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Home My WebLink AboutORDINANCES - 05051947 - 0391 ORDINANCE NO. 391 AN ORDINANCE REQUIRI THE LICENSING OF ALL CAB=ALS, M. OR TRAVMJNG SHOWS -AUTHIN TEE COUNTY OF CONTRA STATE CALTYMM. AM TM=10 A MCENSE ra POR THE ISSUING OF PERUITS THEREFOR. The Board of Supervisors of the County of Contra Costa, State of California, do ordain as follows'* SECTION 1. Every person conducting,, managing, operating, or carrying on any transient fair, carnival, Terris-wheel, scenic- railway, merry-go-round, swing, ehute-the-chutes, open-air amuse- ment device, traveling theatrical or show or other like and similar exhibition and amusement within the county of Contra Costa, State of California, shall first obtain a permit from the Board of Super- visors thereof to hold or conduct the same, and shall pay in advance the following license fee: Seventy-five ($75.00) dollars per day, plus an additional five ($5.00) dollars per day for each and every separate show, conces- sion, attraction or exhibition, every ride or amusement device of any kind, and any other attraction or exhibition where any admission fee or any charge whatsoever is imposed upon the patrons of said at- traction or exhibition, when any of the same is carried on or con- ducted in conjunction with said fair, carnival, or other attraction hereinabove referred to. SECTION 2. Any person, firm or corporation,, maintaining, conducting or operating any transient fair, carnival, Ferris-wheel, scenic-railway, merry-go-round, swing, chute-the-chutes, open air amusement device , traveling theatrical or show or other like or sim- ilar exhibition or amusement without first securing a permit as here- in provided and without paying the license fee as herein provided, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be pun- ishable by a fine not exceeding Five Hundred (4500.00) dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail of the County of Contra Costa, State of California, for a period not exceeding six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. 1. .............-- SECTION 3. It is hereby further provided that the Board of Supervisors, upon hearing application for permit may remit any license fees herein provided and authorize the issuance of a permit without license fees in the event that any of the shove designated exhibitions or amusements herein referred to are given or are spon- sored by organizations whose principal purpose is charity or edu- cational benefits, or civic purposes or general welfare and public interests. SECTION 4. For each dap that any person, firm or corpor- ation shall maintain, conduct or operate any of the said amusement devices as herein provided, in violation of this ordinance, it shall constitute a separate offense and it shall be punished as a separate infraction as herein provided. SECTION 5. No portion of any public street, roadway, or highway shall be used for the purpose of conducting any such faire, carnival or other exhibition or amusement in this ordinance referred to, unless special permission is secured and that portion of a public street, roadway, or highway permitted to be so used shall be speci- fioally designated within said permit as being granted to the appli- cant for such use. SECTION B. Ordinance No. 225 entitled, "An Ordinance Re- quiring the Licensing of all Carnivals, Fairs, or Traveling Show► Within The County of Contra Costa, State of California, and Requiring a License Tax for the Issuing of Permits Therefor", is hereby re- pealed. SECTION 7. If any section or sub-section, sentence, clause, phrase or words of this ordinance for any reason is held unconstitu- tional or invalid, the decision holding the same unconstitutional or invalid shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this Ordinance. The Board of Supervisors hereby declare that they have passed this Ordinance and each section, sub-section, sentence, clause, phrase, and word thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, phrases, or words be declared unconstitutional or invalid. 2: SECTION 8. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after the 5th day of May, 1947, and before the expiration of fifteen (15) days after the passage hereof, it shall be published with the names of the members voting for and against it for one (1) week. in the "V _ ALLFZ EjQXEEg" a newspaper of general circulation published in the said County of Contra Costa, State of California. Passed and adopted this 5th day of May, 1947t by the folloving vote: AYES supervisors S. S. Ripley, H. L. Cummings, Ray S. Taylor, W. J. Buchanan, R. J. Trembath. NOES STjPMWISORS None. A,BSUT SUpEMSORS None. Ch9rman or the Board or 5upery sors of the County of Contra Costa, State of California. ATTEST: rf te0tTnty7Terk and ex-�oTficio MR of the Board of Supervisors* 3. STATE OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF CONTRA COSTA In the Matter of Affidavit of Publication .......... ......... ....... ................. 6293MAN*X 3ro. "I As 0"W"On JIMOV,mal" =0=1133M Af .................. ...... ................ .................... W2 0 STATE OF CALIFORNIA #s1C�rslRlrirs 7q-' County of Contra Costa Moard of: Sup*rvf*o of the 'Itt. of County or C*ntt*, Cobt44 Callfornta;. do ordain as follows., SECTION 1, Every person can- ....... ....being duly sworn, ducting, managing, operating, ivy ......... ......Q-............. sans veLrryin on any transient fair, f deposes and says, t t at all times herein nam d'he was and now is a citizen of the United States of America, over the age of eighteen way, merry-go-round, awingi chute- years, and a resident of said County of Contra Costa. That he is not, the-chvtea, opens-air amusement do- g. nor was he vice, travelintheatrical or show or at any of the times hereihafter named, a party to the other like and almllar. -zhibition and above entitled proceedings, or interested therein, and that all of said amusement within the county of Contra Costa. State of Colfornin, shall first obtain a permit from th- times he was, and now is the.�?141.�- � Board of Supervisors tberpof to b-l-i ................................t............ or conduct the same. and shall pa- Of a newspaper printed, published and cin- advance the following license fi�p. # Itty Piarreew ftvanty-five ($75-00) dollars per 'tat', Plud all'additional five ($5.4AI culated in said Contra Costa County, and as such... ...... dnlla�is per day for each and evomv torparate show, doncesslo", attrat tion or exhibition, every ride or ..................... had charge of all advertisements in said newspaper. immusemdat tlevice of any kind, and; Ply*tev is a. newspaper of general circa- nv other &ttr&etion or exblbitf�n That the laic Tait Vit Ny :whert any admission Me or anv lation in the said County 4'cufftra Costa, published for the dissemi- rharxe whatsoever to Imposed upon nation of local and telegraphic news and intelligence of a general the patrons of said attraction or ex hibitton, when any of theearns la' and - . character, having a bona fide subscription list of paying subscribers . carried on or conducted In conjune- and which has been established,printed and published in said county tion with said fidr. carnival. or for more than two years last past, and which is not devoted to the other attraction hereinabove refer- interests or published for the entertainment of a particular class, red to. SECTION 2. Any person, firm or profession, trade, calling, race or denomination, or any number corporation, maintaining. conduct- thereof. tnw or operating any transient fair, carnival, ferris-whool, seenic-rall- way. 'merry-go-round, swing, chute- That the ...... ..... -ic thehutes, open air amusement d*- .......... Mee. traveling theatrical or show or other like or similar eihibitlon or amustratnt without first *wurinor a ......... ....... ........ ...................... ......... ...... .......... Permit an herein provided and with- o.f which the annexed is a printed copy, was printed and published in out paying the license foe as,herein the regular and entire issue of every number of said paper during provided, shall, be guilty of a mts- the period and times of publication for.:'?. ';-KAe..consecutive weeks, demeanor andupon conviction there- of *ball be punishable by a fine -wA exceeding Five Hundred, (000.00) dollars, or by tmOrlsoument In the to-wit: from theAy.j.1�-21fat6day of.... ....._ gu aunty' of the County of Mntrs, 021, State of California,' for a period not exceeding six (4) months. to and until thea:_:.. ......... of................................ ........ or by both such fine and imprison- ment. both days included, and as often during said period as said paper SECTION S. It Itherebyf.urtb#r provided that the 10V W, 4 04L�Iffumr- visore. ima, )n for was published, to-wit: 0ow-4A W5 VA� fees coo .%'PU0q OX� the sense the............... ...... ............. .......... ............ .............................................. COP Are 41%lo ............ ....................... .......... ............................ 1 441010 Itool and ad- so ............ �ted , ------------ ..................................... ................... 10 ............. ........................ ............. .................... ........ elk Saw, POV 6A UD ............................. .......................................................... pq eqj 01 10T r svao! low I-Viso '911V� ou That said notice was published in the newspaper proper and '0 S]VO V .qq 1P not in a 1suppleme ty t (A A UT li .......... 1P 'Pole ---------- .... 0% 1610ONX -------------------- V� Subscribed and sworn to before me this !"moo. 6'Pj0'q 01 J* ............... .......................... of ZWW. - 19111------ G 0941V -AW 4 .......... --------------- ...................................... Notary public in and for the County of Contra Costa, State of California. 947