The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1916-03-09
ORDINANCE NO. 191

ORDINANCE NO. 191
AN ORDINANCE TO LICENSE AND
REGULATE THE SALE OF NON
INTOXICATING DRINKS IN THE
CITY OF KENNEWICK, AND
PRESCRIBING PENALTIES FOR
VIOLATION, AND PROVIDING
CENSE IN CERTAIN CASES:
Kennewick do ordain as follows:
Section 1: The phrase "non.intox-
icating drinks" wherever used in this
ordinance shall be held and construed
to include any and all kinds of drinks
or liquids, the sale of which is not pro-
hibited by Ordinance No. 100, of the
City of Kennewick, or Initiative Meas
ure No. 8 of the State Of Washington,
either or both.
Section 2. The word "person"
wherever used in this ordinance shall
be held to mean and construed to in
clude natural persons, firms, co-part-
nerships and corporations, and all as
sociations Of natural persons, whether
acting by themselves or by servant,
agent or employee; provided, it shall
not include lodges, churches or charit-
able institutions.
Section 3. It shall be unlawful for
any person within the corporate linn
its Of the City of Kennewick to sell,
barter, exchange, furnish or otherwise
dispose of any Misunderstanding drink
with the intent to sell, barter, or ex-
change the same without first having
secured license therefor in the man.
ner herein provided.
Section 4. Such license shall be is
sued in the name of the City of Ken
newick by the City Clerk upon the re-
ceipt of two dollars and fifty cents
$3.50 from the applicant for such Ii
cense, and shall authorize only the
person named as icensee therein to
carry on or engage in the business of
selling, bartering or exchanging nom
intoxicating drinks for q period Of not
to exceed one year; provided that any
license issued during 1916 or any year
thereafter shall be effective only un-
til the 31st day of December, inclusive
of the year in which such license is
issued.
Section 5. All licenses issued in
pursuance to this ordinance may be
transferred only with the approval Of
the City Clerk.
Section 6. Every person who shall
sell, barter, or exchange, or attempt
to sell, barter or exchange any nom
Intoxicating drink without first hav-
ing obtained license as herein pro-
vided shall be guilty Of a misdemean-
or, and upon conviction thereof shall
be fined in any sum not less than ten
dollars $4,000 and not more than
one hundred dollars ($100.00).
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license shall have been issued in ac-
cordance with this ordinance shall be
adjudged guilty, by court of compe-
tent jurisdiction, of having violated
any Of the provisions of Ordinance
No. 100 of the City of Kennewick, or
Initiative Measure No. 8 of the State
of Washington, either or both, the Ii
cense issued to such person shall i'm
mediately become null and void and
no license thereafter shall be issued to
such person or to any firm or corpora
ton in which such person may be IN
terested for a period Of one year from
the date of the revocation of such IL
cenSe.
Section 8. This ordinance shall be
in full force and effect five days after
its passage, approval and publication
in the official newspaper of the City
of Kennewick.
Passed by the City Council this 7th
day of March, 1916.
Approved this 9Th day Of March,
1916. L. E. JOHNSON, Mayor.
Attest: M. E. SOTH, City Clerk.