A. Licenses are required for the business of maintaining, operating or letting the use of four (4) or less coin operated amusement machines including pinball machines, video games and computer/electronic games.
B. Licenses are required for every person or business engaged in the business of maintaining or operating an arcade.
C. It shall be unlawful for any person to install, operate or maintain to be operated any mechanical or electrical amusement device in the city without first having submitted an application and obtained a permit in writing to do so from the finance department of the city. Application for such permit shall contain the following information and statements in addition to whatever information may be deemed necessary:
1. Name of applicant;
2. Place where such mechanical amusement device is to be placed, maintained or operated, and if such mechanical amusement device is to be placed, maintained or operated in connection with any other business or calling, and the character of such business or calling;
3. The name of the owner of the place where device is to be placed, maintained or operated;
4. A complete description of the type or types of mechanical amusement device, the number thereof of each and the manner in which it is to be placed, maintained or operated;
5. Statement whether device is wired for electricity;
6. The total number of mechanical amusement devices to be placed, maintained or operated at the location for which the permit is requested; and
7. A statement that the mechanical play device for which a permit is sought is not intended to be, and will not be permitted, for gambling purposes whatsoever.
D. Conditions of permit shall be as follows:
1. All amusement machines within the premises shall be visible to and supervised by an adult who shall be present at all times when any amusement machine is being operated;
2. Except on legal holidays during the school year, persons under the age of eighteen (18) shall not be allowed to operate amusement machines on Monday through Friday between and hours of eight o'clock (8:00) A.M. to three o'clock (3:00) P.M. unless accompanied by an authorized agent of the school district or such person's parent or guardian. It shall be the responsibility of the adult attendant to enforce this regulation;
3. Adequate parking and bicycle racks shall be provided;
4. Provisions shall be made to reduce noise caused by the operation of the amusement machines and the patrons thereof;
5. No amusement machine shall be situated in such a way that its use will violate any applicable fire regulation or hinder the reasonable egress from and ingress to the premises of the public;
6. No amusement machine shall be maintained, operated, conducted or used, nor kept for such purposes, in or on the premises of any establishment whose primary business is the retail sale of alcoholic beverages within ten feet (10') of the liquor retail department of any multi-department business establishment. This subsection shall not prohibit the operation of amusement machines in bona fide clubs, bars, saloons, taverns or restaurants which are licensed to sell alcoholic beverages;
7. No amusement machine as herein defined shall be maintained, operated, conducted or used, nor kept for such purposes, within any place which is closer than three hundred feet (300') from any public or private school which conducts classes for any of the grades from kindergarten through the grade twelve (12);
8. All amusement machines shall have posted thereon, in a conspicuous place, a decal or label for identification purposes on which is written the name, address and telephone number, if any, of the owner or operator thereof;
9. Every person who maintains a coin operated machine within the city shall give a facsimile of his license or permit to the owner, lessee, manager or his agent of the establishment at which said machines are to be located;
10. All coin operated machines for which there is no facsimile of the license or permit for the person maintaining or operating the machine(s) shall be removed from the premises by the city and held for thirty (30) days. If unclaimed after thirty (30) days, such machines will be considered abandoned and shall be disposed of as provided for in the disposition of unclaimed property. (Ord. 683, 4-16-1985)