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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 54 OF AN ORDINANCE ENTITLED:
"AN ORDINANCE FIXING AND REGULATING THE LICENSE TAXES, AND MANNER AND
FORM OF GRANTING AND ISSUING SAME ON THE VARIOUS LINES OF BUSINESS,
TRADES, OCCUPATIONS, PROFESSIONS, VOCATIONS AND CALLINGS IN THE CITY
OF PADUCAH, KENTUCKY, AND PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR NON-PAYPENT THEREOF,
AND FOR VIOLATION THEREOF, AND MAKING IT UNLAWFUL TO ENGAGE IN ANY
SUCH LINES OF BUSINESS, TRADES, OCCUPATIONS, PROFESSIONS, VOCATIONS
AND CALLINGS 191THOUT FIRST PAYING THE LICENSE TAX AND PROCURING
LICENSES AS PROVIDED HEREIN; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT
THEREWITH, AND PROVIDING A SEPARABILITY CLAUSE", WHICH WAS ADOPTED
BY THE BOARD OF COPFUTESSIONERS ON DECEMBER 23, 1947, AND AMENDED ON
JANUARY 1, 1952.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF
PADUCAH, KENTUCKY: I
SECTION 1. That Section 54 of an ordinance containing the title
quoted above, which was adopted by the Board of Commissioners on
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December 23, 1947 and amended on January 1, 1952, be further amended
so that said section as amended shall read as follows:
"SECTION 54. Music Machines, Pin -ball machines and other amuse-
ment machines or devices. Any person owning, renting or operating
at any time during the calendar year, a music machine, pin -ball machine, I
or any other kind of an amusement machine or device, not enumerated
in or covered by other sections of this ordinance, shall be licensed
as amusement machine operators and shall pay an annual license tax under
Schedule F of Section 83, except that the minimum annual license taxes shall
be as follows:
(a) ;2.00 per machine or device costing less than five cents
M) to operate.
(b) $10.00 per machine br device costing five cents (5¢) or
more to operate.
It shall be unlawful to operate the machines or devices covered
by this section unless same are licensed, and unless a license stamp or
token evidencing the payment of the license tax is fixed to such
machine or device as may be directed by the City Treasurer.
All licenses issued under this section before July 1 of any
year shall be for a period of one (1) year, and all licenses issued
on or after July 1 of any year shall be issued for the remainder
of the year at one-half of the annual license fee.
No pin -ball or other amusement machine or device shall be
operated within five hundred feet of a public or private school."
SECTION 2. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict
herewith are, to the extent of such conflict, hereby repealed.
SECTION 3. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect
from and after its adoption.
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Passed by the Board of Commissioners February 12, 1957
Recorded by Sarah Thurman, City Clerk, February 12, 1957.
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