Letter from Attorney - Amusement DevicesCITY OF HOPKINS
1010 FIRST STREET SOUTH - HOPKINS. MINNESOTA 55345 - 612/935 -8474
August 24, 1953
City of Hopkins
Hopkins, MT 55343
Dear Madam and Sirs:
You have requested an opinion as to the operation of Hopkins Ordinance
No. 82-513 which amends a part of the Hopkins Zoning Ordinance regulating
coin operated anAlsanent devices. Under the original provision of the
46 Zoning Ordinance which pertains to annasement devices, there were three
such business licenses, as follows:
Opera House - 6
Archies - 4
Block House - 7
The new Ordinance No. 82 -513, passed on August 3, 1982 and effective after
August 11, 1982, limits succb operation licenses to not more than three
a�masement devices. Block House changed ownership since the passage of the
new Ordinance.
It is my opinion that such sale should not and cannot cut out the larger
number of amusement devices by reducing the number to three - simply because
of a sale. J
It would mean a taking away and a loss of property rights without due
Process of law. A new buyer is entitled to the existing number of machines.
Y very truly,
I - i
44seph C. Vesely
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