Inglewood Municipal Code § 8-96 License and Permit Application. Procedure

Any person desiring or proposing to commence or conduct any business, activity, enterprise or undertaking pertaining to or involving a card club, shall file an application with the City Clerk using such forms as are provided by the City. Each application shall contain a statement as follows: "The undersigned applicant{s) declares under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct."

(Ord. 99-28 9-21-99)

The card club license, if granted, will be issued only in the name of an individual, a sole-proprietorship, a partnership or a corporation (such entity to be referred to as license applicant) and the license may require that, concurrent with the granting of the card club license, each pointholder and key management employee of the license applicant be issued permits allowing such individuals or entities to be involved in the activities, profits and direction of the card club operation (such individuals and entities to be referred to as pointholder permit applicants and key management employee permit applicants respectively). Pointholder permits shall be issued only in the name of an individual. City officials and employees and their families shall not be eligible to apply for card club licenses, pointholder permits or any form of employee permit or registration card.

In addition to other information as may be required by said application forms for a card club license, the applicant shall complete and provide the following information in as great a detail as is available or as the City Council or Administrative Officer may require:

(a) The date of the application;

(b) The true name of the applicant;

(c) The status of the applicant as being an individual, a sole proprietorship, a partnership or a corporation;

(d) If the applicant is an individual, the residence and business address and personal history record of such applicant;

(e) If the applicant is other than an individual, the name, residence and business address of each of the copartners or stockholders who qualify as pointholders and the name, residence and business address of each of the officers and directors of the entity;

(f) An application for a pointholder's permit, including a personal history record, for every pointholder who has, or is proposed to have, a financial interest, direct or remote, in the proposed card club activity;

(g) An application for a key management employee's permit, including a personal history record, for each individual who is or is proposed to be a key management employee of the proposed card club;

(h) A description of the premises to be used in relation to card club activity including, but not limited to, card playing area, restaurants and parking;

(i) A development concept including floor plans, site plan, schematics and or as detailed information as is available;

(j) A statement of the type and nature of the games proposed to be played;

(k) The number of tables or other units to be placed, employed or used;

(l) A description of any other business conducted or proposed to be conducted on the premises:

(m) A financial plan and source of funding for the development including protected development cost;

(n) A statement of the applicant's experience in the operation and management of card clubs or other lawful gambling or other relevant activities;

(o) A one year cash flow projection, which shall be a confidential document and not open to public inspection;

(p) A statement that such building will conform to all the laws of the State and the City for occupancies of the nature proposed;

(q) A complete description and layout of all security measures proposed in as great a detail as is available, which shall be a confidential document and not open to public inspection;

(r) If the City Council determines that a landlord whose lease rental payments are based upon a percentage of the revenues or profits of the card club or financier, by reason of the extent of his holdings or his inherent financial control, cannot, in fact, be separated from the card club, and, that as a practical matter, a single entity exists regardless of the apparent form of the organization, the City Council may require that all such individuals be designated pointholders and subject to all investigatory, financial and background reporting procedures established by this Article for card club pointholders. Any such determination shall not, however, be deemed to make any such lessor an owner or operator of the card club for purposes of this Article or applicable state law;

(s) Each application for a card club license, a pointholder's permit or a key management employee's permit shall include the following:

(1) A statement that the applicant understands that the application shall be considered only after a full background investigation and report has been made by such members of the City staff as are designated by the Administrative Officer,

(2) A statement that the applicant understands and agrees that any business or activity conducted or operated under any license or permit issued under such application shall be operated in full conformity with all the laws of the State and the laws end regulations of the City applicable thereto, and that any violation of any such laws or regulations in such place of business, or in connection therewith, may render any license or permit therefor subject to immediate suspension or revocation,

(3) A statement that the applicant has read the provisions of this Article and particularly the provisions of this Section and understands the same and agrees to abide by all rules and regulations contained in this Article,

(4) A balance sheet and income statement prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. The financial statements required by this subsection shall be confidential documents and shall not be open to public inspection. Documents shall be available only to the City Council and those officials having direct jurisdiction involving the provisions of this Article and to any court of competent jurisdiction where any matter relating thereto may be actually pending;

(t) Concurrently with the filing of their applications, the card club license applicant and the pointholder and key management employee permit applicants shall be finger-printed and photographed by the Inglewood Police Department. Applicants shall authorize the City to obtain any available criminal offender record information relating to applicant and shall further authorize the updating of that information on an annual basis if a license or permit is granted;

(u) If an applicant for a card club license is a publicly traded corporation, each person having a beneficial interest of at least ten percent in the applicant corporation shall be identified and may be required to meet all the requirements of individual applicants.

(Ord. 99-28 9-21-99)

As set forth in Section 8-96.1., the applications for all pointholder and key management employees shall be submitted as part of the application for a card club license.

Each permit applicant shall be responsible for providing complete and accurate information and for signing the permit application. However, it shall be the responsibility of the card club license applicant (or licensee for subsequent applications) to submit the completed applications and pay any application fees.

Failure to submit complete applications for each proposed pointholder and key management employee may be grounds for denial or revocation of a card club license. However, the inability of applicant to secure a pointholder permit application from a stockholder of applicant shall not preclude applicant from receiving a license or permit so long as any such stockholder does not participate directly or indirectly in the management or operation of the card clubs or in the proceeds therefrom.

(Ord. 99-28 9-21-99)

The card club operations certificate shall be issued only to the card club licensee. This certificate may be applied for concurrently with the card club license or at any later time up to three hundred sixty days after granting of a card club license. Failure to apply for a card club operations certificate within three hundred sixty days after granting of a card club license may be grounds for revocation of the card club license.

The card club operations certificate application shall be submitted to the City Clerk. In addition to other required information as may be set forth on application forms provided by the City, the application shall include the following:

(a) Detailed floor plans of the interior of the proposed card club facility specifying at a minimum:

(1) The location of all card playing areas,

(2) The manner in which the card playing area(s) shall be separated from other areas,

(3) The location of any and all other proposed businesses and facilities the premises;

(b) Detailed plans of the parking facilities including a lighting and security plan;

(c) A detailed statement of all proposed security measures (both physical and operational);

(d) A detailed statement of all plans, both physical and operational, for the handling of money, including, but not limited to, provisions, if applicable, for:

(1) Players banks (limited to cash only),

(2) Purchase of chips and protection against counterfeit chips,

(3) Check-cashing or credit procedures,

(4) Procedures for bringing money to or removing money from the premises,

(5) Procedures for determining and depositing daily gross receipts;

(e) An independent evaluation of the internal accounting and administrative control system proposed to be used by applicant.

(Ord. 99-28 9-21-99)

For purposes of clarification, the fees set forth in this Article are for both regulation and revenue purposes and are levied pursuant to the authority of Article XI, Section 5 of the Constitution of the State of California. Each application for any license or permit shall be subject to fees and deposits, payable to the City as follows:

(a) A card club license application fee of $35,000 which shall be retained by the City for the payment of the costs of investigation;

(b) The card club license application fee provided for in Section 8-96.4(a) above shall cover the investigation costs of the license application and a combined total of up to twenty pointholder and key management employee permit applications. If a license applicant has pointholders and key management employees exceeding twenty in number, a fee of $750 per pointholder or key management employee exceeding the twenty shall be paid to and retained by the City as payment of the costs of investigation;

(c) A card club license fee of $25,000 which shall be paid to the City prior to the issuance of the card club license;

(d) No additional fee shall be required for the card club operations certificate.

(Ord. 99-28 9-21-99)

1. All applicants for operating licenses are hereby deemed to include in their applications requests for provisional licenses, if the applications are truthful, complete and accurate; include the payment of any and all required fees and are submitted to the Inglewood City Clerk on the required City forms.

2. All provisional licenses, and any and all extensions thereof, are subject to payment of the fees specified in Inglewood Municipal Code Section 8-105.

3. Issuance of a provisional license creates no vested right to the issuance of a City of Inglewood card club license.

4. A provisional license is held subject to all terms and conditions under which a City of Inglewood card club license is held pursuant to the Inglewood Municipal Code.

5. A provisional license is not transferable.

6. A provisional license is a temporary license issued by the City Council to operate a card club located within the City limits of Inglewood. Each provisional license shall be valid, initially, for no longer than 180 days from the date of issuance. Each provisional license will expire upon the issuance of a card club operation certificate; rejection or withdrawal of the related application for a card club license; or 180 days, whichever occurs first.

7. The holder of a provisional license may make a written request for one extension of an expiring provisional license. Any such request may be in letter form and submitted to the Inglewood City Clerk and must be made no later than thirty days prior to the expiration of the provisional license. All requests for extensions of provisional licenses shall be presented by the Administrative Officer to the City Council for consideration. Submission of said written request for an extension of an expiring provisional license does not require the City Council to approve the request. The Council may determine to approve, approve with conditions or reject any such request for extension.

(Ord. 99-21A 8-24-99; Ord. 99-28 9-21-99)

1. All applicants for pointholder permits or key management permits are hereby deemed to include in their applications for such permits, requests for provisional licenses, if the applications are truthful, complete and accurate; include the payment of any and all required fees and are submitted to the Inglewood City Clerk on the required City forms.

2. All provisional permits, and any and all extensions thereof, are subject to payment of the fees specified in Inglewood Municipal Code Section 8-105.

3. Issuance of a provisional permit creates no vested right to the issuance of a City of Inglewood pointholder or key management permit.

4. A provisional permit is held subject to all terms and conditions under which a City of Inglewood card club pointholder or key management permit is held pursuant to the Inglewood Municipal Code.

5. A provisional pointholder permit or key management permit is not transferable.

6. A provisional pointholder permit or key management permit is a temporary permit issued by the City Council allowing an individual to be a pointholder or to be a key management employee of a card club located within the city limits of Inglewood. Each provisional permit shall be valid, initially, for no longer than one hundred eighty days from the date of issuance. Each provisional permit will expire upon the issuance of a pointholder permit or key management employee permit; rejection or withdrawal of the related application for a pointholder permit or key management employee permit; or one hundred eighty days, whichever occurs first.

7. The holder of a provisional permit may make a written request for one extension of an expiring provisional permit. Any such request may be in letter form and submitted to the Inglewood City Clerk and must be made no later than thirty days prior to the expiration of the provisional permit. All requests for extensions of provisional permits shall be presented by the Administrative Officer to the City Council for consideration. Submission of said written request for an extension of an expiring provisional permit does not require the City Council to approve the request.

The Council may determine to approve, approve with conditions or reject any such request for extension.

(Ord. 99-21A 8-24-99; Ord. 99-28 9-21-99)