(a) The annual license fee to keep or maintain an automatic baggage or a parcel checking machine, or device, which is used for the storage of baggage or parcels of any character, shall be fifty cents ($ .50) for each section of any such device which is operated on the coin-in-the- slot principle; the annual license fee to keep or maintain any automatic toilet locker or device, shall be fifty cents ($ .50) for every such locker or device; the annual license fee to keep or maintain any other automatic penny slot machine or device, which is not a gambling device under any law of this State, shall be two dollars ($2.00) for every such machine or device; and, the annual license fee to keep or maintain any other automatic slot machine or device, which is not a gambling device, as aforesaid, shall be five dollars ($5.00) for every such machine or device.
(b) The term "slot machine" when used in this section shall not mean or include any pay telephone or postage stamp vending machine operated on the coin-in-the-slot principle.
(c) In the event the owner of any automatic machine or device refuses, neglects or fails to pay the license fee due upon any such machine or device, then the proprietor or owner of the business conducted in the store room or place where such machine is installed, operated or maintained, shall be liable for the payment of such license fee and upon his refusal or failure to pay such fee the Treasurer or his agents may take such machine or device into possession and deliver the same to the Chief of Police. Such machine or device shall be impounded until such license fee is paid. In the event the license fee and penalties are not paid to the Chief of Police within ten days from and after the date of such impounding, then he shall sell such machine or device in the manner provided by law for the sale of personal property for taxes, and from the proceeds thereof, shall discharge and pay the license fee due on such machine or device and his costs, including cost of impounding, storage, penalties and other fees due the City, and the balance, if any there be, shall be forfeited to the City.
(Ord. 103. Passed 6-25-42.)