[Adopted as Ch. 6 of the 1963 City Code (Ch. 104, Art. I, of the 1980 Code)]
[Amended 6-3-1975 by Doc. 136; 10-19-1976 by Doc. 177; 4-6-1993 by Doc. 45]
No person shall set up and maintain a billiard, pool or sippio room or table or a bowling alley, shooting gallery, horseshoe court or a pinball machine for gain or reward without first obtaining a license therefor from the City Council. No license shall be issued for setup or maintenance of casino-type coin-operated amusement devices, including but not limited to video poker, blackjack, slot, keno, dice, roulette or horse racing machines. It shall be illegal to set up or maintain such machines, and each day such a machine is set up or maintained shall constitute a separate offense.
[Amended 6-3-1975 by Doc. 136; 10-19-1976 by Doc. 177]
Licenses for the setting up and maintaining of such billiard, pool or sippio tables or rooms or such bowling alleys, shooting galleries, horseshoe courts or pinball machines shall be granted solely to the person setting up and maintaining each billiard, pool or sippio table or room or each bowling alley or each shooting gallery or each horseshoe court or each pinball machine subject to all the provisions of law and to such further rules and regulations, not inconsistent with law or ordinance, as the City Council may from time to time determine and impose.
[Added 4-8-2003 by Doc. 60]
A. 
Fees for pool tables:
(1) 
$60 for the first table and $30 for each additional table.
(2) 
Sunday pool: annual fee of $100.
B. 
Fees for bowling alleys:
(1) 
$60 for the first alley and $30 for each additional alley.
(2) 
Sunday bowling: $20 per alley.
[Amended 4-6-1993 by Doc. 45]
A violation of any of the provisions of §§ 104-1, 104-2 and 104-6 to 104-9 or of any of the rules and regulations established by the City Council under the provisions of § 104-2 shall operate as a cancellation and determination of any and all licenses granted as provided for by § 104-2 and by § 104-10.
Sections 104-5 to 104-9, inclusive, shall be printed on every license granted under the conditions of § 104-2.
[Amended 6-3-1975 by Doc. 136; 10-19-1976 by Doc. 177; 11-17-1981 by Doc. 200]
No room in which a billiard, pool or sippio table is placed or a bowling alley or shooting gallery is run or a horseshoe court is run or a pinball machine is placed shall be fastened so as to prevent any person from having free access thereto during the hours in which business is done in such room, and all such rooms shall be closed and the public excluded therefrom between the hours of 12:00 midnight and 6:00 a.m., except those establishments licensed to sell alcoholic beverages on the premises wherein the hours for use of the amusement devices referenced shall conform with the hours stated on the license to sell alcoholic beverages. In addition to the restriction on hours of operation contained herein, any automatic amusement device shall be further limited to hours of operation in accordance with Article II, § 104-18, of this chapter.
[Amended 10-19-1976 by Doc. 177]
No keeper of a billiard, pool or sippio room or table or of a bowling alley or shooting gallery or of a horseshoe court or of a pinball machine shall at any time admit or allow any person in an intoxicated condition to be upon the premises described in the license therefor.
[Amended 6-3-1975 by Doc. 136; 5-25-1976 by Doc. 74-B; 10-19-1976 by Doc. 177]
No keeper of a billiard, pool or sippio room or table or of a bowling alley or shooting gallery or of a horseshoe court or of a pinball machine shall suffer or allow any alcoholic beverages to be drunk on the premises unless such keeper is duly licensed to sell alcoholic beverages on the premises by the License Commission of the City of Haverhill as provided by law, nor shall such keeper permit any gaming for money or other property, nor allow any slot machines or other machines which are games of chance upon the premises except those machines which are described in § 104-1 of this article.
[Amended 6-3-1975 by Doc. 136]
All written consents of parents or guardians for the admission of minors to billiard, pool or sippio rooms or tables or to a horseshoe court or to bowling alleys under the provisions of MGL c. 140, § 179, and all amendments thereof or additions thereto, shall be upon blanks furnished by the Chief of Police and shall be approved by him in writing. No minor under 16 years of age shall be employed in any billiard, pool or sippio room or in any bowling alley after 6:00 p.m. of any day.
[Amended 10-19-1976 by Doc. 177]
No license or permit granted by the licensing authority (City Council) shall be transferred by the licensee except upon approval of the City Council. Such license or permit shall be posted in a conspicuous area on the business premises of the licensee.