A. Purpose: No person shall operate, maintain, possess or install in any store, building, public or quasi-public place where the public is invited, or wherein the public may enter, any amusement device unless such person or entity shall have first obtained an amusement device license for that purpose from the city administrator. Such license shall be in addition to the general business license required for the applicant to engage in business activities on the premises.
B. Gambling Devices Not Permitted: Nothing in this chapter shall in any way be construed to authorize, license, or permit a gambling device, or a mechanism that has been judicially determined to be a gambling device, or in any way contrary to law, or that may be contrary to future laws of the state.
C. License Issuance: All amusement device licenses for the placement, operation, or use of amusement devices shall be issued to and in the name of the licensee. An amusement device license shall be required for each number of amusement devices placed for operation in a business. Such license shall be transferable from one amusement device to another similar amusement device within that business; provided, however, the total number of amusement devices placed for operation shall not at any time exceed the number of amusement device licenses issued to that business. The licensee shall notify the city administrator of the transfer of the amusement device license within ten (10) business days of its occurrence, identifying, by serial number and title by which the game is commonly known, the device which is now installed, possessed or operated.
D. Term; Transfer: The term of an amusement device license commences January 1 and expires at twelve o'clock (12:00) midnight on December 31 of the same year. The fee for each such amusement device license shall be as set forth pursuant to section 3-2-9 of this chapter. (Ord. 939, 4-30-2014)