Section 5.46.100 Seizure and destruction of device.

    If the police department has reason to believe any coin-operated amusement device is used as a gambling device, such machine may be seized by the police department and impounded, and if upon trial of the exhibitor for allowing it to be used as a gambling device the exhibitor is found guilty, such machine shall be destroyed by the police department. If the city clerk, the police, or any of their duly authorized enforcement officers shall have reasonable basis for believing any coin-operated amusement device is operated unlicensed, or is being used for gambling purposes, or has a knock-off circuit, the device may be seized by any duly authorized law enforcement official, followed by an administrative hearing with the appropriateness of the seizure, and held until such time as the owner of such device pays the delinquent fee, reimburses the police department for actual cartage cost incurred in the seizure, and pays to the city of Columbia five dollars ($5.00) for each day or part of day the device has been in storage. In the event the owner of such device is found not guilty, and unless return of the confiscated machine is determined by rule of the court, the confiscated machine will be returned to the original location at the city’ s expense. (Ord. 1755 § 1 (part), 1999)
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