For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning:
ANYTHING OF VALUE.
Cash, cash equivalents, tangible objects, credits to play, and any other tangibles or intangibles, no matter how slight.
ANYTHING OF VALUE
includes playing a game, viewing a video display, hearing an audio transmission, and reading entries or outcomes from any other kind of device. A person who gives anything of value for a product or service, whether tangible or intangible, in any way, directly or indirectly, in association with being given access to the use of an entertainment device, is deemed to have given value for the access to the entertainment device.
COMPUTERIZED SWEEPSTAKES DEVICE.
Any computer, machine, game, or apparatus which, upon the insertion of a coin, token, access number, magnetic card, or similar object, or upon the payment of anything of value, wherein a product or service may be 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 provides the user with a chance to win anything of value that is not de minimus, on a per play basis, or any cash payout or anything that could be redeemed, directly or indirectly, for any cash payout, and which is not gambling under state or local laws. Machines designated for use by the State Lottery Commission are not computerized sweepstakes devices for purposes of this chapter.
DE MINIMUS,
as used in this section, shall mean less than $10.
INTERNET SWEEPSTAKES CAFE.
Any 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.
LICENSEE.
The person or persons who sign an application for a license hereunder and to whom such license is issued.
OPERATOR.
Any person or persons having authority to control the premises of an arcade or internet sweepstakes cafe.
OWNER.
Any person who possesses a pecuniary interest, either directly or indirectly, of 10% or more in an internet sweepstakes cafe.
(Ord. 11-16, passed 7-19-11)