As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
AMUSEMENT DEVICE
Any table, platform, mechanical device, or apparatus operated
or intended to be operated for amusement, pleasure, test of skill,
competition, or sport, the use or operation of which is conditioned
upon payment of a consideration either by insertion of a coin or token
in a slot or otherwise. "Amusement device" shall include, but not
be limited to, devices commonly known as baseball, football, basketball,
hockey, pinball, shuffleboard, ray guns, bowling games, bumper games,
skiball, and electronic video games, and shall also include billiard
tables and pool tables (whether coin-operated or not). Such definition
does not include a bowling alley, jukebox or other coin-operated music
machine or a mechanical children's amusement riding device.
AMUSEMENT PARLOR
Any premises operated by any organization, whether incorporated
or not, which is the owner, lessee, or occupant of a building whose
primary purpose or object of its existence or operation is that of
providing use of amusement devices to the public at retail and/or
any premises operated by any organization, whether incorporated or
not, which is the owner, lessee, or occupant of a building, the majority
of whose gross receipts are derived from the providing of use of amusement
devices to the public at retail.
No person, firm, or corporation shall operate or place or keep
or have in his or her possession any amusement device, as herein defined,
without having obtained and posted on the premises, in plain view,
a license to operate such a device. Application shall be made to the
Village Clerk/Treasurer on a form provided by such officer, which
form shall state the applicant's name, trade name of business,
and location of proposed amusement device. The annual amusement device
license fee shall be as determined in the Village Fee Schedule.
The following general requirements shall apply to all amusement
parlors licensed in accordance with this chapter:
A. All amusement parlors shall have an adult supervisor on the premises
at all times in which the game room is open to the public.
B. Every amusement parlor shall provide an adequate area and number
of bicycle racks for the orderly parking of bicycles, which area shall
be separate from a required vehicle parking stall and shall be so
located as not to occupy any portion of a public sidewalk or to otherwise
obstruct pedestrian passage to and from the premises.
C. Parking shall be provided at a paved off-street parking area sufficient
in size to provide parking at the ratio of one parking space for each
100 square feet of gross floor area, or fraction thereof, for each
amusement parlor.
D. Game rooms licensed herein shall comply with all other building,
fire code and applicable Village laws and regulations.
Licenses may be revoked by the Village Board after a hearing,
in the event that an amusement parlor's location or operation
fails to conform to standards provided in this chapter or violates
any other provision of this Code.