Amador ledger., 1901-06-21
Ordinance No. 1906.

purposes OF regulation and revenue, every kind
of lawful business, hereinafter specified. tran
sacted or carried on within the corporate limits
of the County of Amador, State of California,
and all shows, exhibitions and lawful games
carried on therein; fixing rates of license tax
upon the same, and providing for the collection
of the said license tax, by amending section 20
thereof.
The Board of Supervisors of the County of
Amador, State of California do ordain as
follows:
Section l. Section 20 of ordinance No 81, an
ordinance licensing for purposes of regulation
and revenue, every kind of lawful business
hereinafter specified transacted or carried on
within the corporate limits of the County of
Amador, State of California aid all shows
exhibitions and lawful games carried on there
in; fixing rates of license tax upon the same
and providing for the collection of the said
license tax, passed and approved by. the Board
of Supervisors of the said County of Amador
on the Bird day of July, 1899, is hereby amended
| to read as follows:
| Section %. 1t is hereby declared to be un-
lawful for any person, firm, corporation club or
association to establish. open, keep maintain
or carry on within the County of Amador any
bar store, dramshop, tipping place. stand or
any place where spirituouS malt. or fermented
| liquors. or wines. or any admixture thereof
are sold or given away by the glass, bottle or
| otherwise, in less quantities than one quart
| or for any person. firm, corporation, club or
association except as hereinafter provided) to
sell, conduct or engage in the business of sell
| ing. within the limits OF the County of Amador
any spurious, malt or fermented liquors or
Wines or any admixture thereof by the glass;
hottie or otherwise, in less quantities than one
quart, without having the permission and
license therefor. as in this section of said ordi-
| nance provided; provided further, that all per-
sons, firms corporations, clubs or associations
established and carrying on within the County
| of Amador on the first day of August, 1899, any
! bar store, dramshop, tippling place, stand or
1 an NIL ~
liquors, or wines or any admixture thereof. are
| sold or given away, shall be considered of hav
| ing permit as in this ordinance provided:
l. No license issued under any of the provis
ions of this section of said ordinance shall be
assignable or transferable, without the consent
of the Chairman of the Board of Supervisors
endorsed thereon, and only to such person, firm
corporation, club or association, as has obtain
ed from the Board of Supervisors the permits
sion hereinafter required, and complied in all
other respects with the requirements of this
ordinance.
2 No person, firm corporation club or asso-
citation shall have issued to him or them, the
license required by this section of said ordi-
nance, unless such person, firm, corporation
club or association. be of good moral charac-
ter, AMI first obtain permission, as provided
herein, by making application in writing to the
Board of Supervisors at a meeting thereof for
permission to obtain the license therein re-
quired.
The application in writing herein REQUIRED
shall contain and set forth:
First: The name and residence of the appli-
cant or applicants, and how long he or they
have resided in said County of Amador.
Second: The particular place for which
license is desired and the name of the owner
of the premises.
Third That the applicant or applicants are
| the only persons in any manner interested in
the business, asked to be licensed and that no
other person shall be in any way interested
| therein during the continuance of the per-
mission
Fourth Whether or not the applicant or
applicants have had permission or license
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| revoked during any time preceding his or their
present application Said application must be
verified by the affidavit of applicant appli-
cantS made before the Tax Collector or some
other officer authorized to administer oaths.
g. No order granting such permission shall
be made until the next regular meeting of the
Board OF Supervisors after the application and
recommendation me ntioned in the second sub
division of this section has been filed.
T. If after considering all the matters afore-
said, the Board of Supervisors shall find that
the applicant or applicants are proper persons
to carry on said business, and that the carry
ing on of said business at the place it is pro-
posed to be carried on will not be prejudicial
to the public good said Board may by reSolu-
tion grant the required permit which permit
shall remain in force for not more than one
year from the date of the same, and shall be
good only for the person, firm corporation club
or association, to whom the same is granted
and issued, and for the place named therein;
provided however that said permit shall not be
operative nor shall q license thereon be issued
under the provisions of this ordinance, until
the applicant or applicants therefor shall
have filed with the Clerk of the Board of Super
visorS and the same is approved by the Chair
man thereof good and sufficient bond, with at
least two sureties thereon in the sum of one
thousand dollars, conditioned that the appli-
cant or applicants, shall maintain such bust
ness in quiet, orderly and decent manner and
in compliance with the laws of the State of
California and the ordinances of the County of
Amador.
s. After said permit has been granted by
said Board and not before, and after the license
70 hor I<al
Tax Collector shall issue license to the per-
son or persons, firm, corporation, club or aSso-
citation, named in said permit which license
shall be authority to the person or persons,
firm, corporation, club or association, named
therein, to conduct his or their business at the
place named in the application for said license.
but shall not be authority for any other person
or persons, firm. corporation. club or associa-
ton, to conduct said business at the place
named in said application, or for the person or
persons, firm. corporation, club or association,
| to whom said license is issued, to conduct said
business in any other place.
9. Any person, firm. corporal ion, club or as
Soc1atlon, to whom such permit has been grant
ed, who does not conduct the business for
which such permit has been granted, in quiet,
orderly and reputable manner, or who commits
any breach of the peace or disturbance of the
public order or decorum by any tumultuous
rlotous or disorderly conduct, at the place or on
the premises where said business is conducted.
and for which said permit has been granted or
who sells, gives or furnishes at said place or
on SAID premises, any Intoxicating liquor,
splrituous malt or fermented liquor, or wine,
or any admiXture thereof, to any person ad-
dicted to the iGordInate use of Intoxicating
liquors, or to any person under the age OF
twenty-one years, or any intoxicated person
to be or remain at said place or upon said
premises, or who shall not obey and abide by
all the laws and ordinances now in force, or
which may hereafter be enacted, shall forfeit
such permit, and any and all licenses there
under issued or granted to said person. firm,
corporation, club or association, under the pro-
visions of said ordinance, and shall also for
felt any license that may have been issued
under such permit and the provisions of this
ordinance. to said person, firm, corporation,
club or association, subsequent to the filing
with the Board of Supervisors of the County of
Amador OF the complaint next hereinafter men
toned and provided for and no part of the
money paid for said forfeited licenses shall be
returned, but the same shall be forfeited to the
county.
Z. ANY elector Of the said County of Amador
may file with the Clerk of the Board of Super
visors of said county complaint against any
person, firm, corporation, club or association.
whom he has reason to believe is guilty of any
OF the acts or neglects specified in subdivision
of Section 20 of this ordinance, or who has
obtained a license by fraudulent representa-
tons which said complaint must be in writing,
verified as complaints in civil actions in this
State, and must specifically set forth apy
violation or violations of the provisions of this
ordinance, and any such acts or neglects of
which 1t may be claimed in said complaint
that said person. firm corporation, club or
association is or has been guilty. AT any time
after the filing of said complaint the said Board
of Supervisors shall fix a time for the hearing
thereof, and at the time so fixed shall investi.
gate the charge so made in said complaint
Notice Of the time so fixed for the hearing of
said complaint ana of the nature OF said COM
plant, shall be given by said Board to the
person, firm, corporation, club or association
SO complained against, at least five days be-
fore the time so fixed for the hearing of said
complaint. If on such investigation the said
Board shall find that the said complaint is we'll
founded, and that any charge or charges there
in contained are true, it shall so declare by
resolution, and shall by the same resolution
revoke the permit heretofore granted to said
person, firm, corporation, club or association,