§ 4-3.2. License required; types of licenses.
-
a.
No person shall maintain, operate or possess in any store, building or other place where the public is invited or where the public may enter, or any building or other place where any club or organization meetings are held, in the Township, any mechanical amusement games without first obtaining a license therefor.
b.There shall be four types of licenses issued under the terms of this section: a mechanical amusement game license; a commercial pool table license; an arcade license; and a billiard parlor license.
1.The maximum number of arcade licenses to be issued within the Township shall be nine. Each location shall be separately licensed.
2.Any combination of mechanical amusement games and commercial pool tables which totals five or more shall require an arcade license and/or a billiard parlor license. The label for such a license shall be determined by the greater number of mechanical amusement games/commercial pool tables, i.e.; two mechanical amusement games and three commercial pool tables would be classified as a billiard parlor. Equal number of mechanical amusement games and commercial pool tables shall be classified as an arcade.
3.There shall be no limit on mechanical amusement game licenses. A "mechanical amusement game license" shall be defined as a license for any business establishment which provides four or less mechanical amusement games on or within the premises. A separate license shall be required for each location.
c.Each license hereunder shall be considered an annual license issued for a one-year period commencing April 1 and terminating on the last day of March of the succeeding year. Any initial license or approval of transfer shall be issued for the balance of the one-year period only. All terms, conditions, restrictions and/or regulations imposed upon the initial license shall be deemed to continue upon renewal unless specially repealed, deleted or waived by the Township Council.
d.No license issued under this chapter shall be transferable without prior approval of Township Council.
e.The Township Council's action in denying or withholding the issuance of any license of an applicant seeking an initial license shall be deemed final; provided however, that the applicant may petition the Township Council for a hearing to reconsider the denial.