[HISTORY: Adopted by the Common Council of the City of Marion 7-22-1993 as Title 7, Ch. 9, of the 1993 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
An amusement device is a machine which, upon the insertion of a coin or token, operates as a game, contest or amusement. It shall include coin-operated musical devices but shall not include food and drink vending machines.
Upon payment of a license fee set by the Common Council, the City Clerk-Treasurer shall issue to the licensee an appropriate registration symbol which shall be attached to the amusement device so licensed.
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Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II).
The owner and the possessor of any amusement device required to be licensed hereunder shall each be equally liable for the license fee.
If a licensed amusement device is taken out of operation and another such device substituted, the registration symbol may be transferred upon payment of a fee set by the Common Council to the City Clerk-Treasurer.
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Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II).
The person on whose premises is located an amusement device shall not permit any intoxicated person or a person under 18 years of age to operate such device, except a coin-operated musical device.
No person shall affix to an amusement device required to be licensed hereunder a counterfeit registration symbol or transfer a registration symbol from one amusement device to another without having paid the transfer fee required under § 243-4.
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Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II).