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No person, firm, corporation or association shall display or exhibit an amusement device, juke box or cigarette vending machine or maintain or engage in the business of operating a game room within the corporate limits without having first obtained a license therefor from the Mayor or his or her designee. A separate license shall be required for each amusement device, juke box or cigarette vending machine displayed at any one time. An additional license shall be required for operation or maintenance of a game room.
(Ord. 48-1982. Passed 3-15-82.)
Application for a license to display an amusement device, juke box or cigarette vending machine or maintain a game room must be made to the Mayor or his or her designee upon such forms as shall be prepared therefor by the Mayor or his or her designee. Such application must be made by the owner or proprietor of the business or place at which such amusement device, juke box or cigarette vending machine is to be displayed or the game room is to be operated or maintained. The application shall state the name of the owner of such place or business; the address of the place for which the license is sought; the residence address of the owner; the serial number and name of the manufacturer of the amusement device, juke box or cigarette vending machine; the owner of such amusement device, juke box or cigarette vending machine; the name and address of the distributor of such amusement device, juke box or cigarette vending machine; the nature of the business in conjunction with which such amusement device, juke box or cigarette vending machine is to be displayed; and such other information as may be required by the Mayor or his or her designee.
(Ord. 48-1982. Passed 3-15-82.)
Upon approval of an application and upon the payment of the annual license fee of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per amusement device, five dollars ($5.00) per juke box and twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for a cigarette vending machine, a license to display one amusement device, cigarette vending machine or juke box shall be issued to the applicant. Upon the approval of an application and upon payment of the annual license fee of fifty dollars ($50.00), a license for a game room shall be issued, provided the applicant has secured a certificate of occupancy pursuant to the Building and Housing Code for the game room premises as a place of public assembly with reference to the game room use included.
No person shall distribute amusement devices, juke boxes or cigarette vending machines within the corporate limits by lease, conditional sale or any financial conditional method, a distributor also being known as an operator, without first having obtained a distributor's license therefor from the Mayor or his or her designee upon the payment of the annual license fee of fifty dollars ($50.00). This license fee shall be for the fiscal year beginning January 1 of the calendar year or for any unexpired portion of any such fiscal year. Nothing in this section shall be intended to prohibit any person or the owner of a place of business from purchasing such amusement device outright from any source, provided compliance is made for the annual license as hereinbefore set forth and upon presentation of a bill of sale therefor.
A separate license shall be required for each and every amusement device, juke box or cigarette vending machine which is displayed by any person at any one time, but any license may change from the display of one approved amusement device, juke box or cigarette vending machine to the display of another approved amusement device, juke box or cigarette vending machine at any time for the same licensee at the same premises. A license issued under the provisions of this chapter shall not be transferred from one person to another person, but such license may be transferred by the licensee therein named from the place specified in such license to another place owned or leased by such licensee, should the licensee move his or her business from the address specified to another location.
(Ord. 48-1982. Passed 3-15-82.)
A game room, being a place of public assembly, shall require a new certificate of occupancy under the Building and Housing Code upon commencement of such business or upon the addition of one or more amusement devices. The application for such certificate of occupancy shall include a floor plan showing the location of all amusement devices and other equipment to be located in the game room and, when required by the Building Commissioner, an architect's certificate certifying that the floor has sufficient strength to maintain the proposed amusement devices and other equipment and limiting the number of persons that may be in such game room at any given time.
(Ord. 48-1982. Passed 3-15-82.)
Each operator of a game room shall provide at least one or more responsible adults, twenty-one years of age or older, as supervisor(s) who shall be readily identifiable and on duty at all times when the game room equipment is operated in operating condition or otherwise opened for business. Such supervisor(s) shall maintain the decorum of the game room and keep the aisles free for passage throughout the game room and shall further control the amount of noise as required by this chapter.
(Ord. 48-1982. Passed 3-15-82.)
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