[Ord. No. 92-16 §1, 6-16-1992]
It shall be unlawful for any person to carry on or conduct any
public billiard or pool room or hall or to permit or allow any person
to play pool or billiards at or upon any table for hire or compensation,
within the corporate limits of the City of Albany, Missouri, without
first taking and securing a merchant's license.
[Ord. No. 92-16 §2, 6-16-1992]
The license fee for a billiard or pool room or hall shall be
the sum of ten dollars ($10.00) per year, payable annually, at the
beginning of each calendar year.
[Ord. No. 92-16 §3, 6-16-1992]
No intoxicating liquor or non-intoxicating beer shall be sold,
allowed or consumed in said hall or rooms.
[Ord. No. 92-16 §4, 6-16-1992]
It shall be the duty of the license holder to operate said rooms
in a clean and orderly fashion and all profane, obscene, vulgar or
improper language is prohibited therein. No drunken or intoxicated
persons or persons under the influence of liquor shall be permitted
in said rooms or hall and no quarrelling, loud and boisterous language,
or fighting shall be permitted. No billiard or pool hall shall be
permitted to be open on Sunday.
[Ord. No. 92-16 §5, 6-16-1992]
Every billiard and pool hall under the provisions herein shall
be in the sole charge of a resident manager, who may be the owner
thereof or who shall be employed or hired by the person taking out
the license. No person shall be issued a license to operate a billiard
or pool hall or be permitted to be manager thereof unless he shall
be over the age of twenty-one (21) years and shall be a person of
good character.
[Ord. No. 92-16 §6, 6-16-1992]
Any Police Officer of the City of Albany, Missouri, shall be
permitted to enter said room or hall at any time for the purpose of
determining if the provisions of this Chapter are being complied with.
[Ord. No. 92-16 §7, 6-16-1992]
Any license issued under the provisions of this Chapter may
be revoked by the action of the Mayor and Board of Aldermen upon five
(5) days' written notice to the license holder of such revocation.
The money for the unexpired term of such license shall be returned
to the licensee on a pro rata basis. Upon receipt of the notice from
the Board of Aldermen of their intention to revoke such a license
the licensee, upon written request, shall be entitled to a hearing
before the Mayor and Board of Aldermen. In the event the Mayor and
Board of Aldermen shall determine, after such hearing, that the licensee
has violated any of the provisions of this Chapter, the Mayor and
Board of Aldermen shall have the power and authority to revoke such
license.
[Ord. No. 92-16 §8, 6-16-1992]
Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this Chapter
shall, upon conviction thereof, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor
and in addition to having his license subject to revocation by the
Board of Aldermen, shall be punished by a fine not to exceed one hundred
dollars ($100.00), or imprisonment in the City Jail for a term of
not to exceed ninety (90) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
