(a) Parcel Checking Devices. The annual license fee to keep or maintain an automatic baggage or 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.
(b) Automatic Toilet Lockers. 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.
(c) Amusement, Music and Merchandise Devices. For any penny slot chewing gum machine so kept and maintained which is operated by any charitable or benevolent organization in the furtherance of its charitable or benevolent functions, the annual license fee will be fifty cents (50¢) per machine so used and operated and no other fees or charges shall be made therefor.
The annual license fee to own and operate a total of twenty or more coin-operated amusement or music devices of the following types shall be: one cent devices, fifty dollars ($50.00); five cent devices, one hundred dollars ($100.00); ten cent devices, two hundred twenty-five dollars ($225.00); over ten cent devices, three hundred dollars ($300.00). The operator of more than one type of such devices shall pay the highest fee prescribed. The license fee to own and operate less than twenty amusement or music devices shall be upon a per device basis as follows: one cent devices, two dollars ($2.00) five cent devices, five dollars ($5.00); ten cent devices, ten dollars ($10.00); over ten cent devices, twelve dollars and fifty cents ($12.50). Any device taking more than one denomination of coin shall be licensed on the basis of the largest denomination of coin taken or the total of the coins necessary to make the device function or operate.
The annual license fee to own and operate a total of twenty or more coin-operated merchandise or service devices of the following types shall be: one cent devices, fifty dollars ($50.00); five cent devices, one hundred dollars ($100.00); ten cent devices, one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00); over ten cent devices, two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00). The operator of more than one type of such devices shall pay the highest fee prescribed. The license fee to own and operate less than twenty merchandise or service devices shall be upon a per device basis as follows: one cent devices, two dollars ($2.00); five cent devices, five dollars ($5.00); ten cent devices, ten dollars ($10.00); over ten cent devices, twelve dollars and fifty cents ($12.50). Any device taking more than one denomination of coin shall be licensed on the basis of the largest denomination of coin taken or the total of the coins necessary to make the device function or operate.
(1968 Code §14-27)