Ordinance 295-74 - Laserfiche WebLink

r � • 1 Section 2 Amusement Arcade License; It is unlawful to operate or conduct, own, or be employed in, an amusement arcade unless a valid "Amusement Arcade License" has been procured for, and is conspicuously displayed in, each such amusement arcade. No amusement arcade license shall be issued except to a citizen of the United States who has been a resident of the city of Everett for at least five (5) years next prior to filing application therefor. Not more than one such license shall be issued for each fifty thousand of total population of the City, as shown by the last preceding state or federal census , provided, that nothing contained in this section relating to residence, citizenship, or per capita limitation of licenses shall apply to any person now holding a valid amusement arcade license. Section 3 Location Amusement Device License: It is unlawful for any person to display, exhibit or expose or permit to be displayed, exhibited or exposed for purpose of use, play or operation, or permit to be used, played or operated, for profit, any amusement device without having a valid and subsisting license , to be designated as "Location Amusement Device License" . A separate location license is required for each place of business; and shall at all times be conspicuously posted and maintained in each place of business . The City Clerk shall prescribe the form of location license, shall designate a number therefor, and shall indicate thereon the number of such devices which may be exhibited, exposed, used or played thereunder. Section 4 Operator' s Master License: It is unlawful for anyone to be or become an operator without having a valid and subsisting license, to be designated as "Operator ' s Amusement Device Master License. " Each operator shall be issued such a master license with a number designated by the City Clerk and for each amusement device leased, rented, or placed by the operator, an additional license to be known as an "Operator 's Amusement Device Sub-License" shall be required. The sub- license shall consist of a metal plate, with a number designated by the City Clerk, and shall be affixed to the device for which it is issued, in a conspicuous place under glass, the form and type of which shall be prescribed by said City Clerk and upon which shall be imprinted the following: "City of Everett - Amusement Device License, " for the year " (giving year of issue) , "No. . " Not more than one such operator' s master license shall be issued for each twenty thousand of the total census . When the number of operator's master licenses reach four, then the operator ' s master license shall only be issued for each twenty-five thousand population thereafter; provided, however, that the per capita limitations on the number of master licenses provided for herein shall not prevent any operator engaged in the amusement business as defined in Section 1 on January 17 , 1968 , from being licensed, if such person obtains and continues in effect an operator' s master license. No such operator' s master license shall be transferred; provided that on a bona fide sale of the holder' s business, his right to such license may be transferred with the consent by resolution of the City Council. No transfer shall be effective until the transferee has pro- cured such an operator' s master license and sub-license . No such operator' s master license shall be issued except to a citizen of the United States of good moral character, who has been a resident of the State of Washington for at least