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"Operator's Amusement Device Master License." Each operator shall be issued such a Master License with a number designated by the City Clerk-Comptroller 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 said City Clerk-Comptroller, 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-Comptroller 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 (20,000) of the total census. When the number of Operator's Master License reach four (4), then the Operator's Master License shall only be issued for each twenty-five thousand (25,000) 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 above at the effective date of passage of this ordinance 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 procured such an Operator's Master License and Sub-License, and provided further any person who has been a resident of the City of Everett and has been a licensed Amusement Operator as defined in Section 1 of this ordinance, and has been licensed with the City of Everett prior to the passage of this ordinance may apply for an Operator's Master License within five (5) years after the passage of this ordinance. This permission will be void on January 10, 1973. No such Operator's Master Licenseshall be issued except to a citizen of the United States of good moral,character, who has beena resident of the State of Washington for at least five (5) years prior to application therefor; providing that such resi- dence and citizenship requirements shall not apply to prevent the renewal of a valid and subsisting Operator's Amusement Device Master License. It shall be unlawful for any operator to place an amusement device in any location not covered by the required location license as provided in Section 2 above, or to lease or rent to another for display or exhibition for use or play therein, any amusement device. Section 5 . WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTOR'S LICENSE: It shall be unlawful for any person to be or become a Wholesale Distributor without having a valid and subsisting license, to be designated as "Wholesale Distributor's Amusement Device License," which said license shall at all times be conspicuously posted and maintained at the place of business of the distributor in Everett; provided, only one such license shall be required for each person engaged in such business without regard to the number of individual salesmen employed by him; and if no place of business is maintained in Everett, the license or a copy shall be carried by each salesman and exhibited to any City License Inspector or any policeman on request. Section 6 FEES: The license year shall be from December first to November thirtieth. All license fees shall be payable on an annual basis in advance except as hereinafter provided, which fees shall be as follows: