(a) Any Sweepstakes/Internet Café shall have an adult who is twenty-one years of age or over on the premises and supervising at all times the computerized sweepstakes devices during all hours of operation.
(b) The interior of the Sweepstakes/Internet Café shall provide a minimum area of forty square feet per computerized sweepstakes device in each room in which such devices are located.
(c) No operator shall permit the sale, possession or consumption of alcoholic beverages on the premises of a Sweepstakes/Internet Café.
(d) No operator shall fail to maintain order and quiet on the premises so as not to violate the public peace.
(e) No persons under the age of twenty-one years shall be permitted on the premises of any Sweepstakes/Internet Café.
(f) The operator shall require a photo identification of every person to whom anything of value is given in connection with the Sweepstakes/Internet Café and shall record the person’s name and home address and a description of the thing given, a stated dollar value of the thing given, the date and time of the giving and, if an entertainment device is involved in the circumstances of the giving, the serial number or other identifying description of the device. If the dollar value of the thing given to a person is more than ten dollars ($10.00), the operator shall include in the record a copy of the photo identification and the person’s social security number. By the second Tuesday of each month the operator shall cause to be delivered to the City Income Tax Division a copy of the record of things given to persons together with the above required information given during the preceding month. The operator and the Income Tax Division shall not disclose the social security number of any person or anyone except as required by the laws of the State of Ohio and the United States government.
(g) The operator shall post in a conspicuous place on the premises in the room where the computerized sweepstakes devices are located in no less than twenty-point type:
(1) Each separate prize that may be given and each separate dollar amount that might be given.
(3) A complete statement of the rules and conditions pertaining to the giving of any prizes or anything of value to any person, whether or not the determination of the giving of the thing of value or the delivery of the thing of value occurs totally within the confines of the premises or requires some event, occurrence or happening at another location.
(h) The operator shall keep a complete set of all records of the operations at the premises at all times, including all federal, state and local tax records, all records of payments and receipts, all records of expenses and revenues of the operation, all banking records, all contracts, leases and agreements affecting the premises, equipment and operation, all personnel records and all other records pertaining to the business. Records shall be maintained for ten years.
(i) No applicant shall make a false or incorrect statement in an application for a license and no operator shall fail to update the information supplied to the City to reflect existing operations as required in Section 727.03
(b).
(j) It is the intent of this chapter that operators are strictly liable for any violations of this chapter.
(k) No person shall be denied any license or the right to use a licensed computerized sweepstakes device under this chapter in the City because of race, color, creed, sex, religious belief or natural origin.
(Ord. 2012-125. Passed 10-22-12.)