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I 6U6 l OP,DINANCE N0. 903g j An Ordinance regulating and licensing detectives and detective agencies within the City of Eugene, and progiding penalties for iaiolation thereof. THE CITY OF EUGF'NE DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. FEES. The license fees for detectives and detective agencies shall be: i Private detective, annually $25.00 Detective agencies employing three a•lesa ± _ operatives, annually 125.00 1 Detective agencies employing four or more 1 operatives, annually 200.00 i Any agency having three'or less operatives at the time of obtaining a license and which shall, subsequent to the issuance thereof, employ additional operatives, making the total so employed more than three, shall pay an annual license fee of $25.00 for each such additional operative. No license Shall be issued for less than the foil annual fee. A bond hereinafter provided, which shall be approved as to form by the City Attorney, must be furnished before any license is issued. No provisional license shall be issued. Section 2. DEFINITIONS. (a) The term "detective business" is hereby defined to mean the business of making, for hire, an investigation or investigations for the purpose of obtaining information with reference to any of the following matters: crimes against any commonwealth or wrongs done or threatened; the habits, ! conduct, movements, associates, transactions, reputation or character of i j persons, fi~ins, or corporations; the credibility of witnesses or other persona; the location or recovery of lost or stolen property; the securing of evidence to be used before authorized investigating committees, boards of award or arbitration, or in the trial of civil or criminal cases; the I cause, origin, or responsibility for fires, accidents or injury to real ' or personal property; or strikes. i } {b) The: term "private detective" is hereby defined to ~ an a person engaged in i ~ the detective business, for hire, who does not employ or use any employees, assistants, clerks, bookkeepers, or operatives. i (c) The term "detective agency" is hereby defined to mean any person engaged in ~ the detective business for hire, which employe one or more persons as employee, assistants, clerks, bookkeepers, or operatives in its business; f ~ provided, that persons engaged in such business whose employes, other than i ~ office employee, are in full uniform, shall not be classed as a detective I agency. I I ~ i