(A) (1) No person, firm or corporation either as principal, agent, lessor or lessee shall possess, keep, permit or maintain any mechanical musical device on any premises under his or her or its control, within the city and open to the public or any group or class thereof, without first having applied for and received a license for each such machine as herein provided. A MECHANICAL MUSICAL DEVICE, under this section, shall mean and include any device for the producing, reproducing or playing of musical selections or numbers, either vocal or instrumental, or both, which is operated by depositing therein a coin or token.
(2) It shall also mean and include any such device which is operated mechanically to render definite musical selections or numbers selected by the operators or others, as aforesaid, after the direct or indirect payment therefor, but, the provisions hereof shall not include radios, nor phonographs playing records or musical recordings upon which the records or recordings are placed and removed by hand, and for the operation of which no payment is required either by the deposit of a coin or token in the device itself or by giving the same to the owner or operator.
(Prior Code, § 920.01)
(B) (1) Any person, firm or corporation desiring a license for any machine shall file an application therefor with the City Clerk on a form supplied by the city and shall give the name of the applicant, the trade name and general description of the device to be licensed, the name and address of the owner of the device if other than the licensee, the address of the premises where the licensed device is to be operated together with the character of the business carried on at that place and the denomination of the coin or coins required for the operation of the device, or the value of the token used in lieu thereof or a statement of any other payment, direct or indirect that will be required and received for the operation.
(2) The fee for the license is set out in Ch. 110 of this code of ordinances.
(Prior Code, § 920.03)
(C) (1) Application for licenses hereunder shall first referred by the Clerk to the Police Department and if the business has operated on the premises where the permit is requested is as described in the application and the same being legally operated and the device to be licensed will not clearly constitute a nuisance in the proposed location, the Department shall approve the application.
(2) Every application shall then be submitted to the City Council for approval.
(3) No license issued hereunder shall be transferred to another location, nor to another device.
(Prior Code, § 920.05)
(D) (1) Licenses granted hereunder shall be for one year from January 1 to December 31 each year, unless otherwise provided.
(2) Every license shall describe with sufficient detail for identification purposes the machine for which it was issued and shall be attached to or posted in a conspicuous place nearby the device for which the it was issued.
(3) Licenses shall be summarily revoked for a violation of this section.
(Prior Code, § 920.07)
Penalty, see § 114.99