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HomeMy WebLinkAbout87-17 - Amending Section 5.08.040 of the Newport Beach Municipal Code Pertaining to Coin MachinesORDINANCE NO. 87 -17 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH AMENDING SECTION 5.08.040 OF THE NEWPORT BEACH MUNICIPAL CODE PERTAINING TO COIN MACHINES. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH DOES HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1: The provisions of Section 5.08.040 of the Newport Beach Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows: Coin Machines. Every person engaging in, managing, or carrying on the business of leasing, renting or maintaining any coin operated machine or device, not otherwise licensed under this title shall pay an annual license fee as established by Resolution of the City Council. If a license for any coin machine has not been obtained by the person responsible for placing said machine at any apartment house or business premises, the owner of the apartment • house or business premises shall be liable for the license tax payable for said coin machine. For purposes of this Title, a "bulk vending machine" is defined as a non - electrically operated vending machine, containing unsorted confections, nuts or merchandise which, upon insertion of a coin dispenses the same in equal portions, at random and without selection by the customer. In the event a coin machine remains unlicensed thirty (30) days after first notification, the City may seize such machines and hold them as security for the payment of the license fee, and until license is obtained or renewed, and in the event the person owning or having control or possession of the machine shall fail, within a period of thirty (30) days to obtain a • license or pay and license due, then and in that event the machine shall be disposed of as follows: -1- Section 2: The Mayor shall sign and the City Clerk shall attest to the passage of this Ordinance. The City Clerk shall cause the same to be published once in the official newspaper within fifteen (15) days after its adoption. Section 3: This Ordinance was introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Newport Beach held on the 8th day of June , 1987, and adopted on the 22nd day of June , 1987, by the following vote, to -wit: AYES, COUNCIIMEMBERS Cox, Maurer, • Plummer, Sansone, Strauss, Turner • NOES, COUNCIIMEMBERS ABSENT COUNCILMEMBERS Hart -2- The machine or machines or so many thereof shall be sold to satisfy the amount of license fees due the City and any machine or machines not sold shall be returned to the owner thereof: and provided further that in the event the machine or • machines be sold for a sum less than the amount of the license fee that the operator of the machines shall, nevertheless, remain liable for the balance of such license fees due and unpaid thereon. Section 2: The Mayor shall sign and the City Clerk shall attest to the passage of this Ordinance. The City Clerk shall cause the same to be published once in the official newspaper within fifteen (15) days after its adoption. Section 3: This Ordinance was introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Newport Beach held on the 8th day of June , 1987, and adopted on the 22nd day of June , 1987, by the following vote, to -wit: AYES, COUNCIIMEMBERS Cox, Maurer, • Plummer, Sansone, Strauss, Turner • NOES, COUNCIIMEMBERS ABSENT COUNCILMEMBERS Hart -2-