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HomeMy WebLinkAboutORDINANCES - 09041934 - 0225 1= ORDINANCE NO. M mit without license fees in the ----- event that any of,the above des- AN ORDINANCE REQUIRING i t Q grated exhibitions=or amusements THE LICENSING OF ALL heroin referred to are given for j CARN11VALSt FAIRS,OR TRAM"- or are sponsored by organization$ j ELING SHOWS WITHIN whose principle purpose is char- COU1VTY. OF CONTRA COSTA, ity and-or educational benefits. STATE OF CAL:IFORNIA, Section 4. For each day that AND REQUIRING A LICENSE any person, firm or corporation TAX FOR THE r ISSUING OF shall maintain, conduct or open- &E1R ITS THEREFOR. ate any of the said amusement devices as herein , provided, in ` The Board of Supervisors of the violation of this orinance, it shall County of Contra Costa, State of constitute a separate offense and California, do ordain as follows: it shall be punished as a separate Section 1: Every person con.- infraction as herein provided. ducting, managing, operating, or Section 5. No portion of any carrying on any transient fair, public street, roadway, or high- carnival, Ferris-wheel, scenic-rail- way shall be used for the pur- 'way, merry-go-round, swing, pose of conducting any such fair, chute-the-chutes, open-air amuse- carnival or other exhibition or meat device, traveling theatrical amusement in this ordinance re- or show,or other like and similar (erred to, unless special permis- exhibition and amusement with- cion is secured and that portion In the county of Contra Costa, of a public street, roadway, or State of California, shall first highway permitted to be so used obtain a permit from the Board shall be specifically designated !. of Supervisors thereof to hold within said permit as being grant- or conduct the same, and shall ed to the applicant forsuch use, pay in advance the following li- Section 6. If any section or sub- cense fee: section, sentence, clause, phrase Seventy-five ($75.00) dollars or words of this ordinance for per day, plus an additional five any reason isheld unconstitu- ($5.00) dollars per day for each tional or invalid, the decision 4 anti' every separate show, cones- holding the same unconstitution- sion, attraction or eghibition, ev- al or invalid shall not affect the ery ride or amusement device of validity of the remaining por- : any kind, and any other_'attrac- tions of this Ordinance. 'The Board ' tion or exhibition where any ad- of Supervisors hereby declare that r mission fee or any charge what- they have passed this Ordinance. soever is imposed upon the par and each section, subsection,sen- trons, of said attraction or exhi- tence, clause, phrase,- and word bition, when. any of the same is thereof, irrespective of the fact carried on or conducted in con- that any one or more sections, junction with said fair, carnival, subsections, sentences, clauses, or other attraction hereinabove phrases, or words be declared,un- referred, to. constitutional or invalid. Section 2. Any person, firm or Section 7. This. ordinance shall ,,maiinta�g corporation , conduct- take effect and be in force from in or operating any transient and after the 5th day of October, fair, carnival, ferris-wheel, scen- 1934, and before the expiration ic-railway, merry-�go-round, swing, of fifteen (15) days after the chute-the-chutes, open air amuse- passage hereof, it shall be pub- ment device, traveling theatrical lished with the names of the or show or other life or similar members voting for and against exhibition or amusement without it for one (1) week in the first securing a permit as here- Pittsburg Poet-Dispatch, a.,news- in provided and without paying paper of. eneral circulation pub the license fee as,herein provided, lished in &e said County of Con- shall be guilty of a ;misdemeanor tra Costa, State of California. and upon conviction thereof shah Massed .and adopted this 4th day be punishable by a fine not ex- of September, 1934, by the fol - ceeding Five Hundred ($500.00) lowing vote: dollars, or by imprisonment in AYES: Supervisors Long, Cum- the county jail of the County of mings, Stow, Buchanan and Trem- Contra Costa, State of California, bath... for a period not- exceeding six NOES: Supervisors None.- ��6) months, or by both such fine ABSENT: Supervisors None. and imprisonment. W. J. BUCHA.NAN, Section A. It is hereby further Chairman of the Board of Super- provided that the Board of Su-. visors of the County of Contra pervisors, upon hearing applica- Costa, State of California. tion for permit may remit any ATTEST: S. C. WELLS, license fees herein provided and County Clerk and ex-officia Clerk authorize the issuance of a per. of the Board of Supervisors.