Ordinance No. 689255
ORDINANCE NO. 689
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CYPRESS ADDING CHAPTER 15 -E "FAMILY AMUSEMENT
ARCADES" TO THE CYPRESS MUNICIPAL CODE.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS HEREBY DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION I. Chapter 15 -E "Family Amusement Arcades" is hereby added
to the Cypress Municipal Code, to read as follows:
CHAPTER 15 -E
FAMILY AMUSEMENT ARCADES
SECTION 15 -E -1 DEFINITIONS
For the purpose of the provisions regulating
Family Amusement Arcades and similar businesses
hereinafter set forth, the following words and
phrases shall be construed to have the meanings
herein set forth:
a) FAMILY AMUSEMENT ARCADE shall mean a use
which consists of the operation of
mechanical, electric or electronic amuse-
ment game machines. Any business, regard-
less of type, which has or maintains four
(4) or more devices on its premises shall
be classified as an arcade for purposes
of this Ordinance.
b) AMUSEMENT GAME MACHINE shall mean any
mechanical, electric or electronic device
which upon insertion of a coin, slug, or
token in any slot or receptacle attached
to the device or connected therewith,
operates, or which may be operated for use
as a game contest, or amusement through
the exercise of skill or chance.
SECTION 15 -E -2 PERMITS REQUIRED
It shall be unlawful to establish or operate
four (4) or more amusement game machines upon the
premises of any business establishment within the
City of Cypress without first obtaining the
following:
a) Approval to establish a Family Amusement
Arcade pursuant to the City's zoning and
land use regulations of the Zoning
Ordinance.
b) A current business license for the business
operation and each amusement game machine
as required by the City's Business Tax
Ordinance.
SECTION 15 -E -3 CRITERIA FOR ESTABLISHING ARCADES
a) The City of Cypress shall not receive an
application for or issue any conditional
use permit or business license to establish
a Family Amusement Arcade within 600 feet
of any public or private school, grades
K -12. The minimum distance of 600 feet
shall be measured in,a straight line from
the school property line to the proposed
arcade prerp,ises.
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SECTION 15 -E -4 OPERATION REGULATIONS
The following regulations shall apply to all
business establishments containing four (4) or
more amusement game machines in the City and
said conditions imposed upon the granting of any
conditional use permit for such establishments.
a) All electronic game machines within the
premises shall be visible and supervised
by an adult attendant (21 years or older).
Said attendant shall be present at all
times when any amusement game machine is
being operated.
b) The supervision of the patrons on the
premises shall be adequate to ensure there
is no conduct that is detrimental to the
public health, safety, and general welfare.
c) Amusement arcades must be open to all ages
of patrons; however, no proprietor, employee
thereof, or person in charge, shall allow
any minor under 18 years of age to enter the
arcade premises during hours of instruction
throughout the academic year for public
school districts within the City.
d) Alcoholic beverages shall not be consumed on
the premises of an amusement arcade, unless
the arcade is established in conjunction
with a restaurant permitted to serve alcoholic
beverages.
e) Arcades with gross floor areas of three thousand
(3,000) square feet or greater, excluding
restaurant dining and kitchen areas, shall
provide a visible security guard after 5 p.m.
until business closing on Friday, Saturday and
Sunday evenings. Security guards will be
responsible for crowd control both on the
arcade premises and adjoining parking area.
f) Arcades shall not be operated in a detrimental
manner to adjoining businesses and the community.
A bicycle parking rack shall be provided inside
the business premises or as replacement of a
motor vehicle parking space directly adjoining
the business establishment.
SECTION II. If any section, subsection, subdivision, sentence,
clause, phrase or portion of this Ordinance, or the application thereof
to any person or place, by the decision of any court of competent
jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining
portions of this Ordinance or its application to other persons or places.
The City Council hereby declares that it would have adopted this Ordinance,
and each section, subsection, subdivision, sentence, clause, phrase or
portion thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections,
subsections, subdivisions, sentences, clauses, phrases, or portions, or
the application thereof to any person or place, be declared invalid or
unconstitutional.
SECTION III. The City Clerk is hereby authorized and directed to
certify as to the passage of this Ordinance and to give notice thereof
by causing copies of this Ordinance to be posted in three public places
throughout the City.
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FIRST READ at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of
Cypress at a regular meeting held on the 8th day of February, 1982, and
finally adopted and ordered posted at a regular meeting of said Council
on the 22nd day of February 1982.
ATTEST:
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CITT C (ERk OF iH� 'CYfY OF CYPRESS
STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) SS
COUNTY OF ORANGE )
MAYOR OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS
I, DARRELL ESSEX, City Clerk of the City of Cypress, DO HEREBY
CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance was duly adopted at a regular
meeting of the said City Council held on the 22nd day of February
1982 by the following roll call vote:
AYES: 5 COUNCIL MEMBERS: Coronado, Lacayo, Partin, Rowan, and Mullen
NOES: 0 COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
ABSENT: 0 COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
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