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WHEREAS, unless the amendment to the ordinance takes effect immediately, a new permit for a new card room may be applied for before the effective date of the ordinance, not only completely nullifying the effect of the ordinance amendment but creating anew the hazards to the public peace, health, and safety enumberated above; and WHEREAS, the adoption of the amendment to the ordinance must be enacted as an urgency measure in order to protect the public peace, health and safety. NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PLEASANTON DOES HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1: Amend Title IV (.Health, Safety, Moral and General Welfare), Chapter 2 (Special Permits), Article 7 (Card Rooms), Section 4-3.18 (Permit Limitation and Restriction) to read as follows: "No more than one permit of the kind mentioned in this article shall be in effect at any one time. No permittee herein shall maintain more than four card tables" Section 2: Section 4-3.28 (Existing Card Rooms) shall be amended to read as follows: "It is the intention of the City Council of the City of Pleasanton in this article to limit permitted card rooms, subject to the provisions of this article, to the one already in existence within the City of Pleasanton." Section 3: This ordinance shall be published once within fifteen (15) days after its adoption in "THE TIMES," a newspaper of general circulation published in the City of Pleasanton. Section 4: This ordinance shall take effect immediately in order to protect the public peace, health, safety, moral and general welfare· INTRODUCED at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Pleasanton on December 9, 1980. ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Pleasanton on December 23, 1980 by the following vote: AYES: Councilmembers -Butler, Kephart, Mohr, Wood and Mayor ~?ercer None 'tJJ~J Wa 'y 'Clerk By Doris George, Deputy City Clerk APPROVED AS TO FORM: ~in~el ~rney