[Amended 7-5-1988 by Ord. No. 2593]
As used in this article, the term "device" shall
include the term "machine."
Every person operating any device licensed under
this article shall be responsible for assuring that said device is
in proper mechanical working condition at all times.
Coin-operated devices which vend articles of
food or materials for human consumption shall be maintained in a sanitary
manner and shall comply with all the sanitation ordinances of the
City. Such devices shall protect the contents thereof from contamination
at all times.
Within 15 days after any license is issued as
provided in this article, a list showing the tag number and location
of all such devices shall be furnished to the City Manager by the
licensee. Such list shall be corrected by the licensee every 30 days
thereafter by showing all changes in location and tag numbers of the
devices required to be licensed under this article.
The City Manager or his designated agent shall
inspect coin-operated devices not less than once in every three months.
He shall make additional inspections as often as necessary to determine
whether the devices licensed hereunder are being operated in compliance
with the provisions of this article.
All devices operating in violation of any provision
of this article may be sealed by the City Manager or his duly authorized
representatives in such a manner that will prevent further operation,
and such devices shall remain sealed until released by the City Manager
or his duly authorized representatives after the owner or operator
of such devices shall have come into compliance.
No person shall keep, operate, maintain, control
or be in charge of any coin-operated device which is held out for
public use for weighing, or for the playing of games, showing of pictures,
playing of records, giving of weights, vending of merchandise or the
activation of any radio or television reception, without having first
obtained a license issued by the City Manager.
No license shall be issued hereunder for any
coin-operated device designed and intended to be used for the purpose
of gambling, showing obscene pictorial matter, making loud and unusual
noise, vending any merchandise of inferior or unsanitary nature or
vending of any merchandise prohibited by law.
A person required to obtain a license pursuant
to the provisions of this article shall pay to the City the fee established
by ordinance. Copies of such ordinance are on file in the office of
the City Clerk. Said fee shall be 75% of the state fee per year per
category of vending device.
A license issued pursuant to the provisions
of this article shall be for a period of one year.
Every device licensed under this article shall
have affixed thereto, or inscribed thereon in a conspicuous place,
the name, local address and telephone number of the licensee.
