CHAPTER 709
Billiards

709.01   Definitions.

709.02   License required.

709.03   Application; requirements; expiration.

709.04   Fees.

709.05   Hours of operation; right of entry.

709.06   Sanitation; gambling.

709.07   Revocation of license; display

709.08   Sunday hours.

709.99   Penalty.

   CROSS REFERENCES

   Authority to regulate billiard rooms - see Ohio R.C. 715.51, 715.61

   Gambling - see GEN. OFF. Ch. 517

   Contributing to the unruliness or delinquency of a minor - see GEN. OFF. 537.13

709.01 DEFINITIONS.

   As used in this chapter:

   (a)   “Billiards” means any of several games played on a table surrounded by an elastic ledge or cushions and using balls which are impelled by a cue, including all forms of the game known as pool.

   (b)   “Billiard room” means any public place wherein the game of billiards is permitted to be played, and does not include a private residence.

(Ord. 7488. Passed 1-5-42.)

709.02 LICENSE REQUIRED.

   No person shall open, conduct, maintain or operate a billiard room within the City unless such person has been first duly licensed as provided in this chapter.

(Ord. 7488. Passed 1-5-42.)

709.03 APPLICATION; REQUIREMENTS; EXPIRATION.

   The Mayor may, upon the application of the owner or proprietor of any billiard room and the payment of the annual fees required herein, issue a license for the operation of a billiard room. Every application for a license shall be in writing and shall state such information as may be required by the Mayor. No license shall be granted to a person who has been convicted or pleaded guilty to a felony.

   Licenses shall expire on December 31 in each calendar year.

709.04 FEES.

   The fee for a billiard room license shall be one hundred dollars ($100.00) for the first table and ten dollars ($10.00) for each additional table. However, where the applicant is a society or club not organized for profit, the total license fee shall be ten dollars ($10.00).

709.05 HOURS OF OPERATION; RIGHT OF ENTRY.

   No person shall operate a billiard room between the hours of 2:30 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. or harbor or permit any person to be or remain in any such billiard room any day of the week between the hours of 2:30 a.m. and 5:00 a.m.

   This section shall not prevent regular employees from performing necessary work within the premises. A police officer shall have access at all times to all billiard rooms or to any part of the building where they are located.

(Ord. 160-1962. Passed 8-16-62.)

709.06 SANITATION; GAMBLING.

   All billiard rooms shall be kept at all times in a clean, healthful and sanitary condition. No dice shall be thrown nor shall a peaball be used, nor shall cards or other games of chance or any form of gambling be permitted in any billiard room.

(Ord. 7488. Passed 1-5-42.)