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HomeMy WebLinkAbout0006 ORDINANCE No.6. AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE LICENSEING OF THE SALE OF LIQUORS, F'OR THE PURPOSE OF REGULATION AND REVENUE AND PROVIDING PENALTIES F'OR SELLING LIQUORS WITHOUT LICENSE. THE BOAlID OF TRUSTEES OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA DO OJIDAIN AS FOLLOWS: It shall be and it is hereby made unlawful for any person, firm, association or corporation to sell or to conduct the business of selling any malt or spirituous liquors at retail either for him-self or for them-selves or for or in behalf of any other person or persons, firm, association or corporation within the corporate limits of the City of Arcadia without having first procured or taken out a license from the City of Arcadia for such purpose, and any person who either for him-self, or as the agent, employee or representative of any other person or persons, firm association or corporation shall sell or con- duct the business of selling any malt or spirituous liquors at retail without such license shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not less than Fifty Dollars ($50.00) nor no more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or by imprisonment not less than ten days nor more than ninety days or by both such fine and imprisonment. Any person who either for him-self or as the agent, employee or representative of any other person, or persons, firm, association or corporation shall sell or conduct the business of selling any malt or spirituous liquors without first having first procured a license as hereinbefore provided for shall be liable to the City of Arcadia in an action in the Recorders Court for the recovery of the amount of the re- quired license and costs of suit. Every person, firm, association, 01' corporation that shall hereafter sell or conduct the business of selling any malt or spirituous liquors at retail within the corporate limits of the City of Arcadia shall pay a license tax, payable in advance of Forty Dollars ($40.00). The Monthly license tax, herein provided for shall be due and payable on the first of each and every Month and every person taking out - 1 - O/1.CiVY2tvnLL It,. ~ a license in less than thirty days after the first of each and every Month must pay the full amount of the Monthly license for that Month. The Tax and License collector of the City must on the first day of each and every Month turn over to the Clerk of .the City all licenses for the last precedeing month which he was able to c oHect, and a list of the delinquent persons, and he shall on the Saturday of each week pay to the City Treasurer, all the moneys collected by him during such week. The amount collected each Month must be reported by the Tax and License collector to the Board of Trustees at the first meeting of the Board after the close of such Month together with a statement of the amount delinquent and from whom. The Clerk of the City shall issue a proper license in accord- ance with the provisions of this Ordinance to each person known to him to be liable to such license tax, which license must be signed by the President of the Board of Trustees and the Clerk of the City and attest- ed by the common seal of the City and on or before the first day of each Month he mlwt deliver the said licenses to the Tax and License collector for collection. The said Tax and License collector shall re- ceipt to the Clerk for the full amo-g.nt of the several licenses deliver- ed to him for collection and proceed at once to collect the same. Upon the receipt by the Clerk of the City of uncollected Licenses turned over to him by the Tax and License collector, he must report the same to the Board of Trustees who shall at once direct an attorney, employed by the Board of Trustees for that purpose to collect the same by suit or otherwise or to institute crimnal action against the said delinquent party or parties or to bring both civil and crimnal actions agaJ.nst delinquent party or parties as he may see fit in the exercise of his sound discretion. This Act shall take effect on the Thirtieth day of September, 1903. The above Ordinance was passed by the affirmative vote of at least three Trustees, and is signed and approved this 9th, day of Sept- ember, 1903. E. J. BALDWIN President of the Board of Trustees. ATTEST: J. P. CA VALLIER Gity Glerk - 2 - OM/(vnCt/l'lCL J1{), I: