(A) Within the corporate limits of the city, it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to exercise, offer, operate or engage in any of the following activities for gain, or to which the public is required to pay a fee for admission, without first obtaining an amusement license therefor:
(1) All bowling or pin alley or alleys;
(2) All pool, billiard, pigeonhole or bagatelle table or tables;
(3) All shooting galleries or places for target shooting;
(4) All juke boxes, pinball machines, and other coin-operated amusement devices. For the purposes of this chapter the term
COIN-OPERATED AMUSEMENT DEVICE means and includes a coin- in-the-slot device which returns to the player thereof no money or property or right to receive money or property. The term shall not mean and include a coin- in-the-slot-operated device maintained by any public utility for furnishing service of any public utility, nor any device which is designed and used strictly as a vendor of merchandise or service and which is not an amusement device;
(5) All roller skating or ice skating rinks or halls;
(6) All public dance halls;
(7) All carnivals. For the purposes of this chapter the term
CARNIVAL means and includes an aggregation of attractions, whether shows, acts, games, vending devices or amusement devices, whether conducted under 1 or more managements or independently, which are temporarily set up or conducted in a public place or upon any private premises accessible to the public, with or without admission fee, and which, from the nature of the aggregation, attracts attendance and causes promiscuous intermingling of persons in the spirit of merrymaking and revelry.
(B) No license shall be required for any amusement or entertainment of the nature set out above when the entertainment is given exclusively for charitable or benevolent purposes or for promotion of the city, by societies or citizens of this city, or by other persons not engaged in giving the entertainments as a business.
(1992 Code, § 112.01)