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HomeMy WebLinkAbout008 - 09/15/1949 - RELATING TO LICENSES FOR THE OPERATION OF BOWLING ALLEYS AND THE REGULATION OF THE SAME, AMENDING OR ORDINANCE NO. 8 1949 BEING AN EKERGENCY ORDINANCE RELATING TO LICENSES FOR THE OPERATION OF B011LING ALLEYS AND THE REGULATION OF THE SAME, AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 21, 1930, IN SO FAR AS IT RELATES TO BOWLING ALLEYS BE IT ORD LINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS, as follows SECTION 1 That all persons are hereby prohibited from keeping for gain or hire any bowling alley or any other like game or device within the corporate limits of the City of Fort Collins, unless a license or permit therefor shall first have been obtained as herein provided in this ordinance SECTION 2 A license to keep for gain or hire any bowling alley or alleys may be granted by the City Council in its discretion to any person or persons who shall make applica- tion in writing therefor to the City Council, stating therein the room or place wherein such alleys are to be kept and the number of such alleys proposed to be kept and shall execute to the City of Fort Collins a good and sufficient bond with at least two good sureties or a Surety Company bond, to be approved by the Commissioner of Safety of the City of Fort Collins in the penal sum of Five Hundred ($500 00) Dollars, conditioned that the person or persons so licensed shall observe and keep all of the ordinances of the City of Fort Collins in force at the time of the issuing of said license, or that may be passed or adopted during the term of said license Said application shall be accompanied by the amount of money required for the license fee Upon compliance with the foregoing requirements, a license may, in the discretion of the City Council, be granted to the person or persons so applying, authorizing and permitting him or them to keep for gain or hire any bowling alley or alleys , provided, the City Council may refuse to grant any such license where in its opinion the applicant is not a person of good moral character, or for other good cause shown All licenses issued under this ordinance shall be signed by the Commissioner of Safety and attested by the City Clerk, and shall bear even date with the date of the meeting of the City Council at which said license is granted, and no license issued under this ordinance shall be transferable from the licensee, except by and with the consent of the City Council of the City of Fort Collins and at its discretion, and then only upon the filing of a new bond by the transferee as hereinabove provided, nor shall the licensee be permitted to operate under said license in any other place than that mentioned in the appli- cation and license without the consent of the City Council SECTION 3 It shall be unlawful for any person or persons who shall have been granted a license under the provisions of this ordinance , his or their clerk, agent or employee, to permit any games for money or other valuable thing to be played upon any bowling alley or alleys, or to permit any gaming by means of cards, dice or device for playing of games of chance, or skill and chance, within or about the establishment where such alleys are kept , or to keep open or permit any person or persons, except employees of said place, to enter the room or place where bowling alleys are kept , between the hours of 12 o' clock P N and 5 o' clock -2- A M of the succeeding day, or to permit any playing upon the said alleys between the hours of 12 o' clock P Y and 5 o' clock A Y of the succeeding day SECTION 4 Any license issued or granted under the provisions of this ordinance may be revoked by the City Council whenever it shall be made to appear to the City Council that the person or persons to whom such license was issued, his or their agent or employee has directly or indirectly violated any of the conditions of his bond, or any of the provisions of this ordi- nance, SECTION 5 All licenses issuea or granted under the provisions of Section 2 of this ordinance shall be paid for at the rate of $15 00 per year for each bowling alley. No license shall be issued or granted for a longer period than six (6) months, nor until the whole price for such license shall have been paid SECTION 6 Any person or persons who shall violate any of the provisions of this ordinance, shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined for such offense in a sum not less than $5 00 nor more than $300 00 or may be imprisoned in the City Jail not to exceed ninety (90) days and pay the costs of suit SECTION 7 Ordinance No 21, 1930, in so far as it relates to the regulations and licensing of bowling alleys is hereby amended as in this ordinance provided, and all other ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict with this ordinance, are hereby repealed -3- SECTION 8 In the opinion of the City Council an emergency exists for the preservation of the public health, peace and safety, and this ordinance shall take effect upon its passage and publication under ana by virtue of the authority contained in Sections 6 and 7 of Article IV of the City Charter Introduced, read at length and adopted by the unanimous vote of all the members of the City Council at a regular meet- ing held this 15th day of Seutember , A D 1949 zz,/ mmissioner of Safe and Ex-Officio Mayor ATTEST ity Glerk STATE OF COLORADO) COUNTY OF LARIPTER) ss I, MILES F. HOUSE, City Clerk of the City of Fort Collins, do hereby certify and declare that the aforesaid Ordinance, consisting of eight Sections, was duly proposed and read at length at a regular meeting of the City Council held on the 15th day of September, A D 1949, and was duly adopted and ordered published in the Fort Collins Coloradoan, a daily newspaper and official newspaper of the City of Fort Collins, by the unanimous vote of all members of the City Council, as an Emergency Ordinance, in accordance with the provisions of Sections 6 and 7 of Article IV of the City Charter, and thereafter and on, to-wit the 20th day of September, A D 1949, said Ordinance No 8 was duly published in the Fort Collins Coloradoan, a daily newspaper published in the City of Fort Collins, Colorado. IN 14TITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said City this 20th day of September, A D 1949 e City Clerk