The Clerk-Treasurer shall collect the license fee prescribed below at the time the application for a license is made. The term of each license shall be for the calendar year.
(A) If an exhibitor’s license is denied, no part of the $5 fee shall be returned to the applicant and the full $5 fee shall be kept by the town to cover its expenses of investigation. If the amusement machine license is denied, the fee, less $12 for the cost to the town of the license investigation and inspections, shall be returned to the applicant.
(B) All licenses issued under this chapter, unless specified otherwise on the license, shall be issued for the duration of the calendar year for which they were issued, and all licenses shall expire on December 31 of such calendar year. In the event of an application for an amusement machine license to go into effect at any time after January 1 of any calendar year, the applicant shall be required to pay for the license a pro rata part for the portion of the year remaining up to December 31 of that year; provided, however, that, any portion of a calendar month shall be counted as one month in the computations of time for such remaining portion of the year. However, the $5 fee for an exhibitor’s license shall be for a calendar year, or any part thereof, and no part of the same shall be pro rated.
(C) If a licensed amusement device or machine is removed from the premises prior to the expiration of the license and replaced by an unlicensed machine or device, the unexpired term remaining under the license for the removed machine may be transferred to the unlicensed machine upon the payment of a $12 transfer fee by the application, and the Clerk-Treasurer shall issue a license for the replacement machine. A license issued hereunder for a replacement machine shall expire on December 31 of such calendar year. In lieu of paying a transfer fee, the applicant may obtain a new license for the replacement machine upon the payment of the appropriate license fee as required under this chapter.
(D) If a licensed amusement device or machine is removed from the premises prior to the expiration of the license and not replaced by another machine or device, no part of the license fee for the unexpired term of the license shall be returned to the applicant.
(Prior Code, § 6:1:05) (Ord. 82-41, passed 2-2-1983; Ord. 91-3, passed 6-19-1991)