(a) The Mayor or the Chief of Police, whoever is appropriate, shall determine that the following prerequisites to the issuance of an amusement device license have been established:
(1) The applicant has not been convicted of a felony, a misdemeanor involving minors, a misdemeanor involving moral turpitude or a crime of violence within the previous five years.
(2) A license properly issued to the applicant has not previously been revoked or forfeited within the previous five years.
(3) The location, structure, placement, wiring and connections of the amusement devices are suitable under applicable sections of the Building Code.
(4) The machine or device will not be located within 100 feet of any church, school, library, playground or residential district.
(b) The Mayor or the Chief of Police shall endorse on each application his or her approval or disapproval, with reasons for a disapproval, and return the same to the applicant. Upon approval by the Mayor or the Chief of Police, and upon payment of a license fee of one hundred dollars ($100.00) per year for each device, the Mayor shall issue to the applicant a license for the number of devices as are set forth in such application.
(c) Each license shall expire on December 31 of each year. There shall be no proration of license fees required by this section. However, owners of regulated devices on the effective date of this chapter (Ordinance 82-031, passed October 5, 1982) shall be charged fifty dollars ($50.00) per unit for the first year of licensing and one hundred dollars ($100.00) per unit for all subsequent years.
(Ord. 82-031. Passed 10-5-82; Ord. 84-055. Passed 10-16-84.)