It shall be unlawful for any licensee under this article, or his agents,
servants or employees, to:
A. Suffer or permit any dice to be thrown or to suffer or
permit any cards, raffles or other games of chance or any form of gambling
in the place where pool, billiards or bowling is licensed to be played or
in any yard, booth, garden or other place appertaining thereto or connected
therewith.
B. Suffer or permit such premises to become disorderly.
C. Sell, barter, furnish or possess or permit in such room
or place any liquors or beverages for which the establishment is not licensed
or does not hold a permit or any controlled substances as the same may be
defined or regulated by state or federal law.
D. Harbor intoxicated persons on the premises or to allow
intoxicated or partially intoxicated persons to resort thereto.
E. Allow foul, profane or obscene language to be used or
any obscene acts to be committed on the premises.
A license may be refused by the Village Board of Trustees:
A. To any applicant or applicants who or which shall have
been convicted within five years of the date of application of an offense
against any of the provisions of this article.
B. To any association or corporation of which a member or
members shall have been so convicted.
C. To any person who has within five years of the date of
application been convicted of a felony or misdemeanor.
D. To any association or copartnership of which any member
has been so convicted of a felony or misdemeanor.
E. If the poolroom, billiard room or bowling alley or the
place in which a pool or billiard table or bowling alley is to be located
and sought to be licensed does not comply in any way with the regulations,
ordinances and laws applicable thereto.
F. If insufficient parking facilities are provided.
G. If the applicant is under the age of 18 years.
A license issued under this article is not assignable or transferable
as to location or ownership. A transfer of stock in a corporation shall be
deemed a transfer prohibited by this section.
Whenever a license issued under this article shall be lost or destroyed,
without fault on the part of the holder or his agent or employee, a duplicate
license in lieu thereof under the original application may be issued by the
Village Clerk in his discretion, and, if issued, a recording fee of $10 shall
be paid to the Clerk.
Every person licensed in accordance with the provisions of this article
shall immediately post such license and a copy of this article furnished by
the Village Clerk and keep the same posted while in force in a conspicuous
place in the premises where pool or billiard playing or bowling is authorized
to be carried on. The license shall be enclosed in a suitable wood or metal
frame, having a clear glass front and a suitable back, so that the whole of
such license may be seen therein. It shall be unlawful for any person to post
or permit to be posted such license upon premises other than those named in
the application for such license or knowingly to deface or destroy any such
license.
Licenses issued under this article shall expire on the 31st day of December
succeeding the issuing thereof. Renewals must be in effect at the date of
expiration of the license.