Ordinance No. 6701
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ORDINANCE NO. 670
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF VERNON REPEALING SECTIONS 2 AND 3
OF ORDINANCE NO. 652 OF SAID CITY.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF VERNON DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1: That Sections 2 and 3 of Ordinance No.
652 of the City of Vernon, amending Ordinance No. 598, be and
the same are hereby repealed.
Section 2: That all other sections of Ordinance No.
652 not hereby expressly repealed remain in full force and effect.
Section 3: There being no newspaper printed, pub-
lished and circulated in the City of Vernon, the City Clerk is
hereby directed to certify to the passage of this Ordinance and
shall post same, or cause same to be posted, in three of the
most public places in the City of Vernon, to wit: The northwest
corner of 38th Street and Santa Fe Avenue; the northeast corner
of Leonis Boulevard and Pacific Boulevard; and on the bulletin
board in the lobby of the City Hall of said City, located at
1.305 Santa Fe Avenue, all in the City of Vernon; that this
Ordinance shall be in full force and effect thirty (30) days from
and after the date of posting.
ADOPTED and APPROVED this t day o f
1954.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA
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COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES )
I, G. A. ANDERSON, City Clerk of the City of Vernon,
do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 670 was duly
and regularly introduced at a regular meeting of the City
Council of the City of Vernon held on the /6 day of �`t , k
1954, and thereafter finally adopted at a regular meeting of
said City Council held on the day of 1954,
by the following vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEN
NOES: COUNCILMEN
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN
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AFFIDAVIT OF POSTING
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGEt,FS ) s s .
CITY OF VERNON
I, G. A. ANDERSON, City Clerk of the City of Vernon,
do hereby certify that I did, on the /s/ day of
1954, post three copies of Ordinance No. 670, one in each of the
following places, to wit: At the northwest corner of 38th Street
and Santa Fe Avenue, at the northeast corner of Leonis Boulevard
and Pacific Boulevard, and the bulletin board in the lobby of
the City Hall located at 4305 Santa Fe Avenue, in said City,
there being no newspaper of general circulation printed and
published in the City of Vernon.
Signed this 4 Y
day of
1954.
G. A. ANDERSON
City Clerk, City of Vernon
Subscribe d and sworn to befo me
this i 'l/ / day of 1954.
Not =ry Public in and for he County
of Los Angeles, State of 'alifornia.
My Commission Expire* Nue 241 4.9*
SUPPORTING
DOCUMENTS
R. J. FURLONG, MAYOR
CITY COUNCIL
G. H. ANDERSON
J. M. PDXON
C. H. MAILLIARD
C. W. TROWBRIDGE
TELEPHONES
CITY CLERK LAFAYETTE 8878
POLICE DEPT. JEFFERSON 5287
ENGR. DEPT. LAFAYETTE 0946
FIRE DEPT. KIMBALL 2522
CITY HALL
4305 SANTA FE AVENUE
VERNON 58, CALIFORNIA
March 3, 1954
City Council
4305 Santa Fe Avenue
Vernon 58, California
Re: Coin vending machines
OFFICERS
G. A. ANDERSON, CITY CLERK
V. R. PDXON, TREASURER
CARSON B. HUBBARD, CITY ATTORNEY
W. B. HOLLINGWORTH. CITY ENGINEER
ERNEST GILES, CHIEF OF POLICE
DR. C. E. NEMETHI, HEALTH OFFICER
F. H. DONNELLY, FIRE CHIEF
HASKINS & SELLS, AUDITORS
J. B. MOORE, ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT
IN REPLY REFER TO:
John B. Moore
2636 Leonis Blvd.
LOgan 8 -3361
To the Honorable City Council:
The above subject has received extended treatment in the past,
resulting in the passage of Ordinance No. 652, imposing an
annual license tax of $7.50 on every cigarette vending machine,
and $2 per year on 1 to 5 -cent operated and $6 per year on
5 -cent or over operated merchandise vending machines.
Since the enactment of Ordinance 652, representatives of coin
vending interests have called our attention to a California
Supreme Court case which tends to throw some doubt upon the
validity of a so- called "per machine" type of tax. The prac-
tical consideration involved, however, is the fact that the
amount of revenue to be derived from the taxation of vending
machines is not sufficient as a revenue source when compared
to the cost and difficulty of administering such a tax. The
City Clerk estimates that something in the vicinity of $500 per
year would be grossed from such a tax, but that the expenditure
of time on the part of the License Tax Clerk would be excessive
in relation to the amount to be realized.
The Chief of Police is apprehensive over another aspect of
the cigarette vending machine problem. He reports that in
times past, where cigarette machines were placed in locations
where they were not adequately supervised and were easily ac-
cessible to minors, children of highschool age and under have
found it easy to operate the machines and obtain cigarettes.
It is the desire of the Chief of Police that an ordinance be
devised which will make it necessary for persons having or
permitting cigarette machines on their premises to place them
in such a way that they will not be subject to being operated
by minors without being observed by the proprietor or person
CITY OF VERNON CALIFORNIA
City Council
IN REPLY REFER TO:
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in charge and that attendants in public places be made re-
sponsible for seeing that minors under a specified age are
not allowed the use of the machines. This problem is of
course not directly involved in the question of whether or
not the taxation of such machines is worthwhile, but is a re-
lated subject.
From the foregoing discussion the following is suggested:
1. That Sections 2 and 3 of Ordinance No. 652,
"An Ordinance of the City of Vernon Amending
Ordinance No. 598 by Adding Section 25.11
Fixing License on Coin Vending Machines," be
repealed, thereby bringing about a cessation
of the taxation of cigarette and merchandise
vending machines within the City of Vernon;
and
2. That a new ordinance covering the use of tobacco
vending machines, and designed to cover the problem
raised by the Chief of Police, be enacted.
JBM:dme
cc: City Attorney
City Clerk
Chief of Police
Yours very truly,
John B. Moore
A•w nistrative Assistant
to the City Council
CITY OF VERNON
CALIFORNIA
March 3, 1954
City Council
4305 Santa Fe Avenue
Vernon 58, California
John B. Moore
2636 Leonia Blvd.
LOgan 8 -3361
Re: Coin vending machines
To the Honorable City Council://
The above subject has recei
resulting in the passage of
annual license tax of $7.50 od\.
and $2 per year on 1 to nt
5-cent or over opera a -e
d treatment in the past,
No. 652, imposing an
cigarette vending machine,
ated and $6 per year on
vending machines.
Since the enactments f Ordinate 652, representatives of coin
vending interests hja a called ur attention to a California
Supreme Court case ich ten to throw some doubt upon the
validity of a .s9.- calLed. "pe achine" type of tax. The prac-
tical consij -dertt -iron iiivaiod, however, is the fact that the
amount of/ivenue to be derived from the taxation of vending
machines not sufficient as a revenue source when compared
to the co t and difOculty of administering such a tax. The
City ClerC\estimate 'that something in the vicinity of $500 per
year would. `Ike gro d from such a tax, but that the expenditure
of time on %.tie-- y..-t of the License Tax Clerk would be excessive
in relation to`ie amount to be realized.
The Chief of Police is apprehensive over another aspect of
the cigarette vending machine problem. He reports that in
times past, where cigarette machines were placed in locations
where they were not adequately supervised and were easily ac-
cessible to minors, children of highschool age and under have
found it easy to operate the machines and obtain cigarettes.
It is the desire of the Chief of P lice that an ordinance be
devised which will make it necessary for persons having or
permitting cigarette machines on their premises to place them
in such a way that they will not be subject to being operated
by minors without being observed by the proprietor or person
City Council 2- 3 Mar 54
in charge and that attendants in public places be made re-
sponsible for seeing that minors under a specified age are
not allowed the use of the machines. This problem is of
course not directly involved in the question of whether or
not the taxation of such machines is worthwhile, but is a re-
lated subject,
From the foregoing discussion the following is suggested:
1. That Sections 2 and 3 of Ordinance No. 652,
"An Ordinance of the City of Vernon ,mending
Ordinance No. 598 by Adding Section 25.11
Fixing License on Coin Vending Machines," be
repealed, thereby bringing about a cessation
of the taxation of cigarette and merchandise
vending machines within the City of Vernon;
and
2. That a new ordinance covering the use of tobacco
vending machines and designed to cover the problem
raised by the Chief of Police, be enacted.
Yours very truly,
John B. Moore
Administrative Assistant
to the City Council
JBMdse
cc City Attorney
City Clerk✓
Chief of Police
ORDINANCE NO. 652
AN ORDINANCE Of THE CITY OF VERNON AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 598 BY ADDING
SLOTION 25.11 FIXING LICENSE ON COIN VENDING MACHINES.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY Or' VERNON DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOW S:
That Ordinance NQ, 598 be amended by adding thereto Section 25.11
to read as follows:
SECTION 25.11 COIN VENDING AMUSEMENT, SKILL OR SERVICE MACHINES OR
DEVICES.
"Every person engaged in the business of operating coin vending,
amusement, skill or service machines or devices shall nay a license fee
tc the City of Vernon, as follows:
Section 1; "For every such machine operated within the City of
Vernon for the purpose of furnishing amusement, testing the skill of
any person or supplying a contest to any person, the sum of 25 per
year or any portion thereof for each machine or device, The foregoing
shall apply to, without being limited to, coin - operated music machines
or devices.
Section 2: "For every such cigarette vending machine onereted
within the City of Vernon, the sum of $7,50 per yea r. or any portion
thereof for each machine or device,
Sections: "For Avery such machine operated within the City of
Vernon for the nurnose of vending merchandise, where no skill or amuse-
ment is involved, following license fees shall a.pnly:
K,
1 to 5 cents operate - `2, per year or any portion thereof
for each machine or device.
5 cents or over operated - 6 per year or any portion thereof
for each machine or device.
Section it; "No person, firm or corporation shall maintain any coin
vending, amusement, skill or service machine or device within the City
of Vernon without maintaining thereon et all times, in a. conspicuous
place, a stamp or label or certificate of license which shall be issued
and supplied by the City Clerk upon payment of the above license fee,
which stamp or label or certificate shall indicate the number of said
license,- together with the date of expiration thereof.
Section 5: "In the event any duly ouelified officer of the City
of Vernon finds any such machine or device being maintained in the City
of Vernon without such stamp or label thereon or without such label in-
dicating the facts as above provided, it shall be his duty to seal the
same, such seal to contain a notice to the effect that it shall be un-
lawful for any person to operste said machine without first having com-
plied with the license requirements of this ordinance. Such notice
shall not be removed except by an authorized representative of the City
Clerk's department or the Police Department of the City of Vernon, nor
until such time as the machine or device is properly licensed. Every
owner or operator, or other person who, after such notice or ettachment
of such seal, uses or operates such machine, device, apparatus or equip-
ment before the same is licensed as hereinebove set forth, or who
defaces, destroys or removes any such notice or seal without authority
from the City Clerk or Police Department of the City of Vernon, shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor."
Section 6: No license for any vending machine shall be issued
until application therefor has been made to the City Council upon such
form, and the giving of such information, as the City Council may re-
quire, accompanied by the license fee provided for herein.
Section 7: Nothing in this ordinance shall be construed as af-
fecting or limiting the effect of Ordinance No. 273 of the City of
Vernon.
Section 8: There being no newspaper printed, published and cir-
o1.71 ''ed in bile City of Vernon; the City Clerk 1.s hereby aj.rected t^
certify to the passage of this ordinance and shall post the same: or
o'ause the same to be posted in three of the most public places in the
City of Vernon, to wit: The northwest corner of 38th Street and Santa
Fe Avenue, the northwest corner of 37th Street and Sante Fe Avenue,
and the Bulletin Board in the lobby of the City Hall of Vernon, lo-
cated at 4305 Santa Fe Avenue, and that immediately upon the passage
and posting thereof this ordinance shall be in full force and effect.