No public poolroom, billiard room or game room shall hereafter be permitted to operate, unless in operation on February 21, 1961, in a cellar or basement, or without the following window area, glass area and ceiling height requirements.
(a) Window requirements. There shall be one square foot of glass area to each 16 square feet of floor area. Windows shall be made to open at least 40% of their glass area, or in lieu of such windows there may be installed a mechanical ventilating system together with a gravity system, capable of supplying not less than five complete changes of air per hour.
(b) Glass area. Any public poolroom, game room or billiard room shall have a glass area of at least 100 square feet opening on a public street, which glass area shall be unobstructed and so arranged that the interior of such room shall be readily visible from such street at all times.
(c) Ceiling height. All public poolrooms or billiard rooms shall have a clear ceiling height of at least 13 feet, and for a game room the height shall be 11 feet.
(d) Game machines; space requirements.
(1) All pool tables and game machines shall not, individually or collectively, occupy more than 35% of the projected floor square feet of the room in which they are located and shall possess a clear unobstructed periphery of at least four feet in width for pool tables.
(2) For upright machines, two feet shall be required from the back of the machine to the wall, if so placed, and there shall be a four-foot aisle at all times plus an additional two feet from the four-foot aisle to the machine at the front.
(3) One-player machines shall have a distance of two feet on each side.
(4) All machines accommodating two players or more shall have a minimum of four feet on each side of the machine.
(5) Table machines shall have a distance of five feet of space between such machines when placed in line, but only two feet of space between such machines shall be required when they are placed parallel to each other; the above stated five feet of space being required to allow for the player’s body width, chairs and distance between chairs.
(Ord. 7596, passed 10-26-1982)