(Added by Ord. No. 139,204, Eff. 10/23/69.)
(a) Definitions.
1. “FAMILY BILLIARD ROOM” means any billiard room wherein minors are permitted to play billiards under the provisions of this section.
(b) Permit Required. No person shall conduct, operate or manage a family billiard room without a written permit from the Board.
(c) Investigation. Upon the filing of an application for a permit, the Board shall cause to be made such investigation as it deems necessary.
(d) Public Hearings. The Board shall hold a public hearing prior to taking action on an application for a permit pursuant to this section. The applicant shall cause to be published a notice of public hearing in a newspaper of general circulation in the district where the business is to be located. Said notice shall be published two times, at intervals of not less than five days, within the 21-day period following the filing of an application. Furthermore the Board may give notice by mail to all property owners within three hundred feet of the proposed business. The Board shall cause a suitable public notice to be posted at the location where the business is to be conducted. The applicant shall bear all expenses involved in mailing, printing, publishing and posting such notice. Such public notice shall conform to the rules and regulations adopted by the Board and shall be designed to inform the public as to the nature of the business to be engaged in, its location, the names of the applicant or applicants, the time of the public hearing and the right of persons objecting to be heard. Any interested person may file written protests or objections, or appear at the hearing. The Board shall give consideration to all such protests in reaching a decision on such application.
If the Board shall find that the operation of the family billiard room for which the permit is requested at the location set forth in the application will not violate any law of the State of California or any ordinance of the City of Los Angeles or constitute a menace to the health, peace, or safety of the community, and the applicant has not had a permit revoked by the Board within one year prior to the application, then the Board shall issue a permit to the applicant.
(e) Permits – Conditions. Permits to operate family billiard rooms shall be issued upon and subject to the following conditions:
1. Physical Environment:
(i) Family billiard rooms shall be located at street level or that level which most approximates street level.
(ii) A clear and unobstructed view of the entire interior of the family billiard room shall be visible from the entrance to such room.
(iii) No partitions forming rooms, stalls or other enclosures within which the public may congregate shall be permitted within the family billiard room. However, this shall not prohibit the maintenance of washrooms, toilet rooms or storage closets.
(iv) The family billiard room shall be maintained in a separate room from other business activities of the owner or operator of such room unless the owner or operator has obtained the consent of the Board to do otherwise.
(v) No alcoholic beverages shall be sold, consumed or available in family billiard rooms.
2. Conduct:
(i) Behavior within family billiard rooms shall conform to the rules and regulations of the Board in addition to the provisions of this section and of all other applicable laws. Sufficient adult supervision shall be provided by management to assure compliance with such rules, regulations and laws.
The owners, managers and operators, and each of them, of a family billiard room shall be strictly responsible for the enforcement of all rules and regulations, and shall not permit any person violating any rule, regulation or other applicable law to remain in such family billiard room.
(ii) No person shall bring any form of alcoholic liquor into a family billiard room. No person in an intoxicated condition shall enter or remain in a family billiard room. No person shall conduct himself in a boisterous or disorderly manner in a family billiard room.
(iii) No person having charge or control of any family billiard room shall permit any person to enter or remain therein who has any form of alcoholic liquor in his possession, or permit any intoxicated, boisterous or disorderly person to enter, be or remain in any family billiard room.
(f) Age Limits. Persons under the age of 18 years may enter and remain in family billiard rooms and play billiards therein with the following limitations:
1. No person having charge or control of a family billiard room shall allow a person under the age of 18 years to enter or remain in a family billiard room unaccompanied by his parent or guardian.
2. No person under the age of 18 years shall enter or remain in a family billiard room unless accompanied by his parent or guardian.
EXCEPTION:
A person under the age of 18 years may be present in a family billiard room and engage in the game of billiards, unaccompanied by a parent or guardian, if the parent of guardian of such person has signed and filed with the owner, manager or operator of the family billiard room a consent form of a type approved by the Board. Such form must be signed by the parent or guardian in the presence of the owner, manager or operator.
3. No person having charge or control of any family billiard room shall allow a person under the age of 18 years to enter and remain therein after the receipt of a notice signed by the parent or guardian of such minor person in which notice the parent or guardian has requested that said minor be prevented from entering or remaining in any such premises.
4. No person less than 18 years of age shall enter or remain in a family billiard room between the hours of 12:01 and 9:00 A.M. Nor shall any person having charge or control of a family billiard room permit a person less than 18 years of age to enter or remain in such family billiard room between the hours of 12:01 and 9:00 A.M.