Title 5 BUSINESS TAXES, LICENSES AND REGULATIONS
Chapter 5.24 MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS REGULATIONS
5.24.050 Billiard and pool halls.
A. Hours.
1. All places where billiard tables or pool tables are
maintained for public use shall be and remain closed every day between the hours
of two a.m. and six a.m.
2. No owner, manager, proprietor or other person
having charge of any public billiard or pool hall shall keep the same open or
allow or permit the same to be kept open or allow or permit any game to be
played therein from two a.m. until six a.m. of any day, or allow or permit any
person except such owner, manager, proprietor or person in charge thereof, or
the employees regularly employed in and about the same, to be or remain therein
between the hours aforesaid.
B. Disorderly Persons. No owner, manager,
proprietor or other person in charge of any public billiard or pool hall shall
allow or permit any intoxicated, quarreling or disorderly person or persons to
be or remain in such place.
C. Admission of Minors.
1. No person under
the age of eighteen years shall be permitted to play at any game or lounge about
or in any public billiard hall, pool hall or gaming place within the city,
unless accompanied by his or her parent or guardian or upon the written consent
of his or her parent or guardian.
2. No owner, manager, proprietor or other
person in charge of any billiard or pool hall shall allow or permit any person
under the age of eighteen years to be, remain in, enter or visit such place
unless such minor person is accompanied by one of his/her parents or his/her
legal guardian.
D. Minors--Where Alcohol Sold. No person under the age of
twenty-one years shall be in, remain in, enter or visit any such public billiard
or pool hall in which any alcoholic beverages are sold or dispensed or offered
for sale.
E. Minors Excluded Where Alcoholic Beverages Sold. Every owner,
manager, proprietor or other person in charge of any public billiard or pool
hall in which alcoholic beverages are sold or dispensed or offered for sale
shall prohibit and prevent every person under the age of twenty-one years from
being in, remaining in, entering or visiting such public billiard or pool
hall.
F. Obstruction of Entrances. A person shall not maintain any public
billiard or pool hall, or similar place of business to which the public is
invited, or any social billiard or pool club, where there is placed, constructed
or maintained any screen, partition, barrier, closet, alcove or object which may
obstruct the visibility of any part of such establishment, except
restrooms:
1. From the street or sidewalk, if such establishment is located
on the ground floor; or
2. From the entrance of any establishment which is
located either entirely below the level of the street or sidewalk, or on the
second or higher floor of any building or other structure.
G. Permitting
Violations. No owner, proprietor or operator of any such establishment shall
permit a violation of subsections A1 or C1 of this section within the
establishment. (Ord. 812-96 § 12; prior code §§ 11-124,
14-13)
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