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license tax pursuant to Section 21-102. A service charge of ten <br />dollars ($10.00) shall be paid in advance to the Collector, or <br />his or her authorized agent by the owner or operator of any such <br />machine or device so sealed for the removal of such seals. <br />No person shall operate any machine or device so sealed without <br />first submitting evidence to the Collector or his or her duly <br />authorized agent that payment of the required license tax and <br />service charge prescribed in this section has been made and until <br />the required identification has been stamped upon or affixed to <br />the machine or device and the Collector or his or her agent has <br />removed such seals. It is unlawful for any person other than the <br />Collector or his or her duly authorized agents to break any such <br />seals. Any person so doing shall be deemed guilty of a <br />misdemeanor. Upon receipt of evidence of payment in full of the <br />tax and service charge and, when applicable, evidence of other <br />required compliance by the owner or operator of any machine or <br />device so sealed, the Collector or his or her duly authorized <br />agent shall break and remove such seals. In the event of seizure, <br />any such machines shall be disposed of upon nonpayment of such <br />tax as provided by the laws relative thereto, pursuant to Section <br />21-102. Such machines may be reclaimed by the owners, prior to <br />disposal, upon payment of taxes and all costs involved in the <br />seizure, storage and handling thereof. <br /> <br />Sec. 21-102. Enforcement; seizure of devices. <br /> <br /> In the event that any person engages in, conducts, transacts <br />and carries on or manages the business of maintaining any coin- <br />operated machines or devices and operates any such devices upon <br />premises not belonging to, nor under the control of said person <br />without obtaining a license therefor, or upon revocation of the <br />same the Collector shall seize such coin-operated machines or <br />devices and hold then as security for the payment of the license <br />fee or any other amount due and owing pursuant to this chapter <br />and shall not surrender same until a license is obtained or <br />renewed. In the event the person owning or having control of the <br />device fails, within a period of thirty (30) days after notice to <br />said licensee served to the address listed on the application of <br />the licensee where he or she consented to receive mail concerning <br />his coin-operated machines or devices, to pay any license tax and <br />any other amount due pursuant to this chapter, then and in that <br />event the device shall be disposed of as hereinafter provided in <br />this section. Where the person owning or having control of the <br />device has failed to obtain a license for said device prior to <br />the seizure of said same then notice shall be served through <br />United States mail to the person owning or having control of the <br />device to the address affixed to the device listing the owner's <br />name and address. Where no address is so affixed a notice shall <br />be conspicuously posted upon the premises where the device is <br />being operated. In the event said person fails, within a period <br />of thirty (30) days after the serving or posting of said notice, <br />to obtain a business license, then in that event the device shall <br />be disposed of as hereinafter provided in this section· <br /> <br />- 58 <br /> <br /> <br />