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(b) The city secretary shall issue a decal evidencing payment of such occupational tax, and such <br />decal shall be securely attached to the machine in a manner that will require continued <br />application of steam and water to remove the decal, or such decal shall be posted in a <br />conspicuous place at or near the machine so as to be easily seen by the public. The decal affixed <br />to the machine shall be valid only for the machine which must be identified by serial number. <br />Any business operator who shall exhibit or display within the city any skill or pleasure -oriented <br />coin-operated machine without having paid the tax and annexed or attached thereto a valid decal <br />issued by the city secretary, showing payment of the tax for the current year, shall be deemed to <br />have violated this article. <br />(c) The occupational tax provided for in this article shall not be subject to proration or reduction <br />for payment for display of machines for a period less than 12 calendar months, at the rates <br />established in Appendix A,of this Code." <br />SECTION 3. Sections 1, 2, and 3 of Ordinance No. 3127, and as codified in Chapter 10 <br />"Amusements", Article II "Coin -Operated Machines", Division 3 "Regulation of Places of <br />Business", Section 10-75 "Eight -liners prohibited", and in Appendix B "Fines", of the Code of <br />Ordinances of the City of La Porte, is hereby repealed in its entirety. Said Section 10-75 "Eight - <br />liners prohibited" shall hereinafter read as follows: <br />"Sec. 10-75. Unrestricted access, by law enforcement officer; : right of inspection by law <br />enforcement officer. <br />(a) It shall be the duty of any owner, manager, :or employee of a place of business displaying one <br />or more skill or pleasure coin operated machines or amusement redemption machines, or, other <br />person exercising control, over such -a,, 'business establishment or the skill or pleasure coin <br />operated machines or, amusement redemption -:machines therein, to provide any';law enforcement <br />officer" with immediate unrestricted access during business hours to I all areas of fhe business <br />establishment. <br />(b) Any law enforcement officer may, Iinspect a <br />coin operated machines or, amusement =redempti <br />businessestablishment is, in compliance with thii I <br />employee of a business establishment°which disp <br />machines or amusement redemption ziiachines w <br />inspect said establishment. or the skill or pie, <br />redemption machines therein; commits axnisdeme <br />bush <br />s establishment or any; skill or pleasur <br />are coin,; operated"machines or, aj <br />[or offense: <br />(c) This chapter shall not be construed to": authorize, or permit the keeping, exhibition, operation, <br />display, or maintenance of any machine that is prohibited by.,the,constitution or statutes of this <br />state, including but not,limited to Chapter 47 of the Texas Penal Code." <br />Page 2 of 5 <br />