[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of
Ligonier 1-21-1949 by Ord. No. 228. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Amended 8-8-1963 by Ord. No. 292; 1-12-1989 by Ord. No. 438]
No individual, firm, association, partnership or corporation
shall operate or continue the operation of a billiard parlor, poolroom,
bowling alley, circus or carnival or any place of business where any
shuffleboard, pinball machine or music box, jukebox, phonograph or
any other instrument playing recorded music, or any other coin-operated
amusement device, except a radio, is maintained, possessed or operated
within the Borough limits, or where any of such enumerated devices,
instruments or machines are operated through the insertion thereof
of a coin or metal or plastic disc or otherwise, without first obtaining
from the Mayor a license therefor. The application for such license
shall specify the nature and character of the business or installation
and the location of the same, and no such license shall be issued
until the applicable fee, as hereinafter specified, shall have been
paid.
The following recited license fees shall be paid before a license shall be issued for the types of business and/or installation recited in § 44-1 of this chapter:
A.
$50 per annum for billiard parlors and/or poolrooms and $50 per annum
for bowling alleys, one license only being required for billiard parlors
and/or poolrooms and bowling alleys where billiard and pool tables
and bowling alleys are maintained in the same place of business.
B.
$100 per day for circuses.
C.
$300 per week, or fraction of week, for carnivals.
D.
$50 per annum for music boxes, jukeboxes, phonographs or other instruments
playing recorded music, or any other coin-operated amusement device,
except radios, where any of the said enumerated devices, instruments
or machines are operated through the insertion therein of a coin or
metal or plastic disc or otherwise, a separate license being required
for each machine installed in any place of business.
[Amended 12-8-1988 by Ord. No. 437; 1-12-1989 by Ord. No. 438; 2-8-2001 by Ord. No. 512]
E.
$50 per annum for pinball machines, a separate license being required
for each machine installed in any place of business.
[Amended 12-8-1988 by Ord. No. 437; 2-8-2001 by Ord. No. 512]
F.
$50 per annum for shuffleboards, a separate license being required
for each shuffleboard installed in any place of business.
[Amended 12-8-1988 by Ord. No. 437; 2-8-2001 by Ord. No. 512]
[Amended 8-8-1963 by Ord. No. 292; 1-12-1989 by Ord. No. 438]
A.
All billiard parlors, poolrooms, bowling alleys, circuses, carnivals
and places of business where shuffleboards, pinball machines or music
boxes, jukeboxes, phonographs or any other instruments playing recorded
music, or any other coin-operated amusement device except radios,
are maintained, possessed or operated within the Borough limits, or
where any of such enumerated devices, instruments or machines are
operated through the insertion therein of a coin or metal or plastic
disc or otherwise and are licensed as herein provided, shall be subject
to inspection by the proper Borough officials at any time.
B.
Every license issued under this chapter is subject to the right,
which is hereby expressly reserved, to revoke the same should the
licensee, directly or indirectly, permit the operation of any jukebox
or mechanical amusement device contrary to the provisions of this
chapter, the ordinances of the Borough of Ligonier or the laws of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Said license may be revoked by the
Borough Council after written notice to the licensee, which notice
shall specify the ordinance or law violations with which the licensee
is charged, if, after a hearing, the licensee is found to be guilty
of such violations. Ten days' notice of the hearing shall be
given the licensee. At such hearing, the licensee and his attorney
may present and submit evidence of witnesses in his defense.
[Amended 1-12-1989 by Ord. No. 438; 7-12-2001 by Ord. No. 514]
Any individual, firm, association, partnership or corporation
who shall violate any of the provisions of this chapter by conducting
or attempting to conduct any of the businesses herein recited, or
installing any of the devices, instruments or machines herein recited
in places of business, without first having obtained a license therefor,
shall, upon conviction before the Magisterial District Judge, be fined
not more than $600 for each and every offense, and the costs of prosecution
thereof, and, in default of payment, the party so offending shall
be committed to the county jail for a period not exceeding 30 days.
