781.01 Definitions.
781.02 License required.
781.03 License requirements.
781.04 Denial of license.
781.05 Fee exemption.
781.06 Applications.
781.07 Issuance restrictions.
781.08 License nontransferable
781.09 License for one device or for group of devices; fee.
781.10 License for arcade.
781.11 Fees.
781.12 Additional devices and arcades.
781.13 Affidavit required; false affidavit.
781.14 Gambling devices.
781.15 License and registration information.
781.16 License expiration.
781.17 Suspension or revocation.
781.19 Unlicensed or unregistered devices.
781.20 Prohibited devices.
781.21 Records to be kept.
781.22 Coin-operated billiard tables: licensing; fees; minors.
781.23 Transfer of license and registration.
781.99 Penalty.
CROSS REFERENCES
Gambling - see GEN. OFF. Ch. 517
Billiard rooms - see BUS. REG. Ch. 711
The following definitions apply to the provisions of this chapter:
(a) "City" means the City of Reynoldsburg, Ohio.
(b) "Amusement arcade" means a place of amusement which has more than five mechanical or electrically operated amusement devices as defined in subsection (d) hereof or derives in excess of fifty percent of its gross receipts from the operation of such devices. However, in the case of any person operating a carnival and who operates an amusement arcade as a part thereof, the fifty percent gross receipts referred to above shall apply only to the gross receipts of the amusement arcade and not to gross receipts of the operations of the carnival company.
(c) "Exhibitor" means any person owning and exhibiting or contracting or permitting any mechanical amusement device, as defined in subsection (d) hereof, to be installed, used and exhibited in his own place of business irrespective of the ownership of such device.
(d) "Mechanical" or "electrically operated amusement device", hereinafter referred to as "coin-operated amusement devices", means a machine, device or instrument which, upon the insertion of a coin, bill, currency, credit card, debit card, token or slug, operates, or may be operated for use as a game, contest of skill or amusement of any description, and which in no way tends to encourage gambling and which in no way violates any provision of Chapter 517 "Gambling" as the same is now enacted or as such chapter may hereafter be amended. This definition is not intended to and does not include merchandise vending machines or coin-operated mechanical or electrical musical instruments or devices.
(e) "Owner" means any person having title to any coin-operated amusement device, or amusement arcade as hereinabove defined.
(Ord. 127-76. Passed 10-25-76; Ord. 95-97. Passed 7-14-97.)
(a) No owner or exhibitor shall install or permit the use of any coin-operated amusement device, or "skill pool" devices, and no owner or other person shall operate an amusement arcade without first obtaining an exhibitor's license from the Safety Director.
(b) whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
(Ord. 127-76. Passed 10-25-76.)
The Safety Director is authorized to issue licenses to owners and exhibitors of coin-operated amusement devices, upon compliance with the requirements set forth in this chapter. This is to include coin-operated pool or billiard tables, commonly known as "skill pool" tables. No license shall be issued under the provisions of this chapter to any applicant unless the applicant is:
(a) Twenty-one years of age or more;
(b) A person who has not been convicted of a felony within seven years preceding the date of the application;
(c) A person who has not been convicted of gambling offenses, sex crimes or crimes involving moral turpitude within seven years preceding the date of the application and if sentenced to any place of detention for such offense, has not been released within seven years preceding the date of the application. Any person who has been convicted of any sex offense or gambling offense more than one time shall not be granted a license.
(Ord. 127-76. Passed 10-25-76.)
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