533.14 OPERATION OF PINBALL MACHINES.

   (a)   No person owning, operating or employed at, in control of or in charge of any place of business, club, private or public or any place of entertainment or amusement shall sanction, allow, permit or encourage a minor who has not attained in his eighteenth birthday to place money in or operate any coin or slug-operated amusement device commonly known as a pinball machine or any machine of a similar nature in which a ball, pellet, disc, marble or any type of projectile is propelled by a plunger, bat, piston or any propellant whatsoever, through, upon, over or across a table, board or field studded or decorated with pins, poles, wires, holes, lights, goals or any fixtures or attachments designed to direct, control, obstruct, attract, repeal, divert, deflect or impede the progress of the propelled object.

   Coin operated vending machines distributing a tangible product, scales, pool games, and bowling games are specifically exempt from the operation of this section.

   In construing and interpreting this section, amusement shall not be considered to be a tangible product, nor shall the award, gift, sale or donation of any tangible product or item of merchandise in connection with the operation of a device covered by the prohibitory parts of this section, result in exemption from the prohibition.

(Ord. 2780. Passed 4-28-58.)

   (b)   Whoever violates this section is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.

(Ord. 80-74. Passed 10-21-74.) Penalty, see 501.99