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ORDINANCE 382Cgar- 3 D. Any goods, wares, magazines or merchandise not other- wise provided for herein, $25.00 per year whether on foot or from a vehicle. year. E. Services not herein otherwise mentioned, $12.00 per F. Medical, surgical or dental services, or contracts therefor, $250.00 per year. Any license applied for under this Section 84 shall be subject to special permit of the Council to be first obtained. SECTION 85. year. SECTION 86. $12.00 per year. PRINTING AND /OR BINDI1G BUSINESS, $15.00 per PRIVATE PATROL OR PRIVATE WATCHMAN SERVICES, SECTION 87. PROFESSIONS, Attorneys, Physicians, Surgeons, Chiropractors, Dentists, Chiropodists, Osteopaths, Veterinarians, Architects, Engineers, and persons engaged in like or similar pro- fessions, where a fixed place of business is maintained within said City, $25.00 per year. SECTION 88. PLUMBING SUPPLIES sold from outdoor yards and other outdoor sales yards of similar character, $25.00 per year. SECTION 89. PROHIBITED BUSINESSES: No license shall be issued for any business which is prohibited within the City of E1 Segundo by this or by any other ordinance of said City. SECTION 90. PUBLIC UTILITY BUSINESS, privately owned, and not otherwise specified herein, $25.00 per year. SECTION 91. RADIO REPAIR BUSINESS, SHOE REPAIRING BUSI- NESS, WATCH REPAIRING BUSINESS, AND BICYCLE REPAIRING BUSINESS at a fixed place of business within said City, and when not conducted in conjunction with and as a part of any other business for T&ich the same or a higher license fee is required, and duly issued and held hereunder, $15.00 per year; except and provided, however, that a license issued under this section shall not include the right to sell such merchandise. - 30 - 2,544 SECTION 92. REAL ESTXIT BROKERAGE, AGENCY OR BUSINESS, $25.00 per year. SECTION 93. REST HOME, CARE HOME, HOME FOR THE AGED OR CHILD CARE HONE, $12.00 per year, subject however, to: 1. Special permit from the City Council to be first obtained; and 2. Inspection and written approval of: (a) The Social Welfare Board of the State of California; (b) The Health Officer; (c) The Chief of the Fire Department; and (d) The Building Inspector SECTION 94. RESTAURANTS, where complete meals are ser- ved, $25.00 per year. SECTION 95. SANDBLASTING, $15.00 per year. SECTION 96. SANITARIUMS, SANITORIUMS OR HOSPITALS FOR HMfAN BEINGS, $12.00 per year. SECTION 97. SCHOOLS (PRIVATE FOR PROFIT) not otherwise provided for herein, $12.00 per year. SECTION 98. SELLING OR DELIVERING KEROSENE, GASOLINE, BENZINE, ENGINE DISTILLATE, STOVE DISTILLATE, FUMgACE DISTIM ATE, or any other petroleum products at retail, by means of a tank wagon, tank truck or other vehicle, $25.00 per year. SECTION 99. PUBLIC STABLES, HORSE RIDING CLUBS and estab- lishments of similar character where horses are boarded or kept for hire, $12.00 per year, subject to special permit from the Council to be first obtained. SECTION 100. SECOND HAND STORES, $25.00 per year. SECTION 101. SHOE SHINE STANDS. Shoe shine stand inside or outside of a building or shelter, $4.00 per year. SECTION 102. SIGHTSEEING BUSSES OR VEHICLES, $25.00 per year per vehicle. - 31 - SECTION 103. STREET FAIR, OR A FIESTA, OR A CARNIVAL, subject to special permission from the Council to be first obtain- ed, $100.00 per year. SECTION 104. TAXICAB OR AUTOMOBILE FOR HIRE. $25.00 per year plus $2.00 per year for each operator licensed; provided that before any such license to operate such business shall be issued, the person commencing or operating such business shall have first obtained special permission so to do from the City Council of the City of E1 Segundo and provided further, that be- fore any such operator of any such car shall be licensed so to do, he shall first be fingerprinted by the El Segundo Police De- partment and obtain special permission from the Chief of Police to act as such operator. The special permission from the Chief of Police issued to any operator may be suspended, cancelled or revoked by the Chief of Police at any .;time for any reason which to the Chief in the exercise of a sound discretion appears proper as being in the pub- lic interest. The permit cards to be issued by the Chief of Po- lice to such operators may be substantially in the following form: THIS IS TO CERTIrY THAT is a Licensed Taxicab Driver as defined in Section 104 of City Ordinance No. of the City of E1 Segundo, California. Chief of Police Expires unless sooner revoked, suspended or cancelled. SECTION 105. TELEPHO19T BUSINESS OR SERVICE, $25.00 per year. SECTION 106. DRIVE -IN THEATERS. $100.00 per year, but such license shall not include the right to conduct a cafe, res- taurant,.lunch counter or refreshment or confectionery, or like land or concession, or any other type of business, as the City - 32 - Council hereby requires that a separate license to cover such additional activity or activities must be obtained. SECTION 107. THEATRES, MOTION PICTURE SHOWS, PLAYHOUSES, RODEOS, EVENTS, RACES AND ALL OTHER SHOWS OR MEiIBITIONS, (except those conducted in the open or under canvas) not otherwise pro- vided for in this ordinance, $25.00 per year. Any such license, however, shall not include the right to conduct a cafe, restau- rant, or lunch counter. SECTION 108. TRANSIENT FOOD VENDOR, whether from a booth or stand of any kind, or otherwise, and whether by public outcry of his wares, or otherwise, the sum of $25.00 per day, payable daily in advance. For the purposes of this ordinance, a "Tran- sient Food Vendor" is defined to be any person,firm or corpora- tion who or which engages in the sale to the public of such ar- ticles as are commonly known or referred to as "hot dogs". "red hots", "Coney Island red hots", "soft drinks ", and other food- stuffs and drinks prepared for, or intended for, immediate con- sumption on or near the premises where so vended or sold; provided, however, that no such itinerant food vendor, or transient food vendor shall engage in any such business without first having obtained a permit so to do from the Health Officer and from the City Council of said City. Such permit shall be issued only upon application to the said Council in writing and by a hearing before said Council upon such application, after which hearing the Coun- cil may, or may not, in its discretion, issue such permit. If granted, or permitted to issue, such permit shall be in writing, shall specifically state the term for which the same is issued, the name of the person, firm or corporation licensed, and the location at which such business is to be carried on, conducted or transacted. This section shall not be applicable to any person, firm or corporation who shall have been conducting any such busi- ness within said City for a period of thirty days or more immedi- ately preceding the taking effect hereof, nor to any person, firm - 33 - 5-47 or corporation conducting, or proposing to conduct any business which may be found by the said Council to be without the purview of this ordinance at the hearing on the application for license hereunder as hereinabove provided. SECTION 109. STREET STAND for the selling of any goods, wares or merchandise on any portion of the public streets within the City of E1 Segundo, $15.00 per month, provided that no li- cense shall be issued for any such stand until a permit has first been obtained from the City Council, and that the application for such permit must be accompanied by the written consent of the owner or occupant of the premises abutting immediately upon that portion of the street which the applicant desires to use; and further provided that the said City Council shall have the right to grant or refuse such permit under this section in its discre- tion. SECTION 110. TRANSIENT MERCHANT, which shall include all merchants doing business at a fixed place of business for a period of less than thirty consecutive days, and who do not deal exclu- sively in food or food stuffs for human consumption, $2.50 per day. SECTION 111. TOOLS, SCISSORS, KNIFE SHARPENING, LAWN MOWER SHARPENING, KEY OR LOCKSMITH SERVICE, or any like service, from residence to residence when not inconnection with any estab- lished business duly licensed hereunder operating within said City, $15.00 per year. SECTION 112. VARIETY STORES, GIFT STORES and similar establishments, $25.00 per year. SECTION 113. That notwithstanding any of the other pro- visions of this ordinance, the City Council of the City of E1 Segundo reserves the right to waive the payment of any license fee required under this ordinance from any licensee who is recommended in writhng to the said Council by the Vocational Rehabilitation Bureau of the State Department of Education of the State of Cali- fornia, as worthy of said consideration, and who, after personal - 34 - interview of applicant by the City Council sitting as a committee of the whole, may be extended such a privilege by said Council. In case any such privilege is so extended, the City Council may fix such conditions as to said Council may seem proper or desir- able in connection with the business, occupation or activity to be so licensed and conducted by any such applicant. SECTION 114. VENDING MACHINES; AMUSMUNT AND SKILL MA- CHINES AND DEVICES, ETC. (1) For conducting the business of placing, maintaining and operating or offering for operation vending machines or vending devices, vending or delivering merchandise of any character, except cigarettes, 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; (a) By a 1¢ coin, $1.00 per year. (b) By a coin or coins totaling 2¢ and not exceed- ing 5¢, $4.00 per year. (c) By a coin or coins totaling 6¢ and not exceed- ing 10¢, $4.00 per year. (d) By a coin or coins totaling 11¢ and not exceed- ing 15¢, $6.00 per year. (e) By a coin or coins totaling 16¢ or more, $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, maintaining and operating or offering for operation cigarette vending machines, or vending devices, vending or delivering cigar- ettes and which for the coin or coins inserted, regardless of - 35 - 2551 wording, as the license collector may from time to time de- termine. 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 re- quired. 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, operate, 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. (8 ) MUSIC BOXES, PHONOGRAPHS AIT D MUSICAL INSTR R,1ENTS OPERATED BY COINS OR TONS: 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 re- cords, or which furnishes any audible or visible entertainment or amusement, $20.00 per year for each such music box , phono- graph, machine 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 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 $1.50 per year for each such radio or device. SECTION 115. WHOLESALE BUSINESS located at a fixed place of business, $25.00 per year. SECTION 116. All other businesses not herein specifical- ly mentioned, $25.00 per year. SECTION 117. That notwithstanding any other provision or provisions of this ordinance, every soldier, sailor or marine of the United States of America, who has received an honorable dis- charge or release from active duty under honorable conditions from 255-112 such service, shall have the right to hawk, peddle and vend any goods, wares or merchandise, except spirituous, malt, vinous, or other intoxicating liquor, without payment of any license fee, and the City Clerk shall issue to such soldier, sailor or marine vA th- out cost a license therefor, upon presentation of proper and suffic- ient credentials, provided, however, that no such business shall be commenced or continued by any such soldier, sailor or marine without first procuring the license herein referred to. SECTION 118. That the provisions of this ordinance shall not be deemed or construed to require the payment of a license fee to commence or conduct any business from any institution or organ- ization which is conducted, managed or carried on wholly for the benefit of charitable purposes or from which profit is not derived, either directly or indirectly, by a.ry person, nor shall any license fee be required for the conducting of any amusement, entertainment, affair, occasion, undertaking or concert (or any exhibition or lecture on scientific, historical, literary, religious or moral sub- jects), if the receipts of any such amusement, entertainment, af- fair, occasion, undertaking, concert, exhibition or lecture are to be immediately appropriated to any church or school, or to any re- ligious or benevolent or civic purpose within the City of E1 Segun- do; nor shall any license fee be required for the conducting of any entertainment, -dance, concert, exhibition or lecture by any re- ligious, charitable, fraternal, educational, military, state, county or municipal organization, or association, if the receipts of any such entertainment, dance, concert, exhibition or lecture are to be immediately appropriated for the proper and lawful purposes and ob- jects for which such association or organization was formed, and from which profit is not derived, either directly or indirectly, by any person; provided, however, that nothing in this section con- tained shall be deemed to exempt any such institution or organiza- tion from complying with the provisions of this or any ordinance of the City of E1 Segundo, requiring such institution or organization - 39 - a Affidavit of Publication STATE OF CALIFORNIA, 1 COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, } ss. CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, ax WWI . �QtQkW ...being first duly sworn, e .... .......................... . swo 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...... Editor of EL SEGUNDO HERALD, a newspaper of general circulation, published and circulated weekly in the City of El Segundo, in 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, laces 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 ... �....u..�. �i. -.. 1. N. C.L, ................................ ............................... 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..0XA1 ]RuPC e ..V.8 .................................... ............................... of which the annexed is a printed copy as hereinabove stated, was published and printed in said newspaper at least ...Qne ..... week. ..., by ... Que....... ,lidfe.]iXWaXpublication...., commencing on the �ttti.....day of ..i; }i 7'C�Yl ............... A. D. 1951 , and ending on the.. $th...........day of jC• • • • • • ...............A. D. 19. and as often during said time as said newspaper was regu- larly issued to- wit:... 2' hura 444.,.. Xurg.h . $ a...� 9� ...... . Subscribed and sworn to before me this.!.T H. day of ..!�fa.�.�.'� —.i .............. A. D. 19.�.�. City Clerk of the City of El Segundo, Co ty O of, Loss Angeles, State of Californi By .. • .�".'�...V. !.1...... Deputy CityClerk of id City. to obtain a permit from the Council or proper board or officer to conduct, manage, or carry on any such lecture, entertainment, dance, i concert, exhibition, show or business. SECTION 119. That in the event any applicant for a li- cense under this ordinance, or any licensee thereunder, and the City Clerk, or his authorized deputy, charged with the issuance of the licenses herein provided for, are unable to agree with refer - ence to the classification of any business hereunder or the amount of the license to be paid therefor, then and in that event any such applicant or licensee said t i , or City Clerk, may appeal to the City Council to hear and determine said matter, or matters. Said appeal may be taken by merely addressing a communication to said Council in writing, briefly stating the question or questions in- volved. Said communication shall be presented to the City Council at the next regular or special meeting of said Council after the filing of the same with the City Clerk, at which said meeting the City Council shall hear such evidence with reference to the subject or subjects thereof as may be offered and may continue said hearing from time to time. The findings and decision of said Coun- cil,after hearing and considering such evidence and referring to this ordinance, shall be binding, final and conclusive as to the classification of the business and the amount of license fee in- volved hereunder. Pending the hearing of any such appeal filed by an applicant for a license hereunder, no license shall be is- sued for the business involved in such controversy unless the classification assigned thereto by the City Clerk is accepted in the meantime and the license fee therefor paid as herein provided. Such acceptance and paymemt shall be deemed made under protest and subject to decision of the Council and such adjustment, if any, as the Council may order. Appeals by a licensee hereunder must be filed with the Clerk in writing as herein contemplated within 10 days after the issuance of the license constituting the basis of appeal and if not so filed within said period of 10 days, the - 40 - 2 r same shall be deemed waived and thereafter shall not be considered by the Council. SECTION 120. All licenses issued under this ordinance, or any section thereof, are granted and accepted by all parties receiving licenses, with the express understanding that the City Council may revoke the same at any time, if satisfied that any of the conditions of the license or terms of this ordinance have been violated, or that the license was obtained by fraudulent representa- tion, or that the holder of any such license is an unfit person to be trusted with the privileges granted by said license; provided, however, that no license shall be revoked without first giving the holder an opportunity to appear before the Council in his own behalf. On the revocation of the license, no part of the money in the hands of the City shall be returned, but such license fee shall be forfeited to the City. When a license of any person is revoked for any cause, no new or other license shall be granted to the same person within six months from the date of such revocation. SECTION 121. That nothing in this ordinance contained with reference to the payment of license fees shall be deemed or construed as applying to any person commencing or conducting any business which is exempt from the payment of license fees or li- cense taxes by municipal corporations under or by virtue of the Constitution or laws of the United States of America, or of the State of California. SECTION 122. REPEAL PROVISIONS: That Ordinance No. 12 of said City entitled, "AN ORDINANCE 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; and all ordi- nances amending said Ordinance No. 12; and all other ordinances and parts of ordinances of said City of El Segundo insofar as the same conflict with the provisions of this ordinance are hereby re- pealed. - 41 - Q __ J SECTION 123. PENALTIES. That any person, firm, association or corporation viola- ting any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction of any such violation such per- son, firm, association or corporation shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $500.00 or by imprisonment in the City Jail of the City of E1 Segundo, California, or in the County Jail d Los Angeles County, California, as the committing magistrate may direct, for a period of not to exceed six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the Court. Every such person, firm, association or corporation shall be deemed guilty of a separate offense for each and every day during which, or during any, portion of which, any of the pro- visions of this ordinance is violated and shall be punishable therefor as herein provided. SECTION 124. SAVING CLAUSE. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or phrase of this Ordinance is for any reason held to be unconstitutional or void, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this Ordinance. The City Council hereby declares that it would have passed this Ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence, clause and phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases be declared unconstitutional or void. SECTION 125. EFFECTIVE DATE. That this ordinance shall take effect and be in full force and virtue on and after the 1st ,day of April, 1951. SECTION 126. That the City Clerk shall certify to the passage and adoption of this ordinance; shall make a minute of the passage and adoption thereof in the records of the proceedings of the City Council of said City in the minutes of the meeting at which the same is passed and adopted; and within 15 days after the adoption thereof shall cause the same to be published once in the - 42 - 31 Segundo Herald, a weekly newspaper of general circulation, pub- lished and circulated within said City, and which is hereby desig- nated for that purpose. Passed, approved and adopted this 28th day of February., 1951. Mayor of the C eg o, Calif o ia.: ATTEST: VICTOR D. MCCARTHY City Clerk By Deputy City Cl k (SEAL) STATE CIF 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; the fore- going ordinance, being Ordinance No. 382, was 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 28th day of February, 1951, and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote: AYES: Councilmen Gordon, Peterson, Swanson, Thompson and Mayor Selby; NCES: Councilmen None; ABSENT: Councilmen None. WITNESS my hand and the official seal of said City this 28th day _ of February , 1951. VICTOR D. MCCARTHY City_Clerk of.the City of E1 Segundo, California. (SEAL) By Deputy City Cler - 43 -