731.01 Definition.
731.02 License required.
731.03 Application for license.
731.04 Percentage of tax; issuance of license; fee.
731.05 Revocation of license; seizure.
731.06 Appeal.
731.07 Rewards, prizes or replaying of tokens prohibited.
731.99 Penalty.
CROSS REFERENCES
Gambling - see GEN. OFF. Ch. 517
Making or using slugs - see GEN. OFF. 545.11
Tampering with coin machines - see GEN. OFF. 545.12
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise indicates:
(a) "Mechanical amusement device" means any machine or device which, upon the insertion of a coin, slug, token, plate or disc, may be operated by the public generally for use as a game, entertainment or amusement, whether or not registering a score. It shall include such devices as jukeboxes, marble machines, pinball machines, skill ball, mechanical grab machines and all games, operations or transactions similar thereto under whatever name they may be indicated. It shall also include machines which, as the result of the depositing of a coin, afford a commodity which has been determined by the Surgeon General of the United States to be harmful to health.
(b) "Person" includes the following: any person, firm, corporation or association which owns any such machine; the person, firm, corporation or association in whose place of business any such machine is placed for use by the public; the person, firm, corporation or association having control over such machines.
(Ord. 1977-108. Passed 6-14-77.)
No person, either as owner, lessee or agent for another, shall keep, possess, use, exhibit or operate any mechanical amusement device for gain, unless such device displays in a prominent place the name and business address of the person owning the device, and unless a license has first been secured from the Director of Public Safety. No license shall be issued for the operation of any games or devices which are or may readily be used in any manner or form as a gambling device or as a game of chance.
(Ord. 1977-108. Passed 6-14-77.)
Application for a license for a mechanical amusement game or device shall be made to the Chief of Police on forms provided by him and shall set forth the name, residence and business addresses of the exhibitor of the device and the place where the device is to be exhibited.
The Chief of Police shall cause an investigation to be made of the applicant for a license and of the premises wherein the games and devices are to be operated. The Safety Director shall have authority to approve or reject any application for a license.
(Ord. 1977-108. Passed 6-14-77.)
(a) Percentage of Tax. The owner of the amusement device will be responsible for submitting three percent (3%) of the dollars generated from any and all amusement devices licensed for use within the City limits. Tax amounts will be paid to the Tax Department on or before the fifteenth of the following month. Failure to remit the tax due will be a violation of this section and whoever violates any provision of this section will be denied a device use permit in future years. (Ord. 2008-042. Passed 6-24-08.)
(b) Issuance of License; Fee. Each application for a license for a mechanical amusement device shall be referred to the Chief of Police, who, when satisfied after investigation that the applicant is of good moral character, and that all prior taxes have been submitted and paid timely, shall endorse his approval on the application and return it to the Director of Public Safety. Thereupon and not otherwise, the Director of Public Safety may, upon the payment of an inspection fee in the amount of twenty dollars ($20.00) for each amusement device, issue to the applicant a license for such number of devices as have been requested and approved. The license shall be displayed at all times in a prominent place on the licensed premises. All licenses shall be issued for a period not to exceed one year and shall expire on January 21 of each year. If a license is issued for less than one year, the inspection fee shall be prorated on a quarterly basis. No person shall exhibit a greater number of devices than are authorized by the license issued for such premises. No license may be transferred from one location to another.
(Ord. 1997-074. Passed 4-8-97.)
The Director of Public Safety shall revoke any mechanical amusement device license for any violation by the licensee of any of the provisions of this chapter, including the exhibition of any device contrary to the provisions of Section 731.07. The Director and his deputies are authorized, without any order of any court, to seize any mechanical amusement device exhibited contrary to the provisions of this chapter.
(Ord. 1977-108. Passed 6-14-77.)
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