Chapter 5.46 COIN-OPERATED AMUSEMENT DEVICES
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)
5.46.100