The licenses provided for in this article shall be issued in the form of a certificate by the City Clerk to any person making proper application therefor, on forms to be prescribed and furnished by the Clerk, and tendering the license tax and a filing tax fee of fifty cents for each license certificate requested. In addition to the required license certificate, there shall be required and issued at the time of the issuance of such certificate to the person owning coin operated devices a decalcomania stamp or other evidence of such license certificate, at a cost not to exceed fifty cents each, for each coin operated device licensed by such certificate. The Clerk shall collect in full the proper taxes and fees and determine to his satisfaction that all the conditions precedent to the granting of such license have been fulfilled by the applicant before issuing a certificate of license.
(1978 Code Sec. 11-3)