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Cover page to Ordinance 8
The full text of the ordinance follows this cover page.
An ordinance to license and regulate circuses, side shows, operas,
concerts, theatres, shows, exhibitions and other public amusements
to provide for violations of its provisions.
Ordinance 8 was amended or repealed by the
following ordinances.
AMENDED REPEALED B
569
ORDINANCE NO 8
Repealed by Ord 569
An Ordinance to licenseand regulate circuses, ti
concerts, theatres, shows, exhibitions and other pub
to provide for violations of its provisions.-
Pe it Ordained by the Council of the Town of Ti1 wil_
Section 1. All circuses, sideshows, operas, concerts.,theatres
shows, exhibitions, and other public a musementS, hereafter=
conducted in the Town. of Tukwila, -shall be lioensed and
taxed at thefollowing rates, viz:
The license fee for the exhibiting of any circus,
menagerie, hippodrome or sideshow in the Town of Tukwila
shall be as follows
For any Circus, Hippodrome or Menagerie, with a seat -:jF
ing capacity of not more than 1,000 and not less than.
300, and charging an admittance of 1.00, $25.00 per day:
For any Circus and Menagerie with a seating capacity
of not more than 500 and not less than00, and charging=
an admittance not to exceed 50 cents, $12.50 per day.,
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For any Circus wit Menagerie or Hippodrome, with:
a seating capacity of no more than 500 and not less than
200, charging an admittance not to exceed 50 cents, $15.00
per day.
For anyone -ring Circus with a seating capacity_.not:to
exceed 500, charging an admittance not to exceed 50 cents,
$12:50 per day.
For any Side -show exhibiting on..the same ground
the Circus and charging an admittance, $5.00iper day.
Section 2. Hawkers shall pay a license of $5.00 per day or $25 :00
per week, and any other person other than a duly licensed._'
Auctioneer who offers goods, wares and merchandise or other
personal property for sale by outcry on the streets, or
who shall conduct business from a stand or wagon on the
street or within the corporate of the Town of Tukwila
shall be deemed to be a hawker under this section.
That peddlers and itinerant vendors of goods, wares and
merchandise and other personal property shall pay a license.
of $5.00 per day or $25.00 per week. All persons who shall
offer for sale by retail in the corporate limits of the
Town of Tukwila, goods, wares and merchandise, upon the
streets from wagons, from stands, or in private or public
rooms, whether such rooms be rented temporarily for such
purpose or not, shall be deemed peddlers and itinerant
venders under this ordinance,, provided that this ordinance
shall not apply to farmers, rAnchers, and mechanics who
peddle the product of their farms, ranches or workshops,
except peddlers of fish, who shall pay a license of $2.00
per month.
Section 3. All theatres, shows and other exhibits and public
amusements shall be licensed and taxed as follows:
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Every theatrical show, concert, other troupe, shall'::
pay a license tax of $2.50 for one day or night's enter-
tainment and $5.00 for three successive days or nights,
provided that this section shall not apply to exhibitions
gotten up by home talent exclusively.
Section 4. Auctioneers shall pay a license•of $3.00 per day.._
Every person shall be deemed an Auctioneer within the meanin
of this ordinance, whose business it to offer property
sale at public outcry or auction to the highest bidder,=
provided that this section shall not apply to judicial:
executive officers making auction sales by- virtue of any,':::
judgment or decree of any court, nor public. sale made
executors and administrators.
Section 5. It shall be-the duty of the Marshall.to..see -tha
every person carrying -on any business" for which. license
t 1 theatres shows o and _public
Section 4. Auctioneers shall pay a license of :3.00 per day,
Every person shall be deemed an Auctioneer within the meaning of this
ordinance, whose business it is to offer property for sale at public
outcry or auction to the highest bidder, provided that this section
shall not apply to judicial or executive officers making auction
sales by virtue of any judgment or decree of any court, nor public
sale made by executors and administrators.
Section 5. It shall be the duty of the Town Marshal to see
that every person carrying on any business for which a license is
required by this ordinance, has procured a license and to see that
all theatres, shows, other exhibitions and public amusements shall
have paid as in this ordinance prescribed and the license issued in
accordance therewith.
Section 6. Any peddler, hawker, or auctioneer who shall
exercise his calling or business, or any person or persons connected
with any theatre, show or exhibition, who shall conduct, manage, or
take part in such theatre, show or exhibition for which a license is
is required under this ordinance, without first obtaining such a
license, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction
thereof, shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $50.00 and costs of
prosecution, or be imprisoned for a term not exceeding thirty days,
or by both such fine and imprisonment.
Section 7. This ordinance shall take effect from and after
five (5) days from the date of its publication.
Passed the Town Council this 29th day of September, A.D.1908,
and signed by one in open session in authorization of its passage,
this 29th day of September, A. D. 1908.
(Signed) Joel Shomaker,
Mayor of the Town of Tukwila,
Approved by me this 5th day of October, A. D. 1908.
(Sir*ned)
os the own of ukwila.
(S E A L)
Attest: (Signed) E. F. Greene,
Clerk of the Town of Tukwila.
STATE OF WASHI 'TGTO
(so.
County of King,
I HEREBY CERT IPY The above and foregoing Ordinances,
numbered 1 to 23, inclusive, true and correct copies of the
original Ordinances now on file in the Office of the Town
Clerk of the Town of Tukwila.
August, A. D. 1910.
WITNESS MY HAND AND 01 'ICIAL SEAL The 5th day of
Notary Public in and for the State
of Washinton, residing at Seattle.