(a) "Place of business" for purposes of this chapter, and Section 1141.03 of the Planning and Zoning Code means a business within a building or any part of a building having less than six mechanical, electrically, and/or electronically operated amusement devices which are used for the purpose of public entertainment through the operation, use or play, of any table game or device commonly known as mechanical, electric, and/or electronic games which are operated by placing therein any coin, plate, disc, plug, key, card, token of value and/or by the payment of a fee.
(b) "Establishment" or "amusement center" for purposes of this chapter, and Section 1141.03 of the Planning and Zoning Code means a business within a building or any part of a building having more than six mechanical, electrically, and/or electronically operated amusement devices which are used for the purpose of public entertainment through the operation, use or play, of any game, table game and/or devices commonly known as electronic games and which are operated by placing therein any coin, plate, disc, plug, key, card, token of value and/or by the payment of a fee.
(c) "Mechanical, electrically, and/or electronically operated amusement device" means any coin operated, computer, device or instrument, which upon the insertion of a coin, plate, disc, plug, key, card, token of value, and/or payment of a fee, operates or may be operated for use as a game, contest of skill or amusement, of any description regardless of whether said device is used for gambling as defined in the Ohio Revised Code. For the purposes of this chapter, however, nothing contained herein shall apply to the operation of coin operated pool tables. As used in this chapter, and except where more specifically delineated, the term "electrical" shall include the term "electronic" and the term "electrically" shall include the term "electronically".
(d) "Owner" means any person having possession of any mechanical, electrical, and/or electronic amusement device or any person operating a place of business, an establishment or amusement center as defined in subsections (a) and (b) hereof.
(Ord. 25-2010. Passed 4-26-10.)