ORDINANCE 349C
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ORDINANCE N0-___349
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF ED SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, AMENDING ORDINANCE N0. 12
(THE BUSINESS LICENSE ORDINANCE OF SAID
CITY) AS AMENDED, By AMENDING SECTION 340
OF SAID ORDINANCE; AND BY ADDING A NEW
SECTION DESIGNATED AS "SECTION 34d" TO
SAID ORDINANCE N0. 12.
The City Council of the City of E1 Segundo,
California, does ordain as follows:
SECTION 1. That Section 34c of Ordinance No. 12
Of the City of E1 Segundo, California, entitled:
"AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO ,
LICENSING AND REGULATING CERTAIN KINDS
OF BUSINESS TRANSACTED AND CARRIED ON
IN SAID CITY AND FUING A PENA?Z!Y FOR
VIQLaTION THEREOF ",
passed and adopted on the 14th day of March, 1917, as amended,
shall be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:
"SECTION 340. VENDING MACHINES; AMUSEMENT AND
SKILL MAC[INES AND DEVICES, ETC.
"(1) For conducting the business of placing,
maintaining and operating or offering for operation
vending machines or vending devices, vending or de-
livering merchandise of any character which, for the
coin or coins inserted, delivers only such merchandise,
the license fees shall be paid as follows:
For each such machine or device which permits the
use or operation thereof:
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refuse to grant any such permit applied for. All
licenses granted under said subdivision (3) shall be
revocable at the pleasure of the City Council for any
reason which by said Council may be deemed adequate
at any time, and all licenses issued under said sab-
division (3) must be accepted by the respective
licensees accordingly.
(6) It is provided further that each and every
machine or device licensed under the provisions of this
Section 34c of this ordinance must, at all times while
the same is within the City of E1 Segundo, have affixed
thereto a then current official seal or sticker con -
spieuonsly displayed in or upon said machine or device,
and the reading matter on which must be plainly visible
without moving or disturbing such machine. Such sticker
or seal will be issued by the license collector for each
machine or device licensed, and shall show the number of
the license under which and the year for which each license
is issued for such machine or device. Such seal or sticker
shall be of such type or design, and contain such wording,
as the license collector may from time to time determiia .
It shall be unlawful to place, exhibit, use or display
any such machine or device within said City unless such
sticker or seal is attached thereto as hereinabove required.
If any such seal or sticker is mutilated, defaced or ob-
literated, or becomes unreadable, the same must be replaced
immediately with a new one to be issued upon proper shaving
therefor to the license collector, and it shall be unlawful
to use, operate, place or display any such machine or device
during any period when any official sticker attached there-
to has become so worn, dilapidated or obliterated as to be
unreadable on reasonable inspection."
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SECTION 2. That a new section to be known and
designated as "Section 34d" shall be and the same is hereby
added to said Ordinance No. 12, and which said new Section 34d
shall read as follows, to wit:
"SECTION 34d. MUSIC BOLES, PHONOGRAPHS AND MUSICAL
INS'TRUNERTS OPERATED BY COINS OR TOKENS:
"For each and every music box, phonograph or musical
or other instrument or device which, for any coin or token
inserted, plays any music, or record or records, or which
furnishes any audible entertainment or amusement, $20.00
per year for each such music boa, phonograph, machine or
device; provided, however, that where the juke boxes,
radios or other devices furnished under this section are
equipped with coin slots and are furnished only to individ-
ual apartments or dwelling or living units operated as a
part of a single business on- any premises, then and in
that event the license fee shall be the sum of $20.00 per
year for the first of such units and $1.00 per year for
each additional unit upon the premises.,,
SECTION 3. That said Ordinance No. 12 is hereby
amended as hereinabove in Sections 1 and 2 of this ordinance
set forth.
SECTION 4. That this ordinance shall take effect and
be in full force and virtue thirty (30) days from and after the
date of the final passage and adoption thereof.
SECTION 5. That the City Clerk shall certify to the
Passage and adoption of this ordinance; shall cause the same
to bepublished once in the official paper of said city, to wit,
the E1 Segundo Herald, a weekly newspaper of general circulation
Published and circulated within said City, and which is hereby
designated for that purpose.
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Passed, approved and adopted this 16th day of
Maroh, A. D., 1949.
Mayor of the City of E1 Segundo,
California.
ATTEST:
VICTOR D. MCCARTHY
City Clerk
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(SEAL) Deputy
STATE OF CAMIFORKA, )
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COURTY OF LOS ANGEI;ES, ) SS,
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CITY OF EL SEGUNDO. i
I, Victor D. McDarthy, City Clerk of the City of
El Segundo, California, do hereby certify that the whole
number of membersof the City Council of the said City is five;
that the foregoing ordinance, being Ordinance No. 349, was duly
passed and adopted by the said City Council, approved and signed
by the Mayor of said City, and attested by the City Clerk of
said City, all at a regular meeting of the said Council held
on the 16th day of March, A. D., 1949, and that the same was
so passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmen Baker, Peterson, Swanson, Thompson
and Mayor Selby
NOES: Councilmen None
ABSENT: Councilmen None
VICTOR D. McCARTHY
City Clerk- t be Cit Y-0-
El Segundo, California.
( SEAL)
By _
Deputy
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CLERK'S CERTIFICATE
STATE OF. CALIFORNIA, )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, ) SS.
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO. )
I, Victor D. McCarthy, City Clerk of the City of
E1 Segundo, California, do hereby certify that the whole
number of members of the City Council of the said City is
five; that the foregoing ordinance, being Ordinance No. 349 +
is a full, true and correct original of Ordinance
No. ..� of the said City of�1. Segundo, California, entitled:
"AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, AMENDING ORDINANCE N0. 12
(THE BUSINESS LICENSE ORDINANCE OF SAID
CITY) AS AMENDED, BY AMENDING SECTION 34c
OF SAID ORDINANCE; AND BY ADDING A NEW
SECTION DESIGNATED AS 'SECTION 34d' TO
SAID ORDINANCE N0. 12. ",
which was duly passed and adopted by the said City Council,
approved and signed by the Mayor of said City, and attested
the
ndthetyl6thd at a regular meeting of
that the same was so � of March, 1949, and
passed ann adopted by—the following vote:
AYES: Councilmen Baker Peterson Swanson, Thompson
an Nayor e Ioy
NOES: Councilmen None
ABSENT: Councilmen None
I do hereby further certify that pursuant to the
provisions of Section 878 of Act 5233 of the General Laws of
the State of California, (Deering 1923 Edition), as amended,
that the foregoing ordinance No. 349 was duly and regularly
published according to the law and tle order of the City
Council of said City in the E1 Segundo Herald, a weekly news -
•- paper of general circulation, published and circulated within
the said City, and that the same was so published therein on
the following date, to wit: March 24, 1949
WITNESS my hand and the seal of said City ..this
day of Larch, A. D. , 1949.
VICTOR D. McCARTHY
City Clerk of the City of
E1 Segundo, California.
(SEAL) By
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Affidavit of Publication
STATE OF (CALIFORNIA,
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, ss.
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
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is, and at all of the times hereinafter mentioned was, a citizen of the United States of America
the age of eighteen years, and a resident of the County of Los Angeles, State of California; tl
was, at, and during all of the time of the publics, tion of the instrument hereunto attached the_
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lffliftP Publisher of EL SEGUNDO HERALD, a newspaper of general circulation, a4r"
lished and circulated WEEKLY in the City of El Segundo, in said County and State; that said
paper has been so nisi, published and circulated at regular intervals of one week for more the
year immediately preceding the publication of the instrument hereunto annexed; that said newra/.�,,..
Is, and was, at all of the times herein mentioned, a newspaper of general circulation within the meaning
of Section 4460 of the Political Code of the State of California; that as provided by said section, said z,."
newspaper is published for the dissemination of local or telegraphic news and intelligence of a ge13-
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era character, bona fide subscription list of
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and was not at any of the times herein referred to, devoted to the interests, or published for the e41
tainment or instruction of a particular class, profession, trade, calling, race or denomination, or 9br
any number of such classes, professions, trades, callings, races or denominations, and that said now*- �?
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paper is not devoted to or published for, nor was it at any of the times herein mentioned devoted tp
or published for the purpose, whether avowed or otherwise, of entertaining or instructing such c>asook t°
professions, trades, callings, races or denominations, or any of such classes, professions, trades, caxla
ings, races or denominations.
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hereof in all respects, including subject matter, and size and arrangement of type, is a full, true sad
correct copy of the said notice, ordinance, resolution or instrument, in words and figures exactly MIA
published; that the same was set and printed in type not smaller than nonpareil and that the body Of '~
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(a) By a 1� coin, $1.00 per year.
(b) By a coin or coins, totaling 2� and
not exceeding 5p(, $1.50 per quarter, or $4.00
per year.
(c) By a coin or coins totaling 6� and
not exceeding 10�, $1.50 per quarter, or $4.00
per year.
(d) By a coin or coins totaling lly and
not exceeding 15¢, $2.00 per quarter, or $6.00
per year.
(e) By a coin or coins totaling 16¢ or
more, $4.00 per quarter, or $12.00 per year.
It is provided, however, that no license fee or
permit shall be required for any machine or device which
vends or delivers for a coin or coins inserted therein
United States postage stamps only.
(2) For conducting the business of laci
p ng, main-
taining and offering for operation, scales or weighing
devices operated by the insertion of a coin, the sum of
$1.00 per year for each such machine; provided, however,
that for each and every machine or scale used or operated
or attended by any person who in person solicits any
person or persons to use the same for the purpose of
testing the accuracy of the guess or estimate of the
persons so soliciting of the weight or height of the
Person so solicited, or of any other person, the sum of
$5.00 per day or $25.00 per year; provided, however,
that no such $5.00 per day or $25.00 per year license
shall be granted under this section 34c of this ordi nance,
unless written permission has first been obtained from
the City Council of said City. Said Council in its dis-
cretion may refuse the granting of any and all applioations
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hereunder. No refund of any license fee paid under
this subdivision shall ever be made for any purpose,
and the City Council reserves the right to suspend or
revoke any permit or permits granted hereunder at any
time for any reason which by said Council may be
deemed adequate.
(3) For each and every machine or device other
than such as are hereinafter prohibited, having an
amusement feature connected therewith, or which test
the skill of the operator thereof, with reference to
its operations, or the results thereof, and which per-
mits the use or operation of the same, by the insertion
of:
(a) A 5¢ coin, slug or token, or a coin, slug
or token of greater value, $12.00 per quarter, or
040.00 per year.
(b) A V coin, slug, or token, $6.00 per
quarter, or $20.00 per year.
(4) It is provided, however, that nothing in this
Section 34o, or in this ordinance contained, shall be con-
strued as permitting the operation within said City of any
machine or device which, for a coin or coins inserted in
such machine or device as the result of the operation
thereof, pays or delivers a coin (except change only in
the case of vending machines), or a slug or slugs, or a
token or tokens, which may be inserted in such machine in
lieu of a coin, as the operation or use of all such machines
in the City of E1 Segundo, California, is hereby prohibited.
(5) It is further provided that no license for any
machine or device under subdivision (3) above of this
Section 34e, shall be granted unless permission has first
been obtained from the City Council of said City permittirg
the same. Said Council in its discretion may grant or
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