No owner, manager, proprietor or other person having charge
of any billiard room or poolhall shall keep the same open or allow
or permit the same to be kept open, or allow or permit any game to
be played therein from two a.m. until six a.m. of any day, or allow
or permit any person except such owner, manager proprietor or person
in charge thereof, or the servants regularly employed in and about
the same, to be or remain therein between the hours aforesaid.
(Prior code 6404)
Any person having charge of any billiard room or poolhall may
apply to the license and permit hearing board for a permit to keep
open his or her billiard room and/or poolhall from two a.m. until
six a.m. The license and permit hearing board may grant such a permit
if the following conditions are met:
A. The
operation of the billiard room and/or poolhall is on the same premises
in connection with another business which is normally and regularly
operated between the stated hours;
B. That
there is no objection to the issuance of the permit by the city's
law enforcement agency.
(Prior code 6404-a)
A person shall not maintain any billiard room or poolhall, or
similar place of business to which the public is invited, or any social
billiard club, where there is placed, constructed or maintained any
screen, partition, barrier, closet, alcove or object which may obstruct
the visibility of any part of such establishment, except restrooms:
A. From
the street or sidewalk, if such establishment is located on the ground
floor;
B. From
the entrance of any establishment which is located either entirely
below the level of the street or sidewalk, or on the second or higher
floor of any building or other structure.
(Prior code 6404.7)
A person under the age of eighteen years shall not enter, be
or remain on or in any billiard room or poolhall except when such
person is accompanied by a spouse of legal age, or his or her parent
or guardian, or except where authorized by the permit. No owner, manager,
proprietor or other person in charge of any billiard room or poolhall,
or a permittee, shall permit or allow any such person to enter or
to be in or to remain in any poolhall or billiard room contrary to
the provisions of this section.
(Prior code 6404.2)
No owner, manager, proprietor or other person in charge of any
billiard room or poolhall shall allow or permit any intoxicated, quarreling
or disorderly person or persons to be or remain in such place.
(Prior code 6404.1)
No owner, manager, proprietor or other person in charge of any billiard room or poolhall shall allow or permit entertainment, as defined in Section
5.45.020 of this title, without first obtaining a required entertainment permit, unless the entertainment is exempt under Section
5.45.040 of this title.
(Ord. 1104 § 9, 2017)