A. An applicant for a game machine operator's permit shall submit an application to the Department of Finance and Management Services which application shall be under penalty of perjury and upon a form supplied by the Department of Finance and Management Services. Such application shall include the true names, addresses, and past criminal record, if any, of the applicant and of all persons financially interested in the applicant's business, and such other information as may be deemed necessary by the Department of Finance and Management Services and Chief of Police to determine whether such game machine operator's permit shall be granted. The application shall be accompanied by a fully executed fingerprint card as to each such applicant, prepared under the direction of the Chief of Police. An applicant shall pay a fee of two hundred and ninety three dollars or such fee as may be subsequently be set by Resolution of the Mayor and City Council, to cover the costs of the investigation required by Section 5.44.040, and shall provide to the Chief of Police a money order payable to the California Department of Justice in such amount as required by that agency to process its report to the City based upon the fingerprint card provided. A fifty dollar annual permit fee, or such fee as may subsequently be set by Resolution of the Mayor and City Council, shall be paid at the time of issuance of a permit, which fee shall be prorated in the event that a permit is only for part of a year. A permit may be renewed annually upon payment of the annual permit fee.
B. "Persons financially interested" includes all persons who are officers or directors of a corporation or share-holders holding more than three percent of the shares thereof or persons who share in the profits of a non-corporate business on the basis of gross or net revenue, but it does not include persons who receive a portion of such gross or net revenue in return for the privilege of permitting any other person to maintain such coin-operated game machine in their place of business.
(Ord. MC-1625, 2-21-24; Ord. MC-1484, 4-18-18; Ord. MC-192, 7-22-82; Ord. 3542, 12-11-75; Ord. 3470, 12-17-74)