(a) All building and fire code standards must be met. Inspection by building officials and the issuance of a certificate of occupancy shall be obtained before a license for an amusement redemption machine game room is issued.
(b) Game rooms shall only be considered in existing Light Industrial (“I”), Medium Industrial (“J”) or Heavy Industrial (“K”) districts and the use must then be approved as a Planned Development (“PD”) District.
(c) Only one game room shall be allowed on any lot or in any single building, structure or tenant space within a strip center.
(d) No game room shall be situated within 1,000 feet of any church, school, residential district or use, hospital or any other game room. The distance shall be measured in a straight line without regard to intervening objects or structures and from the nearest property line of the game room seeking a license to the nearest property line of the church, school, residential district or use, hospital or any other game room or property line to district boundary, whichever is more restrictive.
(e) All game rooms shall have all doors providing ingress and egress from the game room unlocked during the hours of operation.
(f) The hours of operation for game rooms shall be limited to the following hours:
(1) Monday through Thursday, open at 8:30 a.m. and close at 11:00 p.m.; and
(2) Friday through Sunday, open at 8:30 a.m. and close at 12:00 a.m.
(g) One parking space shall be provided for each two amusement redemption machines within the game room, plus one additional parking space for each employee per shift.
(h) The owner, operator or manager of the licensed premises must be present to supervise the operation of the game room. The game room shall not be left unattended.
(i) Amusement redemption machines must be situated within the licensed premises as to be in full and open view, which entails being visible to all customers of the establishment.
(j) No person under the age of 18 years shall be permitted inside the building, structure, facility or space housing the game room.
(k) A sign stating that no one under the age of 18 is allowed inside the game room building shall be posted in plain sight immediately inside the entrance stating that:
“No person under the age of 18 years shall be permitted inside the building, structure, facility or space housing the game room.”
(l) A game room operator must be a person who is at least 18 years of age.
(m) The total number of amusement redemption machine allowed in one amusement redemption machine game room establishment shall be limited to 30 amusement redemption machine games. Any back-up or replacement amusement redemption machine games shall be secured in a locked storage area or closet to which the patron is not allowed to enter and such machines shall not be connected to electricity or otherwise operational. The occupation tax on such back-up or replacement amusement redemption machine games shall be paid annually regardless of whether such machines are used by the game room’s patrons.
(n) Nothing contained herein shall be construed or have the effect to license, permit, authorize or legalize any machine, device, table or gaming machine, the keeping, exhibition, operation, display or maintenance of which is illegal or in violation of any ordinance of the city, any section of the penal code of this state, or the constitution of this state.
(Ord. 21500-10-2014, § 1, passed 10-14-2014, eff. 10-23-2014)