The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
Coin-operated machine
means any kind of machine or device operated by or with a coin or other United States currency, metal slug, token, electronic card or check, including a music, skill or pleasure coin-operated machine.
Music coin-operated machine
means any kind of coin-operated machine, including a phonograph, piano or graphophone, which:
(1) 
Dispenses music or is used to dispense music;
(2) 
Is operated by inserting a coin, metal, slug, token or check; and
(3) 
Is not an amusement machine designed exclusively for a child.
Operator
means a person who exhibits or displays, or permits to be exhibited or displayed, a coin-operated machine in the city in a place of business that is not owned by such person.
Owner
means a person who owns a coin-operated machine in the city.
Service coin-operated machine
means any kind of machine or device, including a pay toilet or telephone, that dispenses only a service. Such term does not include a machine or device that dispenses merchandise, music, skill or pleasure.
Skill or pleasure coin-operated machine
means any kind of coin-operated machine that dispenses, or is used, or is capable of being used, to dispense or afford amusement, skill or pleasure, or is operated for any purpose, other than for dispensing only merchandise, music or a service. Such term:
(1) 
Includes a marble machine, marble table machine, marble shooting machine, miniature racetrack machine, miniature football machine, miniature golf machine, miniature bowling machine, billiard or pool game or a machine or device that dispenses merchandise or commodities or plays music in connection with, or in addition to, dispensing skill or pleasure; and
(2) 
Does not include an amusement machine designed exclusively for a child.
This article does not apply to:
(1) 
Stamp vending machines;
(2) 
Service coin-operated machines; or
(3) 
If, subject to an occupation or gross receipts tax, a:
a. 
Gas meters;
b. 
Food vending machines;
c. 
Confection vending machines;
d. 
Beverage vending machines;
e. 
Merchandise vending machines; or
f. 
Cigarette vending machines.
(a) 
The city imposes an occupation tax on coin-operated machines within the city.
(b) 
The rate of such tax is one-fourth of the rate of the tax imposed under V.T.C.A., Occupations Code sec. 2153.401.
(Ordinance 126, sec. 1, adopted 12/20/35)
(a) 
For purposes of zoning, the city shall treat the exhibition of a music, skill or pleasure coin-operated machine in the same manner as the city treats the principal use of the property where such coin-operated machine is exhibited.
(b) 
Subsection (a) of this section does not prohibit the city from restricting the exhibition of a coin-operated amusement machine within 300 feet of a church, school or hospital.