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(a) No licensee under this chapter shall permit persons under eighteen years of age to play or operate any mechanical amusement device maintained or controlled by him or her or located in any establishment which he or she owns or operates.
(b) No such licensee shall permit the playing of a speaker of the public address type outside the enclosure of any premises in connection with a juke box, licensed in his or her name, between 10:00 p.m. and 9:00 a.m. of the following day.
(c) No person shall play or permit the playing of mechanical amusement devices within 600 feet of any church, public or parochial school or playground, nor shall any license be granted to operate any mechanical amusement device within 600 feet of any church, public or parochial school or playground.
(1974 Code Sec. 7.197)
Every license issued under this chapter shall be subject to suspension or revocation as specified in Chapter 802.
(1974 Code Sec. 7.198)
If the Chief of Police believes any mechanical amusement device is used as a gambling device, such device may be seized by the police and impounded, and if, upon trial of the exhibitor for allowing it to be used as a gambling device, such exhibitor is found guilty, such machine shall be destroyed by the police.
(1974 Code Sec. 7.199)
(a) This section establishes a special license for restaurants, only allowing them to have more than three juvenile oriented mechanical amusement devices on the premises by applying for a license therefor with the City Clerk and with special approval of Council. This license shall be renewed annually and shall be given to businesses whose main purpose is that of the sale of food.
(b) As used in this section, "juvenile oriented mechanical amusement device" means mechanical amusement devices which appeal to children under fifteen years of age. It does not include pool tables, foos ball tables, pinball machines, other gambling devices or coin-operated mechanical amusement devices.
(c) The applicant for the special license shall operate a restaurant with at least 10,000 square feet of area, and the juvenile oriented mechanical amusement devices shall be separate from the eating area.
(d) No person under eighteen years of age may use and play any juvenile oriented mechanical amusement device without the presence of a guardian, parent or adult who shall accompany the child and whose primary purpose of going to the restaurant is the purchase of food.
(e) There shall be no pool halls or penny arcades in the City, and this special license for restaurants shall not be construed to allow the operation of pool halls and penny arcades.
(Ord. 345. Passed 8-12-81.)
(a) This section establishes a special license for billiard halls licensed under Chapter 812 of this code, which have, as the principal business, billiards, to additionally offer up to six mechanical amusement devices on the premises, by applying for a license thereof with the City Clerk and with special approval of Council. This license shall be renewed annually and shall be given to businesses whose principal purpose is that of billiards and pool.
(b) The applicant for the special license shall operate a billiard hall with at least 10,000 square feet of area, and no more than two machines may be collected in a single area.
(c) No person under 18 years of age may use or play any mechanical amusement device without the presence of a guardian, parent, or adult, who shall accompany the child.
(Ord. 766. Passed 11-6-02.)
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