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� - as needed, our reasoning is stele --tee silly have too much invested in this operation U n excess of $1,300.,000,00) to allow mainstay of our business to be threatened. obviously, if young faro 1 ies did not cane and buy our pizza, we would not be in business We are very eager to be in Roseville. e have paid a premium pri ir ce for this ground and expect it to be in an excellent location for us. The definition of "amusement devices" under your City section 117,020, is that of a "machine or device that requires the payment of money to play the game or operate the machine or device, - and which is operated so as to possibly reward the player or operator with additional gas or operations without additional payment or money. " At this time , all of our machines would fit this definition. The electronic gam .s do not reward the player with additional games, but only with smie additional time. our few pinball games do not reward players with additional games, but only perhaps an additional 1. we operate " eeball" gam, which provide children, the opportunity to collect a number of tickets and win shall and very "inexpensive plastic -toys, It appears to me, as an attorney, that we could operate our restaurant in the city of ? seville with your ordinance as it reads now. However, we do not intend to try to do so if anyone feels we are trying to "pull a fast one, " our intention is to work with the city in 'order to ccoe up with scm acceptable mans of allowing our .operation and at the see time preventing any proliferation of "storefront. game rccms Since this restriction on oration is under your licenses and pert is section and not under your zing section, it would seen to me that the city could take several actions in this regard. The city could simply drop this age restriction. If your experience has shown that this is either not enforced or that you have had no troubles fran game operati.s , this might be an appropriate action for you to take, The Code section 117,030, could be amended to state that these machines could not be operated by persons under the age of 18 unless their pmts were with them. 3 ) The Code Section could be amended to read that they could not be- operated by any person under the age of 18 years unless the games were being operated as an accessory use to another operation, such as a restaurant, This could even be further tightened by specifying the percentage of the gross floor area which must be devoted to another business activity. Ile will be happy to work with your city attorney to come up with see tYPe of ordinance, or mans of dealing with this restriction, provided the city does not have any problem with our suggested use. I have enclosed scrne PampMets of descriptive materials and will follow up with a phone call to you within the week.