Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-03

by maintaining OF COlluuCVilS ouSh
business alone or in connectlon
with another business or businesses,
unless such person, firm, co-part-
nership, association, club or cor
poration shall first have obtained
from the City Of Ell Centro, H.
cense so to do as herein provlded
for.
SECTION II: Any person. firm'
co-partnership, association, CLUB OF
corporation desiring to engage IN
the business of maintaining or
conducting any game or games
played with cards not prohibited
bv law, or by ordinance OF this
city, may file an application with
the City Clerk of the City of Ell
Centro. Such application shall con-
tain the following statements ID the
name and address of the applicant,
and in event the applicant Is
co-partnership or an ASSOCIATION,
the names of the members there
of: and in event the applicant is
corporation, the principal place
of business of said corporation,
and the name and address OF the
managing agent thereof; 90 the
description of the premises where
in it is proposed to conduct such
business, sufficient to identify the
same, and the capacity in which
applicant occupies the same, name
", whether as owner, lessee or
otherwise; go whether applicant is
a citizen of the United States and
resident of the City OF Ell Gen.
tro: (4) the business last en-
gagged in by applicant and the place
where such business was conducted;
CD if applicant is an incorporat-
ed club, then whether such club
has paid its license fee to and is
in good standing with the State
of California. Said application shall
be verified by the applicant, pro-
vided that where applicant is an
association or corporation, then by
the managing agent there
of, and said application shall be
accompanied by deposit of money
equivalent to the license fee for
one month. Said application shall
thereupon be presented to the City
Council, and if granted, the Chief
of Police shall sign and issue a
license to the applicant named
therein for the period set forth
in license, subject to the conditions
provisions and requirements of this
ordinance.
SECTION III: For the license
herein provided the following fees
shall be charged: Where said busi-
ness is operated alone and not in
connection with any other busi-
ness or businesses $4,000 for the
first month or part thereof, and
$4,000 per month payable in ad-
vance for each succeeding month
thereafter, provided that in event
more than three tables are used
in the operation of said business,
then an additional fee of $500
per month per table shall be
paid. Where said business is oper-
ated in connection with another
business or other businesses, fee
in the sum of $4,000 for the first
month, or part thereof, shall be
paid, and fee of $4,000 per month
loi SelSll OuIIICtlllo lllOllOll
after payable in advance, provided
that where more than three tables
are used in the conduct of said
business, then an additional fee at
the rate of $500 per month per
table shall be paid.
SECTION w: The business for
which the license is granted shall
be maintained and conducted in a
lawful, peaceful and orderly man.
ner and no person under the age
of twenty-one years shall be per-
mitted to engage in any game or
games maintained or conducted by
said business, nor shall such person
be permitted to act as a bystander
at such games, nor to remain on
the premises where the same are
conducted; nor shall said business
be conducted between the hours
of twelve midnight and six a. m.
of each day.
SECTION v: The license herein
provided may be revoked by the
City Council for Misrepresentation
made in the application for VIOLA
ton of laws or ordinances govern
ing gambling, for loud, boisterous
or disorderly conduct, or breach
of the peace, and for failure to
observe or comply with any law
full requirement, respecting public
health or sanitation, housing, zon-
ing or other requirements lawfully
imposed by general law or by city
ordinance, or for permitting minors
to engage in the games conducted
in the maintenance of said busi-
ness.
SECTION VI: Every person who
violates any of the provisions of
this ordinance shall be guilty of
misdemeanor and upon the con-
viction thereof shall be punishable
by fine not exceeding $500 for the
first offense and by fine not ex-
ceeding 5000 or by imprisonment
in the City Jail of the City
of Ell Centro or in the
County Jail of the County of I'm
perial not exceeding three CD
months, or by both such fine and
imprisonment, for the second Of
fense
SECTION VII: All ordinances in
conflict herewith are hereby re-
pealed.
SECTION VIII: If any provi-
sion, paragraph, sentence clause
or phrase of this ordinance shall
for any reason be held invalid,
the City Council declare If they
had known of such defect they
would, nevertheless have passed