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ORDINANCE 3672387 ORDINANCE N0. 367 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUND09 CALIFORNIA, AMENDING ORDINANCE ISO. 12 (THE BUSINESS LICENSE ORDINANCE) OF SAID CITY, AS AMENDED, BY AMENDING SECTIONS 340 AND 34d OF SAID ORDINANCE; AND BY ADD- ING A NEIN SECTION DESIGNATED AS SECTION 34e TO SAID ORDINANCE NO. 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 El Segundo, California, entitled: "AN ORDWANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUND09 LICENSING AND REGULATING CERTAIN KINDS OF BUSINESS TRANSACTED AND CARRIED ON IN SAID CITY AND FIXING A PENALTY FOR VIOLATION 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 34c. VENDING MACHIITES; AMUSEMENT AND SKILL 14ACHINES AND DEVICES, ETC. "(1) For conducting the business of placing, maintain- ing and operating or offering for operation vending maoh- roes or vending devices, vending or delivering merchandise of any character, except cigarettes, which, for the coin or coins inserted delivers only such merchandise, the li- cense fees shall be paid as follows: For each such machine or device which permits the use or operation thereof: (a) By a le coin, $1.00 per year. (b) By a coin or coins, totaling 2c and not exceed- ing 5c, $1.50 per quarter, or $4.00 per year. (c) By a coin or coins totaling 8e and not exceed- ing 10c, $1.50 per quarter, or $4.00 per year. - 1 - 2 388 (d) By a coin or coins totaling llc and not exceed- ing 15e, $2.00 per quarter, or $6.00 per year. (e) By a coin or coins totaling 16c 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 placing, maintain- ing and operating or offering for operation cigarette vend- ing machines, or vending devices, vending or delivering cigarettes and which for the coin or coins inserted, re- gardless of amount, delivers only cigarettes with or with- out matches, the license fee to be paid shall be, and the same is hereby fixed at, $5.00 per year for each such ma- chine or device. (3) For conducting the business of placing, maintain- ing 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 atten- ded by any person who in person solicits any person or persons to use the same for the purpose of testing the ac- curacy of the guess or estimate of the persons so solicit- ing 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 ordinance, unless written permission has first been obtained from the City Council of said City. Said Council in its discretion may refuse the granting of any and all applications hereunder. No refund of any license fee paid under this subdivision shall ever be made for any purpose, and - 2 - 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. (4) For each and every machine or device other than such as are hereinafter prohibited, having an amusement feature connected therewith, or which testa the skill of the operator thereof, with reference to its operations, or the results thereof, and which permits the use or oper- ation of the same, by the insertion of: (a) A 5c coin, slug or token, or a coin, slug or token of greater value, $12.00 per quarter, or $40.00 per year. (b) A le coin, slug, or token, $6.00 per quarter, or 120.00 per year. (5) It is provided, however, that nothing in this Section 34c, or in this ordinance contained, shall be construed 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 El Segundo, California, is hereby prohibited. (6) It is further provided that no license for any machine or device under subdivision (4) above of this Sec- tion 34c, shall be granted unless permission has first been obtained from the City Council of said City permitting the same. Said Council in its discretion may grant or refuse to grant any such permit applied for. All licenses granted under said subdivision (4) shall be revocable at the plea- sure of the City Council for any reason which by said Council - 3 - may be deemed adequate at any time, and all licenses issued under said subdivision (4) must be accepted by the respec- tive licensees accordingly. (7) 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 with- in the City of E1 Segundo, have affixed thereto a then cur- rent official seal or sticker conspicuously 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 seed 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 such license is issued for such machine or device. Such seal or sticker shall be of such type or de- sign, and contain such wording, as the license collector may from time to time determine. 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 obliterated, or becomes unreadable, the same must be replaced immediately with a new one to be issued upon proper showing therefor to the license collector, and it shall be unlawful to use, oper- ate, place or display any such machine or device during any period when any official sticker attached thereto has become so worn, dilapidated or obliterated as to be un- readable on reasonable inspection." SECTION 2. That Section 34d of said Ordinance No. 12, as amended, shall be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: - 4 - 630 ch JV 2391 "SECTION 34d. MUSIC BOXES, PHONOGRAPHS AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS OPERATED BY COINS OR TOKENS: "For each and every music boa, 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 or visible entertainment or amusement, $20.00 per year for each such music boa, phonograph, ma- chine or device; provided, however, that where radios or other devices furnished under this section are equipped with coin slots and are furnished only to individual living apart- ments 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 $1.50 per year for each such radio or device." SECTION 3. That a new section, to be known and desig- nated as Section 34e, shall be and the same is hereby added to said Ordinance No. 12, as amended, and which said new Section 34e shall read as follows, to wit: "SECTION 34e. In order to equalize license fees hereto- fore paid for El Segundo City licenses for cigarette vending machines and for individual living apartment or dwelling or living unit radios, and which license fees were paid for li- censes current on the day preceeding that on which this see - tion 34e of this Ordinance becomes effective, and pursuant to discussions heretofore had with such current licensees, the City Council hereby orders that each such current license outstanding on the day preceeding the effective date of this Section 34e shall automatically be extended for a period of one year from the date of expiration of such current license without further payment of fees for such extended onl year period." - 5 - 1,'392 SECTION 4. That said Ordinance No. 12, as amendedr-is hereby amended as hereinabove in Sections 1, 2 and 3 of this or- dinance set forth. SECTION 5. That this ordinance shall take effect and be in full force and virtue on and after the 1st day of April, 1950. SECTION g. That the City Clerk shall certify to the pas- sage and adoption of this ordinance; shall cause the same to be published once in the official paper of said city, to wit, the E1 Segundo Herald, a weekly newspaper of general circulation publish- ed and circulated within said City, and which is hereby designated for that purpose, Passed, approved and adopted this 1st day of March A. D., 1950. yor of the City of El Segundo, California ATTEST: Victor D. McCarthy, City Clerk (SEAL) By Deputy. — 8 — STATE OF CALIFORNIA, ) COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, ) SS. CITY OF EL SEGUNDO. ) I, Victor D. McCarthy, City Clerk of the City of El 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. 367, was passed and adopted by the said City Council, pro tem approved and signed by the Mayoif of said City, and attested by the City Clerk of said City, all at a regular meeting of the said Council held on the 1st day of March , 1950, and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote: AYES: Councilmen Baker, Swanson, Thompson and Mayor pro tem Peterson; NOES: Councilmen None; ABSENT: Councilmen Selby. WITNESS my hand and the official seal of said City this 1st day of March , 1950. ( SEAL) Victor D. McCart City Clerk or the city of El Segundo, California. `393 Pi CLERK'S CERTIFICATE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, ) ) COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, CITY OF EL SEGUNDO. ) I, Victor D. McCarthy, City Clerk of the City of El 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. 367, is a full, true and correct original of Ordinaa ce No. 367 of the said City of El Segundo,, C ornia, entitled: 'SAN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING ORDINANCE N0. 12 (THE BUSINESS LICENSE ORDINANCE) OF SAID CITY, AS AMENDED, BY AMENDING SECTIONS 34c AND 34d OF SAID ORDINANCE; AND BY ADDING A NEW SECTION DESIGNATED AS SECTION 34e TO SAID ORDINANCE NO. 12.*0 which was duly passed and adopt b�y the said City Council, approved and signed by the Mayo P'elaid City, and attested by the City Clerk of said City, all at a regular meeting of the said Council held on the 1st day of March , 1950s and that the same was so passe and adopted by e following vote: AYES: Councilmen Baker, Swanson, Thompson and Mayor pro tem Peterson; NOES: Councilmen None; ABSENT: Councilmen Selbv. I do hereby further certify that pursuant to the provisions of Section 36933 of the Government Code of the State of California, that the foregoing Ordinance No. 367 was duly and regularly published according to law and the order of the City Council of said City in the El Segundo Herald, a weekly newspaper of general circulation, printed, published and circulated within the said City and that the same was so published therein on the following date, to -wit: March 9th, 1950 (SEAL) Victor D. McCarthy, City Clerk of t e City o El Segundo, California, By _,( ' Deputy. `394 Affidavit of Publication STATE OF CALIFORNIA, 1 COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, } ss. CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, J - QA =V'A..QQ.tt�qmi ........... ...........................being first duly sworn, deposes and says: That he is, and at all of the times hereinafter mentioned was, a citizen of the United States of America, over the age of eighteen years, and a resident of the County of Los Angeles, State of California; that he was, at, and during all of the time of the publication of the instrument hereunto attached the...... . k' tU. trQr ................................................................. ............................... Bditw of EL SEGUNDO HERALD, a newspaper of general circulation, published and circulated weekly in the City of El Segundo, Hn said County and State; that said newsapaper has been so published and circulated at regular intervals of one week for more than one year immediately preceding the publication of the instrument hereunto annexed; that said newspaper is, and was, at all of the times here- in 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 newspaper is published for the dissemination of local or telegraphic news and intelligence of a general character, having a bona fide subscription list of paying subscribers; that said newspaper is not and was not at any of the times herein referred to, devoted to the interests, or published for the entertainment or instruction of a particular class, profession, trade, calling, race or denomination, or for any number of such classes, professions, trades, callings, races or denominations, and that said newspaper is not devoted to or published for, nor was it at any of the times herein mention devoted to or published for the purpose, whether avowed or otherwise, of entertaining or instructing such classes, professions, trades, callings, isees or denominations, or any of such classes, professions, trades, callings, races or denominations. That the notice, order, ordinance, resolution or instrument hereunto attached on page* ..... numbered A. *,6....t. 5 .................................................... ............................... hereof in all respects, including subject matter, and size and arrangement of type, is a full, true and correct copy of the said notice, ordinance, resolution or instrument, in words and figures exactly as published; that the same was set and printed in type not smaller than nonpareil and that the body of the same was preceded with words printed in black -face type not smalle r than nonpareil, describing and expressing in general terms the purpose and character of the notice, order, ordinance, resolution or instrument intended to be published, as will appear from an inspection of the said annexed instru- ment; that the. Qr. GUnano .e..JLeitai;.....Qrdinane.e.. 367 ..... ............................... of which the annexed is a printed copy as hereinabove stated, was published and printed in said newspaper at least.1 ......... week...., by ...... 1........ ►e publication...., commencing on the .91h ..... day of !AarQla.................... A. D. 19J.Q., and ending on the .... 9.t+h .......... day of .Aar ah ..................... A. D. 19.,50, mrb-dw d to- wit:.TJ=achy., ..!Jw r C h..9., ..19:5 0 .............. , .............. . ............... . ............................................................................. ............................... ................................................. * ... I ..................... .......................... Subscribed and sworn to before me this ... yV.. day of ... WA7j9_4L.,C� .. ............ A. D. 19..x. d City Clerk of the City of El Segundo, ty of Los Angeles, State of California. By .. .. CZ/.• • .. .. 4/4W"*-W Deputy City Clerk of said City.