The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1914-07-16
legal Publications
ORDINANCE NO. 1T


ORDINANCE NO. lit
An ordinance to license and regulate
certain trades, businesses and oc-
equations in the City of Kennewick
and prescribing penalties for viola
ton and providing for manner of
collection.
The City Council of the City of
Kennewick do ordain as follows:
SECTION 1. 1t shall be unlawful
for any person,firm or corporation to
engage in, transact or carry on any
business within the corporate limits
of the City of Kennewick, for which a
license is by this Ordinance required,
without first having secured license
therefor in the manner herein pro-
vided; and the fees or rates for Ii
censes for such business, trades or oc-
equations are established as hereinaf-
ter set forth.
SECTION 2. Every circus, side
show, concert, sleight of hand per
Torrance, musical entertainment, eX-
hibition, wrestling match, skating
rink, or other public amusement here
after conducted within the City limits
of the City of Kennewick or within
one mile of the corporate limits there
of, shall be licensed at the following
rates, to-wit:
For any circus and menagerie COM
bined and side shows, exhibiting on
the same grounds, $4,000 per day;
for any show and exhibition commonly
called and known as a "dog and pony
show" the sum Of $500 per day;
for each skating rink, or roller skat-
ing rink, the sum of $500 per annum
and for wrestling match, the sum of
$500 per day; and for each and every
other show and exhibition of the kind
and character mentioned in this Sec
ton the sum of $500 for each day.
SECTION 3. Every person or as
ISOLATION of persons holding or manag-
ing public dance or dances within
the City to which an admission fee
shall be charged, shall, before hold
ing said dance, obtain a license
therefor and shall pay for such Ii
cense $1.00 per night or $4,000 per
annum, and such license may be
taken out by the year or by the day
at the option of the licensee, pro-
vided such license shall not be re-
quired for dances given for charit-
able purposes.
SECTION 4. A proprietor, man.
ager or agent Of any summer festi-
val, street fair or street carnival
held in any building, enclosure, tent
or other place to which an entrance
fee is charged shall pay a license fee
Of $500 per day, provided this Sec
ton shall not apply to any fair or
summer festival held for the purpose
of exhibiting local products.
SECTION 5. The license fee for
every riding gallery, commonly
called a merry-go-round, shall be
$500 per day; provided, however,
that a license fee for such riding
gallery or merry-go-round, if taken
out for ten days or more, shall be
$3.50 per day, and if taken out for
three months or more, shall be at the
rate Of $500 per month.
SECTION 6. The license fee for
the conduct of theatres, shows and
operas, motion picture shows, or
any performance given upon a stage
or in public building, where admis-
sions charged, shall be $4,000
per annum, or $500 for each per-
Torrance or entertainment; and may
be taken out by the year or by the
day, at the option of the licensee.
Provided such license shall not be
required for such performances Civ
en- wholly for the benefit of any local
religious, fraternal or educational
organization.
SECTION z. The license fee for
each of the following businesses shall
be as follows: For each knife or cane
rack, ring board or other similar de-
vice, $500 per week, or $500 per
day, if a license be taken out for
less than one week; for any ball rack
or other device for throwing balls or
other projectiles for a prize, $500
per day or $500 per week; for each
striking machine, lifting machine or
other device for testing strength
$500 per day or $500 per week; all
other games, exhibitions, plays or
shows to which an entrance fee is
charged, and not hereinbefore emu
merated and provided for shall pay a
license fee of $500 per day, or $500
month.
SECTION 8. Every person who
shall exhibit curiosity of any nat
ural or artificial freak, for which an
admission fee shall be charged, shall
pay a license fee of $500 per day or
$500 per week.
SECTION 9. Subdivision a. The
LICENSE lee IOr eaCn DlluarO C8Dle, pool
table and bowling alley kept for hire
within the limits of the City of Ken
newick, shall be $500 per annum for
each such billiard table, pool table or
bowling alley.
Subdivision b. It shall be unlaw-
full for any person, persons, firm or
corporation engaged in the business
of keeping pool or billiard hall to
permit persons under the age of
eighteen years to be or remain in
any place kept as billiard or pool
hall.
Subdivision c. Any person under
the age of eighteen years who shall
represent his age to be eighteen
years or more, for the purpose of
gaining admittance t. any billiard
or pool hall, shall be ueemed guilty
of misdemeanor, and shall be fined
upon conviction thereof, in any sum
not less than $1.00 nor more than
: $500.
! SECTION 10. The license fee 70,