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<br />Section 2 continued, Any person, firm or corporation who shall tamper
<br />with, break, remove or destroy any seal placEd on an-y coin-operated machine by said
<br />City Serretary, his duly authorized deputy or ernployee, shall be deemed guilty of a
<br />misdemeanor and shall be subject to a fine not to er,ceed ~200.00.
<br />SEJTIOAI 3: (a) For the purpose of enabling tYie City Secretary to deter-
<br />:nine the tax liability of the owners or operators af coin-operated vending machines in
<br />this City, or whether a tax liability has incurred, every individual, company, corpora-
<br />tion, and/or association who owns, operates or displays any coin-operated ma.chine in
<br />this City shall have a separate and different serial number stamped by indenture inta
<br />the stationary wcod or netal of each riiachine in a manner tha-'u slzr.h serial number cannot
<br />be re:noved or transferred to another :nachine, and such serial number shall be shown on
<br />the application for a license or permit and on the license or permit issued. If any
<br />person shall indent the same serial number on more than one machine or shall exhibit,
<br />display or have in his possession witriin this City -3.ny coin-aperated machine with the
<br />license or per:nit of the City Secretary attached thereto and bearing the wrong serial
<br />number or a licEnse or permit bearing a, different serial number from the serial number
<br />sta*nped by indenture on said machines., he shall be guilty of a misdemear:or and punished
<br />as set out below. The possession, exribition or display of more than one machine bearing
<br />the same serial number operated under the same management or ownership, shall be prima
<br />facie evidence that the owner of such :nachines indented the same serial number on each
<br />machine for the purpese of evading payment of the tax levied herein.
<br />(b) Provided further, the license or permit issued by the City Seci•etary
<br />to evidence the paymerit of the tax levied herein shall be se3urely attached to the
<br />machine in a manner th..t wiJ..l requi.re continued application of steam and water to remove
<br />the same.
<br />SECTION 4: (a) The "Jity Counci7_ of the 'Jity of I'aris sYia11 havE the
<br />auth.ority to make •a,n.d nublish rules and regulations not inconsistant with this Ordinance
<br />or Article 7047a of the Rewised Civil t'tatutes of the State of Texas, for the erliorcement
<br />of the provisions of this Ordinance in the collection of the revenues hereunder.
<br />(b) If any individual, company, corporation or association who owns,
<br />operates, exhibits or displays any coin-operated machine in this 3ity, shal]_ violate any
<br />provision of this Act or any rule and regulation promulgated hereunder, the City Cauncil
<br />shall have the power and authori+y to fo.rfeit all licenses or permits issued to any of
<br />the foregoing persons by giving writter_ notice, stating the reason justifying such for-
<br />feiture and the sarie shall be for.feited five (5) days from date oi such notice. T1o new
<br />licenses or permits shall be j_ssued within a period of one (1) year to anyone whose
<br />licenses or perinits have been forfe.ited, except at trie discretion of 'Uhe C'ittr aouncil,
<br />If the licenses or ner^Lits of an,y indIvidlzal, company, corporation, or association owning
<br />operatir~g or displa,ying coin-operated mac'r:ir.es in this "Jity i.s forfeited, such individual
<br />company, corporation, or assc;ciation shall not operate, rlispla-i or permit to be operated
<br />or displa,yed such raachines until tre liuenses or perlni.ts are reinstated or iuntil netir
<br />licenses or permits a.rs granted.
<br />SE:;TION 5: The ";ity Secretary is hereby authorized, ordered and directed
<br />to collect, and issue licenses or per.nits for the payment of the tax levied herein.
<br />SEJTION 6: Lvei-
<br />yT"owner" cf one or more coin-oper;a.ted macflines in this
<br />City shall keep for a pericd oP t:TG (2) years for the inspection at all times by the City
<br />J'ouncil, or their authorized representatives, a complete book record in a well bound book
<br />of each a.nd ever,y such machine purchased, received, possessed, handled, exhibited or disr
<br />played in 'Il7iis 'Jity. 0,uch record shall be kept at a permanent address which address shall
<br />be designated on the application for permit and shall include the following information:
<br />The make, kind and serial number of each such rnachine, the date acquired or received in
<br />Paris, the date placed in operation, the location or locations of each machine by serial
<br />number, includiiig county, city, street and/or rura.l route n-La..mY:er, the, d.a.,te of each G.rid
<br />every change in location, the na..~e ancl complete address of each and every operator together
<br />with the serial nu~-nbers of the ~~achines opcrated by such operator, the ftzll name and
<br />address of the owner, or i.f other tt:an a,n ind.ividual the i,rincipal officers or members
<br />thereof and their addresses. Such informaticn shall be showr .^.nmpletely azzd separately
<br />for each and e:very maclline. The "Ji luy Council sriall be authorized a.nd it shall be their
<br />duty to forfeit all Lir.enses, rerruts o:' every owner fail ing tc keeN such records or
<br />fai.ling to present s{zch records for i_ns-n-ection at any tirae upor demand b;,T sa.id :.1_ty Coancil
<br />or their authorized represeritatives.
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