Every person carrying on the business of a billiard room or poolroom or hall shall pay an annual license fee as provided in Section
5.04.350 of this title.
(Prior code § 6520.1)
No person shall conduct or carry on any public billiard room
or table or public room or table or billiard or pool business within
the city without first having procured a permit in writing so to do
from the city council as herein provided, or after any such permit
shall have been revoked.
(Prior code § 6520.2)
Any person desiring to conduct or carry on a public billiard
room or table or public poolroom or table or billiard or pool business
within the city shall make written application to the city council
for a permit so to do. The application shall state the name of the
person desiring to conduct, manage or carry on such place of business,
the place where the same is located, and a further statement that
if such permit is issued the applicant will not allow or permit any
gambling of any kind to be conducted or carried on in the room or
place where such business is being conducted, and will not allow or
permit any profane language therein and will at all times keep and
conduct a quiet and orderly place.
(Prior code § 6520.3)
Unless it appears to the satisfaction of the city council that
the applicant has in all respects complied with this chapter, and
that the granting of such application will not be detrimental to the
good order and prosperity of the city or the inhabitants thereof,
the application shall be denied.
(Prior code § 6520.4)
No public billiard room or table or public poolroom or table
or billiard or pool business shall be opened, run, or conducted or
carried on in the city between the hours of 2:00 a.m. in the morning
and 6:00 a.m. of that day. Authorized operating hours for these establishments
shall be from 6:00 a.m. in the morning until 2:00 a.m. of the succeeding
day.
(Prior code § 6520.5)
Any permit issued hereunder may be revoked by the city council
at any time whenever it appears to the city council that the holder
thereof has violated any of the provisions of this chapter or that
the longer conducting [sic] of such place would be detrimental to
the good order and prosperity of the city or the inhabitants thereof.
(Prior code § 6520.6)
The license official shall not issue any license to conduct
or carry on a public billiard room or table or public poolroom or
table or billiard or pool business within the city to any person not
holding a permit hereunder, or to any person whose permit has been
revoked, unless a new permit shall have been issued.
(Prior code § 6520.7)
Every dancing club where admission is charged or dues paid, or donated, shall pay a license fee as provided in Section
5.04.400 of this title.
(Prior code § 6520.9)
A "public dance,"
as that expression is used in this chapter, shall be taken
to mean any dance to which the public generally may gain admission
to, or may participate in. The term "public dancehall," as herein
used, shall be taken to mean any room, place, or space in which a
public dance, as herein defined is held.
(Prior code § 6520.10)
No person, club, society, firm or corporation shall engage in the conducting or carrying on of a public dancehall, or public dance within the city, without first having obtained a license therefor, and paying a license fee as provided for in Section
5.04.360 of this title.
(Prior code § 6520.11)
All such halls, clubs, or places shall close not later than
2:00 a.m. and shall not re-open earlier than 8:00 a.m. on the same
day. At all such places any police officer of this city shall have
the right to enter the premises upon which the dance is being conducted,
and if the dance is being held in violation of the provisions of this
code, the officer shall close the dance immediately.
(Prior code § 6520.14)
Every place, room or apartment in which a public dance is to
be held, or which is to be used as and for a public dance-hall, shall
comply with and conform to all health ordinances and fire regulations
of the city, shall be properly ventilated and supplied with sufficient
toilet conveniences, and shall be a safe and proper place for the
purpose for which it is to be used.
(Prior code § 6520.15)
All public dancehalls within the city shall at all times be
kept in a clean, healthful and sanitary condition, and all stair-ways,
passageways and all rooms connected with such dancehalls shall be
kept open and well lighted, and the chief of police and all peace
officers of the city, shall have power and it shall be their duty
to investigate such places when any such dance is being conducted
or carried on, and to cause the place, hall or room where any such
dance is being held or given, to be vacated and the dance terminated
whenever any provision of this chapter or any other ordinance of the
city, or any law of the state of California, shall have been or is
being violated, or when any such dance is being conducted or carried
on in an indecent or improper manner.
(Prior code § 6520.16)