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.