(A) Definition. For the purpose of this section, the following definition shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
COIN-OPERATED MECHANICAL AMUSEMENT DEVICE. Any machine which, upon the insertion of a coin, token, or slug, operates or may be operated by the public generally for use as a game, entertainment, music, or amusement, and which contains no automatic pay-off device for the return of money, coins, checks, tokens, or merchandise, or which provides no such pay-off by any other means or manner except that this provision may not prohibit the licensing of such a machine which returns slugs or tokens which may be used only in the machine licensed and which in itself does not constitute a gambling device. The term shall include so-called pinball machines, music machines, motion picture machines, and all other machines which, by the insertion of a coin or token, operate for the entertainment or amusement of the player, except weighing machines.
(B) License. No person, firm, or corporation shall own, operate, maintain, or keep for operation within the City of Madison Lake any such coin-operated mechanical amusement device as defined without first having applied for and received a license as hereinafter provided. No license shall be issued for any gambling device as gambling licenses are issued by the State of Minnesota.
(C) Application for license.
(1) Each owner or lessee of each individual machine or device shall make application at the office of the City Clerk-Treasurer, upon forms furnished by the city, for a license. Each application shall be accompanied by the annual license fee as stated in the license fee schedule Chapter 33.
(2) The license shall be displayed in a prominent place at the business on or before January 1 and shall expire December 31, and shall be renewed prior to January 1 each year thereafter. The license shall not be transferable from person to person. Upon revocation or lapsing of any license, no refund shall be made of any portion of the license fee. License fees shall not be prorated for partial year terms.
(D) License revocation. Any license granted under the terms of this section may be revoked by the City Council at any time without a hearing and without notice to the licensee. Any misstatement of fact in the applications for the licenses shall be grounds for revocation of the license.
(E) Violations. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(F) Effective date. This section shall take effect and be in force after its passage and publication in summary form.
(Ord. 136, passed 11-9-1987) Penalty, see § 10.99