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HomeMy WebLinkAbout0858 '. , ~ ~~ Cf53 2.02..4 . \ . , , -'~- -----"""7'"' _'__. ORDINANCE NO. 858 AN ORDINANCE providing for the lioensing of oard rooms, regula- ting the operation thereof, providing for the revooation of oard room 1ioenses, presoribing penalties, and deo1aring portions of former ord- inanoes of the City of Auburn in conflict or inconsistent with the proy- isions of this ordinanoe to be superseded by this ordinance. THE'C1TY~COUNCIL-OF'I'HE CITY OF AUBURN DO ORDAIN-AS FOLLOWS: Seotion 1. deemed expedient to the city of Auburn, This ordinanoe, and the enforoement thereof, is maintain the peaoe, good government and welfare of and as neoessary and proper local, police regulations. Seotion 2. The word "person" whenever used in thia ordinanoe shall be held and construed to mean and include natural persons, firms, co-partnerships and oorporations, whether aoting by themselves or by a servant, agent or employee. Seotion 3. The words "oard room" whenever used in this ordinanoe shall be held and construed to mean a p1aoe of business oonduoted for gain and profit, in whioh are contained one or more oard tables upon whioh games with cards are or may be played. Seotion 4. It shall be un.lawfUl for any person to maintain or operate any oard room in the city of Auburn unless suoh person shall then be the holder of an unexpired, unrevoked license therefor, issued by the City of Auburn, in which said person is named as licensee. Seotion 5. No 1ioense shall be granted or issued by the City of . Auburn ~tO' any.person to maintain or operate a oard room until after .suoh person shall have made written application therefor, paid to the City of Auburn the proper license fee, and the granting of such lioense shall have been ordered by the City Council and such lioense issued as herein- after provided. Seotion 6. Eaoh lioense to be issued hereunder shall be for the period of a calendar year, beginning on January first and ending on the last day of December of the same oa1endar year, or for a period of less than a calendar year and ending on the last day of December of the same calendar year. The fee for suoh license shall be 0 ~ (J{) for one card table, and $ . ~ for each additional card tab e. Section 7. Every applioant for a license hereunder shall make a written application therefor, addressed to the City Counoil, subscribe app1icantts name to the application, and file the same with the City Clerk. The city Clerk shall read aloud said application at the next regular meet- ing of the City Council, and the same shall be then referred to the Lio- ense Committee of the City Council for investigation and report. Each app1ioation shall state (1) the name and plaoe of residenoe of the app1i- oant, (2) the number of card tables to be operated under the license applied for, (3) the names of all persons, if any, other than applicant, interested in the business to be conduoted under such license, (4) that the app1ioant has not been oonvicted in any oourt of any violation of the laws of the State of Washington or the ordinances of the City of Auburn relating to gambling or games of chance, or involving moral turpitude or intent to defraud, and (5) shall accurately describe the premises where such business is to be oonducted during the period ot the license applied tor. After the Page 2 . . . ;; report ot the Lioense Committee upon suoh applioation to the City Counoil, the City Counoil, it satisfied that the statements oontained in suoh ap- p1ioation are true and that app1ioant is of good moral oharaoter, may in its disoretion, grant or rejeot suoh app1ioation, and if granted order the 1ioense issued. If ordered granted, the app1ioant shall forthwith file with the City Clerk the offioial reoeipt of the City Treasurer showing full payment of the lioense fee hereinbefore fixed, and thereupon the City Clerk shall issue to suoh applicant the license, specifying therein the number of tables authorized thereby, and a definite desoription of the premises where the business is to be oonduoted. Such license shall be for the term of one oalendar year or the unexpired fraction of suoh year. Seotion 8. In addition to other penalties provided by law, the City Counoi1 expressly reserve4 unto itself the right to revoke any lio~ ense issued under._the provisions. of this ordinanoe, at anYe time, when the same was prooured by-fraud or false representation of fact, or where it shall be proved to the satisfaotion of the City Counoil that the 1ioensee, or any employee of the lioensed plaoe, while aoting within the scope of his employment, shall have been oonvioted or shall have forfeited any bond upon a oharged violation of tb.is ordinance, or any law of the State of Washington, or of the United States, relating to gambling or games of ohanoe, or the possession or sale of intoxioating liquors, or narootio drugs. ~t least three days before revoking any license, the City Counoil shall oause to be mailed to the holder of suoh license at the address at whioh such oard room is oonducted, or to be delivered to the licensee personally, a notice stating the time and place of hearing conoerning suoh proposed revocation and that the licensee shall be entitled to be heard thereat and to introduce the testimony of witnesses. The aotion of the City Council, after suoh hearing relative to such revooation, shall be final, and in case suoh license shall be revoked no 1ioense under the provisions of this ordinance shall be issued to the person whose license has been so revoked for a period of ~~ months from and after the date of such revooation. Section 9. All oard rooms shall be so oonstruoted and arranged and maintained that there shall be kept, at all times, an open spaoe suf- ficient to provide a olear, uninterrupted view of the same from without. In oase any oard.roomsha11 be located in a basement or above the street level, it shall be so construoted and arranged, and at all times main- tained so as to provide a maximum view of the interior from the entrance thereto. Seotion 10. No lioense granted hereunder shall be assignable or authorize the oonduot of the business thereby 1ioensed in any other place, or by any other person, than as designated in suoh 1ioense. Section 11. It shall be unlawful for the owner or any manager or other person in oharge of or employed in any card room, (1) to admit or allow to remain therein any person under the age of twenty- one years, or '1:1'\\.,.\\", (2) to permit suoh card room to be kept open or any playing of cards~bet- ween the hours of /.e:O/ o'olook A. M. and ~:Ot) o'olook A. M. of anyone day, or (3) to oonduot or ,ngage in or to permit any gambling in suoh card room, or (4) to exchan~or oash or money any ohecks or tokens redeemable in mer- ohandise. Seotion 12. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this ordinanoe shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined, upon o01'lvio.tlon thereof, in any Bum not exceeding ~ 1(')0. (')0 . . . . " . . , ", . , . ~ Seotion 13. All portions ot former ordinanoes ot the City of Auburn in oonf1iot with or inoonsistent with the provisions ot this ordinanoe, if any, shall be held ano1. construed to be superseded by the provisions ot this ordinanoe, in so tar and only in so tar as the same are so in oonflict or inoonsistent with this ordinanoe. Seotion 14. It any section or subdivision, sentenoe, olause or phrase ot this ordinanoe is, for any reason, held to be invalid, suoh deoision shall not effeot the validHy of the remaining portions of this ordinance. INTRODUCED: Passed: Approved: August 17, 1943. August 17, .1943. August _, 1943. ~~ YOR ATTEST :. c:::::- - <~ APPROVED AS TO :F'ORM: ~"t~"~~R1TEY Published - AUGUST 19~ 1943.