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.
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.
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.