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ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE of the City of Kent, Washington
relating to business licenses for pool and
billiard table establishments and for
establishments with amusement devices amending
Kent City Code Subsections 5.04.030, 5.19.010
and 5.19.030 and 5.19.040 to change the amount
and type of the amusement device license fee.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENT, WASHINGTON DOES
HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Section 5.04.030 is amended as follows:
5.04.030. POOL AND BILLIARD TABLES. The license fee for
any public place or resort operating a business wherein pool or
billiard tables are operated shall be fifty dollars ($50.00) per
year for the first two billiard or pool tables '" """
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,per year for each additional pool or billiard table.
5.19.010. DEFINITIONS.
A. "Amusement device" means any machine or device which
provides recreation or recreation or entertainment for which a
and includes but is not limited to,
charge is made for use or play,
pool and billiard tables, shuffleboards, music machines, video
games, pinball games, mechanical bulls and other riding devices,
1 l _ and devices for display of pictures or views on films;
provided that it does not mean or include any machine or device
used exclusively for the vending of merchandise.
5.19.030. LICENSE FEES. The fee for any amusement
device shall be fifty ($50.00) per year per device. The fee for
pool or billiard Tables shall be consistent with 5.04.030.
5.19.040. MASTER ARCADE LICENSE.
A. In addition to the license and fees required in KCC
5.19.030, there is hereby established a master license, to be known
as a "master arcade license." The fee for a master arcade license
shall be five hundred dollars($500.00) per year.
B. Any person who operates a business where income is
derived solely from the operation and use of more than ten
amusement devices at one location shall be required to obtain a
master arcade
license or will be found in violation of the law.
C. it is unlawful fer
this ehapter.
D. Master arcade license shall be publicly displayed on
the premises during the time of arcade operations.
E. Master arcade licenses expire annually on
December 31.
Section 2. Severability. The provisions of this
ordinance are declared to be separate and severable. The
invalidity of any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, section
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or portion of this ordinance, or the invalidity of the application
thereof to any person or circumstances shall not affect the
validity of the remainder of this ordinance, or the validity of its
application to other persons or circumstances.
Section 3. Effective Date. This ordinance shall take
effect and be in force thirty (30) days from the time of its final
passage Gapproval assa
and e as provided b law.
D KELLEHER, MAYOR
ATTEST:
BRENDA JACOBER, I'r CLERK
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AVE FORM:
R R A. LUBOV a-, CITY ORNEY
PASSED the day of 7 y . 7 c << 1992.
APPROVED the !' day ofY "' =„4 1992.
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PUBLISHED the (rr day of ( ��a. , 1992.
I hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of
Ordinance No. y L''!�_, Passed by the City Council of the City of
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Kent, Washington, and approved by the Mayor of the City of Kent ash
hereon indicated.
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lBRENDA JACOBER, C TY CLERK
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