Ordinance 1274 ORDINANCE NO. 1274
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 17.7 OF
"THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH,
FLORIDA, 1950" .
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH,
FLORIDA:
SECTION 1: That Section 17.7 of "The Code of the City of Miami
Beach, Florida, 1950" , reading as follows :
"Sec . 17.7. Regulations concerning music boxes,
mechanical phonographs, marble machines
and other coin-operated machines, etc .
Each and every music box, mechanical phonograph,
console, juke box, marble machine, device of skill,
automatic coin game/or other similar machines, games
or devices operated for profit, the maintenance and
operation of which is licensed by this chapter, shall
at all times have posted thereon conspicuously and
legibly the name, address and telephone number of the
person selling, leasing or renting such machine or
device. The city clerk is hereby authorized and
directed to take immediate possession of any machine
or device, licensed or unlicensed, which does not
conform to the requirements of this section or which
does not have affixed thereto the serially numbered
metal tag provided for and required by Section 17.16
of this Code, and to cancel the license for the same,
if it be licensed, and to sell same at public auction
after one publication of notice of such sale, which
notice shall be published in a local newspaper at least
ten days prior to the holding of such sale. The proceeds
of such sale shall be paid by the city clerk into the
city treasury. At any time prior to the holding of
such sale, the person selling, leasing or renting such
machine or device may, upon proof of ownership as
evidenced by bill of sale or other evidence satisfactory
to the city clerk, obtain such machine or device upon
payment to the city clerk of a sum equal to the annual
license tax for such machine or device, together with
all costs and expenses incurred by the city clerk for
the transportation, storage and publication of notice,
if any, in connection with the confiscation of such
machine or device, which payment shall also entitle
such owner to a license for the machine or device for the
remainder of the current license year.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of this
Chapter for any person to use or operate or permit to
be used or operated, within his place of business any
such machine, game or device which does not have affixed
to the said machine, game or device the serially
numbered metal tag provided for and required by Section
17.16 of this Code. "
be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 17.7. Regulations concerning music boxes,
mechanical phonographs, marble machines
and other coin-operated machines, etc.
Each and every music box, mechanical phonograph,
console, juke box, marble machine, device ,of skill,
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OFFICE OF CITY ATTORNEY - CITY HALL - MIAMI BEACH 39, FLORIDA
automatic coin game or other similar machines, games
or devices operated for profit, the maintenance and
operation of which is licensed by this chapter, shall
. at all times have posted thereon conspicuously and
legibly the name, address and telephone number of the
person selling, leasing or renting such machine or
device. The city clerk is hereby authorized and
directed to take immediate possession of any machine
or device, licensed or unlicensed, which does not
conform to the requirements of this section or which
does not have affixed thereto the serially numbered
metal tag provided for and required by Section 17.16
of this Code, and to cancel the license for the same,
if it be licensed, and to sell same at public auction
after one publication of notice of such sale, which
notice shall be published in a local newspaper at least
ten days prior to the holding of such sale. The proceeds
of such sale shall be paid by the city clerk into the
city treasury. At any time prior to the holding of such
sale, the person selling, leasing or renting such machine
or device may, upon proof of ownership as evidenced by
bill of sale or other evidence satisfactory to the city
clerk, obtain such machine or device upon payment to
the city clerk of a sum equal to the annual license tax
for such machine or device, together with a fee of
twenty-five dollars ($25.00) in addition to all costs
and expenses incurred by the city clerk for the trans-
portation, storage and publication of notice, if any,
in connection with the confiscation of such machine or
device, which payment shall also entitle such owner to
a license for the machine or device for the remainder
of the current license year.
It shall be unlawful and a violation of this
Chapter for any person to use or operate or permit to
be used or operated, within his place of business any
such machine, game or device which does not have affixed
to the said machine, game or device the serially numbered
metal tag prcvided for and required by Section 17.16 of
this Code. '
SECTION 2: That all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict
herewith be and the same are hereby repealed.
SECTION 3: That this ordinance shall go into effect immediately
upon its passage and posting as required • law.
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PASSED AND ADOPTED this • h day of Novembeit A. 0T 1957.
Vice ' ayor
Attest:
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1st reading - October 16, 1957
2nd reading - October 16, 1957
3rd reading - November 6, 1957
POSTED - November 6, 1957
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OFFICE OF CITY ATTORNEY - CITY HALL - MIAMI BEACH 39, FLORIDA
STATE OF FLORIDA
COUNTY OF DADE:
I, R. WM. L. JOHNSON, City Clerk in and for the City
of Miami Beach, Florida, do hereby certify that Ordinance
No. 1274 , entitled:
"AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 17.7 OF 'THE CODE
OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH, FLORIDA, 1950, "
having been passed and adopted by the City Council of the City
of Miami Beach, Florida, has been posted by me in three conspicuous
places in the City of Miami Beach, one of which was at the door of
the City Hall in said City on the 6th day of November, 1957
and that said Ordinance remained posted for a period of at least
thirty days in accordance with the requirements of the City Charter
of the said City of Miami Beach.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the official seal of the City of Miami Beach, Florida,
on this the 18th day of December, A.D. 1957 .
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