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:
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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
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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
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