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§ 113.09 RESPONSIBILITIES OF PROPRIETOR.
   (A)   Floor plan.
      (1)   It shall be required that the proprietor of all business establishments being operated as a game room submit to and file with the City Clerk-Treasurer a complete floor plan of the premises which shall clearly indicate all points of entrance and exit. Said floor plan shall be drawn on the form to be submitted to each proprietor by the City Clerk-Treasurer. It shall be submitted by the proprietor to the City Clerk-Treasurer at the time of his or her next permit renewal or at the time of initial application for such permit.
      (2)   The proprietor shall be required to supplement or update said floor plan from time to time and in the event that the business premises shall undergo any change in the number of entrances and exits. The addition to or removal from any business premises of any entrance or exit shall be clearly indicated on the supplemental or updated floor plan.
      (3)   An entrance or exit shall be construed as a door, opening or passageway that is or can be used as a point of ingress and egress to the business premises.
   (B)   Visibility.
      (1)   All coin-operated machines and any person operating the same must be visible from the entrance to the business establishment being conducted as a game room and the entrance must be unlocked during all times that the premises in question are open for business.
      (2)   All law enforcement personnel of the city shall have the right to enter into said premises, which shall include the right to enter into any adjoining or adjacent room or rooms to the licensed premises, at any time during normal business hours for the purpose of enforcement of terms of this subchapter.
      (3)   The lighting in the business establishment being conducted as a game room must be sufficient enough that all coin-operated machines and any person operating the same are clearly visible from the entrance. Lighting emitted solely from the coin-operated machine itself shall not be sufficient.
      (4)   Failure to comply with this provision shall be grounds for revocation or suspension of the permit issued under this subchapter.
   (C)   Indebtedness to city. The City Clerk-Treasurer shall not issue or renew a permit under this subchapter and shall suspend or cancel a permit if it is determined that the applicant or permittee is indebted to the city for any fee, costs, penalties or delinquent taxes.
   (D)   Proximity to schools, churches, libraries and residential zones.
      (1)   It shall be unlawful for any proprietor of a business establishment being conducted as a game room to cause, permit or allow the same to be located, operated or maintained within 200 feet of a building used primarily as a church or for classrooms of a school or from the nearest street entrance to any school playground, or within 200 feet of any other existing game room; nor within 200 feet of any public library.
      (2)   The distance is to be measured in a straight line from and to the nearest points of the respective properties. The restrictions by division (B) above shall not apply to game rooms lawfully in existence and operating upon the effective date of this subchapter.
(1992 Code, § 113.13) Penalty, see § 113.99
§ 113.10 OBLIGATION OF PROPRIETOR RESTRICTING OPERATION BY MINORS.
   It shall be unlawful and contrary to public policy for any proprietor of coin-operated machines to permit any person not having attained his or her eighteenth birthday to play, operate, assist, manage or attempt thereto, any coin-operated machine or device of similar contrivance, regardless of label or name there affixed, within the confines of the city, during hours when the minor’s particular school is actually in session. This section shall not apply to minors no longer in school.
(1992 Code, § 113.14) Penalty, see § 113.99
§ 113.11 INTOXICATED PERSONS PROHIBITED ON PREMISES.
   No proprietor shall permit intoxicated persons to loiter on the premises.
(1992 Code, § 113.15) Penalty, see § 113.99
§ 113.12 SUBSTITUTION OF COIN-OPERATED MACHINE.
   The licensee may substitute one coin-operated machine for a similar coin-operated machine without paying any additional licensing fee, provided that he or she first applies to the City Clerk-Treasurer for permission to make the exchange and supplies all the information required for the original license.
(1992 Code, § 113.16)
§ 113.13 DELINQUENT PAYMENT; PENALTY.
   Any fee unpaid when due, and remaining unpaid for 30 days thereafter, shall have added thereto a penalty of 10% and interest on the principal sum at a rate of 12% per annum from the due date until paid.
(1992 Code, § 113.17)
§ 113.14 DISPOSITION OF FEES.
   (A)   The license fees levied by this subchapter shall be used together with the other funds to defray the cost of inspection of coin-operated machines to insure compliance with regulations, and the general expense of maintaining the city government.
   (B)   The fees collected pursuant hereto shall be placed in the General Fund for the aforesaid purposes.
(1992 Code, § 113.18)
§ 113.99 PENALTY.
   (A)   Any conviction pursuant to § 113.99 and the imposition of a penalty, shall not excuse any person from payment of the established fee or tax due and unpaid at the time of such conviction, nor shall it act as a bar in any civil action brought to effect recovery of such fee, penalty and interest.
(1992 Code, § 113.98)
   (B)   Any person who violates the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a violation and shall be fined no more than $250 and court costs for each offense. Upon conviction of any violation, in addition to the aforementioned penalty, said license issued under this chapter may be revoked.