No person shall place or maintain or permit to be placed, operated,
used or maintained in any public or quasi-public place or in any public building,
store or other place wherein the public is invited or may enter, including
premises used as a clubhouse or as clubrooms, within the limits of the Borough
of Oaklyn, any coin-controlled automatic music device or record-playing machine
without first having obtained a license for each such device or machine.
For the purpose of this article, the terms used herein shall have the
meanings indicated:
PERSON
Any individual, corporation, firm, association, partnership, trustee
or receiver.
[Amended 9-13-1977 by Ord.
No. 13-77]
The license for the placing, operation, maintenance or use of such coin-controlled automatic music device or record-playing machine shall be issued by the Clerk of the Borough of Oaklyn to and in the name of the owner of such device or machine. All licenses hereunder shall expire on December 31 of each year. The license fee for each coin-controlled automatic music device and each coin-controlled record-playing machine shall be as provided for in Chapter
73, Fees. A separate license shall be obtained for each device or machine and shall be affixed thereto.
Applications for licenses hereunder shall be made to the Clerk of the
Borough of Oaklyn upon a form furnished by the Borough of Oaklyn and shall
contain the following information:
C. Place of business of applicant.
D. Number of licenses desired.
E. Address or addresses where each machine or device is
to be located.
No coin-controlled automatic music device or coin-controlled automatic
record-playing machine shall be placed, operated, maintained or used or permitted
to be placed, operated, maintained or used in the Borough of Oaklyn until
the license required herein shall be affixed thereto in a conspicuous place
so that the same may be easily identified. Any such device or machine which
shall not have a license, as required herein, affixed thereto shall be deemed
to be an unlicensed device or machine. Any person having supervision or control
over any building, store or other place where the public may enter or any
clubhouse or clubroom wherein any such device or machine without a license
affixed thereto is operated, used or maintained shall be deemed to have permitted
such unlicensed device or machine to be placed, operated, used and maintained
therein in violation of the provisions of this article.
Every license issued hereunder shall be numbered and shall disclose
on its face the name and post office address of the licensee to whom it is
issued and the address of the establishment wherein the unlicensed device
or machine shall be located.
[Amended 9-13-1977 by Ord.
No. 13-77]
The holder of a license issued hereunder shall be permitted to transfer such license from any machine to any other like machine operated in the same premises for which the license is issued by removing the license from such machine and affixing it to such other machine. The holder of any license shall be permitted to transfer any license issued hereunder from a machine in any establishment to a like machine in another establishment by surrendering said license to the Clerk of the Borough of Oaklyn and obtaining a new license for such machine for the location to which the license is transferred upon payment to the Clerk of a transfer fee as provided for in Chapter
73, Fees.
[Amended 9-13-1977 by Ord.
No. 13-77]
The purpose of this article is for the regulation and control of coin-controlled
automatic music devices and coin-controlled record-playing machines.
[Added 9-13-1977 by Ord.
No. 13-77]
This article shall not apply to any coin-controlled music devices or
record-playing machines located in any property which is not operated for
profit.
[Amended 9-13-1977 by Ord.
No. 13-77]
Any person violating any of the provisions of this article shall, upon
conviction, be punishable by a fine not exceeding $500 or by imprisonment
for a term not exceeding 90 days, or both.