As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
Any mechanical container or device used for the sale of any
article or service, the operation of which is governed or controlled
by the deposit of a coin or token.
Every automatic vending machine shall be licensed.
(A)
It shall be unlawful for any person to deliver or install any automatic
vending machine within the City without first having obtained a license
so to do.
(B)
It shall be unlawful for any person to install, keep, maintain or
use, or permit the installation, keeping, maintenance or use upon
his premises of any automatic vending machine for which a license
has not been issued and affixed to said machine for the current year.
(C)
No person, firm or corporation shall permit to operate or be maintained
on premises under his or its control any automatic vending machine,
as described herein, which does not have a license affixed to said
machine as required herein.
(D)
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to which
a license for an automatic vending machine has been issued not to
have the same affixed to the automatic vending machine for which it
was issued.
(E)
It shall be unlawful for any person to remove or transfer to another
machine a license from a machine to which it was issued or to install,
keep, maintain or use a machine to which said license was transferred.
(A)
An application for such license shall be made in conformity with
the general requirements of this Code relating to applications for
licenses.[1] In addition, the applicant shall set forth the number
of automatic vending machines intended to be installed, the location
at which each is to be installed, and a description of each, which
description shall contain the manufacturer's name, the make, and factory
number thereof, whether a single or multiple machine, together with
the monetary value of the coin or coins used to operate the machine.
The application shall also set forth any information required by the
Health Officer in order to inform him fully as to the type or types
of machines and the kind or kinds of food to be dispensed therefrom.
[1]
Editor's Note: See Art. 1 of this chapter.
(B)
Every automatic vending machine installed or maintained within the
City shall have affixed to it a sticker license for which an annual
license fee has been paid as prescribed in the following classes;
provided, however, that where said machine or machines are owned and
operated by a not-for-profit organization, the fee or fees for said
license for each machine shall be $1.
|
Class
|
Description
|
Fee
| |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Class I
|
Candy machines
|
$50
| |
|
Class II
|
Soft drink machines
|
$50
| |
|
Class III
|
Food machines other than candy or soft drinks
|
$50
| |
|
Class IV
|
Not-for-profit organizations
|
$1
| |
|
Class V
|
Cigarette and tobacco machines
|
$75
| |
|
Class VI
|
Ice machines
|
$50
| |
|
Class VII
|
Laundromat or dry-cleaning machines, soap dispenser, each
|
$50
| |
|
Class VIII
|
Jukeboxes or other musical devices
|
$75
| |
|
Class IX
|
Coin-operated rides
|
$75
| |
|
Class X
|
Coin-operated games
|
$75
| |
|
Machines not classified
|
$250
|
Additional or new machines shall require the annual license fee required in § 11.82. No license shall be transferred from the machine for which it was issued to another machine.
Change of location of any licensed vending machine during any
license period may be authorized by the City Clerk upon application
therefor.
No automatic food vending machine shall be installed or kept
for use in any toilet or washroom.
(A)
All articles of food purveyed by means of an automatic food vending
machine shall be clean, wholesome, free from taint, decay, or infections,
and shall contain no poisonous, deleterious or injurious ingredients
in kind and quantities so as to render such article injurious or detrimental
to health.
(B)
The Health Officer shall make periodic inspections of all automatic
food vending machines and articles of food purveyed therefrom for
the purpose of determining the purity and wholesomeness of the products
vended, the preparation, wrapping and handling of the same and to
see that all requirements of this Code and the health provisions are
met and complied with, including the operation and use of such machines,
to guard against improper handling, distribution and contamination
of food purveyed thereby.
Before a license is issued for any food vending machine, a permit
shall be secured for such machine as provided in Article 14.
