No person shall have, keep, own, maintain or
use, within the limits of the Borough, any billiard or pool rooms
or bowling alleys as a business or for profit of any kind, unless
a license is first obtained as hereinafter provided in this article.
The purpose of this article is to regulate the
businesses herein mentioned in the interests of public morals, health
and safety and to derive revenue by the imposition of license fees
thereon.
No license shall be issued to conduct any business
specified in this article, except bowling alleys, to anyone where
the place in which it is intended to conduct the business shall be
below the level of the surface of the adjoining street, except that
pool and billiard tables shall be permitted to be used in such places
in conjunction with the operation of bowling alleys.
[Amended by Ord. No. 557]
The fees for licenses issued under this article
shall be as follows:
A. Pool and billiard rooms, for each table per year:
$5.
B. Bowling alleys, for each alley per year: $5.
It shall be the duty of the Borough Clerk to
keep a record of all licenses issued under this article, and to submit
a monthly report to the Council of the licenses issued and of the
fees collected therefor.
[Amended by Ord. No. 742]
Any person who violates any provision of this
article shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not
exceeding $500 or by imprisonment for a term not exceeding 90 days,
or both.