As used in his chapter, includes the keeper, proprietor, superintendent, lessee or owner of the premises in which the public poolroom or billiard room is situated.
[HISTORY: Adopted by the City of Council of the City of Chester 8-18-1982 by Ord. No. 28-1982 (Art. 339 of the 1978 Codified Ordinances). Amendments noted where applicable.]
A.
No person shall conduct or operate any public poolroom and/or billiard room within the limits of the City, unless the poolroom and/or billiard room shall have been duly licensed for such purpose.
B.
Application for such license shall be made by the operator of such poolroom and/or billiard room to the Director of the Department of Public Safety, who is hereby authorized to issue the same.
C.
The fee payable for each such license granted hereunder shall be $250.
D.
Each license granted hereunder shall expire the first day of September of each year.
E.
The fee payable for each license granted hereunder shall be for the whole or any portion of the calendar year, and all moneys received by way of license fees hereunder shall be paid into the general fund of the City.
F.
Every licensed public poolroom and/or public billiard room shall post its license in a conspicuous place within the building, room, place or space therein where the poolroom and/or billiard room is operated.
It shall be the duty of the Director of the Department of Public Safety to cause an investigation of all places licensed to determine whether or not the building, room, place or space therein, sought to be licensed, or licensed, complies with the rules, regulations, ordinances and laws applicable thereto; and, in making such investigations, the Director shall have the assistance of any department of the government of the City. Such investigations shall also extend to such places which are not licensed in violation of his chapter.
No license for a public poolroom and/or public billiard room shall be issued until it shall be ascertained that the place for which it is issued complies with and conforms to all laws, ordinances, health and fire regulations applicable thereto and is a safe and proper place for the purpose for which it shall be used, is properly ventilated and is supplied with sufficient toilet facilities.
The license of any public poolroom and/or public billiard room may be forfeited or revoked by the Director of the Department of Public Safety for disorderly or immoral conduct on the premises; upon proof that the public poolroom and/or public billiard room was frequented by disorderly or immoral persons; or for the violation of any of the rules, regulations, ordinances and laws governing and applying to public poolrooms and/or public billiard rooms, including his chapter. If at any time the license of a public poolroom and/or public billiard room shall be forfeited or revoked, at least three months shall be elapsed before another license or permit shall be granted for a public poolroom and/or public billiard room on the same premises.
All public poolrooms and/or public billiard rooms shall be kept at all times in a clean, healthful and sanitary condition, and all stairways and other passages and all rooms connected with the public poolroom and/or public billiard room shall be kept open and well lighted.
A.
All public poolrooms and/or public billiard rooms shall be subject to inspection by the Police Department at all reasonable times and whenever they are open for pool and/or billiards or for any other reason.
B.
Any police officer shall have the power to cause the place, hall or room where any public poolroom and/or public billiard room is being operated to be vacated whenever any provisions of any law or ordinance, including his chapter, with regard to public poolrooms and/or public billiard rooms and any other ordinance of the City is being violated; whenever any indecent act shall be committed; or when any disorder of a gross, violent or vulgar character shall take place therein.
No operator of any public poolroom and/or public billiard room shall allow or permit such place to remain open between the hours of 1:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. of any day.
[Amended 6-6-1990 by Ord. No. 4-1990]
Any person, society, club or corporation who violates any of the provisions of his chapter shall, upon conviction in a summary proceeding, be fined not more than $600 and costs of prosecution and, in default of payment thereof, shall be imprisoned not more than 90 days. Each day's violation of his chapter shall constitute a separate violation hereof.