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b� An Ordinance of the City of Kent amending
Section 1 of Ordinance No. 706, as amended
by Section 1 of Ordinance No. 796, and
amending Section 2 of Ordinance No. 706, as
amended by Section 2 of Ordinance No. 796, as
amended by Section 1 of Ordinance No. 829,
relating to the licensing and regulation of
games of skill, novelty and amusement.
The City Council of the City of Kent do ordain as follows:
Section 1. That Section 1 of Ordinance No. 706 of the City
of Kent, entitled "An Ordinance regulating games of skill within
the City of Kent, King County, Washington, and repealing Sections
7 of Ordinance No. 686 of the Ordinances of the City of Kent,
relating to license fees,q passed by the City July/6, 1940, and
approved by the Mayor July 17, 1940, as amended by Section 1 of
Ordinance No. ?96 entitled"An ordinance licensing and regulating
games of skill and games of novelty or amusement within the City
of Kent, amending Sections 1, 2, and 5, and repealing Section 4,
11 of Ordinance No. 706 of the Ordinances of the City of Kent,"
passed by the City on the 19th day of July, 1948, and approved on
the 20th of July, 1948, be and it is hereby amended to read as
ows:
" Section 1. Every person, partnership, firm, association or
corporation operating games of skill, commonly known as pinball
machines, within the City of Kent, shall procure from the City
Treasurer a mastrlicense for the operation of the same, which
master license shall be issued by the City Treasurer upon the
payment of the sum of One -thousand ($1,000.00)Dollars and
compliance by applicant with the other provisions of t1i.s
ordinance. No prorating of the fee for such master license
shall be made for periods of less than one year. Application
for such master license shall be made to the City Treasurer
in writing, and applicant shall disclose, by sworn statement
in said application, the names, business and home addresses
and telephone numbers of all persons interested in the operation
of said games of skill within the City of Kent, whether as sole
proprietor, partners, members or stockholders, the extent of such
interest, whether financial, managerial, or both, prior criminal
convictions (excluding traffic violations in which the penalty
was $25.00 or less) of any such person or any member or stock -
holder of such partnership, firm, association, or corporation,
and such application shall give at least one banking reference
and three (3) trade references for each such interested person.
Should any change of ownership, or of interest in the business
operating such games of skill occur during the license year,
such change shall immediately be disclosed to the City Treasurer
by sworn statement of the licensee, setting forth names, busi-
ness and home addresses and telephone numbers, prior criminal
convictions (excluding traffic violations in which the penalty
was $25.00 or less) of such newly interested person or parsons,
extent and type of interest of the new owner, partner, member or
stockholder of such business. Such application for master licen e,
whether for original or renewal of an existing license, shall
also disclose the location, or proposed location, and the serial
number, make and manufacture of each such game of skill operated,
or to be operated, by applicant within the City of Kent.
"No master license shall be issued to any person, partnership,
firm, association or corporation, who, or any member of stock-
holder of which, has a prior criminal conviction (excluding
traffic violations where the penalty was $25.00 or less), nor
to any person, partnership, firm, association or corporation
which does not also hold a valid similar license from King
County, Washington.
"No more than two (2) such master licenses shall issue until
such time as more than forty (40) locations, approved by the
Chief Of Police after a consultation with and majority approval
of the Police Committee of the City Council of the City of Kent,
shall be available in the City."
Section 2. That Section 2 of said Ordinance No. 706, entitled,
ssed and approved as aforesaid, as amended by Section 2 of Ordina
No. 796, entitied, passed and approved as aforesaid, as amended by
Section 1 of Qrdinance No. 829, entitled "An Ordinance amending
Section 2 of Ordiance 796 of the Ordinances of the City of Kent,
relating to the licensing and regulation of games of skill, novelt
and amusement"�assed by the City on July 17, 1950 and approved
July 18, 1950, be and it is hereby amended to read as follows:
" Section 2. Any person, partnership, film, association or
corporation, aftr having received said master license, may
then operate any number to and including twenty (20) cf'such
games of skill in the City of Kent, upon payment to the City
Treasurer of the City of Kent of the sum of $25.00 per quarter,
payable in advance, for each such game of skill; provided,
however, that no license shall be granted to operate such
game of skill in, and no transfer of a licensed game shall be
made to, any location when such location is licensed to and
occupied by a machine owned by another licensee, nor until
such location shall have been approved in writing by the
Chief of Police after consultation with, and majority approval
of, the Police Committee of the City Council of the City."
Section 3. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect
Pive (5) days after its passage, appYleva3 end publication as
)rovided by law. /*_� �
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Approved as to form:
Passed July 18, 1960
Approved July 19, 1960
Published July 20, 1960
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