Definitions of terms as used in this Article, unless the context otherwise clearly indicates, are as follows:
COIN-OPERATED AMUSEMENT DEVICE
Means any amusement machine or device operated by means of the insertion of a coin, token, or currency for the purpose of amusement or skill and for the playing of which a fee is charged. The term includes, but is not limited to juke boxes, electronic video games, pin-ball machines or other similar games. The term does not include vending machines in which there are not incorporated gaming or amusement features.
[Ord. No. 12-16, 12-17-2012]
No machine licensed under the provision of this Article shall be used in play for money, property or any thing representing money or property, except video gaming terminal games at a licensed establishment, licensed fraternal organization, or licensed veterans’ establishment, when conducted in accordance with the Video Gaming Act (230 ILCS 40/1 et seq.). The annual fee shall be Two Hundred Fifty Dollars ($250.00) per terminal to be paid on July 1st.
Any person displaying for public patronage or keeping for operation any coin-operated amusement device(s), shall be required to obtain a license from this County, upon payment of a license fee. Application for such license shall be made to the County Clerk upon a form to be supplied by the Clerk for that purpose.
The application for such license shall contain the following information:
(A) 
Name and address of the applicant, age, date, and place of birth.
(B) 
All prior convictions of felonies of the applicant, if any.
(C) 
Address and name of business where the machine or device will be displayed and operated and the nature of the business conducted at the address under said name.
(D) 
The name and address of the owner of the machine and if the machine is serviced and supplied by any person other than the applicant or the owner of the machine, the name and address of such person shall be set out in the application.
No license shall be issued to any applicant unless he is over eighteen (18) years of age and a citizen of the United States.
Application for license shall be made out in duplicate; one (1) copy being retained by the Clerk and the other copy being referred to the Sheriff.
(A) 
The Sheriff shall investigate the location wherein it is proposed to operate such machine and ascertain if the applicant is a person of good moral character.
(B) 
If the Sheriff determines that the applicant is not of good moral character, he shall report such findings to the County Clerk.
Before being granted a license, every applicant shall pay a license fee to the County Clerk as follows:
(A) 
For each machine or table: $25.00 annually.
The license fee shall be paid annually in advance of July 1st of each year. If additional machines or devices are to be installed or displayed from time to time, the license shall be obtained before such display or installation. The license shall expire on June 30th of each year.
The license herein provided for shall be posted permanently and conspicuously at the location of the machine on the premises wherein the device is to be operated or maintained. Not more than one (1) machine shall be operated on any one (1) license and the applicant or licensee shall be required to secure a license for each and every machine displayed or operated by him.
If the licensee shall move his place of business to another location within this County, the license may be transferred to such new location upon application to the County Clerk, giving the street and number of the new location. The new location shall be inspected by the Sheriff in the same manner as provided in the previous sections of this Code. The transfer must conform with any other regulations applicable thereto.
Every license issued under this Article is subject to the right, which is hereby expressly reserved, to revoke the same should the license, directly or indirectly, permit the operation of any coin-operated amusement device contrary to the provisions of this Article, the ordinances of the County or the law of the State. The license may be revoked by the County Clerk after written notice to the licensee, which notice shall specify the ordinance or law violations with which the licensee is charged, if after a hearing the licensee is found to be guilty of such violations. Ten (10) days’ notice of the hearing shall be given the licensee. At such hearing the licensee and his attorney may present and submit evidence of witnesses to his defense.
If the Sheriff shall have reason to believe any coin-operated amusement device is used as a gambling device, such machine may be seized by the Sheriff and impounded, and if upon trial of the exhibitor for allowing it to be used as a gambling device the exhibitor is found guilty, such machine shall be destroyed by the Sheriff. If the County Clerk, the Sheriff or any of their duly authorized enforcement officers shall have reasonable basis for believing any coin-operated amusement device is operating unlicensed or is being used for gambling purposes, or has a knock-off circuit, the device may be seized by any duly authorized law enforcement official, followed by an administrative hearing with the appropriateness of the seizure, and held until such time as the owner of such device pays the delinquent fee, reimburses the Sheriff for actual cartage cost incurred in the seizure and pays to the County Five Dollars ($5.00) for each day or part of day the device has been in storage.
In the event the owner of such device is found not guilty, and unless return of the confiscated machine is determined by rule of the Court, the confiscated machine will be returned to the original location at the County’s expense.