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:
means any electronic, electromechanical, or mechanical contrivance
designed, made, and adapted solely for bona fide amusement purposes,
and that rewards the player exclusively with non-cash merchandise
prizes, toys, or novelties, or a representation of value redeemable
for those items, that have a wholesale value available from a single
play of the game or device of not more than ten times the amount charged
to play the game or device once or $5.00, whichever is less.
includes:
An individual;
Each partner of a partnership;
Each trustee of a trust;
Each receiver of a receivership;
Each officer, director, or member of an entity, including an
association or corporation;
Each shareholder owning 25 percent or more of the shares of
the corporation; and
A business entity.
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 or skill or pleasure coin-operated
machine.
means an amusement enterprise wholly enclosed in a building
offering entertainment or games to the general public, for a fee,
including, but not limited to, a bowling alley, billiard parlor/pool
hall, and a facility with video games, computer games, coin-operated
machines, or amusement redemption machines.
means any kind of coin-operated machine, including a phonograph,
piano, or graphophone, that:
includes an individual, association, trustee, receiver, partnership,
corporation, or organization or a manager, agent, servant, or employee
of an individual, association, trustee, receiver, partnership, corporation,
or organization.
means any kind of machine or device, including a pay toilet
or telephone that dispenses only a service. The term does not include
a machine or device that dispenses merchandise, music, skill, or pleasure.
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 service. The term "skill or
pleasure coin-operated machine":
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 machine or device that dispenses merchandise or commodities
or plays music in connection with or in addition to dispensing skill
or pleasure; and
Does not include an amusement machine designed exclusively for
a child.
(Ordinance 09-544-10, § 2,
adopted 7/21/2009)
