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ORDINANCE NO. 1211
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LYNWOOD
AMENDING THE LYNWOOD MUNICIPAL CODE AND THE BUSINESS
LICENSE LAW PERTAINING TO FEES FOR COIN-OPERATED VIllEO
GAME MACHINES.
The City Council of the City of Lynwood DOES HEREBY ORDAIN
as follows:
Section 1. Section 17-57(3) of the Lynwood Municipal Code
pertaining to amusements is hereby amended by adding another subsection
thereof to read as follows:
(a) Coin-operated video game machines $100.00 per machine
"The provisions of this subsection are not applicable to any
person conducting, managing or carrying on the business of
renting, leasing, or operating any coin-operated vending ma-
chines, and any individual or firm whose businesses is limit-
ed exclusively to renting, leasing or operating such machines."
"The provisions of this subsection are not applicable to any
vending machines maintained and owned by the proprietor of an
established place of business who is the holder of a busi-
ness license which is issued for the place of business where
the machine is maintained and operated."
Section 2. Section 17-57 shall be amended to read as
follows:
"(44) VENDING MACHINES, COIN-OPERATED: The owner, lessee,
or person in charge of a coin-operated vending machine
(including music, or juke boxes, and vending machines dis-
pensing tangible personal property) shall pay an annual
license fee equal to ten dollars ($10.00) for each one
thousand dollars ($1,000.00) or fraction thereof, of the
aggregate gross receipts derived by such individual or
firm from the operating of such machine within the city
during the year for which the license is valid. Such li-
cense fee shall be paid within forty-five (45) days follow-
ing the close of the calendar year for which the license was
secured."
Section 3. Severability. If any section, subsection, sub-
division, sentence, clause, phrase or portion of this ordinance or
the application thereof to any person or place, is for any reason
held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court or
competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of
the remaining portions of this ordinance or its application to other
persons or places. The City Council hereby declares that it would
have adopted this ordinance, and each section thereof, irrespective of
the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses,
phrases, or portions, or the application thereof to any person or place,
be declared invalid or unconstitutional.
Section 4. The City Clerk is hereby ordered and directed
to certify to the passage of this ordinance and to cause the same
to be published once in the Lynwood Press, a newspaper of general cir-
culation, printed, published, and circulated in the City of Lynwood.
First read at a regular meeting of the City Council of said
City held on the 20th day of September 1983
and finally ordered published at a regular meeting of said Council
held on the 4th da of October 1983.
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AYES: Councilmen Byork, Green, Morris, Rowe, Thompson
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
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City of Lynwood
ATTEST:
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ANDREA HOOPER, City Cler
APPRO ED AS TO FORM:
David McEwen, City Attorney
APPROVED AS TO CONTENT:
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I, the undersigned, City Clerk of the City of Lynwood, and
ex-officio clerk of the Council of said City, do hereby certify that the
above is a true and correct copy of Ordinance No. 1211 adopted by
the City Counr_il of the City of Lynwood, and that the same was passed on
the date and by the vote therein stated.
Dated this 7th day of OCTOBER
1983.
(SEAL) City Clerk, City of Lynwood