Chapter 5.16 AMUSEMENT MACHINES AND POOL TABLES

§ 5.16.010 Amusement machines and devices.

For the purpose of this section, the following definition of a mechanical amusement device shall apply:

means any machine or device designed for use as a game, entertainment, amusement or patronage of the public, whether or not registering a score and whether or not its operation demands skill, and which may be operated by the public generally upon the insertion of a coin, slug, token, plate, disc or any other means of paying a fee for its use. It shall include but not be limited to such devices as marble machines, pinball machines, skill ball, video or computer type games, electronically operated or displayed games, air games such as air hockey, and all games, operations or transactions similar thereto under whatever name they may be called. It shall not include any machine or device designed as a game of chance as defined by the safety services and licenses committee of the city council.

No person, partnership or corporation shall engage in the keeping in the city of any amusement machine or device as defined in this section, unless each such amusement machine or device shall be duly licensed by the safety services and licenses committee of the city council.

The fee for said license shall be seventy-five dollars ($75.00) for the first amusement machine or device and ninety dollars ($90.00) for each additional machine.

The safety services and licenses committee may suspend or revoke any license issued under this section for proper cause.

Every amusement machines and devices license shall be renewed annually the 1st day of June.

Any person, partnership, or corporation who shall violate any of the provisions of this chapter or fails to comply with any of the requirements thereof, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00) for each such offense, and each day such violation shall exist shall be deemed a separate offense.

(Prior code § 16-28)

§ 5.16.020 Pool and billiard tables, etc.

For the purpose of this section, the following definition of pool and billiard table, etc., shall apply:

"Pool and billiard table, etc."

means any machine or device, including a pool table, billiard table, mechanical pool table, bumper pool table, or any table of a similar character, designed for use as a game, entertainment, amusement or patronage of the public, and which may be operated by the public generally upon the insertion of a coin, slug, token, plate, disc or any other means of paying a fee for its use.

No person, partnership or corporation shall engage in the keeping in the city of any pool and billiard table, etc., as defined in this section, unless each such pool and billiard table, etc., shall be duly licensed by the safety services and licenses committee of the city council.

The fee for said license shall be one hundred dollars ($100.00) annually.

Any person, partnership or corporation or other entity who shall violate any of the provisions of this chapter or fails to comply with any of the requirements thereof, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than twenty dollars ($20.00) for each such offense, and each day such violation shall exist shall be deemed a separate offense.

(Prior code § 16-28.1; Ord. 2023-25, § 1, 12/18/2023)

§ 5.16.030 Amusement machines and devices located within five hundred feet of school building.

No person, partnership, or corporation shall keep, maintain, or operate any amusement machines or devices as defined in Section 5.16.010, or any pool and billiard table, etc., as defined in Section 5.16.020, in any building and/or premises within five hundred (500) feet from a school building as measured from the closest point of the school building to the main entrance of said building in which the game room or amusement machines or devices or pool and billiard table, etc., are located.

(Prior code § 16-29)