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City approves license and fee increases

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[OCT. 22, 2003]  At last Monday evening's meeting the Lincoln City Council was presented and approved several ordinances regarding license and fee structures. The ordinance committee, led by chairman Steve Fuhrer with committee members O. "Buzz" Busby and Derrick Crane, has been hard at work reviewing ordinances that have outdated fees. The fees are not new, but each has increases that are now set in more accordance to the times. The increases will help boost city finances during this time when revenues have been falling off.

The committee has reviewed and revised seven ordinances. In the interest of time only four were presented.

Ordinance No. 569

Fees and licenses of video and mechanical amusement devices

Ordinance No. 570

Fees and licenses for peddlers

Ordinance No. 571

Fees and licenses for taxicabs

Ordinance No. 572

Fees and licenses for auctioneers, bill posters, itinerant merchants and junk dealers

[Jan Youngquist]

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[Text below posted as-is from scans of original documents.]

From Ordinance 569

VIDEO AMUSEMENT DEVICE: The term “video amusement device” is defined to be any machine which, upon insertion of a coin, trade-token, slug, or currency, operates or may be operated as a game or contest of skill or amusement of any kind or description with a video display and which contains no automatic pay-off device for the return of money or trade tokens or slugs or which makes no provisions whatever for the return of money to the player.

MECHANICAL AMUSEMENT DEVICE: The term “mechanical amusement device”, hereafter also referred to as “device” and “machine”, is defined to be any machine which, upon the insertion of a coin, trade-token, slug, or currency, operates or may be operated as a game or contest of skill or amusement of any kind or description, and which contains no automatic pay-off device for the return of money or trade-tokens or slugs or which makes no provision whatever for the return of money to the player. A mechanical amusement device is further defined as any machine, apparatus, or contrivance which is used or may be used as a game of skill and amusement wherein or whereby the player propels a ball, missile, dart, or other device by any force exerted by himself, or wherein or whereby the player initiates, employs, or directs any force generated by the machine and including mechanical musical devices commonly known as juke boxes or nickelodeons.

PROPRIETOR: A “proprietor” is defined to be any person, firm, association, or corporation owning, leasing or occupying any building, room, or establishment within the City wherein a video amusement device or mechanical amusement device is used or played or is placed for use or play or is exhibited for the purpose of use or play. (1960 Code, Sec. 2.16.010)

"3-3-2: LICENSE REQUIRED:

No person shall engage in the business of a proprietor as herein defined within the City without first having obtained a license therefor from the City for which the following license fee shall be charged:

A. Each video amusement device:

1. For the period of May 1, 2004, through April 30, 2005 - $50.00 for each such video amusement device

2. For the period of May 1, 2005, through April 30, 2006 - $75.00 for each such video amusement device

3. For the period of May 1, 2006 and thereafter - $100.00 per year for each such video amusement device

B. Each mechanical amusement device:

1. For the period of May 1, 2004, through April 30, 2005 - $25.00 for each such mechanical
amusement device

2. For the period of May 1, 2005, through April 30, 2006 - $35.00 for each such mechanical
amusement device

3. For the period of May 1, 2006 and thereafter - $50.00 per year for each such mechanical
amusement device.”
 

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From Ordinance 570

"3-10-3: LICENSE FEES: The license fees to be charged for licenses to peddle in the City, each payable in advance, are hereby fixed and established as follows:
A. For the period of May 1, 2004, to April 30, 2005:

$50.00 per week or any part thereof for one peddler working alone
 


For each additional person or peddler accompanying and working with a peddler licensed at the foregoing rate, the sum of $25.00 per week or any part thereof

B. For the period of May 1, 2005, to April 30, 2006:

$75.00 per week or any part thereof for one peddler working alone

For each additional person or peddler accompanying and working with a peddler licensed at the foregoing rate, the sum of $50.00 per week or any part thereof

C. For the period of May 1, 2006, and each year thereafter:

$100.00 per week or any part thereof for one peddler working alone

For each additional person or peddler accompanying and working with a peddler licensed at the foregoing rate, the sum of $75.00 per week or any part thereof

No license shall be issued to extend beyond April 30th the fiscal year in which the license is issued.”
 

From Ordinance 571

"3-12-5: FEES: Annual license fees shall be charged by the City to each person applying for and securing a license for the operation of a taxicab in the sum of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for each such taxicab. Such license fee shall be in lieu of any fees heretofore established which now or may hereafter be collected by the City. All license fees shall be due and payable on May 1st of each and every year. No public vehicle license shall be issued until after all terms, provisions, and conditions of this Chapter have been complied with and until after the payment of the license fee is made. (1960 Code, Sec. 2.42.060)"

 

From Ordinance 572

 

Auctioneers: An annual fee from the period of May 1st of each year through the following April 30th, or any part thereof - the amount of $100.00

Auction Sales: To sell and dispose of a stock of books, clothing, drugs, dry goods, jewelry, boots and shoes, or any other stock of goods, wares, and merchandise at public auction, per day - $20.00

Itinerant Merchants, per day in advance - $25.00

Junk or Salvage Operators, Dealers, or Haulers, per year, beginning May 1st of each year through the following April 30th of each year, or any part thereof - $50.00

Pawnbrokers, per year, beginning May 1st of each year through the following April 30th of each year, or any part thereof - $50.00”

2. That should any clause, sentence, or paragraph of the above-noted Ordinance be declared invalid by any Court of competent jurisdiction, such invalidity shall not effect any other portion of said Ordinance.

3. That this Ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage, approval, and publication in pamphlet form as provided by law.

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