A. Generate Revenue: This chapter is enacted, except as otherwise specified in this chapter, to provide revenue for municipal purposes and to provide revenue to pay for the necessary expense required to regulate the amusement devices licensed.
B. License Fees Independent: The license fees levied by this chapter shall be independent and separate from any license or permit fees required of any person to engage in any business by any ordinance of the city as of or after the effective date hereof.
C. Illegal Operation: The levy or collection of an amusement device license fee shall not be construed to be a license or permit of the city to the person operating the amusement device to conduct operation of the amusement device in the event such operation shall be unlawful, illegal, or prohibited by the laws of the state of Oregon or the United States or ordinances of the city. (1996 Code § 5.12.010)