JOSEEEPH C VESELY
CITY OF HOPKINS
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1010 FIRST STREET SOUTH · HOPKINS, MINNESOTA 55345 . 612/935-8474
August 24, 1983
City of Hopkins
Hopkins, MN 55343
Dear Madam and Slrs:
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You have requested an opin10n as to the operation of Hopkins Ordinance
No. 82-513 which amends a part of the Hopkins Zoning Ordinance regulating
coin operated amusement devices. Under the original provis10n of the
Zoning Ordinance which pertains to amusanent devices, there were three
such business licenses, as follows:
Opera House - 6
Archies - 4
Block House - 7
The new Ord1nance No. 82-513, passed on August 3, 1982 and effective after
August 11, 1982, l1mits such operation licenses to not more than three
amusement devices. Block House changed ownership srnce the passage of the
new Ordlnance.
It 1S my opinion that such sale should not and cannot cut out the larger=J
number of amusement devices by reducing the number to three simply because
of a sale.
It \\QuId mean a taking away and a loss of property rights without due '\
process of law. A new buyer is entitled to the ex1Sting number of machines.)
YO~rs very truly,
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~6seph C. Vesely
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