For the purpose of this chapter the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
"ARCADE", "GAME ROOM", "AMUSEMENT CENTER." Any establishment in which the primary source of income or revenue is from the operation of game machines.
"AMUSEMENT DEVICES." Any machine which upon the insertion of a coin, token, disc, slug, or upon the payment of any fee, including rental fee, or in exchange for the payment of any other form of consideration by any means whatsoever operates or may be operated by the public generally as a game or contest of skill or amusement of any kind or description, and which does not provide for any tangible payoff, reward, or return of token or fee to the player. The term shall mean and include any pinball, ball table, or marble machine or any other similar type of game, machine, or table in which any ball, sphere, missile, arm, vehicle, crane, rod, or plunger is struck, released, controlled, or manipulated for the purpose of amusement or skill, or an electrical machine or game controlled or manipulated for the purpose of amusement or skill. The term also means and includes any billiard, pool table, or bumper pool table, the use or operation of which is dependent upon the use of a coin to obtain balls, or upon the payment of any other form of consideration by any means whatsoever. This chapter shall not apply to any coin-operated amusement device which is 25 years of age or older, nor to any "VIDEO GAMING TERMINAL" as defined in § 138.01(E) of this Code.
"DISTRIBUTOR." Any person, company or corporation that owns any number of and installs amusement devices or game machines in an establishment owned by another company, whether such machines are operated by the use of a coin or token, or by the payment of any other form of consideration by any means whatsoever.
"GAME MACHINE OR AMUSEMENT MACHINE." All machines, mechanical or video, whose sole purpose is to provide entertainment, test the skill of or otherwise require a degree of skill by the user or users to operate and in no way vend food, cigarettes, soft drinks, coffee or candy, whether such machines are operated by the use of a coin or token, or by the payment of any other form of consideration by any means whatsoever.
"GAME MACHINE LOCATION." Businesses in which are located game machines but do not derive their major source of income from the operation of the machines.
"MACHINE OWNER." Any person, company or corporation that owns any number of and installs vending, amusement or game machines in an establishment owned or operated by the machine owner, whether such machines are operated by the use of a coin or token, or by the payment of any other form of consideration by any means whatsoever.
"PERSON." Any person, firm, partnership, corporation, or association which owns any amusement device or game machine; the person, firm, partnership, corporation, or association in whose place of business any such device is placed for use by the public; and the person, firm, partnership, corporation, or association having control over such device.
(Ord. 850, passed 5-18-83; Am. Ord. 2206-93, passed 3-17-93; Am. Ord. 2576-98, passed 6-3-98; Am. Ord. 12-1021, passed 12-19-12)