<div class="chunk-title">Section 1413. - Electronic gaming operations.</div>
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               1413.01. <span class="ital">Electronic gaming operations defined.</span> Electronic gaming operations are business enterprises, whether principal or accessory,
               where persons utilize electronic machines, including, but not limited to, computers
               and gaming terminals to conduct games of skill, odds or chance, including sweepstakes
               entries, and where cash, coupons, gift cards, internet access time, merchandise or
               other items of value are redeemed or otherwise distributed, whether or not the value
               of such items is determined by skill on electronic games played or by predetermined
               odds, and regardless of whether the business operation does not violate any provision
               of G.S. ch. 14, art. 37, pt. 1 or any other state or federal law. Electronic gaming
               operations do not include operations associated with the official North Carolina Education
               Lottery.
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               1413.02. <span class="ital">Hours of operation.</span> The business shall operate only between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m., unless
               the business is located 150 percent or more of the setback distances set forth in
               subsection 1413.02, in which case the hours of operation may be extended until 12:00
               a.m. (midnight).
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               1413.03. <span class="ital">Location.</span> The business shall not be located closer than:
               
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                  a.
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                  One thousand feet from any building used as a dwelling (residence).
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                  b.
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                  Two thousand feet from any church, day care facility, school, playground, park, library,
                  movie theatre.
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                  c.
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                  Two thousand feet from any existing electronic gaming operation, tattoo and body piercing
                  establishment or adult and sexually oriented business.
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                  d.
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                  Measurement of distance shall be in a straight line from the closest point of the
                  building at which the business is located to closest point of the building being protected
                  by the applicable setback.
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               1413.04. <span class="ital">[Alcoholic beverages prohibited.]</span> No alcoholic beverages shall be sold or consumed on the premises (buildings or grounds).
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               1413.05. <span class="ital">Parking.</span> There shall be one and one-half parking spaces for each electronic gaming machine
               plus one for each employee on the shift of greatest employment.
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               1413.06. <span class="ital">Loitering prohibited.</span> There shall be no loitering on the premises (buildings or grounds) after business
               hours.
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               1413.07. <span class="ital">Minimum requirements; no presumption of general compatibility, etc.</span> The requirements set forth in this <a href="" data-chunk-id="COOR_APXAZO_ARTXIVSUUS_S1413ELGAOP" class="section-link" data-product-id="12479">section 1413</a> as to hours of operation, location and parking are intended to be minimum requirements.
               Meeting the minimum requirements in this <a href="" data-chunk-id="COOR_APXAZO_ARTXIVSUUS_S1413ELGAOP" class="section-link" data-product-id="12479">section 1413</a> shall raise no presumption of general compatibility or compliance with any of the
               other specific standards set forth in article VII, subsection 701.03 for the approval
               of a conditional use permit. The board of adjustment shall have full authority to
               impose requirements more stringent than those set forth in this <a href="" data-chunk-id="COOR_APXAZO_ARTXIVSUUS_S1413ELGAOP" class="section-link" data-product-id="12479">section 1413</a> if more stringent requirements are supported by competent evidence received by the
               board of adjustment during the conditional use permit hearing.
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               (Res. of 7-10-17(1), Â§ 5)
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