(a) Computerized sweepstakes device means any computer, machine, game or apparatus which, upon the insertion of a coin, game card, initiating device, token or similar object, or upon payment of anything of value, wherein a product or service is provided, may be operated by the public generally for use as a contest of skill, entertainment or amusement, whether or not registering a score.
(b) Safety Service Director means the City Safety Service Director.
(c) Board means the City Board of Zoning Appeals.
(d) Operator means the person or persons having authority to control the premises of a sweepstakes terminal café.
(e) Licensee means the person or persons who sign(s) an application for a license hereunder and to whom such license is issued.
(f) Owner means any person who possesses a membership, voting or pecuniary interest, either directly or indirectly, of twenty-five percent (25%) or more in a sweepstakes terminal café.
(g) Person means any natural person, firm, partnership, association, corporation or any other form of business organization.
(h) Premises means the building or portion thereof used for conducting the operation of a sweepstakes terminal café.
(i) School means any educational institution, public, private, secular or parochial, which offers instruction of high school grade or lower.
(j) Sweepstakes Terminal Café means any individual premises upon which any computerized sweepstakes device is located for the use or entertainment of the public, whether or not such premises have other business purposes of any nature whatsoever.
(k) Alcohol means ethyl alcohol, whether rectified or diluted with water or not, whatever its origin may be, and includes synthetic ethyl alcohol. Such term excludes denatured alcohol and wood alcohol.
(l) Intoxicating liquor and liquor means all liquids and compounds, other than beer as defined in subsection (c) hereof, containing one half of one percent (0.5%) or more of alcohol by volume which are fit to use for beverage purposes, from whatever source and by whatever process produced, by whatever name called and whether they are medicated, proprietary or patented. Such phrase includes wine as defined in Ohio R.C. 4301.01 even if it contains less than four percent (4%) of alcohol by volume, mixed beverages as defined in Ohio R.C. 4301.01 even if they contain less than four percent (4%) of alcohol by volume, cider, alcohol and all solids and confections which contain alcohol.
(m) Beer means all beverages brewed or fermented wholly or in part from malt products and containing one-half of one percent (0.5%) or more, but not more than twelve (12%) of alcohol by volume. (Ord. 32-12. Passed 4-2-12.)