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City of San Mateo Municipal Code.

27.65.040 LIMITATION ON LOCATION OF ARCADES AND AMUSEMENT MACHINES.

(a) Unless specific approval is first obtained from the City planning commission, no arcade shall be maintained or operated within fifty feet from the property line of any residential zone.

(b) No amusement machine accessible for use by minors shall be maintained, operated, conducted or used, nor kept for such purposes, in or on the premises of any establishment whose primary business is the sale of alcoholic beverages. This subsection shall not prohibit the operation of amusement machines in a bona fide establishment with an on-sale liquor license or restaurants which are licensed to sell alcoholic beverages.

(c) No amusement machine as herein defined shall be maintained, operated, conducted or used, nor kept for such purposes, within any place which is closer than three hundred feet from any public or private school which conducts classes for any of the grades from kindergarten through twelfth grade.