(A) Required. No billiard hall shall be maintained or operated without permission granted therefor by the City Council, either in the form of a permit or a license.
(Prior Code, § 18-4)
(B) Permitting property to be used without license or permit. No person shall permit any real property owned or controlled by him or her to be used as a billiard hall without a license or permit.
(Prior Code, § 18-5)
(C) Clubs. Permission of the City Council to operate and maintain billiard and pool tables and bowling alleys in an establishment which is not a business enterprise operated for profit, but is a bona fide club restricting its privileges to those paying a stated membership fee and making no charge proportional to the use of the billiard or pool tables or bowling alleys, may be granted in the form of a permit without any fee. Every provision of this subchapter shall apply to the bona fide clubs to the same extent as to a commercial billiard hall, except as otherwise provided.
(Prior Code, § 18-6)
(D) Applications.
(1) Applications for the licenses or permits shall be filed with the City Administrator. The owner of the billiard hall or, in the case of a partnership, all of the partners or, in case of a corporation or association, a majority of the board of directors or other governing body and also the person who is to be in charge of the billiard hall, shall sign and swear to the truth of the application. The application shall contain the following information:
(a) Names, residences and occupations for the last five years of the owner of the billiard hall or, if owned by a partnership, of the partners, or if owned by a corporation or association, of the executive officers, directors and manager of the billiard hall;
(b) Whether any of the persons listed above in answer to division (D)(1)(a) above have been convicted of a felony and, if so, the date and place of the conviction and the offense;
(c) Whether any of the persons listed above in answer to division (D)(1)(a) have ever operated or been employed in or connected with a pool or billiard hall or bowling alley in the city or in any other place, and, if so, the name of the place, dates of the connection and whether the license of the hall or alley was revoked during the connection; and
(d) Other information as the City Council may require from time to time.
(2) Any falsehood in the application, or any wilful omission to state any information called for on the application form, shall render any license or permit issued thereunder void, and of no effect to protect any person from prosecution for violation of this subchapter.
(Prior Code, § 18-7)
(E) Factors in decision to issue.
(1) No license or permit shall be issued to any person, unless and until the City Council shall be satisfied: The proposed billiard hall complies, as to construction, with all ordinances and laws then in force.
(2) Furthermore, the City Council may, for any reasonable cause, refuse to grant a license or permit.
(Prior Code, § 18-8)
(F) Issuance; contents; term; transfer; display, destruction and the like.
(1) When the proper fee and bond have been deposited with the City Administrator and the City Council has so ordered, the City Administrator shall issue the license or permit.
(2) The license or permit shall specify the name of the person to whom granted, the specific place where the billiard hall is to be located and the number of tables or alleys authorized.
(3) It shall be effective from the date of issuance to the following January 1.
(4) It shall not be transferable.
(5) It shall be kept conspicuously posted in the billiard hall to which it applies. No person shall post the license upon premises other than those for which issued, nor deface or destroy any license or permit.
(Prior Code, § 18-9)
(G) Fee. In all cases other than those described in division (F) above, a license shall be necessary. The fee for the license shall be at a rate set annually by a resolution of the City Council for each table or each bowling alley for the year. Fees for licenses issued July 1 or later in any calendar year shall be one-half the annual fee.
(Prior Code, § 18-10)
(H) Revocation.
(1) All licenses and permits granted hereunder shall be revocable for cause at any time, on reasonable hearing prescribed by the City Council.
(2) If there shall be two convictions for violation of this subchapter in any billiard hall, whether the violations be by the same or different individuals, and whether of the same or different provisions hereof, the second conviction shall be cause for automatic revocation of the license or permit under which the billiard hall is operating.
(3) No refund of fees will be paid on revocation.
(Prior Code, § 18-11)
(I) Issuance of duplicates. A duplicate license or permit to replace a lost original or for a different location, upon surrender of the original, may be issued by the City Council at its discretion, under regulations as it may prescribe, and on payment of a fee at a rate set annually by resolution of the City Council.
(Prior Code, § 18-12)
(Ord. 433, passed - -; Ord. 762, passed - -)