As used in this article, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
COIN-OPERATED AMUSEMENT OR ENTERTAINMENT DEVICE
Any automatic, mechanical or electronic game, contrivance
or device or skill or entertainment which is or are operated or set
in motion by the deposit therein of any coin or coins, tokens or slugs
or the like thereof purchased for cash. This term shall include any
device which registers a score or not and shall further include, without
limitation, such devices as pinball machines, bagatelle machines,
pong or other types of electronically operated game devices, skillball,
mechanical games and operation of transactions similar to by whatever
name they may be called. Excluded from this definition are music vending
machines, commonly known as "jukeboxes," as well as vending machines.
OPERATOR
Any natural person, partnership, firm, association, corporation
or any other business entity which leases, rents out or places under
any kind of arrangement, within the Borough of Leonia, one or more
amusement or entertainment machines or devices displayed for public
patronage or is placed or kept for operation by the public.
OWNER-OPERATOR
Any natural person, partnership, firm, association, corporation
or any other business entity which owns or controls premises or a
location within the Borough of Leonia in which any amusement or entertainment
machine or device which is owned by said natural person, partnership,
firm, association, corporation or any other business entity is displayed
for public patronage or is placed or kept for operation by the public.
PERSON
Any natural person, partnership, firm, association or corporation.
Every license issued hereunder is subject to
revocation by the governing body should the owner-operator or operator
operate any amusement or entertainment machine or device contrary
to the provisions of this article or the standards set forth herein
for the issuance of a license. Any material misstatement or omission
in the license application and any information submitted therewith
shall constitute sufficient grounds for revocation of said license.
The Mayor and Council, through the Clerk, shall serve upon the licensee
notification of intention to revoke the license and advise the licensee
that he has 10 days from receipt of the notification to request a
formal hearing. In the event that no formal hearing is requested,
then the Mayor and Council shall be authorized, after said ten-day
period, to revoke the license. In the event that the licensee does
request a hearing, then he shall be entitled to a hearing before the
Mayor and Council and give testimony and produce witnesses as he shall
deem appropriate. The Mayor and Council shall listen to all witnesses
and testimony that it deems relevant and shall render a decision as
to whether or not the license should be revoked.