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.)