Wylie, TX Gambling & Gaming: Game Room Regulations (2026)

Wylie Code of Ordinances §§ 14-61 through 14-65 govern coin-operated machines, a category that expressly includes "skill or pleasure coin-operated machines" such as video games and other amusement devices commonly found in game rooms. Section 14-62 levies an annual occupation tax, set in the fee schedule at Appendix A to the Code, on every coin-operated machine in the city; the owner must pay the tax to the tax assessor-collector, who issues a receipt that must be physically attached to the machine and bear its serial number, and the receipt is non-transferable between machines.

Operating, exhibiting or displaying a machine without the attached receipt is unlawful, and a machine on which the tax has not been paid is declared a public nuisance that may be sealed as provided by law. Section 14-63 separately bars any skill-or-pleasure coin-operated machine from being permitted within 300 feet of any school building in the city, the closest thing in the Wylie Code to a location restriction on game-room-style machines. Section 14-62(c) exempts gas meters, pay telephones, pay toilets, and vending machines for food, confections, beverages, merchandise, stamps or cigarettes, along with service machines, from the tax; Section 14-64 exempts qualifying nonprofit religious, charitable, educational or benevolent corporations using machines for their own purposes; and Section 14-65 exempts a machine an individual owns purely for personal use in a private residence.

Section 14-62(e) makes clear the article does not legalize any machine, device or table whose keeping, exhibition, operation or display already violates the state penal code or constitution, which is where prize-payout eight-liner enforcement ultimately sits under state law rather than this local tax article.