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(a) Businesses and/or premises licensed by the State Department of Liquor Control for on-premises consumption of alcoholic beverages, wherein the annual gross revenues generated from the operation of amusement devices is no greater than twenty-five percent of the annual gross revenue for such business or premises, shall be required to obtain a permit for each coin-operated machine operated on the premises.
(b) Applications for such permits shall be made to the Building Inspector and shall be on forms prescribed and furnished by the City. Such applications shall include the name and address of the applicant, the place where such amusement device is to be installed, displayed, operated or maintained, the nature of the business conducted at that place, the total number of such amusement devices to be displayed, installed, operated or maintained, the description of each, including the serial numbers of each such device, and such other and further information as may be required by the City.
(c) Each applicant shall be charged with the duty of reporting any newly installed amusement device or any substitutions made during the permit period.
(d) The permit provided for in this section shall cover the period from May 1 through April 30 of the following year, unless otherwise earlier suspended or revoked.
(e) The fee for each amusement device permit provided for in this section shall be twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per year or any portion thereof.
(Ord. 88-84. Passed 3-7-88; Ord. 89-225. Passed 10-2-89; Ord. 90-299. Passed 12-3-90.)
Whoever violates any of the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree for the first offense and shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) or imprisoned not more than sixty days, or both; for a second or subsequent offense, such person is guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree and shall be fined not more than seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00) or imprisoned not more than ninety days, or both. A separate offense shall be deemed committed each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues.
(Ord. 88-84. Passed 3-7-88.)