(A) Defined. For the purpose of this section, the following definition shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
PHOTOELECTRIC AMUSEMENT DEVICE. An instrument or a combination of instruments consisting of a ray-of-light shooting device and target equipped with a photoelectric cell.
(B) License required; limitation of number. No person shall keep or permit to be kept, for gain or profit from operation in the city, a photoelectric amusement device without first obtaining a license therefor. No license shall be issued for more than a total of ten photoelectric amusement devices and/or automatic amusement devices, including a pool table in accordance with Chapter 816, at the same establishment. The limitation of ten devices applies regardless of the number of business licenses held by the establishment at any one location (i.e. tavern, food service, bowling alley and the like).
(C) License applications. In addition to the license application provisions of Chapter 801, an application for the license required in division (B) hereof shall include the number and a description of the photoelectric amusement devices intended to be kept for use on the premises.
(D) Gambling. No person shall keep, permit to be kept or use a photoelectric amusement device for gaming, chance, the distribution of money, gifts or other articles of value or in connection with any raffle or lottery except as set forth in § 804.19 or for traditional games providing trinkets or gifts of nominal value (e.g., plush toys, pens, or dolls) at the end of or during a gaming session. Any video gaming terminals at the premises of a licensee shall be kept in a demarcated area which is separated from any automatic amusement machine or photoelectric amusement device.
(E) Restriction of use by minors.
(1) No person who has obtained a license pursuant to this section shall, at any store or in connection with any other place of business where minors are customers, cause or allow a photoelectric amusement device to be in use by a minor between 7:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. on any school day unless the minor is accompanied by a parent or guardian.
(2) This restriction of usage applies to any person at any store or in connection with any other place of business where the business transacted consists of school books, school supplies, food, lunches, drinks, entertainment or recreational activities for minors.
(Ord. passed 12-21-1943; Ord. passed 6-28-1982; Ord. 92-06, passed 2-11-1992; Ord. 05-50, passed 11-22-2005; Ord. 17-36, passed 9-26-2017; Ord. 20-06, passed 2-25-2020)