60-14 Establish fee for Secondhand Dealer's License - $25

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Placed on first reading and referred to the Rules and Ordinances Committee Dec. 1, 2014; second reading Dec. 15, 2014. Recommended for adoption Jan. 5, 2015 at the Jan. 20, 2015 meeting of Council. Please substitute for the original. ORDINANCE NO. 60 -14 BY: Anderson, Bullock, Juris, Madigan, Marx, Nowlin, O'Leary. AN ORDINANCE to take effect immediately provided it receives the affirmative vote of at least five members of Council, or otherwise to take effect and be in force after the earliest period allowed by law, to establish the annual fee required for a secondhand dealer's license pursuant to Section 737.02 of the Lakewood Codified Ordinances. WHEREAS, pursuant to the Constitution of the State of Ohio, the Ohio Revised Code and the Second Amended Charter of the City of Lakewood, municipalities have the power to enact laws that are for the health, safety, welfare, comfort and peace of the citizens of the municipality, and to provide for local self - government, including establishing license fees; and WHEREAS, this Council by a vote of at least five of its members determines that this ordinance is an emergency measure, and that this ordinance shall take effect at the earliest date possible as set forth in Article III, Sections 10 and 13 of the Second Amended Charter of the City of Lakewood, and that it is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public property, health and safety, and to provide for the usual daily operation of municipal departments in that these changes need to be incorporated in order to give effect to Section 737.02 by the date it becomes enforceable; now, therefore BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF LAKEWOOD, OHIO: Section 1. The annual nonrefundable fee for a secondhand dealer's license required by Section 737.02 of the Codified Ordinances shall be $25.00. Section 2. It is found and determined that all formal actions of this Council concerning and relating to the passage of this ordinance were adopted in an open meeting of this Council, and that all such deliberations of this Council and of any of its committees that resulted in such formal action were in meetings open to the public, in compliance with all legal requirements. Section 3. This ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergency measure necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, property, health, safety and welfare in the City and for the usual daily operation of the City for the reasons set forth and defined in the preamble to this ordinance, and provided it receives the affirmative vote of at least five members of Council this ordinance shall take effect and be in force immediately upon its adoption by the Council and approval by the Mayor, or otherwise