If an owner purchases or receives additional bona fide coin operated amusement machines during the calendar year, the applicable annual permit fee shall be paid to the corporation and the sticker shall be affixed to the machine before the machine may be legally operated. A penalty fee equal to twice the applicable annual permit fee shall be assessed by the corporation for every machine in operation without a permit sticker.
(Code 1981, §48-17-11, enacted by Ga. L. 1992, p. 1521, § 3; Ga. L. 1994, p. 834, § 3; Ga. L. 2010, p. 470, § 4/SB 454; Ga. L. 2010, p. 9, § 1-91/HB 1055; Code 1981, §50-27-80, as redesignated by Ga. L. 2013, p. 37, § 1-1/HB 487.)
The 2013 amendment, effective April 10, 2013, redesignated former Code Section 48-17-11 as present Code Section 50-27-80, and substituted "corporation" for "commissioner" twice in this Code section.
Code Commission notes.- The amendment of this Code section by Ga. L. 2010, p. 9, § 1-91, irreconcilably conflicted with and was treated as superseded by Ga. L. 2010, p. 470, § 4. See County of Butts v. Strahan, 151 Ga. 417 (1921); Keener v. McDougall, 232 Ga. 273 (1974).