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The Safety Director shall not issue a license or a registration to any exhibitor, person or entity for any machine, device or instrument without first having received a certificate from the Chief of Police that such machine, device or instrument is not in violation of any provision of Chapter 517 "Gambling" or as such chapter may hereafter be amended.
(Ord. 127-76. Passed 10-25-76.)
Upon payment of the fees required by Section 781.11 the Safety Director shall issue a license and registration which shall contain the name and address of the licensee, the number of coin-operated amusement devices exhibited, or amusement arcades intended to be operated, the address at which it is desired to exhibit and operate the devices, the nature of the business conducted at such place, the make, name, model and other identifying information with reference to the particular devices desired to be exhibited, the serial number of the license, and such other further information as the Director, in his discretion may require.
(Ord. 125-76. Passed 10-25-76.)
The license of any person violating any of the terms of this chapter or any of the rules and regulations established and adopted by the Safety Director as provided in Section 781.07 except those relating to the exhibition or operation of such machine, device or amusement arcade for gambling, shall, for the first violation, be suspended by the Director for not less than ten nor more than thirty days, for the second violation be suspended by the Director for not less than thirty nor more than sixty days, and for the third violation, shall be revoked by the Director. For violation of the terms of this chapter or the rules and regulations established and adopted by the Director relating to the exhibition or operation of such machine, device or amusement arcade for gambling, such license shall be revoked by the Director.
In case of any hearing before the Director involving the denial of a license to an applicant as provided in Section 781.04, or involving the suspension or revocation of a license of a licensee, as provided herein, the Director shall notify such applicant or licensee of such hearing by registered mail directed to the last address of such applicant or licensee on file with the Director. In the event such license is denied, suspended or revoked, the Director shall notify such applicant or licensee of such denial, suspension or revocation in the same manner as provided above for notification of hearings.
(Ord. 127-76. Passed 10-25-76.)
(a) No person shall keep, maintain, permit or allow any unlicensed and unregistered device to be in or upon any public place, or place of business under the control, supervision or direction of such person, except such device as in this chapter may be exempted from license and registration.
(b) Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
(Ord. 127-76. Passed 10-25-76.)
Any machine, device, instrument, apparatus or contrivance which tends to encourage gambling and may be used in a manner in violation of Chapter 517 "Gambling" shall be seized, destroyed or demolished as provided by law.
(Ord. 127-76. Passed 10-25-76.)
The Safety Director shall keep and maintain on file in his office a full and complete list of all licensees licensed under the provisions of this chapter, and also a full and complete list of all coin-operated amusement devices and amusement arcades which are licensed and registered under the provisions of this chapter, together with a cross index showing the location of each such licensed and registered coin-operated amusement device and amusement arcade.
(Ord. 127-76. Passed 10-25-76.)
(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of the City Codes or ordinances, the exhibition and operation of coin-operated tables resembling pool or billiard tables sometimes known as "skill pool", shall be permitted within the City when licensed under the provisions of this chapter and exhibited or operated in conformity with this chapter.
(b) No exhibitor shall install or permit the use of the aforesaid tables without first obtaining a license from the Safety Director.
(c) The Director is authorized and directed to issue licenses to exhibitors of such tables upon compliance with the requirements set forth in Section 781.03 and provided further, that such license shall not be issued unless the application is accompanied by the license fee, which shall be fifty dollars ($50.00) per table per full year.
(d) The license fee shall be for the then current calendar year and the fee shall be reduced if the year is partially over by reducing the annual fee by one-twelfth times the number of months in such year having elapsed.
(e) No person shall permit any such table to be operated or played by any minor under the age of eighteen years unless such minor is accompanied by a parent, guardian or other adult relative.
(f) whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
(Ord. 127-76. Passed 10-25-76; Ord. 20-97. Passed 2-24-87.)
The license and registration required by this chapter shall not be transferable to any other person, but may be transferred to another instrument or device of the same classification.
Upon transfer of ownership of a licensed instrument or upon the removal of such instrument out of the corporate limits of the City, the license and registration of such instrument shall expire and the original owner in case of a sale or owner in case of a transfer outside of the corporate limits shall, remove the registration slip or sticker. Should the original owner in the case of sale or owner in case of a transfer make application for the licensing and registration of another instrument as required by this section during the remainder of the current year, he may file an application for transfer of registration and license accompanied by a transfer fee of two dollars ($2.00) and the original license and registration. The Safety Director shall thereupon transfer the license and registration to the new instrument provided the applicant has in all other respects qualified for the issuance of a license and registration as set forth under the provisions of this chapter.
(Ord. 127-76. Passed 10-25-76.)
(EDITOR'S NOTE: See Section 501.99 of the General Offenses Code for penalties applicable to any misdemeanor classification.)