715.04 DENIAL OF LICENSE.

   The Safety-Service Director is authorized and empowered to deny, for reasonable cause, applications for licenses. No license shall be issued under the provisions of this chapter to any applicant therefor unless the Safety-Service Director has found that such applicant is of good moral character. The lack of such qualification on the part of the applicant shall be deemed grounds for denial of or revocation of such license by the Safety-Service Director.

715.05 EXEMPTIONS.

   No license fee shall be charged for mechanical amusement devices exhibited or amusement arcades operated solely for the benefit of a charitable, religious or eleemosynary institution.

715.06 APPLICATIONS.

   Every applicant desiring to obtain any exhibitor's license or licenses shall file an application with the Safety-Service Director upon a form to be prescribed by him, prior to the receiving of any such license or licenses, stating the number of mechanical amusement devices intended to be exhibited and including information as to the applicant's arrest record over the five-year period immediately prior to the date of application, such application to include also an affidavit as to the good moral character of the applicant.

715.07 ISSUANCE RESTRICTIONS.

   The Safety-Service Director is authorized and empowered to establish, adopt and enforce, or cause to be enforced, such rules and regulations governing the issuance of the licenses and registrations required under this chapter as he may deem reasonable and necessary and not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter. The Safety-Service Director shall adopt and enforce a rule or regulation requiring an affidavit by each applicant relative to his good moral character.

715.08 LICENSE FOR MECHANICAL AMUSEMENT DEVICES.

   The Safety-Service Director may issue a single license for as many as four coin-operated mechanical amusement devices. A separate license shall be required for each location where such devices are to be exhibited.

715.09 LICENSE PER ARCADE.

   Each amusement arcade shall be licensed and registered as such amusement arcade and a license and registration therefor shall be required in addition to, and independent of, the license and registration required herein for individual mechanical amusement devices.

715.10 FEES.

   The fees for licenses and registration shall be paid at the time of the issuance thereof and shall be as follows:

   (a)   Mechanical Amusement Device: Twenty-five dollars ($25.00) each per year. If the application is filed and the device placed on exhibit after July 1, the fee shall be fifteen dollars ($15.00) for balance of the year.

   (b)   Amusement Arcade. One hundred seventy-five dollars ($175.00) per year for each place of business. If the application is filed and the amusement arcade commences operation after July 1, the fee shall be one hundred dollars ($100.00) for the balance of the year. Such fee shall be in addition to and independent of machine or exhibitor's fees.

715.11 ADDITIONAL DEVICES.

   A licensee desiring to exhibit additional mechanical amusement devices during the license period shall apply for a new license to replace the licensee's existing license, and upon issuance, such replacement license shall include the devices currently in use and the additional devices the licensee desires to exhibit. Such application need not include information concerning the applicant's arrest record, nor shall an affidavit relative to his good moral character be required. The licensee shall pay at the time of submitting the application the fees required by Section 715.10 (a) for the additional devices. At the time the replacement license is issued, the licensee shall surrender his existing license to the Safety-Service Director.