(A) Required. No person shall conduct, own, operate, or manage for profit a billiard room or bowling alley within the city without first obtaining a license to do so. No person shall be eligible for a license under this chapter who is not a citizen of the United States.
(Prior Code, § 121.07)
(B) Application; issuance.
(1) Applications for licenses under this chapter shall be made in conformity with the general licensing requirements of this code. The application shall also include information concerning citizenship; employment or business of the applicant during previous five years; complete record of convictions, if any, of felonies or misdemeanors; the number of bowling alleys or billiard tables to be licensed. The applicant shall also give three persons for references who are householders in the city. The applications shall be referred to the Chief of Police for investigation as to the moral status of the applicant and the moral conditions surrounding the proposed location.
(2) The Chief of Police shall cause an investigation to be made as to the character of the applicant and of the officers of the club, society, group, or corporation and shall report the result to the City Controller.
(3) If the City Controller, upon the report of the investigation, shall find that any of the persons named in the application are not of good moral character or have been connected with a billiard room where the license has been revoked and has not been restored, he or she may refuse to issue the license.
(Prior Code, § 121.08)
(C) Fees.
(1) The annual fee for a billiard room containing only one billiard table shall be an amount as set by the city from time to time.
(2) The annual license fee for a billiard room containing more than one billiard table shall be an amount as set by the city from time to time.
(3) (a) The annual fee for each billiard table shall be an amount as set by the city from time to time.
(b) The fee for each table shall be in addition to the billiard room fee and must be paid for each table. Persons conducting, owning, operating, or managing a billiard room containing more than one table must pay the billiard room fee in addition to the fee for each table.
(c) Persons conducting, owning, operating, or managing a billiard room with only one billiard table need pay only the fee for the table and need not pay the billiard room fee.
(4) The annual license fee for each separate bowling or pin and ball alley shall be an amount as set by the city from time to time.
(Prior Code, § 121.09)
(D) Transferability. No transfer of any license granted under the provisions of this chapter shall be permitted, except with express written consent of the City Controller and in conformity with the general licensing provisions of this code.
(Prior Code, § 121.10) Penalty, see § 111.999