025.00 per year, or in case of a temporary employee as such, shall be $5.00 per month. All annual licenses shall expire on the 31st day of October of. each year, and no reduction in fee for such licenses shall be made for any•parti.al year. Section 3. Applications for "Merchant Patrolman's License" shall be eiccompanied by a receipt showing the payment of the required fee to the City Treasurer and shall be made to the City Clerk on forms to be furnished by him; shall be signed and verified by the applicant (or in case of a corporation shall be signed by a duly authorized officer of the corporation and shall give the local address and place of business of the corporation); and shall state the applicant's full name, age and residence present and prekious occupations, and if an employee, the address of the place of business and the name of his employer. The City Clerk, before acting upon the application, shall requirst the Chief of Police to in- vestigate the truth of the statements contained therein and any other matters which might lead in determining whether the application shall be granted. The Chief of Police shall within a reasonable time after the date of such request, furnish a report to the City Clerk containing the results of his investigation, and if the City Clerk be satisfied that the statements contained in such application are true, that the applicant is of good moral character, a citizen of the United States, and that his finger prints are on record with the Police Department of the City of Yakima, and is qu to receive the license applied for, he shall issue the license applied for in accordance with the provisions of this ordinance; otherwise said application shall be denied. Section 4. Before receiving the license, the applicant shall be required to file with the City Coerk a bond, conditioned for the faith- ful performance of his duties, executed in behalf of the applicant in the sum of $1,000.00 and anming the City of Yakima as obligee. Anyone who would have any right upon or concerning said bond, had he been named as obligee therein, shall have the same right as if so named, Anyone having any interest in said bond may sue thereon separately or jointly, with any- one else also interested. It shall not be necessary to sue in the name of, or to join the City of Yakima in any suit upon such bond. Section 5. The license herein required may at any time be revoked by the City Commission upon the conviction of the holder thereof of a crime involving moral turpitude or on conduct of the holder detri- mental to the preservation of peace and order in the City of Yakima. The holder of such license shall be given ten days' notice in writing by the City Commission of any such forfeiture, and upon the determination by said City Commission that the holder of such license is no longer a fit and proper person to conduct such business as defined in this section, such license shall thereupon be revoked. Section 6. Anyone violating this ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not to exceed Three Hundred Dollars (p300.00) or imprisoned in the City jail for a time not to exceed ninety (90) days, or both. Section 7. Ordinances Rol B -1190 and No. B -1633 are hereby repealed. 230 Section 8. That this Ordinance shall be in full force and effect 30 days after its final passage, approval and publication as pro- Wg.w vided by law and the City Charter. PASSED BY THE CITY COMMISSION, signed and approved this 29th day of May, 1959. ATTEST: J.A. SMITH ( S E A L ) JOE K. ALDERSON CITY CLERK MAYOR I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true, full and correct copy of Ordinance No. B-2306 entitled "AN ORDINANCE relating to, regula- ting and licensing the.business of merchant patrolmen, defining such business, providing penalties, and repealing OrdinancesNo. .11-1190, as amended by Ordinance No. B-1633. as passed on the 29th day of May, 1959, and that the same has been published as required bylaw. 2 I Y CLE.RK 1. •