Ordinance - 1566ORDINANCE NO. 1566
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST
COVINA AMENDING THE WEST COVINA MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING
TO GAMES OF SKILL OR SCIENCE.
The City Council of the City of West Covina does ordain as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 5-83 (a) of the West Covina -Municipal Code
relating to Games of Skill or Science; application is hereby amended to read
as follows:
Section 5-83. APPLICATION.
"(a) Filing. The holder of an unclassified use permit for a
recreation center (private) or the holder of a business license
for the main use of the premises for an established business issued
by the city who desires to keep, maintain orposs-ess in his place
of business one or.more games of skill or science shall file an
application for a permit with the city license collector."
SECTION 2. Section 5-83 (b) of the West Covina Municipal Code
relating to Games of Skill or Science; application is hereby amended to read
as follows:
"(b) Signature and verification. Such application shall be filed
in the name of the person or business entity holding the unclassified
use permit or the holder of a business license for the main use of
the premises for an established business and shall be signed and
verified by an individual applicant, by a partner if a partnership,
and by a corporate officer if a corporation."
SECTION 3. Section 5-84 (a) of the West Covina Municipal Code
relating to an annual fee for Games of Skill or Science; is hereby amended to
• read as follows:
SECTION 5-84. FEES.
"(a) Generally. Each application required by this division shall
be accompanied by a nonrefundable annual permit fee to be established
by resolution of the City Council. If the applicant applies for
a permit for new or additional games of skill or science during any
year, the permit fee shall be due and payable immediately, and the
amount of the fee shall be determined by prorating the annual permit
fee on the basis of the number of quarters remaining in the calendar
year and including the quarter in which the application is filed."
SECTION 4. Section 5-84. (b) of the West Covina Municipal Code
relating to penalties for late payment is hereby amended to read as follows:
"(b) Penalties for .late payment. Whenever any permit fee required
by this part is not paid within thirty (30) days after January first,
a penalty of ten (10) percent of the amount due shall be imposed, and
an additional penalty of ten (10) percent of the original fee shall be
added at the close of business of the.last day of each calendar month
thereafter. Each penalty shall become part of the permit fee required
by this article. However, in no case shall the total penalty exceed
one hundred (100) percent of the original fee."
SECTION 5. Section 5-84 of the West Covina Municipal Code relating
10 to newly installed games of skill or science is hereby amended to add as follows:
"(c) Penalties for newly installed games of skill or science. In the
case of a newly installed game of skill or science at a fixed place of
business for which a permit is required, no penalty shall be imposed
if the fee shall be paid within fifteen (15) days after the date of
the installation of the games of skill or science. Otherwise the
penalty shall be imposed as in the case of any other games of skill
or science permit."
SECTION 6. Section 5-86 of the West Covina Municipal Code
relating to replacement fees is hereby amended to read as follows:
SEC,5-86. DUPLICATE PERMITS.
"A duplicate permit may be issued by the city license collector
to replace any permit previously issued under the provisions of
this division which has been lost or destroyed, upon the permittee
filing an affidavit attesting to such fact, and at the time of filing
such affidavit paying to the city license collector a duplicate permit
fee to be established by resolution of the City Council."
PASSED and APPROVED this 8th day of November 1982.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
City M k
• STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) ss
CITY OF WEST COVINA )
I, HELENE M. MOONEY, City Clerk of the City of West Covina, do
hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 1566 was regularly introduced
and placed upon its first reading at a regular meeting of the City Council on
the 8th day of November , 1982 That thereafter, said ordinance was duly
adopted and passed at a regular meeting of the City Council on the 8th day of
November , 1982 , by the following vote, to wit:
AYES: Councilmen: Bacon, Tennant, Shearer, Chappell , Tice
NOES: Councilmen: None
,A.B.SENT: Councilmen: None
AB.STA IN: Councilmen: None.
City Cle k
0 APPROVED AS TO FORM:
City Attorney