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(a) Title. This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Sweepstakes Terminal Café.
(b) Purpose and Objectives. It is the purpose of this chapter and the policy of the City to establish standards for licensing, regulation and control of computerized sweepstakes devices and sweepstakes terminal cafes and similar operations, and premises upon which they are located and operated for purpose of entertainment of the public. The objectives of this chapter are to prevent safety and fire hazards, disturbances, disruption of pedestrian traffic, disorderly assemblies, theft of personal property, gambling and truancy within the City.
(Ord. 2010-56. Passed 10-4-10.)
(a) Construction. This chapter shall be liberally construed and applied to promote its purpose and objectives.
(b) Separability. If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any person circumstance, is held invalid or unconstitutional by any court of competent jurisdiction, such provision shall be deemed a separate, distinct and independent provision, and neither the remainder of this chapter nor the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances shall be affected thereby. (Ord. 2010-56. Passed 10-4-10.)
As used in this chapter:
(a) "Computerized sweepstakes device" means any computer, machine, game or apparatus which, upon the insertion of a coin, token or similar object, or upon payment of anything of value, wherein a product or service is provided, and may be operated by the public generally for use as a contest of skill, entertainment or amusement, whether or not registering a score, and which in no way tends to encourage gambling.
(b) "Safety Director" means the City Safety Director.
(c) "Board" means the City Planning Commission.
(d) "Operator" means the person or persons having authority to control the premises of a Sweepstakes Terminal Cafe.
(e) "Licensee" means the person or persons who sign an application for a license hereunder and to whom such license is issued.
(f) "Owner" means any person who possesses a pecuniary interest, either directly or indirectly, of twenty-five percent or more in an amusement device business and/or Sweepstakes Terminal Cafe.
(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 an amusement device business and/or Sweepstakes Terminal Cafe.
(i) "School" means any educational institution, public, private, secular or parochial, which offers instruction of high school grade or lower.
(j) "Sweepstakes Terminal Cafe" 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. (Ord. 2010-56. Passed 10-4-10.)
No person shall display for purpose of use any computerized sweepstakes device in the City without having first obtained a license therefor as provided in this chapter, which license shall be designated as a computerized sweepstakes license. A separate license is required for each such computerized sweepstakes device.
(Ord. 2010-56. Passed 10-4-10.)
No person shall conduct or operate a sweepstakes terminal cafe area in the City without having first obtained a license therefor as provided in this chapter, which license shall be designated as a sweepstakes terminal cafe license.
(Ord. 2010-56. Passed 10-4-10.)
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