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oRDINANCE rao. 854
AN ORDINANCE: OF THE CITY OF LYr1Ld00D AMENDING
SEC'PION 10.66 OF THE LYNWOOD CITY CODE TO
PRESCRIBE CERTAIN STANDARDS UNDER LdHICH THE
CITY COUNCIL MUST ACT IN DETERMINING WHETHER
OR NOT TO ISSUE AN ENTERTAINMENI^ LICENSE AND
PROVIDING THAT AN URGENCY EXISTS FOR THE
PASSAGE THEREOF.
The City Council does ordain:
Sebtioh 1. Section 10.66 of the Lynwood Municipal Code
is amended to read as follows:
"Minimum requirements. No entertainment license shall be
issued under this Chapter until the following minimum requirements
have been complied with:
"(1) Minimum Requirements. It must appear that neither
the applicant, rror the owner of the business wherein the entertainment
is proposed to be conducted, whether he be partner, member, officer
or manager or other person in charge of the said business or of the
entertainment, has ever been convicted of a felony, or of a crime
involving moral turpitude and that all of the persons hereinabove
described are of good moral character.
"(2) Action After Hearing. If from the evidence intro-
duced at any hearing, the City Council finds grounds for denial, it
shall deny the application being considered. Unless the decision
of the City Council is announced at the close of the hearing, the
City Council shall notify the applicant by causing the City Clerk to
mail a copy of the decision to the applicant by registered or
certified mail, addressed to the address shown in his application.
In all cases the City Council must r~eaCh a decision within 14 days
following the close of such hearing. If no grounds for denial of a
license are found by the City Council, the City Council shall grant
the applicant a license and the City Council shall notify the
License Collector and instruct him to issue the license."
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Section 2. Urgency. The City Council finds that an
urgency exists for the passage of this ordinance for the following
reasons: Applicants, owners and persons to be in charge of the
proposed entertainment and the businesses where the entertainment
is proposed to be conducted are likely to be persons not of good
moral character and in some instances have been convicted of a felony
or of a crime involving moral turpitude; that it is necessary for
the protection of the safety, health and the public welfare of the
residents of the City of Lynwood and others that this ordinance
become effective immediately upon passage.
Section 3. 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
circulation, printed and published in the City of Lynwood.
First read and finally adopted and ordered published at
a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Lynwood held
on the 6th day of November, 1968, by the following vote:
Ayes: Councilmen Byork, Green, Siokos, Smith, Stevens
Noes: Councilmen Alone.
Absent: Councilmen None
~NTa~or o~ the amity o`~ ynwood
ATTEST:
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=-'Cit Clerk, City of ,ynwood
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
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COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES )
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. 854 adopted by the City
Council of the City of Lynwood, and that same was passed
on the date and by the vote therein stated.
Dated this 7th day of November , 19 68 .
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CITY CLERK, CITY OF YNWOOD