(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Code, the exhibition and operation of coin operated tables resembling pool or billiard tables, sometimes known as "skill pool" shall be permitted within the Village when licensed under the provisions of this chapter and exhibited or operated in conformity with this chapter.
(b) No exhibitor shall install or permit the use of the aforesaid tables without first obtaining a license therefor from the Chief of Police.
(c) The Chief of Police is authorized and directed to issue licenses to exhibitors of such tables, provided, however, that no license shall be issued to an applicant therefor until the Chief of Police shall have found that such applicant is of good moral character, and provided, further, that such license shall not be issued unless the application is accompanied by the license fee therefor, which shall be twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per table per full year.
(d) The license fee shall be for the then current calendar year and the fee shall be reduced if the year is partially over by reducing the annual fee by one-twelfth times the number of months in such year having elapsed.
(e) No person shall permit any such table to be operated or played by any minor under the age of thirteen years unless such minor is accompanied by a parent, guardian or other adult relative and that under no circumstances shall a child under the age of thirteen years be allowed in this type of establishment after 9:00 p.m. Such establishment must close by 2:30 a.m., Monday through Sunday; Sunday, open noon to midnight; under fourteen years of age, as provided in Section 529.05
, closed 9:30 p.m.; age fourteen to eighteen years, close by 10:30 p.m. Both child and operator are to be culpable.
(1) No person shall permit any such a table to be played by any minor under the age of thirteen years unless such minor is accompanied by a parent, guardian or other adult relative.
(2) No exhibitor or owner of such a table shall permit any minor under the age of eighteen years to use or operate such table, located at any place of business operated by such exhibitor or owner, at any time that the serving or consumption of alcoholic beverages is permitted at the place of business unless:
A. Such table is located in a room in which the serving and consumption of alcoholic beverages is prohibited and such room is separated, by floor-to-ceiling walls and doors which are kept closed except when used by an individual for ingress or egress, from all rooms in which the serving or consumption of alcoholic beverages is permitted; or
B. Such minor under the age of eighteen is accompanied by a parent, guardian or other adult relative.
(3) No owner or exhibitor of such a table shall permit playing between the hours of 2:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m., Tuesday through Saturday; 2:30 a.m. to noon on Sunday; and midnight to 9:00 a.m. on Monday.
(4) No owner or exhibitor of such a table shall permit within the place of business where such table is located minors under the age of thirteen after 9:00 p.m., or minors under the age of fourteen after 9:30 p.m., or minors fourteen years of age or older after 10:30 p.m. unless accompanied by a parent, guardian or other adult relative.
(5) No minor under the age of thirteen shall be within a place of business where such a table is located after 9:00 p.m., nor shall a minor under the age of fourteen be within a place of business where such a table is located after 9:30 p.m., nor shall a minor fourteen years of age or older be within a place of business where such a table is located after 10:30 p.m. unless accompanied by a parent, guardian or other adult relative.
(Ord. 2612. Passed 4-8-92.)