(a) No person shall exhibit or maintain, or cause or permit to be exhibited or maintained, in the City, any machine, device or instrument which may be operated by the use of any coin, currency, token, slug, disc, marble, ball or puzzle, whether such machine, device or instrument purports to vend or distribute merchandise, or to furnish recreation or amusement, if such machine, device or instrument, when so operated, returns or distributes more or less than it purports to return or distribute, or returns or distributes one or more coins, currency, tokens, slugs, discs, marbles, balls or other articles, or records or tabulates a score, number or mark, which may be used for obtaining merchandise or other articles.
(b) Coin or currency operated machines or devices may be operated or maintained in amusement parks which are operating pursuant to a license issued by the City, so long as such machines or devices are designed, arranged and used solely for the amusement or recreation of persons using them and so long as the persons using such machines or devices are offered no prizes, free merchandise, coins, slugs, free plays or anything else of value, and provided that such machines or devices exhibit or display nothing of an obscene, suggestive or immoral nature.
(Ord. 2000-33. Passed 5-22-00.)