[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Committee of the Township of Pennsauken
3-13-1978 by Ord. No. 78-3 as Ch. 97 of the 1977 Code. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
No person shall place or maintain or permit or suffer to be placed,
operated, used or maintained in any public or quasi-public place or in any
building, store or other place wherein the public is invited or wherein the
public may enter, including premises used as a clubhouse or clubrooms, within
the limits of the Township of Pennsauken, any coin-controlled amusement device
or any coin-controlled automatic music device or record playing machine without
first having obtained a license for each such device or machine.
[Amended 3-13-1985 by Ord.
No. 85-9]
As used in the chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
Includes any machine which, upon the insertion of a coin or slug,
operates or may be operated for use as a game, contest or amusement of any
description or which may be used for any such game, contest or amusement and
which contains an automatic payoff device for the return of slugs, money,
coin, checks, tokens or merchandise; and shall include pinball machines and
other coin-controlled devices in which marbles, balls or pellets are projected
or propelled by spring or plunger, or by any other means, whereby such marbles,
balls or pellets fall into slots, tracks, grooves or strike pins or objects,
which machine may be used as a game of skill or amusement; and also includes
particularly, but not by way of limitation, those machines commonly known
as bagatelle, baseball or pin amusement machines and photoelectric shooting
or target machines. This definition shall include coin-operated pool or billiard
tables.
Includes any machine, device or instrument which, upon the insertion
of a coin or slug, operates or may be operated to play music from a record
or other sound- or music-making device, or by any means whatsoever. For the
purpose of this chapter, any music-making device which emits music from a
central sound system, i.e., phonograph, tape recorder or radio, and subsequently
transmits the music to secondary outlets, commonly known as "coin-operated
jukeboxes" at restaurant tables shall not be considered separate devices,
but shall be defined as one coin-operated device for purposes of payment of
licensing fees.
Includes any individual, corporation, firm, association, partnership,
trustee or receiver.
A.
The license for the placing, operation, maintenance or
use of such coin-controlled amusement device or coin-controlled automatic
music device or record-playing machine shall be issued by the Township Clerk
of the Township of Pennsauken to and in the name of the owner of such device
or machine.
B.
All licenses issued hereunder shall expire on the 31st
day of December of each year.
C.
The license fee shall be $25 for each coin-controlled
amusement device and for each coin-controlled automatic music device or record-playing
machine.
D.
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 Township Clerk
of the Township of Pennsauken upon a form furnished by the Township of Pennsauken
and shall contain the following information:
A.
Name of applicant; if applicant is a corporation, the
names of the officers and directors of the corporation.
B.
Residence of applicant.
C.
Place of business of applicant.
D.
Character of each machine or device to be licensed.
E.
Number of licenses desired.
F.
Address or addresses where each machine or device is
to be located.
A.
No coin-controlled amusement device or coin-controlled
automatic device or record-playing machine shall be placed, operated, maintained
or used, or suffered or permitted to be placed, operated, maintained or used,
in the Township of Pennsauken until the license required hereunder 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.
B.
Any person having supervision or control over any building,
store or other place where the public may enter or over 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 suffered or permitted such unlicensed
device or machine to be placed, operated, used and maintained therein in violation
of the provision of this chapter.
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 licensed device or
machine shall be located.
The holder of a license issued hereunder shall be permitted to transfer
such license from any machine or device to any other like or similar machine
or device operated in the same premises for which the license is issued by
removing the license from such machine or device and affixing it to such other
machine or device. The holder of a license issued hereunder shall also be
permitted to transfer such license from a machine or device in any establishment
to a like or similar machine or device in another establishment by surrendering
such license to the Township Clerk of the Township of Pennsauken and by obtaining
a new license for such machine or device for the location to which the license
is transferred upon the payment to said Township Clerk of a transfer fee of
$1.
No person shall use, or permit or suffer to be used, any coin-controlled
amusement device licensed hereunder for the purpose of gambling.
This chapter is enacted for the purpose of regulating and controlling
coin-controlled amusement devices and coin-controlled automatic music devices
or record-playing machines.
[Amended 9-12-1984 by Ord.
No. 84-26]
Any person violating any of the provisions of this chapter shall, upon
conviction, be subject to one or more of the following: a fine not exceeding
$1,250 or imprisonment in the county jail for a term not exceeding 90 days,
or a period of community service not exceeding 90 days, in the discretion
of the Municipal Court Judge.
