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(al) This section shall not be construed to permit the keeping, main- taining, exhibiting or operating of any slot machine or device in which the • element of chance is employed, or which gives any prize or any article other than the article of merchandise or mxsie service in payment of which the coin was originally deposited. Any person having or maintaining any such slot machine the licensing of which is prohibited by this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor punishable as provided in section 1-10, and such machine shall be confiscated and destroyed. Eeeh-f4eense-issae�-she}f-refer-te-the-mantsfaetnreris-number-of-tke maekine;-er-if-the-m�ekine-bas-ne-snek-n�nber--the-�ieense-chaff-be-Bested in-e-eensgienens-g�aee-en-tke-maekine- (b) In addition to the license tax hereinabove imposed in-resgeet-te- eaeh-maehine, every person selling, leasing, renting or otherwise furnishing to others a -slat pinball machines or machines te-ethers furnishing music, games or amusement, other than devices or machines affording rides to children, shall be deemed a slat coin machine operator and shall pay an annual license tax of one hundred fifty dollars. (c) No part of this section shall be construed to apply to pay telephones or to slot machines used for the purpose of vending individual •sanitary drinking cups or United States postage stamps, ane3-srxbseetien-{b} ef-this-seetien-skai}-net-be-eenstrned-to-aggiy or to operators of automatic baggage or parcel checking machines; nor shall this section relieve any person from the obligations imposed by section 15-56 upon the amusement devices therein described. (d) Every person placing ven&ing a� machines required to be licensed hereunder in the city shall furnish the commissioner of revenue, on January 1 of each year, the location and the make of each machine owned. Every vending machine shall be plainly marked by the owner thereof with the name and address of such owner. Each license issued shall refer to the manufacturer's numbers of the machines whose gross receipts are included thereunder. If the machine has no such number a facsimile or copy of such license shall be conspicuously posted on such machine. (e) Regularly licensed retail merchants paying retail merchants license tax on their sales at retail shall not be required to pay any separate vend- ing machine license on such coin-operated machines which are located on the premises of their place of business. However, the use of a cigarette vending machine on premises which are not already covered by a tobacco retailer's license under section 15-105 of this chapter shall require the owner of such machine to take out a tobacco retailer's license for that location. 0