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July 18, 2000
ORDINANCE NO. 6290
AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND AUGUSTA-RICHMOND
COUNTY CODE ~ 6-6-45(a)(3) SO AS TO DEFINE AN
ARCADE; TO AMEND ~ 6-6-45(b)(1) BY DELETING THE
ONE AND ONE-HALF MILE DISTANCE REQUIREMENT;
TO AMEND ~ 6-6-45(b )(3)(xi)3 REGARDING
GRANDFATHERING EXISTING LICENSES; TO AMEND ~
6-6-45 TO ADD A NEW SUBPARAGRAPH (k) TO REGULATE
THE TRANSFER OF ARCADE LICENSES; TO AMEND
AUGUSTA-RICHMOND COUNTY CODE ~ 6-6-45 TO ADD A
NEW SUBPARAGRAPH (I) TO PROVIDE FOR AN AUDIT;
TO PROVIDE AN EFFECTIVE DATE; AND FOR OTHER
PURPOSES.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE AUGUST A-RICHMOND COUNTY COMMISSION,
AND IT IS HEREBY ORDAINED BY AUTHORITY OF SAME AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Augusta-Richmond County Code S 6-6-45(a)(3) is hereby amended by deleting
said section in its entirety and substituting in lieu thereof, the following subparagraph (3) so as to
define an "Arcade", to wit:
(3) Arcade. A location where three or more bona fide coin-
operated amusement machines are operated.
Section 2. Augusta-Richmond County Code S 6-6-45(b)(1) is hereby amended by deleting
subparagraph vii .
Section 3. Augusta-Richmond County Code S 6-6-45(b)(3)(xi)3 is hereby amended to
provide as follows:
"No game amusement machine, other than the machine or
type of machine for which an Amusement Game Permit was issued
for such location at the time of the adoption of this subsection, shall
be grandfathered under this section."
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Section 4. Augusta-Richmond County Code ~ 6-6-45 is hereby amended by adding a new
subparagraph to be designated as subparagraph (k)to provide as follows:
(k) Non-transferrable. No license to operate an arcade may
be sold, transferred or assigned by a permittee, or by operation of law,
to any other person or persons. Any such sale, transfer or assignment
or attempted sale, transfer or assignment shall be deemed to constitute
a voluntary surrender of such license, and such license shall thereafter
be null and void; provided and excepting, however, that if the
licensee is a partnership and one or more of the partners should die,
or one or more of the surviving partners may acquire, by purchase or
otherwise, the interest of the deceased partner or partners without
effecting a surrender or termination of such license, and in such case
the license, upon notification to Augusta, shall be placed in the name
of the surviving partner. A license to operate an arcade issued to a
corporation shall be deemed terminated and void when either any
outstanding stock of the corporation is sold, transferred or assigned
after the issuance of a license, or any stock authorized but not issued
at the time of the granting of a license is thereafter issued and sold,
transferred or assigned.
Section 5. Augusta-Richmond County Code ~ 6-6-45 is hereby amended by adding a new
subparagraph to be designated as subparagraph (1) to provide for auditing of a business holding an
arcade license, which subparagraph shall read as follows:
(I) Audit. Upon renewal of a license to operate an arcade, verified
records of sales from amusement games as they relate to the total
annual income of the business shall be furnished, Verifications must
be submitted by both the license holder and the management of the
establishment. The Director of Licensing & Inspection may cause an
audit of the books of a business holding an arcade license to be made
at any time. Failure of a licensee who holds a license to operate an
arcade to cooperate in the execution of the audit shall be a violation
of ~ 6-6-45.
Section 6. This ordinance shall become effective immediately upon adoption.
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Section 7. If any section, provision, or clause of any part of this Ordinance shall be declared
invalid or unconstitutional, or if the provisions of any part of this Ordinance as applied to any
particular situation or set of circumstances shall be declared invalid or unconstitutional, such
individuality shall not be construed to affect portions of this Ordinance not so held to be invalid, or
the application of this Ordinance to other circumstances not so held to be invalid. It is hereby
declared as the intent that this Ordinance would have been adopted had such invalid portion not been
included herein.
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Duly adopted this ?Oth day of
, , 2000 and this
day of
2000.
~ Mayor
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First Reading:
July 20-00
Second Reading:
Waive ?nd Reading
Published in the Augusta~-:'Chronic1e ..July'31;' ,2000.
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