[Adopted 8-5-1997 by Ord. No. 97-1461 as Sec. 13.05 of the 1997 Code]
A. 
No operator shall lease, install or place amusement devices on any premises for use in the City except on premises established primarily for amusement of the public only on such premises after having obtained a license and paid the license fee therefor.
B. 
No person shall possess and set up for use any amusement device without registering it with the City Clerk and paying the registration fee therefor.
The following terms as used in this article shall be construed as follows:
AMUSEMENT DEVICE
An electrically or mechanically coin-operated device used and operated solely for playing games of skill or for entertainment.
OPERATOR
Any person owning and operating one or more amusement devices set up for use in the city. Any person owning and operating an amusement device set up in his or her home or own place of business shall not be deemed an operator within the meaning of this article.
PLACES OF AMUSEMENT
Amusement parks, theaters, bowling alleys, taverns and restaurants.
POSSESSION
The physical presence of a prohibited device in any premises under the management or control of the person in charge as possessor.
A. 
Any operator shall make application, in writing, to the Council for a license on such form as shall be prescribed by the City Clerk.
B. 
The license fee shall be as specified in Chapter 169, Licenses and Permits, and shall be paid to the City Treasurer at the time of filing the application for a license. Licenses shall be granted by the Council only to persons of good moral character and to applicants having an established office in Milwaukee County where business records and new amusement devices may be inspected before and after registration. The applicants in their applications shall consent to reasonable inspection of their records and devices to determine ownership and character of the amusement devices to be operated and registered. The license period shall run from July 1 of each year and end on June 30 of each year.
A. 
Any person owning any amusement device or maintaining or permitting the maintenance of any amusement device on premises owned or controlled by him or her shall register such amusement device as herein required. On or before July 1, every amusement device shall be registered with the City Clerk by the owner or possessor thereof. The registration fee shall be as stated in Chapter 169, Licenses and Permits, for each amusement device. Such registration fee shall be paid to the City Treasurer at the time of registration. The City Clerk shall require the registrant to submit such information as may be necessary to identify the amusement device so registered and shall issue to the registrant an appropriate registration symbol, so designed as to permit its secure attachment to the amusement device so registered. The registration fee for each year, or part thereof, shall be an amount equal to the original registration fee as herein provided. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to authorize the registration of any slot machine or gambling device.
B. 
The City Clerk may transfer a registration symbol from one amusement device to another when evidence is presented showing that the use of the device previously registered has been discontinued during the year of registration and that the new amusement device which the symbol is proposed to be attached for registration is an amusement device within the definition of this article. The City Clerk shall keep an appropriate record of the registration of each amusement device, showing the name and number and such other information as he or she shall deem necessary concerning each machine registered, and also keep a similar record of the amusement devices for which transfers have been authorized.
Any City police officer may seize or cause to be seized any amusement device upon which is not affixed a registration symbol as herein required. The ownership or possession of any nonregistered amusement device set up for use shall be a violation of this article.
In addition to the suspension or revocation of any license or permit granted under this article, any person who shall violate any provision of this article shall be subject to a penalty as provided in Chapter 1, General Provisions, § 1-19.