(A) It shall be unlawful for any person who shall keep for pay or hire any poolroom, billiard room, bowling alley, nine-pin alley, or ten-pin alley to suffer or allow any minors to loiter in said room or participate in any game played therein.
(B) It shall be unlawful to keep for pay or hire within the corporate limits of the town any pool table, billiard table, bowling alley, nine-pin alley, ten-pin alley, or any other machine or device for sports or games, without first procuring a license from the Town Clerk-Treasurer.
(C) Any person or persons desiring to obtain a license to keep for pay or hire any pool table, billiard table, bowling alley, nine-pin alley, or ten-pin alley or any other machine or device for sport or game within the corporate limits of said town, shall pay to the Town Clerk-Treasurer, the sum of $60 for the first table for pool or billiards, $20 for the second, and $8 for the third or each additional pool table or billiard table above two (so kept and used), and the sum of $50 for each bowling alley, nine-pin alley, ten-pin alley, or each other machine or device, as a license fee therefor, for which amount the Town Clerk-Treasurer shall issue to said applicant his or her receipt, which receipt together with a written application for such license, naming the kind of game or device and if pool tables or billiard tables, stating the number of tables to be used or kept and specifically describing the room and the precise location of the premises in which tables or devices are to be kept or used, signed by said applicant, shall be filed with the Town Clerk-Treasurer of said town before license shall be issued to him or her. The Town Clerk-Treasurer shall issue to said applicant a license to keep or use for pay or hire, the table, tables, machine, or device set forth in the aforesaid application; provided, no license shall be issued for a shorter or longer period than one year from the date of said Town Clerk-Treasurer’s receipt and provided further, that said license shall not be transferable.
(D) Any person or persons not being licensed according to the provisions of this section, who shall within the corporate limits of said town, keep or use for pay or hire, a pool table or billiard table, shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined in the sum of $60 for the first, $20 second, and $8 for the third or each additional pool table, above two so kept and used, together with the costs of prosecution.
(Ord. 25, passed 1-23-1905; Ord. 39, passed 9-21-1914) Penalty, see § 110.99