(a) Amusement Device License. Upon the filing of an application on the form prescribed with all required information properly given to the Mayor or a designee thereof, approval by the Mayor or a designee thereof and the payment of a fee of twenty dollars ($20.00) per device covering the period of one year or any portion thereof, the Mayor shall issue a mechanical or electrically operated amusement device license which shall expire at 11:59 p. m. on December 31 of each calendar year during the period of operation unless earlier revoked by the Mayor. Such a license shall entitle the person therein named to display at or upon the premises therein described one mechanical or electrically operated amusement device. If any licensed device is replaced or substituted for with another mechanical or electrically operated amusement device during any calendar year, a new application for such device shall be submitted with a fee of ten dollars ($10.00) and evidence satisfactory to the Mayor or a designee thereof of the removal from the premises of the previously licensed device. Upon approval by the Mayor or a designee thereof, a new license shall then be issued for such replacement or substitute device for the remainder of the calendar year.
(b) Gameroom or Amusement Arcade License. Upon the filing of an application on the form prescribed by the Mayor or a designee thereof, approval by the Mayor or a designee thereof and the payment of a fee of one hundred dollars ($100.00) per gameroom or amusement arcade covering the period of the first year or any portion thereof of operation, the Mayor or a designee thereof shall issue a gameroom or amusement abrade license which shall expire at 11:59 p.m. on December 31 of the first year of operation. Such license shall be renewed each year thereafter upon the payment of a license fee of fifty dollars ($50.00) and which shall expire at 11:59 p.m. on December 31 of each year of operation unless earlier revoked by the Mayor or a designee thereof. A gameroom or amusement arcade license shall entitle the person therein named to operate a gameroom or amusement arcade at the premises therein described. The gameroom or amusement arcade license fee shall be required in addition to the license fee required by subsection (a) hereof. (Ord. 83-4. Passed 3-21-83.)
(c) Nontransferable. A mechanical or electrically operated amusement device license and/or gameroom or amusement arcade license shall not be transferable from person to person or location to location. A new license shall be required whenever a mechanical or electrical amusement device is moved to a different location within the City or is purchased or otherwise acquired by a different person. (Ord. 81-65. Passed 6-29-81.)