O#207ORDINANCE NO. 207
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF BOYNTON BEACH IN PALM BEACH
FLORIDA, LEVYING, ASSESSING AND IMPOSING A TA~ UPON THE S~I~ A~D
USE, WI'-~IN SAID cITy OF TICKET CONTAINERS.F~R TRADE AND AMUSE- .
MEN~ PEqPOSES AS DEFINED 'IN THIS ORDINANCE; PROVIDING FOR THE COL
LECTION OF SAID TAX; PRESCRIBING PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION NERE_
OF; REPEALING, ADL ORDINANCES AND PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT
HEREWITH; AND FOR 0THERPUP~OSES
BE IT, AND IT IS HEREBY ORDAINED BY THE CITY CONMISSION OF THE
CITY OF BOYNTON BEACH IN PALM BEACH COUNTY, FLORIDA:
Section 1. DEFINITIONS: The following words and phrases as used
in this ordinance, unless a different meaning is plainly implied
by this context, shall have the following meaning:
(a) "TICKET CONTAINERS FOR TRADE OR AMUSEMENT PURPOSE" Shall mean
and include any board, card, spindle, envelope, box, Jar, or other
object or vessel containing, or having attached thereto, tickets
to be punched or pulled therefrom and designed or intended to be
used in connection with the sale or distribution of merchandise,
prizes or other things of value or for amusement purposes, and
shall include, but shall not be limited to, any and all type? ~nd
kinds of punch boa~s, trade boards, charlie boards, and containers
of tickets.
(b) ,DISTRIBUTOR" shall mean any person, firm or corooration who
engages in selling or distributing or conveying any t~ckets or
ticket containers for trade and amusement purposes, at wholesale,
to another person, firm or corporation within the City for ulti-
mate use by the public.
(c) "OPERATOR" shall mean a retail merchant or other person, firm
or corporation who shall display, offer for sale or sell any
tickets for trade or amusement purposes to the. public by the use
of ticket containers. Any one displaying, offering for sale, or
selling the whole of such ticket containers, or tickets to be at-
tached thereto or to be contained therein, shall be considered as
a distributor.
mean the City of Boynton Beach in Palm Beach
(d) "CITY" shall
County, Florida.
Section 2. DUTY OF DISTRIBUTOR: It shall be the duty of each
distributor to purchase from the Tax Coltectar of said C%ty tax
stamps, which stamps shall in ne case be purchased in amount less
than $~0.00 at a ti~e, and to affix to each ticket container for
trade or amusement p~poses the requisite amount of such stamps.
When so attached, said distributor shall write upon eacE such
stamp~ in indelible ink, the serial number of the tickets to be
punched or pulled therefrom. The Tax Collector of said City shall
issue a rubber stamp, bearing an indentifying number, to each dis-
tributor, who, by the nsc of said stamp and indelible ink, shall
affix his number on the back of each container of tickets distri-
buted by him. Tax stamps shall not be placed upon any container
which does not bear such identifying number of a distributor. Tax
StamBs ~all be securely affixed thereto by being glued to such
container, and such stamos shall not be transferred from one con-
tainer to another nor s~all they be used for more than one set of
tickets. It shall be unlawful for anydistributor to offer for
sale, or to distribute, or to sell, or for any operator to possess,
display, offer for sale or to sell any ticket container for.trade
or amusement purposes, or tickets to be p~muched or pulled therefrom,
which does not have the requisite amount of tax stamps, bearing the
serial number of the tickets therein contained or attached thereto,
and the identifying number of the distributor thereof, properly
affixed to such container as herein provided. All licenses for the
operation of such ticket containers, or tickets, or the distribution
thereof, are hereby made subject to this provision, and any such
license hereafter issued shall be and remain subject to.this provision,
and by the issuance of such license, the City reserves the right and
privilege of entering any place where such ticket containers, or
tickets are displayed for public use, in order that the same may be
inspected. Any such ticket containers, or tickets possessed displayed~
offered for sale, or sold by an operator without the proper Stamps
affixed to the container may be immediately confiscated as evidence
of the illega~ operation thereof, and all l~censes for the operation
of such ticket containers or tickets shall be i~ued subject to
such right of confiscation as to illegally operated ticket containers
or tickets. In addition to the penalties otherwise herein set
forth and contained, the licenses of any distributor or operator
of such ticket containers or tickets may be revoked by the City
Commission for a period not to exceed sixty (60) days from the date
of such violation upon conviction of the violation of any provision
of this ordiRance in the Municipal Court.
Section 3. DUT~ TO REGISTER: It shall be the duty of all distri-
butors and operates t~ register their name, fictitious, corporate
or real, and their occuoation and business address in the office
of the City Tax Collector.
Section $. T~X ST~S O__~N TICKET CONTAINERS: Each ticket container
for trade or amusement purposes offered for sale, distributed, or
sold by a distributor, or containing or having attached thereto
tickets possessed, displayed, offered for sale, or sold by an o~r-
ator~ shall have affixed to such container, on the face thereof,
stamps uoon which there shall have been endorsed the serial number
of the t~ckets therein contained, or attached thereto in the
following amounts, to-wit:
TRADE BOARDS TAX
From i to 500 holes inclusive
each additional 100 holes
CHARLIE BOARDS
Retail Cost for punch
per punch, 1 to 500 holes inclusive 25¢
per punch, 501 or more holes 1.00
10¢ ocr p?much, 1 to 1200 holes inclusive 1.25
10¢ per punch, 1201 or more holes 1.50.
25¢ per punch, 1 to 1200 holes inclusive 1.50
25¢ per punch 1201 or more holes 1.75
50¢ per punch, i to 1200 holes inclusive
50¢ per punch, 1201 or more holes
1.75
2.00
1.00 per punch, I to 1200 holes inclusive 2.00
!.00 per punch, 1201 or more holes 2.50
~MUSEMENT BOARDS
5¢ per punch,
5¢ per punch,
5¢ per punch,
5¢ P er punch,
5¢ per punch,
10~. per punch,
10¢ per punch,
10¢ per punch,
10¢ per punch,
25¢ per punch,
25¢ per punch,
25¢ per punch,
25¢ per punch,
1 to $00 holes inclusive 2%¢
$01 to 750 holes inclusive 50¢
751 to 990 holes inclusive 75¢
991 to 1200 holes inclusive 1.O0
1201 holes or more holes 2.00
1 to 500 holes inclusive 53¢
501 to 750 holes inclusive 75¢
751 to 1000 holes inclusive 1.25
lOO1 or more holes 2.00
1 to 300 holes 50¢
301 to %00 holes inclusive 1.00
501 to 1000 holes inclusive 1.50
1001 or more holes 2.00
50¢ per punch, 1 to 300 holes 1.00
50¢ per punch, 301 to 500 holes inclusive t.%0
%0¢ per punch, 501 to 1000 holes inclusive 2.00
50¢ per punch, 1001 ~ more holes
1.00 per punch, 1 to 300 holes 1.00
1.00 per punch~ 301 to 500 holes inclusive 1.50
1.00 per punch, 501 to 1000 holes inclusive 2.00
1.O0 per punch, lOO1 or more holes 2.50
TICKETS ON C~RDS~ SPINDLES, OR CONTAINED I~N ENVELOPES
BOXES, JARS, ETC.~ OTHER THAN PUNCH BOARD~
5¢ per pull, 1 to 500 holes inclusive 25¢
5¢ per pull, 501 to 1200 pulls inclusive 1.00
5¢ per pull, 1201 or more pulls 2.00
10¢ per pull,
10¢ per pull,
10¢ per'pull,
10¢ per pull,
1 to 12~ holes inclusive
125 to 500 pulls, inclusive
501 to 1200 pulls inclusive
1201 or more nulls
2%¢
5o¢
1.O0
2.00
25¢ oer pull, 1 to 125 holes inclusive
25¢ ~er pull, 125 to 500 pulls inclusive
25¢ per pull,~ 501 to 2000 pulls inclusive
25¢ per pull~ 2001 or more pulls
5o¢
1.O0
2. O0
Over 25¢ pull,
ever 2~¢ pull,
Over 25¢ Dull,
Over 25¢ ~ull~
1 to 125 inclusive 75¢
125 to 500 pulls inclusive 1.50
501 to 1000 pulls inclusive 2.00
1001 er more pulls 2.50
All push cards with seals, 1 to !00 inc.
All push cards with seals, 101 or more
25¢
50¢
Any trade~ punch, amusement hoards, pull cards or pull tickets not
covered i~ this 6rdinance, Sh~I1 be subject to a tax of 25¢ to
$2~00 in the discretion of the City Commission.
~y operator who shall possess, display, offer for sale, or sell
any tickets 'for trade or amusement ourposes without having the
requisite amount of tax stamps affixed te the container thereof
shall be guilty of a violation of this ordinance.
Section 5. REGULATIONS A_~S T__~O TAX STAMPS: The tax stamps to be
affixed to each ticket container for trade or amusement purposes
shall be of such form and size as may be designated by the Tax
Collector of said City. Such tax stamps shall be sold and affixed
to each such container under such reasonable rules and regulations
as may be prescribed from time to time by said Tax Collector. A
tax stamp~ shall be used only on the container to which it was ori-
ginally a~ffixed, shall not be transferred from one container to
another, and shall be used only for one set of tickets. All
monies collected by the Tax Collector from the sale of such stamps
shall be paid into the Treasury of said City.
Section 6. UNLAWFUL TO USE TICKET~ FOR GAMBLING: It shall be unl
lawful and a ~olation of this Ordinance to use such tickets here~n
licensed for trade or amusement nurpeses only, for gambling or
wagering purposes, or for any p~rpose other than for trade or
amusement purposes.
Section 7, UNLAWFUL TO PERMIT MINORS TO PLAY: It shall be un-
lawful and a violation of this ordinanc-~ to permit any minor,
actual or apparent, to purchase tickets oontained in or attached
to any ticket container for trade or amusement purposes, and any
operator who shall personally, or by or through any agent or
employee, shall permit a minor to purchase such ticket shall be
pmnished as hereinafter provided.
Section 8. PENALT~ FOR VIOLATION: Any person, firm, or corpora-
tion who shall violate any of the terms of this ordinance, shall,
u~on conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not more than
F~VEHU~DRED DOLLARS ($500.00) er by imprisonment in the jail,
or at hard labor upon the public works of said City for a term
exceeding sixty (60) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment
in the discretion of the Municipal Judge, and inaddition the
license of the offending person, firm or corporation shall be sus-
nended for a ~eriod of sixty (60) days or revoked in the discre-
tion of the City Council.
Section 9. EFFECTIVE DATE: This ordinance shall become effective
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in accordance wit the provisions ef the Charter of said City in
such cases made and provided.
Section t0. All laws and party of laws in conflict herewith,
shall be, and the same'amc hereby repealed, provided however,
that nothing herein contained shall be construed to abolish the
requirement of occupational taxes for operator and distributors.
The above Ordinance, having been placed on its first read-
ing at s Regular Meeting of the City Council held on February 23,
1959, was finally passed and adooted on the second reading at a
Regular Meeting of said Board oft City Commissioners held on
March 7, 1959
C6uncilm~n
Councilmen
City Clerk
As and constituting the Beard of
City Councilmen of the City of
Boynton Beach, Palm Beach County,
Florida