For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AMUSEMENT ARCADE or ARCADE. Any place, premises or establishment which is exclusively used for mechanical amusement devices, as defined herein, or any business, building or establishment which has a current certificate of occupancy for a use other than an arcade and in addition have 15 or more mechanical amusement devices, as defined in this section.
MECHANICAL AMUSEMENT DEVICE. Any machine which, upon the insertion of a coin, slug, token, plate or disc, or the payment of a price, or the use or application of a credit master switch, or limited or unlimited play upon payment of a certain sum, or any other similar type of activity, may be operated by the public generally for use as a game, entertainment or amusement, whether or not registering a score and whether operated by hand, electricity or any other form of power. It shall include such devices as video and electronic machines, marble machines, pinball machines, skill ball machines, mechanical grab machines, coin-operated bowling alleys, shuffleboard game machines or devices, whether played with discs, weights, pucks or balls, mechanical guns, coin-operated motion picture machines, any so-called claw, crane or digger machine, or any other games, devices, operations or transactions similar thereto, under whatever name they may be indicated, which when operated, do not deliver as a result of the application of an element of chance, any money or property, or by the operation of which a person may not be entitled to receive as a result of the application of an element of chance, any money or property.
(Prior Code, § 40-34) (Ord. 1477, passed 6-17-2019)