5022 Penny ArcadesORDI:,ANC'E N0, 5022
Published in the Salina Journal November 21, 1942)
AN ORDINANCE re-ulating and providing for and requiring the payment of a
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tax for the operation of penny arcades and other places of
amusement and repealing certain ordinances or parts of ordinances of
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the City of Salina.
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BE IT ORDAIPED.by the Board of Commissioners of the City cf Salina, Kansas:
Section 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation
i to operate or maintain in the City of Salina, any place of amusement commonly
known as a 'penny arcade's or any Mace in which there is kept, operated or
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maintained amusement devices, including machines which exhibit or display
pictures, and came machines or devices, operated by the insertion of a penny
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or other coin, without first filing with the City Clerk an application for
license on a form to be furnished by the City Clerk, and securing from the
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Clerk a license for the operation of the same and paying the license
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fee provided for herein; Provided that no such place shall be operated or
maintained u;less a permit for the same shall be secured fro::, the Board of
Public Welfare.
Section 2. The license fee for the operation of any place of amusement
described in Section 1 of this ordinance shall be 4100.00 which shall be for
the period from the date such license is issued until December 31 next ensuing,
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provided, that for the remaining portion of the current year 1942, after the
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passage of this ordinance, the license tax shall. be 20 percent of the amount
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herein specified.
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Section 3, No gambling device or any machine or device commonly used or
which is desicned or susceptible for use as a gamblin` device or for the
operation of a game of chance shall be permitted, maintained or operated
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in any such place, and no machine or device shall be operated, maintained
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or kept in any such place with exhibits or by means of which are exhibited
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any lewd, indecent or immoral pictures, and the exhibition of any such
pictures in any such machine or device or otherwise in any .such place, or
any other violation of the terms of this ordinance, shall, :in addition to
any other penalty provided for herein, be r;rounds for the revocation of such
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license at the discretion of the Board of Commissioners, and any such license
shall be revoked by said Board if the Board of Public Vvelfare shall revoke
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or cancel any permit issued by it covering such place of business, and any
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such rermit may be revoked or cancelled by the Board of Pi bl.ic Welfare at
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any time for reasons which it deems sufficient, rrith or without notice.
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Section 4. Any person, firm or corporation, or any agent, employe or
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other representative thereof -.,,:ho shall violate or permit or direct the viola-
tion of any provision of this ordinance,shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and
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upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than 415.00 and not more than
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4100.00 or be prisoned not more than ten days, or shall be punished by both
such fine and inTrisonment, and each day mn which any such violation shall
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exist or continue shall be deemed to be a separate offense.
Section 5. That sub-secti-n 28 of Section 2 of Ordinance No. 1688, being
Section 14-135 Revised Ordinances 1939, and any other ordinances or parts thereof
specifically in conflict with the provisions of this ordinance be and the same are
hereby repealed.
Section 6. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its
publication in the official city paper.
Introduced, October 26, 1942
Passed, Nover.iber 1.6, 1942
B. A. Breon
Acting Ilayor
Attest: Chas. E. Banker
City Clerk
STATE OF KANSAS
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COU11TY OF SALINE
I, Chas. E. Banker, City Clerk of the City of Salina, Kansas, do hereby certify
that the above and fore7oing, is a true and correct copy of Ordinance No. 5022 passed
and approved by the Board of CoTwiissioners of, the City of Sal--na, November 16, 1942;
and a record of the vote on its final adol)ticn is found on page Journal No. 15.
City Clerk
(Published in the Salina Journal �L'1942)
ORDI.uANCE NO. 5022
AN ORDINANCE regulating and providing for and requiring the payment of
a license tax for the operation of penny arcades and other places
of amusement and repealing certain ordinances or parts of ordinances
of the City of Salina.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Board of Commissioners of the City of Salina, Kansas:
Section 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or
corporation to operate or maintain in the City of Salina, any place of
amusement commonly known as a "penny arcade" or any place in which there
is kept, operated or maintained amusement devices, including machines
which exhibit or display pictures, and game machines or devices, operated
by the insertion of a penny or other coin, without first filing vrith the
City Clerk an application for license on a form to be furnished by the
City Clerk, and securing from the City Clerk a license for the operation
of the same and paying the license fee provided for herein; Provided
that no such place shall be operated or maintained unless a permit for
the same shall be secured from the Board of Public Welfare.
Section 2. The license fee for the operation of any place of
amusement described in Section 1 of this ordinance shall be $100.00
which shall be for the period from the date such licdnse is issued
until December 31 next ensuing, provided, that for the remaining portion
of the current year 1942, after the passage of this ordinance, the license
tax shall be 20 percent of the amount herein specified.
Section 3. No gambling device or any machine or device co:rmonly
used or which is designed or susceptible for use as a gambling device
or for the operation of a game of chance shall be permitted, maintained
or operated in any such place, and no machine or device shall be operated,
maintained or kept in any such place with exhibits or by means of which
are exhibited any lewd, indecent or immoral pictures, and the exhibition
of any such _,pictures in any such :machine or device or otherwise in any
such place, or any other violation of the terms of this ordinance, shall,
in addition to any other penalty provided for herein, be grounds for the
revocation of such license at the discretion of the Board of Commissioners,
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and any such license shall be revoked by said Board if the Board of
Public Welfare shall revoke or cancel any permit issued by it covering
such place of business, and any such permit may be revoked or cancelled
by the Board of Public Welfare at any time for reasons which it deems
sufficient, with or without notice.
Section 4. Any person, firm or corporation, or any agent, employe
or other representative thereof who shall violate or permit or direct
the violation of any provision of this ordinance, shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than
415.00 and not more than $100.00 or be prisoned not more than ten days,
or shall be pdnished by both such fine and imprisonment, and each day
on which any such violation shall exist or continue shall be deemed to
be a separate offense.
Section 5. That sub -section 28 of Section 2 of Ordinance No. 1688,
being Section 14-135 Revised Ordinances 1939, and any other ordinances
or parts thereof specifically in conflict with the provisions of this
ordinance be and the same are hereby repealed.
Section 6. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from
and after its publication in the official city paper.
Introduced, October 26, 1942
Passed, November 16, 1942
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Attest: Acting Mayor
City Clerk