(A) The City’s Finance and Administration Department shall not issue or renew a permit under this subchapter and shall suspend or cancel a permit if it be determined that the applicant or permittee is indebted to the City for any fee, costs, penalties or delinquent taxes.
(B) (1) It is 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 a school playground; nor within 200 feet from any residential zone; nor within 200 feet from 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.
(3) The restrictions established hereunder shall not apply to game rooms lawfully in existence and operating upon the effective date of this subchapter.
(C) The City’s Finance and Administration Department may refuse to issue any permit under this subchapter for any premises that have living quarters with direct entry to the premises.
(1995 Code, § 5.36.090)