[Amended by MC 1973-19, § 1, May 21, 1973]
(a) Bowling means any of the various games in which balls are rolled
on an alley or lane at an object or group of objects, usually tenpins,
duckpins, candlepins or the like.
(b) Bowling alley means any lane or alley or group of lanes or alleys
upon which games of bowling may be conducted.
(c) Pool or Billiards mean the several games played on a table known
as a pool table or billiard table, surrounded by an elastic ledge
or cushion, with or without pockets, with balls which are impelled
by a cue. Such terms shall include all forms of the game known as
carom billiards, pocket billiards, three cushion billiards and English
billiards and all other games played on a billiard table and also
include the games known as snooker, fifteen ball pool, eight ball
pool, bottle pool, pea-pool and all other games played on a pool table
and all games played on a so-called pigeon-hole table.
(d) Pool Room or Billiard Room means any public, semi-public, or private
place, including private clubs, but excluding individual residences,
where the game of pool or billiards is played or permitted to be played.
The License Bureau shall not issue or transfer a license until
the premises to be licensed have been inspected and approval given
to the applications by the designated inspecting authorities.
[R.O. 1957, 6:12-2; amended by MC-1974-9, § 4,
May 20, 1974]
Every license granted under this article shall be issued for
a period of one (1) year from June 1 to the last day of May of the
following year.
No license to maintain, conduct or operate a pool table, billiard
table, or bowling alley shall be transferred without the consent of
the Mayor or his designee.
Every license required by this article shall be displayed at
all the times by the licensee in a conspicuous place in the pool room,
billiard room or bowling alley.
[MC 1978-24, § 1, Nov. 6, 1978; MC 1979-1, § 1,
Jan. 15, 1979]
(a) Persons who shall conduct or operate any pool room or billiard room
shall be allowed to operate the same and remain open for any game
of pool or billiards to be played therein only during the following
hours for the respective days set forth:
(1)
Monday through Thursday - 8 A.M. until 1 A.M. the following
day.
(2)
Friday and Saturday - 8 A.M. until 2 A.M. the following day.
(3)
Sunday - 1 P.M. until 1 A.M. the following day.
(b) Persons who shall conduct or operate any bowling alley shall be allowed
to operate the same and remain open for any bowling to be played therein
only during the following hours for the respective days set forth:
(1)
Sunday through Thursday - 8 A.M. until 1 A.M. the following
day.
(2)
Friday through Saturday - 8 A.M. until 2 A.M. the following
day.
[R.O. 1957, 6:12-3, as amended Oct. 21, 1963]
No pool tables, billiard tables or bowling alleys shall be maintained,
conducted or operated for profit within two hundred (200) feet of
the entrance of any place of worship or school.