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ORDINANCE NO. 678,
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA,
AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 612 OF SAID CITY, PROVIDING FOR
PAYMENT OF TAXES FOR ADMISSION TO PLACES AT WHICH HORSE
RACING, OR HARNESS HORSE RACING, MEETINGS ARE HELD.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA,
DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS::
SECTION 1. That Section 1 of Ordinance No. 612 of the
City of Arcadia, entitled "An Ordinance of the City Couno~]
of the City C)f Arcadia, California, providing tOI' payment of:
taxes for admission to places at which horse racing or harness:
horse racing meetings are held", adopted NovembeI' 19, 1946, be,
and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows::
"SECTION 1. (a) There shall be levied, asessed,
collected and paid, a tax ot ten cents ($.10); tor
each charge of forty cents; ($.40) or more paidl
for admission of one person for one meeting,' t~
any place at which horse racing meetings, OI' harness
horse racing meetings, are held or conducted within v
this city, including admission by season ticket OI'
subscription.
(b) In the case of persons (except
bona fide employees of the person, firm cor-
pOI'ation or association conducting such meeting,
municipa,l officers on official business, OI'
otheI' persons whose admission to such place$
is required for the performance of some duty to,
or work for, such person, fiI'm corporation or
association): admitted free, or at reduced rates,
to such places, at which horse racing meetings
or harness horse racing meetings are held or
conducted within this city, at any time when,
anCl unde:[' circumstances under which, an admis-
sian charge is made to other persons, an
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equlvalent tax" shall be collected, based on the
prlce so charged to other persons for the same
or slml1ar accommodatlons to be pald by the
persons so admitted."
SECTION~ That sald Ordlnance No. 612 of the Clty
of Aro's.dla be and the same ls hereby amended by adding,;
thereto a new seatlon to be numbered Sectlon 2A whlch shall
follow lmmediately after Sectlon 2 of sald Ordlnance and shall
read_ as follows>:
"SECTION 2A. It ls provlded, however, that wlth refer-
ence to taxable admlsslons to such places, whlch~
are made upon season or other pass books entltllng
the holder thereof to admlsslon on all or any of
the days durlng whlch any meetlng ls held, such
accountlng or statement shall be made as a part of,
and at the same tlme that the last accountlng for
such meet ls to be rendered and made, as herein-
above set forth. Thls provls0 ls lnserted so
that the tax' lmposed hereby may be determlned,
computed and pald on the basis of the actual:,
taxable admlsslons under such season or other pass:
bOOks, rather than upon the potentlal rlghts of
the holder thereof to admissions thereunder".
SECTION ;~ The Clty Clerk shall certlfy to the adoptlon
of this Ordinance and prior to the expiration of fifteen (15): days]
from the pass!lge thereof, shall cause the same to be publlshed,
once ln the AI'cadla Trlbune and Arcadla News, a newspaper of general
clrculatlon ln the Clty of Arcadla, and thirty (30) days from and
after the flneQ~assage thereof sald Ordlnance shall take effect
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and be in force.
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance was adopted
at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Arcadia,
held on the 21st day of October, 1947~ by the affirmative vote'
of at least three Councilmen, to wit:,
NOES:
Councilmen Adcock, Leeper, Nugent, Ormsby and Russell
None
AYESt
ABSENT:: None
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City of Arcadia
SIGNED ~md APPROVED this 21st day of October, 1947~
ChJ.#~
Mayor of the City,of Arcadia
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