A. For every person, firm or corporation conducting, managing, or carrying on the business of operating or maintaining a hobby horse or similar device for the amusement of children, offered for use, used or operated for the amusement or entertainment of children, or a shuffleboard, for the operation of which a charge is made, or which is conducted for profit, the fee shall be established by resolution of the Mayor and Common Council.
B. If in the event of a failure of the person, firm or corporation so operating or maintaining such machine or device to secure a registration certificate and pay the fee therefor, as provided in this section, or in the event that the certificate is not publicly displayed at a place open to the examination of the inspector, then the Chief of Police of the City is authorized to seize and take into his or her possession the machine or device and to hold the same until such fee has been paid and a certificate duly issued and properly displayed covering the machine, whereupon the Chief of Police shall release the machine or shuffleboard, upon payment to the City the sum of twenty-five dollars per machine, which sum shall be in addition to the amount of any certificate fee.
(Ord. MC-817, 1-07-92, Ord. MC-744, 10-08-90)