Ordinance 556ORDINANCE NO 556.
An Ordinance providing for the licensing and regulation of
pool, billiard and card tales, so-called games of skill,
juke boxes and automatic music machines and punch boards,
and providing penalties for the violation thereof.
THE CITY COUNCIL Of THE CITY OF EDMONDS DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1: From and after the effective date of this Act
the license fee for keeping and operating any billiard or pool
table, within the City of Edmonds, is hereby fixed at the sum
of rive Dollars (5.00) per year for Bich table. All such
license fees shall expire on December 31st each year, and Ruch
license taken out after July 1st shall ire two Dollars and Zifty
Cents ( 2.50) for the remainder of the year.
Section 2: The license fee for keeping and operating any
321
card table, in the City of Edmonds, is hereby fixed at the sum
of Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00) per year for each table, All
such license fees shall expire on December 31st each year, and
such license taken out after July 1st shall be Twelve Dollars
and i'ifty Cents ($12.50) for the remainder of the year.
Section 3: The license fee for keeping and operating any
automatic amusement game, so-called games of skill, juke boxes
or other automatic music machines, in the City of Edmonds, shall
be Twelve Dollars ($1200) per year for each game or machine.
All such licenses shall expire on December 31st each year, and
all such license taken out after July 1st shall be ,156a00 for
the remainder of the year.
Section 4: The license fee for each punch board operated within
the City of Edmonds shall be .eifty Cents. ($.50).
Section 5: It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or
corporation to operate any such pool table, billiard table,
card table, automatic game or so-called game of skill, juke
box or other automatic music machine, or punch board, within -
the City of Edmonds, Without having first procured a license
from the City Clerk of said City so to do, and having paid the
amount of such license into the treasury of the City of Edmonds.
Section 6: Every person, firm or corporation found guilty
of violating any of the terms or provisions of this Ordinance
shall he deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction
thereof shall be punished by a fine of not to exceed One Hundred
Dollars (100.00) or by confinement in the City Jail for not
more than ten (10) days or by both such fine and imprisonment.
This Ordinance shall take effect and be in full force and effect
from and after its passage and publication as provided by law.
ATTEST: Anita Gust
City Clerk
Passed: may 21, 1946
Published: may 29, 1946
r'. A. i'ourtner
Mayo r
Ihereby certify that this is
a true and correct copy of
ordinance lio 556.L/—
(:Z21 1
City Clerk